US1135995A - Golf-ball-marking device. - Google Patents

Description

M. H. DEAN.

GOLF BALL MARKING DEVICE.

APPLICATION HLED DEC. 19, I914- Patented. M11220, 1915.

THE NORRIS F ETERS CO, PHOTO-LITHQ, WASHINGTON, D. c.

MARSHALL H. DEAN, OF HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

GOLF-BALL-MARKING, DEVICE.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 2t 1.915.

Application filed December 19, 1914.. Serial No. 878,112.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that l, MARSHALL H. DEAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at l'larrisburg, in the county of Dauphin and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Golf-Ball- Marking Devices, of which the following is a specification. V

The present invention relates to means for marking golf balls so that they maybe identified by their owners, and the object is to provide an exceedingly simple, and therefore inexpensive device which will not only effectively brand or mark a ball, but will occupy relatively little space, so that it can be carried in the *pocket or made a convenient part of the equipment of a golfer.

Several embodiments of the invention that have proven entirely satisfactory, are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a side elevation of probably the preferred form. Fig. 2 is a similar view of a slight modification of the same. Fig. 3 is aside elevation of another modification, and Fig. 1 is a cross sectional view on the line H of Fig. 1, in order to show the marking element. Figs. 5 and 6 are side views of structures corresponding respectively to those illustrated in Fig. 1 and 2, but showing slight modifications in the formation of the ball encircling members.

Similar reference numerals designate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawings.

Referring first to the embodiment illustrated in Fig. 1, a contractile ball-encircling member 5 is employed that is substantially in the form of a ring, one side of which is provided with a substantially straight portion 6, having an inturned terminal 7 that overlaps the outwardly turned terminal 8 of the opposite end of the member. Upon the inner side of the said member 5 is located a marking element, which in the present embodiment is shown in the form of three raised letters 9, which may constitute the initials of the person owning the balls to be marked. These letters or other designations may be formed and secured or located within the ring in any suitable manner. In the present embodiment, they are permanently attached.

The ring is contracted by a thumb screw 10, threaded as shown at 11 in the outer terminal '7 of the member, and having a bearlng 12 against the .inner terminal.

The manner of using the device will be evident. The member 5 is large enough to encircle an ordinary golf ball, and when such a ball is placed therein, indicated in Fig. 1, the screw 10 is then turned so as the marking element 9 and said arm has its terminal extending within the terminal 7 A thumb screw 10, threaded into the ter minal 7 bears against the free end of the arm 8 and serves as the means for contracting the ring member 5 The operation of this device is substantially the same as that already described. In Fig. 3 the ring member is designated 5 and it is substantially circular with outturned terminals 6 and 7 Within this ring is placed a marking element 9 and a contracting thumb screw 10 threaded into the terminal 6 has a rotary bearing against the terminal 7*. By turning this screw in one direction, the ring member will be contracted, and will be permitted to expand if said screw is turned in the opposite direction.

The structure illustrated in Fig. 5 corresponds very closely to that illustrated in Fig. 1, except that the ball-encircling member 5 has its intermediate portion of less thickness than its terminal portions, and the structure shown in Fig. 6, in like manner, corresponds substantially to that illustrated in Fig. 2, except that the ball-encircling member designated 5 also has its intermediate portion thinner than its ends. Experience has demonstrated that this is probably the preferable structure, in that it permits the band to more easily close in upon and engage the ball, while the thicker end portions not only provide additional material for the screw, but also a more rigid support for the marking elements.

From the foregoing, it is thought that the construction, operation and many advantages of the herein described invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art, without further description, and it will be understood that various changes in the size, shape, proportion and minor details of construction, may be resorted to without departing from thespirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. In a device of the character set forth, a contractile ball-encircling member having a portion for bearing against a ball, a marking element-carrying portion spaced there from and a portion connecting the two firstmentioned portions, and means other than said connecting portion for contracting the member to cause the portion that bears against the ball and the marking element carrying portion to be relatively moved toward each other. e

2. In a device of the character set forth, a contractile ball-encircling ring, a marking element therein, and means for contracting the ring, 'to mark a ball encircled by said ring.

3. In a device of the character set forth, a contractile ball-encircling memberhaving separate end portions, a marking element carried by the member, and means engaging theend portions for contracting the member, to mark a ball encircled thereby.

4. In a device of the character set forth, a contractile ball-encircling ring having sep arate ends, a marking element carried on the inside of the ring, and means engaged withv the end portions of the ring for contracting the same, to cause the marking element to mark a ball encircled by said ring.

5. In a device of the character set forth, a contractile ball-encircling member having separate overlapping ends, a marking element located within the member, and means -for relatively moving the ends to contract within said ring.

7. In a device of the character set forth, a contractile ball-encircling member having its intermediate portion thinner than its end portions, means for contracting said member, and a marking element located within the member.

7 8.- In a device of the character set forth, a contractile ball-enci1clingii11g having its intermediate portion thinner than its end portions, one of said end portions being disposed in angular relation to the remainder, a marking element located on said angular portion, and means engaging the ends of the ring for contracting the same.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MARSHALL H. DEAN.

Witnesses MABEL M. VVALLowEn, CHARLES J. SOURBIER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, 7 Washington, D. G.

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