US1340927A - Golf-hole renovator - Google Patents

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a. L. WHITMAN,

GOLF HOLE RENOVATOR. APPLICATION FILED OCT. 3. 1919.

1,340,927, Patented May 25,1920.

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RAYMONDL. WHITMAN, 0F HAMILTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

GOLEHOLE RENOVATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 25, 1920.

Application filed Gotober 3, 1919. Serial No. 328,226.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that T, RAYMOND L. Vi larr- MAN, a citizen of the United States, resldlng at Hamilton, county of Essex, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Golf Hole Renovators, of which the followlng is a specification.

This invention relates to trimmers and particularly to a cutter for trimming or renovating holes such as the holesin a golf course. 1

Employing the golf hole as an illustration, it will be understood that such a hole having been oncedug is liable to become misshapen or to be overgrown or otherwise rendered unfit for its purpose. This instance shows the strict requirement for uniformity and the necessity of having a clean cut, uniform and regular mouth. I

For this purpose as well as for the variety of other uses to which it is or may be adapted, I have devised an implement simple and complete which is capable of rapidly and uniformly restoring the holes of a course or any other similar excavations which ,may need to be trimmed and standardized.

In the drawings which form a part of this application I have shown a form of device well adapted to the requirements of the example above indicated. Throughout the specification and drawings like reference characters are employed to indicate corresponding parts and in the drawings:

Figure l is a view of my device shown in working position.

Fig. II a sectional view of the same,

Fig. III a plan view and Fig. IV is a frag-- nientary section of the cutter.

In practice I preferably construct my (16''. vice with a plate 1 having an opening 2. This opening when used for the holes of a golf course has a diameter of four and onequarter inches to coincide with the standard hole of the course.

On the plate 1 I detachably mount a guide plate 3 having a central opening a axially alined with the opening 2 of the plate 1 and slidingly receiving the plunger 7. The plate 3 is preferably detachably held by Between the plate 3 and extending within the opening 2 is a female cutter member 10 shouldered at 12 and having a lower downwardly disposed cutting edge 10 On the end of the plunger 7 is cutter disk 8 preferably shouldered at 8 to receive a cutting plate 11. This plate 11 has its upper edge 11 preferably spiraled or otherwise out of the horizontal plane so as togive a shearing effect when the cutter disk 8 is drawn past the cutting edge 10 of the female cutting member 10. The plate 1 is preferably roughened on each side as indicated at 1 As illustrative of the manner of use of my trimmer in the case of the renovation of golf holes, the keeper introduces the cutter disk 8 into the hole locating the plate 1 above the hole in such a w. y that the opening 4 in the plate is in general axialalinement with that of the hole.

It will be noted here that these holes are fitted with a metal can or sleeve which preserves the hole and provides convenient means for emptying the hole in case it becomes partly filled. The requirements ofplay, however, make it inadvisable to have this can extend e11- tlrely to the surface so that it in fact terminates a short distance below the level of the ground so as to leave a natural mouth or ring of earth or turf.

In actual practice the turf tends rapidly to overgrow the mouth not only restricting the actual diameter of the hole, but considerably reducing its apparent diameter. This variation is a source of considerable annoyance'to players in putting. It also introduces an element OfVZLI'lZtlJiOIl from time to a time in the course which materially effects comparative scores and the basis of competition.

In addition to the overgrown tendency of the surrounding, turf, holes become misshapen or distorted through variety of accidents and incidents. The utility of my present invention as applied to this problem lies in its peculiar efficiency in reform- 7 ing the mouth of the hole with an exact and 7 standard edge.

If the opening is merely overgrown by the turf, the cutter 8 having beenintroduced and the plate 1 located, the mouth may be shorn clean by an upward pull on the handle 9 whichbrings the upwardly disposed cutting edge 11 of the cutter 11 past the downwardly disposed cutting edge 10 of the female member 10 thus producing a clean shearing action all about the mouth of the hole.

In'case a hole has become misshapen or distorted the cutter disk 8 is inserted usu-,

' the size of said plate aperture,

ally by a slight tipping entry and the earth about the mouth of the hole then compacted by beating or stamping until it is laterally displaced so as to supply slight access of material all about the hole. The hole may then be trimmed as before described by drawing up on the handle 9 while holding the plate 1 firmly to the -round. 7

While I have dealt in some detail on this implement asfiapplied to golf holes to which it is particularly adapted, thereare a great variety of other purposes in which it may be conveniently used. I am not to be understood therefore as limiting my inven- *tion' by reason of the foregoing illustrative explanation as its use and its modification- 'andvarious parts and details may all be practised without departing from the spirit of my invention if within the limits of the appended claims. lVhat I thereforeclaim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: I

v 1. A golf hole renovator comprising a plate having asharp edged aperture there- -through, a plunger-adapted to pass through :said aperture, a sharp edge cutter disk on theendof said plunger, said disk being of a detachable handle at the upper end of said plunger, a detachable guide onsai'd plate adapted to support said plunger in central alinement with said plate aperture.

QVA golf 'hole renovator comprisingi'a plate having a sharpedged aperture therethrough, a plunger adapted to pass through said aperture, a cutter disk on said plunger, and a guide on said said plunger in central alinementwith said "plate aperture. g

' 3. A golf hole renovator comprising a platehavinga sharp edged aperture there- 'edge disposed to plateadapted to guide 7 through, a plunger adapted to pass through said aperture, a sharp edge cutter disk on said plunger of the size ofsaid aperture, a

detachable guide on said plate adapted to support said plunger in central alinement I with said cutting part.

4c. A hole trimmer of the class described,

ture.

'5. A hole trimmer of the class described, 7

comprising a ground plate having a sharp edged aperture of the size of the hole to be trimmed, a cutter disk having its upper edge dlsposed to cooperate with said aperture edge, said diskedge being out of par-= allel with the p'lane'of the edge ofthe plate aperture. v c

6. In a golf hole trimmer, an apertured cutting plate having a downwardly faced annular edge and a vertically movable cutter having an upwardly disposed peripheral be drawn up within said apertured plate.

7 In a golf'ho'le trimmer, a cutting plate having a downwardly faced cutting edge and a vertically movable cutter having an upwardly disposed cutting edge.

8. A method of reforming golf holes consistingin upwardly shearing the edge of said hole against anopposed apertured plate a In testimony whereof l aflix my signature in presence of two wltnessesf Y itnesses': V

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