US1599734A

US1599734A - Game-ball lifter

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Publication number: US1599734A
Application number: US42381A
Authority: US
Inventors: Robert A Wilson
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1925-07-09
Filing date: 1925-07-09
Publication date: 1926-09-14
Anticipated expiration: 1943-09-14

Description

Sept. 14 1926.

R. A. WILSON GAME BALL LIFTER Patented Sept. 14, 1926.

UNITE STATES ROBERT A. Winsen,

oF DALLAS, TEXAS.

GAME-BALL LIFTER.

Application led July 9,

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in gaine ball litters.

In playing such games as golf the players put the ball into a cup at the center oi the green and ai'ter all the players have succeeded in putting the balls into the cups, 1t is necessary to reach into the cup and remove the balls.

The object of my invention is to` provide in conjunction with the usual metal signal staff means for lifting the ball or balls from the cup when the staff is raised, thus obviating the necessity of stooping over and picking the balls from the cup.

A further object of the invention is to provide a device tor preventingextraneous nia-tter filling the cup and also for cleaning the cup when desired.

A construction designed to carry out the invention will be hereinafter described together with other features of the invention.

The invention will be more readily understood from a reading ot the following specilication and by reference to the accompanying drawing, in which an example of the invention is shown and wherein Fig. 1 is a vertical sectional view of a golf green cup showing a lifter constructed in accordance with my invention and attached to the stall1 of the marker.

F ig. 2 is a plan view of the same, themarker statt being in section,

Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional view taken on the line 33 oi' Fig. 1,

Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional view showing a modified form, and

Fig. 5 is an enlarged detail of the stop used with the modified form.

In the drawings the numeral 10 designates the usual cylindrical metal cup which may be made with or without a bottom, the former being' illustrated. About midway of the cup a transverse spider 12 is secured therein. This spider has a central collar 13.

It is customary to designate the green or hole with a marker which I have shown as comprising an upright staf 14 with a suitable handle 15 at its upper end. Just below the handle a signal is secured to the staff and this signal may be a target`16 bearing the number of the green or it may be flag 17. All of the foregoing parts are in common use and form no novel feature of the invention.

The stati is inserted in the collar and its 1925. Serial N'o. 42,381.

lower end, which is usually pointed, Vis pushed into the ground at the bottom of.

the cup. In carrying out the invention I` secure a circular apron or disk 18 on the stati in any suitable manner, as by passing the staff through the center of the apron and welding said apron thereon. The apron is slightly inclined toward its outer margin and is formed with a marginal flange 19 turned up so as to form a circular groove. or trough contiguous to its edge. However it is to be understood that the exact manner of forming the apron, the material used and the method of mounting the apron upon the stati, is subject to variation within the scope ot' the appended claims.

l/Vhen a ball is putted into the. cup it will fall upon the apron 18 which is resting upon the spider 12. Owing to the inclination of the apron the ball will roll against the inner wall of the cup. If it is desired to remove the ball the handle 15 is grasped and the staff 111 is raised, whereby the apron becomes a lifter and carries the ball up the wall of the. cup. When the apron emerges from the rim of the cup the ball will roll.-

against the flange 19 so as to overhang the apron above the green immediately surrounding the cup. The ball may be removed rom the apron in any suitable way.'

An invention of this nature permits of considerable variation within its scope and as a further illustration I have shown another form in Figs. l and 5. In this form a stop collar 2O is fastened on the staili by a set screw V21 or in any other suitable. manner. The collar is positioned below the collar 13 of the spider 12 at such a point that when the apron is elevated to the topl of the cup, said collar 20 will strike the collar 13, thus arresting the lifter suddenly which will jar the apron and dislodge the ball therefrom. Y

It is pointed out that the apron tits comparatively close in the cup and thus match stems, twigs, grass cuttings and obstructions lodging in the cup will tall upon the apron and will be dislodged from the cup when the apron is lifted.

1What I claim, is

1. The combination with the stati' of a golf green marker, the cup receiving said marker, and the spider in said cup, of an apron secured on the stati just above said spider for receiving the balls putted into the cup and for lifting the same therefrom a central bearing, a sta slidingly mounted when tlie stati is elevated, and a stop aS- in said bearingand a cup secured upon said tened on the sta below the spider for imstai1 to rest upon the spider and having its l0 pinzgingupon the spider and limiting the body inclined radially and downwardly and 5 upward movement of the stati" and apron. terminating in an upturned flange.

2. A game ball lifter Comprising a cup In testimony whereof I alii); my signature. having a spider intermediate its ends with ROBERT A. WILSON.