US1600475A

US1600475A - Golf-game apparatus

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Publication number: US1600475A
Application number: US465384A
Authority: US
Inventors: Frederick S Keeler
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1921-04-29
Filing date: 1921-04-29
Publication date: 1926-09-21
Anticipated expiration: 1943-09-21

Description

Seit. 21,1926.

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UNITED STATES.

FREDERICK S. KEEL'ER, OF-NEW YORK, N. Y.

GOLF-GAME APPARATUS.

Application filed April 29, 1921. Serial No. 465,384.

My invention relates to an indoor golf game and is more particularly intended to reproduce indoors the conditions of an ac 'tual outdoor golf game; that is to say, to afford a playerv d liculties to be overcome comparable to'those encountered in a standard outdoor game, which difficulties are overcome in substantially the same manner, the skill of the player being rewarded and his errors being penalized in the same manher as in the outdoor game. To this end my invention includes playing implements which when used in combination with one sought. My invention also includes certain constructions of' the various implements, such as the clubs, balls and holes.

In order to achieve the results of my invention, it is essential that the various implements be of a character adapted for the extremely short distanceencountered in an indoor game, but at the same time the implements must be so related as to reproduce upon a small scale the operation and effects of the corresponding implements in the standard game. For instance, the club intendedfor use in connection with my invention is of such a character that it would be totally inoperative with a standard ball and the ball is of such a character as to be totally inoperative with a standard club. In my invention the ball and club are so related that they are operative to produce the desired results in an indoor games In the drawings, I have shown- In Figs. 1 and 2, a club designed for use in the game of my invention;

In Fig. 3, a modification of the club shown in Figs. 1 and 2;

In Figs. l and 5, a hole; and

In Fig. 6, a sectional view of a ball.

The club is preferably made from thin sheet metal cut in the form shown in Fig. 1, the blank comprising a playing face 1 and an extension 2 which is adapted to be wrapped around the shaft of the club 3 to hold it in place. The playing face of the club may be inclined to a greater or less extent from the vertical, so as to form clubs corresponding to the putter, mid-iron, mashie,-etc. If desired, a sharp lower edge which might injure carpets may be avoided and the club may be given the effect of thickness on the bottom by bending over the blank in a direction approximately at parallel to the floor, as illustrated'in Fig. 3.

The ball is preferably made of celluloid, or some similar material and 'may conveniently be made by forming two hemispheres i and 5 joined on the line 6. The surface of the ball may be either plain, or. marked as 1n a standard golf ball, to obtain a greater grip upon the playing face of the club, The ball is so arranged that while it is of extremely light weight, all of the weight is concentrated near the surface, which enables the ball to respond to the greatest extent to the movement of the club. t

With a ball and club so made and proportioned as to weight, I can obtain a very exact reproduction of the conditions of actual playing in a standard game. The ball will respond to a slice or pull of the club, may be given a back spin to drop dead, may be lofted, and when putted gives the player very much the same sensation as putting a standard golf ballwith a standard club.

The game may be played upon a carpet'to simulate the turf and piecesof furniture may be used to simulate'bunkers or other obstacles upon or over which the ball may be played as in a standard game. The holes ordinarily used in an indoor golf game, comprising a shallow frustrum of a cone may be used, these holes being only ofsuiiicient dept-h'to hold the ball, that is to say, of a depth approximating the radiusof the ball. In some holes I prefer to use a ,hole of my invention to simulate a tricky green; i. e., one in which the ball 'willroll away from the hole unless putted straight for it. Such a hole may comprise a hollow inverted dish formed of sheet metal, paste board,

or other suitable material, such as illustrated in Figs. 4 and 5, in which the depth of the hole is considerably greater than the radius of the ball. The trickiness of the green may be varied by varying the depth of the hole or the declivity of its sides.

It will be evident that many modifications may be made without departing from the spirit of my invention and I therefore do not intend to be confined to the specific mode ification illustrated and described.

lVhat I claim is:

1. A golf game intended for comprising a club having a head formed of indoor use sheet metal and a shaft, the head having integrally formed therewith an extension adapted to be wrapped about the shaft to secure the head thereto,

2. A golf game intended for indoor use comprisinga club having a head formed of sheet metal of a wei ht insufficient to propel a standard golf ball and a shaft, the head having an integrally formed sheet metal extension adapted to be conformed to the shape of the lower end of the shaft and to be Wrapped about the shaft to secure the head thereto.

3. A golf club comprising a head formed of sheet metal and having one rounded protecting edge, and an element formed integral with said head and adapted to be wrapped whereby said element may form a socket. j

4. A golf club formed offlexible sheet metal and comprising a head having a flanged lower edge, and an integrally formed extension adapted to be wrapped about the lower end of a shaft whereby a socket. is formed to secure said head to a shaft.

5. A blank for a golf club head and socket comprising a single piece of sheet metal having a substantially rectangular forward portion and a rear portion angularly disposed with relation to said forward portion, said rear portion having one edge thereof formed in regular continuation of the lower edge of the above mentioned forward portion.

6. A blank for a golf club head and socket comprising a single piece of sheet metal having a substantially rectangular forward sec tion and a rear section angularly disposed with relation thereto, a portion of said rear weights of said golfclub and said ball being substantially and proportionately below the weights of standard units and their dimensions substantially equal to standard units.

10. An indoor golf game apparatus comprising a light, hollow ball, a plurality of hollow frusto-conical holes of greater depth than the diameter of said ball, said holes being adapted to be in various places in a room or the like to simulate agolf course and to receive said ball, and a club provided with a sheet metal head for propelling said ball, the weights of said golf club and said ball being substantially andproportionately be low the weights of standard units and their said golf club and said ball being substantially and proportionately below the weights of standard units and their dimensions substantially equal to standard units.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification this 26th day of April, 1921. v

FREDERICK S. KEELER.