US1644804A

US1644804A - Combined golf tee and score card

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Publication number: US1644804A
Application number: US78790A
Authority: US
Inventors: Elwood S Whitcomb
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1926-01-02
Filing date: 1926-01-02
Publication date: 1927-10-11
Anticipated expiration: 1944-10-11

Description

v 1,644,804 11 1927' E. s. WHITCOMB COMBINED GOLF TEE AND SCORE CARD Filed Jan. 2. 1926 THE C UNTRY EWOOJQW-Fksrq- Patented a. 11, 1927.

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The object of this invention is to provide a player, starting his round of golf, with a normal folded score card, but containing tees attached onthe inside cover of the same score card. At the completion of each hole, "as the player is recording his score as he travels between the previous een and the next tee, the player'ma easi y detach one of the many tees (these all eighteen-one for each hole) which he can then quickly assemble, thereby providing himself with a firm, yetvery accessible means of teeing his golf ball.

These tees are very inexpensive, being made d and 21.

of paper, and fitsnugly inside the score car in two fiat semi-circular groups or piles, held to the score card by paper stubs from which they are easily loosened. These tees are simply assembled, having slits at either end which fit together, forming a cone-shaped tee of a convenient height for holding and from which to drive a'golf ball.

In the accompanying drawings, Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the inside 2 of the score card, showing the position of the groups, piles, or set of tees;

' Fig. 2 is a full len th view of the outside of the score card w ich, when opened, as here shown, measures six inches in length, so or a stymie measure.

Fig. 3 .is'a plan view of a tee before bein% assembled.

i 4 is a erspective view of the tee assemb ed and astened, and

'35 Fig. 5 is a side view of the tee with the ball thereon.

Fig. 6 illustrates a further method of uniting the two ends of the tee to make the same more uniform and to conceal the flaps underneath the side. v In Fi 1, 10 is the inside half of the score car. provided for local rules and other stipulations which the special club may desire to place there. Numeral 11 represents .46 the inside half of the score card where a plurality of tees areplaced in two bunches proved form of tee whereby the' fla are 12 and 13, attached at

stubs

14 and 15, themselves concealed from view an bent 100' are securely held under the side walls of the tee. ;For this which, in turn,

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16 and 17. owe the score card itself, the blank or tally 18 being for recording the first nine hole score, an indicates at 19 the second nine hole score. .Eaoh'separate club by any sort of clas Fig. 2' s ing preferably in may have different score cards, hence this side of the card may be designed according to the requirements of each club.

'In Fig. 3 is shown a tee as it appears in I the score card.- It is semi-circular in shape with shts 20' and 21 which interlock, and for convenience sake the words over and under have been printed at 22 and 23 to aid in more easily and quickly assembling the In Fig. 4 a tee is shown in position for a ball to be set thereon. It is conicalin form with the extremities joined and held securely by the interlocking of the slits 20 In Fig. 5 a olf'ball 24 is shown as it would rest on t e assembled tee ready for the stroke, of the player.

- Such a combination score card and tee is very practicable and easily adaptable to the various requirements of each club. The practice at clubs now is that each-player is provided with a score card before commencm his round of golf. My inventiongives to the player a sufiicient supply of tees joined with hisscore card, in a convenient and practicable combination, and all self contamed within the folded leaves of the score card.

A further and very important senses a,

of my present myention is that the sma paper tees are quickly dissolved and disintegrated by jectionable obstruction on the golf greens and tees Furthermore, my paper tees do not mar, nick, or in any way injurethe clubs, whereas metal and wooden tees are objectionable because of offering suflicient resistance to mar and nick the clubs used and also dig up the turf or tee and litter the links while getting into the mowing machines, and are generally objectionable.

.I have illustrated in Fig. 6 a neater and, indeed, a preferred method of uniting the opposite flaps or ends 22 and 23 of my imurpose, also, I have lettered the flaps over an under, and Fig. 6 shows graphically how the same maybe. united to show a smooth and attractive truncated 'cone on which to rest the golf ball. When the enthe weather and form no obtire set of golf tees are used up or torn out, cealed and protected thereby, perforated 10 the score card is suitable for retention as a tabs for holding said tee blanks within said permanent record and souvenir. a score card, whereby the tee blanks are in- Having thusdescribed my invention, what dependently detachable Whi1e the remain- I claim as new is: ing tee blanks are protected by "the score In combination, a folding golf score card card cover. 15 constituting a cover, a plurality of comple- In testnnonywhereof, I have-s gned my mental flat golf tee blanks eaoh detachably name to this specification. secured Within said cover, and wholly con- ELWOOD' S; WHITCOMB.