US1696136A - Golf tee - Google Patents

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Dec-1'8, 1928.

' 1,696,136 A. A. CQBUR'N GOLF TEE Filed April 12. 1928 I H van for RPM: :1 buT-FL Patented Dec. 18, 1928.

Azno A. 003cm, 01 HOLYOKE, MASSACHUSETTS.

GOLF TEE.

Application filed April 12, 1928. Serial No. 269,561.

This invention relates to game apparatus and more particularly to a tee employed to support a golf ball.

One object of the invention is to provide a tee having a marker connected therewith which may have the owners name written upon it and serve as identifying means and may also serve to permit the tee to be easily found it it should be accidentally struck when driving a golf ball.

Another object of the invention is to connect the marker with the tee by means of a cord or the like and to prevent the cord from sliding through an opening formed in the tee to receive the cord.

Another object of the invention is to provi de the cord with a loop or eye at one side of the tee when forming knots to prevent the cord from slipping through an opening or passage in the tee and by means of which the a suitable material may be employed and is drilled to provide an opening or passage 2 which extends diametrically through the tee in spacedrelation to its upper and lower ends. It will be obvious that, if the tee is formed of molded rubber 01' the like, the passage could be formed during the process of molding.

The marker 3 is preferably formed of cloth or the like having a conspicuous color which may be easily seen, and this marker is con nected with the tee by means of a cord 4 which is doubled intermediate its length and has its doubled portion Waxed so that it may be easily passedthrough the passage or opening 2' formed in the tee. After the'doubled cord has been passed throughthe tee, itis knotted, as shownfat 5, to provide an abuts ment and also form anieye or loop 6 which projects from the teen This loop which is waxed will project from the tee, as shown 1n the drawing and may be employed to suspend the tee from a hook in a locker or pin upon a show card in a store. i

After the knot 5 has beenformed, the cord is drawn upon until its knot is in close contacting engagement with the tee and the end portions of the cord a re then knotted together against the tee at the opposite end of the passage, as shown at 7, and the ends of the cord brought together and applied to the marker 3 where they are secured by stitches, as shown at 8, or in any other desired manner. It will thus be seen that the marker will'be connected with the tee by a doubled cord which will be strong and not liable to easily break.

WVhen the tee is in use, it is placed upon the ground in the usual manner with the cord and marker carried thereby extending from the tee at one side thereof, as shown in Fig. 1. The ball is placed upon the concave upper end 9 of the tee and is driven from the tee by a golf club. If the club should accidentally strike the tee when making a drive and the tee should fall into tall grass or the like, the marker 3 will usually remain above the grass and since it is formed of cloth having a conspicuous color it may be easily seen. It will, therefore, be easy to find the tee. If the tee should become lost and found by another person, the owners name which may be written upon the marker jwill serve as identifying means and it can be returned to the owner. After a game has been played, the tee may be suspended in a locker by engaging the eye or loop 6 with a hook or the like and thecord and marker will become thoroughly dried Therefore, the cord will not be liable to rot. It will also be obvious that the tee may be suspended from a pin carried by a display board in a store and may, therefore, be prominently displayed. Having thus described the invention, I claim: a

l. A golf tee having a transverse passage formed therethrough intermediate its top and bottom, a marker, and a cord doubled intermediate its length and having its doubled portion passed through the passage and formed With knots engagingthe tee at opposite sides thereof, the free endsof the cord bemg secured to said marker and the doubled portion of the cord'projecting from the opposite side of the tee from the marker forming a loop whereby the tee may be suspended from a supgort.

2. golf tee having a transverse passage 1 formed therethrough intermediate its top and bottom, a marker, and a cord doubled intermediate its length and passed through the passage and knottedto provide :1 loop projectin g transversely from the tee, the end portions of the cord being tied together to form a knot at the other side of the tee with the knots contacting with the tee at opposite ends of the passage, the ends of the cord being secured to said marker.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

AZRO A. COBURN. [L. s]

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