US720191A

US720191A - Indoor-golf game.

Info

Publication number: US720191A
Application number: US13168002A
Authority: US
Inventors: Henry H Taylor
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1902-11-17
Filing date: 1902-11-17
Publication date: 1903-02-10
Anticipated expiration: 1920-02-10

Description

No. 720.191. 'PAIENTED FEB. 10, 1903.

H. H. TAYLOR. INDOOR GOLF GAME.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 17. 1902.

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WITNESSES:

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HENRY H. TAYLOR, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.

INDOOR-GOLF GAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 720,191, dated February 10, 1903. Application filed November 17, 1902. Serial No. 131 ,680. (No model.)

and I do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to .certain improvements in indoor-golf games, and has for its object to improve upon the construction shown and described in Letters Patent No.

713,253, issued to me November 11, 1902 and it consists in certain details of construction hereinafter fully set forth and then specifically designated by the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure'l is a plan view of my improved game; Fig. 2, a section at the line a: w of Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a detail elevation of one form of ball, and Fig. 4 is a detail elevation of another form of bail.

Similar characters of reference denote like parts in the several figures of the drawings.

In the Letters Patent above referred to I showed and described a ball covered with a fuzzy substance, and I also showed and described the surface of the game-board likewise covered with a fuzzy substance; but I have ascertained that I can use either a perfectly-smooth ball or a ball having a serrated surface, provided that a very pronounced fuzzy substance is used upoifthe boarmand, moreov'eTfit'istrue that either a smooth ball or a serrated ball is more satisfactory, particularly when hazards are placed upon the board.

A is the foundation-board, provided with the sides B. Within this box-like receptacle I place any suitable material C, which may be wood, paper-pulp, cement, or the like, the

upper surface of which substance is irregular or rolling, so as to represent "the general layout of golf -links. The surface of this substance C is covered or coagzedallover with a proper fuzzy material 1),?hich is preferably a pile fabricfs'iich as plush, or a very pronouncedfuzzy substance.

1 2 3 45 6 7 8 9 represent the tees from which the ball is successively driven in playing the game, and 1 2 3 4 5 6? 8 9 are the holes within which the ball is to be played, the lines dotted in the circle around each hole representing the putting-greens.

10 represents hazards, which I preferably make from curled hair or other analogous substance and which are located upon the surface of the board at proper places. These hazards represent difficulties or particularly rough places and quite a little skill is required to avoid them.

A ball covered with a fuzzy substance would stick in these hazards, so that the playing of the ball therefrom would be attended with more luck than actual skill.

In my present improvement I use a ball whose surface is either perfectly smooth, as shown at E in Fig. 4, or the surface of the ball may be scored, so as to present a rough appearance, as shown at E in Fig. 3.

I have ascertained that both the smooth and the serrated ball can be played with far more accuracy than would be obtained by the use of a fuzzy ball, and, moreover, a ball that is not covered with a fuzzy substance will not skitter, but will closely hug the surface of the board, provided that the latter is covered with a pronounced fuzzy substance.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In an indoor-golf game, a playing-board having an irregular playing-surface covered with a pronounced fuzzy substanceas a pile fabric, teesand holes located at proper places throughout said board, and hazards made from curled hair secured to the board and extending above the playing-surface thereof and located at points intermediate of said tees and holes, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY H. TAYLOR.

Witnesses:

F. W. SMITH, J r., M. T. LONGDEN.