WO2004050194A2 - Te de golf a hauteur selectionnable - Google Patents

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WO2004050194A2
WO2004050194A2 PCT/EP2003/013680 EP0313680W WO2004050194A2 WO 2004050194 A2 WO2004050194 A2 WO 2004050194A2 EP 0313680 W EP0313680 W EP 0313680W WO 2004050194 A2 WO2004050194 A2 WO 2004050194A2
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golf tee
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Martin Hugh Fox
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Priority claimed from GB0322052A external-priority patent/GB0322052D0/en
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
    • A63B57/00—Golfing accessories
    • A63B57/10—Golf tees
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
    • A63B57/00—Golfing accessories
    • A63B57/10—Golf tees
    • A63B57/13—Golf tees foldable or separable
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
    • A63B69/00—Training appliances or apparatus for special sports
    • A63B69/36—Training appliances or apparatus for special sports for golf
    • A63B69/3623—Training appliances or apparatus for special sports for golf for driving
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
    • A63B2225/00—Miscellaneous features of sport apparatus, devices or equipment
    • A63B2225/09—Adjustable dimensions
    • A63B2225/093—Height
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
    • A63B57/00—Golfing accessories
    • A63B57/10—Golf tees
    • A63B57/15—Golf tees height-adjustable
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
    • A63B69/00—Training appliances or apparatus for special sports
    • A63B69/36—Training appliances or apparatus for special sports for golf
    • A63B69/3691—Golf courses; Golf practising terrains having a plurality of driving areas, fairways, greens
    • A63B69/3694—Golf courses; Golf practising terrains having a plurality of driving areas, fairways, greens for driving only

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  • Most golf practice driving ranges include a hitting area with multiple synthetic turf mats, each mat having a removable tee on one side.
  • the tee is a soft synthetic rubber tube that is a fixed height.
  • One of the problems with driving ranges and practice tees is that they typically do not provide practice tees of adjustable height. This fixed height of the tee does not allow for individual preference for teeing the ball nor does the tee allow for different heights to be used for different clubs. This is a limiting factor on practicing various types of golf shots at a driving range.
  • a further problem is that the standard rubber golf tee used in driving ranges is often damaged and in poor condition when a golfer desires to practice at any particular teeing position necessitating the replacement of the standard rubber tee from the matt before the matt may be used; this is not always an easy task and in any event delays use of the practice bays at the driving range.
  • This problem necessitates regular and time consuming maintenance of the mats at driving ranges
  • Tabet U.S. Pat. No.4,516,780 discloses a peg with a pointed end for pressing into the ground. It is not suitable for use at a standard practice range. Internally within the peg is a sliding elongate member, which is held in the proper vertical position by a pin. The ball sits in a seat at the top of the elongate member.
  • FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a height selectable golf tee according to the present invention
  • FIG. 3 shows a perspective view of a height selectable golf tee of the present invention in use on the conventional driving range matt as illustrated in Figure 1 ,
  • FIG. 4 is a plan view of a sleeve bearing collar assembly for a height selectable golf tee according to the present invention
  • FIG. 5 is a side view of the sleeve bearing collar assembly of Figure 4
  • FIG. 13 is a sectional view of the hold-all illustrated in Figure 12, . :
  • FIG. 16 shows a sectional view along lines x-x of the height selectable golf tee of Figure 15,
  • FIG. 17 is a sectional view along lines x-x of the sleeve bearing collar assembly illustrated in Figure 15 during its use in a height selectable golf tee according to the present invention
  • FIG. 18 shows a plan view of an integral height selectable golf tee with three tee members and three arms
  • FIG. 19 shows a sectional view along lines x-x of the height selectable golf tee illustrated in Figure 18.
  • Figure 1 also shows an in-place soft rubber tee (2) of tubular construction protruding vertically from synthetic grass mat (1), upon which the golfer places his ball in order to tee-off.
  • the height of this in-place soft rubber tee (2) may be varied only by lifting the mat (1 ) and inserting a different height rubber tee (2) from the underside of the mat (1). This is inconvenient and sometimes impossible if the mat has been fastened to the floor of the driving range.
  • Figure 2 illustrates a height selectable golf tee according to the present invention.
  • This comprises an arm (3) with a sleeve-bearing collar (4) located at one end of the arm (3).
  • the sleeve-bearing collar (4) may be a separate component that is attached to the arm (3), or the sleeve-bearing collar (4) and the arm (3) may be integral and as an integral component may be referred to as a sleeve-bearing collar and arm assembly.
  • the sleeve-bearing collar (4) has an internal diameter which enables it to be placed over the in- place soft rubber tee (2) of Figure 1.
  • the sleeve-bearing collar is preferably of an internal dimension such that it is substantially free to rotate about the in-place soft rubber tee (2) and thus the arm (3) attached thereto is also allowed to rotate around said in-place soft rubber tee (2) in Figure 1.
  • the internal diameter of the non-integral collar (4) may be such that it is tightly secured on the surface of the soft rubber tee (2) due to friction between the two components; in this embodiment the non-integral sleeve- bearing collar (4) is relatively free to rotate within the arm of the height selectable golf tee and when the golf tee is struck during use it rotates about the tightly secured sleeve-bearing collar (4).
  • a vertically mounted tee member (5) Located at the other end of the arm (3) is situated a vertically mounted tee member (5) whose height represents the preferred teeing height for the golf-player and whose diameter and upper surface shape is designed to allow a golf ball (6) to be placed efficiently where it may remain in position until struck by the golf-players golf- club.
  • the tee member (5) may be integral with or separate from the arm (3) and or sleeve-bearing collar and arm assembly. When separate from the arm (3) the tee member (5) may be located on the arm (3) by insertion or clipping into an engaging means, such as for example a hole, located at the end of the arm (not illustrated) remote from the sleeve-bearing collar.
  • any particular tee member (5) may be replaced with another tee member (5) of the same height or by a tee member (5) of different height.
  • the arm and sleeve-bearing collar and engagement means for the tee member (5) are substantially co-planar and preferably are substantially flat in profile.
  • the bottom surface of the height selectable golf tee is preferably substantially flat so that the whole of the golf tee may be placed flat on a teeing surface.
  • the height selectable golf tee of the present invention is self supporting, meaning that it is not essential that the tee be attached to any other component to maintain the tee member (5) in a substantially upright position. It is preferred that the golf tee of the present invention be accommodated and located on a soft rubber tee of a driving range mat during use.
  • the components of the height selectable gold tee that are designed to be inserted into and/or located on the sleeve-bearing collar and arm assembly e.g. the tee members, are designed to ensure that the bottom surface of the golf tee remains substantially flat once the component is inserted into the sleeve-bearing collar and arm assembly to provide the usable height selectable golf tee.
  • the bottom of the tee member (5) is designed to be substantially co-planer with the bottom surface of the sleeve- bearing collar and arm assembly.
  • Figure 3 shows a perspective view of the preferred positioning for use of the height selectable golf tee of Figure 2.
  • Arm (3) and sleeve-bearing collar (4) have been placed over the soft-rubber tee (2) of the conventional driving mat (1). It can bee seen that the height selectable golf tee is lying flat on the surface of the driving range mat (1).
  • Golf ball (6) has been placed on. top of vertically mounted tee member (5).
  • a right-handed golf-player's feet at address position is represented by (7). As the golf-player's club makes normal contact with the ball (6) said ball will be propelled in a generally forwards direction.
  • Arm (3) may be designed to carry advertising messages by allowing for example labelling colour-printing embossing or engraving on its visible surfaces.
  • the shape of arm (3) sleeve-bearing collar (4) and vertically mounted tee-member (5) could be altered for esthetical effect without altering the functionality.
  • the height selectable golf tee of the present invention may be manufactured from durable plastic materials such as polyesters polypropylenes, polyethylenes, copolymers, blends of polymers, natural rubbers, butyl rubbers, silicone rubbers or could be formed from metals such as aluminium. All components of the golf tee may be manufactured using such techniques as plastic moulding techniques such as injection moulding.
  • FIG. 4 there is shown a sleeve-bearing collar and arm assembly for use in a height selectable golf tee according to the present invention.
  • an arm (3) is integrally connected with the sleeve-bearing collar (4) and this combination provides support for a series of different height tee-members (5) (not shown in this Figure).
  • An area (7) is indicated for an advertising message.
  • a tee member support (8) which is designed to accommodate and support removable tee members (5).
  • the height (C-C) of the end of arm (3) for supporting the sleeve-bearing collar (4) or comprising an integral sleeve- bearing collar (4) may be between 4 mm and 10 mm, preferably 4 and 8 mm, more preferably 4 and 7 mm, and most preferably between 5 and 7 mm. In a preferred embodiment the distance is 6 mm.
  • the major diameter (D-D') of the end of arm (3) supporting the sleeve-bearing collar (4) or comprising an integral sleeve-bearing collar (4) may be between 25 mm and 50 mm, preferably 25 to 40 mm, more preferably 25 to 35 mm and most preferably it is 30 mm.
  • Arm (3) may be manufactured from several types of plastic for example high impact polystyrene, high density polyethylene, low density polyethylene, polypropylene, copolymers and polymer blends, nylons or SBS rubber. Preferably it is manufactured from a polyolefin, more preferably polypropylene or polyethylene, and most preferably low density polyethylene.
  • the major diameter of taper-section (9) will be preferably the same diameter as body-section (11).
  • Body-section (11) may be solid or preferably hollow and may have a wall thickness of between 1 mm and 2 mm, with 1.25 mm being preferred.
  • Tee-member (5) may be manufactured with varying body-section (11) height to allow the golf player a choice of vertical ball positioning dependent upon club type and shot requirements.
  • the height range of body-section (11) may be between 1 and 50 mm.
  • Hold-all (14) comprises a base (25) , preferably in the form of a flat plate, pierced with one hole (22) for mat-peg (12) and one hole (23) for each of a series of tee-members supplied (in this example 7 are provided in Figure 12 and 5 in Figure 14).
  • a further hole (24) provides a means of hanging on retail display racks and as a means of attaching to the golf players bag. Dimensions of said holes in holdall 14 will be consistent with providing a secure fit for their respective component types.
  • Hold-all (14) may be manufactured from several materials including for example high impact polystyrene, high density polyethylene, polypropylene but preferably polypropylene.
  • the tapered plug (15) may be moved through 180 degrees or more to invert it so that it may be pushed into the inside hole of soft rubber tee (2) and be held in place by the elasticity of soft rubber tee (2) and will act as a means of preventing said combination from being lifted off said soft rubber tee (2) as the player attempts to strike the ball (6).
  • Arm (3) may be moulded with dimensions and materials as described previously for example in Figures 4, 5 and 6.
  • Integral tapered plug (15) may and preferably does have an outside diameter varying between 8 mm and 16 mm over a height of 25 mm-.
  • non-integral sleeve-bearing collar inserts of varying internal diameters may be used. These inserts may have smaller internal diameters enabling the height selectable golf tee of the present invention to be used with a variety of soft rubber tees on driving range mats.
  • the internal diameter of the sleeve-bearing collar (4) may be such to allow a standard golf tee to be used to fix the arm (3) into a grass teeing area on driving ranges which do not provide a driving mat (1 ) and soft rubber tee (2) for the purpose of golf driving practice; in this embodiment the diameter may be 8 mm.
  • FIG. 18 and 19 an embodiment is described which incorporates multiple arms (3) a single sleeve bearing collar (4) and multiple tee members into a single combined construction.
  • the multiple arm (3) components are set at an angle of 120 degrees to provide maximum separation between them.
  • the multiple arms (3) with corresponding multiple tee members (5) and single sleeve bearing collar (4) may be manufactured by moulding as a single construction in a soft form from several plastic materials for example natural rubber, thermoplastic elastomers such as SBS or Elastomeric polypropylene, Silicone rubber, PU, EPDM, PVC, but preferably Elastomeric Polypropylene, or in a harder form from several types of plastic for example high impact polystyrene, high density polyethylene, polypropylene, nylons or SBS rubber but preferably polypropylene.
  • the three tee members (5) are of different heights between 5mm and 45mm preferably 10mm, 20mm, and 30mm from the underside of the arm (3) of the tee.

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L'invention concerne un té à hauteur sélectionnable qui est spécialement approprié pour être utilisé avec des tapis de terrain d'exercice traditionnels. Ce té à hauteur sélectionnable comporte un collier de support de manchon (4) éloigné d'un élément de té monté (5) à un bras (3). Le collier de support du manchon (4) peut se trouver au-dessus du té en caoutchouc souple dudit tapis. L'élément de té monté peut être remplacé pour sélectionner la hauteur du té souhaitée. Ledit té à hauteur sélectionnable peut comprendre un certain nombre de bras formés en une seule pièce, qui présentent respectivement leur propre élément de té montable de différentes hauteurs. Une hauteur de té souhaitable peut être sélectionnée, lorsque le té est utilisé sur un tapis quelconque de terrain d'exercice qui a des tés en caoutchouc souple de hauteur incorrecte.
PCT/EP2003/013680 2002-11-29 2003-11-29 Te de golf a hauteur selectionnable WO2004050194A2 (fr)

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GB0227833.1 2002-11-29
GB0227833A GB0227833D0 (en) 2002-11-29 2002-11-29 Improvement to a driving golf tee
GB0316841.6 2003-07-18
GB0316841A GB0316841D0 (en) 2003-07-18 2003-07-18 Improvement to a driving mat golf tee
GB0320702.4 2003-09-04
GB0320702A GB0320702D0 (en) 2003-09-04 2003-09-04 Improvement to a driving mat golf tee
GB0322052.2 2003-09-20
GB0322052A GB0322052D0 (en) 2003-09-20 2003-09-20 Improvement to a driving mat golf tee

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FR2971430A1 (fr) * 2011-02-15 2012-08-17 Roland Maurice Jaffre Tee de mise en jeu de golf a fonctions multiples portable, pour bois sur aires de depart des parcours

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KR100811356B1 (ko) 2007-04-04 2008-03-07 김재용 티샷과 퍼팅을 선택적으로 할 수 있는 수평회전식 골프티어셈블리
FR2930170A1 (fr) * 2008-04-16 2009-10-23 My Golf Attitude Soc Par Actio Support de balle de golf amovible.
WO2010004596A1 (fr) * 2008-07-08 2010-01-14 Bacchetta S.R.L. Dispositif de support pour une balle de golf
FR2971430A1 (fr) * 2011-02-15 2012-08-17 Roland Maurice Jaffre Tee de mise en jeu de golf a fonctions multiples portable, pour bois sur aires de depart des parcours
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