US1533417A - Game-indoor golf - Google Patents

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FRANK J'. HOLLAND, OF RICHMOND, INDIANA.

GAMEINDOOR GOLF.

Application filed August 16, 1921. Serial No. 492,709.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK J. HOLLAND, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Richmond, in the county of lVayne, State of Indiana, have invented a new and novel Ga1ne-Indoor Golf, of which the following is a full, clear, and comprehensive specification and exposition, the same being such as will enable others to construct and use the same with absolute exactitudc.

The object of my present invention, broadly speaking, is to provide a game which is simple in constuction, highly entertaining and instructive in character, and which can be manufactured and sold at comparatively low price.

More specifically stated my object is to provide a. game, and game-apparatus, which may be characterized as--indoor-golf,. Simulating asnear as is practical the regulation outdoor-golf in miniature.

Other objects and particular advantages of my invention will be brought out in the courseof the following specification, and that which is new will be correlated in the appended claims.

The preferred means for carrying out the principles of my invention in a practical manner is shown in the accompanying two sheets of drawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan view of the game-board as it would appear when looking directly down thereupon, the same being made to represent a golf pgurse inflminiatnre. Figure 2 is a cross-section of one portion of the apparatus. Figure 3 is a plan view of one of the disc-like drivers. Figurejhisra plan View of one of the discs to be driven and which takethe place ofthe-ballsn regulation golf. Fig11rei5,is ai1 edge Yie1Ya.Qfmo1ie ofihe drivers. Figure 6 is an edge view of die of tliediscs to be driven. Figure 7 is a side elevation of one of the cups, representing the pockets or holes of the golf course, and Figure 8 is an elevation of one of the flag signals.

Similar indices denote like parts throughoutthe several views.

In order that the construction and operation of my invention may be better understood and appreciated I will now take up a detailed description thereof in which I will set forth the several features thereof as fully and as comprehensively as I may.

Referring now to the drawings in detail: The board on which the game is played comthe guards f is the cloth or fabric covering 7a, which preferably is green in color except where other colors are superimposed thereon,

,said cloth it being stretched tightly between all of the guards as shown.

The holes are formed by nine cups in which are arranged as shown in Fig. 1. Said cups are fitted in apertures therefor formed through the glgth h, the padding 9, and the base-board e, as shown in Fig. 2, whereby the edges or lips of the several cups are substantially on a level with the surface of the cloth 71 as shown.

Painted in white upon the cloth h and extending in an irregular course across the central portion thereof is the representation of a river A, there being the representation of a foot bridge m thereacross, substantially as shown.

Painted in gray upon the cloth h is the representation of a roadway B, which extends longitudinally of the board from one end thereof to the parking space D, which is also painted in gray. Said roadway ap pears to cross the river A by means of a bridge a.

Adapted to be located on the parking space D are movable toy automobiles E which may be moved about as desired. Located near the parking space is the miniature club-house F which is also movable, and it may be connected with the parking space D by the representation of a walk 9 painted in gray on the cloth h.

Surrounding and concentric with each of the cups or holes k is a green whose circular margins are each denoted by the line G.

The letter H denotes the bunkers, which are either painted in red on the cloth It, or being in the nature of rounded blocks resting on the cloth h as suggested in Fig. 2.

Also painted upon the surface of the cloth h are a plurality of traps I, the same being painted in light blue, and in a regular golf course they would be depressions in the surface of the ground.

Painted upon each of the greens (enclosed by the lines G) is an individual numeral therefor, as the numerals 1, 2, 3, i, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9, respectively, each of this set of numerals being designated by the letter a: all as shown in Fig. 1.

The various tees are denoted by the letter a, and painted on each tee is a numeral, each different from the other, as the numerals 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9, respectively, each of this set of numerals being designated by the letter a all as shown in Fig. 1.

Extending between the tee l and the green 1 is a fairway which is denoted by arrows J, which arrows also denote the direction in which the game is to be played.

In like manner the arrows L denote the fairway extending from the tee 2 to the green 2. The arrows P denote the fairway from the tee 3 to the green 3. The arrows Q denote the fairway from the tee a to the green l. The arrows R denote the fairway from the tee 5 to the green 5. The arrows T denote the fairway from the tee 6 to the green 6. The arrows U denote the fairway from the tee 7 to the green '7. The arrows V denote the fairway from the tee 8 to the green 8, and likewise the arrows V denote the fairway extending from the tee 9 to the green 9, which of course brings one back to the vicinity of the club house F.

All other portions of the surface of the cloth it, not covered by the parts above mentioned, are considered as the rough, or the unimproved sward.

A flag 20 is provided for each cup or hole, each flag has a stem 21 extending up from its base 22 which latter is in the nature of a weight to retain the stern in vertical position, each weight 22 being adapted to rest in a cup or hole 70 whereby the flag 20 will be displayed thereabove as shown.

NumeraL denotes a disk forming the driver, there tangent 'rereaeiiyietyer; also there is a disc 241- for each player, the latter being the dis c tb bb dr'iven. The discs 23 and 24 for each player should be of a color different from that of the discs of the other players, in order that they may be easily distinguished from each other.

In practice the first player places his disc 2 on the tee l and by means of his disc or driver 23 he tees off by grasping the driver 23 and with it he engages the edge of the disc 2a and flips the latter in the direction of the green 1, the object being to lVhen the player finally delivers hisdiscr 2a in the first hole he then immediately reinoves the disc 2a and places it on the tee 2, and then in like manner plays for the hole in the green 2, and so on until his disc 2st has been pla ed into all nine of the holes.

Each time the player lands his disc 24: on a trap I, the river A, the roadway B, and the parking place D, or any other hazard agreed to by the rules, then he is penalized by adding one or more strikes to his score.

It, of course, is to be understood that the primal object of the game is for the player to make the round 'of the nine holes in the least number of plays possible.

I desire tl at it be understood that various changes may be made in the several details herein set forth and in the everal arrangements of the parts without departing from the spirit of the invention and without sacrificing any of the advantages thereof.

Having now fully shown and described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

The hereindescribed game of indoor golf, an oblong board, padding covering the board, rails forming a retaining border around the heard, there being a plurality of holes formed through the board and padding, a cu locatetl in each of said holes with their open ends flush with said padding, a flag for each cup, each of said flags being adapted to stand in display position in its cup or upon the padding, a' driving disc for each player, and a driven disc for each player, the driving disc an d the driven disc of each player being of the same color but of a color different from that of the other players, the representation of a green forming a circle around each cup, representation of a river, a roadway, and parking place shown upon said padding, and the representation of a golf course represented upon the padding, all substantially as shown.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRANK J. HOLLAND. llitnesses Ron'r. W. HANDLE, R. E. RANDLE.

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