US3671036A

US3671036A - Golf tee setter

Info

Publication number: US3671036A
Application number: US60797A
Authority: US
Inventors: Joseph Rubino
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1970-08-04
Filing date: 1970-08-04
Publication date: 1972-06-20
Anticipated expiration: 1989-06-20

Abstract

This invention relates in general to golf tees setters, and, in particular, is a device for setting golf tees so that the top of each will be the same distance as the others above the ground. The device comprises a hollow cylinder in length equal to the distance that the tee is desired to be set above the ground, and having two holes diametrically opposite each other in the sidewalls thereof, said holes being large enough to admit fingers placed on opposite sides of the cylinder almost to meet at the central longitudinal axis of the cylinder, for holding the tee.

Description

United States Patent Rubino [4 June 20, 1972 GOLF TEE SETTER Primary Examiner--Richard C. Pinkham 72 Inventor: Joseph Rlibino, Earlton, NY. 12058 [22] Filed: Aug. 4, 1970 [57] ABSTRACT [21] Appl. No.: 60,797

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I NVEN TO R J0$PH QUE/A10 BY w/ m/wi ATTORNEY GOLF TEE SET'IER The golf tee setter will be described in connection with an ordinary golf ball and golf clubs. Each golf clubs face is designed to meet the ball at a particular angle. If the height of the ball above the ground is uniform on each swing of the club, the possibility of the clubs face meeting the ball at the same angle each time will be increased.

An object of this invention is to arrange for golf balls to be set on tees at a uniform distance above the ground, for increasing the possibility of the face of a designated golf club hitting each such ball at the same angle and thus increasing the accuracy of each such balls trajectory.

Other objects and a fuller understanding of the invention may be had by referring to the following description and claims, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:

FIG. I is a side elevation view of the invention of the golf tee setter showing the hollow cylinder with cutouts opposite each other and crosswise the longitudinal axis of the cylinder.

FIG. 2 is another side elevation view, said golf tee setter having been turned 90 about its longitudinal axis so that said cutouts are facing the viewer.

FIG. 3 is a top view of said golf tee setter, looking down on said hollow cylinder, the diameter of the bore of which is just sufficient to accomodate a golf tee inserted lengthwise therein.

FIG. 4 is a view of a hand grasping a golf ball, two fingers of said hand holding a golf tee in place inside the golf tee setter, through the two apertures in the sidewalls of said golf tee setter and simultaneously holding one open end of said cylinder flush against said golf ball, said hand being poised to drive the pointed end of said golf tee into the ground.

-' The golf tee setter consists of a hollow cylinder 1 having

apertures

2, 2 in its walls. The length 3 of the cylinder is slightly greater than the distance which it is desired that the golf ball be set above the ground. The interior diameter or bore 4 of the cylinder should be just large enough to allow the lengthwise passage of a typical golf tee 6 having a cup at one end 7 and a point at the other end 8 thereof.

Said hollow cylinder is the only structural feature of the invention.

In operation, let it be assumed that a golf ball 5 is placed in the palm of a hand, and one open end of the hollow cylinder 1 is placed flush against said golf ball. A tee 6 is inserted cup end first in the other end of said cylinder 1 and is held in place by two fingers of said hand, each finger touching an opposite side of the golf tee 6 through said

apertures

2, 2 in the sidewalls of said cylinder 1. The point end 8 and that portion of said tee which extends beyond said hollow cylinder 1 is then pressed into the ground by the force of said hand transmitted through said golf ball 5 against said cup 7 of said tee 6. Said golf ball 5 is then removed, and said golf tee setter 1 is also removed. Said golf ball 5 is then placed back on said cup 7 of said tee 6.

Although I have described my invention with a certain degree of particularity, it is understood that the present disclosure has been made only by way of example and that numerous modifications in the details of construction may be restored to without departing from the spirit and the scope of the invention as hereinafter claimed.

I claim as my invention: l. A golf tee setter, comprising, in combination a golf tee having a pointed end and a cup-shaped end, and a hollow cylinder open at both ends and having sidewalls of annular cross section just large enough to permit said tee to pass lengthwise through said cylinder, said cylinder being slightly longer than the distance it is desired that a golf ball be teed up above a surface and said cylinder having in its sidewalls two apertures approximately opposite each other, each of said apertures being just large enough to admit a finger, so that said tee may be held within said cylinder by two adjoining fingers

Claims

1. A golf tee setter, comprising, in combination a golf tee having a pointed end and a cup-shaped end, and a hollow cylinder open at both ends and having sidewalls of annular cross section just large enough to permit said tee to pass lengthwise through said cylinder, said cylinder being slightly longer than the distance it is desired that a golf ball be teed up above a surface and said cylinder having in its sidewalls two apertures approximately opposite each other, each of said apertures being just large enough to admit a finger, so that said tee may be held within said cylinder by two adjoining fingers while said pointed end is being driven, by pressure against said cup shaped end applied through a golf ball held in the palm of the hand containing such two fingers, into such surface to the extent that the portion of said tee remaining above such surface will be determined by the length of said cylinder.