US849600A - Golf-ball marker. - Google Patents

Description

PATENTED APR. 9, 1907. J.- 0. 00M.

GOLF BALL MARKER.

APPLICATION FILED [A331, 1806.

JOHN C. CORY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

GOLF-BALL MARKER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

.lcatented April 9, 1907'.

Application filed March 31,1906. Serial No- 309,048.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN C. CORY, a citizen of the United States, residing in the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Golf-Ball Markers, ofwhich the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in golf-ball markers; and it consists of a novel, cheap, and efficient device for impressing letters, initials, or other characters into the surface of balls by means of dies without distorting or subjecting them to any undue pressure which would alter their shape, and thus interfere with their use fulness.

In the drawings illustrating one form of my invention, Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly in section. Fig. 2 is a top view of the frame or main forging. Fig. 3 is a perspectivelview of the die-holder. Fig. 4 is a bottom view of the said die-holder with a die in place, and Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a golf-ball after it has been subjected to the action of the device.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in all the drawings.

As will be seen, the device comprises a frame, casting, or forging 1, which is provided with a truncated spherical ball-receptacle 2 of the desired size for the reception of a golfball and which has sufficient supporting-stir-- face to distribute the pressure without danger of forming any ridges or any unevennesses in the plastic ball when the die is operated.

In Fig. 1, 3 is the ball in place. 4 is the dieholder pivoted to the frame at 5, and it carries a die 6 of any desired character, which is provided with raised characters or letters, formed upon the face thereof in position to press against the golf-ball when it is seated upon the'ball-holder 2. The die 6 may be either integral with or removable from the frame 4. To the frame or support is also pivoted the power member 7, as at 8, and this power member is provided with a slot or I socket 9, in which the ball or end 10 of the die-holder is adapted to loosely operate, so that when the power member is depressed the die and die-holder are operated and caused to imprint the desired character on the ball. A spring 11, having one or more coils around the pivot 8, may be advantageously used to maintain the parts in the open condition.

It is obvious that many changes and modifications can be made in the details of my invention without departing from the spirit thereof, and I do not limit myself to the particular form described; but

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A golf-ball marker comprising a frame having a concave ball-seat, a movable dieholder, an inelastic die secured to said holder with raised characters, the faces of which correspond to the shape of the ball, and a power member adapted to operate said dieholder and die, substantially as described.

2. A golf-ball marker comprising a frame having a concave ball-seat, a die-holder pivoted to said frame and provided with an inelastic die having a curved contour, and a power member likewise pivoted to the frame and engaging said die-holder for operating the same, substantially as described.

3. A golf-ball marker comprising a cupshaped seat, a movable die-holder pivotally mounted adjacent thereto, an inelastic die,

mounted on said holder having raised char acters thereon with curved faces, and a pivoted power member engaging with said dieholder and adapted to operate the same, substantially as described.

4. A golf-ball marker comprising a frame having a cup-shaped seat, a movable dieholder pivotally mounted on said frame adj acent thereto, and having an inelastic die with raised characters mounted thereon the faces of which correspond to the curvature of the ball, and a power member also pivoted to said frame and a ball-and-socket connection between the die-holder, and power member, and a spring for maintaining the die in its normal position, substantially as described.

5. A golf-ball marker comprising a frame having a ring-shaped inelastic ball-seat with concaved seating-surface, a movable dieholder pivotally mounted on said frame, an

inelastic die in said holder provided With a In testimony whereof I have hereunto set curved face and raised characters, a power my hand in the presence of two subscribing member pivotally mounted in said frame, an Witnesses.

operating connection between said power JOHN C. CORY. member and said die-holder, and a spring for Witnesses:

maintaining the die in normal position, sub- R. H. MITCHELL,

stantially as described. ADOLPH E. DINSE.

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