# US 10,870,044 B2 · Golf tee toss systems

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- Number: US 10,870,044 B2
- Document ID: US10870044B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 16/032,018
- Filed: 2018-07-10
- Published: 2018-11-08
- Granted: 2020-12-22
- Earliest claimed: 2016-05-03
- Applicants: Kevin Richardson; Brad Johnson
- Inventors: Kevin Richardson; Brad Johnson
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10870044B2

## CPC

- A63B 67/06: Ring or disc tossing games {, e.g. quoits; Throwing or tossing games, e.g. using balls; Games for manually rolling balls, e.g. marbles}
- A63B 57/00: Golfing accessories
- A63B 2071/0694: {Visual indication, e.g. Indicia}
- A63B: APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT (apparatus for passive exercising, massage A61H)

## Abstract

A golf tee toss system for deciding the order of play in a game of golf. The golf tee toss device is grasped by a protruding edge and tossed to the ground. The numerals located on the surface of the golf tee toss device indicate the order in which the golfers will tee off to start a round of golf. The golf tee toss device can be used over and over for different rounds of golf. The indicium on the golf tee toss device can be in a plurality of designs to promote collection of the golf tee toss device.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A throwable device usable for selecting the ordering of golf players teeing off, the throwable device comprising:
a flat card having:
a circular circumference;
a circular bore which is concentric to the circular circumference, such that the circular circumference and the circular bore in combination define a flat ring;
four flat circular indicators having numerical indicia and being evenly arrayed about the flat ring, the four flat circular indicators comprising:
a first circular indicator reading “1”,
a second circular indicator reading “2”,
a third circular indicator reading “3”, and
a fourth circular indicator reading “4”;
four alphabetical indicia, each one of the four alphabetical indicia being disposed between two of the four flat circular indicators, such that the four alphabetical indicia are also evenly arrayed about the circumference of the flat circular card;
wherein the four flat circular indicators are not coplanar with the flat card; and
wherein the four alphabetical indicia and the numerical indicia are raised lettering;
wherein each of the four flat circular indicators protrude beyond the circular circumference of the flat circular card, thereby forming four lobed edges corresponding to the four flat circular indicators and interrupting the circular circumference; and
wherein the four alphabetical indicia comprise:
two first-alphabetic-indicia each reading “Tee” separated from each other by one-hundred and eighty degrees;
two second-alphabetic-indicia each reading “Toss” separated from each other by one-hundred and eighty degrees, each and staggered from the two first-alphabetic-indicia by ninety degrees.