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US 5,346,222 AGranted
Golf ball teeing apparatus
OwnerWalter C. Luther, Sr.inventor
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An apparatus for dispensing one golf ball at a time onto a tee, the apparatus comprising a tubular magazine through which golf balls roll by gravity from an entrance to an exit, a pivotable tubular arm hingedly attached at the exit of the magazine and extending to a dispensing mouth, the arm being biased to hold its mouth at an elevation higher than the magazine exit until manually pivoted downwardly to a dispensing position where the mouth is at a lower elevation than the magazine exit, an adjustable stop screw to prevent balls from rolling out of the exit until the arm is pivoted, means to move one golf ball at a time from contact with the stop screw and allow the ball to roll through the pivotable arm to be dispensed through the mouth onto a tee.
A golf ball teeing apparatus comprising a base and a golf ball dispensing magazine mounted to said base and adapted to store a plurality of golf balls and feed them by gravity one at a time to an exit port, a pivotable tubular arm having a proximal end and a distal end and being hingedly attached at said proximal end to said exit port and having an open mouth at said distal end for dispensing a golf ball therefrom, said mouth being adapted and arranged to deposit a golf ball being discharged from said mouth onto a tee centered with respect to said mouth, automatic stop means at said exit port for preventing a golf ball from freely passing into said pivotable arm when it is pivoted downwardly, and by-pass means actuated by moving said pivotable arm downwardly to permit one golf ball to by-pass said stop means and roll to said mouth.
A golf ball teeing apparatus comprising a base and a golf ball dispensing magazine mounted to said base and adapted to store a plurality of golf balls and feed them by gravity one at a time to an exit port, a pivotable tubular arm having a proximal end and a distal end and being hingedly attached at said proximal end to said exit port and having an open mouth at said distal end for dispensing a golf ball therefrom, said mouth being adapted and arranged to deposit a golf ball being discharged from said mouth onto a tee centered with respect to said mouth, automatic stop means at said exit port for preventing a golf ball from freely passing into said pivotable arm when it is pivoted downwardly, and by-pass means actuated by moving said pivotable arm downwardly to permit one golf ball to by-pass said stop means and roll to said mouth, said automatic stop means including a stop screw which is adjustable to project into a path of a golf ball at said exit port.
A golf ball teeing apparatus comprising a tubular magazine through which golf balls can roll freely from an elevated entrance into which golf balls can be fed one at a time to a lower exit out of which golf balls can exit one at a time, a pivotable tubular having a proximal end and a distal end with said proximal end hingedly connected to said lower exit and said distal end automatically held in a more elevated position than said proximal end until pushed downwardly to dispense a golf ball, stop means at said lower exit for preventing a golf ball from freely rolling past said lower exit, by-pass means for permitting a golf ball at said stop means to be freed from said stop means and to roll to said distal end of said pivotable tubular arm onto a tee adapted to be positioned to receive thereon a golf ball rolling out of said distal end, and a support frame for holding said magazine in position to insure gravity rolling of golf balls through said magazine said stop means including an adjustable stop screw projecting inwardly of said magazine adjacent said lower exit.
A portable golf ball teeing apparatus comprising a base, a golf ball dispensing magazine mounted to said base adapted to store a plurality of golf balls and feed each ball by gravity to an exit port, an elongated arm having a proximal end and a distal end, connecting means for hingedly attaching said proximal end to said magazine adjacent said exit port, said arm having an open mouth at said distal end for dispensing a golf ball therefrom, said mouth being adapted to be centered with respect to a tee to receive a golf ball thereon as that golf ball traverses said arm and is discharged from said mouth, actuating means including automatic means carried by said elongated arm adjacent said exit port for preventing a golf ball in said magazine from freely rolling from said exit port into said elongated arm when it is pivoted downwardly, said actuating means further including ejector means actuated by moving said arm downwardly from said connecting means to forcibly engage and move one golf ball upwardly and to eject same from said exit port into said elongated arm to permit it to roll down said elongated arm to said mouth to deposit same on a tee.
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