Abstract: The apparatus is comprised of a platform with a teeing mechanism operated by a user. The user depresses a lever arm that depresses a tee and that activates a dispensing mechanism that feeds golf balls to the tee in its depressed position. The mechanism is comprised of a set of levers, a ratchet and an axle which extends into a reservoir of gold ball dispenser. The reservoir includes a hole leading to a chute that terminates at a vertical tube in which moves a depressible tee. On the axle, within the reservoir, is a flexible rotating disk with a plurality of oval holes. As the disk rotates, balls in the reservoir fall into the holes, and as the holes pass over the hole in the reservoir, the balls fall into the chute and onto the tee. The ratchet coordinates the motion of the flexible disk so that one ball is moved into position over the hole in the reservoir for each depression of the tee.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 10, 1990
Date of Patent:
June 11, 1991
Assignee:
373470 Alberta Ltd.
Inventors:
Joseph P. Bussiere, Richard A. Bussiere, Paul L. Bussiere, Daniel J. Bussiere, Christopher Lindop