Patents by Inventor Bobby J. Gould

Bobby J. Gould has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5016886
    Abstract: An apparatus for successively and automatically teeing up golf balls utilizing a source of vacuum as an operating media. A bank of golf balls are loaded on an inclined ramp in a reservoir positioned at one side of the tee position. Axially aligned, vertically disposed sleeves disposed below an opening in a horizontal base, slidably support an elongated tube having a golf ball supporting tubular tee on its upper end movable to a position above and below the plane of the base. A cylindrical wall diaphragm on the depending end of the elongated tube when evacuated, retracts the tube and tee for receiving a golf ball on the tee by golf balls successively rolling down an inclined ramp from a reservoir above the base to the top of the tee where a golf ball interrupts the air flow through the elongated tube reducing air pressure therein and contracting the diaphragm wall to elevate the tube to a teed-up golf ball driving position above the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1991
    Inventor: Bobby J. Gould