Abstract: An apparatus for cleaning (washing) spherical objects, preferably golf balls, includes two substantially round disks which are disposed in register with one another with an interspace which is less than the diameter of the spherical objects, at least the one disk being rotary and provided with a device for guiding the spherical objects out towards the periphery of the disk, and the second disk has a centrally located infeed opening and is provided with a brush which extends from the surface of the disk at an angle of less than 90° to the surface of the disk from the center of the disk out towards the periphery of the disk.

Abstract: An apparatus at a driving tee for golf balls or the like, comprising a raisable and lowerable ball support a so-called peg, on which a ball may be placed for driving thereof after lifting of the ball support with the ball to the desired level above the tee, the ball support being disposed on means for switching of the ball support from a low position for loading of the ball support with a ball to a higher position of said desired ball driving level, the ball support being disposed on the switching means via positioning means which are disposed to permit pivoting of the ball support in at least the driving direction, wherein the positioning means include a substantially U-shaped bracket between whose shanks the ball support is pivotal.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for cleaning (washing) spherical objects, preferably golf balls, the apparatus comprising two substantially round disks (11, 13) which are disposed in register with one another with an interspace which is less than the diameter of the spherical objects, at least the one disk (11) being rotary and provided with means (19) for guiding the spherical objects out towards the periphery of the disk (11), and the second disk (13) has a centrally located infeed opening (15) and is provided with a brush (14) which extends from the surface of the disk (13) at an angle of less than 90° to the surface of the disk (13) from the centre of the disk (13) out towards the periphery of the disk (13).

Abstract: An apparatus at a driving tee for golf balls or the like, comprising a raisable and lowerable ball support a so-called peg, on which a ball may be placed for driving thereof after lifting of the ball support with the ball to the desired level above the tee, the ball support being disposed on means for switching of the ball support from a low position for loading of the ball support with a ball to a higher position of said desired ball driving level, the ball support being disposed on the switching means via positioning means which are disposed to permit pivoting of the ball support in at least the driving direction, wherein the positioning means include a substantially U-shaped bracket between whose shanks the ball support is pivotal.

Abstract: A device in an automatic facility for storing golf balls and, dispensing a number of golf balls, includes a magazine with a number of mutually laterally disposed and substantially parallel golf ball paths, in which the golf balls rest and which slope down towards a discharge chute leading to a delivery point, the golf ball paths discharging at a cradle which is in the form of a rail with a first shank which is provided with stub shafts and extends substantially at right angles to the golf ball paths, and a second shank which extends substantially in the same direction as the golf ball paths, the stub shafts being disposed at the ends of the rail and being journal led at the ends of the rail in order for the rail to be switchable between a reception position and a delivery position.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for transducing and/or converting of wind power into another power, for example electric power, comprising a rotor which is rotary in a tunnel tube which is mounted on the upper end of a tower the rotor having an outer ring, an inner ring and a number of blades or vanes, which extend between the rings, the outer ring having a depression extending between the edges for a belt or the like which extends to a shaft on the underside of the tunnel tube for rotation thereof on rotation of the rotor.

Abstract: An apparatus for retrieving golf balls and the like includes a number of retrieving sections, each having a frame for one or more receptacle baskets and a retrieving roller with a number of retrieving disks. The frames are connected to a connection rail in side-by-side relationship. The connection rail is readily flexible over its entire length in the vertical plane and is rigid or substantially inflexible in the horizontal plane.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for retrieving golf balls and the like, which comprises a number of retrieving sections (1-5) which have a frame (6) for one or more receptacle baskets (10) and a retrieving roller (8) with a number of retrieving disks (9), the frames (6) being connected to a connection rail (15) in side-by-side relationship and the connection rail (15) being readily flexible in the vertical plane and rigid or substantially inflexible in the horizontal plane.

Abstract: A device for converting or transducing wind power into other power, such as electric power. A wheel is rotatably journalled on a shaft (8) in the upper region of a tower (1). The wheel has a number of blades (9) between the shaft (8) and an outer annulus (10) which is located a distance from the shaft (8). The tower (1) is rotatable for positioning the wheel substantially at right angles to the prevailing direction of the wind. A transmission device (26) extends between the annulus (10) of the wheel and the foot of the tower for transducing the transmitted wind power into other power.

Abstract: An automatic machine for storing and dispensing a desired number of spherical objects (1), for example golf balls. A magazine has at least one sloping floor surface (2, 3, 4, 7), a conveyor belt (11) extending from an infeed position to a discharge position, and an object counter (16) disposed at the conveyor belt (11) for counting the number of objects (1) displaced on the conveyor belt (11) past the counter (16).

Abstract: An apparatus for the transport of spheroidal objects, for example golf balls, with the aid of an air current generated in a conduit system by a fan unit, from an infeed point (13) to a number of stations in the form of sites of use (teeing-off sites), storage points (magazines, automatic dispensers), and so on. An infeed tube (14) is provided for infeed of the spheroidal objects into the conduit system and discharges the objects at a shunting device (16) which engages the objects in sequence one after another and moves the objects along the infeed tube (14) in a direction towards a conduit in the conduit system from a receptacle point (13). A second shunting device (18) is provided between the receptacle point (13) and the shunting device (16) for urging the spheroidal objects in the opposite direction from the infeed tube (14) towards the receptacle point (13) in the event that the objects are disposed on one another.

Abstract: A substantially vertical elevator (5) for the transport of round and/or spherical objects, for example golf balls, between different levels, the elevator including a conveyor belt (11) which extends between an upper roller at an upper level and a lower roller at a lower level and which passes a number of emptying points between the rollers. A number of spaced carrier planes (12) extending transversely of the conveyor belt, on which planes the objects are capable of resting during the movement of the conveyor belt (11) from a replenishment point (6) to the emptying point or emptying points. An ejector (13) is disposed, between the carrier planes (12) and is actuable at the emptying points for removal of the objects on the adjacent carrier plane (12) to a receptacle container provided at the emptying point in question.

Abstract: An apparatus for displacement or advancement of implements such as, for example, ball collectors or harvesters, lawn mowers, etc., wherein a forward beam is provided with at least two spaced pivotal wheels and coupling arrangement for coupling a plurality of implements. The forward beam is connected to a frame provided with at least one steerable drive wheel spaced at a sufficient distance from the beam so that the plurality of implements are provided with sufficient clearance between the frame and the steerable drive wheel.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to an apparatus for washing objects such as golf balls, the apparatus essentially comprising two disks (33,36) which are disposed in register and in spaced-apart relationship, the disks being provided, on their sides facing one another, with brush devices (34,37), the spacing between the bruch devices (34, 37) being less than the diameter of the objects, at least the one disk (36) being rotary and the objects being fed in between the disks (33,36) via a central aperture (35) in the one disk (33).

Abstract: The disclosure relates to an apparatus which is applicable such as, for example, an automatic golf ball dispenser, and comprises a ball magazine floor which consists of a number of tracks for golf balls so that these are arranged in rows after one another, the ends of the tracks being combined to form a pivotal cradle whose depth corresponds to one golf ball, whereby each pivoting of the cradle entails emptying of only that number of golf balls which is present in the cradle.

Abstract: A method of turning a plurality of stackable cups to a position where the cups repose on their open and wider ends, the cups having a height which is less than the greatest diameter of the cups at their open ends, in which the cups are taken to a first zone on a continuously forwardly driven conveyor belt randomly assuming a position reposing on their bottom ends, reposing on their open ends or lying on one side. The cups are then moved through a second zone where those cups which are lying on one side are raised to a position where they repose on their open ends. Next, the cups are moved through a third zone where those cups reposing on their bottom ends are tipped over to a position where they repose their open ends. Finally, the cups are collected into a row and arranged after each other and led to a zone where the cups not reposing with their open ends on the belt are removed from the belt, whereafter the cups reposing on their open ends are led in a row to a position for stacking.