Restrained By Auxiliary Weight Patents (Class 473/394)
  • Patent number: 10363467
    Abstract: A tetherable golf tee and teeing system are disclosed herein. One golf tee includes a body including a first end for inserting into an external surface and a second end opposite the first end and a crown located on the second end, the crown configured for resting a golf ball thereon. The body further includes a hollow portion and a first aperture located between the first end and the second end to access the hollow portion and for tethering the golf tee to another object. The crown includes a second aperture to further access the hollow portion. A golf tee system includes at least two of the above golf tees tethered together via a tethering apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Inventor: Jefferey Frederick Brandenburg
  • Patent number: 8622853
    Abstract: A golf training device including a target tee having a ground anchor, a rotating disc, and interchangeable tee heads for providing different tee heights. The interchangeable tee heads are coupled to a resilient member to allow the tee head to pivot and vertically reset itself after repeated impacts from a golf club. The training device includes alignment rods that are releasably attached to the rotating disc to provide golfer stance and body alignment, club face alignment, and ball positioning. The rotating disc is rotated to realign the alignment rods with a new intended target. A T-shaped adaptor is provided to extend alignment rods away from the rotating disc and to assist golfers with putting techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Guru Golf, LLC
    Inventor: Scott Roland
  • Patent number: 7488263
    Abstract: A golf tee set is disclosed to include a tee, which a top has three raised portions equiangularly spaced around a recess for supporting a golf ball for hitting, a disc member positioning the tee on the ground at the desired elevation so that the golfer can strike the golf ball long and straight, a first fastening member and a second fastening member respectively provided at the tee and the disc member to secure the tee to the disc member at the desired elevation, a cord member inserted through one wire hole of the disc member and secured thereto to carry a magnetic member, and a metal anchoring member for positioning on the ground to secure the magnetic member in place by magnetic attraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2009
    Assignee: Moldetk Precision Corp.
    Inventor: Lien-Hsin Lee
  • Patent number: 7416498
    Abstract: A device for preventing loss of golf tees in which, using a crude rubber or elastic resin material component, an upper side male bushing, which is provided at the center with a through hole into which a golf tee is inserted and held therein, and a bottom side female bushing, which can be fit on the shaft part of the above-described upper side male bushing, are provided; and one sheet of or a plural sheets of overlapping waterproof, lightweight loss prevention components, each of which is formed in a flower petal shape or wing shape or the like and has a through hole for the shaft part of the upper side male bushing, is/are provided between the upper side male bushing and the bottom side female bushing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2008
    Inventor: Keisuke Kihara