Patent Application
20250041683
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The invention described herein relates to the fields of golf and more particularly, golf tees. In the game of golf, a tee may be used to place a ball upon when “teeing off” at the outset of each hole. The purpose of the tee is to raise the ball off of the ground, which generally improves a golfer's ability to strike the ball cleanly, without contacting the ground with the golf club, to produce a better “tee off” shot. Over the years, the height of golf tees has increased due to the popularity and proliferation of golf clubs with oversized heads. With the change in club head size, some golfers may prefer to utilize golf tees of various lengths. Other than length and materials used to construct golf tees, the general design of golf tees has not changed.
One problem that many golfers encounter is that the current design of golf tees do not permit any means to organize and/or store golf tees in a uniform manner. Golf tees break often, which requires a golfer to carry multiple tees. As such, golf tees are generally stored haphazardly in a golf bag compartment or the pocket of a golfer. When tees are stored in this manner, a golfer must reach into the compartment or pocket, often getting poked by the pointed end of the haphazardly stored tees. The golfer must then sift through a handful of tees to find one of the appropriate length for the club being used to tee off. Once the appropriate tee is chosen, the remainder of the tees are thrown back into the golf bag compartment or stuffed back into the golfer's pocket so that the same frustrating process can occur again prior to the next hole tee off.
The herein described Novel Connecting Golf Tee solves the organization and storage problems outlined above by providing a novel head shape connection means for easy organization and storage of golf tees.
Due to the storage and organizational limitations of currently available golf tees, the herein described Novel Connecting Golf Tee has been developed. The Novel Connecting Golf Tee is comprised of a novel head shape, which accepts the shaft of another tee for easy connection and storage of multiple tees, even multiple tees of different sizes. This novel design allows a golfer to carry multiple tees connected together for easy retrieval from a golf bag compartment or pocket. This novel design allows a golfer to pre-select tees to be connected together in bunches wherein tees of different sizes can be chosen and connected prior to a round of golf to obviate the frustration of sorting through loose tees to find one of the appropriate length for the particular club being used.
Although only some embodiments of the invention are explained in detail, the figures and explanations should be understood as illustrations only and are not intended to limit the invention in its scope. Also, in describing the embodiments, specific terminology may be used, but it should be understood that specific terms include all technical equivalents that operate in similar manners to accomplish similar purposes.
With reference to the drawings, the preferred embodiment of the subject Novel Connecting Golf Tee 100, is illustrated. The Novel Connecting Golf Tee is comprised of an upper end head portion 110, connected to a middle shaft portion 120, which terminates into a lower pointed portion 130.
In its most basic form said upper end head portion 110 is comprised of a recessed space 114, which corresponds to the shape of said shaft portion 120 diameter 121 of said Novel Connecting Golf Tec 100. As such, said space 114 may accommodate a shaft portion 120 of another Novel Connecting Golf Tee 100 by snapping or sliding said shaft portion 120 of a first Novel Connecting Golf Tee 100 into said space 214 of a second Novel Connecting Golf Tee 200 and the shaft portion 220 of said second Novel Connecting Golf Tee 200 into the space 114 of said first Novel Connecting Golf Tec 100 as shown in
In the preferred embodiment, said upper end head portion 110 is further comprised of a top surface 111, upon which a golf ball is placed when the Novel Connecting Golf Tec 100 is in use. Said top surface 111 is generally comprised of a central portion 112 from which a plurality of arms 113 extend radially away and upward in a concave curvature. Said plurality of arms 113 function to stabilize the golf ball when placed on the Novel Connecting Golf Tee 100. In the preferred embodiment, said upper end head portion 110 is comprised of a plurality of recessed spaces 114 between said plurality of arms 113. Said spaces 114 are formed by an interior border 115 of said arms 113 connecting with a border 116 of said central portion 112. The shape of said spaces 114 correspond to the shape of said shaft portion 120 diameter 121 of said Novel Connecting Golf Tec 100. As such, said spaces 114 may accommodate a shaft portion 120 of another Novel Connecting Golf Tee 100. By snapping or sliding said shaft portion 120 of a first Novel Connecting Golf Tee 100 into said space 214 of a second Novel Connecting Golf Tee 200 and the shaft portion 220 of said second Novel Connecting Golf Tec 200 into the space 114 of said first Novel Connecting Golf Tee 100 as shown in
One familiar with the art would recognize that the configuration of said upper end head portion 110 could be comprised of alternative shaped arms and spaces as well as more or less arms or spaces as shown herein. For example, said plurality of spaces 114 could be configured to accept a square shaft portion 120 diameter 121. Any alternative upper end head portion 110 configuration, which achieves the primary connection function as described herein is expressly contemplated by this disclosure.
Multiple Novel Connecting Golf Tees can be connected together as shown in
It is understood that the foregoing examples are merely illustrative of the present invention. Certain modifications of the articles and/or methods may be made and still achieve the objectives of the invention. Such modifications are contemplated as within the scope of the claimed invention. For example, one skilled in the art would recognize that the invention herein could be comprised of many different configurations of virtually any kitchen utensil.
This is a U.S. Nonprovisional application, which claims priority from U.S. Provisional Application No. 63/529,906 filed Jul. 31, 2023, the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety to provide continuity of disclosure.
| Number | Date | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 63529906 | Jul 2023 | US |
