Claims
- 1. A putting green assembly comprising:
- a playing mat having a putting end, a ball cup end, and a ball cup in said ball cup end;
- means for adjusting a topography of said playing mat, wherein said adjusting means includes a flexible frame structure extending at least partially around the perimeter of and supporting said playing mat, a lattice fixed over said playing mat, and at least one elongated member extending along said lattice and fixed to said frame structure for manually raising or lowering said frame structure and said supported playing mat, thereby adjusting the topography of said playing mat; and
- ball return means for inclining said ball cup end of said playing mat toward said putting end, thereby changing the topography of said playing mat and gravitationally causing all putted balls on said ball cup end to return to said putting end.
- 2. The putting green assembly of claim 1 wherein said ball return means includes an elongated member extending from said lattice and fixed to said frame structure at said ball cup end of said playing mat so as to incline substantially said entire ball cup end toward said putting end.
- 3. The putting green assembly of claim 1 wherein said frame structure comprises a plurality of flexibly interconnected segments.
- 4. The putting green assembly of claim 3 wherein said segments are pivotally interconnected.
- 5. The putting green assembly of claim 4 wherein said frame structure is foldable.
- 6. The putting green assembly of claim 3 wherein at least one of said segments is slidably interconnected with an adjacent segment, thereby allowing the size of the frame structure and the playing mat supported therein to be changed.
- 7. The putting green assembly of claim 6 wherein said frame structure is foldable.
- 8. The putting green assembly of claim 1 wherein said frame structure includes a ridge extending above said playing mat for retaining misdirected balls on said playing mat.
- 9. The putting green assembly of claim 3 wherein said ball cup end is detachable from, and rotatable relative to said playing mat.
- 10. The putting green assembly of claim 3 further comprising an extension mat which adjoins and is coplanar with said playing mat.
Parent Case Info
This is a continuation-in-part of Ser. No. 07/578,568, filed Sep. 6, 1990 (U.S. Pat. No. 5,100,145), which is a continuation-in-part of Ser. No. 07/485,296, filed Feb. 26, 1990 (U.S. Pat. No. 5,087,045).
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Continuation in Parts (2)
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