Improvements in the Means or Method of Forming the Tees or Rests used in Playing the Game of Golf.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Aug., 1892-Accepted, 15th Oct., 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Means or Method of Forming the Tees or
Rests used in Playing the Game of Golf.
WILLIAM COOK Junior of Glendentan Bridge of Weir in the County of
Renfrew North Britain Steel and Iron Waggon Builder do hereby declare the
nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
It has been a custom hitherto in playing the game of golf for the attendant
carrying the golf clubs to form the tees or rests for the respective players by
shaping them in the hollow of his hand.
According to my improvements the old method of forming the tees is superseded
by the means which I will now proceed to describe.
I construct hollow moulds preferably of wood of external and internal conical
configuration. The internal shape is the one which determines what shape the tee
or tees shall have when made from sand or other friable or finely pulverised or
plastic material. The said moulds may be provided with plungers or pistons for
foreing out the core made of the material as aforesaid and constituting the tee or
rests.
The upper portion of the said plungers or pistons is provided with
a press button
to be operated by the second or other suitable finger of the hand, and the lower
portion of the said plungers or pistons has a projectingly curved extension which
presents to the tee or tees so constructed a hollow top or crown as hereafter more
fully referred to.
In accordance with a simpler method to that last described, I may dispense
altogether with the plunger or piston and employ the rounded portion of the top
part of the thumb for ejecting the core from the moulds and forming the hollow
crown of the tee or tees as aforesaid.
In order that my said invention may be properly understood and readily carried
into effect, I will now proceed to describe the drawings hereunto annexed.
Figure 1 is a vertical section of a mould constructed of wood and provided with
a plunger or piston made in accordance with and constituting an essential feature
of my improvements and hereafter more fully described.
Figures 2 and 3 illustrate the simpler forms of moulds, without plungers or
pistons.
Figure 4 illustrates in side elevation how my invention is carried into practice in
the operation of forming the tee with my improved mould, and
Figure 5 is a vertical section of a tee shewing the hollow crown upon which a
golf ball (shewn in dotted lines) is placed in position ready for a player.
The mould proper indicated by A is formed in the shape of a truncated cone.
The internal hollow of which is marked B, with a central hole made for the reception
of a plunger or piston C. This plunger or piston C as shewn in the drawing
Figure 1, is in its normal position, that is to say, it has dropped down, and the
press button is resting upon the top or roof of the cone. As soon as the mould is
pressed into the sand or equivalent material the said plunger is forced into the
position shewn in Figure 4. Various degrees of compression can be obtained in
forming the tees by the manner in which the plunger is made to force out the tec
by keeping the mould more or less near the ground.
It is here explained that a box or other receptacle not shewn in the drawing is
or may be used wherever found suitable on the links so that the players or
exponents of the game may readily construct a tee or tecs for themselves in the
absence of an attendant as will be understood.
By the formation of lower end c of the plunger or piston C the tee or tees formed

page_text: by the mould represented in Figure 1, is formed with a hollow crown or top D.
It will be understood that the curvature of this hollow crown or top D, corresponds
to the radius of the ball, therefore a very suitable seat is provided for the ball
whence it can be struck with the least obstruction presenting itself.
For ordinary use the moulds illustrated in Figures 2 & 3 will answer the purpose
for which they are intended.
The opening E at the top may be more or less contracted to suit various
requirements.
It is to be understood that although I have described and illustrated moulds
exclusively conical I do not confine myself precisely to that shape, other forms
such as cylindrical or polygonal may be employed without departing from the
principle of my invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is,
The employment of the moulds for forming or making the tees or rests substan-
tially as and for the purposes hereinbefore described and shewn.
Dated this 25th day of August 1892.
D. DRYSDALE AUSTIN,
Applicant's Agent.