An Improvement in Golf Tees.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 12th June, 1897
Complete Specification Left, 12th Mar., 1898-Accepted, 30th Apr., 1898
An Improvement in Golf Tees.
I, PATRICK MILLAR MATTHEW, Managing Director of Victoria Rubber Coy.,
Ltd., Victoria India Rubber Mills, Leith Walk, Leith, N.B., do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improvement in golf tees. It consists of a disc of
india rubber which has formed or moulded upon it an upright portion or portions,
upon which the ball is carried and elevated for the purpose of "driving off" the
ball.
The said rubber disc is prevented from being knocked away by the stroke of
the golf club by providing its under side with a nail or spike which is pushed.
into the ground and the tee therefore held secure.
The said spike or nail may be conveniently attached to the under side of the
tee by imbedding a flat head of the spike or nail between a vulcanite disc and the
under side of the tee, the spike being previously passed through a hole in
the centre of the vulcanite disc, and the two dises being vulcanized together.
Dated this 11th day of June 1897.
JOHNSONS,
Petitioner's Agents, 115, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow.
An Improvement in Golf Tees.
I, PATRICK MILLAR MATTHEW, Managing Director of the Victoria Rubber Coy.,
Ltd., Victoria India Rubber Mills, Leith Walk, Leith, N.B., 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:-
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This invention relates to an improvement in golf tees. It consists of a disc of
india rubber or other flexible substance which has formed or moulded upon it an
upright portion or portions upon which the ball is carried and elevated for the
purpose of driving off" the ball.
The said rubber disc is prevented from being knocked away by the stroke of
the golf club by providing its under side with a nail or spike which is pushed into
the ground and the tee therefore held secure.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings illustrates one form of tee constructed in
accordance with my invention A being the rubber prongs or upright portions

page_text: which support the ball. B the rubber disc to which they are secured or with
which they are formed and C the spike by which the tee is fixed to the ground.
Fig. 2 shews a similar tee but with the substitution of a rubber cup portion D
for the prongs, Fig. 1.
The said spike or nail C may be conveniently attached to the under side of the
tee by imbedding a flat head of the spike or nail between a vulcanite disc and the
under side of the tee, the spike being previously passed through a hole in
the centre of the vulcanite disc, and the two discs being vulcanized together.
The superstructure of the tee or portion of which the ball rests, may be as illus-
trated or of any other convenient form, the essential feature of my invention
consisting in the method of fixing the tee to the ground.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
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1. An improved golf tee of indiarubber or other flexible substance formed to
provide a suitable rest for the ball and kept in position when the ball is struck
by means of a spike, such as C, of iron or other material, pressed into the ground
where the tee is placed, substantially as hereinbefore described and shewn in the
accompanying drawings.
2. The method of attaching the spike C to the rubber tee consisting in embed-
ding the head of the spike between the bottom of the tee and a vulcanite dise both
of which are then vulcanized together, substantially as set forth.
Dated this 11th day of March 1898.
JOHNSONS,
Applicant's Agents, 115, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow.