Tee-mate
CA 2303783 A1 · Owner: Edmunds, Lyle · Inventors: Callahan, Thomas; Edmunds, Lyle
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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A device comprised of a plastic clip, retention peg plastic/metal composite , golf ball tee and an elastic/nylon connecting cord to be used together or in combination while playing golf or, when driving/hitting golf balls in practice. This device prevents a golf ball tee from being lost, when it becomes dislodged from the drive or hit of a golf club. The retention peg is of substantial length designed with a pointed tip to penetrate the, surface of the turf/grass enough so as to prevent it from becoming dislodged. The peg will have, either a hole or a molded eyelet at the top of the shaft so as to secure the elastic/nylon connecting, cord, which will also be secured to the golf ball …
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Why it's free to use
- Filed April 4, 2000. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended April 4, 2020.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by April 4, 2022.
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