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  All-climate artificial driving range for golfRelated Patent Categories: Games Using Tangible Projectile, Golf, Projectile Addressing Surface And Target, Or Distance Marker (e.g., Course, Putting Green With Cup, Driving Range, Miniature Golf Course, Etc.), Plural Addressing Surfaces (e.g., Driving Range, Etc.)All-climate artificial driving range for golf description/claimsThe Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20060240900, All-climate artificial driving range for golf. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] This application is an U.S. national phase application under 35 U.S.C. .sctn.371 based upon co-pending International Application No. PCT/NO2003/000177 filed Jun. 2, 2003. Additionally, this U.S. national phase application claims the benefit of priority of co-pending International Application No. PCT/NO2003/000177 filed Jun. 2, 2003. The entire disclosure of the prior application is incorporated herein by reference. The international application was published in the English language on Dec. 9, 2004 under Publication No. WO 2004/105896 A1. BACKGROUND FOR THE INVENTION [0002] Golf is a sport that is normally practiced during the summer and when the weather is suitable (not too cold or wet). This means that professional and semi-professional players as well as amateur players will have difficulties to maintain their skills and technique during the winter, especially in areas where that season implies cold weather and snow. [0003] In countries located much to the north or south such as the Scandinavian countries, Scotland, Canada, Alaska, Iceland, Russia etc. the part of the year when golf or driving range training is impossible to practice may extend to 50, or 6 months. Such long interrupts constitute obstacles for the individual golf player's development of his skills. [0004] There has been previous suggestions for artificial driving ranges, such as the GB patent 2.356.573, including an area from where the drives are made and a fenced-in "fairway" ball collecting area. [0005] There are further variations of tee-off areas and collecting systems for practice golf balls described in the U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,797,827, 5,513,841 and 5,547,186. [0006] The U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,860,236 and 4,889,342 suggest small cabins or boxes from where golf players can drive their balls in rainy or cold weather. [0007] Even though all these different arrangements may be possible to use--to some extent--during winter conditions, none of them are dedicated for this kind of climate. They would most likely not work at all at temperatures below 0 [deg] C. (freezing point) or after heavy snow falls. [0008] There is apparently a lack of driving ranges which are suited for winter climate with low temperatures and snow. For such an arrangement to be of any interest it should also include: [0009] a sheltered and heated tee-off area [0010] a suited ball collecting and transport system [0011] a challenging length of the range (to make it possible to practice a full golf swing) [0012] The only solution until now for such requirements has been buildings with the facilities fully indoor, with a would-be very high construction cost for the range size indicated. The herewith suggested system probably provides the first affordable all-climate artificial driving range for golf. GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [0013] The invention is intended for practice of golf independent of the climate, in the form of an artificial driving range with tee-off "indoor" and an outdoor range area. [0014] At one end of the range there is located a building preferably equipped with floodlights and tee-off facilities for driving golf balls through a heated air curtain(s). Connected to this building is a fence which surrounds the ball receiving range area. Artificial surfaces on both sides of the central axis of the range and sloping down towards a transport system of the central axis provide the return of the golf balls to the tee-off building. [0015] The artificial surfaces are shaped in a net structure or grating which is elevated above the ground as a raised floor. The mesh size of the net structure is small enough to carry golf balls and big enough to let snow etc. through and be collected under the raised floor. [0016] Additional functions based on these principles are length measurement and practice golf greens with results displayed for the golf player. [0017] A range plate, a preferred component to build the raised floor, constitutes a part of the invention. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES AND DRAWINGS: [0018] FIG. 1: An overview drawing of the whole all-climate artificial driving range for golf, the invented system. [0019] FIG. 2: An overview figure showing the raised floor principle. [0020] FIG. 3: A drawing showing the outline of an example of a basic floor component for the range area, the "range plate". Continue reading about All-climate artificial driving range for golf... 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