Golf tower apparatus and the like

Claim 1

IN A GOLF BALL PLAYING AND PRACTICING APPARATUS THE COMBINATION OF AN UPWARDLY EXTENDING FRAME HAVING THE UPPER ENDS TERMINATING AT AN APEX AND THE WIDE APART LOWER ENDS THEREOF SECURED IN FOUNDATION BLOCKS, A SPIRALLY HELICAL TUBULAR SECTION SUPPORTED BY SAID FRAME, SAID TUBULAR SECTION COMPRISING A LONGITUDINAL CONVOLUTE TUBE EXTENSION HAVING A GRADUALLY DIMINISHING ORIFICE AREA THROUGHOUT ITS LENGTH TERMINATING AT THE UPPER END THEREOF IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO SAID APEX OF SAID FRAME AND HAVING THE LARGE ORIFICE AREA AT THE LOWER END OF SAID TUBE EXTENSION TERMINATING AT THE EXTENDED LOWER ENDS OF SAID FRAME, A CIRCULAR RECEPTACLE CONNECTING SAID UPPER END OF SAID TUBE EXTENSION AND MOUNTED AT SAID APEX OF SAID FRAME, AN OPEN FRONT SECTION AT SAID LOWER END OF SAID FRAME CONNECTING SAID LARGE ORIFICE AREA OF SAID TUBE EXTENSION, A TEEING-GROUND IN FRONT OF SAID OPEN FRONT SECTION FOR DRIVING AND DIRECTING A GOLF BALL INTO SAID TUBE EXTENSION, A PLURALITY OF IMPEDIMENT MEANS DISPOSED AT INTERVALS THROUGHOUT SAID TUBE EXTENSION FOR GUIDING AND DIRECTING THE FLIGHT OF SAID GOLF BALL AND FOR RETARDING THEREIN THE FORCE, SPEED AND THE VELOCITY OF SAID PASSING GOLF BALL, A PLURALITY OF ILLUMINATING MEANS EXTENDING OUTWARDLY THROUGH THE WALL OF SAID TUBE EXTENSION AND ACTUATED BY SAID PASSING GOLF BALL FOR INDICATING THE FLIGHT POSITION OF SAID GOLF BALL IN SAID TUBE EXTENSION, A GOLF BALL RETRIEVING MEANS CONNECTED TO AND EXTENDING DOWNWARDLY FROM SAID TUBE EXTENSION AND POSITIONED AT INTERVALS ALONG THE PATH OF SAID PASSING GOLF BALL, AND A DIVERSION TUBE CONNECTING SAID RETRIEVING MEANS AND CONVERGING SAME AT THE SIDE OF SAID OPEN FRONT SECTION AND IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO SAID TEEING-GROUND, FOR RETRIEVING, DIRECTING AND FOR COLLECTING SAID GOLF BALL RETRIEVED FROM SAID CONVOLUTE TUBE EXTENSION OF SAID APPARATUS.