A63B 47/002
Devices for dispensing balls
Official title: {Devices for dispensing balls, e.g. from a reservoir (automatic teeing devices A63B57/0006; devices for projecting balls A63B69/40)}
A63B47/002 (Devices for dispensing balls) appears on 370 US grants and 282 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A63B- Granted patents
- 370
- Published applications
- 282
- Assignees
- 118
- Inventors
- 618
- Latest grant
- 14 Jul 2026
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| 2021 | 13 | 10 |
| 2022 | 5 | 11 |
| 2023 | 14 | 8 |
| 2024 | 9 | 10 |
| 2025 | 4 | 10 |
| 2026 | 9 | 9 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
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- Extendable baseball carrier23 Jun 2026US 12,661,558 B2Grandstand LLC
- Detection of the speed of an object passing through a goal plane2 Jun 2026US 12,646,604 B1TOCA Football, Inc.
- Golf ball dispenser with embedded display device, separate front waterfall panel and/or blower assembly14 Apr 2026US 12,599,816 B2Topgolf International, Inc.
- Training device for ball sports14 Apr 2026US 12,599,830 B2Globaltec Innovations Ltd
- Ball dispenser for miniature golf course23 Jul 2026US 2026/0208002 A1
- Portable Sports Rack And Delivery System11 Jun 2026US 2026/0158336 A1
- Multifunctional ball rack device28 May 2026US 2026/0145041 A1
- Golf ball warming and dispensing system for thermal location14 May 2026US 2026/0131205 A1HotBallz, LLC
- Foldable Tennis Table with Multi-Ball Storage Contraption with Adjustable Position16 Apr 2026US 2026/0102671 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Participatory play structure having discrete play articles153US 5,853,332 A1998
- Participatory play structure having discrete play articles121US 6,283,871 B1Koala Corporation · 2001
- Baseball soft-toss pitching machine and method98US 5,097,985 A1992
- Automatic ball server84US 4,207,857 A1980
- Identification device83US 7,160,196 B2World Golf Systems Limited · 2007