Tennis ball projecting machine
AssigneeSports Tutor, Inc.
InventorWilliam James Greene, Jr.
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Abstract
A tennis ball projecting machine including a support member, a rotatable wheel mounted on one side of the support member, a wheel motor on the other side of the support member, a curved rail below the wheel, a tennis ball hopper above the support member, a surface between the hopper and the machine having a feed opening where at least a portion of the feed opening is on the other side of the support member, and a rotatable body with one or more ball openings that periodically aligns with the feed opening to permit a tennis ball to pass through the feed opening.
Claims26
A tennis ball projecting machine for use with tennis balls, the tennis ball projecting machine comprising:
- a base member having generally vertically oriented sides;
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- a ball hopper member positioned above the base member and having substantially vertically oriented sides that are substantially congruent in external shape with the base member's sides in which the sides of the base member are slightly tilted from vertical so as to have a smaller horizontal cross section near its top than near its bottom, and the ball hopper member's sides are substantially congruent but inverted shape from the base member's sides so as to have a smaller horizontal cross section near its bottom than near its top when configured for the machine to operate with its ball hopper in use and in which the ball hopper member is removable from the base member and when removed and inverted nests over the base member for storage or transport.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.