Ball spinning device for dynamically balancing a ball
OwnerJames William Hartinventor
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Abstract
A ball spinning device for dynamically balancing a ball includes a device body, the device body including a concave cup portion for receiving a portion of a ball that is to be dynamically balanced, the concave cup portion having an air discharge aperture configured to discharge a stream of pressurized air at an outer surface of the ball; and a pressurized air source fluidly coupled to the air discharge aperture of the concave cup portion, the pressurized air source configured to deliver the pressurized air to the air discharge aperture so as to induce a rotational displacement of the ball within the concave cup portion until a balanced state of the ball is achieved.
Claims13
A ball spinning device for dynamically balancing a ball, the ball spinning device comprising:
- a device body, the device body including a concave cup portion for receiving a portion of a ball that is to be dynamically balanced, the concave cup portion having an air discharge aperture configured to discharge a stream of pressurized air at an outer surface of the ball, the air discharge aperture comprising one of:
- (i) a single air discharge aperture being spaced a first predetermined distance apart from a center point of the concave cup portion, and the single air discharge aperture being spaced a second predetermined distance apart from an outer circumference of the concave cup portion, the first predetermined distance being greater than the second predetermined distance, or
- (ii) an elongate slot that extends diagonally through a bottom wall of the concave cup portion such that the stream of pressurized air is directed diagonally at the outer surface of the ball;
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- a pressurized air source fluidly coupled to the air discharge aperture of the concave cup portion, the pressurized air source configured to deliver the pressurized air to the air discharge aperture so as to induce a rotational displacement of the ball within the concave cup portion until a balanced state of the ball is achieved;
- wherein the air discharge aperture comprises the single air discharge aperture spaced the first predetermined distance apart from the center point of the concave cup portion, and the single air discharge aperture spaced the second predetermined distance apart from the outer circumference of the concave cup portion, the first predetermined distance being greater than the second predetermined distance.
A ball spinning device for dynamically balancing a ball, the ball spinning device comprising:
- a device body, the device body including a concave cup portion for receiving a portion of a ball that is to be dynamically balanced, the concave cup portion having a single circular air discharge aperture configured to discharge a stream of pressurized air at an outer surface of the ball, the single circular air discharge aperture being spaced a first predetermined distance apart from a center point of the concave cup portion, and the single circular air discharge aperture being spaced a second predetermined distance apart from an outer circumference of the concave cup portion, the first predetermined distance being greater than the second predetermined distance;
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- a pressurized air source fluidly coupled to the air discharge aperture of the concave cup portion, the pressurized air source configured to deliver the pressurized air to the air discharge aperture so as to induce a rotational displacement of the ball within the concave cup portion until a balanced state of the ball is achieved.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.