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US 4,301,549 AGranted
Tennis ball pocket
OwnerArlen E. Ingraminventor
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Abstract
A tennis ball pocket for fastening to the garment of a player which holds an extra ball in readiness and designed to release the ball through a hole in the outer wall of the pocket upon finger pressure either outside the pocket or against the ball inside the pocket to cause the ball to pop into the hand of the player.
Claims6
A retention pocket for tennis balls to be associated with the garment of a tennis player which comprises:
- (a) a back panel,
- (b) a front panel overlying said back panel having a hole within the margins thereof to allow a tennis ball to pass, and
- (c) means at the perimeter of the hole in said front panel to resiliently retain a tennis ball in said pocket and to permit removal of said ball through said hole when inward pressure is applied around the ball against the body of the player to cause the ball to snap out of the pocket into the hand of the player.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.