Baseball dispenser device for batting practice
OwnerArthur M. Brophyinventor
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Abstract
A baseball dispensing device for practicing batting that includes a three tubular chute for retaining and delivering baseballs to a hitter. The center tube contains an electric driven motor which rotates a pair of discs which dispense baseballs at timed intervals releasing them to a central tube established at an incline to allow the dispensed ball to roll and strike a spring. The weight of the ball causes the spring to flex and upon reflex propels the ball upward vertically allowing a batter to swing into the ball. The center motor driven discs are equipped with a hole which when completing a rotation dispenses balls alternately to the delivery chute.
Claims5
A ball dispensing machine comprising an elongated sloping ball container, said container having a ball entrance end, a ball exit end and a ball release means at said exit end for gravitationally receiving balls from said entrance end;
- a ball chute sloping downward and outward from said ball container and having one of its ends attached to said ball release means;
- spring means attached to the other end of said chute, said ball release means releasing balls singularly and at timed intervals to said chute and causing them to gravitationally roll down said chute to said other end to contact said spring means for deflection upward to be hit by a batter.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.