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US 6,241,629 B1Granted
Baseball and softball training apparatus and method
AssigneeSports Vision, Inc.
InventorGary D. Otto
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Abstract
A hand held mechanical apparatus for propelling a ball toward a person so that the person can gain experience in hitting and fielding, the apparatus has a tube for holding the ball and a spring for generating the energy to propel the ball from the tube.
Claims15
A training apparatus, comprising:
- an elongated tube having an axis, first and second ends, first and second end portions, and an open chamber extending a preselected longitudinal distance therethrough, said chamber opening on said first end portion at an angle relative to the tube longitudinal axis wherein the distance as measured along the tube longitudinal axis is greater on a first side of the tube than on a second opposed side of said tube and having a flange extending outwardly from an outer surface adjacent the first end portion of the tube on the first side of said tube;
- means for obstructing the tube chamber at a preselected longitudinal distance along the tube from the tube first end;
- a handle;
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- a spring having first and second end portions and being connected said first end to the handle and at said second end to the second end portion of the elongated tube.
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