Convertible baseball/softball training equipment
OwnerMark Thomas, Richard Bertagnolliinventors
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Abstract
Baseball or softball training equipment that is capable of converting from a system for practicing pitching and throwing to a machine for throwing balls to practice batting or fielding. The equipment comprises: a main frame for catching a ball thrown toward the system; foldable backstop components hinged on both sides to the main frame; a plurality of movable, resettable targets connected to the main frame and extending over a ball collecting component; and a ball return component with a motorized wheel situated beneath the ball collecting component and detachably mounted for removing from the main frame and affixing to its own stand.
Claims12
A baseball or softball training system comprising, in combination:
- a main frame for catching a ball thrown toward the system;
- foldable backstop components hinged on both sides to the main frame;
- four quadrant targets, each target:
- (i) being situated in a simulated batter's strike zone, (ii) connected to the main frame;
- (iii) adapted for swinging inwardly on contact with a thrown ball then automatically resetting for a next throw;
- and (iv) extending over a ball collecting component;
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- a ball return component having a motorized wheel situated beneath the ball collecting component and detachably mounted for removing from the main frame and affixing to a separate stand for serving as a practice pitching machine.
Baseball or softball training equipment that is capable of converting from a system for practicing pitching and throwing to a machine for throwing balls to practice batting or fielding, said equipment comprising:
- a main frame for catching a ball thrown toward the system;
- foldable backstop components hinged on both sides to the main frame;
- two upper quadrant and two lower quadrant targets, each target:
- (i) being situated in a simulated batter's strike zone, (ii) connected to the main frame;
- (iii) adapted for swinging inwardly on contact with a thrown ball then automatically resetting for a next throw;
- and (iv) extending over a ball collecting component;
- and
- a ball return component having a motorized wheel situated beneath the ball collecting component and detachably mounted for removing from the main frame and affixing to a separate stand.
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