Mechanical guns and projectors – Projectile impelled by coacting wheels
Reexamination Certificate
2006-03-14
2006-03-14
Ricci, John A. (Department: 3714)
Mechanical guns and projectors
Projectile impelled by coacting wheels
Reexamination Certificate
active
07011084
ABSTRACT:
The notion of an assymetrically configured thruster-wheel for automatic-feed ball-pitching batter/training-machines having a pair of laterally apposed axially-driven thruster-wheels; —wherein one or both thruster-wheels features a resilient circumferential-facing formed with declivities which can be regular or irregular protruding or receeding formations acting to alter the instant amount of impetus or thrust being exerted bilaterally upon the surface of a momentarily feeding ball. The thrust-wheels are axially readily detatchable from the ball-pitching thrust-motor shafts, thereby enabling coach or user to change just one or both thrust-wheels from a conventional uniform tread-surface (which thus always shoots-out balls on a predictable trajectory) to my new IM/Thrust-wheel which thereby shoots-out balls on a non-predictable trajectory. Accordingly, without the heretofore complexity of computer-controlled action, this simple improvement enables a practicing ball-batter to be pitched balls which randomly change on an unpredictable basis to pass virtually anywhere generally within the batter's strike-zone, thereby training the user to better cope with variously pitched balls.
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Ricci John A.
Sports Products Consultants Inc.
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