Handling: hand and hoist-line implements – Hand bars and hand barrows – Ball retriever
Patent
1981-04-17
1983-11-01
Cherry, Johnny D.
Handling: hand and hoist-line implements
Hand bars and hand barrows
Ball retriever
A63B 4702
Patent
active
044126972
ABSTRACT:
A ball retrieving and storage device including a storage container having a pair of handles hingedly fixed thereto which may be folded to a downwardly extending position supporting the container on a playing surface. The retrieving device includes a plurality of parallel rods extending across the bottom of the container. The rods are spaced apart from one another a distance greater than the diameter of the balls to be retrieved and being slightly resilient in a direction perpendicular thereto. Each of the rods has journaled thereon, for a rotating movement, a hollow, cylindrical tubular roller wherein the distance between inside surfaces of adjacent parallel rollers is slightly less than the diameter of a used tennis ball. The transverse resilience of the rods and the rotating motion of the rollers permit a ball to be retrieved by forcing the bottom of the container down over the ball. When folded upwardly the handles of the container enable an operator to both carry and retrieve balls from a playing surface without bending or stooping. When a substantial number of balls are held within the container, the handles may be folded into a downwardly extending position to support the container at a convenient height for the removal of balls.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3371950 (1968-03-01), Stap
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patent: 3820836 (1974-06-01), Seewagen et al.
patent: 3889996 (1975-06-01), Campbell
Cherry Johnny D.
Crisman Thomas L.
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