Two ball, ball striking trainer

Abstract

A ball sports, ball striking, practice and teaching aid which provides a unique two ball, ball striking practice design, that includes a fixed yet displaceable and self resetting ball and a second free to fly ball that is catapulted or tossed by using the energy that is provided by the force of impact between the fixed ball and a ball striking implement, for example a tennis racket or baseball bat, the fixed ball is situated at the uppermost end of a rigid, geniculated, longitudinally governed, displaceable, and self resetting wand, which crowns a rigid, unyielding, upright post that is affixed to a portable base of sufficient mass and weight to hold the upright post firmly in a perpendicular to the base, upright position.

Claims

1. A ball striking and ball catapulting device, comprising: a base member configured to be substantially parallel with a playing surface; an upright, rigid, and unyielding post member set in and fixed substantially perpendicular to said base member; a rigid, geniculated wand member having a concave side and a convex side, said wand member pivotably mounted to a top end of said post member by a pivot pin adjacent a first end of said wand member and further comprising a fixed, strikable ball member mounted at a second end of said wand member; an elastic or spring member attached between the post member and the first end of the wand member to allow the wand member to automatically reset to its initial position after the fixed ball is struck; a curved trough member attached to said concave side of the wand member, said trough member having a nesting portion at a first end which is configured to hold a second separate, non-strikable, catapulting ball in the initial position of the wand member and an adjustable releasing hood portion at a second end; and wherein the fixed ball is configured to be impacted by a striking implement at the initial position which catapults a catapulting ball from within the trough member in a direction dictated by the hood portion.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

(1) FIG. 1 is a perspective full, side on view, that illustrates an embodiment of the present invention at full rest.

(2) FIG. 2 is a perspective full, side on view that illustrates an embodiment of the present invention in depiction of, the present invention immediately following the impact between the fixed yet displace ball and an impacting tennis racket.

(3) FIG. 3 is a perspective and truncated yet enlarged side on view that illustrates an embodiment of the present invention immediately following the contact between the fixed yet displace ball and an impacting tennis racket.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

(4) Now referring to FIG. 1 there is illustrated a ball striking practice device particularly adaptable to baseball, cricket or tennis in accordance with the present invention is included, a base (1) as illustrated. The base (1) has mounted wheels (2) for the purpose of simple transportability. The base (1) must be of sufficient mass and weight for the stable affixed perpendicular placement and support of a rigid and unyielding up right post (3). The rigid up right post (3) is crowned and affixed with a rigid geniculated and specifically counterbalanced, wand (5). The rigid wand (5) is affixed to the crown of the rigid up right post (3) by means of a through pin (4) which allows the rigid wand (5) to be displaced only, along a longitudinal, outward bound and governed, path.

(5) The first of two balls that are depicted and illustrated herein is the strikable, impact ball (6). The impact ball (6) is securely mounted and fixed to the highest end of the rigid wand (5). Affixed and mounted as illustrated, opposite the impact ball, (6) in the manner of a piggyback arrangement, is a one piece, three sectional ball throwing device (13). The three sections of the piggyback arranged ball throwing device, (13) are, section one. The free to fly, ball nesting surface, (8) which serves as suitable support for the nesting free to fly ball (7) while waiting in readiness to be catapulted. The second section of the piggyback arranged ball throwing device, (13) is the free to fly ball acceleration trough, (9) which performs as an accelerant on the free to fly ball (7) in precisely the same manner as a Jai Alai racket serves to accelerate a Jai Alai ball through to the Jai Alai racket's release point. The third section of the piggyback arranged ball throwing device (13) is the ball directional releasing hood (10). An envisioned element of the ball directional releasing hood (10) is the adjustability of the ball releasing directional hood (10). Said adjustability will impose varied degrees of arc, upon the catapulted free flying ball.

(6) Now referring to FIG. 2 illustrating and depicting the desired clause and effects envisioned within the present invention.

(7) Upon being struck by the ball striking instrument, depicted in FIG. 2 as a tennis racket, the strikable and displaceable impact ball (6) services to convert the force of the impact between the racket and the impact ball (6) into the energy that powers the free to fly ball's catapult response. Also illustrated and depicted in FIG. 2 are two separate and distinct balls. An impact ball (6) and a free to fly ball that can be catapulted (7) Also illustrated and depicted in FIG. 2 are two separate and distinct fixed impact ball (6) return devices. One of these two ball return devices is a specifically weighted counterbalance wand ending (12) and the second of the two impact ball, (6) ball return devices is an elastic bungee cord (11) that is strategically connected to the up right post (3) at one end and the opposite end of the elastic bungee cord (11) is attached to the specifically weighted counterbalanced end of the rigid wand (12).

(8) Now referring to FIG. 3 which in accordance with the present invention illustrates and depicts a truncated and sectional yet, blown up view of the two ball, ball striking practice device as illustrated and described in FIG. 2