Patent ID: 6190176
Filing Date: 2001-02-20
Classification: A63B

Abstract:
A portable dual batter trainer comprising:a collapsible support stand;a trainer top plate assembly secured to said collapsible support stand; andtwo tethered batting balls suspended from said trainer top plate assembly;said collapsible support stand including an upper horizontal support assembly, two telescoping, pivoting leg assemblies and a bottom cross brace;each of said two telescoping pivoting leg assemblies including a foot portion including a floor contact tube with two spaced foot tubes extending perpendicularly from said floor contact tube and in parallel with each other and a top pivoting portion having a cross brace receiving tube secured between two foot tube receiving tubes;said two foot tube receiving tubes each having a first receiving tube end pivotally connected to said upper horizontal support assembly and a second pivoting tube end adapted to slidingly receiving one of said two foot tubes;said two foot tubes being adjustably securable in fixed relation to said two foot tube receiving tubes with a height adjustment securing bolt so as to support said trainer top plate assembly at said desired height in use;said bottom cross brace having two brace ends wherein each brace end is insertable into and securable within one of said cross brace receiving tubes by a bolt and nut assembly;said upper horizontal support assembly having three, spaced, parallel oriented, horizontal support tubes;two telescoping, pivoting leg assemblies each pivotally connected to opposite ends of said three spaced parallel oriented, horizontal support tubes of said upper horizontal support assembly and pivotal into an open position oriented perpendicular to said three spaced, parallel oriented, horizontal support tubes and into a closed position folded against said three spaced, parallel oriented, horizontal support tubes;said bottom cross brace being connectable between said two telescoping, pivoting leg assemblies when said two telescoping, pivoting leg assemblies are both positioned in said open position;said two brace ends of said bottom cross brace being each securable to a respective one of said two telescoping, pivoting leg assemblies to maintain said two telescoping, pivoting leg assemblies in said open position.