Patent ID: 6616555
Filing Date: 2003-09-09
Classification: A63B

Abstract:
An athletic ball server comprising a support structure, an elongated inclined tray mounted atop said support structure for supporting a linear array of athletic balls, a gate mounted at a low end of said tray for cyclically releasing balls of the array one at a time from said low end of said tray to gravity, a trampoline-like platform mounted by a pivot at one edge thereof to said support structure with a central portion of said platform beneath said low end of said tray and aligned to bounce a ball released to free-fall by gravity from said low end of said tray onto said platform and an adjustable linkage connected between said support structure and said platform for setting an angular position of a plane of said platform defined by a pivotal axis of said pivot and a distal edge of said platform to achieve a desired trajectory of a bounced ball therefrom.