Patent ID: 8177271
Filing Date: 2012-05-15
Classification: A63B

Abstract:
1. A portable retriever for collecting and dispensing tennis balls utilized on a flat surface, said portable retriever comprising: a container having a dispensing opening, a front wall, a rear wall, a bottom wall with a retrieving bottom aperture including parallel rods spaced from each other a distance smaller than a tennis ball diameter, so as to define a space through which squeezed balls pushed against said flat surface enter and retain in said container, a top handle, a wheeled support, wherein said container has a horizontally elongated body in a front to rear direction comprising a partition which divides an interior of said container into a front retrieving section comprising said front wall and a rear collecting section comprising said rear wall, said partition has a movably attached gate, whereby said retrieving bottom aperture and said top handle are located at said front retrieving section and said wheeled support is placed at said rear collecting section.