Patent ID: 6945578

Claim:
A ball retrieval and storage device comprising: a basket having opposing front wall and rear wall and two opposing side walls interconnected with said front and rear walls; rotatable handle members secured to two opposing walls, said handle members rotatable from a handle orientation to a stand orientation; a bottom wall comprised of a plurality of rod members including first fixed rod members and second, solid, non-hollow, displaceable rod members extending between opposing side walls or between opposing front wall and rear wall, said second, solid, non-hollow, displaceable rod members having a first end and a second end, said first and second ends disposed between a vertically divergent channel formed by said opposing side walls or opposing rear wall and front wall, said first and second ends of said second, solid, non-hollow, displaceable rod members having a securing means affixed to said first and second ends to maintain said rod members in said channel, said second, solid, non-hollow, displaceable rod members movable from a lower portion of said channel to an upper portion of said channel under the influence of downward pressure on a ball having an equator to be retrieved, said second, solid, non-hollow, displaceable rod members returning to said lower portion of said channel after said equator of said ball has passed there between, said second, solid, non-hollow, displaceable rod members formed of a material having elastic memory allowing said second, solid, non-hollow, displaceable rod members to deform slightly under the influence of said ball to be retrieved and to return to an original undeformed state.