Patent ID: 7922608

Claim:
A tennis ball retrieval, storage and dispensing device comprising: a hollow tube having a lower end, an upper end, and having a cross sectional area larger than tennis balls to be placed within the hollow tube; a closed cap on the upper end of the hollow tube for retaining tennis balls inside the device, the closed cap being removed or opened to remove tennis balls inside the hollow tube; an entrance cap on the lower end of the hollow tube, the entrance cap having an opening through which tennis balls must pass when entering the hollow tube, wherein the opening has shape and size that causes tennis balls passing through the opening to be slightly deformed, wherein a ball having been deformed as it passes through the entrance cap opening is held inside the hollow tube; and retainer means inside the device past the opening through the entrance cap, the retainer means being on one side of the inside of the device and causing a tennis ball adjacent to the retainer means to be slightly deformed, a ball adjacent to the retainer and being deformed by the retainer remaining in a position where it is flush with the opening through the entrance cap.