Patent ID: 8016699

Claim:
An air driven ball return pitching apparatus comprising in combination: i. a support apparatus, said support apparatus having a top bar, a bottom bar and two side supports that are all attached to each other to form a self-standing frame; ii. a receiving net suspended within and affixed to the self standing frame; iii. a receiver box having a front wall, two end walls and a bottom, said bottom being compiled from at least a front section and a back section having a lower edge and an upper edge, both having outside edges and inside edges; the inside edges interfacing each other and being lower relative to the outside edges; the back section having an opening therein extending from near the lower edge to near the upper edge; located in said opening, a receiver pipe for balls, said receiver pipe being comprised of pipe sections aligned with each other to form an incipient continuous pipe that exits the bottom and attached thereto, a 90° angled pipe, and a second straight pipe that exceeds one-half the width of the support apparatus in length, said second pipe is connected to a second 90° angled pipe and a said second straight pipe that is coupled to a Y-pipe; the Y-pipe being connected to a predetermined length of a third straight pipe having a distal end; which third straight pipe culminates at an elevated level at the distal end; the Y of the Y-pipe being fitted with a motor capable of being powered which is positioned in the Y of the Y-pipe to advance pressured air, when operating, towards the distal end of the third straight pipe and simultaneously creates a vacuum on the incipient continuous pipe, such that balls pitched into the receiving net, that are collected by the bottom are returned to the distal end of the third straight pipe.