Patent ID: 7766770

Claim:
A baseball feeding device for use with a baseball throwing apparatus comprising: a frame; a baseball holding container attached to the frame, wherein the baseball holding container comprises one or more sides and a bottom; a rotatable support shaft connected to the frame and extending from the baseball holding container, wherein the rotatable support shaft comprises at a bottom end having a input aperture accessible to the baseball holding container and a top end having a output aperture connected by a internal baseball channel; a propeller configured to fit a baseball and positioned about the bottom of the baseball holding container in operable communication with the input aperture of the rotatable support shaft to move a baseball through the internal baseball channel to the output aperture; a rotational fitting rotatable connected to the output aperture of the rotatable support shaft to provide a rotatable joint that can rotate in the horizontal plane; a propeller motor in operable communication with the propeller to drive the propeller in feeding one or more balls into the input aperture and through the internal baseball channel to the output aperture; a mounting adaptor attached to the rotational fitting, wherein the mounting adaptor is adapted to attach and support a baseball ejection mechanism while allowing the rotation about the horizontal plane; and a rotation motor operably connected to the rotational fitting of the rotatable support shaft to rotate the mounting adaptor, wherein the rotatable support shaft supports the mounting adaptor and can be rotated without interfering with the baseball being fed through the internal baseball channel at various pivot angles and rotational angles.