Patent ID: 7648433

Claim:
A ball game device for hurling and catching a ball comprising a modification of a hollow, elongate capsular shaped object having a base end wherein the full capsular shape is in evidence, and a terminal body section continuing forward from its junction with said base as the bottom half only of a capsular shape otherwise of the same overall dimension as said base, with said body constituting approximately ⅔ of the total length of said device; wherein the internal diameter of said base is slightly greater than the external diameter of said ball, and wherein the outer surface of said base is studded with a series of separate, circumferential, rounded top ridges and pierced on its top surface between the terminal most pair of said ridges by a slot for receiving a safety strap affixed at the forward most limit of the top of said base section and means for attaching said safety strap to said device as well as for fastening said safety strap around a player's wrist; said ridges of said base being covered by a non-slip material of one of various sorts and means for adhering same to said base; as to the capsular wall thickness, said body of said device continues forward integrally from said base at the same wall thickness as said base other than that the wall thickness of said body is modified along its top most margin by the formation of a lip as a slightly widened and inward projecting top-plate ridge that creates a top opening of slightly narrower dimension than is created by the basic arc of the otherwise uniformly curved capsular walls of both said base and body sections of said device; the internal surface of said body otherwise being smooth and continuous throughout its length and integral with the internal surface of said base section forming thus a continuous channel for said ball in said device; and wherein the top to bottom depth at the center point of said channel of said body section is equal to about ½ of the diameter of said cylindrical base section, and wherein, from a topmost and forward most termination, an upper portion of said base, when viewed from either side, presents a slightly arcuate forward and downward sweep as it is brought from said topmost point of the leading edge of said base down to join a right and a left posterior limit of said channel's said lip section.