Ball throwing machine and target net

Claim 1

A BALL GATHERING AND PROJECTING APPARATUS, COMPRISING, A PROJECTOR CONSISTING OF A FLAT HOLLOW HOUSING HAVING A GENERALLY U-SHAPED INTERNAL CONFIGURATION WITH A PAIR OF SIDE WALLS AND REAR AND FRONT WALLS, FIRST MOTOR MEANS HAVING A SHAFT EXTENDING INTO SAID HOUSING, A ROTOR MOUNTED ON SAID SHAFT AND ARRANGED TO FILL THE SPACE BETWEEN SAID SIDEWALLS OF SAID HOUSING, A PAIR OF FLEXIBLE CHEEKS SPACED SLIGHTLY LESS THAN THE DIAMETER OF A BALL EXTENDING RADIALLY OUTWARD FROM SAID ROTOR AND SHAPED ECCENTRICALLY ROUND AT THEIR PERIPHERIES, WITH ONE CHEEK OF SAID PAIR OF CHEEKS BEING MOUNTED SO AS TO EXTEND ITS MAXIMUM POINT OF ECCENTRICITY 180 DEGREES DISPLACED AROUND SAID ROTOR FROM THAT OF THE OTHER CHEEK OF SAID PAIR OF CHEEKS, SECOND MOTOR MEANS HAVING A HOLLOW CYLINDRICAL GATE ROTOR IMMEDIATELY BELOW AN APERTURE FORMED IN SAID FRONT WALL OF SAID HOUSING, SAID HOLLOW CYLINDRICAL GATE ROTOR HAVING A PAIR OF DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSED APERTURES LOCATED THEREIN, SAID HOUSING HAVING A CURVED GUARD ATTACHED TO THE INTERIOR THEREOF COVERING SAID PAIR OF DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSED APERTURES DURING A DOWNWARDLY ARC OF THEIR MOVEMENT, SAID REARWALL OF SAID HOUSING HAVING UPWARDLY DIVERGENT EXTENSIONS OF SAID SIDEWALLS, WITH SAID EXTENSIONS TOGETHER WITH SAID REAR WALL FORMING A FLARING UPWARDLY EXTENDING RECTANGULAR NOZZLE, AN OPEN ENDED DEFLECTING SCOOP MEANS ADJUSTABLE SECURED TO THE UPPER ENDS OF SAID EXTENSIONS AND FLARED LATERALLY IN CONTINUATION OF THE FLARE OF SAID NOZZLE, SAID SCOOP MEANS HAVING CURVED SIDE WALLS AND AN ARCUATE TOP WALL SO AS TO DIRECT SAID BALL WHEN EJECTED INTO A DESIRED TRAJACTORY WHICH MAY BE RAISED OR LOWERED DUE TO THE ADJUSTABILITY OF SAID SCOOP MEANS, WITH THE LATERAL FLARE OF SAID SCOOP MEANS PERMITTING SUCCESSIVE BALLS TO EMERGE WITH CONSIDERABLE VARIATIONS IN AZIMUTH, A TABLE FOR MOUNTING SAID PROJECTOR, THE REAR AREA OF SAID TABLE SLOPING INTO SAID APERTURE IN SAID FRONT CENTRAL VALLEY SLOPING INTO SAID APERTURE IN SAID FRONT WALL, NETTING EXTENDING ABOVE THREE SIDES OF SAID MAT AND ACROSS THE FRONT OF SAID PROJECTOR EXCEPT FOR AN OPENING THROUGH WHICH THE END OF SAID SCOOP MEANS PROTRUDES, AND A TARGET POCKET MOUNTED IN SAID NETTING.