Table tennis trainer

Claim 1

A table tennis return assembly including a base member, an erectable ball trap net on said base member, said net dimensioned to extend at least to the opposite sides of one end of a tennis table support surface, a bottom support associated with said net and base member, a low point on said bottom support below the table support surface; a ball collecting tube, a mouth of said ball collecting tube positioned at said low point of the bottom support, a supply box mounted to said base member, said box receiving table tennis balls from said ball collecting tube, said supply box having a downward ball path and an air opening, an ejector tube for propelling table tennis balls, said ejector tube being joined to said supply box, an electrically powered vacuum motor to establish opposite pressure gradients so that a negative pressure is established in said ball collecting tube, and a positive pressure is established in said ejector tube, said negative pressure conveying the balls directly from the mouth of the tube to the supply box and said positive pressure propelling the balls onto the table support surface, and a transfer chamber with an enlarged volume relative to a table tennis ball, said chamber being between the supply box and the ejector tube, to receive a ball in an upper volume portion and to selectively release the table tennis ball to drop into a lower volume portion and into the positive pressure path of said ejector tube.