Smart Net

• US 20100267494A1
• Filed: 04/20/2010
• Published: 10/21/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/21/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Zoran Stoyanovich
• Original Assignee: Zoran Stoyanovich
• Inventors: Stoyanovich, Zoran
• Application Number:
  US12/763,851
• Publication Number:
  US 20100267494A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 473/434
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2063/001 Targets or goals with ball-returning means
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 61/006 Accessories for training purposes mounted on the net

Abstract

Disclosed is an apparatus comprising a set of molded plastic sections, assembled to form an improved tennis ball returner. It is suited to rest at the bottom of a tennis net, on either side. It is parabolically shaped, so as to return tennis balls toward the center of the tennis court baseline. The exposed surface is also curved, so that it converts a maximum of energy in the falling tennis ball into angular momentum.

Claims

1. an improved tennis ball returner comprising a set of sections having a curved surface and a set of connecting clips, wherein said returner directs tennis balls retained by a tennis net toward the center of a tennis court baseline.

2. The returner in claim 1, wherein said curved surface comprises a firm material so that it minimizes the absorption of energy from said tennis balls.