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Basketball retrieval apparatus

  • US 4,667,957 A
  • Filed: 09/26/1984
  • Issued: 05/26/1987
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/31/1984
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A basketball diverter mechanism for use in combination with a basketball retrieval and return apparatus on a basketball court comprising:

  • a rigid box-like structure having a floor and an oppositely-disposed upwardly-facing ball-entrance opening for receiving successive basketballs directed thereto by a communicating chute;

    a plurality of side openings oriented to enable basketballs received within the structure to exit therefrom;

    selectively-repositionable ball guide means adapted to be manually positioned to guide basketballs successively outwardly from the interior of the structure and through a first of the side openings exclusive of the other side openings; and

    the guide means being further adapted to be repositioned to guide balls through a second of the side openings exclusive of the first and other side openings.

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