US 12,472,413 B2
Swing training apparatus
Timothy Jay Kelley, Woodbury, MN (US); and Gregg Curtis Ellingson, Bayport, MN (US)
Assigned to Timothy Kelley, Woodbury, MN (US); and Gregg Ellingson, Bayport, MN (US)
Filed by Timothy Jay Kelley, Woodbury, MN (US); and Gregg Curtis Ellingson, Bayport, MN (US)
Filed on Apr. 14, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/134,951.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/331,350, filed on Apr. 15, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0330501 A1, Oct. 19, 2023
Int. Cl. A63B 69/00 (2006.01); A63B 71/06 (2006.01)
CPC A63B 69/0002 (2013.01) [A63B 69/0075 (2013.01); A63B 69/0091 (2013.01); A63B 71/06 (2013.01); A63B 2069/0008 (2013.01); A63B 2071/0694 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A swing training apparatus comprising:
an adjustable base assembly comprising a first major surface adapted to be disposed on a ground surface, a second major surface opposed to the first major surface, and a base axis that is substantially orthogonal to the first major surface, wherein the adjustable base assembly further comprises an adaptor adapted to connect the adjustable base assembly to a support and a rotating carrier connected to the support, wherein the rotating carrier is adapted to rotate relative to the adjustable base assembly about a central axis passing through the adaptor and support, wherein the central axis is substantially parallel to the base axis;
a ball arm assembly connected to the support and comprising a ball arm and a ball cradle, the ball arm extending along a ball arm axis between a base end of the ball arm and a cradle end of the ball arm, wherein the base end is connected to the support and the cradle end is distal from the support, and further wherein the ball cradle is connected to the ball arm at the cradle end of the ball arm; and
a casting indicator assembly connected to the rotating carrier, the casting indicator assembly comprising:
a casting arm that extends between a first end and a second end along a casting arm axis, the first end located proximate the rotating carrier and the second end distal from the rotating carrier; and
a casting indicator connected to the casting arm proximate the second end of the casting arm, the casting indicator extending away from the casting arm along a casting indicator axis, wherein the casting indicator comprises bat contact indicators extending away from an indicator base, and further wherein the indicator base is aligned with the casting indicator axis;
wherein rotation of the rotating carrier relative to the adjustable base assembly causes corresponding rotation of the casting indicator assembly.