Abstract: An automated batting tee apparatus includes a housing having a top opening, a ball dispensing mechanism for feeding balls one at a time to above the top opening, a ball holder tube forming a batting tee disposed upright in the housing and aligned with the top opening thereof and having an upper end portion for receiving a ball and a lower end portion spaced below the upper end portion, and a drive mechanism arranged upright in the housing externally of and alongside the ball holder tube for vertically moving the ball holder tube and actuating the ball dispensing mechanism. The housing includes a base that rest on the ground and an enclosure having an inner shell on the base and an outer shell slidably mounted over the inner shell and adjustable to different vertical positions relative to the inner shell to adjust the height of the upper end portion of the ball holder tube above the ground.

Abstract: A canister for cakes of deodorant/disinfectant material that is used in combination with a trailer or recreational vehicle having a water tank, a pump, a toilet not having a water tank, and tubing connecting the respective components together in series. The canister is connected between the pump and the toilet. The canister has a vertically elongated cylindrical body having a removable top lid. An inlet port boss member extends outwardly from the cylindrical body adjacent its bottom end. An outlet port boss member extends outwardly from the cylindrical body adjacent its top end. In one embodiment, a disc-shaped platform is supported inside the cylindrical body a predetermined height above the bottom wall and it supports the cakes of solid chemical deodorant/disinfectant. In a second embodiment, a measuring bucket for cakes of deodorant/disinfectant is removably inserted into the interior of the cylindrical body.