Abstract: A conveyer for delivering a column of balls to an elevated location has a rotating wheel formed of resilient material. A track has a pair of curvilinear rails which extend along a portion of the circumferential surface of the wheel and which are spaced apart by distance that is smaller than the diameter of the balls. Balls are sequentially fed onto a first portion of the track at which the rails are spaced from the wheel by a distance which causes the balls to be pressed against the wheel. The edges become closer to the wheel at a second portion of the track causing increased clamping pressure against the balls at that portion of the track. A ball delivery tube extends upward from the outlet end of the track. The increased clamping pressure against balls which are momentarily below the base of the upwardly extending column of balls enables elevation of a column of balls to a greater height.

Abstract: A golf ball washing machine has been invented where a detachable upper vibrating trough may receive numerous golf balls and dispense them individually into a spiral cage encircling a rotating brush in a lower water tank where the golf balls are entrapped between the brush and cage interior and are scrubbed as they are forced along the interior of the spiral cage to an exit leaving dirt and debris in the tank.