Abstract: A machine for delivering balls, especially tennis balls, has a ball feeder (6) to feed individual balls (5) from a ball magazine (2) to a ball ejector (3) and a machine intrinsic feed controller (30) for sending internal control signals, controlling the ball feed and thus the ejection time, to the ball feeder (6). To enable external synchronization of the ball ejection time of several machines that the machine for delivering balls has a device (33, 35) to deactivate the machine's own feed controller (30) and a control input (34) connected electrically to the ball feeder (6) in order to attach an external control cable (39), by way of which, instead of the internal control signals external control signals, controlling the ball feed, and thus the ejection time, can be fed to the ball feeder (6).

Abstract: In a tennis-ball throwing device, tennis balls are conveyed by a feed device into a cavity between two rollers mounted so that their axes are parallel, the balls being subsequently ejected by rotation of the rollers. One roller is mounted on a rocking lever that can be pivoted against the restoring force of a spring. A spindle or axis of the rocking lever is mounted parallel to the axes of the rollers on a pivoting carrier for the rollers.

Abstract: A ball delivery apparatus, in particular for tennis balls, includes a ball magazine, a ball firing system, and a feed system that moves balls from the ball magazine one by one to the ball firing system. The ball firing system fires each ball in accordance with a preprogrammed firing setting that in each instance determines the speed, spin, and/or direction of each ball. A variable feed sequence frequency of the feed system is controlled as a function of the firing settings of the ball firing system. A time interval scale for establishing the movement of the next ball through the feed system is associated with each firing setting accepted by the ball firing system for firing a ball. The intervals between the balls can be matched to the particular ball characteristics.

Abstract: Installation for the transport of tennis balls having at least one substantially vertical bouncing wall as well as a collector gutter for the balls and arranged at the foot of the wall. The covering (1) of the bouncing wall (2) is simply attached to a pair of parallel flanges (6,6') of the frame and the lateral portions (8,8') connecting the flanges (6,6') move away from each other due to the pressure of the springs (7) which are arranged thereto.

Abstract: A lamp adapted to be mounted in a hole in a wall has an outer frame fittable in the hole, an inner housing part for securing the frame snugly in the hole bearing inward against the wall, a generally part-cylindrical reflector engageable snugly inside the frame, extending along an axis, and having one end extending axially past the opening and a socket for a bulb at the one end of the reflector. The reflector is of limitedly elastically flexible sheet metal, is of U-section, and at least one of its ends is axially open. A terminal box is provided on the inner housing part and a flexible electric wire extends between the box and the socket, passing out through the open end of the reflector. Both ends of the reflector extend axially past the opening and bear on the outer frame, and the reflector has axially extending edges provided with tabs engaging outwardly into the outer frame.