Amusement devices: games – Surface projectile game; game element – Ball games
Patent
1988-08-18
1989-09-19
Coven, Edward M.
Amusement devices: games
Surface projectile game; game element
Ball games
273122R, 273129L, 273 85B, A63D 302, A63B 7100
Patent
active
048674540
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The invention relates to a ball game device, in particular for sports active entertainment.
Table games with rolling balls are known in many variations. Here, three especially known embodiments are referred to: pinball, billiards and the table soccer game. In the literature there are also numerous types of games in which the balls are moved on a horizontal or slanted (table-)top with the aid of diverse, fixed or mobile objects thus, among other things, by stretched rubber bands, gutter pieces kept on an incline, elastically flexible base plates, etc.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The object of the invention is to design a ball game device so that, on the one hand, it has the wealth of combinations as they are almost exclusively characteristic of billiards and so that, on the other hand, it still imparts, even to the inexperienced player, a highly successful experience with regard to skill and chance.
The object is achieved according to the invention in that a playing ball, located on a slanted, table-like playing surface that is enclosed on all sides by angular walls, is made to start rolling by a impact disk that is freely mobile horizontally, hand-operated and designed in its shaping expressly for the purposeful striking of the playing ball and, during the free rolling around on the playing field, a second arrangement of balls, which are kept in a defined path by guide rails that are not able to be touched by the playing ball and are higher in particular, are conveyed further in this path by impact. This unites the following qualitative advantages:
sports-active, i.e., faster play
communicative character, i.e., playable with several participants simultaneously, among other things
competitive character, i.e., with playing opponents facing each other,
diverse movement and control possibilities
adjustable levels of difficulty, depending on the demand and ability of the participants
self-contained system, without loose parts that are difficult to monitor
operation with one hand, suitable for handicapped persons
limited space required, set up in a line with access on the narrow sides.
This ball game device serves for leisure-time entertainment, with or without coin operation, as, among other things, in sport hotels, youth centers, clubs and associations and is suitable for commercial purposes in slot-machine halls as well as for the handicapped.
Other features of the invention are described in further detail in the following based on the embodiments represented in the drawings.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
FIGS. 1 and 2 show, respectively, an embodiment of a ball game device in top view and in a view taken along line A--A of FIG. 1; and
FIGS. 3 and 4 show, respectively, another embodiment of a ball game device in top view and in a view taken along line B--B of FIG. 3.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
On the two narrow sides of playing field 1, there are edge zones 4 with impact disks 3. In the middle area of playing field 1, four fixed balls 11 are placed that are supported for movement along individual, transverse paths.
The paths are formed by guide rails 12, which run at a height above the bottom surface, such that playing balls 2 can roll around under them unimpeded, but not fixed balls 11, which are suitably larger in diameter.
The playing surface slopes toward both edge zones 4, a transition area 9 is formed in the middle, in a gradual arc, so that playing balls 11 do not lift up off the bottom surface.
The dimensions of edge zone 4 allow the player to move impact disk 3 with momentum, but without lifting it out of enclosure 5. The form of impact disk 3 in turn makes it possible to strike playing ball 2 purposefully, namely depending on the respective position in each case of fixed ball 11 and playing ball 2.
At the beginning of the game, fixed balls 11 are brought into the middle, this purpose is served by slots 18, which are incorporated into safety glass cover plate 19. But pushing of fixed balls 11 into the middle is also possible in a mechanica
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