Amusement devices: games – Surface projectile game; game element – Moving surface
Patent
1994-05-03
1995-06-06
Stoll, William E.
Amusement devices: games
Surface projectile game; game element
Moving surface
A63F 702
Patent
active
054215757
ABSTRACT:
A ball game toy having top and bottom end caps and a cylindrical body extending therebetween. A control rod extends longitudinally through the body and outwardly of the top and bottom end caps to permit the toy to be manually manipulated by a user to correspondingly control the movement of a ball. The control rod supports a longitudinally extending stack of disk-like platforms in spaced coaxial alignment with the cylindrical body. Each platform has a hole formed therethrough to establish a drop path from the first to the last platform of the stack. A fall path is established in the space between the stack of platforms and the cylindrical body. Play is successfully concluded when the ball completes the drop path through the holes formed in the stack of platforms for receipt by a catch located below the hole in the last platform. Play is prematurely interrupted in the event that the ball inadvertently rolls off a platform of the stack and falls, under the influence of gravity, into the bottom end cap by way of the fall path.
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