Amusement devices: games – Surface projectile game; game element – Ball games
Patent
1981-02-11
1983-07-26
Stouffer, Richard T.
Amusement devices: games
Surface projectile game; game element
Ball games
46 43, A63F 700
Patent
active
043950418
ABSTRACT:
A game-playing method and apparatus, which includes a frame, one or more sets of balls, and a series of at least three wheels rotatably mounted adjacent to each other on the frame in a common horizontal plane. Each wheel includes a plurality of peripheral ball-carrying pockets having outwardly facing openings. A mechanism mounted in the frame effects continuous rotation of the wheels automatically circulating the balls from wheel to wheel in continuous movement. In particular, the balls are retained in the pockets of a rotating wheel except at transfer zones to adjacent wheels. A ball tends to move out of its pocket whenever it comes to a transfer zone and to pass through that zone to a receiving pocket on the adjacent wheel. If the receiving pocket is already occupied by another ball, no transfer occurs. A manually-actuated stop-gate enables a player to directly control the transfer of balls by blocking or unblocking at least one transfer zone. During the course of a typical game, the balls continuously travel along a path around the wheels and from wheel to wheel, and a player attempts to capture and retain certain balls in particular wheels by selectively opening and closing stop-gates.
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Goldfarb Adolph E.
von Winckelmann Emil H.
Goldfarb Adolph E.
Stouffer Richard T.
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