Amusement devices: games – Surface projectile game; game element – Moving surface
Patent
1987-11-30
1989-10-31
Coven, Edward M.
Amusement devices: games
Surface projectile game; game element
Moving surface
273113, A63B 6714
Patent
active
048772453
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
This invention relates to apparatus for playing a game, and is particularly concerned with a table or table-top game. The apparatus is especially appropriate for playing a table or table-top game which simulates the game of golf.
It is a particular object of the present invention to provide a game apparatus by means of which the players can play a game which is a realistic representation of the game of golf and which requires skill on the part of the players.
A game is already known in which a pair of rods are mounted in a frame so as to extend upwards at a shallow angle from their one end, where they are fixed, to their other end where they can be moved together and apart in a horizontal plane, and where a ball which normally rests at said one end of the rods is arranged, by manually moving the rods apart, to travel along the rods towards their said other end. The arrangement of the rods and ball is such that the ball in its movement appears to run "uphill". In this known game the frame within which the rods are mounted is provided with a base in which a number of recesses are formed to receive the ball when it drops down between the rods at the end of its movement. The skill in this game is to cause the ball to move as far as possible along the track defined by the rods without letting the ball fall through the gap between the rods. This has to be accomplished simply by movement of the rods towards and away from each other. In the known game, an increasing score is awarded as one is able to move the ball further and further along the track defined by the rods.
The present invention utilises the basic principle upon which this known game is based. However, the game apparatus of the present invention has a considerable number of features and advantages which are not provided by the known game and which individually and in combination enable the players to play a realistic "indoor" game, for example a game of golf.
In accordance with one aspect of the present invention there is provided a game apparatus comprising frame means, a pair of rods which define a track and which are mounted on or in the frame means so as to lie at a shallow upward angle to the horizontal from one end where they are mounted on or in the frame means to the other end where they are capable of relative movement, and a rolling element arranged to move along the track defined by the rods from said one end towards said other end upon relative movement of the rods, characterised in that the rods are capable of being mounted on or in the frame means at a plurality of locating positions whereby the track defined by the rods can traverse a plurality of different zones of the frame means below the rods.
In accordance with another aspect of the present invention there is provided a game apparatus comprising frame means, a pair of rods which define a track and which are mounted on or in the frame means so as to lie at a shallow upward angle to the horizontal from one end where they are mounted on or in the frame means to the other end where they are capable of relative movement, and a rolling element arranged to move along the track defined by the rods from one said end towards said other end upon relative movement of the rods, characterised in that the angle to the horizontal at which the rods lie is capable of adjustment to vary the angle relative to the horizontal of the track defined by the rods.
The frame means preferably comprises a base divided into a number of different zones commensurate with the different locating positions at which the rods can be mounted on or in the frame means.
In the application of the game apparatus to the game of golf the base preferably comprises a central zone which represents the fairway, with further zones being provided on each side of the central fairway, suitably divided lengthwise of the frame means to represent putting strokes, instructions, etc.
The central zone which represents the fairway, preferably incorporates a grid member on to which the ball is arranged to fall in order to determine the positi
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Coven Edward M.
Jackson Gary
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