Amusement devices: games – Board games – pieces – or boards therefor – Rotatably mounted board
Patent
1985-09-23
1988-03-22
Pinkham, Richard C.
Amusement devices: games
Board games, pieces, or boards therefor
Rotatably mounted board
A63B 5700
Patent
active
047323914
ABSTRACT:
A golf ball storage and dispensing apparatus includes a dispenser unit and a storage unit connected to the dispenser unit and adapted to store a plurality of golf balls. An actuator mechanism is mounted in the dispenser unit, the golf balls being fed from the storage unit to the actuator mechanism. The actuator mechanism comprises a motor including a power source, an arm mechanism pivotable about a support shaft between a substantially vertical position and a substantially horizontal position, and a gear train assembly having a series of interacting toothed gear wheels, the gear train assembly being intermediate the motor and the arm mechanism. The actuator mechanism also comprises a reciprocating rod between the gear train assembly and the arm mechanism, the rod being axially moved by the gear train assembly and having its other end connected to the support shaft of the arm mechanism. A switch is also provided for activating the actuator mechanism. When actuated, the arm mechanism is moved from its vertical to its horizontal position, the golf ball rolls down the arm mechanism to be deposited adjacent the dispenser unit, and the arm mechanism is returned to its vertical position. A rotor is mounted to the last shaft of the gear wheel in the gear train assembly. The rotor has a body portion mounted on the rotor shaft, a rotor arm and a pin extending from the body portion substantially parallel to the rotor shaft. The rod has a series of four open-ended slots therein the rotor shaft being located in the first and third slot and the pin being located in the second and fourth slot, as the rotor turns through 360.degree. and back again. At the completion of each 360.degree. turn, the rotor arm strikes a switch to reverse the current in the motor and switch off the motor respectively.
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Brown T.
Pinkham Richard C.
Tee-Wizz Co., Inc.
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