Amusement devices: games – Surface projectile game; game element – Moving surface
Patent
1976-08-09
1977-12-13
Pinkham, Richard C.
Amusement devices: games
Surface projectile game; game element
Moving surface
273 86C, 273112, A63F 702, A63B 7104
Patent
active
040625435
ABSTRACT:
Entertainment apparatus providing a game and including a spring positioned normally vertically on a base, a plurality of travelling objects positioned slidably along the length of the spring between the top and bottom thereof and upon a player displacing the spring from its normally vertical position and releasing the spring, the spring vibrating and returning to its normal position and the vibrating spring causing the travelling objects to slide downwardly along the length of the spring from the top to the bottom thereof and the player first causing all of the travelling objects to reach the bottom of the spring being the winner of the game. The apparatus may further include a plurality of markers disposed on the base around the spring which markers define positions or directions toward which the players can displace the spring. Further, the entertainment apparatus may include mechanism for randomly selecting one of the plurality of markers toward which a player is to displace the spring.
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Affidavit of Paul E. Shapiro with accompanying photographs.
Anderson Lawrence E.
Pinkham Richard C.
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