Amusement devices: toys – Including unattached gravity-fed rolling – tumbling – or...
Patent
1998-04-28
1999-03-30
Muir, D Neal
Amusement devices: toys
Including unattached gravity-fed rolling, tumbling, or...
446 8, 446429, 446489, A63H 2908, A63H 2900, A63H 3300, A45C 112
Patent
active
058881158
ABSTRACT:
The present invention provides an interactive funnel amusement device. The interactive funnel amusement device allows a user to interact with the interactive funnel amusement device to a greater extent than prior art funnel devices. In one embodiment, the interactive funnel amusement device includes a funnel and a target. The target is located on an interior surface of the funnel such that when an object is rolled along the interior surface of the funnel the object is capable of interacting with the target. The interactive funnel amusement device can also include an adjustable guide. The adjustable guide is capable of guiding the object along one of a number of trajectories along the funnel such that the object rolls around the interior surface of the funnel in a substantially spiral manner. The adjustable guide can also be used to aim the object along a trajectory that causes the object to interact with the target located on the interior surface of the funnel. The trajectory of the object may be varied along the horizontal plane, vertical plane and in the angular orientation of the object.
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Hata Ken Y.
Petermeier Norman B.
Shoemaker, Jr. Stephen P.
Muir D Neal
RLT Acquisition, Inc.
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