Amusement devices: games – Surface projectile game; game element – Ball games
Patent
1993-07-13
1994-08-09
Millin, Vincent
Amusement devices: games
Surface projectile game; game element
Ball games
273119A, 273121A, A63F 738
Patent
active
053359100
ABSTRACT:
A pinball elevator has an inclined conveyor belt tensioned between two pulleys and driven by an electric motor. The belt is perforated with a series of spaced circular apertures for receiving the pinball. Preferably, the apertures have a diameter of about 80% of the diameter of the pinball. A lower one of the pulleys is rotatably mounted beneath the playfield of the pinball machine, and an upper one of the pulleys is rotatably mounted above the playfield. The ball is received by the belt at an entrance location, and is ejected from the belt at an exit location. The ball passes above and over the upper pulley when being conveyed by the belt from the entrance location to the exit location. The upper pulley has a concave central region to prevent the pinball from being prematurely ejected from the belt by the upper pulley. At the entrance location, the pinball sits on the belt and abuts against a wall of the playfield. At the exit location, the ball is tangent to the belt around the upper pulley and is tangent to a supporting surface of an elevated exit ramp.
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Hanchar Peter J.
Tanzer Raymond C.
Chiu Raleigh W.
Millin Vincent
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