Amusement devices: games – Surface projectile game; game element – Ball games
Patent
1974-02-27
1976-08-17
Stouffer, Richard T.
Amusement devices: games
Surface projectile game; game element
Ball games
200 6111, 273127R, 273127C, 273129A, 273129G, 273DIG26, A63D 302, A63D 1300, A63D 1520
Patent
active
039750191
ABSTRACT:
A pinball apparatus including a housing having an inclined playing surface over which a ball may be propelled and at least one ball to be propelled on the playing surface. A launcher is provided for propelling the ball onto the playing surface, and target members are mounted on the playing surface for striking by the ball. A flipper assembly is provided for keeping the ball in play on the playing surface. A scorer is associated with the target members for registering a score everytime a target member is struck by a ball. The apparatus includes a tunnel assembly having an inclined channel formed within the housing beneath the playing surface. An entrance is provided on the playing surface for capturing a ball and allowing the ball to be introduced into one end of the tunnel and an exit is provided in the playing surface at the other end of the tunnel for allowing the ball to be introduced back onto the playing surface. The scorer includes a normally incomplete electrical circuit. The circuit includes a normally open bumper switch mounted in the target member, and an electronic switch for determining when electricity is to initially flow through the circuit. Connected with the electronic switch is a cycle interrupter switch for turning a transistor or electronic switch off after it is initially actuated as well as terminating the cycle of operation of the scorer. The flipper assembly includes a manually operable portion mounted for generally vertical reciprocal movement perpendicular to the playing surface and a linkage operably connecting said manually operable portion with flipper members for transmitting up and down reciprocal movement into reciprocal movement of the flipper members in a horizontal plane.
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Marvin Glass & Associates
Stouffer Richard T.
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