Amusement devices: toys – Including unattached gravity-fed rolling – tumbling – or...
Patent
1989-07-11
1990-06-12
Yu, Mickey
Amusement devices: toys
Including unattached gravity-fed rolling, tumbling, or...
273 86C, A63H 3300
Patent
active
049329170
ABSTRACT:
A marble race toy (4) for use with a marble race game (2) of the type in which a marble (6) moves along a tortuous path. The toy is used for simultaneously starting a plurality of marbles rolling through the game and includes an upper element (8) for holding and retaining the marbles therein which is spaced above a center section (10) connecting the path from the upper element to a funnel-shaped surface (24) for allowing the marble to pass therethrough. The upper element pivots (28, 32) on the center section to begin the marbles rolling through the game. The center section includes a first surface (14) inclined upwardly toward the upper element which is continuous with the funnel-shaped surface.
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