Amusement devices: games – Surface projectile game; game element – Ball games
Reexamination Certificate
2005-01-11
2005-01-11
Chiu, Raleigh W. (Department: 3711)
Amusement devices: games
Surface projectile game; game element
Ball games
Reexamination Certificate
active
06840515
ABSTRACT:
A free standing table game of skill utilizing a spherical ball and a plurality of pins, the free standing table game having a support frame supporting a playing surface oblong in shape having a centrally disposed planar portion, a first end having an upstanding arcuate portion spanning the length of the first end terminating at its upper edge in a planar scoring surface, the second end having upstanding arcuate corners at 45 degree angles with the second end and the longitudinal edges, the longitudinal edges and the second end of the playing surface having a gutter periphery for retention of the spherical ball upon leaving the playing surface, the playing surface preferably covered with a felt-like material and having a plurality of different indicia positionable thereon for the positioning of a plurality of markers in a desired formation from a section of formations dependent upon said indicia, the markers to be engaged and displaced by the spherical playing ball launched from the first end of the table game and utilizing the arcuate surfaces at the first end and corners of the second end to guide the spherical ball for engagement with a selected marker or markers until the ball comes to rest on either the playing surface or gutter periphery.
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Chiu Raleigh W.
Frayne Clilfford G.
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