Amusement devices: games – Aerial projectile game; game element or accessory therefor... – Target
Patent
1993-10-29
1995-05-30
Passanti, Sebastiano
Amusement devices: games
Aerial projectile game; game element or accessory therefor...
Target
273129W, 273119R, A63F 706
Patent
active
054195551
ABSTRACT:
A structurally and operationally improved, integrally molded table soccer playing figure has an elongated body with head and foot portions disposed at its opposite ends. A cylindrical passage axially extends laterally through an upper portion of the body and is adapted to coaxially receive a longitudinal portion of an actuating rod used to rotate and translate the figure. To significantly reduce the connection stress concentration on the rod and the figure mounted thereon, the body passage is diametrically sized to create a press-fit between the body portion and the rod portion therein, and the body is mechanically locked to the rod by a small roll pin longitudinally inserted through aligned openings in the body and rod. The ability of the body portion to withstand high lateral impact loads is enhanced by the integral formation on its opposite lateral sides of relatively large diameter force receiving and diffusing washer portions. Undesirable distortion of the precisely contoured front and rear ball-engaging surfaces of the foot portion, and the formation of undesirable cavities within the foot portion, during molding of the figure are essentially eliminated by a molding passage extending laterally through the foot portion. In a similar fashion, undesirable molding distortion of the body is substantially eliminated by the provision of vertically elongated recesses formed in the opposite front and rear sides of the body. The front and rear foot portion surfaces are specially contoured to enhance the ball-handling handling characteristics and playing style adaptability of the playing figure.
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Photographs of Playing Figures on sale more than one year before Dec. 12, 1990, attachment to IDS of Sep. 14, 1994.
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