Amusement devices: games – Surface projectile game; game element – Moving surface
Patent
1996-07-18
1998-03-31
Shapiro, Paul E.
Amusement devices: games
Surface projectile game; game element
Moving surface
273153R, 273113, A63F 704
Patent
active
057329451
ABSTRACT:
A toy maze comprising a container with a ball having a plurality of passage levels with vertically extending wall segments forming passageways. Each level is separated by a tray having a plurality of apertures, some of which are trap-holes with a mechanism for limiting the movement of the ball to only one direction.
In a preferred embodiment of the toy maze of the present invention, the mechanism for limiting the movement of the ball to only one direction comprises at least one flexible flap which flexes to permit the ball to pass through an aperture from one level to the next level and resiliently blocks reverse movement of the ball.
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McKenna Michael R.
Shapiro Paul E.
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