Hockey game
OwnerSamuel W. Coheninventor
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Abstract
A hockey game having a game board with a pair of spaced apart transparent plates and at least one magnetic actuator moving on the outer surface of a plate. Team members which can be attracted by the magnetic actuator are disposed in the space between the plates to slide on the upper surface of the bottom plate as an actuator is moved to hit and propel a puck. The team members are of three-dimensional construction to have an impact surface to the puck at any orientation. In the preferred embodiment, an area of the top plate is recessed and certain of the team members are of increased height confining their movement by an actuator in the area of the board which is not recessed.
Claims14
A hockey game comprising upper and lower plates, means for mounting said plates on peripheral sides thereof with the inner face of one plate in an opposing relationship to the inner face of the other plate to define a hollow board forming an arena simulating a hockey court, at least the upper plate being transparent, a goal in the space between said plates toward each end position of the arena, said opposing inner faces of said plates having a maximum uniform spacing in the arena area surrounding the goals and a smaller spacing inwardly toward the center of the board, a plurality of team members disposed slidably within the arena, said team members including a goalie of a height greater than said smaller spacing towards the center of the arena so that the movement of the goalie is confined to movement within the larger area surrounding the goals and prevented in the area of smaller spacing by contact of the goalie with the portion of a plate defining the area of smaller spacing, the heights of all of said team members other than said goalie being less than the space between the opposing inner faces of the plates over the entire area of said arena, each said team member including magnetically attractable material, magnetic actuator means having a planar surface adapted to glide on the outer surface of one of said plates for attracting a team member when it is aligned with the magnetically attractable material of a said team member, movement of the actuator means on the outer surface of a plate causing the magnetically attracted team member to move across the corresponding inner face of the plate with the actuator means as it is moved, and a non-magnetic puck for gliding on the inner surface of the lower plate adapted to be struck by a said team member as it is moved by a said actuator means.
A hockey game to accommodate two players comprising a hollow board having opposing spaced upper and lower plates mounted on peripheral sides enclosing an arena simulating the playing area of a hockey court, at least the upper one of said plates being transparent, said game including a respective actuator means for each of the players having a planar gliding surface for movement in sliding relationship exteriorly on the outer surface of each of said plates, means for mounting the board to leave the outer surface of the lower plate accessible for unobstructed movement thereover by a said actuator means by a player beneath the playing area of the hockey court, a hockey puck of non-magnetic material disposed in sliding relationship on the inner surface of said lower plate, a plurality of team members disposed slidably within the hollow area defined by the plates, each of said team members being a three dimensional object having a vertically extending surface forming a vertical impact face for the puck therearound at all angular orientations of a said member with respect to the puck, the overall vertical height of each of said team members being slightly less than the space between the opposing inner surfaces of the plates in the area in which it is to move, each of said team members each having a gliding face adapted to glide on the inner surface of a respective plate on which it is to slide, each of said actuator means and each of said team members having means thereon which are mutually magnetically attractive at all angular orientations of a said actuator means with respect to a said team member when a said actuator means is placed opposite the gliding face of a said team member with a respective one of said upper or lower plates therebetween so that a team member will be attracted by an actuator means and the team member will be moved on its gliding face across the inner surface of the respective plate along with the movement of the actuator means on the outer surface of said plate with the vertical face of a team member impacting the puck to move it as a team member is moved by the actuator means into engagement with the puck.
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