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US 3,940,137 AGranted
Pole vaulting game apparatus
OwnerCecil R. Taylorinventor
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Abstract
A pole vaulting game apparatus consisting of a carriage movable along a track by a manually operable device, a flexible pole carried pivotally by the carriage and having a piece simulating the vaulter frictionally mounted thereon, and a trip device operable to pivot the pole sharply upwardly into a bowed position at a point in the travel of the carriage, and against a stop, whereby the vaulter piece leaves the pole in an upward direction, the object of the game being to cause the vaulter piece to pass over a horizontal bar as in normal pole vaulting.
Claims10
A pole vaulting game apparatus comprising:
- a. a base forming an elongated horizontal track,
- b. a carriage movable along said track,
- c. operating means manually operable to advance said carriage along said track,
- d. a pole carried by said carriage in a normally horizontal position but being pivoted to said carriage for upward and forward pivotal movement in the direction of carriage advancement,
- e. a vaulting piece adapted to be frictionally mounted on the free end portion of said pole and to be released transversely therefrom when the friction of its mounting is overcome,
- f. cooperating trip members carried by said base and said carriage and operable to pivot said pole upwardly relative to said carriage at a predetermined point in the travel of said carriage,
- g. a stop member operable to arrest the upward pivotal movement of said pole before it reaches a vertical position, whereupon said vaulting piece is dislodged from said pole and propelled therefrom in an upward trajectory, and
- h. a horizontal bar extending transversely of said base thereabove, the object of the game being to cause said vaulting piece to pass over said bar.
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