Game device
OwnerFrank Gybowskiinventor
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Abstract
A game device having a housing, comprising: two spaced apart upstanding support members; a first bar mounted horizontally within the housing between the support members; at least one open-ended, hollow cylinder loosely supported on the first bar, the cylinder having game indicia on its exterior surface; and an arm for momentarily imposing a force against the exterior wall of the cylinder, whereby the cylinder is caused to swing freely and eccentrically on and around the bar, and game points or results are determined by the positions of the indicia relative to a fixed point of reference when the cylinder is indexed by a projection member on a player actuated indexing member entering one of several apertures disposed circumferentially around the cylinder.
Claims8
A game device having a stationary housing, comprising:
- a pair of spaced apart, upstanding support members at opposite ends of the housing;
- a first bar mounted horizontally on and between said support members;
- at least one open-ended, hollow cylinder supported on said first bar with the inner surface of said cylinder in contact with said first bar, said cylinder having an inside diameter substantially greater than the diameter of said first bar and said cylinder having circumferentially disposed indicia on its outer surface;
- player actuated mechanical means for striking the exterior surface of said cylinder, whereby said cylinder is caused to swing freely and eccentrically on and around said first bar;
- mechanical means for braking said cylinder while said cylinder is swinging freely on and around said first bar to arrest the movement of said cylinder and place said indicia in a significant position relative to the housing;
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- manually actuated means for moving said braking means into engagement with said cylinder.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.