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US 4,036,493 AGranted
Game apparatus
AssigneeMarvin Glass & Associates
InventorJeffrey D. Breslow
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Abstract
A competitive game including a jar with separable upper and lower portions and weighted playing pieces for insertion thereinto. The two portions of the jar are held together against the force of gravity upon the lower portion by magnetic means therebetween. When the cumulative weight of the playing pieces inserted and lying within the lower portion of the jar exceeds the attractive magnetic force of the magnetic means, the lower portion will separate from the upper portion and thereby penalize the last player to insert a playing piece into the container.
Claims5
A game apparatus, comprising, in combination:
- a container having an upper portion and a separable generally cup-shaped lower portion combining to define an interior cavity of the container, with the lower container portion defining the bottom of the interior cavity, and a deposit opening in one of said container portions in communication with the interior cavity;
- a plurality of playing pieces depositable into the interior cavity of said container through said opening so as to come to rest on the separable lower portion of the container;
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- weight responsive release means in the form of attracting magnetic means between said upper and lower container portions to hold the same together but to release the separable lower portion from the upper portion in response to a sufficient number of playing pieces being deposited into the container, said attracting magnetic means including a permanent magnet fixed within the bottom of the cup-shaped lower container portion and an attractive permanent magnet fixed to means secured within the upper container portion and extending downwardly into the lower container portion for positioning the permanent magnets in close proximity.
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A game apparatus comprising, in combination:
- a container having an upper portion and a separable generally cup-shaped lower portion combining to define an interior cavity of the container, with the lower container portion defining the bottom of the interior cavity, and a deposit opening in one of said container portions in communication with the interior cavity;
- a plurality of playing pieces depositable into the interior cavity of said container through said opening so as to come to rest on the separable lower portion of the container, at least some of said playing pieces being of different weights than other of said playing pieces;
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- weight responsive release means in the form of attracting magnetic means between said container portions to hold the same together but to release the separable lower portion from the upper portion in response to a sufficient number of said playing pieces being deposited into the container, said attracting magnetic means including a permanent magnet fixed within the bottom of the cup-shaped lower container portion and an attractive permanent magnet fixed within the upper container portion and extending downwardly into the lower container portion for positioning the permanent magnets in close proximity.
1 more element
A game apparatus, comprising, in combination:
- a container having an upper portion and a separable lower portion combining to define an interior cavity of the container, with the lower container portion defining the bottom of the interior cavity, and a deposit opening in one of said container portions in communication with the interior cavity, a plurality of playing pieces depositable into the interior cavity of said container through said opening so as to come to rest on the separable lower portion of the container, weight responsive release means between said container portions to hold the same together but to release the separable lower portion from the upper portion in response to a sufficient number of playing pieces being deposited into the container, said weight responsive release means being vertically disposed within the container and connected at an upper end to a cross piece within the upper container portion, the cross piece being disposed vertically between said deposit opening and the separable lower container portion, and inwardly protruding means formed on at least one of said upper and lower container portions on the inside of said interior cavity between said deposit opening and the bottom of said separable lower container portion and engageable with said playing pieces when deposited into the container.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.