Game apparatus
OwnerRussell H. Heffley, Jr.inventor
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Abstract
A game apparatus comprising a target with a plurality of target zones each of which is operatively connected to an impact responsive signal generator, a signal selecting circuit and a scoreboard by which objects impacting upon the target produce signals above an adjustable level that will register on the scoreboard. In a specific embodiment, the target may take the form of a simulated golf green and is combined with an all-weather golf driving range including a driving booth in which the environment is controlled, a fairway designed such that snow removal and ball retrieval are enhanced, and a device for registering the longer drives.
Claims8
A game apparatus of the driving range type comprising an elongated fairway, one end of said fairway being narrower than the other of said ends, a tee adjacent said one end, said fairway having a longitudinal axis, said fairway having a continuous and generally planar surface extending between said ends on both sides of said axis, said fairway surfaces sloping downwardly from said one end to said other end, said fairway surfaces also being sloped downwardly from the lateral edges thereof toward said axis, whereby balls striking said fairway surface will be urged to roll toward said axis and said other end.
A game apparatus of the driving range type comprising an elongated fairway, one end of said fairway being narrower than the other of said ends, a tee adjacent said one end, said fairway having a continuous surface extending between said ends, said fairway surface sloping downwardly from said one to said other end, said fairway having a longitudinal axis, said fairway surface also being sloped downwardly from the lateral edges thereof toward said axis, whereby balls striking said fairway surface will be urged to roll toward said axis and said other end, a target fence extending transversely of said fairway adjacent said other end thereof and in a generally perpendicular plane, said target fence including a plurality of target sections, said target sections being serially disposed in vertical relationship, each of said target sections corresponding to different driven yardage of a ball, and further including a plurality of electrical impact sensing means individually coupled to different ones of said target sections for generating electrical signals in response to a ball impacting thereon, and means for visibly registering the impact of said ball on different ones of said sections.
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