US 4,055,343 AGranted

Surface projectile game apparatus

OwnerEdwin G. Stuartinventor

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Abstract

A game having a vertical game board with an adherent surface supported from a horizontal game surface upon which a game piece transporter can be accelerated. The game piece transporter has weight and center of gravity located to prevent tipping and has a height adjustable, changable, adherent element capable of holding onto one side of a game piece, having mating adherent material, during acceleration and transit to or from the game board. The opposite side of the game piece has an adhering material compatible for mating with the adherent surface of the game board, depending upon the relative adherent strengths of the respective mating adherent surfaces, when the game piece transporter is accelerated to the game board. An elastic band is located across the base and in front of the vertical game board in the vicinity of the intersection of the game board and the horizontal game surface. The elastic band permits the game piece transporter to approach the game board close enough to permit removal or deposit of the game piece and rebound and return of the game piece transporter with or without, respectively, the game piece, to the player as the rules of the selected game routine dictate.

Claims9

Dependent claims

A game apparatus comprising, in combination, an elongated horizontal game playing surface, a game board having an adherent surface, support means at one end of said game playing surface supporting said game board in a substantially vertical plane such that said adherent surface is facing in the direction of the other end of said game playing surface, a rebound means;

said rebound means being affixed between at least two points at said one end of said game playing surface immediately in front of, near, and across the base of said game board, a game piece transporter;
said game piece transporter having a substantially flat bottom surface and a shaft extending substantially vertically upward therefrom, said shaft having a vertically adjustable adherent means mounted thereon, a game piece having opposite sides;
said game piece having adherent means on one of its sides permitting releasable affixation to said adherent surface on said game board and adherent means on the side opposite said one side permitting releasable affixation to said adherent means mounted on said shaft;
the adherence between said adherent means on said game board and said one side of said game piece being greater than the adherence between the adherent means on said shaft and said adherent means on said side opposite said one side of said game piece such that when said game piece is attached to said adherent means on said shaft and said game piece transporter is propelled from said other end of said game playing surface and into said rebound means said game piece will be deposited upon said game board adherent surface as said game transporter is rebounded towards said other end of game playing surface of said rebound means.

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Facts

Application: 05/688,742Filed 21 May 1976
Granted: 25 Oct 1977
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

A63B 67/14
Sporting games or accessories therefor, not provided for in groups A63B1/00 - A63B65/00: curling stone; Shuffleboard; Similar sliding games
A63F 9/0208
Targets therefor: the projectile being connectable to the target, e.g. using hook and loop-type fastener, hooks
A63F 2009/0239
The projectile being connectable to the target, e.g. using hook and loop-type fastener, hooks: using hook and loop-type fastener
Y10S 273/30
Amusement devices: games: hooked pile fabric fastener