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US 4,055,344 AGranted
Rotating maze game device
OwnerClaude Soucieinventor
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Abstract
A game device which has the features of an inclined maze through which a ball or other object is left to roll or travel and which is diverted from a straight course by obstructions in the maze so that by chance or skill it leaves the maze into any one of several different scoring pockets, and the maze being rotatable so as to additionally confound the travel course.
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A rotating maze game device, comprising in combination, an easel, a rotatable maze supported pivotally thereupon, and playing pieces for travel through said maze;
- wherein said easel comprises a horizontal base panel, an inclined panel supported at an inclined angle upon said base panel by means of a brace, and means for adjusting said inclined angle;
- wherein said maze comprises a circular housing supported pivotally free at the center upon a pivot secured upon said inclined panel, said housing comprising a case and transparent cover that snap fit together for easy opening, to form a central compartment, side walls of said case and cover having aligned openings serving as entrances and exits for said playing pieces, and aligned openings in upper and lower sides of said housing for supporting obstructions in selective positions inside said housing compartment for said playing pieces;
- wherein certain said obstructions comprise adjustable taper pins;
- wherein other of said obstructions comprise houses each of which consists of a side wall of any straight or bent shape and a separate opaque top wall having window openings therethrough, a lower edge of said house side walls having downward extending pegs for insertion into said opening through said lower side of said housing, while said opaque top wall is adherred to an underside of said housing top wall.
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