US 4,062,543 AGranted

Helical spring game

OwnerRonald Loefflerinventor

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Abstract

Entertainment apparatus providing a game and including a spring positioned normally vertically on a base, a plurality of travelling objects positioned slidably along the length of the spring between the top and bottom thereof and upon a player displacing the spring from its normally vertical position and releasing the spring, the spring vibrating and returning to its normal position and the vibrating spring causing the travelling objects to slide downwardly along the length of the spring from the top to the bottom thereof and the player first causing all of the travelling objects to reach the bottom of the spring being the winner of the game. The apparatus may further include a plurality of markers disposed on the base around the spring which markers define positions or directions toward which the players can displace the spring. Further, the entertainment apparatus may include mechanism for randomly selecting one of the plurality of markers toward which a player is to displace the spring.

Claims1

Dependent claims

Entertainment apparatus providing a game to be played, comprising:

a base;
a helical spring having a top end and bottom end, said bottom end being secured to said base to mount the spring to the base and to position the spring in a normally vertical position on the base, and said spring defining a helical path between said top end and said bottom end thereof;
a plurality of travelling means, said travelling means mounted slidably on said spring and being displaceable downwardly along the helical length of the spring between said top and said bottom ends thereof upon said spring vibrating;
a plurality of markers disposed on said base around said spring and said markers defining directions toward which said spring is displaceable;
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upon said spring being displaced from its normally vertical position towards one of said markers and then being released, said spring vibrating and returning to its normally vertical position and said vibrating spring causing said plurality of travelling means to be displaced downwardly along the length of said spring between said top and bottom ends thereof.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.