US 4,243,227 AGranted

Disc projecting game

OwnerNed Strongininventor

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Abstract

An action toy game comprises a flat hollow frame having an actuating lever mounted at each end and an arcuate slot extending from one lever to the other and forming a passageway for the travel of disc-shaped playing pieces propelled therethrough by manual actuation of the levers. At its central portion the arcuate slot communicates with an underlying display section of the frame, the display section being formed with a plurality of vertical compartments and having windows communicating with the vertical compartments and arranged in a square grid pattern. When each actuating lever is actuated by a player, a playing piece is propelled through the arcuate slot and drops into one of the vertical compartments where it is exposed through a window. The game pieces fill the slots until one player forms a line of game pieces according to a game plan. A second arcuate slot, which stores the game pieces, is located above the first slot and communicates with the actuating levers for feeding the game pieces individually to the actuating levers.

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An action toy game conprising

a hollow frame adapted to rest in an upright vertical position on a support surface,
an upwardly-arched arcuate guide channel formed in said frame and extending from one bottom side of the frame to the other bottom side thereof,
a pair of manually-operable actuating levers respectively mounted at each side of said frame at the lower end thereof in communication with the ends of said arcuate guide slot,
a hollow display section formed in said frame at the central portion thereof, beneath said arcuate guide channel, said display section being divided into a plurality of vertical compartments,
the bottom wall of said arcuate guide channel having an elongated gap extending the width of said display section and communicating therewith,
and a plurality of disc-like playing pieces each sized for insertion within said frame to a position within one end of said arcuate guide channel overlying the adjacent actuating lever, said playing pieces being also sized for sliding movement within said guide channel, whereby when said actuating lever is depressed, the playing piece is propelled through the guide channel and falls through said gap into one of the vertical components of said display section.

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