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US 4,537,401 AGranted
Game apparatus
OwnerRoger D. Smith, Harold J. Baerinventors
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Abstract
A game apparatus including a manipulatable container with a sinuous track having a concave surface mounted within the container and extending along a three dimensional path between a starting point and a finishing point, the track including a longitudinal twist between the starting point and the finishing point. A ball rolls along the track as the game is manipulated by a user. The container may contain two compartments communicating with one another through an aperture.
Claims27
A game apparatus comprising
- a manipulatable container having a first compartment, said first compartment having a plurality of sides;
- track means comprising a first sinuous track mounted within said first compartment and having a concave surface of predetermined width and depth said track beginning at a first starting point and ending at a first finishing point spaced from said first starting point and describing a three-dimensional path extending between said points, and said track including a longitudinal twist between said first starting point and said first finishing point such that a line perpendicular to said track surface at its maximum depth at one point along said track extends in a direction generally perpendicular to the direction of a similar line at another point along said track;
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- a first ball of predetermined diameter adapted to be received onto said concave surface of said track and to roll along said track means.
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