Amusement device and method for use
OwnerBayliss O. Callahaminventor
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Abstract
A novel amusement apparatus and method of use includes a container/play board, a plurality of hollow cylinder means of varying internal diameters and heights, and a plurality of balls of varying resiliency. The container/play board has leaf members hingedly interconnected to a base plate whereby in a first position such members are disposed in a horizontal playing configuration to provide upper rebound surfaces and in a second position the board forms a box-shaped container means for storing the components of the apparatus therewithin. In use, players position various of the cylinder members sequentially on the base plate and the balls are sequentially dropped onto the rebound surfaces in attempts to form a ball trajectory to the surface and then into the cylinder member.
Claims11
A method of playing an amusement device having a plurality of hollow cylinder members each with a different internal diameter, a plurality of balls, each with a differing resiliency, a base plate for supporting uprightly each of said cylindrical members defining a vertical axis, a plurality of upper playing surfaces each extending radially away from said base plate in a different direction, each said surface carrying a target indicator and being inclined toward said vertical axis and corresponding to a different one of said cylinder members, said method comprising:
- a. disposing a selected one of said cylindrical members on said base plate in vertical coaxial alignment with said axis;
- b. sequentially selecting different ones of said plurality of balls;
- c. sequentially disposing each of said selected balls above one of said target indicators corresponding to said selected cylindrical member;
- d. sequentially dropping said each sequentially selected ball onto said one of said target indicators whereby a trajectory path is defined;
- e. recording for each said dropped ball whether said trajectory path terminates within said selected cylindrical member;
- f. disposing a next selected one of said cylindrical members on said base plate in said vertical coaxial alignment with said axis;
- g. sequentially selecting different ones of said plurality of balls;
- h. sequentially disposing said each of said selected balls above a next different one of said selected target indicators corresponding to said next selected one of said cylindrical members;
- i. sequentially dropping said each sequentially selected ball onto a selected said next different one of said selected target indicators whereby a trajectory path is defined;
- j. recording for each said dropped ball whether said trajectory path terminated within said next selected one of said cylindrical members;
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- k. repeating steps f. through j. for each said cylindrical member.
An amusement device, comprising:
- at least one hollow cylindrical member;
- a base plate means for supporting said at least one cylinder member in a vertical position and centrally thereof defining a plurality of edges and having first fastener means disposed adjacent each outer edge thereof and further defining an upper base plate surface;
- a top plate means;
- a plurality of side leaf members each having an upper playing rebound surface, each said leaf further having a second fastener means disposed at the outer end thereof, each said side leaf member being hingedly interconnected at one respective end thereof to a different one of said edges whereby
- when said base plate means and said plurality of leaf members are disposed in an open second playing configuration mode on a support surface upper playing surfaces thereof lie substantially in a horizontal plane and define, in combination, a cross-shaped configuration;
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- when said leaf members are rotated about said hinged interconnections with said base plate means to a substantially vertical closed first storage configuration mode with said second fastener means interconnected to respective ones of said first fastener means to retainedly hold said top plate means to said side leaf members, said leaf members, said top plate means, and said base plate means define, in combination, a hollow rectangular closed box-shaped container adapted to receive said at least one cylindrical member and said at least one ball therewith.
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