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US 4,871,173 AGranted
Puzzle or game having token filled track and turntable
AssigneeBinary Arts Corporation
InventorFerdinand Lammertink
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Abstract
An amusement device includes an endless track containing a plurality of indicia bearing tokens independently movable in the track and filling the track. A first portion of the track is part of a turntable which permits the first portion to be rotated relative to the remainder of the track such that the order of the tokens in the first portion is reversed. The first portion of the track has a length relative to the sizes of the tokens such that at least two of the tokens are positioned in the first portion at any time.
Claims6
An amusement device comprising:
- means forming an endless track;
- means defining a plurality of indicia bearing token independently movable in said track, said tokens filling said track;
- turntable means for rotating a first portion of said track relative to a second portion of said track about an axis substantially perpendicular to the length of said first portion such that an order of tokens in said first portion may be reversed while the position of said first portion relative to the remainder of said track is unaltered, wherein said first portion of said track has a length relative to the sizes of said tokens such that an even number of said tokens are positioned in said first portion at any time, and wherein said track has such a length relative to the sizes of said tokens that an even number of tokes are positioned in and fill said track.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.