Whirling ball collecting game
AssigneeMarvin Glass & Associates
InventorsRalph J. Kulesza, Walter J. Wozniak, Jeffrey D. Breslow
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Abstract
An interactive action game involving the selective collection of colored balls has a housing which supports a concave bowl with an electric battery motor driven foam paddle at the center of the concave surface. As the balls drop down to the center of the bowl, the balls contact the rotating foam paddle and are whirled about the concave surface of the bowl. Disposed over the top of the spinning foam paddle is a central shield. The top of the shield may contain a number of indentations, or separate pieces may be provided with indentations into which the players place the collected colored balls in a pattern to win the game.
Claims14
A game comprising in combination:
- a housing supporting a bowl providing an upwardly facing concave playing surface having a central, lowermost point;
- a plurality of spherical balls;
- means mounted for rotation about an axis generally coincident with the center of the concave playing surface;
- means for driving the rotation means so that the rotation means will upon contacting a ball cause the ball to whirl about the concave playing surface;
- means for retaining the whirling balls within the concave playing surface;
- means for collecting the balls;
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- the balls collecting means being tubular with a resilient open bottom.
A game comprising in combination:
- a housing supporting a bowl providing an upwardly facing concave playing surface having a central, lowermost point;
- a plurality of spherical balls;
- means mounted for rotation about an axis generally coincident with the center of the concave playing surface;
- means for driving the rotation means so that the rotation means will upon contacting a ball cause the ball to whirl about the concave playing surface;
- means for retaining the whirling balls within the concave playing surface;
- a plurality of spaced apart posts extending upwardly from the concave playing surface;
- the spaced apart posts being generally disposed around the rotation means;
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- the spaced apart posts supporting a shield disposed over the rotating means.
A game comprising in combination:
- a housing supporting a bowl providing an upwardly facing concave playing surface having a central, lowermost point;
- a plurality of spherical balls;
- means mounted for rotation about an axis generally coincident with the center of the concave playing surface;
- means for driving the rotation means so that the rotation means will upon contacting a ball cause the ball to whirl about the concave playing surface;
- means for retaining the whirling balls within the concave playing surface;
- a shield disposed over the rotating means;
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- the shield having an upwardly facing surface having indentations for receiving the balls.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.