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US 5,031,919 AGranted
Portable skee-ball game
OwnerDonald Dixoninventor
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Abstract
A portable version of the common Skee-Ball game which includes the improvements of: a ball return track which is non-dependant upon gravity for the return of the ball to the player of the game; a runner extending from the ramp to the play area of adjustable length; an electronic score recorder and score display; a ball stop for limiting the ball from leaving the ball return track and a ball return track which is adjustable in length.
Claims14
An improved portable version of the common Skee-Ball game the improvement comprising of, in combination:
- (a) a target member having a plurality of apertures defined therein for a ball to pass through;
- (b) at least one target ring operably engaged with the target member;
- (c) a ball return chamber operably engaged with the target area and the target member;
- (d) at least one supportive leg operably engaged with the target member;
- (e) a ball restriction member operably engaged with the target member;
- (f) more than one supporting post operably engaged with the ball restriction area and the target member;
- (g) a ramp operably engaged with the target member;
- (h) a runner operably engaged with the ramp;
- (i) a first inclined ball return track operably engaged with the target member and the ball return chamber;
- (j) at least one second ball return track member operably engaged with the target member;
- (k) a first means for selectively lengthening the runner operably engaged with the ramp;
- (l) a second means for audibly and optically announcing that the target member area has been struck by a ball, if any, operably engaged with the target member;
- (m) a third means for selectively adjusting the length of the second ball return track operably engaged with the second ball return track;
- (n) a fourth means for electronically sensing the presence of a ball in the first ball return track operably engaged with the first ball return track;
- (o) a fifth means for retaining the ball at the junction of the first and second ball return tracks operably engaged with the target member;
- (p) a sixth means for elevating the second ball return track and simultaneously releasing a ball retained by the fifth means operably engaged with the second ball return track;
- (q) a seventh means for increasing a balls momentum along the second ball return track operably engaged with the second ball return track;
- (r) an eighth means for audibly announcing the returning of a ball to the player(s) along the second ball return track operably engaged with the second ball return track;
- (s) a ninth means for stopping the ball at the end of the second ball return track furthest from the seventh means operably engaged with the second ball return track;
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