Pocket sized mechanical game
OwnerRalph J. Kuleszainventor
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Abstract
A hand held game that utilizes a small motor mechanism to uniquely animate various targets, targets, goals or projectile path to increase the challenge of putting an object through the goal or contacting the object with a target at a particular time. Possible game arrangements include: a soccer game with a moving goalie; a basketball game with a rotating hoop; a football game with a rotating goal post; a baseball game with a rotating disc scoreboard; a golf game with a rotating green; and a skee-ball game with an oscillating ramp. A small wind-up motor animates all of the targets, goals or paths.
Claims31
A pocket sized game comprising:
- a playing surface
- a projectile
- a target
- means for shooting said projectile from a starting point toward said target at a time controlled by a player, and
- motorized means for varying the effect of shooting the projectile toward said target over time,
- said game comprising at least two sections, each section defining a game surface and said sections cooperate to defined a closed position wherein said sections provide a compartment enclosing said game surfaces and an open position wherein said game surfaces are exposed.
A pocket size game device comprising:
- two game sections each game section defining a game surface, said game sections having an open position wherein said game sections are exposed and a closed position wherein said game sections are stacked together to form an interior compartment and said game surfaces are inside said compartment when said game sections are in a closed position;
- a playing surface defined by at least one of said game surfaces;
- a projectile;
- a target on one of said game surfaces;
- means for shooting said projectile from a starting point on one of said game surfaces toward said target at a time controlled by said player;
- at least one obstacle between said starting point and said target;
- motorized means for changing the position of said obstacle over time.
A pocket size game device comprising:
- two game sections each game section defining a game surface, said game sections having an open position wherein said game sections are exposed and a closed position wherein said game sections are stacked together to form an interior compartment and said game surfaces are inside said compartment when said game sections are in a closed position;
- a playing surface defined by at least one of said game surfaces;
- a projectile;
- a target on one of said game surfaces having an indicator associated therewith for recording a score when said projectile contacts said target;
- means for shooting said projectile from a starting point on one of said game surfaces toward said target at a time controlled by said player;
- motorized means for rotating said indicator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.