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US 5,096,192 AGranted
Miniature bowling game
OwnerCalvin J. Stanford, Jr.inventor
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Abstract
A bowling game table featuring a lane surface having a bilaterally symmetrical central trough which, beginning at a point proximate the edge from which the ball is rolled toward the pins, gradually expands in width and increases in depth until it reaches a maximum depth, and continues expanding in width until it spans the entire width of the lane surface while maintaining said maximum depth.
Claims20
A bowling-type game, comprising:
- a) A ball;
- b) A substantially rectangular lane surface which is defined by four perimeter edges, a first edge from which said ball may be launched so as to roll on said lane surface toward a second edge opposite therefrom where the distance between said first edge and second edge is greater than the distance between the remaining two side edges, and has a bilaterally symmetrical central trough which extends linearly between points proximate to the first edge and points proximate to the second edge and which, beginning from a point proximate to the first edge, gradually expands in width and depth to a maximum depth, has a bottom that becomes progressively broader and flatter and sides that become progressively steeper, and then decreases in depth while maintaining said flattened bottom and more steeply sloping sides until it rises back to its original level at a triangular shaped area located adjacent to the second edge.
- c) A target element disposed proximate to the second edge of said lane surface so that it may be contacted by the ball when launched from the first edge in such a manner as to roll along the lane surface to the second edge.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.