Video game control attachment
OwnerKeith D. Randinventor
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Abstract
A block, as of molded plastic, having a recess in which is mounted the standard control of a TV game, that standard control having push buttons for controlling the game displayed on the TV screen. Levers are mounted in the block, and wheel manually rotated for rocking the levers; the levers repeatedly depress the push buttons.
Claims10
An added control device for applying to and controlling an original manual control for a TV set, the original manual control having the following characteristics,
- it is in itself complete and self-contained and operable for controlling the TV set according to its own design and purpose,
- it has at least one control key movable between a retracted inactive position and an advanced active position, and means yieldably retaining it in its retracted position,
- said added control device comprising,
- a block having a forward and a rearward direction and having a recess adapted for positioning the original manual control therein, the recess having a floor,
- the block, when the original manual control is positioned in the recess, completely holding and supporting and movably carrying the original manual control,
- a lever for each key pivoted in the block having a forward end engaging the control key, and having a rear end, and
- manual actuating means operable for repeatedly moving the lever, and thereby moving the key, in response to moving the actuating means a single time in a single direction.
A device for applying to and controlling an original manual control having a pair of control keys movable between a retracted inactive position and an advanced active positive, and means yieldably retaining the control keys in their retracted position, the original manual control also having an entrance end and an upper side, said control keys projecting upwardly through the upper side of the original manual control and spaced apart along a line leading from the entrance end,
- said device comprising,
- a one-piece block having a forward and rearward direction and having a lower front portion and a rear hand-gripping portion,
- the block having an upwardly facing recess in its said lower front portion, for receiving the entrance end of the original manual control in direction transversely of the block, the recess having a floor,
- the block having an end limit stop engaged by the entrance end of the original manual control when the latter is in the recess,
- the block also having side limit stops at opposite sides of the recess relative to each other, engaged by the upper side surface of the original manual control,
- the block having an integral tongue in the floor of the recess yieldably biasing the original manual control upwardly against the side limit stops,
- the block having a pair of vertical slots in its rear portion, opening through at least the bottom of the block,
- levers in the upper portion of the slots pivoted intermediate their ends and thereby having front ends extending into the recess, and rear ends,
- the levers being positioned in register with the control keys and having vertically adjustable screws engageable with the corresponding control keys, and
- star wheels in the slots extending downwardly through the slots to the exterior for manual manipulation,
- the levers at their rear ends engaging the star wheels, and the star wheels thereby being operable on rotation thereof for reciprocating the levers.
A method of operating an original manual control having control keys operable for performing control functions in response to reciprocation thereof in opposite directions,
- comprising the step,
- providing manually actuable control means operable for so reciprocating the control keys in response to a single movement of the hand in a single direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.