US 5,197,743 AGranted

Golfing dart game apparatus

OwnerHoward J. Hanson, Jr.inventor

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Abstract

A dart game includes a board with a simulation golf course presented thereon, including fairways, greens, sand traps, and the like. An object in play of the game requires progression from a fairway to a green to a scoring. Associated water and sand traps are in operative association to provide visual indication of penalty shots and the like.

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A golfing dart game apparatus, comprising in combination,

a game board, the game board including a top wall, the top wall including a polymeric covering coextensive with the top wall, and
the game board including a plurality of target fairway surface areas, each fairway surface area of said fairway surface areas formed at the top wall includes a green, and
the game board including a coaxially aligned central bull's-eye, and
at least one water hazard surface area formed about the top wall and at least one of said target fairways including a sand trap area portion contiguous therewith, and
a plurality of dart projectiles, and
the game board includes a powder chamber exit port directed through the top wall, the powder chamber exit port in communication with the powder chamber exit conduit, and the powder chamber exit conduit in communication with a powder chamber formed within the game board below the top wall, and a piston cavity in communication between the powder chamber and the top wall, and a powder chamber piston slidably mounted within the piston cavity, and the powder chamber including a predetermined quantity of powder contained therewithin, whereupon impacting of the powder chamber piston effects compression of the powder contained within the powder chamber directing the powder through the powder chamber exit conduit and the powder chamber exit port, and
the water hazard surface area includes a fluid bladder spaced from the powder chamber positioned below the top wall, and a second piston cavity in communication with the fluid bladder and the water hazard surface area positioned therebelow, with a fluid chamber piston slidably mounted within the second piston cavity, and the piston in contiguous communication with the fluid bladder, whereupon impacting of one of said dart projectiles with said fluid chamber piston effects compression of the bladder, and a fluid bladder conduit in fluid communication with the bladder and the top wall, with an exit port directed through the top wall in fluid communication with the fluid chamber conduit to direct fluid from the bladder through the fluid chamber conduit and the fluid chamber exit port.

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Abstract

A golfing dart game apparatus, comprising in combination,

a game board, the game board including a top wall, the top wall including a polymeric covering coextensive with the top wall, and
the game board including a plurality of target fairway surface areas, each fairway surface area of said fairway surface areas formed at the top wall includes a green, and
the game board including a coaxially aligned central bull's-eye, and
at least one water hazard surface area formed about the top wall and at least one of said target fairways including a sand trap area portion contiguous therewith, and
a plurality of dart projectiles, and
the game board includes a powder chamber exit port directed through the top wall, the powder chamber exit port in communication with the powder chamber exit conduit, and the powder chamber exit conduit in communication with a powder chamber formed within the game board below the top wall, and a piston cavity in communication between the powder chamber and the top wall, and a powder chamber piston slidably mounted within the piston cavity, and the powder chamber including a predetermined quantity of powder contained therewithin, whereupon impacting of the powder chamber piston effects compression of the powder contained within the powder chamber directing the powder through the powder chamber exit conduit and the powder chamber exit port, and
the water hazard surface area includes a fluid bladder spaced from the powder chamber positioned below the top wall, and a second piston cavity in communication with the fluid bladder and the water hazard surface area positioned therebelow, with a fluid chamber piston slidably mounted within the second piston cavity, and the piston in contiguous communication with the fluid bladder, whereupon impacting of one of said dart projectiles with said fluid chamber piston effects compression of the bladder, and a fluid bladder conduit in fluid communication with the bladder and the top wall, with an exit port directed through the top wall in fluid communication with the fluid chamber conduit to direct fluid from the bladder through the fluid chamber conduit and the fluid chamber exit port.

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