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US 5,368,300 AGranted
Goal-scoring game
AssigneeAnjar Co.
InventorJames R. Becker
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Abstract
A goal-scoring game is played on a convex playing field having an apex, a periphery lower than the apex, and a spaced apart plurality of goals adjacent the periphery for receipt of game pieces. A plurality of movable game pieces are provided for movement about the field and into the goals. Player-operated impacting flippers are disposed adjacent to and associated with each of the goals, for impacting one of the game pieces to drive the impacted game piece away from the associated goal. A disperser is disposed over the field for storing a plurality of the game pieces and dropping them one at a time in rapid succession precisely onto the apex of the field.
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A goal-scoring game comprising:
- (A) a convex playing field having an apex, a periphery lower than said apex, and a spaced apart plurality of goals adjacent said periphery for receipt of game pieces;
- (B) a plurality of movable game pieces for movement about said field and into said goals;
- (C) player-operated impacting means, disposed adjacent to and associated with each of said goals, for impacting one of said game pieces to drive said impacted game piece away from said associated goal;
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- (D) dispenser means disposed over said field for storing a plurality of at least 4 of said game pieces and dropping them one at a time in rapid succession precisely onto the apex of said field.
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A goal storing game comprising:
- (A) a convex playing field having an apex, a periphery lower than said apex, and a spaced apart plurality of goals adjacent said periphery for receipt of game pieces;
- (B) a plurality of movable game pieces for movement about said field and into said goals;
- (C) player-operated impacting means, disposed adjacent to and associated with each of said goals, for impacting one of said game pieces to drive said impacted game piece away from said associated goal;
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- (D) dispenser means disposed over said field for storing a plurality of said game pieces and dropping them one at a time in rapid succession substantially onto the apex of said field;
- defining:
- (i) a stationary reservoir for storing a plurality of said game pieces;
- (ii) a rotatable impeller having a plurality of vanes for isolating intermediate an adjacent pair of said vanes a single one of said plurality of game pieces from the remainder thereof in said reservoir;
- (iii) means for rotating said impeller;
- (iv) a stationary sub-chamber having over the apex of said field an aperture for passage of a single game piece therethrough at a time;
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- (v) means separating said impeller and said sub-chamber while permitting a game piece to drop from said impeller into said sub-chamber and hence pass, under the influence of gravity, through said sub-chamber aperture and onto said field.
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A goal-scoring game comprising:
- (A) a convex playing field having an apex, a periphery lower than said apex, and a spaced apart plurality of goals adjacent said periphery for receipt of game pieces;
- (B) a plurality of spherical game pieces for movement about said field and into said goals, said periphery of said field defining, intermediate each adjacent pair of said goals, a segment which is inwardly bowed such that a game piece driven against said segment will gravitate towards one of said adjacent pair of goals;
- (C) player-operated impacting means, disposed adjacent to and associated with each of said goals, for impacting one of said game pieces to drive said impacted game piece away from said associated goal and towards another of said goals, said impacting means being a pair of player-operated flippers;
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- (D) dispenser means disposed over the center of said field for storing a plurality of at least 4 of said game pieces and dropping them one at a time in rapid succession precisely onto the apex of said field without said game pieces having any appreciable lateral momentum.
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A goal-scoring game comprising:
- (A) a convex playing field having an apex, a periphery lower than said apex, and a spaced apart plurality of goals adjacent said periphery for receipt of game pieces;
- (B) a plurality of spherical game pieces for movement about said field and into said goals, said periphery of said field defining, intermediate each adjacent pair of said goals, a segment which is inwardly bowed such that a game piece driven against said segment will gravitate towards one of said adjacent pair of goals;
- (C) player-operated impacting means, disposed adjacent to and associated with each of said goals, for impacting one of said game pieces to drive said impacted game piece away from said associated goal and towards another of said goals, said impacting means being a pair or player-operated flippers;
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- (D) dispenser means disposed over the center of said field for storing a plurality of said game pieces and dropping them one at a time in rapid succession substantially onto the apex of said field without said game pieces having any appreciable lateral momentum, said dispenser means defining:
- (i) a stationary reservoir for storing a plurality of said game pieces;
- (ii) a rotatable impeller having a plurality of vanes for isolating intermediate an adjacent pair of said vanes a single one of said plurality of game pieces from the remainder thereof in said reservoir;
- (iii) means for rotating said impeller;
- (iv) a stationary sub-chamber having an inwardly curving sidewall and, at the bottom thereof and over the apex of said field, an aperture for passage of a single game piece therethrough at a time;
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- (v) means separating said reservoir and said impeller while permitting a predetermined maximum number game pieces to pass simultaneously from said reservoir into said impeller;
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- (vi) means separating said impeller and said sub-chamber while permitting a predetermined maximum number of game pieces to drop simultaneously from said impeller onto said sub-chamber sidewall and hence passage under the influence of gravity through said sub-chamber aperture and onto said field.
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A game piece dispenser for use with a playing field, comprising:
- (i) a stationary reservoir for storing a plurality of game pieces;
- (ii) a rotatable impeller having a plurality of vanes for isolating intermediate an adjacent pair of said vanes a single one of the plurality of game pieces from the remainder thereof in said reservoir;
- (iii) means for rotating said impeller;
- (iv) a stationary sub-chamber having over the apex of a playing field an aperture for passage of a single game piece therethrough at a time;
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- (v) means separating said impeller and said sub-chamber while permitting a game piece to drop from said impeller into said sub-chamber and hence pass, under the influence of gravity, through said sub-chamber aperture and onto the playing field.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.