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US3452987A
US3452987A US571461A US3452987DA US3452987A US 3452987 A US3452987 A US 3452987A US 571461 A US571461 A US 571461A US 3452987D A US3452987D A US 3452987DA US 3452987 A US3452987 A US 3452987A
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • A63F7/00—Indoor games using small moving playing bodies, e.g. balls, discs or blocks
    • A63F7/22—Accessories; Details
    • A63F7/36—Constructional details not covered by groups A63F7/24 - A63F7/34, i.e. constructional details of rolling boards, rims or play tables, e.g. frame, game boards, guide tracks
    • A63F7/38—Playing surfaces movable during play, i.e. games played on a non-stationary surface, e.g. the ball intended to be in permanent motion
    • A63F7/386—Rolling boards adapted to be rocked during play
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • A63F7/00—Indoor games using small moving playing bodies, e.g. balls, discs or blocks
    • A63F7/02—Indoor games using small moving playing bodies, e.g. balls, discs or blocks using falling playing bodies or playing bodies running on an inclined surface, e.g. pinball games
    • A63F7/025—Pinball games, e.g. flipper games
    • A63F7/027—Pinball games, e.g. flipper games electric
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • A63F7/00—Indoor games using small moving playing bodies, e.g. balls, discs or blocks
    • A63F7/0017—Indoor games using small moving playing bodies, e.g. balls, discs or blocks played on a table by two players from opposite sides of the table
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • A63F7/00—Indoor games using small moving playing bodies, e.g. balls, discs or blocks
    • A63F7/06—Games simulating outdoor ball games, e.g. hockey or football
    • A63F7/0604—Type of ball game
    • A63F7/0608—Baseball
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • A63F7/00—Indoor games using small moving playing bodies, e.g. balls, discs or blocks
    • A63F7/06—Games simulating outdoor ball games, e.g. hockey or football
    • A63F7/0604—Type of ball game
    • A63F7/0616—Football or soccer
    • A63F7/062—Penalty shooting

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  • the buifers are located in the center of two elements placed on the shorter sides of the playing surface and shaped so -as to confer to the playing surface the form of an ellipse.
  • Electric contacts are located in equal numbers on each half of the playing surface and are energized alternatively as a function of the inclination of the playing surface and the arrangement is such that when the playing ball touches one of the energized contacts, the direction of inclination of the playing surface can be changed by a player by pressing an electric push-button located on each of the shorter sides of the chest. By pressing the pushbutton an electric motor mounted below the playing surface is switched on to drive an eccentric and shift a connecting link to change the inclination of the playing surface.
  • Each longer side of the chest is provided with a longitudinal passage with means for the propulsion of a playing ball onto the playing surface.
  • the present invention concerns an electric game box for a two-sided game, for two players, consisting of a quadrangular chest, supported on legs, in which the play ing surface of the game rocks, being balanced in the centre, there being fitted on the two shorter sides of the said chest two buffers, one on each of the said sides, with a vertically movable guard, for the purpose of rebounding a ball which, in running on the said playing surface, touches electrical contacts, energised alternately, which cause the playing surface to tilt if at the time of the passing of the ball over one of them in the energised state a pushbutton is pressed, there being situated on each of the longer sides of the said chest a passage for the entry and the projection of the ball on to the playing surface, each of the said passages running in the opposite direction to the other.
  • FIG. 1 is a top plan view of an electric game box according to the invention.
  • FIG. 2 is a view in elevation of the inside of the game box seen from one of its longer sides and enlarged with respect to FIG. 1.
  • FIG. 3 is a view of the inside of the game box, partially in section, seen from one of the shorter sides and enlarged with to respect to FIG. 1.
  • FIGS. 4, and 6 show a bufier in plan view, the same seen from the side and the driving element, greately enlarged.
  • FIG. 7 is a perspective view of the game box.
  • FIG. 8 is a view similar to FIG. 3, but as seen from the opposite side.
  • the game box with its rocking surface is made up of a rectangular chest A mounted on four legs B (FIG. 7), the upper part of which is covered by a sheet of protecting glass held firm by lateral guides 1.
  • the playing surface of the game consists of a fiat surface 2, rocking about a central crossbar O, on which there are mounted, on the two shorter sides, two elements 3, 3 shaped so as to confer to said surface the shape of an ellipse and in the center of the elements 3, 3' are positioned buffers 4, 4, in the shape of the arc of a circle and housed in corresponding recesses 5, 5 formed in the elements 3, 3, and in communication with the playing surface 2.
  • a support 11 terminating in a link 12 passed through by a pivot 13 of an eccentric 14 driven by means of a small electric motor .15 when, by pressing a pushbutton 8, it is desired to tilt the playing surface 2 in the opposite direction.
  • the buffers 4, 4' provided on their circumferences with a damper 22 of elastic material, have two internal slots 16, 16 in the shape of the arc of a circle, in each of which, by means of a rotatable roller 17, moves one end of a crankshaft 18 of which the opposite crank arm or other end is pivoted to the core 19 of an electromagnet 20.
  • the crankshaft 18 passes with its crank pin through the playing surface 2 from top to bottom and is guided in its rotation by a bush 21 placed in the surface 2 while the end with the freely rotatable roller 17 is adapted to move with the buffer 4, with a radius the centre of which is the axis of the projecting end (roller 17) of the adiacent crankshaft 18, when the corresponding pushbutton 10 is pressed.
  • each buffer 4, 4 there is a vertically movable guard 23, 23 consisting of a rod with the same curvature as the elements 3, 3' so as to close the recesses 5, 5 when the guards 23, 23 are in their lowered position in which the curvature of the guards forms a continuation of the elements 3, 3'.
  • the opening or closing of the guard 23, 23, :which allows only one end to be used for play, is regulated by the rocking of the playing surface 2, each guard 23 being linked to two vertical rods 24, 24' which pass through the playing surface 2, being held pressed down below the said surface by springs 25, 25 which surround the rods 24, 24 and are linked in pairs, for each end of the apparatus, by a crosspiece 26a which, when the playing surface tilts, strikes a screw 27 of adjustable height screwed to a bracket 28 fixed to the chest A in such a way that, due to the tilting of the playing surface, the rods 24 (FIG. 2) are pushed upwards by the crosspiece 26 and compress the springs 25 so that the guards 23 move upwards (FIG. 3), thus allowing the buffers 4 to operate while the springs 25 of the opposite guard 23' pull back the guard 23' thus closing the recess 5 and allowing the game to be played only at the opposite end of the apparatus.
  • each guard when lowered, not only close the recesses of the housings of the buffers but also make uniform the trajectory which can be followed by the ball after it has been struck, each guard constituting the continuation of the curve of the elements 3, 3' at a height corresponding to the radius of the ball 30 (FIG. 8).
  • An electric game box comprising a quadrangular chest supported on legs and having a playing surface adapted to be inclined about a central balancing crossbar mounted below the playing surface,
  • each buffer movable vertically as a function of the inclination of said playing surface to cover and uncover its associated buffer
  • An electric game box as claimed in claim 1 wherein two elements shaped so as to confer to the playing surface the shape of an ellipse are placed on the shorter sides of said playing surface and the buffers are located in the center of these elements and are in the shape of the arc of a circle and located in corresponding recesses formed in the elements and communicating with said playing surface.
  • each buffer is provided with a peripheral elastic damper which also helps to rebound the playing ball and the inside of each buffer is provided with two slots of the same curvature, each rotatably receiving a roller mounted at one end of a crankshaft having its other end pivoted to the core of an electromagnet, said crankshaft having a crank pin extending vertically through a bush in the playing surface to guide the crankshaft in its rotation while its end carrying the freely rotatable roller is adapted to move with the buffer about the axis of the crank pin when the associated actuating pushbutton is pressed.

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US3643952A (en) * 1970-03-20 1972-02-22 Earl D Sprowl Tilting surface ball game
US3675927A (en) * 1970-06-10 1972-07-11 Gottlieb & Co D Two-player pinball machine
US4030555A (en) * 1976-03-15 1977-06-21 Boyce John G Wiggle table electronic ball game device
US4176844A (en) * 1978-01-31 1979-12-04 Midway Mfg. Co. Multi-station pinball game
US4395041A (en) * 1981-02-11 1983-07-26 Adolph E. Goldfarb Ball transfer and capture game and method
EP0142133A1 (de) * 1983-11-09 1985-05-22 Geiger-Automatenbau GmbH Flipperspiel mit unterschiedlichen Schwierigkeitsgraden
US5238248A (en) * 1989-08-10 1993-08-24 Alvin G. & Co. Scoring mechanism for a pinball machine
US5405144A (en) * 1993-04-21 1995-04-11 Williams Electronics Games, Inc. Tilting play feature for a pinball game
US5425536A (en) * 1993-06-18 1995-06-20 Lazer-Tron Corporation Arcade game
US5667217A (en) * 1995-08-29 1997-09-16 Rlt Acquisition, Inc. Roll-down arcade game
US5769424A (en) * 1996-09-24 1998-06-23 Rlt Acquisition, Inc. Arcade game for stacking directed playing pieces
US5961116A (en) * 1997-07-01 1999-10-05 Beyer; Kenneth J. Slap ball table game apparatus
US20080143047A1 (en) * 2006-12-13 2008-06-19 Moose Mountain Toymakers Ltd. Pinball machine
US9072962B1 (en) * 2013-01-07 2015-07-07 T.E. Brangs, Inc. Portable game devices having prize compartments and lock mechanisms

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US2300328A (en) * 1940-09-13 1942-10-27 Irven H Wilsey Game
US2522782A (en) * 1946-06-25 1950-09-19 Glickman Philip Simulated basketball game apparatus
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US2075366A (en) * 1935-04-13 1937-03-30 Smith Harry Goldwin Game board
US2300328A (en) * 1940-09-13 1942-10-27 Irven H Wilsey Game
US2522782A (en) * 1946-06-25 1950-09-19 Glickman Philip Simulated basketball game apparatus
US3365199A (en) * 1965-03-22 1968-01-23 Scholin Practice putting device

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US3643952A (en) * 1970-03-20 1972-02-22 Earl D Sprowl Tilting surface ball game
US3675927A (en) * 1970-06-10 1972-07-11 Gottlieb & Co D Two-player pinball machine
US4030555A (en) * 1976-03-15 1977-06-21 Boyce John G Wiggle table electronic ball game device
US4176844A (en) * 1978-01-31 1979-12-04 Midway Mfg. Co. Multi-station pinball game
US4395041A (en) * 1981-02-11 1983-07-26 Adolph E. Goldfarb Ball transfer and capture game and method
EP0142133A1 (de) * 1983-11-09 1985-05-22 Geiger-Automatenbau GmbH Flipperspiel mit unterschiedlichen Schwierigkeitsgraden
US5238248A (en) * 1989-08-10 1993-08-24 Alvin G. & Co. Scoring mechanism for a pinball machine
US5405144A (en) * 1993-04-21 1995-04-11 Williams Electronics Games, Inc. Tilting play feature for a pinball game
US5425536A (en) * 1993-06-18 1995-06-20 Lazer-Tron Corporation Arcade game
US5676371A (en) * 1993-06-18 1997-10-14 Rlt Acquisition, Inc. Arcade games
US5667217A (en) * 1995-08-29 1997-09-16 Rlt Acquisition, Inc. Roll-down arcade game
US5769424A (en) * 1996-09-24 1998-06-23 Rlt Acquisition, Inc. Arcade game for stacking directed playing pieces
US5961116A (en) * 1997-07-01 1999-10-05 Beyer; Kenneth J. Slap ball table game apparatus
US20080143047A1 (en) * 2006-12-13 2008-06-19 Moose Mountain Toymakers Ltd. Pinball machine
US7954819B2 (en) * 2006-12-13 2011-06-07 Moose Mountain Toymakers Ltd. Pinball machine
US9072962B1 (en) * 2013-01-07 2015-07-07 T.E. Brangs, Inc. Portable game devices having prize compartments and lock mechanisms

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