181 |
Arcade game with color sensing apparatus |
US337098 |
1994-11-09 |
US5704612A |
1998-01-06 |
Matthew F. Kelly; Bryan M. Kelly; Norman B. Petermeier; John J. Goodman |
An arcade game including a number of playing pieces having distinct colors and a number of targets associated with at least one of the distinct colors. A sensor apparatus is arranged to sense the color of a playing piece received by a target. The targets can preferably be highlighted to draw a player's attention to a designated target. A scoring apparatus changes a game score when the color of a ball received by a highlighted target matches a color associated with the highlighted target. A variation of the game includes a playing piece return mechanism and a playing piece dispenser mechanism. Another variation of the game includes an award dispenser, which dispenses an award based upon the game score. |
182 |
Table tennis style game with basketball backboards, hoops, nets and foam
ball |
US666933 |
1996-06-20 |
US5655979A |
1997-08-12 |
John D. Blue |
A side basketball style backboard with attached hoop and net assembly is herein designed for mounting on both sides of a table tennis style table. The backboard has an upper surface area that can be used to deflect the game ball into the opposing playing area. The backboard is secured to the table by a bracket with screws or bolts as an attachment means. The upper end of the bracket attaches to the backside of the backboard and the lower end of the bracket attaches to the outside edge and the underside of the table. The game ball is made of foam and the ball striking instrument can be selected from a paddle, a racquet with strings or foam mitts with one on each hand. |
183 |
Training device |
US589056 |
1996-01-19 |
US5573252A |
1996-11-12 |
Gary M. Simmons |
A training device for developing hand-eye coordination in a child. The device includes a housing with front and rear walls, two side walls, an open top end and a bottom end. The housing also has a plurality of openings formed in the front wall of the housing adjacent the bottom end thereof. A plurality of tubes with upper and lower ends are secured in the housing. The lower end of each of the tubes is connected to one of the openings formed in the front wall of the housing. Secured to the top end of the housing is a hollow four walled removable insert. The insert serves to direct an object toward the open top end of the housing so that the object can randomly enter and pass through one of the tubes and out an associated opening in the front wall of the housing. |
184 |
Putting game |
US534054 |
1995-09-26 |
US5573247A |
1996-11-12 |
William Ridge |
A golf putting game frame includes indentations in the frame for storing the golf balls. |
185 |
Bouncing ball game |
US652826 |
1996-05-23 |
US5566948A |
1996-10-22 |
Bobby D. Kidd |
A game apparatus and method are disclosed which utilize a game apparatus with a target area having an upper face with an aperture passing therethough. Bumps are disposed on the upper face of the target area, and a lip is disposed about an outer edge of the target area, extending above the upper face. The lip has slots extending downward from its upper edge. A base supports the target area above a playing surface. Irregularly shaped balls, such as balls in the shape of one-half of a sphere or three-forths of a sphere, may be used. The irregularly shaped ball is held such that, when the ball is propelled toward the playing surface with substantially no horizontal force, the ball nonetheless bounces towed the target area. A base retains balls that are bounced through the aperture in the target area, and vents in the base provide a view of the balls contained therein and provides for savings in material costs. |
186 |
Indoors miniature basketball practice apparatus |
US183200 |
1994-01-18 |
US5393049A |
1995-02-28 |
George Nelson |
A basketball practice system comprising a backboard made of a rigid or semi-rigid material and having a generally a planar configuration is disclosed. A frame structure is secured to the backboard and helps to support a guiding net configured and dimensioned to guide a basketball into a narrow port defined by the guiding net. Cross braces are secured between the frame structure and the backboard in order to give rigidity to the frame. Side deflection structure deflects balls which are moving to the left or right, away from the system and guiding them into the guiding net. This deflecting structure may comprise nets. A basketball net is positioned above the narrow port and a bendable tubular guiding member, which comprises a bendable tubular member has a spiral backbone and a skin secured to the spiral backbone, is coupled to the narrow port and configured to receive a ball and guide it toward a player using the inventive basketball practice system is disclosed. |
187 |
Projectile and target game apparatus |
US972600 |
1992-11-06 |
US5275419A |
1994-01-04 |
Enayatolah Kazemi |
Game apparatus comprises a projectile and a head garment. The head garment includes a head-fitting member configured and dimensioned to be releasably worn on the head of the player. The head garment also includes a visor attached to said head-fitting member, wherein the visor is configured with an aperture of sufficient size to allow said projectile to pass through the aperture. |
188 |
Portable backstop |
US846741 |
1992-03-06 |
US5242160A |
1993-09-07 |
Thomas I. Girard; Jon A. Glydon |
A portable backstop has a vertically upstanding inverted first U-shaped frame including legs supported on a base and a second, smaller, U-shaped frame pivoted from an intermediate point of the legs of the inverted U-shaped frame. The frames support a bag-shaped mesh net for receiving a ball. When the backstop is unfolded for use, the second U-shaped frame extends outward and the net, attached around the upper perimeter of the frames, forms a pocket for receiving a ball. The second U-shaped frame folds upward against the first frame for transportation and storage. The backstop may be used indoors or outdoors. |
189 |
Amusement ride and game |
US897868 |
1986-08-19 |
US4767117A |
1988-08-30 |
Anthony M. Maio |
There is illustrated a combination amusement ride and game including a rotating carousel for carrying a plurality of players. Adjacent to the carousel is a ramp having a tee at its lower end and a target at its elevated end. Balls are introduced to the tee in synchrony with the approach of each player toward the ramp. Each player is provided with a mallet for striking the teed ball to direct the ball up the ramp toward the target. Scoring apparatus synchronized with the carousel are provided for crediting each score to the proper player. |
190 |
Convertible sports stand construction |
US68964 |
1987-07-01 |
US4762319A |
1988-08-09 |
Jerrold J. Krumholz |
A multi-purpose sports apparatus has a frame which has spaced-apart support members adapted to rest upon a supporting surface, such as the ground, a net extending between the support members, and a backboard carrying a basketball goal hoop supported between the support members above the net, the backboard being adjustably rotatable horizontally between a vertical position and a horizontal position, whereby the basketball goal hoop can be positioned to extend horizontally or vertically. |
191 |
Amusement device and method for use |
US25859 |
1987-03-16 |
US4726592A |
1988-02-23 |
Bayliss O. Callaham |
A novel amusement apparatus and method of use includes a container/play board, a plurality of hollow cylinder means of varying internal diameters and heights, and a plurality of balls of varying resiliency. The container/play board has leaf members hingedly interconnected to a base plate whereby in a first position such members are disposed in a horizontal playing configuration to provide upper rebound surfaces and in a second position the board forms a box-shaped container means for storing the components of the apparatus therewithin. In use, players position various of the cylinder members sequentially on the base plate and the balls are sequentially dropped onto the rebound surfaces in attempts to form a ball trajectory to the surface and then into the cylinder member. |
192 |
Flying disc entrapment assembly |
US559709 |
1983-12-09 |
US4461484A |
1984-07-24 |
Edward E. Headrick |
An entrapment assembly for use in a flying disc golf game. The entrapment assembly in one of its embodiments comprises an upright post mounted in the ground. An upwardly opening basket is mounted on the post and a plurality of outside chains are mounted on the post so that the lower ends thereof extend into the basket. The outside chains serve to absorb kinetic energy from a disc thrown against the assembly and thereby reduces its forward velocity. A disc deflection surface, such as a group of inside chains, extend outwardly and upwardly from a location adjacent the top of the basket to deflect the disc toward the basket after it has impacted the outside chains to ensure that the disc is caught in the basket. |
193 |
Multi-sectional assembled basket goals and their games usage |
US198060 |
1980-10-17 |
US4335881A |
1982-06-22 |
Norwood R. Warehime |
Three to six thin, pliable, plastic trapezoidal shaped sections can be used to assemble a practical, convenient, lightweight bottomless type basket which can be used as a goal in a variety of simple indoor/outdoor team action games. The plactic sections have male-female interlocking side edge slip jointing means on two side edges and stiffening rims on the other two side edges. All sections are identical and can be stacked in a compact manner for packaging, transport, and storage. Baskets assembled using the sections are safe, lightweight, pliable, inexpensive, adaptable to stacking, and are suitable for use as goals in game play. The sections can be colored for visual effects, and perforated to reduce material costs and to give sections and baskets added pliability. The multi-sectional assembled basket goals, together with appropriate game ball, playing area, and playing surface, can be used in game play by two teams of from three to eight players each. Four team action games are described: a mini-version of European team handball using a solitary basket goal placed in a limit circle; a mini-version of basketball using two basket goals, each placed in a limit circle on playing surface; a mini-version of football (soccer) using four basket goals in a square pattern, with diagonally opposite goals for the respective teams; and a new and unique game that can be played by three players per team on practically any type surface using four basket goals in a square pattern with 5 mts (5 yds) spacing and a small lively play ball which can only be tapped by flat of hand for passing and shooting. Ball can not touch playing surface or possession is lost. Assembled baskets can also be used for other games, as decorative and boundary indicating means, and as construction assembly items for children. |
194 |
Apparatus for playing a game of chance |
US947630 |
1978-10-02 |
US4232866A |
1980-11-11 |
Attilio Pennachio |
An apparatus for playing a game of chance comprises a participator area for accommodating a plurality of players, a receptacle spaced from the participator area, a projectile which can be directed by a player from the participator area into the receptacle, and a display. The receptacle defines a plurality of separate regions to each of which is assigned one member of a set of possible play results, and the display has a plurality of display conditions corresponding respectively to the different members of the set of possible play results. Each region defined by the receptacle is provided with an electrical switch detector which is actuated by the projectile when it is in that region to place the electrically actuated display in the display condition corresponding to that member of the set of possible play results which is assigned to that region. A plurality of individual betting layouts is provided each including a plurality of betting zones each of which denotes a manner of winning and the payoff thereof, with the betting zones including zones for each member of the set of possible play results and zones for various groups or combinations of members of the set of play results. |
195 |
Concentric basketlike target game |
US784506 |
1977-04-04 |
US4145048A |
1979-03-20 |
Samuel C. Basil |
Game apparatus comprising a basketlike target held by a support in spaced relation to the ground, a ball, and a bat having a flat ball-engaging surface for employing the ball towards the target when the ball is thrown into the air and struck thereby. The bat is of one or two piece construction. When made of one piece construction, one end of the tubular piece of material is swaged to form a handle and the other end thereof is flattened to provide a ball-engaging surface. When made of two pieces, an elongated flat piece of material is fixed to a tubular piece of material, a portion of the latter extending beyond the flat piece of material to provide a handle. |
196 |
Ball game with x-framed backstop |
US682580 |
1976-05-03 |
US4057252A |
1977-11-08 |
Raymond Lionel Pelton |
A collapsible backstop supports an upwardly opening net. Ball tees are positioned by a runner attached to the backstop. A mallet with faces having differing inclinations is utilized to loft a ball resting on one of the ball tees into the net. |
197 |
Table game |
US599021 |
1975-07-25 |
US4010952A |
1977-03-08 |
Robert J. Young |
A table game, which is played by two or four persons, using a ball and paddles, and wherein the playing surface is divided by a net into two courts, as in the game of table tennis. Apertures in the playing surface are provided for catching the ball and each aperture is overlapped by an associated platform set at an angle to the playing surface. The apertures and associated platforms in each court open towards the opponent's court. Markings on the playing surface designate courts and half courts, and a singles service path and a doubles service path. |
198 |
Balloon carried basket for ball game |
US547810 |
1975-02-07 |
US3941384A |
1976-03-02 |
Paul R. Wopschall |
Equipment for playing hoop ball comprises a hollow inflatable balloon of toroidal shape having a central circular opening of sufficient diameter for passing a ball through it. A basket which may be somewhat similar to a basket used in playing basketball is attached to the balloon around the central opening and a tether is attached to the basket and secured to a suitable anchoring device which may be placed on the ground so that when inflated with a gas lighter than air, the balloon floats upward to an extent permitted by the length of the tether and in a position such that the central toroidal axis is in a vertical position so that a ball thrown upward can drop through the central opening and into the basket. |
199 |
Skee-ball apparatus including ball ejection targets |
US37746773 |
1973-07-09 |
US3891213A |
1975-06-24 |
COOPER JULIUS; REINERTSEN TORMOD K |
A game of the type in which a plurality of balls are rolled or otherwise projected onto a playing surface includes a frame which has two sets of apertures formed therein respectively defining projectile ejection and scoring openings and cooperating with a plurality of independent scoring actuator members mounted in the frame. The actuator members are respectively associated between individual apertures in the two groups and each actuator includes a surface portion which is adapted to prevent a ball on the playing surface from falling through its associated scoring opening and means for moving this surface away from the scoring opening in response to the placement of another ball in the lever''s associated ejection opening, so as to permit the ball on the playing surface to fall through the scoring opening, thereby removing the score represented by that ball from the game.
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200 |
Pocketed target and net arrangement |
US35608973 |
1973-05-01 |
US3822063A |
1974-07-02 |
REA H |
A ball is provided with the toy which may be bounced against the floor or table on which the toy is located and into the cup. The net provides a backstop for poorly bounced balls. The net is attached to the base by means of supporting wires having pegs at their outermost ends. The pegs are inserted into holes in the base.
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