Game apparatus

• US 3,117,783 A
• Filed: 05/17/1962
• Issued: 01/14/1964
• Est. Priority Date: 05/17/1962
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Willard J. Reid
• Original Assignee: Willard J. Reid
• Inventors: Reid, Willard J.
• Application Number:
  US04/195,591
• Time in Patent Office: 607 Days
• US Class Current: 473/470
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 7/3065 Electric

Claims

1. A GAME APPARATUS COMPRISING:

A TABLE TOP HAVING A NET EXTENDING TRANSVERSELY THEREACROSS, SAID TABLE TOP HAVING A PLURALITY OF BORES THERETHROUGH;

MEANS SUPPORTING SAID TABLE TOP;

A TARGET MEMBER VERTICALLY-MOVABLY MOUNTED IN EACH OF SAID TABLE TOP BORES;

MEANS ON SAID TABLE TOP POSITIONED TO PREVENT SAID VERTICALLY-MOVABLE TARGET MEMBERS FROM MOVING UPWARDLY BEYOND A POSITION WHERE THEIR TOP SURFACES ARE FLUSH WITH THE SURFACE OF SAID TABLE TOP;

NUMERICAL VALUES PRINTED ON SAID TARGET MEMBERS;

A PLURALITY OF SPACED RIGID ARMS SECURED TO THE UNDER SIDE OF SAID TABLE TOP EXTENDING UNDER SAID TARGET MEMBERS, AND THERE BEING AN APERTURE THROUGH THE INNER END OF EACH OF SAID ARMS;

AN ELONGATED SCREW PROJECTED UPWARDLY THROUGH EACH OF SAID ARM APERTURES AND THREADED PARTIALLY INTO THE UNDER SIDE OF THE TARGET MEMBER THEREABOVE;

SPRING MEANS POSITIONED TO NORMALLY MAINTAIN SAID TARGET MEMBERS IN THEIR UPPERMOST POSITIONS BUT BEING YIELDABLE TO RELATIVELY SLIGHT PRESSURE;

A FIXED ELECTRICAL CONTACT SECURED TO THE UNDER SIDE OF SAID TABLE AND EXTENDING UNDER EACH OF SAID TARGET MEMBERS;

AN ELECTRICAL CONTACT MOUNTED ON THE UNDER SIDE OF EACH OF SAID TARGET MEMBERS IN ALIGNMENT WITH SAID FIXED CONTACTS, SAID TARGET MEMBER CONTACTS NORMALLY BEING SPACED ABOVE SAID FIXED CONTACTS BUT BEING ENGAGEABLE THEREWITH WHEN SAID VERTICALLY-MOVABLE TARGET MEMBERS ARE IN A LOWERED POSITION;

AND WIRE MEANS CONNECTING SAID ELECTRICAL CONTACTS TO A SOURCE OF ELECTRIC CURRENT, THOSE OF SAID TARGET MEMBERS HAVING DIFFERENT NUMERICAL VALUES THEREON BEING CONNECTED IN SEPARATE PARALLEL CIRCUITS.