Aerial projectile game comprising a target having means responsive to not being hit

• US 3,395,920 A
• Filed: 06/27/1966
• Issued: 08/06/1968
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/1966
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Walter Moe
• Original Assignee: Walter Moe
• Inventors: Moe, Walter
• Application Number:
  US04/560,655
• Time in Patent Office: 771 Days
• US Class Current: 273/378
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2208/12 specially adapted for children
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 65/12 Ball-throwing apparatus with or without catchers hand-held throwing or catching aids A63B59/20; Mechanical projectors, e.g. using spring force
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 9/02 Shooting or hurling games throwing-implements for sports or recreational use A63B65/00; throwing or projecting toys per se A63H33/18; gun simulators F41A33/00, e.g. light- or radiation-emitting guns F41A33/02; practice apparatus for gun-aiming F41G3/26, e.g. using a light-emitting device F41G3/2616; targets, target ranges, bullet catchers F41J, photo-electric hit-detector systems F41J5/02

Claims

1. IN A GAME HAVING A PLURALITY OF PLAYING STATIONS AND PLAYING PIECES ONE AT EACH STATION THEREOF, A FIGURE MOUNTED AT A CENTRAL LOCATION RELATIVE TO SAID PLURALITY OF PLAYING STATIONS, INCLUDING A MOVABLE ARM AND HAVING AN OPEN MOUTH, AN ACTUATING MECHANISM OPERATIVELY CONNECTED TO SAID MOVABLE ARM AND INCLUDING TIME DELAY MEANS FOR CAUSING SAID ARM TO MOVE INTO ENGAGEMENT WITH ONE OF SAID PLAYING PIECES UPON ACTIVATION OF SAID ACTUATING MECHANISM, SAID PLAYING PIECES COMPRISING OBJECT CATAPULTING MEANS ADAPTED AND DEPENDENT UPON THE SKILL OF A PLAYER TO CAUSE THE CATAPULTING OF AN OBJECT INTO THE MOUTH OF SAID FIGURE, MEANS RESPONSIVE TO AN OBJECT BEING RECEIVED WITHIN SAID OPEN MOUTH AND OPERABLE TO ABORT SAID ACTUATING MECHANISM TO THEREBY DISABLE SAID ARM FROM MOVING INTO CONTACT WITH SAID PLAYING PIECE, MEANS TO CAUSE ROTATION OF SAID FIGURE, MEANS AT