Outdoor lawn-type game

• US 5,201,526 A
• Filed: 08/13/1992
• Issued: 04/13/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 08/13/1992
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Ketcham F. Burk Jr
• Original Assignee: Ketcham F. Burk Jr
• Inventors: Ketcham, F. Burk Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Grieb, William H.
• Application Number:
  US07/928,477
• Time in Patent Office: 243 Days
• Field of Search: 273/342, 273/340, 273/341, 273/327, 273/411, 273/412, 273/424, 273/425, 273/428, 124/5, 282/29
• US Class Current: 273/342
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 67/00 Sporting games or accessories therefor, not provided for in groups A63B1/00 - A63B65/00

Abstract

An outdoor lawn-type game for two or more players in which discs are flipped from the ground onto a trampoline device comprised of a resiliently-tensioned net held in a horizontal position by a frame with legs. The discs are flipped using elongated flipping sticks with two bent fork tines at one end. The objective of the game, in getting a specified number of a players'"'"' or teams'"'"' discs to rest on the net, is rendered difficult by the resilient nature of the net and various options allowed by the rules of the game to dislodge an opponent'"'"'s disc from the net or send an opponents disc to a point distant from the net. Various competitive strategies and skills are required by the individuals and/or the teams playing the game. No special ground surface is required. The game may be played on grass, in the woods or on the beach.

Claims

1. A competitive game having rules and a scoring system designed for play by two or more individuals on a lawn area and the like, where the several elements of the game apparatus depend upon and interact with each other, the apparatus comprising, in combination;

a plurality of discs of flying saucer configuration with the flat side tapering to form a rounded edge at the circumference of the circle;

a plurality of flipping sticks comprised of an elongated handle portion and an affixed two-tined fork portion with the tines positioned at a distance from each other which is slightly less than the outside diameter of the discs and with the tines bent near their outer ends at an angle of about 45°

so that a player may position the two-tined fork end under a disc where it rests on the ground prior to initiating the flipping action which propels the discs into the air;

an easily assembled and disassembled trampoline device constructed in such a manner as to have a resiliently-tensioned net held horizontally at a distance above the ground, with the positioning of discs flipped by flipping sticks from the ground through the air and onto the resiliently-tensioned net being the objective of the game.

2. The game apparatus of claim 1 wherein said trampoline device includes six net frame members lap-joined to form a hexagonal configuration, three supporting legs attached to the net frame members at alternate corners of the hexagonal configuration, a net, six resilient devices under tension which create a resiliently-tensioned net when one end is attached to the corners of the net and the other is stretched and tensioned and looped over the head of the six trampoline device bolts, said bolts when tightened with a wing nut also hold the net frame members rigid and hold the legs to the net frame members, and an extension leg for adjusting the trampoline device so that the resiliently-tensioned net always will be in a horizontal position.

3. The game apparatus of claim 2 wherein said trampoline device bolts have a concave depression cut in the side of the head to secure one end of the resilient devices.