Aquatic game device

• US 6,939,193 B1
• Filed: 07/22/2004
• Issued: 09/06/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 07/22/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Melissa Mcdowell, William C. Mcdowell
• Original Assignee: Melissa Mcdowell, William C. Mcdowell
• Inventors: McDowell, Melissa, McDowell, William C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Banks, Derris H.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Cegielnik, Urszula M.
• Application Number:
  US10/897,367
• Time in Patent Office: 411 Days
• Field of Search: 446/153, 446253-254, 273/440, 273/451, 239/145, 239/196, 239/289, 239/323, 239326-329, 482/44, 482 92- 93, 482 98- 99, 482/110, 482/148, 482/906, 482/909
• US Class Current: 446/153
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2208/12 specially adapted for children
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2225/60 Apparatus used in water
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 67/10 Games with thread-suspended or swingably-mounted bodies, e.g. balls, pointed bodies shaped as birds, animals, or the like, for aiming at and hitting targets games using a bat with a ball tethered thereto A63B67/20, pin games with tethered balls A63D7/00 ; Games using tethered bodies, e.g. balls, not otherwise provided for

Abstract

A game device (10) for spraying water on at least a pair of players wherein, the game device (10) includes a hollow generally spherical housing member (20) having a hollow axial cylinder 25 wherein, the opposite ends of the housing member (20) are provided with a plurality of spray apertures (24) and the exterior of the axial cylinder (25) is operatively associated with a compression plate member (33) and a pair of water saturated sponge members (31) (31) and the interior of the hollow axial cylinder (25) is adapted to receive tether means (50) (50) for shuttling the housing member (20) back and forth between the players.

Claims

1. A game device for spraying a quantity of water on at least two players wherein, the game device comprises:

a housing unit including a generally spherical hollow housing member having opposite ends that are provided with a plurality of spray apertures;

a weight transfer unit at least partially movably disposed within the hollow housing member and including a compression plate member disposed intermediate a pair of sponge members; and

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an actuator unit including tether means for moving the housing member in a reciprocating fashion back and forth between the players.

2. The game device as in claim 1;

wherein, said housing member is further provided with a hollow axial cylinder.

3. The game device as in claim 2;

wherein, the pair of sponge members and the compression plate member are adapted to be slidably displaced relative to the exterior of the hollow axial cylinder.

4. The game device as in claim 3;

wherein, the interior of the hollow axial cylinder is dimensioned to slidably receive a portion of said tether means.

5. The game device as in claim 3;

wherein, said mass transfer unit further includes a pair of stop plate members fixedly secured to the exterior of the hollow axial cylinder and disposed in a flanking orientation relative to the pair of sponge members and the compression plate member.

6. The game device as in claim 4;

wherein, said mass transfer unit further includes a pair of stop plate members fixedly secured to the exterior of the hollow axial cylinder and disposed in a flanking orientation relative to the pair of sponge members and the compression plate member.

7. The game device as in claim 5;

wherein, said tether means comprises a pair of elongated tether members wherein, each tether member is provided with a pair of handle elements disposed on its opposite ends.

8. The game device as in claim 6;

wherein, said tether means comprises a pair of elongated tether members wherein, each tether member is provided with a pair of handle elements disposed on its opposite ends.