Louis Marx & Co., Inc.

Richard N Carver

Raymond J Lohr

Calvin S Cook

James Mitchell Ray

Maxmillian P Rogers

Charles M Kienholz

A game is provided which combines the elements of chance and coordinative skills. An elevated gaming surface is provided. Cooperatively mounted in the lowest end of the gaming surface is a game piece launcher. The game piece is a marble, steel ball or the like. The launcher includes a spring biased projector and a launch pad which is elevated and helical. On the upward end of the gaming surface are a plurality of annular concentric rings including scoring means for computing the score given to a launched game piece. Covering the gaming surface is a rigid transparent cover having an underside of predetermined configuration for cooperating with a projected ball and thereby guiding the projected ball in relation to the scoring indicia provided on the gaming surface. Tilting of the game surface causes return of the game piece or pieces to the starting position after computation of the score.

Spherical projectile game

A game device is provided which has a high degree of sustained recreational and entertainment value. The game includes a housing fitted with a removable screen. The screen includes indicia which simulate a field of play, for instance a tennis court, hockey field, soccer field or the like. Screens with different fields of play may be interchangeably mounted on the housing. A boom is mounted in the housing for universal movement in a plan substantially parallel to the screen. A signal means is mounted in the universally movable end of the boom for projecting a signal on the screen simulating a play action game piece, for instance, a tennis ball or hockey puck in play on the simulated field. The signal end of the boom is reciprocable with the housing across the screen. Deflectors are movably mounted in the housing for buffeting the signal end of the boom across the screen at random verticals to the reciprocal horizontal. Each deflector is movable along a corresponding end line or goal of the field of play provided on the screen for thereby keeping the game piece in play in a manner corresponding, for instance, to tennis match play or to a hockey match, as observed on the screen. Each cross field buffet of the signal end of the boom by a respective deflector corresponds to a successful return of the game piece and each concomitant misregistration of a deflector and the signal end of the boom corresponds to a missed game piece which may, for instance, conclude a match play point or signify that a goal has been made.

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Erie, PA, United States of America

Richard N Carver