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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 2010
Filed:
Jul. 21, 2008
Phillip H. Neal, San Rafael, CA (US);
Nathan Keker, Oakland, CA (US);
Phillip H. Neal, San Rafael, CA (US);
Nathan Keker, Oakland, CA (US);
Diggin Active, Inc., Emeryville, CA (US);
Abstract
An amusement system including a housing having a receiving aperture at a top surface and an ejecting aperture at a front surface and further including a channel connecting the receiving aperture to the ejecting aperture; a motorized rotatable flywheel mounted inside the housing and coupled to the channel between the top surface and the channel for engaging an object travelling through the channel; a roller assembly mounted inside the housing and coupled to the channel opposite of the flywheel and disposed so an object engaging the flywheel concurrently engages the roller assembly wherein the flywheel and the roller assembly cooperatively eject the object a distance less than fifteen feet from the ejecting aperture when the flywheel rotates and contacts the object; and wherein the housing includes a mounting system to attach to an object no less than about three feet above a surface supporting the object.