摘要:
A three-dimensional game having rotatable track members mounted on a support frame on which a self-propelled vehicle may be guided over a predetermined course through rotation of the track members. The track members are mounted on the support frame so that they can be rotated into a plurality of positions in some of which positions a set of track members forms a substantially continuous path upon which the vehicle may travel from one track member to another track member. Rotation of the track members is accomplished through manipulation of a set of attached knobs. Each track member may include a metal panel to which the magnetized wheels of the self-propelled vehicle are attracted, allowing for rotation of a vehicle-carrying track member in a full circle without the vehicle falling from the track member. The players guide the vehicle over a course depicted on a card drawn from a deck of cards, aligning the track members, while the vehicle is moving, so that the vehicle travels from one track member to another until the prescribed course is completed.
摘要:
A miniaturized bowling ball game comprising a simulated lane assembly having an automatic pin status indication, a scoring readout device and a noise generator operated responsive to a ball propelled over the lane assembly by an aimable shooter striking operating contacts simulating the ball striking and knocking down pins. The scoring read out device not only provides the score, but also the frame, and indicates if the prior frame resulted in a spare or strike. Electronically generated noises simulate the noises that occur when pins are knocked down in an actual bowling ball game. Also, the electronic controls randomly provides data which results in different scores, even though balls traverse the same routes.
摘要:
A toy motorcycle is mounted on and supported by a front wheel and a driven rear wheel which is heavy enough to act as a flywheel. A pull string mechanism includes a spring biased spring spool having a gear, with a step-up gear train imposed between the spool gear and the rear driven wheel. A centrifugally operated pawl mechanism is driven by the gear train to couple with ratchet teeth formed on the rear wheel in order to drive the rear wheel in one direction and to decouple from the ratchet teeth when the gear train is driven in the opposite direction during string recoil. The rear wheel has a greater moment of inertia than the other components of the pull string drive mechanism to enable the rear wheel to function as a flywheel and thereby store energy to drive the motorcycle. A reed is positioned to be plucked by a rotating cam to produce sound.
摘要:
A boxing type amusement game including a pair of figures of boxers. Each boxer has a torso with a blow actuated trigger. An inflated launchable balloon is mounted as a head on each torso. At least one arm is pivotally mounted on the torso and has a fist for hitting and actuating a trigger of an opposing boxer. The launchable balloon is mounted on the torso under tension and sealed against air leakage. The trigger releases the balloon and launches it when it is struck by the fist of an opposing boxer.
摘要:
A pair of racing cars are individually propelled on tracks by impulses of air initiated by individual pumps at speeds that are a function of the individual operation of the air pumps. The propulsion portion of the tracks are enclosed and the rest of the track is opened and designed to enable one car to pass the other. A unique pin and groove system returns each car to its own starting point.
摘要:
A lock-down bar release system for a pinball machine serviceable in a location-service mode and an operator-service mode. The pinball machine includes a playfield disposed within a game cabinet and a lock-down bar for securing a playfield glass over the playfield and onto the game cabinet. A handle mechanism and associated latching structure is operable to release the lock-down bar. In the location-service mode, the movement of the handle and release of the lock-down bar is effected automatically by using a location-service key. In the operator-service mode, the operator uses an operator-service key to access the interior of the game cabinet through a coin door from wherein the operator may physically pull the handle to release the lock-down bar. The pinball machine includes a restraint mechanism for inhibiting removal of the playfield (and thereby preventing access to the coin box or cash box under the playfield) in the location-service mode. The restraint mechanism moves to a non-blocking position when the coin door is opened in the operator-service mode so as to permit removal of the playfield in the operator-service mode.
摘要:
In a coin operated amusement game such as a pinball machine with horizontal and vertical playfields, an apparatus for lifting a pinball from a horizontal playfield to a vertical playfield is disclosed. A reversing screw, a motor to rotate the screw in one direction, an electromagnet for lifting and holding the pinball as it is moved from the horizontal to the vertical playfield, and a carrier means that travels on the reversing screw cooperate with an electromagnet that lifts the pinball.
摘要:
An educational toy for a child. The toy includes a rectangular frame surrounding a rectangular center area. Tiles are positioned in the center area to fill this area except for one vacant space equal in size to a tile. A pair of grooves are formed in the top surface of each tile with each groove extending from one side edge of a tile to another side edge of a tile with all grooves intersecting the side edges of its tile at the midpoint of each side edge. Some tiles have only straight grooves which intersect while other tiles have only arcuate curves which do not intersect. Turnaround grooves are formed in the rectangular frame. Each turnaround groove opens at its opposite ends into the center area of the frame. The ends of the turnaround grooves are spaced from each other and positioned relative to the sides of the rectangular center area so that the grooves of the tiles can be aligned with the turnaround grooves to form a continuous vehicle path from the tiles onto the rectangular frame and then back onto the tiles. A vehicle is provided to move across the tiles and frame. The vehicle has a pair of guides which extend into the grooves to direct the vehicle along a selected path. A drive axle with a pair of drive wheels is located between the guides. A differential effect to enable the vehicle to transverse curves in the grooves is provided by the drive wheel construction and raised portions on the tiles and frame.
摘要:
A reversing mechanism for a toy motor driven wheeled vehicle having a driven axle with attached wheels supported on a chassis. The axle is supported on the chassis so that it is shiftable laterally relative to the chassis. The reversing mechanism includes an apparatus to shift the driven axle laterally relative to the chassis between forward and reverse driving positions upon engagement of the front or rear of the vehicle with the firm obstructing object. A pair of spur gears are positioned on the driven axle and are spaced in generally fixed relation to each other with each gear freely rotatable on the driven shaft. The shaft is freely slidable through the gears. A clutch member is affixed to the driven axle for rotation therewith and is positioned between the spur gears. The clutch member has rotationally opposite effective one-way clutch teeth on the sides thereof facing the spur gears. Complementary one-way clutch teeth are formed on the sides of the spur gears facing the clutch member and these are engageable with the complementary one-way teeth on the clutch member as the clutch member is moved into engagement with one of the spur gears and out of engagement with the other spur gear upon lateral shifting of the driven axle to one of the forward and reverse driving positions. A pair of oppositely rotatable idler gears are driven by the toy vehicle motor. Each idler gear meshes with one of the spur gears to thereby drive the driven axle through the spur gear that is in engagement with the clutch member.