Abstract: A board type amusement game particularly adapted for play by children is disclosed. The games includes a plurality of generally cubical game pieces which have at least three different indicia, preferably colors, on separate surfaces thereof. Also included is a generally rectangular, three dimensional game board having a plurality of recesses on a major surface thereof. Each recess of the game board is adapted to receive a game piece such that the top surface of the game piece is visible. The surface of the game board has indicia thereon for indicating paths between adjacent recesses. The game further includes a plurality of movement pieces, each having an indicium thereon corresponding to one of the indicia on the game pieces and chance means for determining allowable movement of the movement pieces on the game board.

Abstract: Apparatus for playing a game utilizing a plurality of balls and a playing device, the device comprising an upper board having spaced openings to receive one of the balls, a lower board positioned vertically below the upper board, ball receiving positions formed by projections depending from the upper board in co-operation with projections upstanding on the lower board, the projections of the upper and lower boards being provided to permit a rejected ball to pass from the vicinity of a ball receiving position to a collecting tray, and the projections on the upper and lower boards, or other projections, serving to prevent a rejected ball from entering another ball receiving position.

Abstract: Apparatus for playing a game including playing pieces and a playing device, the playing device including an upper board having spaced holes, a lower board spaced from the upper board, and playing piece supporting elements positioned between the upper and lower boards with the supporting elements being of a resilient or rigid nature.

Abstract: Board structure and apparatus is provided for a game in which the placement on the board of any playing piece must be at a site contiguous to the site of the most recently previously played piece. Plays must be made within a time limit which may be adjusted to the levels of skill of the game participants. Provision is made to positively index playing pieces at the sites selected for play. In one preferred version, each site has mounted thereunder an illuminating lamp and circuitry intended to illuminate such lamp for the specified time limit when a playing piece is played at that site. Translucent board structure and playing pieces may be provided, such that illumination of the site serves to illuminate the playing piece as well in such a version. Thus, play of a piece at any site automatically illuminates that site for the chosen time limit, and any subsequent play must be made before the illumination at that site is extinguished.

Abstract: A poultry processing apparatus including an elongated enclosure defining a longitudinally extending channel through which fowl is moved via a conveyor for picking and removing the feathers therefrom. A plurality of picking members having resilient fingers for contacting the fowl and removing the feathers are provided on each side along the length of the enclosure. The opposed picking members mounted on opposed supporting frameworks, each include a plurality of vertical and horizontal adjustment mechanisms for adjusting the position of the picking members with respect to the line of travel of the flow on the conveyor. Special overhead mounting structures are provided for the supporting frameworks wherein the picking assemblies may be moved toward and away from the enclosure to allow access to the picking member, the interior of the enclosure and the interior of the supporting frameworks for clearing and maintenance.

Abstract: A board game which utilizes owner operated businesses to maximize a player's financial worth at the expense of opponent players comprised of apparatus for identifying each player by a fictitious name prior to commencing play, tokens for each player, bogus money, and a game board having a continuous play field divided into play spaces wherein the play spaces include spaces representing businesses identified by the fictitious name to a particular player which are subject to acquisition and operation by the player so identified as against opponent players, and businesses not identified to any particular player subject to acquisition and operation by any of the players as against opponent players. Also provided is a chance device for advancing the player tokens around the play field of the game board.

Abstract: A horse-race-simulating parlor, casino or the like game of pure chance, comprising a combination of a pair of dice which can be rolled to eleven numbers, from 2 to 12, and a play-board having thereon eleven play-numbers, from 2 through 12, representing eleven horses, and a finish-number which is the lowest common multiple of the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6 representing ways in which said eleven horse-numbers can be rolled by the dice or is a multiple of such lowest-common-multiple, and having a chance-equalizing number for each play-number or horse-number, which chance-equalizing number is said lowest-common-multiple divided by the number of ways the play-number can be rolled by the dice.

Abstract: The invention relates to a board game to test the deductive reasoning and logical thinking of two or three players. Each player is chosen in turn as code-maker and for each game selects, for example, five key playing pieces each displaying two characteristics, one of, say, shape and the other of, say, color. The other player(s) attempt to break the code by identifying the selected pieces by a process of logical deduction, involving the presentation of test playing pieces of both characteristics for checking by the code-maker.

Abstract: The invention relates to a board game devised to exercise the powers of concentration and perceptive skill of two players. The board is provided with a grid pattern of apertures each having an identification such as B9, G7, H2, etc. The first player secretly draws two intersecting lines on a replica of the board and allocates one of four characteristics, for example, colors, to each of the four zones defined by the lines. The second player, by requesting to know the color zone allocated to chosen apertures, attempts to identify the point of intersection of the lines, using the identification of minimum possible number of apertures.

Abstract: The present invention provides the apparatus for playing a board game. There is provided a base plate with rows of equally spaced apart studs upon which may be mounted for rotational movement counters in the shape of gear wheels, the spacing between the studs and the diameter of the gear wheel shaped counters being such that counters mounted on immediately adjacent studs mesh with one another whereby rotation of one counter on its stud causes rotation of meshing counters on their respective studs.

Abstract: A skill-type game device is provided for use in combination with a board game or the like to introduce a significant element of manual skill into a game which may otherwise be mostly a chance game. The skill device includes an undulated track along which a roller, such as a ball, can be propelled by a player. The track has a number of alternate hills and valleys along the length thereof and each of the valleys is awarded a different score, the player being awarded the score of the valley in which his ball comes to rest. The board game is provided for play by a plurality of players and in which the undulated track is mounted on a supporting game board. A stack of play directing cards is provided from which each player, in his turn, selects the top card. The card directs the player whether to use the skill device or take some other action such as collecting money from a bank or selecting other reward cards provided in the game.

Abstract: A game board with a resilient surface which simulates a miniature basketball court with the usual markings thereon; together with some highly advantageous additional markings, game pieces representing the appropriate number of players on each team, a game piece representing the basketball, a game piece representing the ball handler, or shooter; score indicators, and a cooperating set of game rules; which, together, result in a game requiring considerable skill and generating greatly enhanced and sustained interest on the part of the players of the game as well as that of observers.

Abstract: A diving board comprising a layer extending over its full length, at least one of its upper and lower surfaces being provided with thin sheets of reinforcing material, said sheets having different lengths, the lengths of said sheets diminishing from the front and the rear ends of the diving board to a portion of said diving board lying between its both ends, which portion is destined for resting on a support of said diving board. The diving board has a light primary layer to take up part of the total bending force thereon with at least an upper or lower surface with reinforcing material provided so that the amount of reinforcing material is substantially adapted to the moment acting in each cross-section of the diving board.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTIONThe present invention relates to a diving board for a swimming pool, said driving board being of the cantilever type having its rear end attached to a stationary support and resting on a fulcrum at a place between its front and rear ends.

Abstract: A game includes a plurality of pegs to be removed from a board by a player in a timed play duration determined by a timer set in motion by the player. The timer mounted on the game board includes a rod and a disc positioned thereabout so that a player can determine his own timed play duration by raising the disc to the top of the rod and spinning the disc so that it resists falling immediately to the board whereupon the timed duration expires.

Abstract: A game board has an equilateral triangular configuration divided into a plurality of equal minor triangular areas formed by three groups of spaced parallel lines. Each group of lines is parallel to a corresponding side of the game board. Each of the minor triangles has three angle bisecting lines intersecting therewithin to form an inner pole. The apices of each minor triangle form three poles thereof representing x, y and z spatial coordinates and the inner pole represents the time coordinate whereby a viewer of the inner pole of a minor triangle sees a four coordinate system symbolizing the game apparatus. A plurality of groups of flat triangular plates are provided. Each group of plates comprises a plurality of colored plates for use by a player to identify a PLAYER SUBJECT and to design on the game board the PLAYER SUBJECT'S characteristics plus TIME.

Abstract: An improved playing figure for use in a table soccer or football game structure. The figure is rigidly mounted to an actuating rod which is, in turn, journaled in bearings near opposing ends for both rotational and axial movement above the playing surface of the game structure. The playing figure includes a foot portion depending above the playing surface and having smooth, flat vertically extending side portions and pebbled inwardly and downwardly tapering front and rear surfaces. The front surface of the playing figure foot is pebbled over its entire surface and lies in a plane angled rearwardly with respect to the longitudinal axis of the figure. The rear foot surface is also pebbled over most of its entire surface and lies in a plane angled forwardly with respect to the longitudinal axis of the figure except for an unpebbled control corner extending horizontally along the lower rear edge of the foot in a plane parallel to both the vertical and horizontal axes of the figure.

Abstract: The present invention provides a game apparatus preferably named "COIN-O" which includes a plurality of playing boards having words from specific topics arranged in rows and column thereon. Each word has the same number of letters and the letters of each word fall in consecutive columns each column having a numerical value. A plurality of markers are provided to cover the letters on the board. One player called a "banker" picks a card from a deck, each card including a combination of a letter of the alphabet and a numerical value. The players cover the corresponding letters on their boards and the banker covers a corresponding position on a master board having a series of adjacent columns labelled with numerical values and having a consecutive list of the alphabet therein. The playing boards include definitions of the back face thereof defining the words displayed on the front surface of the playing boards. A score card is provided to record the players' scores.

Abstract: A game apparatus adapted to acquaint players with the procedures and risks in trading in the commodities market. The apparatus includes a game board that delineates a plurality of commodities and the conditions under which they are traded, a spinner on the deck board for establishing the beginning prices of each of the commodities, a deck of price fluctuation cards for randomly establishing daily changes in the price of each commodity, dial indicators associated with the board for showing the current price of each commodity as it fluctuates, and transaction slips for recording each player's trading transactions.

Abstract: A simulated volley ball game apparatus including a central standard about which a ball is connected for universal movement by a tethering arm. A net is provided to define a pair of opposed playing areas and three ball impellers are disposed on each side of the net and spaced therefrom generally the length of the tethering arm. The ball impellers are manually actuatable so that the players may attempt to contact the ball as in the game of volley ball to pass it to another of his teammates or across the net to opposing ball impellers. The standard has a plurality of detents spaced radially about the top thereof in alignment with the six ball impellers to guide the tethering means and thus the ball in the direction of one of the impellers.

Abstract: A chess board set for appealing particularly to children, the chess board set including a conventional checker or chess board having sixty four checkered spaces, and the set also including a cover for the board which is in the design of a circus tent, the cover in one form being magnetically mountable upon the board, and in another form being pivotally attached thereto for pivoting away from the board playing field and which serves as a storage means for chess playing pieces.