Patents by Inventor Lauran Bromley

Lauran Bromley has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5827119
    Abstract: A rotatable playing surface amusement game which is automatically controlled by a microprocessor which includes a rotatable object and a segmented substantially circular rotatable playing surface surrounded by a race and means for accelerating the rotatable object onto a race with sufficient centrifugal force as to maintain the rotatable object in the race for a predetermined period of time which upon a timed or player input results in the stopping of the substantially circular rotating playing surface alone or together with the race which may also be rotatable while the rotatable object continues to rotate in the race held by centrifugal force until gravity and inertia result in the return of the rotatable object back onto the rotatable playing surface and coming to rest on a particular segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1998
    Assignee: Bromley Incorporated
    Inventor: Lauran Bromley
  • Patent number: 5445376
    Abstract: A moving playing surface amusement game having an object chute disposed at one end and one or more targets disposed at the other end and a movable conveyor playing surface disposed intermediate the object chute and targets. The conveyor playing surface game includes a microprocessor and a device for sensing the position of an object on the conveyor playing surface in a particular lane or sequencing the speed of the conveyor playing surface with a particular spot on the conveyor playing surface which playing surface can include a variety of surface ornamentations and diverters to change or maintain the path of the object on the conveyor playing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1995
    Assignee: Bromley Incorporated
    Inventor: Lauran Bromley