Chute Patents (Class 273/145B)
  • Patent number: 5273430
    Abstract: A game board includes a plurality of circular areas, each having a circular array of wedge-shaped segments to receive a circular overlay, wherein the segments may have a number indicated thereon or the overlay may be provided to indicate arbitrary numbers, wherein a plurality of dice are employed, with individuals mathematically computing employing addition, subtraction, division, and multiplication to calculate a final summation indicated by the dice to indicate a predetermined number of one of the segments, wherein a token member is positioned over a segment to indicate a correct total thusly derived. Each player is afforded various time intervals to assemble a correct total.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1993
    Inventor: Richard E. Strychewski
  • Patent number: 5190293
    Abstract: A game apparatus includes a game board formed with a perimeter of spaces to include a central space having a puzzle configuration representative of a United States map, with each of the states interfitting relative to the puzzle. Individual players are directed about the game board path, and upon landing of various spaces are directed to elect various mayoral representative figures for each state, with each state being provided with a predetermined number of mayoral representatives. A player with a greatest number of mayoral representatives in a certain state is directed to effect control of the election of governor and subsequently, control of the state's electoral votes for subsequent voting of a president, with each player representing a different political party. Dice members and a dice member agitation device is arranged for use by the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1993
    Inventor: Flavio M. Cabrera
  • Patent number: 5100141
    Abstract: A device for scrambling dice and the like includes a pair of housing bodies which collectively define a generally vertical chute for directing dice from an upper entryway to a lower discharge opening. A door is attached adjacent to a lower edge of the discharge opening and is pivotable between a first position wherein the door closes the discharge opening, and a second position wherein the door provides a ramp for directing dice falling downwardly through the chute away from the housing through the discharge opening. A plurality of pins and baffles extending into the chute deflect dice falling downwardly through the chute. In one embodiment, the pins may be removed and repositioned as desired. The housing bodies are further configured to provide a closed container for the dice to facilitate shipping and storage of the dice within the dice scrambler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1992
    Inventor: Robert B. Fitch
  • Patent number: 5082288
    Abstract: A game comprising board apparatus and dice is taught for simulating the well known outdoor game of horseshoe pitching. To play the game each of two players drops two color-coded dice down a chute onto a board where indicia on the upper surface of each resting die indicates one of a set of possible results of a horseshoe pitch. Sometimes a dropped die will change the score indicated by an earlier dropped die, just as a later pitched horseshoe may change the scoring position of an earlier pitched horseshoe. Score keeping for the game follows the rules for horseshoes, save for the special requirement that an exact score is needed to win. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, several pegs and a sequence of numbered holes are provided adjacent the game board to aid in score keeping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1991
    Date of Patent: January 21, 1992
    Inventor: Elmer L. Swartz
  • Patent number: 4877247
    Abstract: A structure for the backgammon board that combines means to; record cumulative and games-won scores, retain and display the doubling cube precisely, hold a dice-casting device, and retain, display and facilitate dispersement of stones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1983
    Date of Patent: October 31, 1989
    Inventor: Raymond L. Francis
  • Patent number: 4557486
    Abstract: A farm game having a price board, dice silo, money, farm record sheets, homestead plats and various commodities. The dice silo displays a chance selected die with a marked subdivision of the silo face plate, and the price board is divided into sections equal in number to the dice in the silo. The dice set a price or quote marked on the price board from which the players conduct transactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1985
    Inventor: Jack Stuckmayer
  • Patent number: 3951412
    Abstract: A horse racing game apparatus comprising a first section depicting a race course having a plurality of racing lanes each divided into a series of racing positions, a plurality of player manipulated pawns adapted to be selectively moved to successive positions along the lanes, a second section extending upwardly along the rearward side of the first section and having first and second pluralities of article receiving areas, an article adapted to be selectively placed in one of the areas of the first plurality thereof and thereafter be guided through a maze-like arrangement to the second plurality of areas, and instructions associated with each of the second plurality of areas for determining the particular position along the lanes to which the pawns are to be moved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1975
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1976
    Inventor: Marshall C. Adams