DE29906040U1 - Multi-piece ball game device - Google Patents

Description

MULTI-PART BALL GAME DEVICE

The problem with ball game machines in which the movement of the balls on surfaces is subject to gravity is that in order to get the balls moving and keep them moving, inclined surfaces must be present or created. Due to the spherical shape of the balls, their direction of travel on such surfaces cannot be controlled in a targeted manner, so chance is the essential element of such game machines, such as patience games, roulette games or so-called lottery number games.

With other types of ball game devices, attempts are made to influence the undirected downward movement of the balls on inclined surfaces more or less through the skill of the user (DE 8517638 Ul), or, as with the so-called pinball game devices, to change the direction of the balls on inclined surfaces by pushing or pushing them away during their movement (DE 3140932 Al). With these devices, too, it is not possible to direct the balls in a targeted manner.

Previous ball game devices, in which the movement of the balls on surfaces depends on gravity, have the disadvantage of having to let the balls roll more or less randomly on inclined surfaces.

The task is to guide balls that follow gravity and move over surfaces without using inclined planes or slanted surfaces downwards through a ball game device into the target container.

The solution to the problem posed, according to the innovation in the ball game device described here, is that the downward movement of a ball is divided into two parts: a vertical falling movement through holes in horizontal perforated disks and a circular movement over the surfaces of the horizontal perforated disks, which makes it possible to guide a ball or several balls over the surfaces of several horizontal perforated disks located one above the other in such a way that they are directed into a target container below the ball game device.

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The ball game device (sectional drawing Figure 1) consists of a rigid, triangular or polygonal vertical axis 1 with a thickened base 2, onto which several circular height spacers 3 and circular rotary axis disks 4 are placed one above the other and alternately and are held in place by the thickened base 2. On each height spacer 3 there is a large perforated disk 5 with holes 6 that correspond to the diameter of the game balls 7. The perforated disks 5 have a circular opening in their center that corresponds to the diameter of the rotary axis disks 4, so that the perforated disks 5 can be rotated horizontally around the rotary axis disks 4. The perforated disks 5 have handles 8 with which the perforated disks 5 can be rotated. The total height of a height spacer 3 and a perforated disk 5 together always corresponds to the diameter of a game ball 7.

The concentric arrangement of all holes at fixed distances from the center in the hole discs (FIGURE 2 a and 2 b) enables fixed, circular trajectories of the game balls on the hole discs.

The alternating alignment of the holes 6 on the perforated discs 5 in the form of a) diagonal crosses (Figure 2 a) and b) 'normal' crosses with vertical and horizontal branches (Figure 2 b) prevents a game ball 7 from accidentally falling through all the perforated discs 5.

If you place a game ball in a hole in the topmost perforated disk, the ball falls through the hole and rests on the next lower perforated disk. Its upper part protrudes into the hole in the upper perforated disk. As a result, you can guide it in a fixed, circular path over the lower perforated disk by turning the upper perforated disk until the ball reaches a hole in the lower perforated disk and falls through to the next perforated disk, or you can hold the game ball in place by turning the lower perforated disk until a hole appears in the lower perforated disk below the game ball, through which the game ball falls through to the next lower perforated disk. By optionally operating both perforated disks that are in contact with the game ball, it is possible to direct the game ball downwards through the various levels of the perforated disks. This process is repeated until the game ball is guided through a perforated cover disk 9 into one of several target containers 11 formed by partitions 10 below the ball game device.

When using the ball game device with transparent perforated discs according to claim 1) by several players, each player moves game balls from top to bottom through the various perforated discs. In competition with the other players, each player can direct his game balls in the holes of the perforated discs downwards into a target container assigned to the player by turning the perforated discs.

When using the ball game device with opaque perforated discs according to claim 2), several players can, through conscious cooperation, guide the balls, which become invisible to the players during the course of the game, through the perforated discs into the target containers.

Claims (4)

Representative: Ferdinand Borgmann Heisstr. 39 48145 Münster Tel.+Fax: 0251-394301 Applicant: 1. Roland Borgmann 2. Christiane Borgmann 3. Rainer Borgmann 4. Philipp Borgmann all resident: Westhuesweg 56, 48165 Münster PROTECTION CLAIMS 1. Multi-part ball game device with rotating perforated discs for the targeted passage of game balls through the game device, characterized, that several circular height spacer discs (3) and circular rotary axis discs (4) resting on them are firmly seated on an at least triangular or oval rigid vertical axis (1) with a thickened base (2),
that transparent perforated discs (5), which rest on the height spacer discs (3) at fixed vertical distances from one another, can be rotated horizontally about the rotary axis discs (4), that game balls (7) filled from above into the holes (6) in the perforated discs (5) arranged in concentric circles around the center of the perforated discs (5) are moved downwards through the holes (6) of the perforated discs (5) located one below the other by horizontal rotary movements of the perforated discs (5) in such a way that they can be directed specifically into certain target containers (11) under the ball game device. 2. Multi-part ball game device according to claim 1, characterized in that the perforated discs (5) are opaque .