GB406130A - Means for playing a game - Google Patents

Abstract

406,130. Coin-freed apparatus. GRAY, P., Tanana, Llanerch Road, Colwyn Bay, and LODGE, T. H., 314, Slade Lane, Levenshulme, Manchester. Feb. 22, 1933, No. 5383. [Class 27.] A game is played by rolling balls down a track consisting of two taut flexible wires which are released to allow the balls to fall between them on to a target and into scoring receptacles. The wires b forming the track are anchored at A<1> within a glass topped casing A and secured in an inclined position to a slidable and rotary tensioning handle B<1>. Balls falling through the scoring apertures h or on to the surface d<x> roll into corresponding scoring pens where they rest at againstc<x> a stop wire e. Coin action, weight.-To release the balls for further play, a coin is inserted in a shoot f<1> and falling on the wire e, rocks it about its pivot el, the balls then rolling to the playing end of the apparatus from where they are raised one by one on to the handle B<1> at B<3>, by rotating a knob g<3>, an arm g, Fig. 8, rigid therewith raising the balls through a shoot g<x>.