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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6475096 | Roller Bowler 2000 An "S" shaped ramp that attaches to the lap area of a wheelchair and allows a person in the wheelchair to participate in the sport of bowling. An upper portion of the ramp releaseably attaches to the wheelchair and provides the bowler with a flat portion ... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6319144 | Billiard bowling game This invention is a table type game that requires both billiard skills and bowling skills to play. Scaled down bowling lanes, gutters, pins and approach are provided. The scaled down bowling balls are regulation size billiard balls that are struck and dri... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6042482 | Collapsible ramp construction for handicapped bowlers A collapsible ramp construction 10 for physically challenged bowlers and including a contoured ramp unit 11 supported by a collapsible framework unit 12. The upper end of the ramp unit 11 is provided with a ball release unit 13 which includes a ball recei... | 03/28/2000 |
| 6019095 | Method and a device for throwing balls The invention relates to a method and a device for throwing balls with specific throwing parameters with the aid of a pendulum. The device consists of a pendulum having a free end which is suspended so as to be movable about an axis, characterized in that... | 02/01/2000 |
| 5431398 | Ball game device A ball game device is formed by an elongated generally upright open end ball receiving tube. In one embodiment the tube has a carom block adjacent its depending end for diverting a ball dropped into the tube in a predetermined lateral direction. In anothe... | 07/11/1995 |
| 5358446 | Bowling ramp A free standing bowling ramp for physically limited people is disclosed. The ramp includes supporting means, positioning and accelerating means, and means for aiming a bowling ball to target specific pins. The supporting means includes a number of interco... | 10/25/1994 |
| 5314384 | Collapsable ramp for projecting bowling balls The child's bowling aid device resembles a portable bowling ball holding rack with attached bowling ball launching ramp and is adapted to permit a child to easily hold the bowling ball on the rack and then ease it forward off the rack through the launchin... | 05/24/1994 |
| 5199704 | Pool ball positioning apparatus A pool ball positioning apparatus includes a wedge-shaped body with an inclined upper surface having a channel formed therein to guide a pool ball along the length of the inclined surface. Preferably, the channel has an arcuate cross-section which matches... | 04/06/1993 |
| 5183261 | Bumper bowling game with gravity released ball projector A bumper bowling game, combining the features and required skills of conventional billiards and bowling, includes a V-shaped table having flat outgoing and return alleyways with a concave gutter along each side thereof. The outgoing and return alleyways a... | 02/02/1993 |
| 4991844 | Apparatus for playing a ball game Apparatus for playing a ball game, comprising a playing surface, a plurality of balls having an eccentric distribution of mass, and means for initiating rolling movement of the balls in a way which preserves the orientation of the eccentricity of mass dis... | 02/12/1991 |
| 4949967 | Tennis game board In the tennis game board, each of the racket-supporting bodies that are reciprocally movable along each end of the base board is provided with a ball delivery member, which directly feeds the ball onto the board surface as if the ball was served by one of... | 08/21/1990 |
| 4883273 | Toy-game apparatus A toy-game apparatus includes a base, a timer in the base actuatable for a set period of time, a slide assembly on the base, a plurality of game elements and a character figure assembly. The slide assembly includes upper and lower slide portions which are... | 11/28/1989 |
| 4863160 | Exercise and training device A multi-positionable arrangement of substantially parallel bars which form a substantial track for a ball and for disposing the track to a position accessible to the feet, legs, hands and arms of the body to be exercised. The bars are adjustably spaced ap... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4795396 | Spin toy launcher A lever having an inner impeller arm and outer actuating arm is pivoted to a portable platform. An adjustably fixed post is secured to the platform radially outward from the impeller arm. The post includes a concave surface which faces a convex surface at... | 01/03/1989 |
| 4790529 | Exercise and training device A multi-positionable arrangement of substantially parallel bars which form a substantial track for a ball having mounting means for disposing the track to a position accessible to the feet, legs, hands and arms of the body to be exercised and means for sp... | 12/13/1988 |
| 4247110 | Gravity projector and sliding disc target game apparatus A game has as its object to move a playing piece, in the form of a segment of a sphere, along a low-friction game board surface by dropping a ball or other object onto the playing piece. In a preferred embodiment the ball is permitted to ride on a track f... | 01/27/1981 |
| 4216961 | Table baseball apparatus Apparatus is provided for the playing of a parlor game version of baseball. A playing field of nonferrous material has baseball markings delineated. A pitching mechanism is provided whereby a ferrous metal ball is positioned on the upper surface of the pl... | 08/12/1980 |
