Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8038541 | Motion based system A motion-based system includes one or more passenger units, gimbaled about three axes, movably attached to arms or slots in a planar system extending radially from a central hub. The passenger units may be positioned along the arms any distance from the central hub ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 7156054 | Horse walker/animal conditioning system An animal walker or conditioning system. The preferred embodiment of the present invention contemplates a horse walker or conditioner incorporating a direct drive hydraulic motor, the motor configured to provide a powered bearing surface to support and axially rotat... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7008361 | Training device assembly for group exercises, games and team contests Body exercisers, usable in a plurality of modifications, encouraging exercising on sports training devices through users' emotional stimulation and intended for group exercising, games and team contests. Prior art training devices and/or any modifications of prior a... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6906254 | Solar-powered mobile A mobile has mobile elements made from a solar cell, a hollow beam and a motivator. The solar cell is mounted to a substrate and connected via wires through the hollow beam to the motivator. The hollow beam supports the substrate at one end and the motivator at the ... | 06/14/2005 |
| 5669773 | Realistic motion ride simulator A realistic motion ride simulator comprising three stacked tiers pivotally supported by three legs. Each tier can be activated independent of each other while the entire apparatus is moved up and down, tilted laterally, pitched upwardly and downwardly and... | 09/23/1997 |
| 5558581 | Fairground device A fairground device has a base disc driven for rotation about a central axis, seat supports carried by the base disc in a spaced relation relative to the central axis for rotation of the seat supports about a second axis, and seats mounted eccentrically r... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5395290 | Fairground device A fairground device having a plurality of seats, a base disc driven for rotation about a central axis and at least one seat support mounted in spaced relation relative to the central axis for rotation about a second axis. Each of the seat supports carry a... | 03/07/1995 |
| 5366375 | Motion simulator A motion simulator comprising a base support connected to a motion platform by hinged legs. The motion simulator is provided with an actuator for moving the motion platform relative to the base support. Preferably, each leg is defined by a lower leg porti... | 11/22/1994 |
| 5127657 | Amusement system The present invention provides an amusement system having a play zone consisting, in combination, of a plurality of game stages and including a travel path extending through the respective game stages; at least one carrier for receiving a player or player... | 07/07/1992 |
| 4924718 | Omnidirectional oscillator (glover gear) A mechanism for generating oscillatory motion omnidirectionally transforms rotating motion in which the rotating member is continuously rotated unidirectionally into any number of simultaneous arcuate motions intersecting at predetermined angles. This mec... | 05/15/1990 |
| 4007926 | Mobile amusement ride An amusement ride, which can be transported in a collapsed condition on the truck bed that supports the same during use; such ride employing a main drive motor, which is mounted in a gimbal fashion at the top of a vertical support column, that centrally s... | 02/15/1977 |
