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United States Patent | 3,554,547 |
Vedeen , et al. | January 12, 1971 |
In simulated amusement game apparatus, e.g. a football game, a manual control module having three degrees of motion is selectively operative by mechanical or electrical means to actuate a pulley cord system to cause a manikin playing piece to travel in different directions and at different speeds over a playing field composed of guide tracks having an especial cross-sectional structure, the said module also being operative to cause the playing piece to move in situ to strike a ball or the like independently of the travelling movements thereof. Supplements to the subject: manikin figures are carried by a novel shuttle structure including a slide reciprocable to rotate a cam table, the slide being actuated by causing an effective elongation of the drive cable which travels the shuttle, such elongation being wholly independent of any travel motion of the shuttle and any power means utilized in connection therewith.
Inventors: | Vedeen; Leonard I. (Chicago, IL), Lally; Joseph E. (McHenry, IL), Seiden; Herman L. (Skokie, IL), Seiden; Freida B. Administrator (Skokie, IL) |
Assignee: |
Bally Manufacturing Corporation
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Appl. No.: | 04/693,055 |
Filed: | December 22, 1967 |
Current U.S. Class: | 273/108.51 |
Current International Class: | A63F 7/06 (20060101); A63F 7/00 (20060101); A63f 007/06 () |
Field of Search: | 273/85,94(FOR) |
1,507,146 | Dec., 1967 | FR | |||
1,051,371 | ., 1966 | GB | |||