Patent · US Expired

Air action game

US4014543A · kind A · utility

13Cited by
3References
11Claims
0Family size

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Key dates

Filing dateDec 9, 1975
Grant dateMar 29, 1977
Priority date
Expiry dateDec 9, 1995

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
  • CPC primaryA63F7/066
  • WIPO fieldFurniture, games
  • WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

An indoor game comparable in objective to the sport of soccer. A ball or other playing piece is propelled by air streams discharged from opposed nozzles horizontally from above each goal, the latter being in the form of a recess on a game table top. The nozzles are swiveled so that each air stream may be played horizontally across the entire top surface of the table. A plurality of freely rotatable vertical baffles is disposed on the upper surface of the table top to provide air-spinnable ball obstacles, comparable to real life soccer players, that, on occasion, trap the playing piece and thereafter fling the piece across the table top in a semi-predictable, semi-random course.

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