Don G Robinson

US Patent:

41869257, Feb 5, 1980

Filed:

Feb 10, 1978

Appl. No.:

5/876659

Inventors:

Adolph E. Goldfarb - Tarzana CA
Erwin Benkoe - late of Encino CA
Don Robinson - Manhattan Beach CA

International Classification:

A63B 6304

US Classification:

273389

Abstract:

A competitive toss game where each player has tossable play objects such as bean bags and there is a target apparatus with one or more receptacles each having a pivotally mounted flippable lid. Each lid is provided with an opening large enough for a bean bag to be tossed directly into the associated receptacle. The bean bags of each player bear an encoding or indicia, with the indicia being different for each player. Thus, the bean bags of one player may be one color and the bean bags of the other player may be a different color. The lids have different indicia on each side, the indicia on one side matching the indicia of one player's bean bags, the indicia on the other side matching the indicia of the other player's bean bags. The players may take turns tossing their bean bags at the target apparatus, with each player attempting to toss his or her bean bags into the receptacles and to engage the lids with his or her bean bags so as to cause the sides of the lids with indicia matching the indicia on his or her bean bags to face upwardly. Scoring may be based on the orientation of the lids as well as bean bags in the receptacles.

US Patent:

41132556, Sep 12, 1978

Filed:

Feb 18, 1977

Appl. No.:

5/770186

Inventors:

Adolph E. Goldfarb - Tarzana CA
Erwin Benkoe - LATE OF Encino CA
Don Robinson - Manhattan Beach CA

International Classification:

A63B 6700
A63F 900
A63H 1704

US Classification:

273108

Abstract:

A toy game for removing objects from a trough representative of a trash dump with self-propelled toy vehicle. The game is comprised of a game board with longitudinally spaced opposed player ends with a playing surface eXtending between the opposed player ends. The playing surface includes a trough in which removable objects are disposed and a pair of inclined walls eXtending upwardly and outwardly from the trough toward each of the opposed player ends. The objects located within the trough are irregularly shaped score-representing objects and are movable by a self-propelled toy vehicle, preferably in the characterization of a bulldozer. The players take turns positioning and aiming the toy vehicle on the inclined wall at their player end and permitting the toy vehicle to run down the inclined wall into the trough in an attempt to engage an object and move the object up the inclined wall at the opposed player end. The combination of the upward incline and the irregular shapes of the objects make moving the objects all the way up the incline difficult. The player who is successful in moving objects representing the highest score out of the trough and off of the opposed inclined wall wins the game.