Ball-race game apparatus

Claim 1

A GAME APPARATUS COMPRISING A GENERALLY HELICALLY SHAPED TRACK DISPOSED SO THAT THE HELICAL AXIS IS VERTICAL AND ADAPTED TO RETAIN ON THE TRACK GAME BALLS PROGRESSING BY GRAVITY FROM THE HIGH AREA OF THE TRACK TO ITS LOWEST AREA, MEANS FOAR CONTINUOUSLY LIDTING THE GAME BALLS FROM THE SAID LOWEST AREA OF THE TRACK TO THE SAID HIGH AREA TO ACCOMPLISH REPEATED TRAVERSE OF THE TRACK BY THE GAME GALLS, AND SUPPORT MEMBERS FOR THE TRACK SPACED ALONG THE LENGTH THEREOF AND EACH DEFINING A PLAYER POSITION, A STORAGE TRACK SEGMENT CARRIED BY EACH OF SAID SUPPORT MEMBERS IN PARALLEL ADJACENT RELATIONSHIP WITH SAID HELICALLY SHAPED TRACK, A BALL REMOBAL ELEMENT CARRIED BY EACH OF SAID SUPPORT MEMBERS INCLUDING A PORTION MANUALLY MOVABLE INTO SAID HELICALLY SHAPED TRACK FOR TRANSVERSELY DISPLACING A GAME BALL FROM SAID TRACK INTO SAID TRACK SEGMENT, AND A BALL RETURN ELEMENT CARRIED BY EACH OF SAID SUPPORT MEMBERS INCLUDING A PORTION MANUALLY MOVABLE INTO SAID TRACK SEGMENT FOR TRANSVERSELY DISPLACING A GAME BALL FROM SAID SEGMENT TO SAID HELICALLY SHAPED TRACK, WHEREBY THE GAME BALLS MAY BE SELECTIVELY TRANSFERRED BETWEEN SAID TRACK AND SAID SEGMENTS AS THEY MOVE PAST SAID PLAYER POSITIONS.