Game apparatus with ball dropping means and rotating target

Claim 1

A GAME DEVICE COMPRISING A HORIZONTAL BASE, A POST EXTENDING UPWARDLY FROM SAID BASE, BEARING MEANS AROUND THE POST DISPOSED BETWEEN OPPOSITE ENDS OF THE POST, A HORIZONTAL CIRCULAR TABLE ROTATABLY DISPOSED ON SAID BEARING MEANS AND HAVING A CENTRAL APERTURE, SAID POST EXTENDING AXIALLY THROUGH SAID APERTURE IN THE TABLE, A STATIONARY TRAY HORIZONTALLY SECURED TO THE POST ABOVE SAID TABLE FOR SUPPORTING PLAYING BALLS, A PLATE SECURED NEAR THE UPPER END OF THE POST ABOVE SAID TRAY, SAID PLATE HAVING A CENTRAL HOLE, THE TOP END OF THE POST BEING SHAPED LIKE A TENON AND SEATED IN SAID HOLE, A KNOB FASTENED TO THE TENON, OVER THE HOLE, AND FORMING AN EXTENSION OF THE POST, A PLURALITY OF ARMS WITH UPSTANDING WIDE WALLS, SAID ARMS AND WALLS CONSTITUTING CHANNEL SHAPED CHUTES FOR SUPPORTING AND GUIDING PLAYING BALLS THEREON, SAID CHUTES BEING HORIZONTALLY SPACED APART WITH EACH CHUTE EXTENDING OUTWARDLY AND DOWNWARDLY FROM SAID PLATE RADIALLY OF SAID TABLE, A MULTIPLICITY OF CUPS CARRIED BY THE TABLE, SAID CUPS BEING CIRCUMFERENTIALLY SPACED AROUND THE PERIPHERY OF THE TABLE AND HAVING OPEN UPPER ENDS LOCATED ABOVE THE TABLE, SAID CHUTES EACH HAVING AN OPENING AT ITS OUTER END DIRECTLY OVER THE CUPS FOR PASSING SAID PLAYING BALLS INTO THE CUPS, A CRANK SUPPORTED ON THE WALLS OF EACH CHUTE, A DEPENDING GATE SUPPORTED BY SAID CRANK OVER THE OPENING IN THE CHUTE, A TENSION SPRING ENGAGING ONE END OF THE CRANK, A HANDLE SECURED TO THE OTHER END OF THE CRANK FOR ACTUATING THE SAME, SAID GATE ADAPTED TO CONTROLLABLY RELEASE PLAYING BALLS FROM THE CHUTE, AND MOTOR MEANS OPERATIVELY CONNECTED TO THE TABLE FOR CONTINUOUSLY ROTATING THE TABLE AND CUPS WHILE PLAYERS OPERATE THE GATES OF THE RESPECTIVE CHUTES TO DISCHARGE PLAYING BALLS INTO THE CUPS.