Up hill toy racing game

Claim 1

Competitive racing game apparatus comprising: a board having means defining a plurality of upwardly inclined tracks therealong, said tracks having lower starting ends and higher finishing ends; a plurality of racing pieces each disposed for movement along one of said tracks; a plurality of rollable impacting objects for engaging the racing pieces; and a plurality of individual propelling means on said board adjacent the lower starting Ends of said tracks for selective and independent operation to propel the impacting objects up along the inclined tracks to impact the racing pieces and thereby advance them along the tracks, said propelling means comprising a housing, the housing including an impact-hammer movably mounted in said housing for forward and rearward motion, a drive spring mounted in said housing urging said hammer in a forward direction, a pin mounted between the walls of the housing transversely to said direction of motion of said hammer, and a triggering member disposed within said housing for pivotal movement, said triggering member having a first end for engaging said impact-hammer and a second end, said triggering member defining a mounting slot, extending between said first end and said second end of said triggering member and being disposed intermediate said ends, said triggering member being pivotally mounted at said slot upon said pin, means biasing said triggering member such that said pin is initially disposed at the second end extremity of said slot, said propelling means further including a pull cord coupled to said second end, said triggering member having a configuration such that pull on said pull cord will cause the trigger member to pivot into engagement with said impact-hammer and move the latter rearwardly to compress said drive spring, and such that further pull on said pull cord will cause the triggering member to move along said slot to the first end extremity thereof, thus disengaging said first end thereof from said impacthammer.