Pivoting ball game board with gimbal control

Claim 1

A game of skill having a base, said base having a pair of upstanding standards; a lower tray mounted on said base between said standards; an upper tray and gimbal means supporting said upper tray between said standards and above said lower tray; a handle interconnected to said gimbal means and to said upper tray for rocking said upper tray about said gimbal means; a plurality of openings through said upper tray and a ball movable over the surface of said upper tray of a size to pass through said openings; a line on said upper tray to indicate the path said ball is to follow during play; an element forming a starting pocket at the beginning of said line and one of said openings being at the end of said line, all other ones of said openings being on one side or the other of said line; said lower tray having a planar surface inclined toward one edge over which said ball can freely roll, scoring indicia of graduated values on said one edge with the lowest value adjacent the area of said lower tray beneath the exit of said starting pocket and the highest value adjacent the area at the opposite end of said lower tray wherein a plurality of upstanding barriers are provided at various positions along said line, said barriers being rigidly secured to said upper tray and positioned to interrupt movement of said ball, said barriers consisting of a plurality of spaced sections arranged at various angles to each other, certain of said barriers forming a second pocket open at one side around said one opening for restricting access of said ball to said one opening, said gimbal means including a first and second pivot means, wherein said handle is elongated having an upper grip portion and a lower link connecting portion and its point of attachment to said second pivot means being intermediate said portions, said trays being rectangular, having a pair of sides and a front and a back; said handle being at one side of said trays and said one edge of said lower tray being along the front thereof, wherein a ball trapping pocket is provided on said lower tray aligned with said one opening for receiving said ball when it falls through said opening, said ball trapping pocket being surrounded by a retaining wall such that the sole entrance to said pocket is through said one opening, said ball trapping pocket being located in an area on said lower tray from which said ball would normally roll to a position along said edge having a value intermediate said highest and lowest values.