Patent Application
20240017161
The present invention relates to an elastic launch game device, and more particularly to a paper-made, lightweight, and unpluggable desktop elastic launch game device.
The modern urban living is quick and tense. Proper mental relaxation is necessary. Playing games in amusement arcades is one of the simplest ways of entertainment. To provide diversified or a variety of entertainment, new games have been developed and presented to suit the general consumers' needs. For example, an air hockey game comprises multiple vent holes uniformly distributed on a table surface and air is supplied from the vent holes to have a puck, which is placed on the table surface, raised upward and cushioned by the air on the underside in a suspended or floating state. Such an air cushion provides a main effect of allowing the puck to move extremely quickly. Opposing players standing on two opposite sides of the table and each holding a striker, which is of a flat form similar to the puck and serves as a tool for striking the puck back, strike the puck back and forth to thereby achieve extreme excitement of entertainment.
However, considering the known air hockey table, since the puck moves very quickly and the striker does not have a great width, there are always situations when the players' hands do not respond quickly enough, meaning the game may be hard to play. This constrains the applicability of the game. Further, the players are standing just next to the table for playing the game, and this makes the table surface unprotected. The table may be easily damaged. Further, the quick movement of the puck may hurt the players' hands, leading to safety issues. Thus, there is a need for further improvement.
Further, the known air hockey table is generally of a large size, and must be powered with electricity for game playing. This leads to constraints in respect of space.
The primary objective of the present invention is to provide a desktop elastic launch game device, which comprises: a carrying body, which is in the form of a flat board in a rectangular shape, the carrying body having a predetermined height from a bottom surface to a top surface; a wall body, which has a height higher than the top surface of the carrying body, the wall body being mutually connected and circumferentially arranged around a perimeter of the carrying body, the wall body having a predetermined width; a separation board, which is arranged on the carrying body and has two ends mounted to an inside surface of the wall body, the separation board having a bottom portion that is formed with a hollowed portion corresponding to each of the through holes; a plurality of elastic bodies, each of which has two ends that are mounted to opposite portions of the inside surface of the wall body, each of the elastic bodies being arranged adjacent to each of the through holes; and a plurality of plate bodies, which are placeable against each of the elastic bodies so that the plate bodies are selectively launched out toward the hollowed portion by a spring force of the elastic bodies.
In order to expound the technical contents of the present invention, as well as the effectiveness achievable thereby, an embodiment is provided, with reference to the attached drawings, for illustration below. Referring to
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The carrying body 10, the wall body 20, and the separation board 30 as discussed above are each made of a paper material and are cut, folded, and combined or adhesively bonded together to make a three-dimensional configuration. Thus, the carrying body 10, the wall body 20, and the separation board 30 all have an interior that is hollow to realize an effect of being lightweight.
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Further, in the present invention, the mounting portions 22 can be made in the form of troughs or cavities integrally formed with the wall body 20. The two ends of each of the elastic bodies 40 are put through the wall body 20 to be fixed to the mounting portions 22 by making the knot bodies 41. In this way, the structure of the cutting portion 23 and the steps of depressing folding can be omitted.
