Title: Ball launcher with finger spin loading

Abstract: An arcade amusement gun for pneumatically shooting rubber balls toward a hollow target from which the balls are automatically returned to the gun, including apparatus for automatically loading one ball at a time from beneath the gun into the gun breech and apparatus for artificially producing a recoil of the gun upon the firing of each ball.

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Inventors: Natwick, Vernon R. (Saratoga, CA, US)

Application Number: 814329
Filing Date: 1977-07-11
Publication_date: 1980-01-29
Assignee: Ramtek Corporation (Santa Clara, CA)
Primary Class(es): 273/356 124/53.5, 124/73, 124/80, 273/395, 273/397
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US Patent Ref:

659555	Oct, 1900	Shuster	273/101.
1477698	Dec, 1923	Emmelin	124/51.
1788336	Jan, 1931	Schneider et al.	273/119.
2398813	Apr, 1946	Swisher	273/101.
3009703	Nov, 1961	Jentsch et al.	273/101.
3515389	Jun, 1970	Wolfe	273/193.
3548801	Dec, 1970	Lohr	273/101.
3580178	May, 1971	Kopsch	102/92.
3680863	Aug, 1972	Wallace et al.	273/102.
3748751	Sep, 1972	Breglia	273/101.

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Primary Examiner: Pinkham, Richard C.
Assistant Examiner: Anderson, Lawrence E.
Attorney: Shaw, Jr.; Philip M.