Game target
CA 2239486 A1 · Owner: Eagle Crest Ventures Inc. · Inventors: Friesen, Arnold
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A game target can be used by a single individual for practising skills in a game that involves the throwing of an object to a particular position on a playing, surface. One example is curling. The target includes a rail that is supported to, extend laterally across and above the game surface. A target element depends from, the rail. In preferred embodiments the target element can be positioned at any desired location along the rail. This allows an individual to practise alone without, another party to hold the target e.g. a broom in curling. The movement of the target, element along the rail may be accomplished with a carriage mounted on the rail for, movement along the rail and with …
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- Filed June 3, 1998. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended June 3, 2018.
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