Projectile target game with score keeping apparatus

Claim 1

A scorekeeping apparatus in combination with a projectile target game, said apparatus and target game including; a projectile receiving target secured to a surface of a face support plate means which is mounted on a frame means, which has an upper end and a lower end, slot means in said face support plate means to thereby provide an opening through said face support plate, parallel non-rotatable guide shafts secured at their respective ends to said frame means upper and lower ends with said non-rotatable guide shafts on one side of said face support plate and said target on the other side thereof, window means in said face support plate means adjacent said slot means, unidirectional magnifying means having a length greater than its width, said magnifying means configured to matingly fit within said window means, said unidirectional magnifying means when positioned in said window means providing magnification only across its width, mask means cooperating with a surface of said unidirectional magnify means to provide a dimensionally controlled image field to thereby limit the dimensions of an image field to be magnified, a player score light source means positioned adjacent said window means and on the same side of said face support plate as said parallel non-rotatable guide shafts, said player score light source means thereby providing illumination to said image field when said player score light source means is turned "ON", a guide plate means secured to said face support plate means in a spaced apart manner between said player selection light source means and said face support plate means, said guide plate means having an aperture means there through which is positioned to matingly match said window means, a continuous belt means loosely carried by said non-rotatable guide shafts, said belt passing between said guide plate and said face plate, said continuous belt means having an opaque background into and through which numbers have been formed and which light can pass, each digit of said numbers having one of its dimensions reduced to thereby provide each digit of a number that is substantially wider than its height, said width of said magnifying means, extending parallel to the height of said digits on said belt means, said continuous belt means having score advance openings there through adjacent each of said transparent numbers, said continuous belt means moveable between said guide plate and said face support plate such that said digits of said numbers will appear consecutively at said window means upon movement of said belt means around said guide shafts, said score advance openings simultaneously appearing within said slot means whereby the manual insertion of a score adjusting means within said score advance openings in said belt means will allow a player by movement of said score adjustment means towards an end of said frame to thereby adjust said players score as evidenced by an illuminated magnified image of said numbers appearing within said window means, said target having a bullseye target deflection detection means, a controllable source of power electrically coupled to a bullseye indication means, said score light source means and a player selection means, said bullseye indication means controlled by said bullseye deflection detection means and said player selection means controllingly coupled to a player selection light means, said bullseye indication means providing an indication that said bullseye target has been deflected as a consequence of being struck by a projectile, while at the same time there is provided an illuminated image of a players score as indicated by said score light source means.