US1145457A - Game apparatus. - Google Patents

Description

R. L. ANDERSON.

GAME APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 30, 19x4.

1,145,457. Patented July 6, 1915.

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GAME APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

, Patented July 6, 1915.

Application filed November 30, 1914. Serial N 0. 874,602.

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My invention relates to games, and more particularly to that class of games in which the playing pieces are propelled toward a goal and require a certain amount of skill on the part of the player to send the pieces to the desired location.

The game apparatus consists essentially of a square frame with apertures 0r ports, playing pieces, and shooters, the object of the game being to propel the pieces through the ports with the shooters.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure I, is a perspective view of the game as played. Fig. II, shows the shooter. Fig. III, is a side view, partly in section, showing the way in which the shooter is used to propel the playing piece.

The box or frame 1, is the goal into which the pieces are shot and is shaped as an equilateral figure, say a square, made preferably of wood. In each side is an aperture 2, which extends to the bottom edge of the frame and is made of such size as to conveniently admit the playing piece. The playing piece or disk 3, is made in the shape of a truncated cone, the plane of the top 4, being parallel to the base 5. The cone terminates in a cylindrical rim 6, which extends perpendicularly from the base for a short distance. This rim prevents splitting and breaking and facilitates the operation of the device.

The shooter consists of a flattened stick 9, thin enough to insure a springing effect, cut square at one end 7 and round at the other end 8, the square end being coated for a short distance, with a lubricating material,

say parafiin, which enables the disk to slip out more readily from beneath the shooter.

The game may be played on any smooth surface and no special table or board is necessary.

To play the game, the frame is placed in the center of the table, or other smooth surface, and each player is allotted an equal number of disks, which are placed at equal distances from the frame. The shooter is held at the round end and the square end placed on the top edge of the disk at right angles to the line leading to a port. By pressing sharply down on the disk with the end of the shooter the disk is made to shoot forward along the surface, due to the elastic pressure of the end of the shooter cooperating with the sloping edge of the cone as,

shown in Fig. III. Each player aims at one of the holes 2, and his object is to shoot all his disks through the hole into the frame first, and also to knock his opponents disks out of the frame.

The game may of course be varied or modified by the players.

The fact that it may be constructed at very little cost is one advantage ofthe game, and also since no board or special playing field is necessary, the game maybe put up in compact paste board box rendering it readily portable.

Having thus described my invention, I claim: v

1. A game apparatus comprising an equilateral frame, having ports in each side reaching to the bottom of the side; disksin the form of a truncated cone terminating in a cylindrical rim extending perpendicularly to the base, the plane of the top of said cone being parallel to the base; and a shooter composed of a flattened piece of wood.

2. In a game apparatus of the class described; a disk in the form of a truncated cone terminating in a cylindrical rim eX- tending perpendicularly to the base, the plane of the top of said cone being parallel to the base; and a shooter consisting of a flexible and elastic piece of wood.

3. In a game apparatus of the class described; a disk in the form of a truncated cone terminating in a cylindrical rim extending perpendicularly to the base, the plane of the top of said cone being parallel to the base; and a shooter consisting of a flattened piece of wood having its operative end coated with lubricatinv material.

In testimony whereof, 1 have hereunto signed my name, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, this twenty-eighth day of November, 1914.

ROBERT L. ANDERSON;

Witnesses J AMES H. BELL, E. L. FULLERTON.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

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