US1422789A - Toy - Google Patents

Description

A. C. ANDH. E. SCHLOTH.

' TOY. APPLICATION map JUNE 7. 1921.

Patented July 111, 1922.

2 SHEE'TSSHEET l- INVENTOR WITNESS:

ATTORNEY ARTHUR C. SGHLOTI-L AND HERMAN E.

SCHLOTH, O LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS.

TOY.

Application filed June '7, 1921.

T 0 all 7mm 2'25 may concern.

Be it known that we, ARTHUR O. SCI-ILO'II-I and HERMAN E. SOHLOIH, citizens of the United States, residing at Lynn, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Toys, of which the following is a specification.

Our present invention has reference to an amusement device.

Our object is to produce a toy or game in which marbles gravitate down a chute and contact with wings on a revoluble cylinder to cause the turning of the cylinder, said marbles being redirected through a suitable trough to their original position whereby the same may be again arranged in the chute, the cylinder having numbers or other characters on the face thereof discernible through a sight opening in a housing in which the cylinder is mounted, the said numbers or characters indicating the score of the players using the marbles.

The foregoing, and other objects which will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, may be accomplished by a construction, combination and operative association of parts, such as is disclosed by the drawings which accompany and which form part of this specification.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a perspective View of the improvement.

Figure 2 is a sectional View through the improvement in a line with the trough and chute.

Figure 3 is a horizontal sectional view on the line of Figure 2.

Figure l: a transverse sectional view on the line 4l of Figure 2.

Our improved game may be considered in the nature of a bowling apparatus, that is a toy in which a game similar to the bowling game may be played, but in which, in lieu of the pins employed in such game, a cylinder having numbers thereon is employed and the said cylinder is caused to revolve by spheres, such as the ordinary marbles which gravitate down a chute into contacting engagement with wings on a cylinder.

Referring now to the drawings in detail, the numeral 1 designates a base which may be in the nature-of a flat board. On this base, adjacent to one end thereof there is secured a preferably metal substantially rectangular housing 2. The top of the hous- Specification of Letters Patent.

'erial No. 475,805.

ing, indicated by the numeral 3, is removable, the ends of the said top being provided with depending strips 4; that contact with the inner faces of the front and rear of the housing, holding the edges of the top in engagement with the edges of the housing.

in the housing there are upper and lower longitudinally arranged plates 5 that have their ends offset, as at 6 to receive therethrough screws 7 that also pass through the front and rear of the housing, the said screws engaging with nuts 8 holding the same against the ends and faces of the said strips. The lower strip is provided with a depression forming a substantially \I-shaped bearing for a shaft 9, the said shaft finding a bearing in an opening in the upper strip at. The shaft is provided with radially disposed arms or spokes 10 whereby a cylinder 11 is secured to the shaft. The cylinder has imprinted on its outer face numbers arranged successively from 1 to 12. These numbers are indicated by the numeral 12, and the numbers are of a size that one of the same will appear through the sight opening 13 in the front of the housing 2, the numbers being also so arranged that the space between the adjacent numbers may likewise appear at the sight opening. In this last instance, the player of the game has scored zero, but when the numbers appear opposite the sight opening, he is entitled to the same.

On the shaft below the cylinder there is a horizontally arranged disk 14 that has its periphery provided with vertically disposed radially directed flat blades 16. One of these blades is at all times disposed oppposite the slightly downwardly inclined inner end portion 17 of an upwardly inclined chute 18. The outer and elevated end of the chute is suitably supported by brace means 19, other brace means 20 supporting the chute on the base at approximately the center thereof. The chute communicates with a round opening 21 in the front face of the housing. The inclined end of the chute which is received in the housing delivers to a downward and outwardly inclined rough section 23 which in turn delivers to spaced rails that provide a trough Qet. The brace members, at the lower ends thereof are provided with openings or otherwise straddle the rails of the trough 24. The rails gradually decrease in height from the ends thereof in contact with the housing to their opposite or outer ends, and the said trough delivers to a flat ring member that provides a receptacle for the playing spheres of balls 26.

The game may be played as follows: Each player is entitled to a determined number of balls, say two. The balls are placed in the chute and allowed to gravitate therethrough to contact With the blades on the shaft, consequently revolving the shaft and bringing one of the numerals on the cylinder opposite the sight opening. The number thus disclosed is to be added to the number subse quently disclosed when another sphere is permitted to gravitate through the chute and further influences the shaft and cylinder. These numbers total the score made. If, as previously stated, no number appears at the sight opening the player gets the Zero mark at'this turn of the play. The spheres influencing the cylinder will gravitate through the trough to the receptacle 25 where they can be easily grasped by the player and again positioned in the chute.

It is thought that the foregoing descrip tion when taken in connection with the drawings will fully set forth the construction of the toy or game, the manner in which it is played, and the amusement which it will afford.

Having claim 1. A toy or game, as herein described, comprising a housing having a sight opening', a shaft journaled in the housing, a numerically marked cylinder on the shaft, said shaft having radially disposed blades projecting therebelow in the path of contact described the invention, we

with a spherical member, a downwardly inclined chute for directing the spherical member against the blades, and an oppositely directed trough receiving the spherical memher after its contact with the blades for returning the same outward of the housing to a position below the elevated end of the chute.

2. A toy or game, as herein described, comprising a housing, a shaft journaled therein, a numerically marked cylinder supported on the shaft, said housing having a sight opening opposite the numbers on the cylinder, a disk on the shaft having radially disposed outwardly directed blades, an elevated chute inclined downwardly from and entering the housing, the portion of the chute within the housing being disposed below the blades, said chute designed to direct gravity influenced spheres therethrough to permit of the latter contacting with one of the blades to revolve the shaft and cylinder, and a downwardly and outwardly inclined trough section in the housing directing the sphere through the housing after the same has contacted a blade, spaced rails also comprising a trough disposed in alignment with the first mentioned trough section and said rails gradually decreasing in height from the ends thereof opposite the housing to their opposite ends, and a cylindrical receptacle at their said outer ends.

In testimony whereof we affix, our signatures.

ARTHUR o. SCHLOTH. [L.s.] HERMAN E. soHLorH. a s]

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