US1433437A - Game - Google Patents

Description

G. W. WAKEHAM.

GAME.

APPLICATION man MAY23.1921.

Patent Oct. 24, w22.,

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

-lllll Fati-:nted met. 2d, varias GERTRUDIE ATSDN WAKEHAM, OF llTARSHj-iill, WISCONSIN.

appucauon fue@ nay 2a, 1921. sm-iai no. www.

To all whom moij/ concern:

Be it known that l, Gnnrnunn `W. fann- HAM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Marshall, in the county of Dane and State of 1Wisconsin, have invented certain new .and

-useful Improvements in Games, `of which the following- 'is a specification, referencefbeing `had therein to the accompanying drawings. f 11 This invention relates to games and game stood, or to be enlarged `to be played upon the ground in an enlarged field.

The object of the invention is to provide apparatusfor playing anew and improved game, the characteristic of which is the throwing" of certain articles which may be referred toas men, to he thrown into certain receptacles herein referred to as pits,

Ywithother apparatus for marking off and defining certain limits of the game.

A. further object of the invention is to provide improved type of `pits as a part of the game Structure. i

A further object of the invention is to pro- `vide` an improved form of mento be employedwith the pits and other structure.

A further object of the invention is to provide impro-ved marking meansfor defining certain limits of the game and themoves ofV the game.

With these and other objects in view the` invention comprises certain novel elements, features, parts, arrangements and combinations, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

ln the drawings:

Figure 1 is a plan view of the game organization which may be a board, as indicated by the outline in that figure, or the outline may indicate the margin of the field upon which the game is played;

Figure 2 is a transverse sectional view through one of the pits showing in elevation the markers associated with thepit;

Figure 3 is a perspective view of one of the links forming the markers;

Figure 4f is a perspective view of one of the pits;

`Figure 5 is a top plan view of one of the men, and

Figure 6 is a diametrical sectional view of one of the men taken on line 6--6 of Figure 5.

`v1ews.

The improved gaarne which .is disclosed in' the drawings is, as hereinlnetorev stated,

Like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several adapted to be used in a varietyof sizes for indoor or outdoor playing. 1t comprises a iield 10 which may be a board, the floor of a room, or a ield out of doors., and will, therefore be either the `round or* other base.

Substantially centrally of the field a pit 11 y is erected, surrounded by a marker 12 which will ldefine the center field. Thepit 11, like theother pits hereinafter referred to, comprises a frame substantially square in form., assho-wn at Figure 4, having side bars 13 with loops 111 on the ends thereof, in which are pivoted side hars 16 which are extended as legs 17 which are inserted into the earth if the device is played upon the r(ground, or

into openings formed for the purpose if the ,frame `is playedin a room or on a table. The side bars 13 and 1G carry a pouch 18 of any approved fabric., bagged, as indicated more particularly at Figures 2 and 1-.,1to form a receptacle.

The marker` of which the centereld is y composed comprises a plurality of` links 19 by forming eyes 2() thereon,r as indicated more particularly at Figure 3. The eyes 2() may serve not only for jointing together a plurality of suchllinks for convenient folding); for storage, transportation and the like, but also serve to receive pins 21, by which the marker is attached to the ground, or tacks, brads, orthe like, if attached to the table or the floor. The marker is also em- `ployed as a homeline at each end of the board. as shown at 22 to be similarly at tached. A plurality ofthe pits are employed at 23, 24C, .25 and 26, as indicated at Figure 1, and pits of the same style or larger at 27' and 28.

. 'lhel men with which the game is played are shown in detail at Figures 5 and 6 and are composed of substantially circular bodies 29, thinner adjacent; the edges than at the middle and preferably weighted as indicated at Figure 6 with some heavy material, as lead, introduced into a socket, as indicated at 30. ylhe men are also properly designated, as shown at Figure 5, wherein the designaw tion white men, is shown at Figure 5, wherein it is understood thatthe men employed at one-end initially will he so designatecL While the men at the opposite end will he designated as black men, or some dis tinguishing designation. The game as at present described to be played on the boa-rd Would employ three such White men 29 and three of the black men 3l, as shown at Figure l. Itis obvious, of course, that different games may be played with the structure as shown and as assembled, or that it may be differently assembled as the necessities of the game may malre desirable, but it is the intent to employ the organization to play a game in which two, four or six players may participate. The playing of the game with tivo `players Will indicate the manner of playing inv which player #l is at one end of the ield and player #2 at the opposite end.

Player #l standsl back of the home line 91E-and casts one of the White men toward pit 25 with the object of casting the man into cast until the other plays have been made. Player #l noW plays Jfrom the point at which his man rests into pit 25, theplays being alternated.y As many plays as may be required are alternately employed for the White'p'layer to cast his men into pit 25 and the black player to cast his men intov pit 24E. From pit 25 player #l casts toward pit 24 With the intent of entering his men therein, the requisite number of casts being employed for thatpu'rpose'. From pit 24 player #l casts his men to the rear of the black home line. Vhen this playisaccomplished player #l now seeks to Cast his man into pit 23, from Which it is cast into pit 1S, the center pit. From the center pit the player Seeks to cast his man into the home pit 28.

lt is obvious that as each player must cast his man in turn the player who lirst succeeds in getting his man into his particular home pit Wins the game.-

It is not the intent here to give all of the rules of the game which can be played with the use of this apparatus, suliicient only beingfdescribed to show the utility of the orlgallir/ration as an entirety, leaving it to the proprietor1 oii the game to formulate such rules and regulations for the conduct o1" the game as may seem Wise.

ltlhat l cla-im to be new is:

l. lli game comprising a plurality olf' pouches of different sizes arranged in predetermined relation7 each of said pouches cornprising a marginal non-collapsible frame, a fabric secured at its marginal edges to the frame and depressed to form a bag below the plane of the frame, and foldable legs formed integral with parts of the frame extending normally belowv the frame and adapted to penetrate and support the bag out of contact with the ground and to be folded substantially Within the lines of the frame.

2. A game comprising a plurality of pouches, each consisting of a frame having parts thereof constructed as legs foldable in contiguity With other sections of the frame, a fabric having its edges secured tn the trame and bagged beneath and all proportioned so that the legs support the bag out of contact with the ground, and markers comprising sections hinged together and presenting means for securing the markers to the ground. y

In testimony whereof I hereunto aix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

GERTRUDE WATSON WAKEHM.

TWitnesses E. J. MCCRACKEN, W. H. MCCRACKEN.

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