US1545860A - Game device - Google Patents

Description

July 14, 1925.

R. c. STRIKER GAME DEVICE Filed Oct. 29, 1921 awveutoz Patented July 14, 1925.

UNITED STATES ROBERT CALDER swarms,

or BROOKLYN, NEW vonxl GAME DEVICE.

. Application filed October 29, 1921. Serial No. 511,396.

To all whom it may concern."

Be it known that I, ROBERT CALDER S'mIKnR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and Stateof New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Game Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a game device.

An object of the invention is to provide a game device particularly adapted for use at fairs, bazars, so-called side shows and the like, and to make the device of unique and attractive appearance.

A further object is to so design the parts of thedevicethat they may be readily assembled and disassembled and thereby adapted for easy transportation.

A further object is to so design the device that its operation will be suitably mystifying and amusing to compel attention.

Other objects and aims of the invention, more or less specific than those. referred to above, will be in part obvious and in part pointed out in the course of the following description of the elements, combinations, arrangements of parts and applications of principles, constituting the invention, and the scope of protection contemplated will be indicated in the appended claim.

In the accompanying drawings which are to be taken as a part ofthis specification, and in which I have shown merely a preferred form of embodiment of the invention:

Figure 1 is a front elevational view of a device constructed in accordance with this invention.

tail view in vertical section showing the manner of constructing the rotor element, and

Figure 5 is a fragmentary detail .view

of a portion of the supporting frame and illustrating the manner of detachably "l mountin the to member of the frame.

Referring to t e drawings for describing in detail the structure therein illustrated,

the reference character L indicates a base ceased rotation.

from which rises a pair offstan'dards 1 and 2. These standards are connected together at their opposite ends by atop piece 3.

The base, standards and top piece constitute a suitable frame for containing a supporting rotor G mounted to rotate freely upon a vertical axis.

The rotor .G may be of any suitable shape or construction but preferably is shaped and constructed as indicated; that is, it is made to represent an ordinary wooden top of the type such as is commonly used as a plaything by young boys, as will be appreciatedby inspection of the drawings, being relatively broad and rounded at its upper portion and tapering downwardly to a point. A suitable part, as 4, is provided at the lower end to represent the well known plug present intops of this character.

Extending preferably around thejbreast part, or largest circumference, of the top is a series of numbers or "other "indicating marks H, and carried preferably by thetop piece 3 is a stationary pointer 5adapted for directing attentionto, or selecting, one of the marks H as such mark comes to rest beneath the pointer whenever the rotor has The pointer, or selecting device, 5 has no connection, nor does it in any way interfere with the rotation of the rotor, and here itmay be noted that an essential characteristic of'this device resides in the fact that the rotor is mounted to rotate upon a vertical axis, that its weight is supported upon a single point at its lower end, and that it is of suitable size" and weight so that even tho rotating" very slowly theperiod of rotation will continue for an unexpectedly long period.

t The speed of rotation of the rotor may be so slow that the indicatingmarks H can be at all times readily discernible and spectators will be mystifiedl and astonished to see one mark after the other pass the pointer when they imagined each would be the last.

Much'amusement is thus had and interest created' certain to increase the crowd of,

spectators.

using this device may now be given as folows:- h v. 1 Each of'a crowd of spectators selects one of thenumbers, or identifying-marks H of A brief explanation of the manner of the rotor. An attendant will now manually rotate the rotor and the spectator who is rotor-consists of a smallcone, as .6,,Iresting in a'jcone-bearing.which. is provided to re- .ceiveitin awear plate 7 carried byz-the base L. I g V llhe upper pivot, intended .only to..mazntain the rotor in a proper vertical posi- .tion, may -.consistofa stud 8 projecting vertically above the .upper end-of the .rotor and engagingqwithin. a suitable, wear plate 9 carried by- -the top. piece 3.

-.Any-suitableprovision may be made for the -ready assembly and. disassembly of the various parts 5 of this device. .Byyway-of suggestion i the drawing illustrates for this .purposea construction. ,as follows The rotor is made upmozt a plurality of ,segments,- .-as 10,11, 12 and" 13, extending vertically-thereof, thex. lower ends ot sthe segments beingmeceived in a suitable. pocket provided within a.-- band,-14 atthe lower,..or

plug"--end and are held together at their .upperends by a cap piece 15 "having ,anannul-ar fiangew-hich engages-studs. 17, 18, :19 and- 20, carried respectively. by the. several segments.

.As "seen particularly in, Fig. xi; :the pivot cone 6, and the pivot stud 8,-are3co1n1ected together, and: in. .fact' are integral; parts of va-single tie'rod 21 which extends vertically thrw therotor-,ithev cone- 6. constituting". a

.head -at-"the; lower end of said roch and 4 the 1StHCl B bei-n'g prefer-ably a red uced extension atthe upper end, ofqsaidnfld. Just-below the r stud- 8. :the rod; is threaded and f carries a nut 22- which appears upon the upper surface? of -the cap piece-15 and-serves ,to hold saidcap," plece -1n snugw engagement -w'ith thesstuds 17.

The band 14, which, to all outwardrappeara-nce constitutes the plug 9 of .the top, surrounds a corepiece -23. .to which it -is rigidly Econnected,---the upper annular" edge of the band-projecting above thetopsurface of-ithe coreiso as-toprovideflthe pocket,-.or

depression,iintoiwhich the lower ends of. the

segn ents -1013 extend: This -.core hasi'a'n opening- 24:, "thru l-tS---O11tBT to accommodate the rod 21. v-

At any selected intermediate;point, or .points,;,:thevsegments inlay be connectedv :to-

gether by suitable clamp, or other retaining devices, .-E1S--'indi03it6d *by v.the 1-;16'f61f61108 . numerals 25 and 26,.the device 25beingsuitable for use .in-te riorly of the rotor. and the device 26; for. use. exterior-1y of .the rotor.

The standards, or frame pieces, 1 and 2 may be separably connected with the base L by being provided with downwardly extending portions 27 for entering sockets 28 provided to-receivethein 'in the base.

v The top piece 3 may be connected with the standards 1 and 2, for instance, by being provided ithplates, as 29, at its opposite ends, said plates having key slots, as 30, for interenga-gement with headed studs 31 projecting ,from the standards, :asseen in Fig. 5. I

The pointer 5 may consist of a single piece of metal properly shapedand having a threaded .extension '32 continuing beyond asuitable shoulder38 and adapted tocarry a nut 34 by which the pointer may be locked in position eiltendingvthru a suitable openingprovided for the; purpose transverse] y of the top pieceB.

' By this constructionit will be seen that L .altho. the. severalypartsfmay be readily shipped in lmocked. .down condition yet they maybe readily assembled when. desired for use. After therotor hasbeen assembled, and theastandards' 1' and 2 placed in position uponthe base, the rotor is placed with its: conepoint 6 restinginiithe cone bearing of the plate 7,..andnthe' top piece: 3 is then slipped I into position] engaging. the

stud 8, whereupon. the device is \ready' Y for use. I y

V The device. 25 may constitute weights, or

i the rotorfcmay. be otherwise weighted. if.

desirechifor.increasing the precisioniof its movements.

.Havi-I1g .thus described. my invention, what I-claim as, new." and desire to secure by Letters Patent is p .A; gaineldevice of the typeindicated coniprisingz. a. topvshaped rotor having upper and lower-pivot partsiir the: plane of" the longitudinalcentral axis. of'the rotor, a support for the rotor having a lower bearing part. with which thedowcr. pivot, part-*engages to directly support the weight or the rotor, said support comprising a'fraine ex- ..tending, upwardly and across the: topof theiotori having. an upper bearing part with which the iupper" pivot, part i or .the. rotor engages to retaiirthe rotor in a vertical position adapted to rotateabout a vertical axis,- ind-icationscarriedbyithe :rotor spaced apart in a :row. .e xtending:aroundzits cirlGl .cumference,- and -a..p.oin terflfixed to the'up- 1 61 Cross. member. ,ofthe :frame. and extending radiallyacross lthe top of. the rotor. and thence vertically downwardly to the hori- Zontal plane of-said row of indications, 'for iuse in the manner set forth.

"Intestimony whereof I affix my signature in .the ,p1esence of twonwitnesses.

ROBERT CALDER STRIKER.

.Witnessesr g a d 1 LLGnssroRn HANDY, MAY Sonora.

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