US2589725A - Miniature bowling game and ash tray - Google Patents

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March 18, 1952 NAGEL ETAL 2,589,725

MINIATURE BOWLING GAME AND ASH TRAY Filed Oct. 2, 1946 2 SHEETS-SHEET-2 FIG. 5

imam tot Patented Mar. 18, 1952 MINIATURE BOWLING GAME AND ASH TRAY John D. Nagel and Walter Lang, Chicago, 111.; said Lang assignor to said N agel Application October 2, 1946, Serial No. 700,682

1 Claim.

The object of our invention is to provide a novel, ornamental and integral miniature bowling game and ash tray which can be used conveniently either as a game or as an ashtray, which takes up little room and which is useful for both purposes. We attain these and other objects of our invention by the device illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a top plan view of one form of our invention, a portion being shown in horizontal section;

F Fig. 2 is a transverse section on line 2-2 of Fig. 3 is a top plan view, partly in section, of a modified form of our invention, and Fig. 4 is a transverse section on line 4-4 of Fig. 3.

Like numerals designate like parts in each of the several views.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, we

' provide an annular trough I in the channel 2 of which a ball 5 is rollable. The trough I includes a peripheral wall and an inner annular wall spaced therefrom, the upper surface of the devic comprising a horizontal wall disposed in alignment with the top of the trough and constituting the bottom of an ashtray 3 provided with a peripheral wall ll. Pins 4 project radially from the outer wall of the trough I withwhich they preferably are integral. The upper surface of the device which is secured to the bottom surface of the ashtray 3 is a transparent annular disk 6 providing a closure for the channel 2, across the center of which disk extends a bridge portion comprising a suitably printed score board 1, as shown in Fig. 1.

As shown in Fig. 2, the annular channel 2 has a relatively elevated bottom surface 8 with spaced depressions 9, opposite each of the radiating pins 4 which extend outwardly from the outer wall of the trough I. The miniature ball 5 will therefore tend to stop opposite one of the numbered radiating pins 4 when the ashtray is tilted, to cause the ball to roll.

Scoring is very similar to that in ten-pin bowling. As in ten-pin bowling, if the ball stops on the numeral 10 at first try, the player is awarded a strike. Each player has two chances for a spare; that is, if the ball stops on any number under 10, the second ball must stop on the number to aggregate the necessary pins'to make ten and the player may also be awarded a spare if the second roll falls on the 10-pin. If a player scores a spare" on the first two tries, 10 points are added to the number of pins on the next number thrown. Likewise, if a strike is recorded, with the first try, 10 points are added to the total pins of the next two throws.

A special advantage of this improvement in p the miniature bowling ball game is that the ball cannot be lost as it is retained within the annular trough by the cover disk .or closure 6.

In the modified form of the invention shown in Figs. 3 and 4, we provide depressions ID on opposite sides of the central score board strip 1 so that in whichever position the device is placed, these depressions I0 may be used as ashtrays.

What we claim is:

A game device comprising a base including a substantially vertically disposed peripheral wall, an annular wall spaced from said peripheral wall and forming an annular channel therebetween, the upper surface of the bottom wall of said channel being provided with a plurality of radially extending and uniformly spaced depressions, a. plurality of radially extending simulated bowling pins secured to the outer circumferential surface of said peripheral wall in axial alignment with said depressions and corresponding in number thereto, indicia on said bowling pins identifying the associated depressions, a ball freely movable within said channel, a horizontal wall disposed in alignment with the top of the walls of said channel and formed integrally with said annular wall, and a transparent cover for said channel comprising an annular disk overlying said peripheral and annular walls and including a centrally located bridge portion comprising a scoring portion secured to said horizontal wall.

JOHN D. NAGEL. WALTER. LANG.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 2,010,266 Kemper et al Aug. 6, 1935 2,276,599 Tassano Mar. 17, 1942 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date 72,894 Germany Jan, 4. 1894 219,235 Great Britain July 24, 1924

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