DE630642C - Ball game as a replacement for playing cards - Google Patents

Description

The object of the present invention forms a ball game in which the Balls replace the usual playing cards and according to the cards with lettering and painting are made distinctive, while the game device itself serves to mix the balls on the one hand and the players evenly distributed in special compartments determined by the players cannot be mutually seen, and on the other hand the game itself to be able to carry out, with the balls in the individual compartments clearly arranged for the Game can be arranged and the top plate of the device serves as a game table. Here the gaming table is provided with insert holes in which the players put their balls when Start playing. After each stitch, these holes can be opened with a flick of the handle be opened so that the balls fall into the mixing container below. In this way, when the game is over, all the balls are combined in the mixing container and can then be shuffled and spent for the next game. With the new play equipment and the balls provided for this purpose, all games can be played that would otherwise be played with Playing cards were executed with the advantage that shuffling and distributing the Balls can be made easily, safely and quickly with gentle treatment and this action can also be performed by people who only have one hand, so that these people also play along can. Also, every fraud when playing, for example with playing cards by It was impossible to identify individual cards.

The subject of the invention is shown in the drawing for example, show:

Fig. Ι a view of the new ball game,

Fig. 2 the section AB according to Fig. 1 or Fig. 3, Fig. 3 the top view of the game,

Fig. 4 the top view with a counting scale device and

Fig. 5 shows a container in which the pressed balls are placed as a skat when playing Skat will.

The individual balls are made distinctive by lettering and painting, corresponding to the playing cards. . Since this identification can be very diverse, no particular value is attached to it; only it has to be such that the marking of the spheres is clearly visible in every position. The game device itself consists of a box, the upper cover plate of which forms the actual game plate b. In this plate holes c are provided in the present example 4, which can be set below the plate b by a locking disc e rotatably arranged about the axis d with the same hole division on the handles / for opening and closing the holes. On the armpit is the turning

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disc g fixedly arranged, the distance from the discs is dimensioned so that the through the holes c on the turntable g throughd fd Shib f%

falling balls can move on the disk g fre%. The turntable g moves *.? is in the container h of circular cross-section, the bottom'i of which is inclined in a funnel-like manner to the axis of rotation. The one about the. Edge of the turntable protruding part of the ίο bottom i is kept so wide that the rolling from the disk g balls α comfortably find space between the disk g and the container wall h. As a result of the inclination of the bottom i , the balls come to rest on the edge of the disk g and are kept moving when the disk g rotates. In the bottom i four holes k are provided evenly distributed, which can be opened and closed individually by locking slides m. Below the floor i lies the box floor ti, on which the armpit is supported in ball bearings 0 . The space between the funnel-shaped intermediate floor, c and 'the box floor ti is divided into four chambers by radially positioned walls ρ extending from the corners of the box floor ti , which are open to the outside and have diagonally directed walls as a rear closure. . With open sliders · m and circumferential disc ^ · rolling the Kugeina from the container through the holes h: k in the individual chambers. In the chambers, strips r are provided on the inclined walls q , which extend from the right-hand partition k. to the left gradually lead down to the bottom of the box 11 and serve as channels q, r · for the balls falling from the holes &. The length of these troughs q, r determines the respective number of balls that each player receives, in that the last ball remains directly under the opening k and prevents further balls from falling through. In. In the exemplary embodiment, the length of the trough q, r is set by the adjustable transverse bar s for the game of Skat, with three players each receiving ten balls. By shifting the transverse bar s in the running channel q, r accordingly, its length is changed and thus also the number of balls go for the players. When playing Skat, two balls remain in the container h, as Skat. After the game has been exhausted, the player who has taken the game can allow these balls to run into his chamber by turning the disc g by making the outlet opening k free ^ The disc g is turned by a on the upper square of the shaft d placed key, which is not shown in the drawing. In order to be able to arrange the balls clearly in the chambers , the bottom of the box has an edge strip t on which the balls can be arranged next to one another in a plane path to the lower balls in the running channel q, r. The position of the balls ί & Ϊ d Lit i ihkit d

the last is indicated by dash-dotted lines (Fig. 1). A small container w is also provided for the game of Skat (Fig. 5), in which the pressed balls are stored as Skat. Ztim counting the number of individual stitches value for each 'player on the game board b u a bar with counting means for the units, tens hundreds and- also provided, which are marked by Stekker ν in the holes provided.

The game itself works in the following way.

The player places the ball to be played in the hole c belonging to him, which is kept closed by the discs, whereupon the other players also insert a ball in the holes c assigned to them - the winner of the trick then marks the value of his trick on his scale «By means of the" plug v. After each stitch, the discs on the levers / are brought into the open position so that the balls in the holes ^ fall through into the container &. In this way, after the game is over, all the balls are in the Container h. By turning the disk g with a socket wrench, the balls on the disk g roll through one another onto the funnel-shaped partition / protruding over the edge of the disk g . If the slides tn are now opened by the players, the balls a run in a certain number through the holes k and the troughs q, r into the chambers assigned to the players, where the balls are then placed for the next game arranges, whereby the lasts are also used to create the balls.

It is readily understandable that with the new device every card game that is otherwise played with cards can be carried out according to the invention with the new game balls, the balls being simply and thoroughly mixed in the container h and a scam, e.g. B. by viewing other people's cards, is excluded. The individual balls a can be made from celluloid, for example, and can be made easily recognizable by repeatedly recording the ig values in every position of the ball. In a test game, the differentiation of the individual values by painting the balls in different colors has also proven to be quite effective. All parts on which the balls roll are expediently given a fabric covering, as is the case with

for example from billiard cloth, whereby a completely smooth rolling of the balls is achieved • will.

Claims (3)

Patent claims: I. Ball game as a replacement for playing cards, characterized in that in place of the Playing cards made distinctive by lettering and painting ίο Balls are used - which are housed in a special device, from which they can be mixed and evenly distributed to the individual players into special chambers that cannot be seen by the players and from which they can be clearly arranged for the game by the players, while the upper plate of the device serves as a playing plate (J)) , which is provided with insert holes (c), into which the players put the ball to be played (a) , which after the stitch by a handle movement into the mixing container (Ji) roll in, where they stay until after the game is over. 2. Embodiment of the ball game according to claim 1, characterized in that the chambers below the container (Ji) are formed by radially placed walls (/?) Extending from the corners of the box bottom («), the rear end of which is obliquely arranged walls (q ) , on which strips (r) are provided, which with the inclined walls (q) - form the inlet channels (q, r) for the balls from the container (Ji) into the chambers, whereby the length of the grooves (q, r) determines the number of balls allocated to each player. 3. Embodiment of the ball game according to claim 2, characterized in that the length of the grooves (q, r) can be changed in the grooves by adjustable cross slide (s). 1 sheet of drawings