US1054757A - Game apparatus. - Google Patents

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S. E. PLITNER. GAME APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 10, 1912.

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GAME APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 4, 1913.

Application filed February 10, 1912. Serial No. 676,825.

1'0 aZZ whom 1'? may concern:

Beit. known that I. raimvoon' E. Fur sun. acittzen of the United States, residing at Fnglwood, in the county of Bergen and S ate'of New Jersey, have invented a new Game Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is a game in which the vary ing plays of the opposing teams in the well known games of base-ball and foot-ball are reproduced in miniature by dummies moved on a playing-board. The movements of the players are determined by following certain directions, marked in separate spaces, upon a gaineboard, upon which a discus is thrown from a distance by the persons engaged in the play of the game.

The means of playing my game consists of two essential features, which are shown in the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1, represents the game board which is divided oii' into a number of spaces, in each of wh h there are printed certaiin legends directing the execution of the well known movements in the game of foot-ball. 2, represents the game board as divided off into spaces with directions for the game of base-ball. The two sets of directions may be printed on opposite sides of the same hoard as it is necessary to use only one at a time. Fig. 8, represents a small discus which may be of metal covered with cloth. This discus is of a convenient sir cc and shape to be thrown from a distance upon the gameboard.

Besides the gameboards and discus, I am accustomed to use in playing the game a playing board marked out either as a baseand a home plate, or as a foot-ball field with the live yard lines and the goal posts. The two playing fields may be displayed on the opposite sidcsof the same board.

To represent the players, I use small dummies made to stand upright and intended to be moved over the playing-board duplicating so far as is possible the movements of the real players in ,the games of base-ball and foot-ball.

Onthe drawings I have shown but a few i of the directions for the plays which may i be indicated on the game-board. It is understood that the number and variety of i he plays may be largely increased as (lR-l board. If the discus falls and comes to rest in one of the spaces bearing directions for a certain play in the game of ball, the dummies are then moved forward or backward upon the playing-board according as the directions upon the chosen space on the gameboard are favorable or unfavorable to the player throwing the discus. By following out this method an entire game of ball may be played, the rules to be followed and the intricacies of the plays depending somewhat upon the knowledge of the actual games of base-ball and foot-ball possessed by the players.

I am aware that the playing of gamesimitating the games of base-ball and foot-ball by moving dummies on a playing-board according to certain directions, is not novel but I believe that my game whereby the directions for the movements of the players are obtained by throwing a discusfrom a distance, upon the game-board, combining as it does the elements of skill and luck, is new and original.

I claim as my invention A game board having spaces severally marked with legends indicating difi'erent plays in ball games and the resulting gains or penalties, the legends indicating the different plays being the directions to be followed by the players which will enable them to duplicate in miniature the play of an actual game of ball, in combination with a discus capable of being thrown from a distance upon said game board and coming to rest upon one of the marked spaces, by which means the plays of the game are dcsignated.

Signed at New York in the county of New York and State of New York this 9th day of February, 1912.

STANWOOD FLITNER.

\Vitnesses Tnos. H. Buown, GEf HC-l". H. STOCKBRIDGE.

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