US1063415A - Game apparatus. - Google Patents

Description

M. S. COMEGYS.

GAME APPARATUS.

APPLIOATION FILED AUG. 14, 1912 1,963,415, Patented June 3, 1913.

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GAME APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 14, 1912.

Patented June 3, 1913. Serial No. 714,957.

To czZZ whom it may concern Be it known that I, MARTHA SHoLL Connors, a citizen of the United States, residing at Burlington, in the county of Burlington and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Game Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in game apparatus, the object of the invention being to provide a game device representing a castle or fort and its guardian which is adapted to be destroyed by devices projected against the fort and eventually the guardian of the fort is designed to be overthrown.

A. further object is to provide a toy fort of this character which comprises a plurality of blocks or sections having suitable supports and constituting the representation of a fort, the several blocks adapted to be knocked down and each block containing numerals indicating values, so that the score of the game may be kept by the players.

lVith these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of constructions and combinations and arrangements of parts as will be more fully hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a view in elevation illustrating my improvements. Fig. 2 is a view in section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a rear perspective view of one of the blocks constituting a fort, and Fig. l is a perspective view of the figure representing the guardian of the fort.

My improved fort comprises a rectangular frame consisting of parallel horizontal. angle bars 1 connected at their respective ends by uprights 2, and this frame is preferably strengthened by diagonal braces 3 as clearly shown in Fig. 2.

The lower angle bar 1 is adapted to support blocks or sections 4 which extend from the lower angle bar to the upper angle bar, and on the upper angle bar blocks 5 and 6 are supported, the latter being shorter than the former and all of said blocks ornamented to represent the building structure of a fort. In other words, the outer surface of the blocks is decorated in such a manner that when the blocks are together, they represent the wall of a fort.

Each block is provided in its rear face with sockets 7 which receive dowel pins 8 projecting forwardly from the angle bars 1. These dowel pins 8 are loose in the sockets 7, so that they permit the blocks to be readily knocked over by any suitable projectile discharged at the fort. Each block contains a number, and in playing the game the player counts for himself the numbers of the blocks he knocks down.

Two of the blocks 4 at one end, are provided with registering recesses 9 forming an opening and back of this opening a figure 10 is positioned. This figure 10 is supported upon a base 11, and may be positioned far enough back of the fort so as not to be upset when the blocks are knocked down. It is, however, desirable to have the figure so proportioned that the face of the figure can be seen through the opening formed by the recess 9, so that if a player is expert enough, he may knock over the figure by a suitable projectile through the opening. Over this opening formed by the recess 9, the largest numeral is found because this is the most diiiicult play and counts the most for the player.

While of course the figure may represent various characters, a preferable arrangement is to have the figure labeled King Alcohol and the object of the game is then to destroy the fort and to kill King Alcohol, however, the game may be played in various ways and various styles of projectile used, so that the game becomes one of skill.

Various slight changes might be made in the general form and arrangement of parts described without departing from my in vention, and hence I do not limit myself to the precise details set forth, but consider myself at liberty to make such changes and alterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A game apparatus comprising a frame, horizontal bars on the frame, blocks positioned against the bars and having sockets therein in their lower portions only, and pins in the bars projected into the sockets, loosely fitting the sockets and permitting the blocks to be tilted to dislodge them from the bars, substantially as described.

2. A game apparatus comprising a frame consisting of horizontal parallel angle bars, and upright posts connecting the same, blocks positioned on both bars and having sockets in their rear faces at their lower portions only, and dowel pins in the bars projecting into the sockets, substantially as described.

3. A game apparatus comprising a frame consisting of horizontal parallel angle bars, and upright posts connecting the same, blocks positioned on both bars andhaving sockets in their rear faces at their lower portions only dowel pins in the bars pro jecting into the sockets, said blocks constructed with a restricted passage therethrough, and a portable figure back of the blocks and in line with said passage, substantially as described.

4:. A game apparatus comprising a frame consisting of horizontal parallel angle bars, and upright posts connecting the same,

MARTHA SHOLL COMEGYS.

Vitnesses HOWARD EASTWOOD, Emma C. DOOLIN.

(cpies (-i this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. C.

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