US1096823A - Game-board. - Google Patents

Description

0f P. BREITHUT.

CAME BOARD.

APPLIUATION FILED APR. 24, 1912.

1,096,823. Patented May 19, 1914.

vir-1111 OSCAR P. BRETTHUT, 0F PORTLAND, OREGON.

GAME-nonni).

Speotcation of Letters Patent.

Patented May 19, 1914.

Application filed April 24, 1912. Serial No. 692,881.

T 0 au wnomit may concern.'

Be it known that I, GSGAR P. BnErrHU'r, citizen of the United States, residing at Portland, in the county of Multnomah and State of Oregon, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Game-Boards, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to game apparatus, and has as its object to provlde a gameboard upon which a hi hly interesting game may be played resemb ing to a certain extent, the games of billiards and pool.

The invention aims among other things to provide a garneboard,` the game to be played upon which will require considerable skill on the part of the players.

The gameboard embodying the present invention is of that type having a surface over which game projectiles are to be propelled and which embodies pockets and side and end cushions extending between the pockets, and one feature of the invention resides in so constructing the cushions that they may be manufactured at a low cost and yet wi l 'be sufliciently lively to permit of ditiicult cushion shots being made.

Another feature of the invention resides in the provision of means for preventing the projectiles jumping the table.

For a full understanding of the invention reference is to be had to the following de scription and accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a pers ective view of the gameboard or table em odying the present invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view through the cue constituting apart of the game apparatus. Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectlonal View on the line 3-3 of F ig. 1.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the accompanying drawin by the same reference characters.-

n the accompanyin drawings, the base or bottom of the game oard or table is indicated by the numeral 1, its upper face constituting the surface over which the game projectiles are to b e propelled. Rails 2 upstand from the bottom 1 at the lateral edges thereof and rails 3 extend above the surface of the bottom l at the end-edges thereof.

The table may be supported upon legs 4 or it .may be disposed upon another table or any other suitable support, depending chiefly upon the dimensions of the table. The bottom of the board has its playing surface cut away at each corner of thc table to form pockets 5 and similar pockets (i are provided at each side of the table at a point midway between the pockets 5.

A cushion is mounted upon each of the ralls 3 and extends between the correspondlng corner ockets 5 and similar cushions are mounte on the side rails 2 and extend between the said corner pockets and the side pockets 6. Each of the rails above referred to is in the form of a length of resilient wire indicated at 7 and having its ends bent to form eyes 8. Screws or bolts 9 are secured through the eyes 8 and into or through the rail 2 and 3 upon which the cushion is supported. The wire comprising each of the cushions above referred to is bent at an angle as at 10 between its intermediate portion and each of its terminal eyes 8 so that when the cushion is secured in lace upon the respective rail the intermediate portion of the wire forming the cushion will be spaced from the inner face of the rail.

The game-pieces or projectiles which are to be propelled across the board or table are in the nature of flat-sided circular disks 11 of which there are sixteen, each of these disks having upon its upper face a numeral 12 denoting its value as a game-piece. There -is also provided a disk 13 which in size and shape corresponds to the disk 1l and this disk 13.is designed to serve the same purpose as the eue ball in a game of billiards or ool.

n order to prevent the game-pieces or projectiles 11 from jumping the table` which would be likely to occur if a hard shot were made, guard rails are mounted one at each side of the table and one at each end thereof and are so mounted that while normally they are out of the way of the players using the table they may bc readily swung up so as to ierform the function stated.

Eac of thi` end-rails is indicated by the numeral 14 and is secured at its ends to the freey ends of arms 15 which are pivoted by means of a bolt 1G to the side rails 2 at points adjacent their ends. The pivot 16 for each of the arms 15 passes through a eoneaVo-eonvex washer 17 which is resilient and which serves to also 'Frictionally bind the pivoted ends of tlu` arms l5 as to hohl these arms in upright position when the rail Il is in use.

By referring to Fig. 1 of the drawing it will be observed that when either end rail is in use', the arms 15 Stand substantially vertically and the rail extends above the endcushion 7 When these rails are not in use, the arms are swung` outwardly and downwardly so as to position the rail supported thereby beneath the lower edgeof the respective end-rail 3. Each of the side guard rails is indicated by the numeral 18 and-is supported by the pivoted arms 19 correspondin'gto the arms 15. These arms 19 are pivoted at their ends to hars 20 secured one upon each of the side rails 2. When the rails 18 arenot in use they lie beneath the respective bars 20 but when it is desired to use this rail at either side of the table, the

saine is swung-up to assume about thev position assumed by t-he elevated rail 14 in Fig. 1 of the drawing. j

The cue embodying the presentinvention and illustrated in Fig. 2 of t-he drawing includes a tubular body 21 havinv one end reduced as at 22.. A rod 23 having a tip 24,

.is slidably mounted in the body 2l and ay spring 25 upon this rod bears at Aone end against the inner end of the tip 24 and at its: other end against the shoulder formed in the reduced. end 22 of the said tubular body. Therod 23 is provided at its end opposite the end at which the tip 24 is located wit-lr a handle 26 and in using the cue the handle 26 is grasped and the rod 23 is pulled rearwardly whereby to retract the tip 24. The end of the tip 24 is then placed in close proximity to the game-piece to be propelled and the handle 26 is released. The spring 25 will then act, as will be readily understood, to forcibly propel the projectile across the surface of thetable.

In using the' game apparatus herein described the game pieces l1 are arranged in two rows extending across the table substantially' on a line between the ends of the side pockets 6. In so arranging the game-pieces no care is taken to place them with the numbers thereon in any particular order. After the game-pieces 11 have been propcrly arranged, the gaine-piece 13 is disposed about in the posit-ion shown in Fig. 1 of the drawingand is propelled by the use of the cue shown in Fig. 2 against one or the other of the cushions 7 as indicated in dotted player is skilful the game-piece 13, in rebounding from the side cushion 7 after it has been propelled, will strike one or another of the-,game-pieces in the adjacent row and drive it or another of the pieces into one of the pockets. Should the player succeed in pocketing one of the game-pieces, he

'is allowed a second shot. Should the player fail to make t-he attempted shot, the next player will attempt such a shot as he may desire to make and after the second player has finished his play, the first player will again attempt to play the object piece in one or another of the pockets.

It will of course be understood that the n'ianner of playingthe game may be varied andthat the game apparatus may be used in playing various gaines resembling billiards or pool.

Having thus described the invention what is claimed as new is v In a game apparatus-of the class described, a game board having a banking` rail, larms swingingly mounted one at each end of the rail, and a gua-rd rail secured between the free ends of the arms, said arms being so proportioned that in one position the guard rail lies beneath and forms a continuation of the main rail, while in the other position it extends above and forms a continuation of the main rail.

Invtestimony whereof I aix my signature in presence of two witnesses. y

OSCAR I. BREITHUT. [L.s.l Witnesses:

B. TICE BREITHUT, R. E. PIPER.

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