US1176076A - Game apparatus. - Google Patents

Description

WILLIAM A. MELIUS, OF GHENT, NEW YORK.

GAME APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 21, 1916.

Application filed September 10, 1915. Serial No. 50,005.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM a citizen of the United States, residing at Ghent, in the county of Columbia and State ples of base-ball are involved and which consists essentially of a diamond having the position of the players properly located thereon and determined by holes which receive the object or playing ball.

Further objects of the invention will appear as the following specific description is read in connection with the accompanying drawing which forms a part of this application, and in which Figure 1 is a plan view. Fig. 2 isa transverse sectional view taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view taken midway between the top and bottom of the case or box. Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional view taken on line 4-4 of Fig. 1.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, 1 represents a box having sides 1, ends 2 and 3, a base-board 4 and a glass cover or top 5. The base board has positioned thereon and extending diagonally from the sides to the end 2 a pair ofguiding strips 6 which converge to a receiving pocket 7, the purpose of which will be hereinafter described.

Located between the base board 4 and glass top 5 is a playing board 8 separated a sufiicient distance from the top and baseboard to permit of the convenient rolling of the playing object not shown which preferably consists of a heavy ball of any suitable material. The playing board Sis laid out in the manner of a base ball field and is preferably constructed of papier mach or similar substance having placed therein a plurality of grooves 10 and other grooves 11 representing the base lines. The bases are indicated at 12, 13, 14 and 15, the latter being the home plate and the others, the first, second and third bases, in the order A. MELIUS,

named. At each of the first, second and third bases, the board is provided with a recess or offset pocket 16in which the ball 9 may lodge and adjacent these pockets the board is apertured as shown at 17 to provide openings for the passage of the ball to the base-board 4, where, upon tilting of the apertures, the ball will be guided by the strip 6 to the pocket 7 where it may be removed through an opening 18 in the playing board 8. There are other openings 19 provided throughout the infield which the alls are adapted to pass through so as to represent outs by possible flies and short fouls.- The outfield players represented by the holes 20 are connected to the base-lines bygrooves 21 and 22. The other openings may be arranged around the board beyond the lines indicated, if desired, but it is believed that the present number will present a sufficiently diflicult problem without additional hazards. It will be noticed that the pitchers position, which is also represented by an aperture, is lower than the other points, and that the board is inclined in all directions from the center or that the ball has a natural tendency to travel toward the pitchers position, thereby making it more difiicult for the ball to travel the baselines than would be the case where the playing board were level.

In playing the game, the operator starts the game from the home plate and it is his object to get the ball in the sockets or pockets 16 and out of them along the base lines from first to second, second to third and back to home without passing through any of the openings. If the ball which represents the player falls through any of the openings represented at 17, the player is considered to be put out by one of the basemen. If it enters the opening at the shortstops position, the player is considered to be put out by either of these players. Difliculty of the game resides in getting the ball out of the safe pockets 16 and causing it to travel a continuous path around the base lines.

What is claimed is 1. A base ball game apparatus comprising an elongated box-like structure, including a bottom, glass top, side and end walls,

a playing board interposed between said top and bottom and spaced from both, said board having a diamond shaped pathway indicative of a ball field, said board having an opening at the juncture of the adjacent pathways and also a pocket at one side of from different points on said surface to the difierent pathways and communicating therewith, and a playing object adapted to travel over said board;

.2. A base ball game apparatus comprising an elongated box-like structure, including a bottom, glass top, side and end walls,

a playing board interposed between said top and bottom and spaced from both, said playing board'havinga diamond shaped pathway indicative of a ball field, and an opening at the juncture of the adjacent sides of the pathway, and also a pocket'at one side of each opening, said pocket extending beyond the outline of thevpathway, the surface bounded by said pathway defining the disposed grooves leading infield and having a plurality of irregularly from different points on said sur faceto the different sides of the pathway and communicating "with the latter, said board having a plurality of openings beyond said pathway indicative of certain la ers ositions two sides of the said pathway leading to a pocket adjacent one end of the board indicative of the home plate, a playing object adapted to travel over the board, and a pair of convergently disposed members arranged be- 7 tween the board and said bottom for guiding the playing object, toward said home plate subsequent to the passing of the object through any ofsaid openings. x v

In testimony whereof'l affix my signature inpresence of two witnesses;

7 WILLIAM A. E IUs.

Witnesses: l V

ARDEN M LIUs,

GEORGE W. THAYER.

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