US1218874A - Game apparatus. - Google Patents

Description

H. E.'LEWIS.

GAME APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED 001. 21. l9l6.

1,218,874. Patented Mar. 13, 1917.

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' UNITED STATES HARRIET E. LEWIS,

OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

GAME APPARATUS.

Application filed October 27, 1916. Serial N 0.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRIET E. LEWIS, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Game Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a game, particularly for children, and has for its object to provide an attractive source of entertainment, afi'ording much opportunity for exercise and competition and developing accuracy and muscle control.

hese objects are obtained by the apparatus illustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein Figure 1 is a perspective view or diagram illustrating the game, Fig. 2 is a view of one of the stakes or pins, Fig. 3 a view of an implement used in playing the game, and Fig. at a view of a ring also used in playing the game.

As illustrated in the drawing, the game apparatus consists of five stakes or pins 1 adapted to be set upright. They are preferably in the form of figures, which may be decorated in bright colors, sharpened at the base so as to be easily stood upright when the game is played outdoors or to fit in a device or stand 2 to hold them upright when the game is played indoors. The apparatus also comprises an implement consisting of a ring 3 connected by a tape 4, or the like, to each of four other rings 5, each ring being adapted to surround the point of the stakes or figures as shown in Fig. l and the tape, which may be of any desired size and color, being of considerable strength and conspicuousness. The apparatus further conrings 6, of which ordinarily there will be four, each of which may be colored differently from the others or otherwise marked for identification.

he game is set up by means of the implement consisting of the five rings connected by tapes, this implement being spread out and one of the pins set up within each of the rings, the tape then serving as a mark or hazard.

Specification of Letters Patent.

When the apparatus has been thus set up, each player chooses one of the free rings and throws it from a mark some little distance from the apparatus over the first stake. If his ring falls over. the stake, he hops to it, leans over and, while keeping his balance on one foot, takes the ring from the stake, then hops around the pins, making a complete circle, back to the mark or base. his balance, he forfeits his throw to his opponent. After proceeding thus with each of the outer stakes, the player throws his ring over the central stake from the mark and thence hops directly up to the central stake and, removing his ring therefrom, hops in each space formed by the tapes around the central pin without touching any of the tapes, the penalty of touching a tape being the loss of the players throw.

he way in which the game may be played may, of course, be modified, the important elements being the muscle control and balance developed by the hoping without touching the tapes, the throwing and the element of competition.

Having thus described claim l. A game apparatus comprising a number of tapes radiating from a center, means connecting the tapes together at the center, means at the outer ends of the tapes for connection with upright stakes, and stakes the invention, I

ing the tapes distended and spaced apart from one another, said stakes also serving to receive a member to ring the stakes.

2. A game apparatus comprising a central ring, tapes extending radially from said ring, a ring connected to the outer end of each of said tapes, and stakes, one for each ring, adapted to be positioned one within each ring and to co-act with sustaining means, said stakes serving to hold the tapes distended and to receive a member to' ringthe stakes.

HARRIET E. LEWIS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

Patented Mar. 13,1917.

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