US1365712A

US1365712A - Game apparatus

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Publication number: US1365712A
Application number: US329936A
Authority: US
Inventors: John W Mcleod
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1919-10-11
Filing date: 1919-10-11
Publication date: 1921-01-18
Anticipated expiration: 1938-01-18

Description

J. W. MCLEOD GA'ME APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. H, 1919.

1,365,712, Patented Jan. 18, 1921.

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GAME APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 18, 1921.

Application filed October 11, 1919. Serial No. 329,936.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN W. MCLEOD, a citizen of the United States, and residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Game Apparatus, of which the following is a motion either rolling or pitching while at sea; and theobject of the invention is to provide an improved mounting or support for tables of the class specified which is designed to keep the table in a horizontal position at all times regardless of the position of the ship or other support in connection with which it is mounted; a further object being to provide an improved floor or platform construction which cooperates with the table and which is mounted in such manner asto retain a horizontal position regardless of the position of the ship or other support upon which or in connection with which it is mounted; and with these and other objects in view the invention consists in an apparatus of the class and for the purpose specified, constructed and operating as hereinafter described and claimed.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, of which the accompanying drawing forms a part, in which the separate parts of my improvement are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views, and in which Figure 1 is a plan view of a floor or deck of a ship showing my improved billiard table and supplemental floor or platform mounted in connection therewith;

Fig. 2 a partial section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 a partialsection on the line of Fig. 2; and,

Fig. 4 a. partial section on the line 4- 1 of Flg. 2.

In the drawing I have indicated at 5 a part of a deck or floor of a ship which is cut out to form a large rectangular and elongated aperture 6 below which the ship is provided with a compartment of chamber I. At 8 I have shown a supplemental floor or platform, at 9 a billiard or pool'table and at 10 a standard or support for the supplemental floor or platform 8 and table 9.

The support 10- comprises a base 11 securely mounted in connection with the bottom of the chamber 7 and provided with an upwardly directed portion 12, the top of which is forked as shown at 13 in Fig. 4 of the drawing. through the forked end of the support 10 is a pm or shaft 14:. Mounted on the shaft 141 between the separate parts of the forked end of the support 10 is a frame 15 provided with a central bearing 16 which permits of the free rotation of said frame on the shaft 14. The frame 15 is provided with oppositely directed arms 17 having reduced trunnions 18 which pass through bearings 19 mounted in brackets 20 secured to the bottom face of the table 9. The mounting of the arms 17 in the brackets 20, as above set out, permits of the transverse rotary movement of the table 9 on the frame 15, or a rotary movement of said frame in a transverse plane in the brackets of said table, and this movement combined with therotary movement of the frame 15 on the support 10 forms a universal connection of the table 9 with the support 10 as will be apparent.

The table 9 is provided with a sheet metal inclosing hood 21, which is secured to the bottom face of the table and is designed to inclose the frame 15 and the various parts Passed transversely connected therewith within said hood, and

said hood also passes downwardly through and operates in a central circular aperture 22 in the supplemental floor or platform 8, as clearly shown in Figs. 1, 3 and 4. The hood 21 is also preferably provided with four downwardly directed extensions 23 arranged at right angles to each other and preferably at an angle of forty-five degrees to the longitudinal and transverse plane of the table 9, and weights 24: are mounted in connection with said extensions and serve to balance the table 9 or hold the same at all times in a horizontal position. It will, therefore, be seen that if the ship 5 as well as the support 10 mounted in connection therewith should pitch, either forwardly or the billiard or pool balls on the table or any other game devices that may be used in connection therewith.

I also preferably support the supplemental door or platform 8 in the same manner as the support of the table 9 and in accomplishing this result I employ a supplemental frame member 25 which is provided with a central yoke shaped portion 26 provided with an upwardly directed forked portion 27 through which the shaft 1% passes as clearly shown in Fig. l. The supplemental frame member25 is provided with oppositely directed arms 28, the free ends of which are provided with trunnions 29 which pass through bearings mounted in brackets 30, secured to the bottom of the supplemental floor 8 as clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 3. From the foregoing will be seen that the supplemental frame member 25 is free to oscillate on axes arranged at right angles to each other, whereby the pitching of the ship 5, or the rolling movement thereof, will not be imparted to the supplemental floor 8.

A sheet metal guard 31 is secured to the bottom of the floor 5 of the ship and extends downwardly into the chamber 7 to a slight extent to prevent parties from being caught between the floor 5 and the supplemental floor 8 in the pitching or rolling movements of the ship. The supplemental floor 8 is held in a horizontal position by balanceweights 32 mounted in semi-circular holders 33 secured to the bottom face of the supplemental fioor 8, preferably in the manner indicated in Figs. 2, 3 and 4: of the drawing.

It will be apparent that the weights 32 will be sufficient to support a predetermined number of players or parties on the supplemental floor 8 without moving said supplemental floor out of a horizontal position to any great extent. I also preferably employ two spiral springs 3l3t, which are connected with'the bottom face of the suppplemental floor 8 adjacent to, and centrally of, the short sides thereof, and these springs are also connected with the bottom of the chamber 7, and the object of these springs is to prevent or limit the pitching movement of the supplemental floor 8 should a party or parties accidentally jump or fall upon the supplemental floor at the side portions thereof, where the springs 34 are connected therewith, which would cause a sudden downward movement of the supplemental floor.

For the purpose of making the description above set out clear, it must be understood that the table 9 and supplemental floor 8 are arranged longitudinally of the ship, or the long sides of said table and supplemental floor are in a plane parallel with a longitudinal plane of the ship, while the other sides are in a plane parallel to a transverse plane of the ship. Thus when the ship pitches either forwardly or backwardly, the frame 15 and supplemental frame member 25 will correspondingly rotate or oscillate on the shaft 24, while in the rolling or lateral movement of the ship said frames will rotate in the

brackets

21 and 31.

With my improved mounting for billiard tables, pool tables and the like as well as the mounting for the supplemental floor or platform 8, the desired game may be played without interference, or without experiencing any diiliculty, whatever, regardless of the movement of the ship, it being understood that the weighi's 2 lwill be sullicient to withstand the weight of the body of a player resting thereon at any particular point without materially aii'ccting the position of the table. It will be understood that my invention is not necessarily limited to the mounting of billiard tables in the manner set out, nor is the invention limited to the particular apparatus in connection with which the game table is mounted, and various changes in and modifications of the dos tails of construction herein shown and described may be made, within the scope of the appended claims, without departing from the spirit of my invention or sacrificing its advantages.

It will also be apparent that in the accompanying drawings I have exaggerated the size of the supports of the table and platform, but this is done merely to clearly illustrate the various bearings employed and, in practice, all of the parts of the apparatus will be made in proportionate sizes and of the required length.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is 1- 1.. An apparatus of the class described comprising a table, a support, means for universally connecting said table with said support, means for holding said table normally in a horizontal plane, a platform cooperating with said table, means for universally supporting said platform, and means for normally holding said platform in a horizontal plane.

An apparatus of the class described comprising a table, a support, means for universally connecting said table with said support, balance-weights for normally holding said table in a horizontal plane, a platform cooperating with said table, means for universally supportin said platform, and balance-weights for normally holding said platform in a horizontal plane.

3. An apparatus of the class described 1 comprising a table, a support, means for universally connecting said table with said support, balance-weights for normally holding said table in a horizontal plane, a platform cooperating with said table, means ill! l l. I)

for universally supporting said platform, balance-weights for normally holding said platform in a horizontal plane, and tensional means connected with said platform and with a stationary support.

4. In a game apparatus for use in connection with ships, a table, a su port mounted in connection with the ship, a frame rotatably mounted in connection with said support and said table whereby said table is universally mounted on said support, a platform cooperating with said table, a supplemental frame rotatabl connected with said support and said plat orm whereby said platform is universally mounted in connection with said support and balanceweights for normally holding said platform in a horizontal plane.

5. In a game apparatus for use in connection with ships, a table, a support mounted in connection with the ship, a frame rotatably mounted in connection with said support and said table whereby said table is universally mounted on said support, a platform cooperating with said table, a supplemental frame rotatably connected with said support and said platform whereby said platform is universally mounted in connection with said support, balance weights for normally holding said platform in a horizontal plane, and spiral springs connected with said ship and with said platform.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed by name in presence of the subscribing witnesses this 9th day of Qctober 1919.

JOHN W. MoLEOD. Witnesses:

C. E. MULREANY, H. E. THOMPSON.