US1393494A - Amusement device - Google Patents

Description

H. D. BRYANT.

AMUSEMENT DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED meme, 1919.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

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Application filed December 9, 1919. Serial No. 343,462.

To all whom it may concern: i q

. Be it known that I, HENRY l). BRYANT,

a citizenof the United States, residing at Springfield, in the county of l-Iampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Amusement Devices,of which the following is a specification. a a

This invention relates to an amusement device and the object thereof is to provide a a device of this character which is fascinat- I bination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed may be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 represents'a front elevation of the device constituting this invention with parts broken out for convenience and illustration.

Fig, 2 is a side View of the rotatable'wheel and its connected parts, with parts broken out and in section.

Fig. 3 is a rear elevation of the dial board showing the wiring in detail; and

Fig. 4 is a detail transverse section taken on the line 4-4 of Fig. 2.

In the embodiment illustrated a supporting base 1 is shown which may be mounted on any suitable support and from which rises laterally spaced standards 2 and 3 between the upper ends of which is mounted an axle 4. Mounted to revolve on this axle 4 is a spinning wheel?) of any desired construction and which has a plurality of peripherally spaced hand grips 6 radiating from the periphery thereof. These hand grips 6 are designed to be grasped by the operator for spinning the wheel. The hub of the wheel 5 has a brass sleeve-like extension 7 which carries a contactarm 8 having a laterally extending finger 9 on one end which is adapted to travel around and contact with the inner face of a flash board 10.

a disk of fibcror othersuitable insulating material fixedly mounted on the inner face of the standard To the inner face of this disk 10 is secured a plurality of brass contacts 11, fourteen of which are here shown, although obviously any number desired may be employed. These contacts are spaced apart a sutlicient distance to prevent the passage of any electric current from one to the other. The contacts 11 are arranged on the inner face of the disk 10 to, form a complete circle, shown clearly in Fig. 4. Toeaclrof these contacts is attached a copper wire 12, a binding post 13 being shown connecting each of saidwires with its respective contact. These wires 12 pass through a flexible conduit 14 to an indicating dial 15 where eachis connected up to an electric light bulb 16 carried on the front face of the dial 15.

The dial 15 is mounted on the upper end of a standard 18 rising from a suitable base 19. The dial 15 is divided on its front face into a plurality of segments or divisions 17, fourteen of which are here shown to correspond with the number of contacts 11. carnot shown, are attached to the back of the standard 18 by porcelain cleats 21 and are connected to a fuse-box 22 and a switch 23. From the switch 23 the wire 20 passes around the back of the dial board 15 and is connected in multiples to one binding screw of each of the fourteen electric light bulbs. The other wire 2O passes through the flexible conduit 14 to the flash board 10 where it is connected through a combined binding post and bolt 27 to a small tension arm 24 carried by the board 10. This tension arm 24 is equipped with a small copper shoe 25 which rests on and contacts with the sleeve 7 thereby conducting the current to the finger 9 of arm 8, carried by the sleeve, which finger is always in contact with one of the fourteen contacts 11 carried by board 10.

The flash board 10 is shown in the form of An adjusting screw26 is carried by the arm 24- t'or varying the pressure of shoe 25 on the sleeve 7. i

This device may be played by fourteen persons, each of which chooses a number ranging from one to fourteen and one of the players grasps one of the grips 6 of wheel and spins the Wheel. The spinning of this Wheel operates the flashing board which causes the electric lights 16 on the dial board to flash, one after the other successively as the contacts are made on the flash board.

As the Wheel 5 slows down and stops the 7 linger 9 will remain in contact with one of twice; it. will be readily seen that this device will be very fascinating and entertaining. From the foregoing descr ption, taken in COIlHeCtlOIl with the accompanying drawings,

the advantages of the construction and of the method of operation Will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art to which the invention appertains and While I have described the principle of operation of the the scope of the claimed invention.

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

A device of the class described, a rotatably mounted wheel, a contact carried by an extension, having a sleeve-like extension on its hub, a flash board of insulating material disposed adjacent thereto and having an annular series of insulated contacts on the face opposed to said extension, said contacts being arranged in the path of said wheel carried contact, an electrically connected tension arm carrying a shoe bearing on said sleeve, a dial having one face divided into segments, a number and a light bulb on each segment, conductor wires connecting said lights and the contacts of said flash board.

In testimony whereof I affix signature in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY D. BRYANT.

Witnesses:

ALFRED H. SCARLES, J. F. WELSH.

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