US1399712A - Electrical amusement apparatus - Google Patents

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S. J. LEVI. ELECTRICAL AMUSEMENT APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 30, I920- Patented Dec. 6, 1921..

UNITED STATES SAMUEL JOSEPH LEVI, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

ELECTRICAL AMUSEMENT APPARATUS.

Application filed January 30, 1920.

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, SAMUEL Josnrt-r Lnvr, of 25 to 27 Milton street,'in the city of London, general manager of Rose Brothers, a subject of the British Empire, and residing in London, England, have invented a certain new and useful Improved Electrical Amusement Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved electrical amusement apparatus of the kind giving a visual or aural indication when a player has achieved success, by the provision on or above its surface of a plurality of electrical contact pieces connected in an open circuit with the opposite poles of a source of electrical energy and with one or moreelectrical indicating devices, visual or aural, and separate means adapted to be moved by the skill of the player on to said contact pieces so as to close the electric cir-.

cuit, and has for its object an improved construction of such apparatus.

According to this invention the contact pieces are constituted by a pair or pairs of wires threaded up and down through the board.

In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 is a diagrammatic plan one form of apparatus constructed in accordance with this invention adapted for use for playing nine-pins. Fig. 2 is a section on line 2-2 of Fig. 1. A circular board a is provided, with an upstanding peripheral flange I) adapted to prevent the nine-pins or the ball (none of which are shown) from falling off said boa rd and with an extension 0 for supporting a miniature lamp bulb (Z. Beneath the board a, is secured an electric battery 6 one terminal 7' of which is connected with the bulb (Z and the other terminal 9 of the battery is connected with the first of a series of contact pieces h and alongside the series of contact pieces 7L is a corresponding series j the first of which is connected with the other terminal of the bulb (Z. The two series of contact pieces are practically flush with the upper surface of the board a so that they do not prevent the nine-pins from standing upright on the board but they project thereabove only sufficiently to insure that any body of electroconductive material lying on the board immediately thereover shall establish electrical connection so as to close the circuit. These series of contact pieces h and j are constituted by threading a pair of Wires gleading from the Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 6, 1921.

Serial No. 355,257.

terminal 9 and the bulb 03 respectively) up and down through pairs of holes in the board a and presslng the wires down lnto the upper surface of the board.

The game is played with nine-pins and a ball all of which are non-conductors of electricity except one of the nine-pins which is of electroconductive material and which is adapted to close the circuit of the bulb 01 when it lies across any pair of contact pieces h j. This particular ninepin may be made to be distinguishable from, or to resemble, the other pins so as to make the game one of skill or one of chance and other methods of scoring may also be employed, but in either event the bulb (Z is illuminated when the particular pin closes the circuit.

The ball may be projected by hand or by means of a toy gun. If desired the game may be played by projecting balls or other bodies on to the board, without the use of nine-pins, one or more of said bodies being of electroconductive material and serving to close the circuit of the indicator, which may be in the form of a buzzer.

If desired the contact pieces 7i and j may be connected by a flexible cord with a usual wall plug instead of with a battery.

I claim l. A game board of the character described, comprising board havinga plurality of pairs of openings, and a pair of wires passed back and forth through the openings of the board, whereby to form a plurality of pairs of spaced contacts, the con tacts of the pairs being approximately parallel.

2. A. game board of the character described, comprising a board having a plurality of pairs of openings, sundry of the pairs of openings being spaced a greater distance from each other, than the remaining pairs of openings, and a pair of wires passed 'acl: and forth through the openings of the board whereby to form a plurality of pairs of contacts of varying lengths.

3. A game board of the character described, comprising a board having a plurality of pairs of contacts arranged thereon, the contacts of the pairs of contacts being approximately parallel and the pairs of contacts spaced from each other sundry of the pairs of contacts being of greater length than the remaining pairs of contacts.

saiwnn Josnrs Levi.

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