US1406155A - Race game - Google Patents

Description

M. coNp RACE GAME.

APPLICATION FILED IAN.29.` 1920.

1,406,155. I Patented Feb. 7, 1922y PATENT OFFICE.

MAX GOND, OF BERLIN-WILMERSDORF, GERMANY.

RACE GAME.

Specincaton of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. *7, 1922.

Application led January 29, 1920. Serial No. 354,958.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MAX CoND, a citizen of the United States, residing at BerlinwWilmersdorf, Germany, have invented a new and useful Race Game, of which the following is a specification.

Race games in which small discs or the like move around in an enclosure on a rotating track under the influence of centrifugal force are known. In these the track is actu ated by means ot' a springpmotor mechanism or by hand. The enclosure is provided with a start at which the discs are collected for the commencement of the race as well as with a winning post, and that disc which is nearest the latter when the track has ceased to move has won the game.

According to the present invention at least two tracks are disposed adjacent to one another and are adapted to be put in rotary movement being surrounded by a common enclosure and driven in such a way that one of theJ tracks which serves for the start of the small discs rotates more rapidly than another which serves as the finish, so that the discs run from one track onto the other with a sinuous motion finally remaining on the finishing track. Y,

An example of the method of carrying out the present invention is illustrated in the drawing in which-Figure 1 is a plan and V Figure 2 a central longitudinal section.

A base plate a is provided and on it is disposed an 8-shaped enclosure b at the two centres of which two circular discs c and d are rotatably mounted' on spindles the two discs being disposed as nearl as possible to each other.

The driving mechanism for the purpose of' actuating the discs c and d is disposed between the base plate a and the two discs c and d. The mechanism consists of a system of gear wheels e, f, g, h, the two middle ones of which e and f are freelymounted and are of the same size, whilst the wheel g which is connected to the disc c is only haltl the size of the wheel h disposed under disc d. The wheel e is operated by a free wheel mechanism c the driving part of which is formed as a lever k adapted to be actuated by hand in the direction of the arrow (Figure 1) and returned to its normal position by a spring 1. The enclosure b is provided at its upper edge with a beading w in which are vertically disposed a number of pins m the lower ends of which are free and springy. When a number of small playing counters 1 2 3, etc., are used and the discs c and d which serve as the tracks are rotated, these pins cause the small counters t'o be moved indiscriminately across the discs. The counters move from the starting disc c to the disc CZ and back again describing a figure 8 as they do so, the movements being repeated for as long as the discs continue to rotate. Finally, however, they-remain on the disc d because this latter moves at only half the speed of the disc c and consequently loses its centrifugal force earlier.

In order to collect the counters at the start the trac-k around vthe disc c is shut off by means of a wire or rod n which is inserted radially from the outside through a hole in the enclosure b. If now, the lever k is slowly moved the small counters placed on the track will all come together near this rod. When the latter is removed the game begins and it lends when the tracks have ceased to rotate in the victory of the counter (No. 10 on the drawing) which is nearest to the winning post 0 disposed adjacent the disc d. In a similar way severa-1 tracks disposed within an enlarged enclosure may be used and driven by means of suitably connected geark wheels. In place of the free wheel device the drive can be provided in a known way by means of spring or other motive power.

I claim 1. In a game of the class described, a pair of discs arranged side by side and mounted for rotation, means to simultaneously rotate the discs in reverse directions and at unequal rates of speed, and means to guide game pieces from one disc to the other. f

2. In a game of the class described, a pair of discs arranged side by side and mounted for rotation, means to simultaneously rotate the disc in reverse directions and at unequal rates of speed, and means to guide game pieces from one disc to the other, comprising starting meanson the starting dise-arranged v yieldable pins. radially thereon.

3. In a game of the class described, a pair In testimony whereof I aHiX my signature of dises arranged side by side and mounted in presence of two Witnesses.

for rotation, means to simultaneously rotate MAX CON D. the discs in reverse directions and at unequal Witnesses: rates of speed, means to guide game pieces ALFRED WENDE,

from one disc to theother, and removable ANNA ASTIL i,rrfrlflf.V

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