US1411451A - Amusement device - Google Patents

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C. C. MYGINIL. AMUSEMENT DEVICE- APPLICATION FILED FEB. 12. 1920.

Patented Apr. 4, 1922.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AMUSEMENT DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Ap1a4, 1922.

Application filed February l2, 1920; Serial No. 358,080.

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7 Be it lniownthat l, CARL C. Mi'oiNn, a subject of the King of Denmark, and a residentot' Kansas City, in the county of Jacle son, State of Missouri, ha ve invented a certain new andusel'ul Improvement in Amuse ment Devices, of which the following is a complete specification.

This invention-relates to amusement de vices (and the object is to produce a simple and inexpensive device which can be enrployed for the amusement oi children or adults; Broadly considered the invention consists ota handle provided with a head at one end having guides or zones and a weighted cord attached to the head and adapted to be wound upon or around the head within t'liie zone. To perform this operation requires more or less skill which can be acquired. with practice by children as well as by grown Folks. The invention contemplates also additional guides marked or formed on the head and suitable rules may be provided whereby the winding or wrappingozt the cord around the head within certain zones will count a perfect score which may be any predetermined number, and the wrapping of the cord around other zones will count for less value.

With the object of producing an amuse ment device which can be employed to great advantage for entertainment purposes, the invention consists in. certain novel and peculiar features of construction and organization as hereinafter described and claimed; and in order that it may be fully understood reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of an amusement device embodying one form of the invention;

Figure 2 is a transverse section of the same with the cord wound or wrapped upon the head of the device;

Figure 3 a fragmentary perspective view of a modified form of the device:

Figure 4c is a fragmentary perspective view of anotherform of the device;

Figure 5 is a perspective view of still a i other form of the device;

Figure 6 is a fragmentary perspective View of still another form of the device: and

Figure 7 is a fragmentary perspective view of another form of the device.

In the said drawing. 1. indicates a handle of any suitable size and length, terminating at one end in a head 2 which is preferablv soineivhat wider than the handle, and the head is preferably provided centrally with perforation or hole 3.

A cord a of suitable length is passed through said hole and secured atone end so that it cannot slip-back through the hole, and at its opposite end is pro ided with a weightpreferably in the form of a rubber ball as shown at 5.

The head will be provided with a. central zone within which the player will try lov grasping the handle and whirling the device, to wind or coil thecord. There may also be provided at each side ofth'e central. zone, secondary zones, which will count for less-1 value'when the cord is wound thereon, that is, if one or more convolutions of the cord are wound upon any one or more of the secondary zones the play will not be considered perfec.t,as it will have less value than it wound-upon the central zone. Rules mav be provicled'giving certain fired valves fol the winding of the cord upon'the central zone and upon the outside zones so that it may be determined what value each nianip ulation of the device shall have and thus enable one to keep a proper tally or score.

In Figure 3 the head is provided with cross marks 4 between which the perforation 3 is located. This represents the central or perfect zone.

In Figure 4 the head is providedwith outwardly projecting lugs 5 in the plane of the perforation 3, and to play the perfectly with this device the cord will have to be wrapped entirely upon the outer ends of the said lugs and not slip off the same upon the adjacent edges of the head. It is obvious that to wrap cord by whirling the device, completely within the zone represented by the marks or zones 4 and the outer ends of the lugs 5 in Figures 3 and 4: re speetively, will require considerable skill or luck.

These forms will perhaps be most appropriate for large children or adults. For smaller children the forms represented by Figures 1, 2, 5, 6, and 7 will perhaps be more appropriate.

In Figures 1, 2, 5, and 7 the central zone is represented by notches 6 formed in the opposite edges of the head in line with the perforation or hole 3, it being noted that in Figure 5, a metallic strap 7 encloses the head and the notches are formed in the pro jeeting ends of the strap at opposite sides of the head, the said strap having af central hole 8 through which the cord 4 extends In Figure 6 the opposite edges of'the head are provided With notches 9 fianlzing the" central notches 6 and f consideiablegless I depth by preferencethanthelattei, sothat it shallflbe impossible foi'more than one or i two gconvolutions of the cordgto stay in said shallow notches 9. Opposite notehes 9represent zones of less valuethan the central notches, the'value of thQ'ZOIlGS, diminishing as they beeomeirnore A remote f oi'n the cen Inlfigure 3 corresponding ontside zones 10a1'e shown by transverse l nes or marks "across th head,"and said'zonesasfthey re- *that'thfe zones;9"and;l0 ofFiguresj 6 and 3 l vicel'foi' play-ingthe game has been explained l no ;rec apitulati0n" thereof. is'believed to be cede from-the eentral zone are oi diminish ing value.;. Y

In Figure 7 the head is'shown as corrurespeetively areofdiminishing value. 7 As the method of anipulating the def ncessafy, 'but it will beapparent that with an ainusementjdevice of this character chil- "dren and even adults can entertain-themelves, especially the game on a com- Pe itive basis,

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d l l io n the above des c iption it willhe ap-Q parent that 'I have produced ail-amusement, deviee enibodylng the ifeatures' of advanage setfforthas desirable infthe statement of the objectof the invention, and which maybe modified in various ways Without de mrting from thep 'inoiple of construction involved. WhatI elaimis: i e

1. An annisement'gdeviee, comprising a handle having a1flathead a cord attache at one endto the head and a weightsecnred to the free end of-th eordy saidhead'being n'ovided With acord-feoeivjing in transverse alinement "With the pointiof fat;- tachi'nentoi' the cordto the head. t t aAn amusement device comprisini'a 1nhandle having a fiathead and provide one sid edge of-the headflvvith a notohjand aiso, provided with a cord "attachedwat. one

endto said head in the transverse plane-of said notch, and; providedlat its free endwith a Weight.

. 3. ,un :amusementdeviee' compi'ising n I handle having a flat head having afeentl al perforation and notches at oppositesides" of and in transverse alinement with said perforation, and cord extending through said perf oi'ation and, secured againstkslip ping thiqo'ngh the jhead, and provided at 7 its free end With 'a weight. i Inwvitnss whereof 1 hereto aflixj my sigi new;

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