US1471375A

US1471375A - Game apparatus

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Publication number: US1471375A
Application number: US546057A
Authority: US
Inventors: William S Bowman
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1922-03-23
Filing date: 1922-03-23
Publication date: 1923-10-23
Anticipated expiration: 1940-10-23

Description

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GAME APPARATUS.

Application filed. March 23, 1922. Serial No. 546,057.

' cation.

This invention relates generally to games and toys, and more particularly to a game in which the success of the player is directly dependent upon his or her dexterity and skill in the manipulation of the apparatus.

More specifically a game board upon the surface of which are a plurality of spherical bodies, hereafter called balls. The surface of the board is provided with plurality of compartments, pockets, or pens, and it is theobiect of the player to so tilt and otherwise manipulate the board, that the balls will gravitate into said pens.

'A further bject of the invention is the identification of certain pens with certain of said balls, the game being successfully terminated when all the pens contain only balls of the same identification as that pen, and no balls are unpcnned.

Other objects of the invention are the provision of obstacles preventing the direct entrance of balls into the pens; the prevention of the easy removal of a ball from the wrong pen; the provision of undulating upright surfaces against which the periphery of the balls contact, whereby the speed of the balls is retarded and further movement is impeded; the provision of means whereby, with difliculty, a ball may be jumped out of the wrong pen into the correct one, said means also operating, upon tilting the board 180 degrees, to release all the balls from the pens for a repetition of the game.

Other objects of the invention will be made apparent in the following specificar. tions and the drawings forming a part thereof.

In said drawings: 7

Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved game board. 7

Fig.2 is an enlarged perspectiveview of the pens.

v Fig. 3 is a section. on line-33 of Fig. 1.

, Fig. 4 is a detail view showing a ball lodged in a depression in one of the vertical surfaces, and r the invention embodies 5 each of the pens, and a gate 3, adapted to ilarly Fig. 5, is a detailedview of one of the doors guarding the pens.-

Now-referring specifically to the drawings, the board A is provided with a floor X, and enclosing side walls C, a transparent cover D being preferably provided, as shown 1n Flg. 3.

Centrally located upon the surface X is a I circular fence'l, provided with. fences 2, 2, at right angles to each other, and dividing that part of the surface X, enclosed by the fence 1, .into foul-pens B-,VV, Y, R, of equal area.

The fence'l is apertured at "the front of cover each aperture, is pivotally mounted upon the fence. As shown in Figs. 2 and 5, each gate .3 is provided withfears which are turned over a rail of the fence 1, permitting swinging movement of the gate. Since each gate is wider than the associated aperture, and since they are mounted upon the inside of the pens, it is obvious that the gates may swing inwardly towards the pen, but not outwardly.

Each of the fences 2, forming the walls of the pens, is cut away at its top, to form the openings 4, the openings between the pens Y and'B, B and W, and WV and B, being centrally disposed with respect'to the fence which divides these pens. The fence between the pens Y and R is cut away soas to form the opening 4 at the end thereof which connects with the fence 1, the latter being provided with a similar'opening 5,

as clearly shown in Fig. 2.

Upon the surface X, and directly opposite each gate 3, is a fence 6, preferably of segmental shape, and concentric with the fence 1. I

The floors of the pens are ored, that of the pen B being blue, the pen W, white, the pen yellow.

The spherical members, or balls .7, herein- ..before referred to, are ofa size to permit through the apertures guarded by the gates 3, and throughthe aperture 4 above referred to. Any convenient number of balls may be used in playing the game, but each of the balls 7 must be colored sim to the floor of one of the pens'B, W, R, Y, or the floors and the balls may, in some other manner, he identified as belonging to the same classification. I prefer to use their passage differently col- 7 R, red, and the pen Y,

pens. -18 held upside down shown in Fig. 3, there s sch i cl srauce between the bottom twelve be lls V obviously it is sometime :ngs. three o r to the pig to make two jump and thence led r home hole.

01 the fences 1 2 I shown in the drawsons, first, because thi. *ealism to the appearance 0 7 ii i whi three red, 1 s s three blue, and three *low. hut it 18 oh- 1 P h he may he jumped vious that number balls may oo 5 varied, as may also be their color, so long the halls are respectively colored the same es the floor of the pen in which they are I. u timately to be located.

I also u. me another ball l9 W eutral color, secondly. because it presents l- L the halls 7, so as struction against which to pass hillGJPil the apertures r1121 freely. /Vher ever a t ri y detained in one of the Wire mes the dog 8 is oil against and dislodge it.

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annot itself YVith the enter a ieu becu pigs in their resgec ye pens, and the is: dispensed dog at rest the game s finished. inventioi h It order to release (lie oigs i rom the start the anewfthe board omprising a surface sure marked to incertain member adapted for gravitation.

1 of aperture 5, or surfs and to e1 r said enclosure, 1 1.611 the board 1s 11 me ited to permit o y of said memi 3 tall backwardly bet 'd enclosure i )rcrei ess until their lower edges rest upon the surthe. 1 and a separate 'it from sa '1 enw ace of the cover D. ln this inverted p sicl 1 "emote trom sail. surface.

tioii, if the board is sharply jerked up and t' described. lows, the pigs will pass outwardly mtapparatus comprising a surt'mough the apertures in the fence 1, non with an en ,losure, partitions d molly guarded by the 3, the gate now nclosure into a plurality of using swung inwardly to uncover said apere! c 1 marked to indicate ture. CltiGSlfiCfihiOJ, a plurality of men- The apertures 4,, in the fences 2, serve adapted to gravitate over said surface also to permit a pig 7 to jump tr hi the ter saio nclosure, each member be 60 wrong; pen i1lli0 lll Y et us asi i l ed to inoic ate the classification of sume that a white 1 Led pen. we of said compartments, means adapted in the absence of means for getting: him 1 entry of said members into each out, the game is lost as soon as a pig eneht ul, prev sting egress th reters 3-811 of the Wrong color. siu r'e. the apertur s in said partitions er- T sbsence of any provision to the contrary, 'ress from each compartment.

L i the pig cannot ut of the pen, and 1e apparatus. comprising" a surthe game cannot be s ccessfully terminated. "KlECl with a plurality of compart- L 1 T n .w i If the bean s c t LC ro sly i ttllljggail .s having partitions therebetween each however, to brag tire ioreign pig to a co artment be 5; marked to indicate a '60 sitron sueh as sho vn in dotted li ues, Fig. .ato classification, a plurality of mem- 15. immediately aortcent the openiig 4s, m \drpted to QIHVltoi-Q over said surface the renceQ, and "He board t1 d from the each ml rlred to in iicate the classificeved i one compartments, means o led to permit entry of said members compartments but to prev-en s end apertures l h edge upwardly and then bodily m uwai'dly and sharply re-"l upwardly, t foreign pig in he caused to jump over and through the opening 4: and into affording communication between all said compartments.

f. A game apparatus comprising a surface provided with an enclosure, partitions dividing said enclosure into a plurality of compartments, members: adapted to graviover said surface and to enter said compartments, means permitting entry of said members into said compartments but preventing egress therefrom, and apertures in said partitions whereby any and all members may be led outside of said enclosure.

5. A game apparatus comprising a surface provided with Walls forming an enclosure, a member adapted for gravitation over said surface, an aperture in one of said walls adapted to permit entry of said memher into said enclosure, an element pivoted to said wall and adapted to permit access of said member to said enclosure but to prevent egress of said member, and an aperture in another wall of said enclosure adapted to permit egress of said member, substantially as described.

6. A game apparatus having a surface provided with a wall forming an enclosure, partitions dividing said enclosure into compartments, apertures in the wall of said enclosure, members adapted to gravitate over the said surface and to enter said apertures, elements carried by said wall and normally covering said apertures and adapted to permit entry of said members into said compartments but to prevent egress therefrom, and apertures in said partitions and said wail. whereby said members may be led out of all of said compartments and said enclosure, substantially as described.

7. A game apparatus comprising, in combination with members adapted to gravitate over a surface, a wall forming an enclosure on said surface, said enclosure being provided with partitions dividing it into a plurality of compartments, each compartment being provided with an entrance aperture for said members, extending through said wall, and with an exit aperture for said members extending through one of said partitions, substantially as described.

8. A game apparatus comprising, in combination with members adapted to gravitate over a surface, a wall forming an enclosure on said surface, said enclosure being provided with partitions dividing it into a plurality of compartmnts, each compartment being provided with an entrance aperture for said members, extending through said wall, and with an exit aperture for said members extending through one of said partitions, and means permitting entry of said members through said entry aperture, but preventing egress therethrough, substantially as described.

9. A game apparatus, including a surface and members adapted for gravitation thereover, comprising an enclosure having a wall and apertures in said wall permitting 1ngress of said members into said enclosure,

means preventing egress of said members through said apertures, and barriers on said surface, spaced from said Wall, and presenting a surface composed of hills and valleys, substantially as described.

10. A game apparatus, including a surface and members adapted for gravitation thereclosure into a plurality of compartments,

apertures in said walls, members adapted to gravitate over said surface and to pass through said apertures, barriers on said surface located opposite said apertures and spaced from said wall, said wall, said partitions and said barriers presenting, on both sides, surfaces of hill and valley construction, substantially as described.

12. A game apparatus comprising a surface provided with a wall forming an enclosure on said surface, partitions dividing said enclosure into a plurality of compartments each marked to indicate aclassification different from that of any other compartment, apertures in said wall affording admission to said compartments, a plurality of balls adapted to gravitate over said surface and pass through said apertures, each ball being marked to denote a classification the same as that of one of said compartments, a gate for each aperture, pivotally mounted to swing inwardly, under contact by said balls means preventing said gates from swinglng outwardly, another ball adapted to gravitate over said surface and i of a size preventing its passage through said apertures, ports in the upper edges of said partitions permitting the passage of a ball from one compartment to another, port in the upper edge of said wall, permitting the exit of balls from said enclosure, barriers on said surface located outside of said enclosure and opposite said apertures, said walls, said partitions and said barriers presenting, on both sides, vertically disposed surfaces of hill and valley construction, sub stantially as described.

13. A game apparatus comprising a surface provided with an enclosure, partitions in said enclosure dividing the latter into compartments, a member adapted for gravitation over said surface and to enter said enclosure, means movable to permit entry of said member into said enclosure, but to pre vent egress therefrom, an aperture in the top'portion of said: partitions permitting the passage of said member between the several compartments, when said member is out of contact with said surface, substantially as described.

14. A game apparatus comprising a surface provided with an enclosure, partitions in said enclosure dividing the latter into com partments, a member adapted for gravitation over said surface and to enter said enclosure, means movable to permit entry of said! member into said enclosure, but to prevent egress therefrom, and an aperture at the top of said enclosure permitting egress of said member when the latter is out of contact with said surface, substantially as de scribed.

15. A game apparatus comprising a surface provided with an enclosure, partitions in said enclosure dividing the latter into a plurality of compartments, a member adapted for gravitation over said surface and to enter said: enclosure, means movable to permit entry of said member into said enclosure, but to prevent egress therefrom, an aperture in the top portion of each partition permitting said member to pass between the said compartments when said member is out of contact with said surface, and an aperture in said enclosure permitting the egress of said member when the latter is out of contact with said surface, substantially as described.

16. A game apparatus comprising, in combination with a surface and a member adapted for gravitation thereover, a circular enclosure on said: surface constructed to provide hills and valleys on both sides thereof a plurality of partitions in said enclosure dividing the latter into compartments, said partitions presenting hill and valley surfaces on both sides, means permitting ingross of said member to said enclosure but preventing egress therefrom, and means whereby said member may pass from one compartment to another, substantially as described.

17. A game apparatus comprising, in combination with a surface and a member adapted'for gravitation thereover, a circular enclosure on said surface constructed to provide hills and valleys on both sides thereof, a plurality of partitions in said enclosure dividing the latter into compartments, said partitions presenting hill and valley surfaces on both sides, means permitting ingress of said member to said enclosure but prevent ing egress therefrom, means whereby said member may pass from one compartment to another and means permitting egress of said member from said enclosure, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I ailix my signature.

WILLIAM S. BOWMAN.