US1474961A - Game - Google Patents

Description

Nov. 20 1923. 11,474,96)1

C. A. FOSTER Patented Nov. 2%, i923.

srar

CHARLES A. FOSTER, OF BALTIMORE, HLABYLAND, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO NOEL M'AN STRIPPY, 0F

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

GAME.

Application filed September 26, 1921. Serial No. 503,122.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES A. FosTnR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Games, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in games, and particularly to that. class nown as ten pins, and has for its object to provide a game so constructed and arranged that the same scores can be made as are possible in a game of ten pins played upon a regular bowling alley.

The invention consists of the novel construction and arrangements of the parts hereinafter more fully set forth in the following specification and pointed out in 'the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawing,-

Figure 1 is a. plan view of my invention with the cover removed.

Figure 2 is a vertical longitudinal section of Figure 1 with the cover thereon.

Referring to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification, and in which like reference numerals designate like parts throughout the several views, 1 designates a box having a cover 2 and .hexagon sides 3. Secured to the bottom of the box 1, on the inside thereof, is a post, or pivot, upon which the disk 5 revolves. The said disk 5 is secured to the lower surface of the finger piece 6 and has an {aperture in the centre thereof in vertical :alignment with the aperture 7 in the finger piece 6. The said finger piece 6 rests over and revolves upon the post, or pivot 4; the yaperture 7 being sufiiciently large to allow the disk 5 to tilt slightly to cause the ball 8 to roll toward the holes 9 near the outer edge of said disk 5. The hexagon sides of the box cause the ball to be thrown away from the edge as the disk revolves. The disk 5 is divided on its upper surface into a number of spaces 10 each having one of the holes 9 near the outer edge, and some of said spaces are provided with two figures, some with the word spare and one figure, and some with the word strike. Each of said spaces represent the score as obtained by rolling two balls in a bowling alley.

Thus it will be seen that by revolving the disk 5 by means of the finger piece 6 the ball 8 will be thrown about and will eventually fall into one of the holes 9, and the, figures in the space in which the ball rests represents the score that would be obtained by rolling two balls in a ten pin game on a regular bowling alley and are counted the same. If a spare or strike is obtained, the figures count in the next turn in the same manner they would in the second roll in a ten pin game on a regular alley.

It will thus be seen that by the use of my present invention the same scores are possible as in a game played upon a regular bowling alley, that is, from a perfect score of three hundred down to the lowest score.

While I. have shown and described the inner side of the box as being hexagon the same may be of any other desired shape.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is:

A game comprising a box having hexagon sides, a pivot secured to the inner surface of the bottom of said box, disk having a number of spaces on its upper surface provided with figures or letters and a hole in each space near the outer edge of said disk, a ball resting on the upper surface of the disk and adapted to fit into any of the holes in said disk, and a finger piece secured to the upper surface of the said disk and having an aperture in its lower surface into which the said pivot projects, said aperture in the finger piece being considerably larger than the said pivot to permit the said disk to tilt when revolving.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

CHARLES A. FOSTER.

ill)

Images