US1487137A - Game board - Google Patents

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March 18 1924. I 4 1,487,137

' J. APOSTOLSKI GAME BOARD Filed May 31 1.922

Z v 4 v In illlllllill "Hill H 2m To all whom it may concern:

taken on the Patented Mar.

JOHN erostroLsKr, or nsraorr, MICHIGAN.

I Application filed May 31,

Be it known that 1, JOHN APosroLsKI, a citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Board, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to game boards of the type in which a projectile is propelled y a one.

The object of the invention a game board for use in I'icult to strike a pm with a projectile used, thereby requiring great skill to provide a board of with a helical track to be struck thereby are located.

l/Vith the foregoing view which will appear as the invention herein disclosed, may be made within the scope of What is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

in the accompanying drawings Figure 1 represents a plan view of the board constituting this invention.

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section thereof line 22 of Fig. 1. v

Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the. cue used. in playing the game, and V Fig. 4c is a similar view on'an enlarged scale of one of the playing pieces. v

In the embodiment illustrated, the board 1 constituting this'invention is shown substantially rectangular in form, although 0bviously, it may be of any desired configurawardly through the game are wall 4 of the track is extended laterally at form a partition 5 which 10 in which the playing are to be set up.

its inner end to completes the field pieces shown at 8 ,maybe of any oth ing when the cue its marring V imparted to These Y ems Beans, 1

1922, Seriallio.1564,$22. I v playing pieces 8 are preferably in the form of small duck pins, although obviously,

er desired form. The wallet ofthe track is shown provided near the mouth of the track with a recess or indentation 6, into which the b-allsiused in playing the game will enter and be therey deflected causing them to veer ofi their course when entering the field 1 A chamber 1s shownarranged adjacent game may be housed This c amber 6 also has an opening 6 in the inner end wall thereof forthe insertion of the. handle 16 ofthe one 15 whichis used for projecting the balls. This positioning 0 t e cue, it is of course understood,lbe-

is not in use. 15 has a head 17 to be used balls.

surface on which it may be placed.

In the use of this board, the

g for knocking down the pins are placed in the outer end of the track 2 and are projected by means of the cue 15, a blow sufficiently hard being send the ball around the track 2 and discharge it through the mouth3 into the field 10, the depression 6 over which the ball passes, operating to deflect, more or less, the ball from its course so that when it" enters the field 10 it will be uncertain what direction it will take, thereby'renderingit very difiicult 'to strike any particular considerable skillwill be required to dislodge or knock down the pins in the field 10 by these balls in the I c aim V 1. A game'board having a helical track arranged thereon and extended to form a larged and opening into thefield and, vided in its a recess forming a deflector for divertin the course of the balls passing over the track, and balls for passage over the track.

2. A gameboard having a helical track they manner above set forth.

field, t e inner end of said track being en- P 0?: outer wall on the inner face with arranged thereon and extendedto form a field, the inner larged and opening into outer Wall provided deflector for diverting passing over the track, the track, and

the outer end with in One Wall thereof, and a cue to be use end of said track being enthe field and the a recess forming a the course of the halls balls for passage over a chamber arranged adj acerit of the track having an opening (1 with as my the board and to be housed in said chamber 10 when not in use.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing own, I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

JOHN APOSTOLSKI. Witnesses:

CATHERINE LAUELY, JENs H. NORGAARD.

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