US1505390A - Amusement device - Google Patents

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K. H. HAMILTON ET- AL AMUSEMENT DEVI 05 Filed June 14 1922- lNl/E/VTOP. MYE HOPE AM/L To.

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Patented Aug. 19, 1924.

r; STATES xAYE HOPE EAMILTQN AND CEGILIA Imminent, or SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

AMUSEMENT DEVICE.

Application filed June 14, 1922. Serial No. 568,123.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, KAYE Horn HAM- ILTON and CEcILIA HARDMAN, citizens of the United States, residing at the city and county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in I, Amusement Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an amusement device.

It is the principal object of the present invention to provide an, amusement and educational device by which fortunes are supposed to be told and sentences formed,

which prophesies and sentences are obtained by chance and without the control of the operator.

The present invention contemplates the use of a plurality of objects, the facets of which carry different inscriptions, which,

when appearing on the uppermost facets of the objects, will form a sentence.

The invention is illustrated by way of example in the accompanying drawings, in

which:

Fig. 1 is a developed view of the facets of a pronoun die. 7

Fig. 2 is a developed view of the facets .of an auxiliary verb die.

Fig. 3 is a developed view of the facets of a verb die.

Fig. 4 is a developed View of the facets of a noun die.

Broadly considered, the invention contemplates the provision of .a plurality of dice or other objects havin words on their facets, the word on each acet, considered with the word on one facet of each of the other dice, forming a sentence by which the supposed fortune is indicated, or which words may be used to form sentences having value in educational games.

In order to carry out this invention, it is desirable to have one die, the facets of which'all carrythe same word, as indicated in Fig. 1, while any number of other dies are provided, the words on each die being preferably confined to acertain part of speech, as, for exam le, in the present case, verbs, auxiliary ver and nouns are used, and these, taken with the pronoun on the first die, will form a simple sentence.

The pronoun as shown is the word you, although it will be understood that various considered collectively will carrying nouns has upon its facets the words love, money, offer, proposal, chance and invitation. It will be evident, therefore, that when the four dice are thrown out ont a plane surface, it will come to rest with certain facets uppermost, as for example, the dice might come to rest with the words appearing uppermost: You might receive money.

It is evident that additional dice, or ther objects such as cards, tops, etc, might be used, providing additional classes of words, so that more complex sentences could be formed, and thus the interest and amusement increased. I

While we have shown the preferred form of our invention, as now known to us, it will be understood that various changes might be made in the combination, construction and arrangement of parts, by those skilled in the art, without departing from the spirit of the invention, as claimed.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A11 amusement device comprising a plurality of dice, one ofsaid dicecarrying pronouns on its various facets, another carrying auxiliary verbs onits various facets, another carrying nouns on its various facets, and another carrying verbs on its various facets, whereby one word of a die considered collectively with-a word of each of the 7 other dice will form a sentence.

2. A fortune telling game comprising dice, one of said dice having the same pronoun inscribed on each of its facets, another of saiddice having a different auxiliary verb inscribed on each of its facets, another of the dice having a different verb inscribed on each of its-facets, and another of the dice having a different nouninscribed on each of its facets, wherebyone word of each dice form a complete sentence.

' KAYE HOPE HAMILTON. CECILliA HARDMAN.

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