US1532160A - Game and toy - Google Patents

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2 sheets-sheet 1 INVENTOR.

\ ATTORNEYS April 7, 192s.

J. K. SEYMOUR GAME AND TOY Filel'Uan. 9, 1922 JCHN K` SEYMOUR Patented Apr. 7, 1925.

.man K. envi/Lona, or ELYBIA, oHIo.

GAME AND TOY.

Application filed January 9, 1922. Serial No. 527,835.

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Jol-IN K. SEYMOUR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Elyria, in the county of LorainV and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Graines and Toys, of which the following is a full, clear, and concise description as will enable others skilled in the art to which this invention appertai'ns to make and use the same.

This invention relates to games and toys, and particularly to suoli gaines and toys involving the element of chance rather than that of skill, and in which a large number of different combinations resulting from the manipulation of the device by the player may result.

A particular object of my invention is to provide a game or toy apparatus which, when manipulated by the player, will give one or another of a large number of different resulting indications which may be to the consequent variable advantage or disadvantage of the particular player.V

Another object of my invention is to provide suoli an apparatus which will be of attractive appearance, and at the same time will be durable. and cheap in construction.

@ther .objects of my invention andl the invention itself will be better understood by reference to the description of several specific embodiments thereof, and in which description reference will be hadto the draw ings illustrating such embodiments. In `the drawings:

1 shows atop plan view of an embodiment of my invention.

2 shows a vertical sectional vie-w on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1 except that the rotary element is shown in elevation.

Fig. 8 shows a view similar to Fig. 1 of a different embodiment of my invention. .Y

Fig. 4 shows a vertical sectional view on the line 4-4 of Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 shows a gaine Ascoring annular disc in connection.

Referring now to the embodiment illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 at 2 I show a metallic frame having circular walls 3 and a dished top wall 4, the dislied top wall having a central opening 5 into which opening the rotatable wheel 6 is supported on a pivot pin 7. The pivot pin 7 is carried in a circular wooden disc or block 9, the disc 9 being secured by nails 8 to the side walls 3 of the metallic frame. i

'.Ihe pin 7 has a point 10, upon which point the rotatable wheel isv pivoted, there `being a recess 11 extending axially of the wheel, the said pin fitting loosely in the recess and the recess havinga curved end wall.

.The wheel 6 has a corrugated edge 12, the' diameter of the wheel being slightly less than the diani'eterof the central opening 5 `of the downwardly ,dislied fra-nie top wall 4 so that when rotated by al handle 13, the wheel, due to its inertia mass, willl continue to spin for a considerable time without its periphery engaging the edges of the opening 5. The downwardly dished annular wall 4 thus provided lis-divided into a number of spaces, preferably as illustrated, equal, these spaces being determined by struck-up dividing portions ofthe wall 4 shown at 14.

I also provide a small ball 15 such as a steel marble, theball being placed in the portion 4 ofthe frame .2 will, by gravity,

descend until it occupies some ,such vposition as illustrated where it contacts and fits within one of the peripheral notches or indentations 16 of the wheel 12.

When in `such a'normalvposition, the apparatus is operated by suddenly spinning the wheel by manipulating tliehandle'lf, and the ball 15 is caused, by the notches 16 successively engaging it,to be. iiung upwardly and forwardly in the direction ofrotation of the wheel, and in the annular portion 4 of the frame 2, bouncing .upwardly and forwardly thereon until the wheel 6 comes to rest, whereupon the ballV 15 will come to rest between some two adjacent divisions 14 and in contact withl a particularly lettered, grooved or indentation suoli as one lettered, All or 10 or 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 as the case may be, and depending upon the chance position the ball assumes at the end of the spinning of the wheel'.

In playing a game by means of the marks shown on the apparatus of Fig. 1, one can move one or more so-called men along a circular track having divisions, to the right lll 1, but instead provide the Wheel with pins 151, the Wheel proper 61 being disposed'l so that the level ot its top sui-tace will" coin@ eide substantially with the level ot the edge 51 of the downwardly dislied top ivallll. ln this embodiment` also, I may construct the apparatus, as illustrated, of' Wood, the 'trarne meineber 2l and the WheelA member 61 being preferably so constructer. rl`his Wheel li ie the Wheel olf the iiist embodiment will have handles lil-tor the purpose otspinning the Wheel, and the pins 161 ivill project from its top surface 50 in a circle adjacent. the edges of the.l Wheel, the spaces between the pinsl being suitably designated as illustrated, or as otherwise Fre-quired to suitV the particular gaine played; andV the spaeeson the annular downwardly dished portion t1 ofthe traino 21 arer provided by pins 141'. projecting` froml the-top surface near thc central opening ot the` portion l so that these pins pert'orm the saine function as the raised portions la in the embodiment of Figi 1, that is, ot making thel ball 15 come to rest denitely in theorie. or the other division ot the dished portion l or 41,. the openings ot the two embodiment structures being. substantially. the saine.

Figa-5 shows a gaine scoring' annular card or disc adapted to be placed' over the gaine apparatus illustrated' ,in the' other ligures and which comprises a circular 'pathway having divisions marked thereon', such ldivisions comprising, a plurality' oit stai-t divisions 51, 52,53, and 54,' and otherinterveiling;A divisions over which So-called men, as in the' gameo't parehesi, may be nove'dl tronr'one' start position' to a linal home yj oositifni which maybe one' ofthe 'start Y.

pointsv .T ri usingy this would niovetielmfen tothe." right or't'o the" left depending upon the indication given by the gaine apparatus -placed in the' centerot same, the play 1 the annular disc. This naine may be played ifa'riously' depending 'up on 'lilierrules which` aire arbitrary andniaybe va ricd'.

Having thus described my invention, I Wish it' to' be 'understood that numerous and extensive departuresmay be made liroinithe embodiments herein illustrated.' andde-A scribed but" Without" departing trom the spirit o'lj my invention, and thattlie divisions olx the tivo operative elements-may be made considerably diliier'eiit ri'foin that here in illustrated and differently designated, but remaining` within thepurvieufot my invention; llilliatl clainilis:

1'. Iny a game apparatus, Vthe combination with a centrally disposedrotatable` Wheel. a spinning`- handle whereby which tliewlicel may be rotated; a trame"havingV side' Walls and a top Wall, the top Wall' having a.- downvvardly` dishcd port-ion With a."centrallv4 disposed" opening means-` to pivot the' said ot:v the Wheel,Y said edge having; a plural. ot projections extending therefrom, said ball adapted to rest between tivo ot t said projections and to be liu Y l toiuvardlybv the ivliecliiv f i 1'" downwardly dished traine portion spaced projections adjacent the cdoge o, centrali opening` to cause the bull to come to rest after' boina" agitated by the rotated ivheel to al definite position between tivo oll the said rrlieelprojections and to one side or the other of'the said dishcd portion proj cations.v

2. 1n a rame apparatus, a trame, a top n'all therefor` having` an annular downwardly dished portion, -ineanslto pivot said iv-lic'elwithin'the centrall opening ot the said portion and with its peripherv adjacent the edgesV thereof, the Wheel periphery havin/' a plurality ot closely adjacent projectionsvn and the said 'annular portionv having a plurality oi projections less in number than the said Wheel projections and adjacent the edne ot tlie'said opening-and a ball adapted to be agitated' b v the rotation ot the Wheel Within the opening and to come to rest between tivo oit the last namedfprojeetions and againstV an adjacent pair ot the Erst named projection s;

8. ln a gaine appar( tus. the combination with a frame7 a ydished top therefor, an opening,` in the" center ot the said top. a rotatableI Wheel' disposed Within the opening-` the said- Wheeli hav-ina'V a poi said n oi" periphery disposed vabove the level ol' the saidopeuingr,said peripheral portion haying' a'plur'ality off closely adjacent projeo tio slrsaiddislied" top being divided by radially disposed divisions into a pluralitv ot spacesgand a ball adapted/to bc placed in the said dished top and adapted to rest agaii'i-st--thewvheel peripheral serrated portion and to be agitated thereby when the wheel is rotated, said spaces being inarled differently and characteristically, said Wheel surfaces beingv also differently inarlred ivherebythc ball comi-ng to rest Within' one ot thcsaidspas and against one ot the said4 s'err'atfions may give an indication ot value in play to theplayer rotating, the ivlieel," a'cireular track, said traelr being; divided into a plurality oiPA divisions adapted to niark/the progresso? markers placed on the'said div-isions,r` saidindications provided by' the 'positioning ol" the ball. the wheel and the 'space in which the ball comes to rest determining;- tlic movement: ot the said markers' over the-said divisions.

4s In a `Qameapparatos,l a combination with a trame,` a dished top therefor. a ccntral"'openingfwithin the said dished top. a rotatable Wheel disposed Within the said opening and rotatable out of Contact with ABO the said top,rsaid top being divided into a arating the projections, and ineens to preplurality of spaces bordering around the vent the ball from coming to rest on the 10 said opening, a plurality of project-ions eX- dividing line between the dished top spaces. (ending above the surface of the Wheel and In Witness whereof I have hereunto 5 closely spaced together, a ball adapted to be signed my naine thisy 6th day of January,

placed in the said dished top and against 1922. v the said projections, the diameter of the bell being greater than the distance sep- JOHN K. SEYMOUR.

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