US1543319A - Game - Google Patents

Description

* parts hereinafter Patented June 23, 1925'.

- UNITED STATES PATENT'OFFIVCE.

W LLIAM A. CARTER, or YONKERS, NEW roan.

GAME.

Application filed April 23,

which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to games and has special reference to a pin game of the general class of ten pins, duck pins and the like, the game being played, however, with a tethered ball.

The principal and most important object of the invention is to provide a novel and amusing game wherein the object is to knock down pins set at one end of a board by means of a ball tethered to the board with an elastic cord, the board being provided with certain novel hazards for the purpose of makingthe game more interesting.

With the above and other objects in view as will be hereinafter apparent, the invention consists in general of certain novel details of construction and combinations of fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and specifically claimed.

In the accompanying drawings like characters of reference indicate like pa rtsin the several views, and:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the game board in position.

Figure 2 is a plan view thereof.

Figure 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Figure 2.

In this game, as illustrated, there is provided an elongated game board having 'at one end printed on its upper surface a series of pin spots 11 to indicate the proper places to set the pins 12. Close to the middle of the board, but between the center line and pin end, there is secured one end of an elastic cord 13 forming the tether for a ball 14, the other end of said cord being secured thereto.

Between the point of attachment 15 of the tether to the board and the pin end there is provided a hazard in the form of a trap. This trap being made by cutting an opening or hole 16 in the board and being of considerable larger size than the ball 14 so that the ball will readily drop therein. Between the point of attachment 15 and the players end of the board there is arranged a row of hazards, each consisting of substantially semi-circular elastic knob 17. At the 1924. Serial No. 708,522.

players end of the board there are provided suitable ornament indicia 18 and 19, the

latter taking the form of an arrow pointing centrally down the board.

In playing the game, the pins are set up on the spots 11, the ball 14: is then grasped and drawn back to the players end of the board. Aim is taken to one of the pins and the ball is released. The elastic cord will now cause the ball to fly toward the pins. The ball may either hit a pin and knock it down and remain lying on the surface of the board. without striking a pin or it may strike a pin and come to rest in the trap. The game is It may drop into the trap 16 r played by one player manipulating the ball until he has brought down all of the pins.

The other player then takes the ball and,

the pins again being set up, manipulatesthe ball until he in turn brings down all the pins.

The player who brings down all the pinsin the fewest shots wins the game.

The hazards entered into the game in this way. Every time the ball drops into the trap without knocking a pin down, the player scores two shots against himself in place of one. If he knocks one or more pins down and then drops into the hazard he scores against himself the two shots above referred to and the number of pins brought down. For instance, if a player shoots, brings down two pins, and then drops into the trap the count is made as though he 'had taken four shots.

The hazards 17 serve two purposes. If the ball 14, in its first movement, strikes one of these hazards it will not only be diverted from its aim but it will tend to fly up and drop into the trap 16. However, if the ball does not go into the trap the hazards serve to catch the tether 13 and resist it from dropping in as it rebounds.

It will be obvious that while one method of counting the game has been here set forth, various other methods may be employed and rules may be made whereby a variety of games may be played on the same board.

There has thus been provided an interesting and novel game of the class described.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, is:

. 1. A game comprising an elongated board and a plurality of loose pieces to be set up at one end of said board, a ball, and an elastic cord having one end attached to the ball and the other end attached to the board and a plurality of loose pieces to be set up at one end of said board, a ball and an elastic cord having one end attached to the ball and the other end attached to the board adjacent "its center, said board having a series of 7 hazards adjacent the point of connection of the elastic cord to the board, said hazards comprising a trap located between the end whereon the loose pieces are set up and the point of attachment of the cord and deflecting knobs projecting upwardly "from the board between its remaining end and said point of attachment.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

WVILLIAM A CARTER.

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