US1544515A - Game - Google Patents

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June 30, 1925. 1,544,515

G. BRANNING v BY M; v

WITNESS: ATTORNEY Patented June 30, 1925.

vuflurian STATESg PATENT OFFICE. pf

GEORGE BRANNINQOF Ross TOWNSHIP, ALLEGHENY COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, Asfy j' SIGNOR TO NELLIE BRANNING, or PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA.

f GAME'.

kApplia'uon mea May 2s, 1924. serial N0. 716,504.

vTo all whom t may concern: I

Be it'v known that I, GEORGE BRANNINO, a

citizen ofthe United States, yresiding at Ross Township, inthe county of Allegheny and Stateof Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Games, of

. which the following a specification.

` improvement in the art.`

This invention relates to amusement de-A vices, particularly to games, andl has lfor its objectV the provision of a novelgame de' signed to represent the passage of taxicabsl An important object is the provlsionof a game of this character which will `be fasci-y nating, particularly to the young, and whichr will be not only simple and inexpensive to a general manufacture, easy to play, and

WVith theV above and other Objects and ,ad-Z

vantages in View, Vthe invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts to bev hereinaftervmor'e fully described and claimedand illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure` 1 is aplan view of the playing board Figure 2 is a view showing a plurality of the cards employed;

Figure 3-is a view illustrating the ymov'- able taxicabs. p

Figure 4' isan elevation of they variousf from 1 to 38, while the other cards 2 1 have destination markers Referring more particularly tothe drawings, 'I have shown the game as includinga Y board or the like 10 having a playing surface g inscribed to definey a pluralityofblocks 11 representing squares in a'city, which blocks may be variously coloredand grouped in anyf The rowsy and columns of opposite ends of the board Iare feature pointsf land 16 which, in the present instance,`are

distinguished' by bearinglegends Union Station` yand Grand Central i Station, which points or areas are located at the ends garages 17 and v18 belonging supposedlyy to the rival y concerns to whom belong the taxicabs engaged in the game. For the sake ofV Y convenience I have illustrated thoroughfares or the like 19 at opposite sides'of the b oard leading from each garage to the stavtion at the opposite end of the board. While ythe above elements, areas, streets and'other arrangements are shown in the .drawings yand described'in more or'les's detail, it is obvious that many changes may be made in 4the specific arrangement without: in any way departing from the nature-of the game.

Any desired color arrangements and group` ingsfmay be employed. to suit the taste or discretion* of the individual' manufacturer,

and it is obvious that the lmechanical construction Vof the board and its playingsurface maybesu'ch as preferred.

The diHerent squares l11 are all numbered,

as indicated, Or in anyother 4desired man ner and are Vintended` to 'represent destinations of variousztaxicabs making v'certainv specified trips. I have shown seventy-six of these blocks or :.squares, one-half "being shaded to represent red and the other. hand f to represent green, and the blocks in each half are ynumbered from lto`38 inclusive.

connection with this board I makeuse l.of a pack of cards illustrated in Figure 2, Which cards are preferably' forty-twol in number. Some of the cards 38, in fact, in-k dicated byk the Anumeral 20 are" inscribed at their centersy with largel numerals ranging a red yspot Or tag 22 at their centers. Certain of the cards 23 are inscribed at their corners with the legend Blank .and one or more 24 may be inscribed similarly with the f legend Zero. At their' vcorners Vthe A cards 20 are inscribed with numerals begin-y ning with 1 and ranging upwardly, which numerals are preferably printed smaller than the central numerals and which indicate the number of squares to be made at a singlermove, the large numbers referring to Aingapsitionvalt'fl'UnionStation andfusin the board are formed to represent taxioabs or other Vehicles and there are two sets, one say of green and the other of ij.ed, an d nurn-A bered ly to6, inolusive, which tairioabs loelong to theVv vrivaleono'erns or players.

There are also two sets of markers 26, likewise eolo'r'ed" for instance red and green or to oorrespondwithany'other oolors preferred for the various squares, and these( markers are from l to 6 to agree with Athe mmnbers of the taxcabs.

Referring again to` the board, will beg noted `that at tfhfe' ends E,ofthe lor1gitudiiralfv4` v streets '13; or points'where they extend to' draws a card bearing the Red tag he sends one of his opponents oabs,preferably theA one nearest itstdestinatiombaok to, the garnge'lwhereit rnnst r'einain ,until opponent'draws Va card bearing the number 9. When a 9 is drawn by the one lwhose eab is in 'thegarage,Y the oab' '1nay' `be' rernoved and placed on thel-l Parkhere-space adjacent lthegarage7 unless said space is already occuoorrespondingly numbered""pied by another of the players cabs, in lwhiohyoase:thepaburemains in the garage v"and the cab blocking this space is moved nine squares. Whenthe, liglayer`` thenbdnawsgs yanother .M1195 thesosb is releesedefrom, the

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besteed these pessimiste ehlegeerene peine;et,oenxiebs4- Y A nvenient set of u turn to .theuriglitm Topari'iyeiat pontgon The -trel'onrulesf, prohibit,stexieebssroinn turning. .oornersfto the left` esell. watios-must destinenonto.Ilo` 11 ft.thereforerequresfder on'losog" sreoooebsyedfhe ooheroooopn regulation mustnleee the @ebt-*enmedio .i .DUV red*y oabs. i' l'The Cabs 25 re `pl'aoed at, the P'k here 'spese [271.111 romeloelsofolen. with eab N. l in the spae adjaoentytheu garagfewl. cards 20,' ) lz 23 and 24, are then shullled and plaoed'vfne downwardly ,10,1% the' 'tablelfand thepltryers draw nlternatelyguntilsiz: Cards are drawn. Let benssunied with the player with greenpoabsrtakes the@ leadf/'The numbers. in large type z in `the 'centerHV of the cards indicate the' destinations,I of the oab's., Y

To illustrate, should player draw a earc l. with ythe number fin its Center7 blookl on'thelb'oard'is the destination of eab No.1.

on whatever blook oorrespondslto thefnuni-f;A

tinatifon ot y 2 and inarlrelfv v No.f 2 should beoorres'pondinglyplaced', This'is Continued untileaoh playerhas drawnsixh numbers: and the markers arefall plaoed in aooordanoe with,thenuinbersfindicated by the` nuinbersin the, Vcenter of the' rards.I Should Red tag be drawn vat this `stage' of the genie, it should be disregarded andj. soothe? osd. dreiro 'io its Plsoefterfhes: ahoye tlraw ing, the o ards drawnare plaoed at the bottornbf the pookA and the-players draw again alternately to "determine ;the

nurnloeroil inoqes that a ,o ab qaninake, as indioated :by the small nuinloersin theeor-` nei-slof the eards, troni 1 to 1 0 indioating thei number of squares that a Cabiqnn be y moved in oneturn or play. It is o pjtional 1eftfnhis, gerese, from whioh, it" L eeonot. b

withdrawn metilA henrswse. No; ,7, where-90 .oponthe iosbfmey ,beireleesed and 21e-ood .lll .elly evelleble Perk. here?? speeel so'.v esito ster? sllover tot, they destifoetion 'rstfdetera milledf; The. plsyele ,who t, first. sueeefedssin 2 getting.e11ofhiej,eahsto their destinations@ Wins .the seme 4If.idesredrdthegerne: merf be prolonged by returning l the v ,oabfs to Chell originelipositoI1srowe.-.by.loooregfv4 1 VVhileJ haveshown-and Vdesoriloed thefg preferred/.embodiment of v`my.inreinio1-1`, it loo is of eourseto be understood `,that 1 resergethefrsh to' Ineke .suoh ohsoees in tlleiormi.- construction and a'rrangeli'erlt of .parts will not departronl the :spirit: ,ofthe/invenl .tos or .thesoope ,ofthe subjoned eleinismf ber drown! The Y,ooooloesoil' thesoooool. ,oord drawnbyrth'e same playerindioatesthe des I olairn; Y

1- A gomeioolodngs boslid llo.eriiogos .playing sorfeoe .providedWithstsrtingstses tions and inscribed to lrepresent interseotingli oityzstreets deningblookdthe blocks being" plenos; .surface provided; with starting; staf .tions 21.1101 llsol'iloeol to represent 'nterseotnigsl City Streets-defining .blooksfthe bloks being-.....l nuinbered andl arranged.; in oontrasting groups With Corresponding .numbers in eaehs. group., .in Combination. With pleyngipees; adapted to he shifted over- 'igheplayjng Supp 125 faoennd brought yto reStfvlrlPon*theblooks,;

Aand a pack of numbered ,oardsl for ,for t u i i yuntil the neXt timori-he clrguvsa tously detelmnng the' :blooks l :constituting destinations dfor the :.peoesf,

inscribed with starting positions and furmeans for ortuitously detenniningfeertain ther inscribed with intersecting lines repreblocks to constitute destinations vfor the senting city streets and defining city blocks, pieces, and means for marking'said destina- 10 the blocks being arranged in groups with tions; t

5 one group distinguished from the other, the In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

blocks in each group being correspondingly numbered, pieces movable onto the blocks, GEORGE BRANNING.

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