US1551981A - Game - Google Patents

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Rf E. DETTE Sept 1. 1925.

GAME

Filed Feb. 26, 1925 mvzzvron M01115. 5am. W12? M6 may Patented Sept. 1 1925,

Toiwllwhqm itmay concern; r

,Be it known that L'ROBEB'I 13,; D residing 'at Knoxville, in theeeunt'y of A j; gheny and State of Pennsylvania; a eit-izen of the Unit-ed States, 'l't'ztvfe' invented Q11 disco've 'ed eert-aiil new i a'ndgnseful, Imprflye: nle'nts in Games; of which impm'vementsthe following ista 'specifieation. u

it My i iven't-ioii' is found 'f a; game, this game in v epe'eiifi'e cen'nnereiajl em'hegli; ment is illustrated iii the aceompai'iyin'g drawings. i

'FigfI is wvievv ofqthe bGa dZ- -Hndpi M in" 'perspeetive; Figs. II I and: IDI- age Views to; Ia -I'g'er scale, in p l ai'n and in end elev'aflgim of Time of the pices Ofenechraeter; Fig. IV is if 'VIE'W, to the settleoflFig, IIjamd III, of at piece of ii-netherehzirzfiotenehqwn in side elevxtien and shown inuengagement with a; piece "f the'c1-1afaeter shew-n iIlztFigs'. II and III. This ilzpst-mentiehed picfi is in Fig: IV shoWI'l in medial and vertical sect-16h. V: is a .view' in transjve'rse secti'en thro'ug'hthe pieeeqs'hoii n in idegelevati'on in'Fifg. IV, and this pieee is-;ij11;'..Eig. V 'eho'wn in' two 'jztlternzttezfolrms, Eigl VlI IHUSEPELIZBSEU n'ldifieatien of the mark' piece, end: eoinpaireeto \Figt:III. ,i l I v The game as here embOdiecT ine11'1de ;,ja, bozirdges we'll asdpieees o'f twin: oh vrzrciiers. The. 'piece 'sethemse'lvee embody", the invn-tien in its: essence; and; given those; jth-eugame may he played ripen suehi sur-face'as fortuitous-1y \fiersn Preferably, {howe-ver, angd partieulai ly 61 cbmmepeiel purp0ses,, a b oa rd is provided; a beard sushi is isgehb'wn at 1, Fig. I. I do not mean to limit myself to p zirti'eula r cliiiierisioim-gfo r the dimensi'eris' may he; widelyvariedi but; in; the particular" embodiment of the? infvention Whieh'I have made," the? bdarctcis eighteeh ineh'es' lmig ain'chsix inches Wide-:1 Alt ohe ehd the. boafrd is"- pi'ovideduwifih" ziir-balckest 2; suitably'bl'a'eed by" blotrke "It; will; e under stoed' tw n the ensuing fle'scripti qn that the game may be playelcl'onf acsuit-able stirfce, without any hmlfistbp' at; all: but, preferably, :i-nd p articularly: in" A; coinnlmieial embofliineiit; the horrdanx ill' be fipl'owidd wi h uch a vke pi *Qidina yth bd k h nzth im li. pic lli s mpmithe Us,

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fabiic of uifieient rigidity, such as bjgulfilid ploth; 1lFheemeiiki pieeseare an i ch' liongkmn inch and alto-w the keeiiii eighth bound from the back-stop, as presently will be explained. The open end of the horseshoe is half an inch across, inside measure, and the lips, whose shape is best shown in Fig. III, taper from the lower face of the body portion to points in approximately the plane of the upper surface. The particular shape of the mark piece may be modified, as indicated in Fig. VI, to the end that it may be'in playing position, either side-up.

The number of mark pieces is a matter of secondary consideration, but in this. particular embodiment of the game four are provided. and they fit easily in alignment against the back-stop 2,.as shown in Fig. I, from which position any one may easily be removed in the progress of the game. 1

In playing, them-ark pieces are set in-substantially the position shown in Fig. I, side by side, backed against back-stop 2, their open ends directed toward the opposite end of the board, and their lips tapering upward. A missile piece is placed at the opposite end of the board. in substantially the position shown in Fig. I. The player presses with his finger upon missile piece 4 and by increasing the pressure and at the same time shifting to rearward from the vertical diameter the point of concentration of stress, he presently causes themissile piece toshoot from beneath his finger forward, in the direction indicated by the arrow a. At the same time he imparts tothe missile piece retrograde rotation, in the direction indicated by the arrow 6. In making this shot, the player aims the missile piece, that it may enter between thelips of a mark piece. The missile piece at, advancing, skims the surface of the board. Perhaps, if the pressure has been too great, or not skillfully applied, the piece hops some- What, or bounds along. The advancing missile piece may or may not reach the backstop; if it doesit will rebound; butwhether it reaches the back-stop or no, if it has been properly shot, it will continue its retrograde rotation after its advance inthe direction indicated by arrow a has ceased. It then will roll back toward the end of the table from which it was impelled. If the missile piece has been properly directed, and has efore retrogression entered between the of a mark piece, it will roll back to- "ward the starting point,-carrying a mark lips piece, in the position shown in Fig. IV. The mark piece is light, and" the missilepiece of heaviermaterial'easily drags it along. 7 y 7 The game is achieved in so picking up one byone the mark pieces and removing them fro-m their initial position. And an element of skill, acquired with not too great difficulty, is involved in aiming the missile pieces and in so shooting-them that they shallmo-ve with proper momentum in both of their two simultaneously imposed motions,advance in the direction a, and rotation in the direction I).

I have described the missile piece4 as a bone ring, rectangular in cross section. Manifestly the cross-sectional shape may be minutely varied, and in this respect suited to the particular material employed, and in Fig. V I show in cross-section two rings: one, the ring 4 already described; the other the ring. 45, which in cross-section is obtusely triangular. Comparison of this crosssection with the showing of Fig. III will show that the ring iswell adapted to enter between the lips of the mark piece, and that, given an inter-lip space of that particular shape, the ring 4* of Fig. V is of a shape to afford maximum cross-section, and yet toenter the space freely.

I have described the mark pieces as being made of cork; alternatively, they may be made of felt, or of another light material. I have described the mark pieces as being formed with bodies of relatively rigid material and lips of relatively flexible and elastic ,material'. That is my preferred structure. But manifestly the resilience necessary to allow the entrance of the missile ring between the lips of the mark piece may be found in the body of the mark piece itself. The lips'may be relatively inflexible, and, under the impact of the missile piece the arms of the horseshoe may spring apart, to allow entrance of the missile piece between the lips and into interlinked engagement with the markpiece.

It should be said of the horseshoe shape of the mark piece that when the piece is positioned, as it here is shown to be, against a back-stop, the arms of the horseshoe are so positioned as best to resist the impact of an on-coming missile piece, and to insure concentration of the meeting forces in the bending of the lips 6.

. -As already Ihave intimated, proportions may be varied, minute shape may be altered, the number of pieces of the several sorts is not an essential matter, and board and backstop may be improvised, and the back-stop may even be dispensed with. The surface of play will necessarily be a smooth surface.

I claim as my invention:

1. A game including a missile piece in the form of an annulus and an elastic mark piece in the form of an incomplete loop. 2. A game including a missile piece in the form of an annulus and an elastic mark piece in the form of an incomplete loop, the approaching ends of the incomplete loop presenting to an advancing missile piece a re-entrant angle.

3. A game including a missile piece in the form of an annulus and a mark piece in the form of a broken ring, with flexible elastielips guarding the break,

4. A game including a missile piece in 5. A game including a board With abackthe form of an annulus of elastic material, stop, a plurality of elastic mark pieces of and a mark piece in the form of a horsebroken loop form, and a missile piece of an- 10 shoe of relatively rigid material with lips of nular form.

= relatively flexible and elastic material con- In testimony whereof I have hereunto set verging from the ends of the horseshoe my hand.

across the space between the ends. ROBERT E. BETTE.

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