US1573711A - Game - Google Patents

Description

in the nature of catapults from which rings Patented Feb. 16, 1926.

LOUIS CHERIE HOUL E, OF-WEST PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

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Application filed October 14, 1925. Serial No. 62,462.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known thatI, LOUIS C. Home, a'

citizen of the United States, and a resident of lVest Pittsburg, in the c'ounty of Law-' rence and State of Pennsylvania, United States of America, have inventeda new and Improved Game, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Objects of the present invention are to provide an amusing game apparatus which may be manufactured at a low cost, Which is of simple, durable construction, and of neat and attractive appearance.

In a preferred embodiment, the game apparatus includes a target member which may be in tl'ie'natureof a stake, and one or more projecting members for elfecting the movement of projectiles toward the stake. V

Preferably the projecting members are may be tossed at the stake.

lVith the. above noted and other objects in view' the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combina tions and arrangements of parts,'as will be, more fully hereinafter set. forth and pointed out in the claims. The invention may be more fully understood from the following description in connection'with the accompanying drawings, wherein Fig. 1 is a plan view of a embodying the invention. J p

Fig. 2 is alongitudinal sectional View on the line 22 of Fig. 1. 7

It is to be understood that while I have shown the invention embodied in anex tremely simple form, the particular manner of constructing the apparatus is subjectcto a wide variety of modification and refinements.

As shown in the drawings, the apparatus includes a base member 10' wh'ich may conveniently consist of an elongated flat" plate, either of wood or of some'heavier material. Centrally of the plate there is mounted a field or platform 11 which has'been illusgame apparatus disc. A target member which in the present instance-isa stake 12, rises from the center o-f'the platform and 1s fixed 1n. the plate.

v1 provide a projecting or catapulting means which is used to throw projectiles preferably in thenature of rings 13. Anynumber of such projecting members might be used. In a preferred form of the apparatus however, I provide one of such members .at each end of the plate 10, said members being in the nature of spring fingers lt havingtheir ends rcmovably bolted or otherwise secured at 15 to the plate ends. The

fingers 14 incline upwardly and outwardly from the plate and terminate in enlarged platform portions 16 disposed at a slight angle to the fingers. In operation a ring 13 1S placed upon one of the platforms 16 and said platform manually depressedby the finger of the player to approximately the dotted line position of Fig. 2. As suchplatform is released, the inherent resiliency of the spring fingers will tend to restore the same rapidly to its normal position, andthe ring 18 will thereby be catapulted off the, platform 16, describe a half circle inthe air and land on or near the stake 12. r j The use of the two catapulting members 1S convenient when two persons are playing the game. The game may be scored like quoits or in any other manner which is decided upon. The relatively wide platform member 11 assures a flat landing place for the rings eventhough the marksmanship of the players is relatively poor.

'Various changes and alterations might be made in the form and arrangement of the parts described without. departing from the invention, and hence I do'not wish to limit myself to the precise details set forth, but shall consider myself at liberty to make such changes as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of the appended claims.

Iclaim: f

1'. A game apparatus including a .base

I plate, a platform member of greater width trated as comprising a thin flat metallic than the base plate, arranged centrally thereon, a stake rising from the center of the platform member spring lingers having their ends fixed to the ends of the base plate, said fingers including enlarged lree extremities for supporting annular projectile mem bers whereby the projectile members may be catapulted toward the stake when the fingers are manually depressed and released.

2. Ina game apparatus of the class described, an elongaled narrow base plate, a 10 stake rising centrally therefrom inclined spring lingers at opposite ends of the base adapted to support annular projectiles to be tossed at the stake, a symmetrical landing platform for the projectiles encircling the stake and extending laterally Well beyond the base plate.

LOUIS GHERIE HOULE.

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