US1580036A

US1580036A - Game apparatus

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Publication number: US1580036A
Application number: US42987A
Authority: US
Inventors: Haegele William Andrew
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1925-07-11
Filing date: 1925-07-11
Publication date: 1926-04-06
Anticipated expiration: 1943-04-06

Description

April 6 1926.

W. A. HAEGELE GAME APPARATUS Filed July 11, 1925.

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ATTORNEYS P'at'entediApr. 6,1926.

' wnmrnr ANDREW menu, or ELIZABETH, NEW JERSEY.

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Application fled my 11', 1925. serial m. 42,987.

To all whom it-may camera:

Be it known that I, WILIIAM A. 'HAEGEIJJ, Y 'acitizen ofthe United States, and a resident of Elizabeth, in the county of nion and State of New Jersey, United States of America, have invented .a new and Improved Game Apparatus, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to a game apparatus, and the principal object is the pro duction of an apparatus which may be used 7 for playing a game after the manner of ten pins or bowling, so that the users of the apparatus may derive all of the pleasurable benefits incident to the game of bowling and also the game of pool, since the balls used in playing the game will be propelled by the use of a cue.

With the foregoingan-d other objects in view, the invention resides in the particular provision, relative disposition, and operation of the parts hereinafter fully described and illustrated in the accompanying drawin s, in which--- igure 1 is a plan view of the apparatus embodying the features of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the apparatus. .Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2 and looking in the direction indicated by the arrows.

Referring now more particularly to the several views of the drawing, it will be apparent that, the apparatus of the present invention will include a supporting structure 10 having legs 11, and which also embodies an alley 12 bounded on each side by a gutter 13, and at one end by a pit 14. The pit is provided with means in the form of pads 15 40 which cushions any of the pins 16 which are upset and fall into the pit. The pads are so constructed and arranged as to direct the balls used to enter an opening 17 in a portion of the structure to pass into the return gutter 18 which extends at' one side of the structure 10 and is inclined downwardly toward the front end of the structure 10.

' In order to facilitate the setting-of the pins 16 there is provided a mechanism presently to be described. The said mechanism includes .a rack. 19 which isprovided with a series of holes "20. The holes 20 are so arranged that the pins ma be set up in the usual manner when the rec is elt hfirt'ed. The

I alley 12 adjacent the pit 14 is provided with a recess 21 which accommodates the rack-19 m a manner so that the upper surface of the rack will be flush with the upper surface of the alley 12." Arranged in a manner similar to the arrangement of the holes 201m the rack 19 are a plurality of pin rests 22, each of-which consists of a circular plate held in placeby a fastening element such as a screw '23. The rests 22 are received res ective'ly in the holes 20 in the rack 19 when t e latter is in the recess 21, as shown most clearly in Fig. 3. The upper surfaces of the rests '22 are flush with the upper surface of the rack 19 when the latter is in the recess 21'. Carried by the. rack 19 by virtue of theemployment of rods 24, is a plate25. There are vfour rods 24 and each is connected to the rack 19 as at 26 and to the plate 25' as at 27. Surrounding each of the rods 24 is a coil spring 28 one end of which is in contact with the under-side of thealley and'the opposite end of whichis in contact with a disk 29- resting on one of the nuts employed in effecting the attachment of the plate 25. The springs 28' serve as ayieldable means for holding the rack 19 in the 'recess 21 and y for lowering the rack from a raised osition into the recess 21.

raising treadle In order to e ect the of the rack 19 there is provided a 30 hingedly connected at one end as at 31 and under the influence of a spring 32 having 33 and one end attached to the treadle. as at the opposite end thereof attached as at 34 to the bottom of the. pit 14. Rocker members 35 are employed and each is mounted for rocking movement on atransverse shaft 36 carried by supports 37 depending from the part of the structure forming the alley.

Links 38 are employed, there being one connected as at 39 to each member 35 and connected as at 40 to a member 41 attached to the treadle 30. When'the treadle is move (1 downwardly to the position shown in dot and dash lines in Fig. 2, the free ends of the members 35 will push upwardly on the plate 25, and by 'virtue of the intervention of the rods 24 the rack 19 will be raised to the position shown in dot and dash lines. When the rack is in the raised position the pins 16 may readily dropped into the holes 20 for setting on the rests 22.

7 By re'le springs asing-pressure on the treadle 30, the 28 willact to lower the rack 19 into the recess 21 and at the same time the spring 32 serves to elevate the treadle 30 to a normal position.

In playing the game each of the partici pants is allowed to use his allotment of balls, say three in number, which are propelled one at a time from one end of the alley 12 by the use of a cue. The score made depends upon the number of pins knocked down, the score being kept in the usual manner as in bowling. The participants themselves may attend to the setting up of the pins and the returning of the balls, or this may be done by an attendant when the apparatus is in use in a public place of busi ness.

I claim:

1. A game apparatus comprising a supporting structure, an alley bounded on each 'side by a'gutterand a. pit adjacent one end of said alley on said supporting structure, a set of pins, a pin rack normally seated in a recess in said alley so that its upper surface will he flush with the upper surface of the alley, means for elevating said rack to receive the pins, and means tor lowering the rack and for holding the same lowered in the recess.

2. A game apparatus comprising a supporting structure, an alley hounded on each side by a gutter and a pit adjacent one end of said alley on said supporting structure, a set of pins, a pin rack normally seated in a recess in said alley. so that its upper surface will be flush with the upper surface of the alley, means for elevating said rack to receive the pins, and means for automatically lowering the rack and for holding the same lowered in the recess. a

3. A game apparatus comprisin a supporting structure, an alley bounde on each side by a gutter and a pit adjacent one end of said alley on said supporting structure, a set of pins, a pin rack normally seated in a recess in said alley so that its upper surface will he flush with the upper surface of the alley, a treadle, means between the treadle and the rack operable upon the movement of the treadle to elevate the rack to receive the pins and means operable when pressure on the treadle is removed for lowering the rack" into said recess for holding the same therein, and means acting on the treadle for returning the same to a normal position when the pressure thereon for elevating the rack is removed. V

4. A game apparatus comprising a supporting structure, an alley bounded on each side by a gutter and a pit adjacent one end of said alley on said supporting structure, a set of pins, a pin rack normally seated in a recess in said alley so that its upper surface will he flush with the upper surface of the alley, a treadle, a plate carried by said pin rack, rockers connected to said treadle and operable upon the movement of the treadle to cause the rockers to push upwardly on said plate to elevate the pin rack for the reception of the pins, and means for'lowering the pin rack into said recess and for holding the same therein.

' ANDREW HAEGELE.