US1594872A - Game - Google Patents

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CYNTHIA IVI. BARNETT, OF SEATTLE, WASHINGTON; ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF T0 FRANK o. MG'KINLEY, or snarrnn, wasnrneron.

GAME.

Application filed October 15, 1925. Serial No. 62 ,520..

The invention is a game in which a ball or the like is thrown against a casing and as it strikes a disk at the center of the casing it will cause a graduated disk to start rotating and the point at which the disk stops determines whether or not the thrower of the ball is entitled to a prize.

The object of the invention is to provide a rotatable disk with means to cause the said disk to rotate as the said means is struck by an object.

Another object of the invention is to provide av means for starting a rotatable object which will permit the object to continue rotating.

A further object of the invention is to provide a means for starting a rotatable object to rotate which is connected to the said rotatable object by resilient means.

A still further object of the invention is to provide means for displaying objects in combination. with means for starting a rotatable object to rotate.

And a still further object of the invention is to provide a game having a rotatable disk with means for causing the said disk to rotate it is struck by an object, which is of a simple and economical construction.

lViththese ends in view the invention embodies a rotatable disk, a. bushing upon which the disk is mounted. another disk adjacent the said rotatable diska ratchet connecting; the said latter disk to the said rotatable disk, a spring connecting the said latter disk to the bushing, a button slidably held in the said bushing, means for causing the said bushing and disks to rotate as the button is forced inward and other means for displaying obj ects as the button is moved inward.

Other features and advantages of the invention will appear from the following description, taken in connection with the drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a front view of the device.

Figure 2 is a cross-section.

Figure 3 is a detail showing the ratchet and spring for connecting the disks.

In the drawings 1 have shown my device as it would be made wherein numeral 1 indicates the casing, numeral 2 the rotatable disk and numeral 3 the display objects.

The casing 1 may be made of any suitable design or material and the front may be covered with wire mesh 4 as shown. The disk 2 bushing will also rotate.

isinounted on a bushing 5 which is slidably held on a bar 6 andthe bar and bushing are held in bearings 7 and Sin the casing 1. In the design shown the 'bar6 is'of a rectangular shape and its inner end is twisted as shown the point 9 so that as it is pushed inward through a slot 10 in the bearing 7 it will tend to rotate or twist. Atthe outer end of the bar 6 is a button 11 and it will be seen that as the button is struck by a: ball or other suitable object and thereby forced inward it will in turn move the bar 6 inward and thereby rotate the bar. A spring 12 isprovided at the inner side of the button to re- 7 turn it and the bar 6 to the normal position.

The bushing 5 is provided with a fiat opening through which the bar 6 passes and it will be observed that'as the bar rotates the The bushing 5 is provided. witha ring 14 having a spring 15 attached to it and the opposite end of the spring is attached to a disk 16 by a pin 17. The disk 16 is rotatably mounted on the bushing 5 and it will be observed that as the the teeth 18 by a spring 21 as shown in Fig ure 3. It will therefore be observed that as the button 11 is pushed inward and the busninn and disks rotated the rotating motion will be transmitted to the disk 2'through the spring 15 and the ratchet 19 so that the disk 2 will rotate with a free,xeasy motion and then continue to rotate until it stops by gravity. e

. A member 22 is also mounted on the bar 6 and it will be observed that as the bar 6 is moved inward this member .22 will engage levers 23 that are pivotally mounted on a bar 2% and as it engages these levers the levers will cause the display members 3 to move upward to the position shown in dotted lines in Figure 2. The levers 23 are provided with extensions 25 and these are connected to the members 3 which are hinged to a bar 26 through rods 27. The extensions 25 of the levers 23 are also provided with extensions 28 which have weights 29 sun ported from them to return thelevers and members 8 to their normal positions as shown in full lines in Figure 2. The members 3 may be made of any suitable design or shape and may be made to represent human beings, animals, or anything that may be desired.

The outer edge of the disk 2 may be divided into any suitable number of graduaa shaft upon which the disk is mounted, a

ratchet in combination with the said disk, means for resiliently connecting the said ratchet to the said shaft, a twisted bar slidably mounted in the said shaft, a button at the outer end of the said twisted bar, means for holding the inner end of the said bar to cause the said bar and shai't to rotate as the bar is pushed inward, resilient means for moving the said bar and button outward, and

a suitable casing for enclosing and supporting the said disk and bar.

2. In a game, a rotatable graduated disk, a shaft upon which the disk is mounted, a ratchet in combination with the said disk, means for resiliently connecting the said ratchet to the said shaft, a twisted bar slidablygmounted in the said shaft, a button at the outer end of the said twisted bar,means for holding theinner end of the said bar to cause the said bar and shaft to rotate as the bar is pushed inward, resilient means for moving the said bar and button outward, a suitable casing for enclosing and supporting the said disk and bar, display members in the upper part of the said casing and means for operating the said display members as the button is moved inward.

3. In a game, a rotatable disk, a bar pass CYNTHIA M. BARNETT.

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