US1634326A

US1634326A - Race-course construction

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Publication number: US1634326A
Application number: US151883A
Authority: US
Inventors: John F Jennings
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1926-12-01
Filing date: 1926-12-01
Publication date: 1927-07-05
Anticipated expiration: 1944-07-05

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July. 1927' J. F. JENNiNGS 1634326 RACE COURSE CONSTRUCTION Filed Dec. 1. 1926 M JMA/QM attomcq stares earsnr oFFics.

JOHN 1*. JENNINGS, or CLEVELAND, onro.

RAGE-COURSE CONSTRUCTION.

Application filed December 1, 1926. Serial No. 151,883.

The customary construction of a race course includes a home and a back stretch with connecting curves, and an inside boundary line which extends along the stretches tangentially to the curved portions.

During a race the constant effort of the contestants to gain the pole is particularly noticeable at the beginning of the stretches where the majority of accidents, especially in horse racing, occur.

The principal object of the present inven-' tion is to construct a race course which permits maneuvering of the contestants at the beginning of the stretches with less danger than on present forms of courses. Moreover my invention contemplates an improved race course construction which may be adapted to present courses without materially changing the construction of the same.

My invention is shown as applied to both the home and back stretches in Figs. 1 and 3, while Fig. 2 shows the application only to the home stretch; Fig. 3 moreover shows the relationship between the old and new forms 01 race course construction.

I have indicated a race course embodying my invention as embodying a trackwaiy havingan inner boundary 10 and an outer boundary 11. The tracliway has a home and back stretch. the ends of which are connected by curves 1% and 15 respectively. As shown in Fig. l the inner boundary has a straight portion 16 which near the beginning of the home stretch is ottset from the inner bound my 17 ot the curve 14, while the end of the home stretch extends tangentially to the inner boundary 18 of the curve 15. Similarly the straight portion 19 on the inner boundary of the back stretch is oti'set near the beginning of the stretch from the curve 18, but at the end of the stretch is disposed tangentially to the curve 17. This offset relationship of the straight and curved portions of the inner boundary is illustrated in Fig. l. as being on both the home and back stretches, but in Fig. 2 it is shown only on the home stretch.

By making the inner boundary of the stretches offset with relation to the end of one or? the curves, 1 provide an additional track area, which may be used for enabling one contestant to pass another on the inside, and thereby eliminating, to great extent, the dangers incident to themaneuvers of competitors at the beginning of the stretch. 3y pro iding a track rule that any contestant who has the pole at the end of the curve, must proceed in a straight line down the stretch, then the following contestant who may be boxed in at the curve can pass the former pole holder on the inside while on the stretch. This not only tends to minimize accidents, but also tends to speed up a race.

In adapting my invention to present forms of race courses, I show in Fig. 3 my improved t'orm of course in full lines and the present form of course in dotted lines. To employ my invention, it is only necessary to extend the. end of the curve outwardly beboundary 23 at the beginning of each curve may be modified to a slight extent. This modification will only require the construction of a relatively small proportion of new track area at the beginning of the curves.

By means of my invention, new race courses may be constructed at substantially the same cost as the present form of course,

' while existing courses may be readily moditied in an inexpensive manner. My invention is useful in that it minimizes the danger incident to the operation of race courses.

I claim:

1. A. race course having curves and connecting stretches, there being an inward oilset on the inner boundary of one of the stretches.

2. A race course having curves and con necting stretches, and having the inner boundary of at least one of the stretches offset inwardly from a tangent to the end of the inner boundary of one of the curves.

3. A race course having an inner boundary comprising curves and straight portions, at least one of the straight portions on the inner boundary extending tangentially to the beginning of one of the curves at one end or the track, and being offset from a tangent to the end of the curve at the opposite end of the track.

4. A race course having an inner boundary tangentially to the beginning of one of the 10 curves at one end of the track and having a portion extending obliquely from a tangent to the end of'the curve at theopposite end of the track,

In testimony whereof, I hereunto aflixrny 15 signature.

JOHN F. JENNINGS.