US1663962A

US1663962A - Angling game requiring patience and skill

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Publication number: US1663962A
Application number: US186770A
Authority: US
Inventors: Uhlig Willy Robert
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1926-12-30
Filing date: 1927-04-26
Publication date: 1928-03-27
Anticipated expiration: 1945-03-27

Description

March 27, 1928.

w. R. UHLIG ANGLING GAME REQUIRING PATIENCE AND SKILL Filed April 26, 1927 I f a u /n ventor:

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Patented Mar. 27, 1928 (a. AL" 'I' I i I N" WILLY Rois-Ear hummer DR'E'SD'E-N, GERMANYi ANGL'IN'G'GAMEnnonmmera'rmnonAND 'sxII'JLI The invention relates to an anglin'g game and 1 which can requiring .patience and skill be'used also as tremometer: Wit'h' th is object in viewthe difficulties of the game must be made-similanfor every'player. This is obtained, according to the invention, by providing for the angling rod. a guide by which the different distances from the pins or hooks, which are designed to beangled by a ring i suspended from the angling-rod, to the actual supporting point of the angling-rod, remain always the same for all players. The time used by the player for catching a certain number of pins or hooks is counted ac- Ifi cording to the rules of the game.

The game can be made more or less difficult by the degree of inclination of the pins and by inclining the same to difl'erentsides. When the pins are vertical, catching the Same with the ring requires the greatest skill.

The pins or hooks to be caught may be stationary or connected with moving figures, for instance fishes, and they may have barbed hooks over which the angling-ring has to be placed so that the figure can be lifted out with the angling-rod.

To make the game still more difficult, the figures to be angled may have a spherical projection on the bearing surface, so that they rotate easily. 7

The figures to be angled may be visible to the player or contained in a shallow vessel representing a pond and filled with sand 5 which might be coloured, with darkly coloured water or with any other material adapted to hide the figures, and they may.

be arranged so that only the pins with a barbed hook project. Floating figures, for instance of celluloid, may be used.

Several embodiments of the invention are shown, by way of example, in the accompanying drawing in which Fig. 1 shows the game inelevation.

Fig. 2 is an end view of the same.

Fig. 3 shows in top plan view, a game with stationary, pins.

Fig. 4 shows in side elevation and Fig. 5 in top plan view, a game with horizontal figures.

Figs. 6 to 11 each show a pin or figure of different shape.

Fig. 12 shows in section and Fig. 13 in lan view, a playing board of other form 0 construction.

gling rods for four players.

Figsf 15 shows-'inaside e1eva ti'on a figure orf-p'in 'with spherieal'surfaeel1 I H In *thedormnf onstruction shown in Fl 1 to 3 the playing board a is made of wood, sheet metal or any other suitable material. In this playing-board a any desired number of pins 1) are mounted which are inclined to different sides and at different angles. On the board ala wire-bow 0 is fixed on which a guide-element d is shiftably arranged, in the top end of which at right angles to the guide-bow c a thin wire 0 is shiftably mounted which represents the angling rod. From the free end of the angling-rod e an angling-ring f is suspended by a thin thread g. On the playing-board a the picture of a meadow h or of a pond i maybe painted or stuck, and in the pond the fishes k are painted one for each pin 1) and the numerals which designate the value of the corresponding pin.

In the form of construction shown in Figs. 4 and 5 figures 0 are used, instead of the pins, and which imitate a fish and have a barbed hook, the figures with the hook being Fi 14 shows a layingboara wifli an made from thin sheet metal bent to the desired shape. The guide-pin m' for the angling-rod is formed by a figure imitating an angler. The position of the figures to be angled are indicated by contours p.

In the base-plate incisions 9 may be made into which the figures are to be stuck for transport or for storing. Several toy-figures are shown in Figs. 6 to 11, and Whenthe game is being played with covered figures, a gure representing a boot (Fig. 10) or a bottle (Fig. 11) may be mixed under the other figures. I,

In Figs. 12 to 13 a playing-board is shown whlch consists of a shallow-receptacle filled witla sand 8, toy-figures to be stuck into the san 7 The game may be made in any desired size and forany desired number of players.

In playing the game the player grips the angling-rod e at the'rear end and by moving the rod steadily and by shifting and lifting the same he tries to bring the angling-ring f over one of the pins or hooks. As the angling-rod is elastic and consequently oscillateswhen the hand is not steady, so that the ring vibrates, the time for catching a hook or pin with the ring depends on the patience, skill and steadiness of the player.

From this time used for catching a certain adapted to be given away by stores for ad vertising purposes or the place on the board between the pond and guide bow may be used for advertisements.

I claim 2- I I 1 An angling game, comprising incombinafltion a playing board, an angling rod, a supportingbow at one end of said board, a

guide element shiftably mounted on said supporting bow and having a transverse bore for said angling rod, pins, toy figures with hooks and with barbed hooks mounted on said board inclined at diflerent angles and to different sides, and a ring suspended at the end of the elastic angling rod and designed to be placed over a pin or hook to catch the same, the time usedby a player for catching a predetermined number of pins or figures beingmeasured, the game serving also as tremometer.

In testimony. whereof I aflix my signature.

WiLLYRoBERT UHLIG. e;