US1712073A

US1712073A - Indoor game

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Publication number: US1712073A
Application number: US259048A
Authority: US
Inventors: Fowler Charles
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1928-03-05
Filing date: 1928-03-05
Publication date: 1929-05-07
Anticipated expiration: 1946-05-07

Description

May 7, 1929. c. FowLl-:R

mnoon GAME Filed March 5, 1928 I @y m c; aff- Patented May 7, 1929.

UNIT-ED STATES CHARLES FOWLEB, OF WATSEKA, ILLINOIS.

INDOOR GAME.

' application mea karen 5,1928. serial No. 259,048.

This invention relates to games, and more particularly to indoor or parlor games.

The gamecontemplated by my invention is played in the manner of tiddledywmks, 5 and one object of my invention is to havethe opposite faces or surfaces of the pro]ect1ble disk or wink differently marked or colored so that the possession of the disc during the play of the game isy determined by the markloing which comes uppermost each time the dise comes to rest.

Another object of my invention is to reproduce on the soft yieldable playing surface of the game a basket-ball court, and to have the upright basket supporting elements and the baskets at the o posite ends of the court marked or colore to correspond to the markings or colorings on the opposlte surfaces of the projectible disc so that the players may readily know during the play of the game toward which basket to shoot the disc as the possession of said disc or ball, as it may be called, repeatedly changes.

A further Aobject of my invention is to releasably connect the basket supporting elements with the game-board so that said elements may be removed and laid flaton the board when the game is packed for shipment or storage.

The invention consists further in the matters hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings- Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a set up `game constructed in accordance with my invention;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged vertical sectional view through one of the basket supportingr elements and the adjacent part of the gameboar'd; f

Fig. 3 is a face view of the projectible disc;

Fig. 4 is an enlarged edgeview thereof;

Figs. 5 and 6 are face and edge views, respectively, of one of the playing discs;

Figs. 7 and 8 are similar views of the other f the playing discs; and

Fig. 9 is a view showing the manner in which the possession of the projectible disc is determined during the course of the play.

The game-board 1 is preferably made of sheet metal and has a covering 2 of soft felt-like or similar yieldable material on its upper surface with the edges of the covering enclosed and clamped down against the flat body of thc board by inturncd

marginal fianges

3, 3 which are around the edges of the board. y

The covering 2 may be green, and marked on the upper surface thereof in white lines in the representation of a basket-ball court.`

define the free-throw territory at the opposite ends of the court, and this territory has, freethrow lanes 7 extending to the edjacent ends of the board.

At the opposite endsof the board are

upright elements

8, 8, preferably stamped from sheet metal and provided with baskets 9 which extend inward over the board in line with the lanes 7, 7, as shown in Fig. 1. The portions of the elements 8 at and above the baskets 9 are made relatively Wide so as to provide the back-boards for the baskets. The lower portions 11 of the elements are made narrower and provide standards which at their lower ends are bent to provide hooks 12 which engage under the

adjacent flanges

3, 3, as shown in Fig. 2, for releasably connecting the elements to the board. Y

The baskets 9 are also pressed out of'sheet metal in cup form and of asize to aecommodate the projectible disc ofV the game. These cups are hin edly connected tothe elements 8,A as by ayingtongues 18 extending through openings 14 made in the elements 8 therefor, as shown in Fig. 2.

The openings 14 are preferably formed by slitting the metal of the elements along two parallel lines and then bulging outward the interposed parts of the metal to form a loop 15 which provides a support or stop for the tongue 13 when the basket 9 is in horizontal or playing position. The tongue extends over the upperv edge of this loop and is there offset downward so that the basket 9 may stand in a horizontal position, instead of pro- 'ecting upward should this offset be omitted.

he outer end of each tongue 13 is bent at right-angles to the body of the tongue so as to lie againstthe face of the element 8 yopposite the basket when the latter is in playing position, as shown in Fig. 2. On releasing the elements 8 from the flanges 3, the elements may be laid flatwise against the covering 2 and the baskets 9 may be swung down against the elements so as to take up as little space as possible forshipping and packing of the game.

The game is played with a projectible disc 16 and two playing discs 17, 18, each of the latter being preferably of the same diameter but larger than the diameter of the disc 16. All of the discs are made of rigid material, and the disc 1G is projected over the playing surface 2 in the manner of tiddledywinks, as by pressing the edges of the playing discs against the projectible disc and drawing the playing discs with a pressure downward across the edge of the projectible disc. The distance orjump that may be given to the projectible `disc 16 may be more or less deterinined depending on the skill of the players.

It is not so easy to control the vside or surface of the proj ectible disc Which will come uppermost each time the disc comes to rest on the playing surface 2. In accordance with this, I provide the opposite surfaces of this disc With different markings, as by different coloring, say red for one surface, as

at a, and blue for the opposite surface, as at b. Thus each time the red marking is uppermost when the dise comes to rest on the playing surface 2, the disc will pass to the possession of the player selecting the red marking, and the same Way with the blue marking.

In Fig. 9, I have shown th`c manner in which tlie possession of the disc is deter# mined. In full lines the disc 16 has the red surface a uppermost. lVhen the disc is projccted upward and forward by one of the playingdiscs, as in the manner of tiddlcdywinks, the disc 16 naturally turns over or spins in its flight and, should it come to rest with the blue surface Z) uppermost, as indi cated in dotted lines, then the possession of the disc will pass to the player having the blue color. The colors selected by the players will be determined by which of the playing discs they select. The playing disc 17 Will have the same color as the surface a of the projectible disc, While the other playing disc 18 will have the same color as the surface Z) of the projectible disc.

In playing the game, the disc 16 is placed on the surface 2 in thc central circle 4, and the player having the playing disc corresponding to the color of the projectible disc which is uppermost at this time starts the play. With the red surface of the disc uppermost the player Will shoot the disc toward the red upright element 8; Whereas When the blue surface of the projectible disc is uppermost the player will shoot the disc toward the blue upright element. These elements or goals Will be colored to correspond with the markings on the disc 16 so that the respective players may readily know to which goal to shoot the disc. The player dledyvvinks. and I do ,not Wish vto be restricted to the particular details of structure shown and described. These may be readily changed and modified Without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention.

I claim as my invention:

1. A game apparatus having a playing surface of soft yieldable material, a rigid circular disc projectible over said surface in the manner of tiddledywinks, said disc having its opposite surfaces differently marked so that the possession of the disc may be determined by the uppermost marking each time the disc comes to rest during the play of the gaine.

2. A game apparatus having a playing surface of soft yieldable material, a rigid circular disc projectible over said surface inthe manner of tiddledywinks, said disc having its opposite surfaces differently colored so thatl the possession of the disc may be determined by the uppermost color each time the disc comes to rest during the play of -th game. h

3. ame a paratus aving a la in surface gof softpyieldable materiahpanyd plurality of rigid circular discs, one of said discs being projectible over said surface in the manner of tiddledywinks by the other discs which constitute the playing discsysaid projcctible disc having its opposite surfaces differently marked, and said playing discs being respectively marked to accord with the markings on the projectible disc.

4. A game apparatus having a soft yieldable playing surface, a rigid circular disc proj ectible over said surface in the manner of tiddledyvvinks, said disc having its opposite surfaces differently marked so that ossession of the disc may be determined y the uppermost marking each time the disc comes to rest during the playing of the game, and

kets being respectively mar marked, and said basket supports and based to accord with the u'iarkings on the rojectible dise.

6. A game apparatus having a playing surface of soft yieldable material with the representation of a basket-ball court thereon, upright elements at the opposite ends of the court, baskets carried by said elements and extendin inward over the court, and a plurality o rigid circular discs, one of said discs being projeetible over the playing surface and into the baskets by the other dises which constitute the playing discs, said projectible disc having its opposite surfaces differently marked, said laying discs and the upright elements and t eir baskets being respectively marked to accord with the marknvs on the projectible disc.

. In a basket-ball ame, a sheet metal base, a covering of so t yieldable material thereon, said base having a marginal fiange bent inward over the adjacent edge of tie covering, an upright element of sheet metal having a hook-shaped portion at its lower end to releasably engage said ange, and a basket member carried by said element above said covering.

8. In a basket-ball game, a supporting base having an inturned marginal flange, an upright basket supporting element stamped from sheet metal and having a widened, portion at its upper end and a narrow shank portion at its lower end, said shank portion being bent to provide a hook. to engage said ange for supporting the element on the base, and a basket member carried by the element at its widened portion.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

CHARLES FOWLER.