US1850072A - Game board - Google Patents

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March 22, 1932. K. E. BREWER GAME BOARD Filed July 10, 1950 lnuen'lfiv": Kenneth'l Brewer.

By Qsrmv ygna Patented Mar. 22', I 1932, o

" TATES! P TENT;- OFFICE-if xnmm'rrr n BREWER or CHICAGO; rumors, ASSIGNOR To" .crms, A. BREWER, & sons,

or CHICAGO, rumors, A PARTNERSHIP com oser or NELSON c. name; 1

KENNETH E. BREwEn, nNn EVERETT 'R.

i GAME Application filed July 10,

This invention pertains to a class of amuse- .ment devices commonly known as game boards, and more particularly to a type of game board going by the general designation ofa punch board. These punch boards contain a plurality of sealed pockets or,cells,'similar to honey-comb, which cells contain folded or rolled slips of paper or the like, each i bearing a different number or legend and adapted-to be ejected from its cell by a pin or punch that slidably fits the cell. The slips may contain questions relat- 7 ing to geography, history, popularscience,

current events, advertisingslogans, sports,

the Bible, literature, or a Wide range of other popular information. A key or answer slip usually accompanies the board and contains answers to the questions Written on the slips.

In one knownstructural form of these game boards, the body of the board has consisted of a stack of cardboard or pasteboard sheets of equal sizes, in all of which holes have been punchedin the'same relative positions, the

boardsbeing superposed and pasted together with the registering holes forming the slip pockets or cells, sealing sheets being applied e to the opposite sides of the board to lock the slips in the pockets. In the manufacture of such boards, considerable difficulty "has been experiencedfdue to expansion and'contraction of the material used in the punched sheets that are laminated together; unequal contraction and expansion of the several sheets frequently resulting in throwing the holes thereof out of perfect-register; Furthermore, where the entire body of the board is thus made of cardboard, pasteboard, or like material, the board, under varying moisture conditions of theat-mosphere, will sometimes warp, thus rendering it difficult to eject the paper slips from the cells or pockets of the board.

7 The main object of thepresent invention has been to improve boards of this character in the way'of insuring accurate registration of'the holes of the superposed sheets so as to provide straight and uniform cells or pock-. ets. Another object has been to provide a construction which will prevent swelling,

' shrinking and warping ofthe board, and

BREWER give it a stronger and more rugged character.

Still another object is to provider a construction which will strengthen the walls between the holes of the'board.

, With these objects in'view, I have designed the novel structure of the present, invention, the chiefnovel feature of which resides ininterposing or interspersing among the per-fore ated, cardboard sheets of thelaminated board I similarly perforated thin metal sheets, which latter are not subject to swelling and shrink ing under atmospheric conditions and the perforations of which havermarginal burrs countersunk into the margins of the holes of each" underlying cardboard sheet and tend to maintainthe uniformity and integrity of the. cardboard sheets. t V The invention will be further explained in detailin connection/with the accompanying drawings; illustrating the same, in which f Fig. l is-a perspective elevation of a game board embodying my presentinvention.

[Fig.2 is an enlarged fragmentary transverse section through one row of holes, illustrating the cardboard-metal laminated struc} ture.

Fig .3is a framentary view'illustrating. a'slight modification of, Fig. 2. V

ig', 4 is a much enlarged detail view ofa' single metal and carboard sheet pasted together and showing an automatic locking feature. I

Referring to the drawings, A in Fig. 1 designates the game board as an entirety. Referring to Fig. 2, the body of'the board consists of superposed sheet units, eachrunit consisting of a thin metalsheet 2 and an underlying cardboard sheet 3, the two sheets being pasted or glued together; By means of 'a suitable punch, each sheet is formed with longitudinal and transverse rowsof ,holes 4, g which latter, when the sheet units are super posed and adhered, form the slipv pockets or cells 5 (Fig 1') extending entirelythroilgh the body of the board. The front and back 7 sides of the board body are covered with im perforate thin-sealingssheets'tl. f In order to provide thefnecessary stock for the formation in one edge of the boardiof a key, pocket, 1m

sheet tin is also satisfactory.

such as shown and described in Letters Patent to Chas. A. Brewer, No. 1,309,349, July 8, 1919, I may apply to the back side of the board two extra sheets of cardboard 3' lying on opposite sides of the rear sealing sheet 6, but this feature is immaterial to the present invention. 7

Instead ofbuilding the board up of alternating cardboard and metal sheets, as shown in Fig. 2, each sheet unit may consist, as. shown in Fig. 3, of a thin metal sheet 7 and two cardboard sheets 8, respectively, adhered to the two sides of the metal sheet. This and glued together, said sheets formed with registering holes together forming pockets extending through said board, the holes 1n each metal sheet having marginal burs countersunk into the margins of the holes in the underlying cardboard sheet thereby locking said sheets together edgewise, and sealing sheetscovering the ends of said pockets.

' KENNETH BREINER.

construction fulfils the-purposes ofthe in-" vention, and is slightly less costly than that of Fig. "2 because of employing a lesser number ofmetal sheets in the structure. The metal which I have found best suited for the pur poses of the invention is aluminum, but thin 9 designates a marginal binding for the board which may consist of adhesive tape or a thick lacquer; but with this feature of the board, the present improvement is not concerned.

In preparing the sheet unit, which, as above stated, consists of a metal sheet and a cardboard sheet (Fig. 2), or a metal sheet interposed between two cardboard sheets (Fig. 3), the sheets are first pasted together face to face and then placed beneath the punching machine which forms the holes. Referring to Fig. 4:, it will be seen that in the punching operation I create an annular fin or bur 2 on the edge of the opening in the metal sheet, the purpose of this fin or bur, which sinks into the underlying cardboard sheet, being to interlock the cardboard and metal sheets securely against displacement in an edgewise direction. This feature also assists in maintaining the perfect registration of the holes in the metal and cardboard sheets, thus contributing to the uniformity and smoothness of bore of the cell pockets, and also performs another important function in stiffening and strengthening the intervening walls between the cell pockets.

By constructing the sheet units in the manner above described, I have found that when assembling them to form the board, the registration of the holes is more perfect. than where cardboard orvpastebo-ard sheets alone are used, and consequently the manufacturing operations are simplified, and the board itself is a more perfect structure than heretofore. Furthermore, the metal sheets interspersed throughout the board prevent warping and also slight lateral displacements of adjacent sheets, which, in the laminated structures heretoforeknown, marred theperfection of the cell pockets.

'I claim: g A laminated game board of the character described, comprising interspersed card boardand metal sheetsdisposed face to face

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