US1970466A - Game - Google Patents

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GAME

Filed Dec. 4, 1929 3 Sheets-Sheet l INVENTOR ATTORNEY 1934- B. o. MATTSON 1,970,466

GAME

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ATTORNEY Aug. 14, 1934.

B. o. MATTSON 1,970,466

GAME I Filed Deb. 4, 1929 s Sheets-Sheet 5 wrmamazzmkz, J 6. INVENTOR AT ORNEY Patented Aug. 14, 1934 GAME Bernard 0. Mattson, Detroit, Mich. Application lllnecemlier 4, 1929, Serial No. 411,577

1 Claim. (01. 273101) This invention relates to games and apparatus therefor and. which embodies as its principal characteristic the simulating of a bombing plane in operation.

Another object of the invention consists of a mounting for the plane whereby the latter may pursue a course under its own power;

An additional object of the invention contemplates the provision and arrangement of a game board'having objects thereon in the nature of battleships, fortifications, ammunition dumps, air domes, and the like and upon which aerial projectiles carried by the bomber are designed to drop.

A further object of the invention comprises-the arrangement of release mechanisms within the bomber for the projectiles.

More specifically stated the supporting apparatus and game board are provided with electrically operated means to selectively actuate the release mechanisms.

With the above and other objects in view, the invention further consists of the following novel features and details of construction, to be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawings:-

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the present invention.

Figure 2 is a view similar to Figure 1 taken at right angles thereto.

Figure 3 is a horizontal sectional view taken on line 33 of Figure 2.

Figure 4 is a detail sectional view taken throng the projectile releasing mechanism.

vFigure 5 is a top plan view of the projectile releasing mechanism.

Figure 6 is a bottom plan view of the bombing plane.

Referring to the drawings in detail wherein like characters of reference denote corresponding parts, the reference character 10 indicates a tubular standard having a floor flange 11 carried upon the lowermost end thereof and secured to the upper side and centrally of a game board 12. A four-way coupling, such as indicated at 13, car- .ried upon the uppermost end of the tubular standard 10 carries a stub shaft 14 axially aligned with that of the tubular standard 10 and is connected terminally thereof with a floor flange or other suitable form of support, indicated as at 15, and which is preferably secured to the ceiling, fioor beam or other suitable elevated support. A cross arm 16, outwardly and horizontally projected from one of the side outlet sleeve couplings of the four-way coupling 13, carries an elbow fitting 1'7 supporting a depending arm 18. The latter mentioned arm is connected in any suitable or desired manner with the upper smface of the plane fuselage. A short cross arm 19 carried by and extended from the remaining sleeve of the four-way coupling 13 is engaged with an appropriate portion of a guy wire or stiffening brace 20 having connection at its ends with a tubular standard 10 and the stub shaft 14.

The bombing plane, indicated as at 21, is provided with a multiplicity of vertically disposed guide sleeves 22 arranged in the formation of an arc, as substantiated from the illustration of my 7 invention in Figure 6 of the drawings and in conformity to the margin or periphery of the game board 12 whereby the bombs, darts or other forms of projectiles to be employed may be skillfully dropped upon their objective.

The release mechanisms alluded to in the foregoing corresponding in number to the number of darts, bombs or projectiles and the number or" objectives upon the face of the game board are composed of U-shaped frame members 23 suitably arranged within the plane fuselage in horizontal positions and which have supported thereon electromagnets 24. Movable arms 25 for each of the release mechanisms are swingably mounted from spring plates 26 upon the U-shaped brackets 23 and reduced, as at 27, at their opposite ends for reception within cut-out portions in the guide sleeves 22 and correspondingly shaped circumferential grooves 28 in the upper ends of shaft members 29 supporting the projectiles, bombs and the like and which in this instance are preferably in the nature of darts, indicated as at 30. The reduced extensions or portions 27 of the vibrator arms 25 are normally sprung within the portions removed in the guide sleeves 22 and the circumferential grooves 28 in the shafts 29 in the manner shown in Figure 5 of the drawings. A drum 31 carried upon the tubular standard 10 and rotatable therewith is provided with a multiplicity v of spaced contacts 32 arranged at different heights and positions thereon. The drum 31 is fixed to the shaft 10 and consequently rotates with the said shaft and the parts mounted thereon.

A supporting arm 33, preferably composed of insulating material carries a multiplicity of spring contact arms 34 sprung at their opposite ends against the outer surface of the drum 31 for selective periodic contacting engagement with the contacts 32. Annular contacts 35, 36 and 37 exposed circumferentially thereof upon the outer surfaces of the drum 31 are in constant contacting engagement with spring contact arms 38, 39 and 40 respectively, these being mounted, after the manner of the spring contact arms 34, upon the support 33.

As evidenced from the illustration of my invention in Figure 1 of the drawings, an electric motor 41 shown in dotted lines, carries a propeller 42 upon the outwardly projecting end of the armature shaft therefor and is operated through lead wires having connection with the annular or continuous contact members 36 and 37 and the spring contact fingers 39 and 4G therefor and through conductors 43 and A with a primary circuit of the ordinary house current voltage.

The motor 41 is operated directly from the supply line, as above described, but the dart releasing magnets 24 are energized from the secondary of a step-down transformer 45 whose primary is connected across the supply line 43-44 and whose secondary is connected, one terminal to the contact 38 by a conductor 47 and the other terminal to one contact of each of the push switches 48. The remaining terminals of each of the push switches 48 are connected by conductors 49, one each with one of the contacts 34. The contacts 32 on the drum 31 are connected one each with one terminal of each of the magnets 24, the conductors effecting this connection being housed in the standard 1 The remaining terminals of the magnets 24 are grounded to the fuselage 2i and therefore are in electrical contact with the standard 10. A conductor connectingwith the contact ring is run through thestandard and grounded to the same as indicated at 50.

For the sake of clarity and to avoid confusion, but one of the push buttons 48 is connected in to one of the contacts 34 but, as above explained, there is a push button for each contact 34 and one terminal of the same is connected with that contact.

lhe standard is mounted for rotary movement and when the circuit on the conductors 43-44is closed, as may be done by means of a conveniently positioned switch, current passes over one of the conductors, say conductor 43, to the contact 39, thence to the contact ring 36, thence to the motor 41, thence back to the contact ring 37, contact and conductor 44 to the source. The motor 41 is thus energized and, having a driving connection with the propeller 42, rotates the same. Since the standard 18 is mounted for rotary movement, the fuselage may then rotate in an orbital path around the standard as a center but at the same time rotates the same and with it the drum 31 whose contacts 32 successively pass under the contact fingers 34. When one of the switches 48 is depressed, the circuit is closed on the release magnet 24 connected with that push button, current passing from the secondary of the transformer over the conductor 46 to the push button afiected, thence over the conductor 49 to the connected contact 34, thence to the contact 32 which that contact engages, thence to the connected magnet 24, thence to the frame by reason of the grounding of the magnet, thence to the ground connection 50, thence back to the contact ring 35, returning to the transformer over the conductor 47. Thus, it will be seen that each magnet 24 is under control of its associated switch button and will function to release the associated dart when the associated contacts 32 and 34 are engaged in the rotation of the drum.

When the signal is given the players or par.- ticipants watch the contacts upon the outer surface of the drum 31 operating in line with the contact finger therefor and will try to close the circuit therebetween, upon the occasion of depressing the push button switch, and release the bomb or projectile in time to facilitate hitting of the objective. If the circuit is not closed at the proper time, that is, either early or late the bomb 'or projectile will hit either behind or in advance of the particular objective and will not count in the scoring which is to be calculated only for direct hits and the particular location of each hit upon the form of objective. For instance a numeral of increased value would be arranged in the middle of the objective and smaller numerals or value legends would be arranged upon opposite sides thereof.

The invention is susceptible of various changes in its form, proportions and minor details of construction, and the right is herein reserved to make such changes as properly fall within the scope of the appended claim.

Having described the invention, what is claimed Apparatus for the purpose indicated comprising a vertical standard, an aerial body having means connecting it with the standard to restrict the body to orbital movement about the standard, a propeller mounted on the aerial body, a motor carried within the aerial body and driving the propeller, so that the orbital movement of the body is due solely to the operation of the propeller, conducting wires extending through the standard to the motor, a series of projectiles carried by the aerial body, means for releasably retaining said projectiles in position, a plurality of targets located below the aerial body in a circular series corresponding to the path of movement of the aerial body, means for releasing each of the projectiles and comprising a plurality of switches of which each has an operative connection for releasing the projectile retaining means, the standard being provided with a drum carrying a series of contacts arranged spirally therearound and electrically connected each to one of the projectile retaining means, a supporting arm mounted adjacent the standard, fingers carried by said supporting arm and bearing upon said drum, said fingers being insulated from each other and said switches being connected one to each of said fingers.

BERNARD O. MATTSON.

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