US2506932A

US2506932A - Quoit

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Publication number: US2506932A
Application number: US629330A
Authority: US
Inventors: Don G Mcafee
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1945-11-19
Filing date: 1945-11-19
Publication date: 1950-05-09
Anticipated expiration: 1967-05-09

Description

May 9, 3950 MGAFEE 2,506,932

QUOIT Filed Nov. 19, 1945 5 @NVENTQR k Q2. MQAFEE Yfl 1 Patented May 9, 1950 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2 Claims.

This invention relates to games, and is more particularly concerned with a game of quoits which may be played either indoors or outdoors, though as I have designed and am marketing such game it is primarily for indoor playing.

The invention is concerned with a novel structure of quoit, preferably made of thin plywood, very light in weight, of ample strength and durability notwithstanding its light weight and the material from which made and which is of a novel structure requiring not only judgment of distance in throwing the quoit to the pin which is attempted to be encircled, but skill in the proper holding and throwing so that it will not sail and dart off laterally because of air pressure developed against surfaces thereof when not properly thrown.

My invention may be understood from the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, in which,

Fig. 1 is a perspective view illustrative of the playing of the game.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged elevation of the pin and its base support.

Fig. 3 is a plan of the novel quoit, and

Fig. 4 is a transverse section on the plane of line 44 of Fig. 3 looking in the direction indicated.

Like reference characters refer to like parts in the different figures of the drawing.

In the game two pins are normally used, spaced from each other as in the well known game of quoits, or as it is commonly known, pitching horseshoes. In my invention a base I, which may be square in cross section, has a vertical pin 2 secured thereto and extending upwardly. It is over such pin that the quoit is to be ringed if it can be or if not, brought as close to it as possible, in some cases leaning thereagainst accomplishing what is known as a hubber.

The quoit, shown in perspective in Fig. 1 and in plan in Fig. 3, is made from thin plywood preferably three superimposed glue bonded veneer sheets and is initially cut into circular form with a body 3 having a centrally disposed large opening 4. At one side and at the peripheral edge portions of the quoit the material is cut away to provide a continuous annular relatively narrow beveled surface 5, located at an angle to the opposite fiat surfaces of the quoit body.

The quoit body is out along the lines 6 as shown so as to remove symmetrical segment portions of it at one side of a diameter of the quoit, providing a finger hold I relatively narrow in dimenslons which is disposed opposite and substantially in symmetrical relation to the beveled surface 5 which remains when the parts have been cut away on the lines 6 as described. Of course the 2 outer end of the finger grasped portion I has a short section of such beveled surface 5, but this is incidental to the manufacture and has no substantial functional purpose.

In pitching the quoit it is grasped at the portion 1 between the thumb and first finger and is thrown from a distance toward the pin 2. As in the usual game of pitching quoits, the throwing force applied will be in accordance with the judgment of the thrower in his endeavor to have the quoit settled over the pin 2 and extending through the opening 4. In addition the beveled edge surface at 5 requires a proper holding and throwing of the quoit, otherwise an air pressure will build up against said beveled surface and, because of the lightness of the quoit, will cause it to curve from the direction in which it is thrown and sail in almost any but the right direction. The player of the game, therefore, is faced with the requirement of properly holding and throwingt the quoit in order to achieve the desired resul s.

While one only of the pins is shown, and of course the game may be played by two opposing players using one pin only, the game is sold with two of the pins with their attached bases; and the pins may be located at spaced apart distances from each other and four play the game in the usual manner of pitching quoits or horseshoes.

The construction of the quoit described is practical, simple and effective for the purposes for which it has been produced. The invention is defined in the appended claims and is to be considered comprehensive of all forms of structure coming within their scope.

I claim:

1. A quoit comprising a disk having a round central opening, the edge of substantially half of said disk being are shaped and concentric with said opening and the remainder of said disk having segments cut from its periphery leaving two straight edges inclined to each other.

2. The elements of claim 1, in which said are shaped edge is beveled.

DON G. McAFEE.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date D. 86,590 Adams Mar. 29, 1932 1,683,643 Wittmaak Sept. 11, 1928 1,986,937 MacGregor Jan. 8, 1935 1,991,689 McClintock Feb. 19, 1935 2,356,531 Pitar Aug. 22, 1944