US2545381A

US2545381A - Electric questionnaire game

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Publication number: US2545381A
Application number: US72330A
Authority: US
Inventors: James M Prentice
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1949-01-24
Filing date: 1949-01-24
Publication date: 1951-03-13
Anticipated expiration: 1968-03-13

Description

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BY' @a /gw/f .Patented -Main 13,v 1951 UNITE 12,545,381 ELECTRIC QUns'rIoNNAmE GAME James M. Prentice, South Hadley, Mass. Application January 24, 1949, Serial No. 72,330

/ Y 2 Claims. (Cl. 35-9) This invention relates to improvements in game apparatus.

The principal object of the invention is the provision of a game apparatus which is characterized by mechanical and electrical means which cooperate to provide a game that is interesting in play as well as being educational.

The apparatus of the invention may be adapted for various games and rules of play but will be described as a True `or False game for purposes of disclosure.

With the foregoing and various other novel features and advantages and other objects of my invention as will become more apparent as the description proceeds, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and in the combination and arrangement of parts as will Ebe hereinafter more particularly pointed out-'1n ithe claims hereunto annexed and more fully derscribed and referred to in connection with the acl:companying drawings wherein: l

Fig. l is a plan view of a game embodying the novel features of the invention,

Fig. 2 is a side elevational/and sectional view f-on the line 2-2 of Fig. l,

Fig. 3 is a plan view ofthe circuit changing :member of the game, and

'-the lower wall 8.

The wall Ii! has delineated thereon statements 'such as Ebony is black which are designated by numerals, all as shown. Also the wall Ill carries ',True or false and You are right. Yieldable imetallic switch closing members I2 and I4 adjacent True and False have outer ends secured to wall I by rivets l5, or the like.

Inner ends of the said circuit closing membersY have metallic contacts such as I8. When members are depressed the contacts I8 are moved through holes such as 2l) provided in said wall lil.

A circuit changing member preferably in the form of a disc is provided and is shown at 24 in Fig. 3. This ydisc may be made from cardboard and has a metallic sheet or disc 25 thereon over which is a paper sheet 28.

The members 24, 2B and 22 may be secured together `in any well known manner. A hollow metallic eyelet 3Q extends through the members with the metallic sheet and eyelet making an electrical contact.

An eyelet 32 of wall I extends through the eye- 2 let 30 of the member 24 whereby the said member 24 is rotatable beneath wall II).

A slot 34 is provided in wall I0 so that the peri'- phery of member 24 is accessible for rotation thereof by manual engagement.

The member 24 carries

numerals

1, 2, 3, etc., as shown; which may be indexed with a window 35 throughthe wall e Ill.

The upper sheet 28 of member 24 is provided with openings therethrough as indicated vby 38 and .40'. 'Ihese are arranged in spaced apartrela- 'tion in concentric circumferential rows and pro- -vid'econtact portions or contacts 38 and 40 all connected to one common terminal 3B; These openings 38 and 4I! are arranged to underlie the contacts of circuit closing members I2 and I4 so that when a member I2 or I4 is depressed the con- `tact thereof may contact a contact of the sheet 26 ofV member 24.

Discs 42 are provided on the contactsvof levers I2 Aand I4 which engage the wall I 0 when a, contact member is depressed to limit downward movement thereof.

A battery is shown at 44 a portion of which may extend through an opening 46 of wall I0.

A yieldable metallic contact 48 has one end 50 in electrical contact with eyelet 30 of the member 24 and is fixed by a rivet 52, or the like, to wall I0. An opposite end 54 of member 48 carries a socket 56 in which 'is an electric bulb 58. The components are electrically connected as will be described in connection with Fig. 4.

The circuit closing members I2 and I4 are connected by 60 to one side of battery 44 and the other side of the said battery is connected by 62 to the lamp 58. The member 48 is connected to the lamp 58 and as described is in Contact with rivet 30 which is in contact with the metallic sheet 2B of member 24.

In all cases the numerals and openings 38 and 4I] will be arrangedin such relationship that the lamp 58 will be energized only when one has indicated by the correct circuit closing member that the statement is right.

.The game in the form ofthe invention shown and described is operated in the following manner.

contact I4 is depressed the contact of the said member will contact the metallic disc 26 of member 24 to complete a circuit and light lamp 58 wherefor the answer will be you are right.

There will be no hole through which the contact of member I2 may contact the metallic sheet 26 so that if member l2 is depressed the lamp will not be lighted.

The invention may be embodied in other specic forms without departing Ifrom theessential characteristics thereof. Hence, l'the present'embodiments are therefore to be considered in all respects merely as being illustrative and not as being restrictive, the scope of thednventicn .being indicated by the appended claims rather than by the foregoing description.

What it is desired to claim Yandsecure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

1. A game apparatus comprising in combination', a support, a circular member rotatable relative to .and .spaced .below-said Vsupportand having ""cir'cuit changing member vregister -when certain related indicia "is in register withthe 'window of said support, a circuit closing member for each Fs'aid opening fixed to the upper side of said supradially spaced lrowso'flcircumferentially spaced electrical contacts, separatecircuit closing'mem- .bers :secured ,to vthe Aupper side cof `said support 'having contactsrfsaid-support-having an opening yfor each circuitclosing Amember .contact .therethrough .with which .thecontacts ofasaid circular member are registrable, saidicircuit closingmem* -bers `being .depressible tto extend Ithe vcontacts `thereof through the Vopenings `of'said,suppcrifinito contact Fwith the contaetsgo'fsaid .circularf'member, an `electric `iight, :a source f of velectrical Aenergy, connections between said source `of A energy Aand Vthe contacts of said circular ,member -and .port .andbeingdepressible into contact with the contacts'of said circuit changing member through the fopeningfofsaid support, an electric light, a source of electrical energy, connections between the'sad contacts ofthe circuit changing member :and said light and said source of energy, and connections between said circuit closing members .and source of energy, .a1l-adapted=and arranged whereby saidlight'is energized only when certain .ones ofsaid circuitclosinglmembersare-depressed and said circuitchanginggmember presentsacertainicontact'to a certain opening. Y

JAMES PREN'TJTGE.

REFERENCES TCITED The following 'referencesareof yrecord 4in 'the -le 1of :this patent:

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