US2878023A

US2878023A - Shuffleboard weight

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Publication number: US2878023A
Application number: US668539A
Authority: US
Inventors: Decepoli Carmine
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1957-06-27
Filing date: 1957-06-27
Publication date: 1959-03-17
Anticipated expiration: 1976-03-17

Description

March 17 1959 c. DECEPOLI 2,878,023

YSHUFFLEBOARD WEIGHT Filed June 27, 1957 V I0 FF/G. 4

- 1 JNVENTOR. CARM/NE DECEPOL/ ATTORNEY United States Patent SHUFFLEBOARD WEIGHT Carmine Decepoli, Belleville, N. J. Application June 27, 1957, Serial No. 668,539

4 Claims. (Cl. 273-128) This invention relates to an improvement in the construction of weighted discs of the type commonly employed in playing games upon a shufileboard or other surface over which the player slides such disc.

The object of my invention is to provide a means for more securely attaching a plastic cap to the top of such a disc.

Another object is to provide more economical attachment means for such a cap and to better facilitate its incorporation in the disc during manufacture.

A still further object is to conceal such attachment means so that it will not detract from the outward appearance of the disc in which it is used.

Other objects will appear from the description which follows.

In the drawings which illustrate the application of my invention to a shuflleboard weight:

Figure 1 is a top view of a weight embodying this improvement.

Figure 2 is a side elevational view of the weight of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a sectional view taken on line 33 of Figure 1.

Figure 4 is a side elevational view of the separated three component parts of the weights of Figure 1 with the body portion shown partially in cross section.

Figure 5 is a bottom view of the plastic cap portion of the weight.

Referring to the drawings in which the same number refers to the same or a similar part, the weight consists of a discoid steel body 1 to the top of which is attached preformed plastic cap 2. Plastic cap 2 may be formed of colored translucent plastic material and may be furnished with a decorative top, as well as a legend cast into the top surface to identify the weight.

Figures 1 through 5 show one embodiment of this in vention.

Body 1 has circular recess 4 in its top surface and in the side wall of such recess there is annular groove 5. The top edge of the recess has a chamfered edge to facilitate the assembly of cap 2 to body 1.

The upper and exposed portion of cap 2 is disc-shaped and projecting from the bottom is a centrally located hub 7. Hub 7 has a hole 9 concentrically located in its base and the wall that is formed between such hole and the outer surface of hub 7 is slotted with radial vertical slots 8. The outer surface of hub 7 has formed on it ring 6 for mating engagement with groove 5.

Plug 3 of wood or some similar material, has tapered sides 11 to permit it to be partially inserted into hole 9.

The assembly of cap 2 to body 1 is best illustrated in Figure 4 which shows the three parts to be assembled in their relative positions. Plug 3 is partially inserted into hole 9 of cap 2 and the cap is then placed on top of body 1 and its hub 7 forced into central recess 4. Pressing cap 2 downward will bring the base of plug 3 to bear on the bottom of recess 4 and will cause it to be forced upward still further into hole 9. The segments in the wall surrounding hole 9 will be spread outward and when cap 2 bears against the top surface of body 1, hub 7 will be fully enclosed in the recess and its ring 6 will lie within groove 5. Thus, not only will hub 7 be frictionally engaged within recess 4, but it will be locked in position by virtue of the engagement of ring 6 within groove 5.

While cap 2 has been referred to as of plastic material, it is evident that any other material that may be cast into the desired form and which will have some degree of flexibility, such as provided by a plastic material when plug 3 outwardly spreads hub 7, will be equally adaptable. Plug 3 may, instead of being formed of wood, be formed of plastic, hard rubber or other material.

Other modifications may be made in the weights illustrated, and I do not, therefore, limit the scope of this invention by the illustrations and descriptions set forth.

What I claim is:

l. A shufileboard weight comprising a discoid body member of steel having a concentric recess in its top surface; a preformed plastic cap extending over substantially all of the top surface of the body member and having a downwardly extending hub filling such recess; a concentric hole in the bottom of the hub; a channel in the bottom of the hub; and a tapered plug extending into such channel in frictional engagement therein and with its external end bearing upon the bottom of the recess in the body member.

2. A shuflieboard weight comprising a discoid body member of steel having a concentric recess in its top surface; a preformed plastic cap extending over substantially all of the top surface of the body member and having a downwardly extending hub filling such recess; a concentric hole in the bottom of the hub; radial vertical slots in the wall surrounding the concentric hole; and a tapered cylindrical plug extending into such hole in frictional engagement therein and with its external end bearing upon the bottom of the recess in the body member.

3. A shufileboard Weight comprising a discoid body member of steel having a concentric recess in its top surface; a groove in the side Wall of such recess; a preformed plastic cap extending over substantially all of the top surface of the body member and having a downwardly extending hub filling such recess and groove; a concentric hole in the bottom of the hub; radial vertical slots in the wall surrounding the concentric hole; and a tapered cylindrical plug extending into such hole in frictional engagement therein and with its external end bearing upon the bottom of the recess in the body member.

4. A shuffleboard weight comprising a discoid body member of steel having a concentric recess in its top surface; a groove in the side wall of such recess; a preformed plastic cap extending over substantially all of the top surface of the body member and filling such recess and groove; a concentric hole in the bottom of the cap; radial vertical slots in the wall surrounding the concentric hole; and a tapered cylindrical plug extending into such hole in frictional engagement therein and with its external end bearing upon the bottom of the recess in the body member.

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