US290328A

US290328A - Game apparatus

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Publication number: US290328A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1883-12-18
Anticipated expiration: 1900-12-18

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' GAME APPARATUS. 4 I A No. 290328. A Patented Dec. 18, 1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALONZO HICKS, OF WEST NEW BRIGHTON, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO E. WILLIS COREY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

GAME APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of- Letters Patent No. 290,328, dated December 18, 1883. Application filed October 4, 1883. (No model.)

The object of this invention is to provide a:

game apparatus that will afford amusement and that can be made very inexpensive.

I make use of a plate or body of wood or other material, with circular openings through the same and a handle at one end, and at the other end a flexible cord is fastened, to which is attached a ball of rubber or other material.

This apparatus is operated by aperson grasping the handle, and by a swinging movement causing the ball to ascend above the apparatus, and as the ball descends the endeavor is to catch the ball in one of the openings.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a section through the center of the apparatus, and Fig. 2 is a plan of such apparatus.

The body a is of wood or other suitable material, the top and bottom surfaces of which are flat, or nearly so. bare the circular openings through the same. 0 is a handle attached dis a flexible or elastic cord fastened near one end of the body a, and e is a ball attached to the end of such flexible cord.

I prefer to make the body a and the handle 12 of one piece of material; but the handle may. be made of a separate piece and attached to the body in any suitable manner. 7

On the surface "of the body a, near each opening, is marked a number. I have shown eleven such openings, two numbered 5, four numbered 10, four numbered 20, and one numbered 30; but anynumber of openings may be employed and numbered as desired.

In operating this apparatus the object is for openings, will bound off. in striking the apparatus, thus increasing'the amusement; but a wooden ball may be employed; or it may be made of any other suitable material. The diameter of the ball 6 is slightly larger than the openings b, so that the ball cannot pass entirely through such openings, but only suffi-' ciently far to be retained therein when properly caught by the person using the apparatus.

I do not claim a cup or receptacle for a ball to which a cord is attached; neither do I claim a ring with a handle for catching such ball.

I claim as my invention 1. The hereinbefore-described game appa= ratus, consisting of the body a, the top and bottom surfaces of which are flat, ornearly so, with numerous circular openings, b, through the same, such openings being numbered, the handle 0 at one end, and a flexible cord, (Z, to which is attached the ball 6, for the purposes set forth.

2. The combination, in a game apparatus, of a body of wood or similar material, having flat or nearly flat top and bottom surfaces, and numerous circular openings through the same, a handle, a flexible cord, and a ball, substantially as specified.

Signed by me this 2d day of October, A. D. 188.3. 7

ALONZO HioKs.

Witnesses:

Gno. T. PINOKNEY, WILLIAM G. Mom.