US2967713A - Pendulum ball game - Google Patents
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- the invention herein disclosed is a game having a striker suspended as a pendulum which is swung to drive game pieces in the nature of balls over a gameboard through or into different gateways or scoring pockets.
- Objects of the invention have been to provide an interesting, entertaining game requiring a certain amount of skill and embodying elements of chance as well and which would be attractive in appearance to hold the interest of players and observers.
- Special objects of the invention have been to eifect automatic return of the playing pieces to a pre-determined starting position thus to promote rapid and continuous action.
- Fig. l in the drawings is a top plan View of one of the games with the marbles forming the game pieces lined up in a row across the center of the board and with broken lines at the left indicating how one of the marbles may be shot by the swinging striker between spaced hazards through a gateway in a scoring panel and then" be returned automatically back to the starting line.
- Fig. 2 is a side elevation and Fig. 3 an end elevation of the game.
- Fig. 4 is an enlarged longitudinal sectional view as taken on line 4 4, Fig. l, with broken lines indicating action of the swinging striker and movements of the balls.
- Figs. 5 and 6 are cross sectional views on substantially the planes of lines 5 5 and 6 6 of Fig. 4.
- the gameboard portion of the apparatus comprises a playing field made up of two inclined planes and 11, sloping from higher level at the ends of the board and meeting at a lower level at the center of the board on a cross line 12 providing a transverse trough to hold the balls 13 lined up in a starting position at the center of the board.
- an arch 14 is mounted on which rides a ring 15, supporting by a wire or cord 16 a weight 17 at a level to strike the balls lined up in the cross groove 12.
- Fig. 4 shows how the arc of the swinging weight may approximate the dihedral angle of the two inclined planes 10 and 11 so that this weight may strike halls in the groove or on the slopes at opposite sides of the groove.
- the cord or string supporting the swinging Weight may -be made adjustable to tix the most favorable height for striking the balls.
- the playing slopes barrlers are provided, shown in the form of cross panels 18 detachably set in grooves 19, Fig. 1, in the confining side walls 2t) of the board, these barrier panels being shown in Figs. 5 and 6 as having gateways or openings 21 therein, diierently located and possibly dilerent in size and numbered according to diiculty that might be experienced in driving the balls through the same.
- the balls after passing through the score openings 21 drop into a transverse return pocket 24, Fig. 4, in the nature of a trough having a oor sloping from the high point at the center toward opposite sides of the board as indicated at 25 in Fig. 6.
- Openings 26, Fig. 4, in the side walls 20 at the outer ends of the cross pockets 24 pass the balls from these pockets into inclined channels 27 on the outer sides of the board, sloping from the opposite ends of the board downward to the low point at the center of the board where openings 28 in the side walls 20, Fig. 5, admit the balls to the V-shaped starting line position at the center of the board.
- Deflectors 29, Figs. 1 and 5 in the return troughs 27 direct balls coming from opposite directions through the passages 28 into the starting line position.
- FIGS. l and 4 Barriers or hazards in the form of cylindrical or other shaped blocks 30 are shown in Figs. l and 4, lined up or located in different positions on the playing field. These are shown as loose blocks and may be used or not according to desire of players or rules which may have been set up for play.
- the scoring panels 18 are removably mounted on the board so that they may be taken out and laid iiat on the playing surface when the game is put away.
- the supporting arch for the swinging ball, weight or projectile 17 may be removably mounted so that it may be taken down and stored on the playing iield.
- it is shown as made up of spring wire or rod having bifurcated lower ends 31 to enter correspondingly placed openings in the side walls 20 and which can be sprung outward to detach the arch from such walls.
- the game as illustrated, is of novel, attractive appearance, designed to arouse interest and hold attention.
- the automatic return of the balls to the starting line provides uninterrupted action and a great variety of movement, for the swinging weight may strike any number of the balls and on the back swing as well as on the forward swing and the balls may carom off each other or off the sides of the playing field with surprising and unexpected results.
- a game of the character disclosed comprising a playing board having inclined planes sloping from the ends of the board and meeting at an intermediate portion of the board to form a V-shaped trough for retaining a row of balls on a transverse starting line, a swinging weight suspended over said transverse starting line in position to strike the balls on that line, scoring means for the balls at the opposite ends of the board and guide channels extending from said scoring means for automatically returning the scoring balls back to said starting line.
- a game of the character disclosed comprising a playing board having inclined planes sloping from the ends of the board and meeting at an intermediate portion of the board to form a V-shaped trough for retaining a row of balls on a transverse starting line, a swinging weight suspended over said transverse starting line in position to strike the balls on that line, scoring means for the balls at the opposite ends of the board and guide channels extending from said scoring means for automatically returning the scoring balls back to said starting line, including downwardly sloping troughs at the opposite ends of the board and downwardly inclined channels extending along the sides of the board to said starting line.
- a game of the character disclosed comprising a playing board having inclined planes sloping from the ends of the board and meeting at an intermediate portion of the b oard to form a V-shaped trough for retaining a row of balls on a transverse starting line, a swinging weight suspended over said transverse starting line in position tov strike the balls on that line, scoring means for the balls at the opposite. ends of the board and guide channels extending from said scoring means for automatically returning the scoring balls back to Said starting line, said scoring means including panels detachably mounted on the board at opposite ends of the same and having ball gateways therein opening to said return channels.
- a game of the character disclosed comprising a playing board having inclined planes sloping from the ends of the board and meeting at an intermediate portion of the board to form a V-shaped trough for retaining a row of balls on a transverse starting line, a
- a game of the character disclosed comprising a playing board having inclined planes sloping from the ends of the board and meeting at an intermediate portion of the board to form a V-shaped trough for retaining a row of balls on a transverse starting line, a swinging weight suspended over said transverse starting line in position to strike the balls on that line, scoring means for the balls at the opposite ends of the board and guide channels extending from said scoring means for automatically returning the scoring balls back to said starting line, said scoring means including panels detachably mounted on the board at opposite ends of the same and having ball gateways therein opening to said return channels and scoring slides shiftable along said panels in relation to the gateways therein.
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Jan. l0, 1961 D. F. KUMPMAN 2,967,713
PENDULUM BALL GAME Filed March 25, 1960 2 Sheets-Sheet l f7 g/z/ ATTO RNE Y Jan. 10, 1961 D. F. KUMPMAN PENDULUM BALL GAME:
2 Sheets-Sheet Filed March 25, 1960 INVENTOR. DANIEL F. KUMPMAN BY Q ATTORNEY United States Patent Oiice --\z,967,713 Patented Jan. 19,61
PENDULUM BALL GAME Daniel F. Kumpman, 151A Randolph Ave., Mine Hill, Dover, N .J.
Filed Mar. 25, 1960, Ser. No. 17,590
Claims. (Cl. 273-119) The invention herein disclosed is a game having a striker suspended as a pendulum which is swung to drive game pieces in the nature of balls over a gameboard through or into different gateways or scoring pockets.
Objects of the invention have been to provide an interesting, entertaining game requiring a certain amount of skill and embodying elements of chance as well and which would be attractive in appearance to hold the interest of players and observers.
Special objects of the invention have been to eifect automatic return of the playing pieces to a pre-determined starting position thus to promote rapid and continuous action.
Other special objects of the invention have been to combine the parts so that they may be quickly set up and so that they may be easily taken down and stored as parts of the playing board.
Other desirable objects accomplished by the invention and the novel features of construction combination and relation of parts through which the purposes of the invention are attained are set forth and will appear in the course of the following specification.
The drawings accompanying and forming part of the specification are illustrative of a presently approved embodiment of the invention. Structure however may be modified and changed as regards the immediate illustration all within the true intent and scope of the invention as hereinafter defined and claimed.
Fig. l in the drawings is a top plan View of one of the games with the marbles forming the game pieces lined up in a row across the center of the board and with broken lines at the left indicating how one of the marbles may be shot by the swinging striker between spaced hazards through a gateway in a scoring panel and then" be returned automatically back to the starting line.
Fig. 2 is a side elevation and Fig. 3 an end elevation of the game.
Fig. 4 is an enlarged longitudinal sectional view as taken on line 4 4, Fig. l, with broken lines indicating action of the swinging striker and movements of the balls.
Figs. 5 and 6 are cross sectional views on substantially the planes of lines 5 5 and 6 6 of Fig. 4.
The gameboard portion of the apparatus comprises a playing field made up of two inclined planes and 11, sloping from higher level at the ends of the board and meeting at a lower level at the center of the board on a cross line 12 providing a transverse trough to hold the balls 13 lined up in a starting position at the center of the board.
Over the starting line an arch 14 is mounted on which rides a ring 15, supporting by a wire or cord 16 a weight 17 at a level to strike the balls lined up in the cross groove 12.
Fig. 4 shows how the arc of the swinging weight may approximate the dihedral angle of the two inclined planes 10 and 11 so that this weight may strike halls in the groove or on the slopes at opposite sides of the groove. The cord or string supporting the swinging Weight may -be made adjustable to tix the most favorable height for striking the balls.
At the upper outer ends of the playing slopes barrlers are provided, shown in the form of cross panels 18 detachably set in grooves 19, Fig. 1, in the confining side walls 2t) of the board, these barrier panels being shown in Figs. 5 and 6 as having gateways or openings 21 therein, diierently located and possibly dilerent in size and numbered according to diiculty that might be experienced in driving the balls through the same.
lThese scoring panels are shown as equipped with slides 22 on top of the same which can be shifted into register with numbers on scales 23 to enable opposing players to keep score.
The balls after passing through the score openings 21 drop into a transverse return pocket 24, Fig. 4, in the nature of a trough having a oor sloping from the high point at the center toward opposite sides of the board as indicated at 25 in Fig. 6.
Barriers or hazards in the form of cylindrical or other shaped blocks 30 are shown in Figs. l and 4, lined up or located in different positions on the playing field. These are shown as loose blocks and may be used or not according to desire of players or rules which may have been set up for play.
The scoring panels 18 are removably mounted on the board so that they may be taken out and laid iiat on the playing surface when the game is put away.
Simllarly the supporting arch for the swinging ball, weight or projectile 17, may be removably mounted so that it may be taken down and stored on the playing iield. For such a purpose it is shown as made up of spring wire or rod having bifurcated lower ends 31 to enter correspondingly placed openings in the side walls 20 and which can be sprung outward to detach the arch from such walls.
The game, as illustrated, is of novel, attractive appearance, designed to arouse interest and hold attention. The automatic return of the balls to the starting line provides uninterrupted action and a great variety of movement, for the swinging weight may strike any number of the balls and on the back swing as well as on the forward swing and the balls may carom off each other or off the sides of the playing field with surprising and unexpected results. These possibilities introduce a considerable degree of chance adding interest to the skill necessarily required to gain results in scoring.
What is claimed is:
1. A game of the character disclosed comprising a playing board having inclined planes sloping from the ends of the board and meeting at an intermediate portion of the board to form a V-shaped trough for retaining a row of balls on a transverse starting line, a swinging weight suspended over said transverse starting line in position to strike the balls on that line, scoring means for the balls at the opposite ends of the board and guide channels extending from said scoring means for automatically returning the scoring balls back to said starting line.
2. A game of the character disclosed comprising a playing board having inclined planes sloping from the ends of the board and meeting at an intermediate portion of the board to form a V-shaped trough for retaining a row of balls on a transverse starting line, a swinging weight suspended over said transverse starting line in position to strike the balls on that line, scoring means for the balls at the opposite ends of the board and guide channels extending from said scoring means for automatically returning the scoring balls back to said starting line, including downwardly sloping troughs at the opposite ends of the board and downwardly inclined channels extending along the sides of the board to said starting line.
3. A game of the character disclosed comprising a playing board having inclined planes sloping from the ends of the board and meeting at an intermediate portion of the b oard to form a V-shaped trough for retaining a row of balls on a transverse starting line, a swinging weight suspended over said transverse starting line in position tov strike the balls on that line, scoring means for the balls at the opposite. ends of the board and guide channels extending from said scoring means for automatically returning the scoring balls back to Said starting line, said scoring means including panels detachably mounted on the board at opposite ends of the same and having ball gateways therein opening to said return channels.
4. A game of the character disclosed comprising a playing board having inclined planes sloping from the ends of the board and meeting at an intermediate portion of the board to form a V-shaped trough for retaining a row of balls on a transverse starting line, a
swinging weight suspended over said transverse starting line in position to strike the balls on that line, scoring means for the balls at the opposite ends of the board and guide channels extending from said scoring means for automatically returning the scoring balls back to said starting line, a spring arch detachably mounted on said board, a ring engaged on said arch and said swinging weight being suspended by a tiexible connection from said ring.
5. A game of the character disclosed comprising a playing board having inclined planes sloping from the ends of the board and meeting at an intermediate portion of the board to form a V-shaped trough for retaining a row of balls on a transverse starting line, a swinging weight suspended over said transverse starting line in position to strike the balls on that line, scoring means for the balls at the opposite ends of the board and guide channels extending from said scoring means for automatically returning the scoring balls back to said starting line, said scoring means including panels detachably mounted on the board at opposite ends of the same and having ball gateways therein opening to said return channels and scoring slides shiftable along said panels in relation to the gateways therein.
References Cited in the le of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 735,132 McCutchen Aug.'4, 1903 1,468,531 Kent Sept. 18, 1923 2,492,447 Schwartz Dec. 27, 1949 2,884,251 Pieper Apr. 28, 1959
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US3561763A (en) * | 1968-10-03 | 1971-02-09 | Floyd F Mellen Jr | Game board with apertured goal enclosure |
US3770276A (en) * | 1971-12-17 | 1973-11-06 | Marvin Glass & Associates | Pendulum-type bagatelle game |
US4320902A (en) * | 1981-02-23 | 1982-03-23 | Florkey Arthur G | Pitching track game |
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US3770276A (en) * | 1971-12-17 | 1973-11-06 | Marvin Glass & Associates | Pendulum-type bagatelle game |
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