US429354A - Base-ball game - Google Patents

Description

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BASE BALL GAME.

Patented June 3, 1890.

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SIECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 429,354, dated June 3, 1890.

Application lecl October l1, 1889. Serial No.326,680. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN WHARToN-MAXCY, of Austin, in the county of Travis and State of Texas, have invented a new and Improved Base-Ball Game, of which the following is a full, clear, and eXact description.

This invention relates to games, the object of the invention being to provide a game which under proper rules may be played so that almost any play upon a regular ball-field may be named or called off during the course of the game.

To the end named the invention consists of a game-board marked out to represent abaseballlield and provided with a series of marked depressions and a number of baffle-pins, guideways, or gutters being arranged in either side of the board, and a back-stop being arranged at the upper end of the board, pro.- vision being made for imparting a proper inclination to the board and for the propulsion of marbles through the gutters or troughs, all as will be hereinafter more. fully explained, and Ispecifically pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this speciiication, in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a plan viewof a game-board embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a side view thereof, and Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail view, one of the counting' attachment parts being broken away.

In the drawings, 10 represents abase-plate, to either end of which is hinged a board 11, the base-plate being formed with a series of notches 12 and the board 11 being provided with a number of supports 13, adapted to engage the notches, the supports being provided with hooks 1.4, that engage eyes 15, secured to the under side of the board 11, as is clearly shown in the drawings.

The surface of the board 11 is marked off in the form of a base-ball field, as is clearly shown, and in the surface there are formed a number of concave recesses 20, of su'liicie'nt depth to retain the ball or marble employed in playing the game. These recesses, according to location, are marked as indicated in the drawings, and in addition to the recesses I provide a number of baiiie-pins 21, these pins being arranged indiscriminately upon the board, care only being taken to leave'sufiicient space between the pins to permit the desired passage of the ball or marble.

At either side of the field proper I form a way or gutter 22, and at the lower end of each of these ways or gutters I mount a springpressed plunger 24. The inner walls 25 of the Ways or gutters 22 do not extend entirely across the upper end of the board, terminating as represented inthe drawings, and between the ends of the Walls or strips 25, I mount a rubber-faced block 26, which serves as a back-stop. Outside of the field proper, above the curves of the ways or gutters upon each side of the board, I form a series of apertures 28, adapted to receive flags representing the players of the game.

Below the board proper I arrange counters, which consist ot' box-like structures 30, formed with apertures 2, properly numbered. Within the structures 30, I mount disks 32, which carry numbers 1, 2, dac., up to 10, in close proximity to their peripheral edges, said peripheral edges extending beyond the structures 30 to within reach of the operator.

Any desired system of rules may be adopted in playing the game, the general idea being to employ a ball or marble, as 3, to withdraw the plungers 24, and then, suddenly releasing said plungers, to cause the ball to travel upward against the back-stop and then find its way toward the lower end of the field. The farther down the ball travels the greater is the credit, as will be seen from the naming of the several recesses 20.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A game-board laid off to represent a base` ball field, having a number of recesses in its surface, side gutters, whose innerl walls do not extend across the upper end of the board, a plunger in said gutters, and an inwardlyprojecting back-stop between the ends of the walls of the gutters, substantially as described.

2. A game-board laid ed to represent abaseball eld and provided with a series of re- IOO cesses in its upper surface, leefde-pins projecting from said upper surface, gutters having their inner Walls terminating short 0f the center of the board, a triangular inwardlyprojecting back-stop between the ends of the Walls of the gutters, and springactuated plungers in the gutters, substantially as herein shown and described.

3. In a game-board, the combination, with a, notched base, of a board hinged thereon, said board being laid off to represent a baseball field and provided with recesses, baillepins, gutters, plungers in the gutters and a back-stop, and supports hinged to the board and adapted to engage the notches of the 15 base, substantially as herein shown and described.

JOHN WHARTON MAXCY.

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G. NACE BEAUMONT, L Vv'. TATE.

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