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D. D. LOOKWOOD.

GAME APPARATUS.

No. 483,599. Patented Aug. 5, 1890.

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DAVID D. LOCKWOOD, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO GEORGE G. PRENTICE, OF SAME PLACE.

GAM E APPARATUS.

IPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 433,599, dated August 5, 1890.

Application filed September 25, 1889. Serial No. 825,057. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, DAVID D. LOOKWOOD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Games; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the in vention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has reference to games and puzzles, but more especially refers to that class of such devices in which the element of i5 skill is required to accomplish the end in new.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan of a game-board made in accordance with my invention,and Fig. 2 a vertical lon- 2o gitudinal section of thesame at the line 00 0c of Fig. 1.

Similar letters denote like parts in both figures of the drawings.

A is the game-board, so constructed as to present an inclined surface when resting in normal position.

B is a raised wall inclosing a pen C, within which the top is spun initially.

D is a heart-shaped raised wall which incloses the goal-pen 25, an opening or entrance F being left between the ends of said wall, for the purpose presently explained.

G is a fender which is formed by a V- shaped raised wall, the apex whereof points 5 toward the gate H of the pen 0, while the extremities of said wall extend beyond the entrance F.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 10 are depressions or sinks formed in the game-board at various points 0 thereof.

E is a gutter extending around the board near the periphery thereof. This game-board I prefer to make of sheet metal, as brass, block-tin, &c., the depressions 1, 2, 3, i, 5, 6,

7, and 10, and the raised walls B, D, and G being formed and struck up by suitably-constructed dies.

Of course I do not wish to be limited to any particular way of constructing my improved gam e-board, since the same may be made from wood, pasteboard, papier-mach, or, in fact, from any material or composition that may be molded or compressed and formed between dies; or the raised walls may be properly shaped and then cemented, soldered, or in any suitable way secured to the board. Neither do I wish to be circumscribed by the use of the aforesaid gutter and depressions, since they may be increased or decreased in number, or they may be entirely dispensed with, without departing from the spirit of my invention, the gist of which rests in the broad idea of the starting-pen and the heartshaped goal separated by the V -shaped fender.

The end aimed at in my invention is to spin a top I within the pen 0, so that said top will glide out of said pen and thence around the fender within the goal 25. This object may be attained by a skillful manipulation of the top while spinning the same, the principle involved being that of a billiard mass shot or of a curved-pitched base-ball. The course of the top may also be directed so that said top will ultimately land in the gutterE or in any one of the depressions aforesaid.

If desired, a sheet-metal surface may be mounted upon an inclined wooden base; but I prefer to make the entire board from sheet metal, since great cheapness and nicety of appearance are thereby afforded.

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

1. In a game, an inclined board havingat the top a local confined starting-pen and at or about. the center a confined goal-pen, said pens having gates which open toward each other and a fender between said pens whichguards the gate of the goal-pen, substantially as set forth.

2. The inclined board provided with a pen and a heart-shaped goal surrounded by raised walls, and a V-shaped fender between said goal and pen, the apex of said fender point- 9 5 ing toward the latter, substantially as shown and set forth..

3. The combination of the-inclined board having at the top a local confined pen and at In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the center a confined goal-pen, and provided presence of two Witnesses.

with a fender intermediate of said pens, the

latter having gates which open toward each DAVID D. LOCKWOOD. other, the numbered depressions formed in said board, and the top adapted to be spun Witnesses:

and manipulated Within said upper pen, sub- F. W. SMITH, Jr.

stantially as set forth. J NO. S. FINoH.

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