US491298A - Game apparatus - Google Patents

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0. TROGDON. GA'ME APPARATUS.

Patented Feb. "L 1893.

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COMO TROGDON, OF PARIS, ILLINOIS.

GAME APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 491,298, dated February '7, 1893.

Application filed March 3, 1892. Serial No. 428,644. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, COMO TROGDON, a oiti zen of the United States, residing at Paris, in the countyo'f Edgarand State of Illinois, have invented a new Puzzle or Game Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is a puzzle or game apparatus illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which Figure l is a side view of the game apparatus, and Fig. 2 a top View.

Similar letters and figures refer to similar parts throughout both views.

The game consists of a boat, having a cabin A, upper deck B, stairway O, pilot-house D, life-boats Ill and N. on either side of thelarge boat suspended by chains Y from the davits Z. There are ten small sailors, five White ones and five black ones in the following positions, to-Wit-one White sailor and two black ones in the bow of the boat on the spots marked 1, S2, 3; one White and one black sailor in the pilot-house at -l and 5, one White and one black sailor on top of the cabin at 6 and 7, two White and one black sailors inside the cabin at S, s) and 10 as shown in Fig. 2.

The game is to place the sailors in the positions above described and then by shaking the boat, getthe live White sailors in the life boat M. and the five black sailors in the life boat N without touching them, or dropping them overboard. The sailors should be made of some light material, such as cork or Wood; they should be shaped like a hemispherewith the flat surface up, from the center of which rises a stem, the height in proportion to the size of the hemisphere; and a hole directly below the center opposite the stem end is filled with mercury inclosed, which keeps the sailor in an upright position. The shape of the sailor is clearly shown at 7 in Fig. 1.

That I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

In a game apparatus or puzzle the combination of a la ge vessel in the shape of a boat, two smaller vessels of a similar shape hung to davits attached to the larger vessel and at a distance therefrom, and figures of pith loaded so as to retain an upright position, and adapted to be moved from the largerboatinto the smaller by manipulating the device substantially as described and set forth.

COMO TROGDON.

Witnesses:

JESSIE TROGDON, A. Y. Tnoenon.

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