US655768A - Game apparatus. - Google Patents

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Patented Aug. l4, I900. V W. H. EYNON &. D. DUCKETT.

GAME APPARATUS.

(Apphcation filed Apr. 26, 1899.)

(No Model.)

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WILLIAM H. EYNON AND DAVID DUOKETT, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

GAM E APPARATUS.

fiPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 655,768, dated August 14, 1900.

Application fil dApril 25, 1899. Serial Ila-714,406. (Nomodeld To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, VVILLIAM H. EYNON and DAVID DUCKETT, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Game Apparatus,.of which the following is a specification.

Our invention is in the nature of an apparatus with which to play a game which we designate the game of time, the object of the invention being to provide an interesting, amusing, and instructive parlor-game for children.

With this object in View our invention con sists in the improved construction, arrangement, and combination of parts hereinafter fully described, and afterward specificall y pointed out in the appended claim.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which our invention most nearly appertains to make and use the same, we will now proceed to describe its construction and operation, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, in which- Figure 1 is a top plan view of a game apparatus constructed in accordance with our invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section through the same.

Like letters of reference mark the same parts in both figures of the drawings.

Referring to the drawings by letters, A indicates an oblong rectangular board or card in the center of which is erected an arbor or shaft B, upon which are journaled four sets of hands, being four minute-h ands O,D,'E,and F,.and four hour-hands O, D, E, andF, the portion of the board over which the hands may be rotated being painted to represent a clock-face. Near the four corners of the board are four dials C, D, E, and F, each being provided with a pintle or arbor at its center,upon which is swiveled loosely an arrow-hand, as at c, d, e, and f, The four sets of hands at the clock-face are of different colors, and the four hands of the cornerdials are correspondingly colored. In practice the hands are intended to be colored red, green, yellow, and white and are marked R, G, Y, and WV to indicate these diiferent colors.

The four corner dials are divided into twenty spaces each and numbered from 1 to 10, with blank spaces or spaces marked O intervening.

The game as illustrated is played by four persons, each of which has a corner-dial and the correspondingly colored set of clockhands as his own. spin or twirl the arrow-hands on the cornerdials, and when the hand has stopped the numberindicated shows the number of spaces the player is entitled to move the minutehand of corresponding color on the clockdia]. When a minute-hand has been moved sixty spaces, the hour-hand of corresponding color is moved from XII to I on the clockdial and the game continued until one player has moved his set of clock-hands the number of hours and minutes previously agreed upon as the limit of the game, when he is declared the winner. The game may be continued, if desired, until all but one player is out.

The game will prove very interesting and amusing to children and will instruct them in the movement of the hands of a clock, whereby they may be taught to tell the time.

As many players may be provided for as is desired byincreasing or diminishing the number of sets of hands on the clock-dial, and for this reason the spindle or arbor B is made removable, being secured by a nut 13, sunk flush with the under surface of the board.

Then a hand on any of the corner-dials stops over a blank or zero space, the player is not entitled to move his minute-hand.

It will be readily understood that the arrangement of the dials may be changed such, for instance, as by placing the clockface and its hands in a different part of the board-and the shape of the hands or the ornamentation of the dials varied without departing from the spirit and scope of ourinvention.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

The players in succession- A game apparatus comprising a board prorespond with the sets of hands, substantially vided with a clock-dial, a shaft or arbor reas described.

inovabl fixed in the center thereof and a 111- 1 r T rality odiiferently-co1ored sets of hourand minute hands loosely mounted on the shaft, and a series of graduated dials correspond- Witnesses:

ing in number with the sets of hands and EDWIN FOWLER,

having swiveled arrow-hands colored to cor- I G. F. STAHL.

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