US678265A - Quoit. - Google Patents

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No. 678,265. Pafentad July 9, 1901.

A. A. LOW.

QUOIT.

(Application filed Jan. 4, 1901.) (No Model.) 2 Sheets-Shaet 2.

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ABBOT AUGUSTUS LOW, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

QUOITL SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent NO. 678,265, dated July' 9, 1901.

Application filed January 4, 1901. Serial No. 42,079. (No model.) 7

To all 1072,071 it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ABBOT AUeUsTUs Low, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of New York,borough of Brooklyn,county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Quoits, of which the following is a specification, suflicient to enable others skilled in the art to which the invention appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to quoits made of metal and designed for use in the game known as quoitsg and it consists in the special construction of parts hereinafter described and claimed specifically.

The object of the invention is'to attain a light, graceful, and convenient device fulfilling all the requirements of the game While avoiding objections inherent in the older structure. The device consists of a metallic quoit formed of two annular plates of sheet metal, each stamped into concave convex shape,with a stiffening-corrugation,the plates being secured together at their edges with their concave surfaces opposed to each other, and the coinciding corrugations in the plates performing a double function, in that they stiffen and strengthen the quoit while facilitating the handling and manipulation there-- of by affording a better hold or purchase for the hand of the user.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan of my improved quoit. Fig. 2 is a section upon plane of line 2 2, Fig. 1. Fig. 8 is a plan of the quoit, and Fig. 4 a section upon plane of line 4 4, Fig. 3. I In the accompanying drawings I illustrate two configurations of my new quoit which are essentially the same in principle, although I do not wish to limit myself strictly to either of the configurations shown,since it is obvious that modifications in form may be resorted to without departing from the spiritand intent of my invention,the essential and distinguishing feature of the quoit being the opposed stamped metal plates united together at the edges and formed with coinciding beads or corrugations for the purpose hereinbefore stated. p

Q represents the quoit as a whole, formed with the central opening q to allow the quoit to encircle a hub when a ringer is made.

The quoit Q is formed of twoconcavo-convex sheet-metal plates AA, stamped into shape, with stiffening-corrugations a a at or near the middle of each plate. These corrugations ct a may be internal, as in Figs. 3 and 4, or external, as in Figs. 1 and 2, the result being essentially the same in either case-that is to say, the corrugations a a stifien and strengthen the plates A A and at the same time afiord a hold or purchase for the fingers sealed shell of annular structure, since the plates themselves are continuous and unbroken by openings of any kind, excepting only the inner circular ringer-opening of the quoit. By bringing the inner edges of the plates together and sealing them, as well as the outer edges of the plates, I exclude all extraneous matter and attain a clean, strong,

but light quoit of uniform weight.

I am aware that it has'been proposed to use dish-shaped quoitets, as in the patent to De Oasto of January 19, 1875 also, that leather bound quoits filled with various materials have been suggested; but my device is essentially different, in that it is a continuous hollow annular shell composed of corrugated sheet-metal plates the concavesurfaces of which are opposed and the inner and outer edges of which are sealed to secure the plates and exclude extraneous matter from the hol= low interior of the quoit thus formed.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1-. As an article of manufacture, a hollow quoit consisting of two corrugated concavoconvex metallic plates having their concave surfaces opposedto each other, and having their inner and outer edges united to form a continuous closed annular shell, substantially in the manner and for the purpose set forth.

2. As an article of manufacture, a hollow quoit consisting of two concavo-convex me= tallic plates formed with coinciding corruga- Too tions, said corrugated plates having their 4. As an article of manufactureaquoitconr5 concave surfaces opposed to each other, and sisting of the two concavo-convex metallic being united at their inner and outer edges plates A, A, with their concave surfaces opto form a continuous closed annular shell, for posed to each other, and having their over- 5 the purpose and substantiallyin the manner lapping edges united to form a continuous set forth. closed shell, said metallic plates A, A, being 20 3. As an article of manufacture, a hollow formed with coinciding corrugations a, a, for quoit consisting of two concavo-convex methe purpose and substantially in the manner tallic plates having their concave surfaces opdescribed. 10 posed to each other, and formed with overlapping inner and outer edges which are 36- ABBOT AUGUSTUS cured together to form a continuous closed Witnesses: annular shell, substantially in the manner D. W. GARDNER, and for the purpose set forth. GEO. \rVM. MIATT.

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