US680175A - Game. - Google Patents

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No. 680,175. .Patented Aug. 6, I901.

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GAME.

(Application filed Jan. 2, 1900.)

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a perspective view ofthe apparatus. is a longitudinal central section of the same.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MAX REINHART, OF PORTLAND, OREGON, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO J. D. MEINHARDT, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

'GAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 680,175, dated August 6, 1901.

Application filed January 2, 1900. fierial No. 83. (N0 model.)

Be it known that I, MAX REINHART, a citizen of the United States, residing at Portland, in the county of Multnomah and State of Oregon, have invented a new Game Entitled Frog-Pond, of which the following is a specification, reference being bad to accompanying drawings, forming part thereof.

My invention relates to improvements'in games, the object of my invention being to provide a game which shall afford an opportunity for skill and dexterity in projecting missiles with varying initial velocity, elevation, and direction of flight.

My invention therefore resides in the novel construction, combination, and arrangement of parts forthe above ends, hereinafter fully specified, and particularly pointed out in the claim. y

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is Fig. 2

Fig. 3 a is a transverse section through the roller. Fig. 4 is a bottom plan view of the starting=board detached; and Fig. 5 is an enlarged longitudinal section through the starting-boardand scoop.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents a suitable table having the greater part of its top level, as shown at 2, but a small portion thereof at one end sloping, as shown' at 3. At the junction of said level and sloping portion said table is cut away, as shown at at, and between the two edges 5 of said aperture is pivotally mounted a roller 6. Said roller 6 carries at its center a radial screw or stud 7, upon which is pivoted a starting-board 8. It is evident that by means of this construction the board 8 may be raised or lowered on the roller 6 as an axis, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2, and may also be vibrated on the stud 7 to various directions relative to the table, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1. Upon said starting-board Sis carried a scoop 9, open in front, but closed at the back and sides. To said scoop is attached a draw-rod 10, sliding in a guide 11 and terminating in an upwardly-turned finger-piece 12. Said scoop has also attached to its under side a tongue or loop 13, which extends downward through a slot 14 in the board 8 and through which loop is passed a bow-spring 15, havingdepend upon the elevation, the direction, and

the velocity given to it by its initial impetus, and this will depend upon the angular elevation of the starting-board, the direction of the starting-board relatively to the table, and the distance to which the scoop is retracted. By varying these conditions the object may be caused to alight at difierent places on the ta ble. Pockets 17 are provided at difierent parts of the table to receive the object, which pockets will be suitably numbered to indicate the points scored by the player who succeeds in propelling the object into the respec= tive pockets. This object I prefer to make in the figure or representation of a frog, the motion of the object when propelled by the player greatly resembling that of a frog in jumping.

I claim- The combination of a table having an elongated aperture, a roller mounted in said aperture, carrying at its center a stud, an auxiliary board pivoted on said stud, and a suitable projector carried by said'board, substantially as described.

MAX REINHART.

Witnesses:

O. A. NEAL, H. Y. FREEDMAN.

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