US692963A - Quoit. - Google Patents

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" No. 692,963. Patented Feb'. II, 1902. C.- A. WRIGHT.

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(Application filed July 27, 1901.)

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UNETED TATES CLARENCE A. \VRIGIIT, OF

KEENE, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

QUOIT.

STEEOIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 692,963, dated February 1 1, 1902.

Application filed July 27, 1901.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CLARENCE A. WRIGHT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Keene, in the county of Cheshire and State of New Hampshire, have invented a new and useful Quoit, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to quoits adapted for indoor use; and the object of the same is to provide afiexible device of this class of such form as to overcome any tendency to roll or bound, and thereby cause such devices to positively remain in the places where they strike.

The invention consists in the construction and arrangement of the several parts, which will be more fully hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of the improved quoit, showing the flat positionitwillassume when pitched or thrown. Fig. 2 is a section through the improved device.

Similar numerals of reference are employed to indicate corresponding parts in both views.

The numeral 1 designates the improved quoit, which is of square form with rounded corners 2. This quoit is constructed of rubber or its equivalent rubber compound, and is therefore freely flexible and .is of such thickness as to give it weight enough to cause it to preserve its equilibrium when pitched or thrown and to reliably reach the place or mark toward which it is directed. By forming the corners rounded, as stated and shown, interfering angular projections are removed and the quoit will be free to strike fiat, whereas if the ordinary angular corners of the square were present they would be liable to catch and tilt or throw the quoit over, and, furthermore, said angular corners would have a continual tendency to curl and obstruct the flat landing of the quoit. This shape'of quoit Serial No. 69,967. (No model.)

will also overcome any tendency to roll, and if it should strike on one of the rounded corners it will be immediately thrown down flat. The quoit being formed of rubber will not slide, but, on the contrary, an instantaneous adhesion will be set up between the same and the surface upon which it lands. The quoit being formed with rounded corners and square straight edges between said corners especiallyadapts it to engage with said edges on striking the carpet and causes it to fall flat thereon.

As before indicated, the improved quoit is particularly intended for indoor use and adapted to be pitched toward a mark or goal; but it can also be used outside on the groundsurface or pavement, and when used on a pavement it will not injure the latter in the least, and being flexible and formed of rubber it will fall'without noise.

Changes in the form and proportions may be resorted to without departing from the principle of the invention.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is- 1. A quoit having flat parallel upper and lower faces and provided with rounded core ners and square straight edges between said corners.

2. A freely-flexible rubber quoit having rounded corners and square straight edges between said corners.-

3. A quoit composed of a flat piece of flexible rubber having parallel upper and lower faces and rounded corners, the edges between said corners being square and straight whereby the quoit is prevented from rolling.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto afiixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

CLARENCE A. WRIGHT.

Witnesses:

JOHN E. ALLEN, BERTHA A. COLBY.

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