US713704A - Parlor game. - Google Patents

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No. 7I3,704. Patented Nov. l8, I902.

B. SMITH.

PARLOB GAME.

{Application filed Aug. 11 1902.1

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ROBERT SMITH, OF WATERLOO, IOWA.

PARLORGAME;

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 713,704, dated November 18, 1902. Application filed August 11, 1902. $erial No. 119,171. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, ROBERT SMITH, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Waterloo, Blackhawk county, Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Parlor Games, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to parlor games; and the object of my invention is to provide a game-board furnished with variously-colored spaces set about with concentric rows of spikes, said spikes being so arranged as to retain any of a series of similarly-colored elastic balls which may be thrown or bounded between them. This object I attain by the means which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of my gameboard and a player in the act of playing therewith; and Fig. 2 is a plan view of the board, showing the method of arrangement of the concentric-colored spaces and spikes.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

The circular board a is furnished with a series of difierently-colored spaces, the central space h being triangular in shape and surrounded by the three triangles 70. About these are arranged the concentric bands of color g, f, e, and d. Rows of spikes care set equidistantly along the lines where the colored spaces abut upon each other, and other rows are set near the outer edge of the board at similar distances from the longer sides of the next to the outermost of the concentric bands of color. .Each of the colored spaces may be valued with a number varying from that of each of the others.

As a necessary adjunct to the game I provide also small elastic balls at of a number equal to the number of colors represented on the board I) and. each bearing one of such colors.

The game may be played in this manner, viz. The board I) having been placed horizontally or at a slight incline, if preferred, upon a table or other object, each of the players in succession throws or bounds each of the balls toward the board. Such ball as find a lodgment between the spikes counts for the players score as many points as is the numerical value of the colored space upon which the ball rests. In case a ball of one color is found upon a space of the same color the players count for that ball is doubled in amount.

Having described my invention, what I .claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- A parlor game, consisting of a suitable board having arranged on a circular field a varicolored figure in the form of a triangle subdivided into fourequal triangles, said triangle encompassed by varicolored concentric bands. with hexagonal peripheries, bluntheaded pegs secured at equal distances apart in said board along the peripheries of said triangles and hexagonal bands and paralleling the peripheries of said bands on the circular field, in combination with a series of varicolored elastic balls of a size suitable to pass between and be retained by said pegs, substantially as shown and described.

Signed at Waterloo, Iowa, this 7th day of August, 1902.

ROBERT SMITH. Witnesses:

J. F. ALBRECHT, C. M. JENSEN.

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