US834130A - Game apparatus. - Google Patents

Description

' No. 834,130.- 7 PATENTBD 001?. 2a, 1906.

J. E. HERON.

GAME APPARATUS.

' APPLICATION FILED 15110.7. 1905.

z I INVENTOR ATTORNEYS JAMES EDWARD HERON, or MEETEETSEQWYOMING.

GAME APPARATUS.

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' Specification of Lette'rs Patent.

Patented 0ct,23, 1906.

Application filed December 7,1905. Serial No. 290,719.

To all whom it Hui/y concern:

Be it known that I, J AMES EDwARnHnnoN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Mecteetse, in the county of Bighorn and State of Wyomin have invented a new and Improved Game 'pparatus, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. The purpose of the invention is to provide an apparatusespecially adapted to represent the game of life to the players, wherein the aim of all the players is to pass without impediment to a given goal, but wherein through the incidents of the game retrograde and advance movements are necessarily present, due to factors and movements of the game which represent conditions of prosperity, sickness, or accident.

The invention consists in the combination of a game-board bearing predetermined desa spinning object which defines movements on the board and ignations thereon and conditions controlling su'h movements. 3 The invention also consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specifica tion, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the improved game-board. Fig. 2 is a side elevation ofa tee-totuin used in connection with the gameboard. Fi 3 is a plan view of the tee-to tum, and Figs. 4 and 5 are perspective views of thehead-plate for the tee-to'tum. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of one of the checkers or chips em )loyed.

The boar may be of strawboard, cardboard, or it may be made of wood or of metal, and the said board may be in one piece or in two or more pieces, hinged to fold one on the other, as is customary with boards of a like type, 4 A heavy spiral line B is drawn or otherwise produced upon the board A, which line represents a spiral path, commencing at a figure A at one corner of the board, which. figure may represent any desired object? such, for example, as a cradleand the inner end of the said spiral path or line B terminates at a point nearthe center of the board A, thereby forming a field 0, upon which field any desired object representing a goal duced therein, an

that the body portion of the headmay be .producedas, for example, the

representation of a fine grounds, as illustrated.

.Preferably at regular intervals along the spiral path B anels D are formed, and said panels are pre' erably circular, althou h they may be given any other formation; ach of the panels D is ada ted to have a figure prothese figures may read consecutively from 1 to 100, for example, the figure 100 being at the inner terminal of the path and the figure 1 at the, commencement of the path ;'but in sundry of the panels (designated D) the word Vacation is rinted or otherwise produced, and the pane s D may be arbitrarily located in the series of panels D, and each vacationhomestead and panel represents a figure not expressed.

In connection with the board A a spinning object E is em loyed, preferably a tee-totum, as shown, and upon the side faces e of the said tee-totum figures are produced, which figures may be read consecutively or they may be arbitrarily placed.v

The tee-totum is provided with a headpiece F. This head-piece usually consists of a strip of metal inthe centerof which an 0 emng f 2 is made, through which the han d e or stem ofthe tee-totum may pass, so

iece may rest upon the top ofthebody o the teetotum, and preferably the said head-piece is bent downward at each end to form oppos I ing vertical flanges f and f, and the'word Sick is produced upon one of the said flanges and the WOId' Accident upon the other. When the head-piece F is in position on the teetotum E, the downwardly-extending flanges on the head-piece will extend each over a face 6 having I In connection with the game-board and the checkers, or chips F are used, the checkers of one set having the figure 1 thereon and the disks of the other set the figure f 2 there on. Any number ofpair of these disks may accompany the game-board, so as to accommodate any desired number of players, since each player is entitled to two checkers, one checker being that which is to be moved upon the board and the second checker to be held in reserve in order that no dispute shall arise as to the sequence of play for the play- In playing the game player N o. 1 will turn the tee-totum E, and the figure expressed on a figure thereon.

95 said spinning object E two sets of disks,

that face of the tee-toturn which falls down- Ward will indir ate the number of moves to Which the player is entitled. The next player then turns the tee-totum and makes his play, the checkers being moved from one panel on the path to the other.

If by chance a move indicated for a. player terminates et a vacation-panel D in the path of life B, that player is entitled to e second move equivalent to that terminating at said vacation-panel, thus doubling the move ind icated by the last spinning oi the tee-totunr When the tee-toturn tells, should either of thefienges f or f face downward the player will be entitled to the number of moves indiceted by the figure adjacent to said flange, but the moves must be made backward instead of forward.

The game is given to the player who 'lirst reaches the lest panel by a single throw which Will land him on said panel. Should the throw of such player co nt him over said lost or he might have to wait his turn for a.nother chance, according to the agreement between the players.

Having thus described my irvention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Petent- 1. The combination with the i having hazards thereon, ol n tee Lei ters l l l l l l l i J l see er) ing characters indicating hazards upon thesides thereof, of e hend -piece rotutably mounted upon the teetotuni and provided with characters influencing the indications oi the churn cl ers oi the tce-totuni.

4. The GOlHlJllliliitll'l with :1. tee-totum provided with characters indicating hazards, of

e. hced picce in connection therewith, said last panel, his chance or winning might be lo-board n nin 'hnving on the sides thereof chureclers for ind.i

eating" the h e'zards, and a heml piece for the head-piece being provided with characters influencing the indication of the characters on the tee-totem.

In testimony where-oi l have signed my name to this specification in the presence oi two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES lQDW'ARl) HERON.

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