US845838A - Base-ball game-board. - Google Patents

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BASE BALL GAMB BOARD. APPLICATION :FILED JHE 1, A1904.

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CHARLES H. WOLFF, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENN SYLVANIA.`

BASE-BALL GAME-BOARD.

No. 845,888. v

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 5, 1907."

Application filed June 1,1904. Serial No. 210,646.

T0 all whom it may con/cern.:

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. WOLFF, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania,` have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Base-Ball Game-Boards; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertaiiis to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to game-boards, and particularly to a game-board for playing the game of base-ball.

It has for its object to provide a gaineboard representingthe diamond and field and figures of players positioned in the places ordinarily occupied by the members of a nine playing a game of base-ball, there being formed at the position of each player, preferably at or adjacent to the hand or hands of each player, a cavity designed to receive and hold loosely a ball, which balls it is the purpose of the game to dislodge by means of an eXtra ball, which will be made larger or colored dierently from the other balls to distinguish it from them, and then to endeavor to reinstate in its place the dislodged ball'or balls by manipulation of the game-board in the hands of the user or player.

To the accomplishment of the foregoing and such other objects as may hereinafter appear the invention consists in the features of construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter particularly described and then sought to be clearly defined by the claim, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, which represents a perspective view of a game-board made in accordance with my invention.

In the drawing the numeral l designates the base of theboard inclosed by the raised walls 2, and which may be provided at each corner with a block 3 to sustain a glass plate which will lie over the base, and which plate may be held in place by lips 4, which will eX tend inwardly from the walls 2. The base and walls and the lips may be made of metal or stiff paper or other suitable material. On the face of the base l will be inscribed a diamond, (represented by the numerals 5 and 6,)

the lines of the diamond being preferablybrown in color and with the lines leadin from the home plate to the first base and from the third base to the home plate nar.- rower or wider than the lines leading from the. first base to the second base and from the. latter to the third base, for the purpose. of more quickly determining the several bases and positions of the players composing the f nine, and for effect the base of the board other than the lines indicating the run from one base to another and to home will be designated by a green color. 'lhe figures of the several players are designated by the numerals 7, and they will be positioned substantially as illustrated, so as to occupy their proper places as usual uin playing a game of baseball. At or adjacent to the hand or hands ofeach player on the baseboard will be formed a cavity or depression V8, in each of which cavities or depressions will be placed a ball 9, while at the position of the catcher or at some other suitable point will be formed a depression or cavity l0, in which will be placed a ball 11, which, to distinguish it from the other balls, is illustrated as being somewhat larger than the other balls, although this ball may be distinguished from the others by being of a different color or otherwise distinguished.

W ith the balls in the several cavities the i board will be manipulated so as to direct the ball 1l against the other balls in succession, with the view of displacing said balls one after the other and to prevent the displaced balls being replaced in the cavities until all of the balls have been displaced by contact therewith of the large ball 11. After the balls have been displaced then the gameboard will be manipulated so as to replace the balls in the cavities from which they were displaced. rIhe game will thus afford a source of amusement and entertainment to adults as well as children, and by practice a person may acquire such skill in the manipulation of the board as to be able to displace the several balls in proper succession or in such order as he may determine. If the game be played by `two persons, for illustration, the first person manipulating the board will do so until he fails to dislodge one of the balls by contact of the large ball therewith, and upon his failure to dislodge a ball the other person will manipulate the board, and so on in alternation, the person first dislodging the greater number of balls winning the IOO frame. Any other rule, however, may be orrnulated between the persons playing the game for determining what shall constitute the winning of the game.

For convenience of designation I shall designate the ball 11 as the propelling-ball and the other balls as the positioned balls.

While the illustration of the game-board given contemplates a size such as Can be readily manipulated bythe hands, still it can` be made on a large scale and a eue of suitable form employed for moving the propelling-ball. In such oase the glass ooverin for the board used on the small sizes woulcgl be left oi or omitted. The same rules for playing the game would prevail.

Having described my invention and set`

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