US857411A - Game device. - Google Patents

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110.857.411. PATENTED JUNE 1a, 1907. P. w. MDSELEY. GAME DEVICE.

APPLIOATION FILED JAN. 24, 1907.

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FREDERICK W. MOSELEY, OF ST. HYAGINTHE, QUEBEC, CANADA.

GAME DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 18 1907.

Application filed January 24, 1907- Serial No. 353,884-

operator to bring rolling objects to predetermined positions, wherein magnets are employed at the various stations for the rolling objects, and to provide rolling objects attractable by said magnets.

I further aim to diflerently designate the.

various stations and to give the rolling objects corresponding designations; and to provide one or more leading rolling objects to be directed to a certain goal located beyond the stations for the subsidiary objects.

The invention consists inthe 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 accompan ing drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan view of one form of the improved puzzle; and Fig. 2 is a vertical section taken practically on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

A box casing A is employed, whichis provided with a transparent top 10 and a bottom 11, which while shown of transparent material may be made of any suitable material, and marginal walls 11 connect the top and the bottom. A series of fixed objects B is secured upon the bottom 11, as is shown in Fig. 2, and the said fixed objects B are separated by channels 12. The majority of the channels 12 start from a space 13 and all terminate at a space 14, and-the space 14 may be termed a goal. Various of the fixed objects or elevations B have pockets or .re cesses channe s 12. These pockets or recesses 15 may be denominated stations, and are differently colored or are differently designated by characters or the like, and at each station 15 a magnet 16 is located, extending out beyond the back wall of the station, as is shown in Fig. 1. Rolling objects 17 are likewise employed. These rolling objects are of metal roduced in the edges that face the or of a material attractable by the magnets, and the said rolling objects 17 correspond in number to the number of stations, and are similarly colored or designated. These rollingobjects 17 may be termed subsidiary objects, since one or more leading rolling objects 18 are employed.

In the drawings, but one leading object 18 is shown. All of the rolling objects are adapted to travel in the channels 12, and it is the object of the game to bring the subsidiary rolling objects 17 in the pockets or stations correspondingly colored or designated, and the main rolling object 18 in the space 14 representing the goal.

In the drawings the stationary objects or elevations B represent States of the United States and Provinces of Canada, and the channels 12 represent lines of railroads and water-ways traversing the States and Provinces.

It is supposed in playing the game that a bank cashier has defaulted and is on his way to Canada, the main rolling object 18 representing the cashier. The subsidiary rolling objects 17 represent detectives that have been despatched to various cities in the States and Provinces represented by the stations 15, for the purpose of intercepting the cashier. The game is to succeed in placing each one of the rolling objects in the station 15 designed for it and, at the same time to have the main rolling object 18 represented by the cashier to succeed in reaching the goal 14; but I desire it to be understood that while the game may be of thecharacter shown and described, the form of the game may be varied, as for example, it could re resent a chase, or a race, or may have other torm. It is essential in each case that a magnet is employed at each station, or that each station will contain a magnet influencing medium and rolling or movable objects be of such character as to be attractable by the magnets, thus rendering it difiicult to displace wrong rolling objects from a station not designed for them.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patnet,

In a game device, fixed elevations, some of which have pockets formed therein, said elevations being separated by channels leading to said pockets, a magnetic late located in each pocket, the said channdls leading from different points to a common goal, rolling objects ada ted to travel in the channels, and attractab ie by the said magnets, the pockets being differently designated and the rolling Objects adapted to enter said pockets bein correspondingly designated, one of the sai rofiing objects being distinctive from all the ot ers.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of IO two subscribing Witnesses.

FREDERICK W. MOSELEYQ Witnesses:

L. E. HERI EL, P. F. PAYSON.

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