US951701A - Game apparatus. - Google Patents

Description

R. o. RBLIN.

GAME APPARATUS.

APPLIUATION FILED OUTA, 1909.

Patented Ma1.8,1910.

ANDREW B aan RICHARD O. ROBLIN, OF ROCHESTER, 'NEW YORK.

GAME APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 8, 19910.

Application filed October 4, 1909. Serial No. 521,013.

To all whom it 'may concern:

Be it known that T, R101-IARD O. ROBLIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Rochester, in the county ot' Monroe and State oft' New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Game Apparatus; and l. do hereby declare the t'ollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description ot the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in game apparatus, called by me The Jungle Game. It may also be used as a vending device, to promote the introduction and saleV oit merchandise, especially of that class which is retailed in separate pieces, or packages, at a uniform price, such, for instance, as chewing gum, or the like.

The apparatus comprises a. rotating pointer, which is spun around, and comes to rest at a variable position upon a board divided up into a plurality of similar sectors, the position assumed by the pointer when it comes to rest being used to indicate the score of the game.

My invention will be understood by reference to the aecompanying1 drawings, in which the same parts are indicated by the same letters and numerals throughout the several views.

Figure 1 is a plan view, showing a circular disk, having the representation of a gun pivoted thereto. Fig. 2 shows a section through one of the circular boxes used with said disk. Fig. 3 represents a plan view of the top of one of the boxes containing the package, and Fig. t represents a scale of the arbitrary values of the various animals.

A represents a circular board or disk divided up by radial lines a into a plurality o'tl sectors. These sectors are seriallynumbered and may be diversely colored, if desired. These sectors, or divisions of the board A. are numbered serially or otherwise, as from l to 12, and in addition, the representation of various animals may be shown on the top of the disk. I likewise provide a series of boxes numbered to correspond to the sectors on the disk, and in a certain number of these boxes are toy animals, and on a separate printed scale the value of the animal in scoring up the game is marked. Thus the player gives a spin to the gun C, and if the pointer c comes to rest in sector No. 2, a box similarly numbered is opened,

and the player inds some animal, or possibly a blank, each animal having its value on the printed scale. But in case the pointer stops at a number in which the corresponding numbered box is a blank this indicates that the player has missed his aim or shot and does not score for this turn cit' the pointer. In Fig. 4t an arbitrary scale is shown in which the value of the elephant is indicated as 100, the value ot the hippopotamus as 90, &c. The result, say, of three spins ot' the gun for each player is then added up, and then the next player proceeds.

The game could consist- Vof any predetermined number ot spins of the gun, say twelve.

Tit the pointer should stop at the representation of an animal on the disk, then the value of that animal is included directly in the score of the player', without the necessity ot looking in the box. Thus it will be noted that a visible score combined with a factor of surprise.

ln Fig. 2 lf have shown a box B with a toy animal B contained therein.

lt will be obvious that the animals may be removed from the `tace of the disk altogether, leaving the numbers corresponding to the boxes; but l prefer to combine the two features ot the visible pointing of the gun at the animal and the element of surprise coniprised in the closed box, so that the player may be. more keenly interested.

Having thus described my invention, what l claim and desire to secure by Letters latent of the United States, is

A game apparatus, comprising a disk scpa 1ated into a series of' radial and numbered divisions with the imitation of a gun pivoted to the center ot' said disk and adapted to be spun over said radial divisions, a plurality oit animals represented upon the tace of said disk, and a printed scale showing the values attributed to each animal, with a series of boxes numbered to correspond to the radial divisions on the disk and each box containing a toy animal or other object, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof, l atlix my signature, in presence ot two witnesses.

RICHARD (l. ROBLIN.

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