US990292A - Game. - Google Patents

Description

Patented Apr. 25', 1911.

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w1@ NWN UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE WILLIAMJ. RIGNEY, 0F NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE FIRM 0F MCLOUGHLIN BBOTHERS, 0F BROOKLYN, NEV YQRK.

GAME.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 25, 1911.

To allwhom fit/may concern.'

Beit known that I, lViLLiAM J. B IGNE'Y, a citizen of the United States, residing in the borough of Brooklyn, in the city of New YorkandState of New York, have made certain -new and useful Improvements 1n Games not Heretofore Known or Used;

,and I hereby declare the following specificawhich is removed by the force of the blow from the ball and another face substituted automatically so that the skill of the party throwing the ball is tested and recorded. These and other objects and details of the invention are more fully described in the following specification, set forth in the claims and illustrated in the drawings, wherein:

Figure 1 is a. perspective view of the device with one side partly broken away to show the interior mechanism. Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse sectional view. Fig. 3 is a view from the rear with the back wall removed. Fig. it is a transverse vertical sectional view of a modified form. Fig. 5 is a rear view of the saine with the back of the box removed.

The device consists preferably of a box 10, or may be a wall with a box or casing at the rear of same and back of opening 11, the front wall or side of the box having painted thereon the figure of a man 12, or any other desired object. The lower part of the box is provided with a compartment 13, for the reception of balls or other objects which are placed therein and made accessible by the opening 14. The opening 11 is adapted to contain a face 15 and is consequently made with outlines corresponding to the face 15 which represents a negro or dark complexioned individual, or it may be a representation of the typical German face 16 having the identical contour to fit within the opening 11. The face 15 is mounted on arms 17 pivoted in brackets 18 above the opening 11 while the face 16 is also mounted on similar arms 19 and pivoted in brackets 2O below `is permitted to fill the opening 11.

the opening. The latter face and arms are provided with equalizing springs 21 to support the weight of the face 16 and tend to throw it upward when a ball strikes the face 15 and forces it from the opening 11 and into the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2. The arms 17 and 19 are connected with each other by means of a link 22, and when the. face 15, is forced backward and upward into the position shown in dotted lines, the impact of the blow not only carries the face 15 backward and upward but permits the face 16 to take its place in consequence of the pressure of the springs 21,

thus indicating that the ball has struck the face 15 and displaced it so that the face 16 The operation .is reversed on the next hit by the ball. If the ball in consequence of this action should drop into the box 10 it may be removed when desired, but usually the ball will bound back after hitting the face. The springs 21 are coiled about the pivotal rod 23 on which the face 16 is carried and one end of these Springs bears against the front of the box while the other bears against the back of the face.

In the modified forms shown in Figs. 1 and 5 the faces 24 and 25 are carried respectively by the arms 26 and 27. Brackets 28 are attached to the arms 27, the latter being pivoted on shafts 29 and these brackets 28 support the rod 30 on whose outer ends links 31 are journaled and connected with the arms 26 so that when the face 24 is struck and forced backward, it permits the face 25 to descend and till the opening 11 where the latter face will remain unti it is struck by a ball and thrown upward, its momentum causing the links 31 to drag the face 24 upward at an impetus that would throw it forward into the opening 11 where it will be held by thel weight of the other face through the agency of the links 31. This operation may be continued and the various faces alternated as the blows are struck by the ball.

lt is obvious that other means be resorted to, or slight changes made in the form of mechanism used, to cause these two faces to be displaced and in the action of being thrown backward to substitute another face, without departing from the essential features of my invention as above described and shown in the drawings. l

I/Vhat I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a game or toy, the combination with a wall having an aperture, of two representations of faces each of which is adapted to fit the aperture separately and means connecting said faces which causes them to appear automatically one at a time in the aperture when either face is displaced by pressure thereon from without, substantially as shown and described.

f2. In a game or toy, the combination with a wall having an aperture, of faces adapted to appear separately in the aperture and means for causing the faces to fill the aperture alternately when either is forced inward by pressure thereon, substantially as shown and described.

3. In a game or toy, the combination with a wall having an aperture for a face or object, of faces pivoted behind the wall and adapted to fit the aperture separately and automatic means for alternating the faces as the one in the aperture is struck a blow.

4. In a game or toy, the combination with a wall having an aperture to receive a face or object, of a face carried by arms and hinged back of the opening, a second face hinged back of the opening, and links connecting the faces so that one is displayed at a time.

5. In a game or toy, the combination with a wall having an aperture the shape of a head, of a face adapted to lit the opening, pivoted arms carrying the face, a second pivoted face adapted to fit the opening, arms carrying the second face, links connecting the arms of the two faces to hold one or the other in or out ofV theV opening, and prings to equalize the weight of one of the aces.

WILLIAM J. RIGNEY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

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