US1098641A - Game apparatus. - Google Patents

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Patented June 2, 1914.

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APPLICATION FILED MAY 29, 1913..

W. 0. ROBINSON.

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GAME APPARATUS.

Application filed May 29, 1913.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM O. ROBIN- son, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chestnut Hill, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Game Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to new and amusing game apparatus, and has for its object to provide a game board having certain lines and designations thereon to represent the starting points and the lines of travel of the game pieces, one of the game pieces representing a spider and the other game pieces representing flies.

A further object of the invention is to produce a new and entertaining game which we have entitled the Spider and the flies, and certain of the lines are used to represent a spiders web.

At the beginning of the play, the game pieces representing the spider is placed at the center of the game board, while the game pieces representing flies are placed at different points having certain identical designations, and the player moving the game piece representing the spider must endeavor to catch sufficient number of flies to prevent the player moving the game piece representing the flies from penning the spider game piece in the center of his web or blocking his progress, so as to put him on the outside and prevent him reaching the center of his web.

lVith these ends in view this invention consists in the details of construction and combination of elements hereinafter set forth and then specifically designated by the claims.

In order that those skilled in the art to which this invention appertains may understand how to make and use the same, I will describe its construction in detail, referring by numeral to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification, in which Figure 1, represents a face view of the game board. Fig, 2, is a plan view of one of the game pieces; and Fig. 3, is a similar view of another one of the game pieces.

In carrying out my invention as here embodied, 2 represents the board which may be of any suitable size or configuration, but preferably square and of any suitable ma- Speeifieation of Letters Patent.

Patented June 2, 1914:. Serial No. 770,745.

terial. Upon the upper surface or one face of the board are inscribed certain lines 3, 4:, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, which intersect one another at regular intervals, forming a large square termed the web, which is subdivided into smaller squares, and at the intersection of the lines are indicated rests or stations 13, and have a special mark to distinguish them from other resting points, and the center station 1-l is distinguished from the other in some suitable manner, such as a large mark and this center station designated as the spiders home. The lines 3, 7, 8 and 12 extend in two opposite directions from the web as indicated by 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 22, and have marks thereon at regular intervals, rests or stations 28 designated by some special mark such as a circle, so that they may be distinguished from the stations in the web. From the end of each of the lines 19, 20, 21 and 22 extend other lines 2% and 25 projecting toward the corners of the board at right angles to the lines 19, 20, 21 and 22, and said lines 24 and. are each provided with an extension 26 at right angles, and said lines 2 1 and 25 and their extensions 2-6 are marked at regular intervals with rests or stations 23. The lines 16, 17, 19 and 22 have projecting from two of their stations :1 pair of parallel lines 27 having stations 23 marked thereon, some or all of which may be joined by other lines 28. The lines 15, 16, 17 and 18 each has a line 29 pro-- jecting from its central station and these lines are also provided with stations 23 while the lines 15, 20, 18 and 21 each has a line 30 projecting at right angles thereto, or parallel with the outermost lines of the web, and these lines are provided with a number of stations 28 and are connected by lines 31 with certain of the stations in the web.

011 the center of the board adjacent the edges are inscribed four safety walls 32 substantially Z shaped, thus separating certain stations or rests. Adjacent the corners of the board are inscribed other safety walls 33 of slightly different configuration from those described above, but are utilized to sepa ate certain stations or rests. Certain of the stations or rests 23 are provided with designating marks such as anumeral, and on these marked stations are placed the fly game pieces when the player is started.

The game pieces or playing members may be of any suitable configuration, provided in some manner with a suitable c esignating mark, said pieces being here shown as chips having the representation of a fly and spider thereon as plainly shown in Figs. 2 and 3 respectively.

The game can be played by only two persons, one having the game piece representing the spider and the other having the 24 game pieces representing the flies. To begin the game the game piece representing the spider is placed upon the center section 14: *epresenting the spiders home and when game pieces representing the flies are placed upon the designated station, the player having the spider takes the first move and can move from one station to another along any line of travel, and if when it is the spiders move there is a fly resting upon an adjacent station with a vacant station behind the fly, the spider can jump from the station on which he is resting to the vacant station and remove the fly game piece, but a fly cannot jump the spider, nor can a fly occupy the spiders home is; The players move their game piece alternately, and the one having the flies must endeavor to move his game pieces so as to occupy a suflicient number oi the stations 13 to put the spider with in his web, and upon his home, or to so block the progress of the spider as to prevent him reaching his home, and if this can be done the player laving the fly game pieces wins the game, but if the spider can capture sufiicient flies to prevent the penning him in his web or blocking his progress to his home, then the player having the spider wins the game.

Of course I do not wish to be limited to the exact details of construction as herein shown, as these may be varied within the limits of the appended claims without departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and useful, is

1. In a game apparatus a board having lines inscribed thereon, so arranged that certain of said lines intersect at the center of the board to form a web, a set of stations marked at the intersections and having some characteristic to distinguish them from other stations, and forming what is designated the web, the central station in said web having some characteristic to distinguish it from other stations, and being known as the spiders home, certain portions of the said lines having stations marked thereon and provided with some characteristic to distinguish them as a set from the stations in the other set, certain of said last named stations also having a designating mark, four safety walls situated adj acent the centers of the edges of the board for separating certain stations and four other safety walls situated adjacent the cor ners of the board for separating certain stations.

2. In a game apparatus, aboard, intersecting lines at the center of said board forming a web, stations marked at the intersections of said lines, other lines extending from the web and stations marked at regular intervals on the last named lines, said stations having certain characteristics so that they may be distinguished from the sections in the web and certain of the stations outside of the web being provided with a designating mark.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed my signature in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

NILLIAM O. ROBINSON.

Vitnesses C. A. HUNsBnnern, EARLE R. BEYER.

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

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