US1099250A - Game. - Google Patents

Description

F. A. JOHNSTON.

GAME.

urmommn mum we. 1a, 1913.

99 250; Patented June 9, 1914.

-HIIHHHHI FRANK A. JOHNSTON, 0F IOLA,.KANSAS.

GAME.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 9, 1914.

Application filed August 18, 1913. SerialNo. 785,336.

To a 10/1 om it may concern Be it known that I, FRANK A. JOHNSTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Iola, in the county of Allen and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Games, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention comprehends certain new and useful improvements in games and relates more specifically to that class of games in which a board provided with a groove or runway and spherical members adapted to travel in said groove or runway, are employed.

An object of the invention is to provide a game of this character with an improved form of board of simple and cheap construction and which may be formed of various materials.

A further object is to provide a game of this character with novel means to be employed by the players -for depositing the spherical members upon the board in such manner that said members will readily find their way to the groove or runway and travel for a distance in said groove or runway before stopping opposite one of the squares on the inclined portion of the board.

A still further object is to generally improve and simplify devices of this character and provide a game which will be instructive as well as entertainin WVith the above and other objects in view, my invention consists in novel constructions, combinations, and arrangements of parts to be hereinafter more fully described, claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which,

Figure 1 is a top plan view of my improved game board; Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view through the same; Fig. 3 is a fragmentary detail sectional view through the grooved portion of said board, said view also showing in section the means for depositing the spherical members upon the board.

Reierring more specifically to the drawings in which similar reference characters designate corresponding parts throu bout the several views, 1 designates the oard which may be formed of any suitable material and which has the upper face of its central portion convexed, as shown at 2, with a circular groove or runway 3 around said convexed portion, said board being inclined upwardly from the outer edge of the groove or runway toward the edges of the board, as shown at 4. The upwardly in- -lincd portion l of the board is marked oil into squares 5, arranged in a circle around the groove or runway 13, said squares having characters marked thereon, as shown at (i. lVhile any form of characters may be placed in the squares 5, I prefer to use a double set of numerals from 25 to 1000, said numerals being arranged in order and both sets running in the same direction, as will be readily ulnlerstocd by referring to the drawing.

The board 1 has a stop flange 7 secured upon its upper face along its edges to prevent the spherical members 8 from rolling oil of the board 1 before reaching the groove or runway 3.

The spherical members 8 may be deposited upon the board 1 in any suitable manner but l have shown a novel device for this purpose which consists of a standard 9 having its lower end split longitudinally, as shown at 10, to provide the legs 11 which are bent in opposite directions in order that they may straddle thc groove or runway 3, as will be later clearly understood. The upper end of the standard 9 is bifurcated, as shown at 12, and the chute or tube 1.3 is pivoted in said bifurcated end, as shown at 14, it being understood that the opposite ends of the chute or tube are open and that said chute or tube 13 may be set at any desired incline to properly direct the spherical members to the board. I prefer to have one end of the chute or tube 13 directed up- 'ardly at an angle to the remainder thereof, as shown at 15, in order that the spherical memliers may be more readily deposited in the upper end 15 which is also flared, while the lower end of said member rests slightly above the board 1, the remaining portion of the device being inclined down *ardly, at an angle to the standard 9.

The game may be played as tollowsz- A certain trip may be decided upon by the players and the route to be taken and the number of miles to be covered during said trip. Then the players deposit their spherical members upon the board in turn, each spherical member finding its way to the groove or runway 3 traveling in the same until stopping opposite one of the squares 5. The number in this square will indicate the number of miles that player is entitled to travel upon his or her journey. The

player first reaching his or her destination wins. the game. It will therefore be seen that this game will be instructive as well as entertaining, as the players will be com pelled to determine the number of miles in each different route from one given place to another and will therefore be of interest to both old and young,

While I have shown the preferred embodiment of my game, it will be obvious that minor changes in the details of construction may be made within. the scope of the appended claim without departing from the spirit of my invention or sacrificing any of the advantages of the same.

Vhat I claim is A device of the class described comprising abase board having a marginal :rim, the upper face of said board having its central portion convexe d and being provided with a runway around said conveXed cencopiel of this patent may be obtained for tral portion, the remainder of the upper face of said board being inclined from the runway'to the rim thereof, said remaining po-r-- tion of said face being inclined from the runway to the same degree as the incllnation of the convexed central portion of the,

end registering with said runway, as and for the purpose described. r

In testimony whereof I hereunto afiiX my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

FRANK A. JOHNSTON.

Witnesses W. B. LEDFEED, J. C. HAGERMAN.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

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