US1178049A - Indoor quoits. - Google Patents

Description

A. H. BEARDSLEY.

INDOOR QUOITS.

APPLICATION FILED JAN-10.1916- 1,178,049. Patented Apr. 4, 19 16.

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Mia (5% ANDREW H. BEARDSLEY, OF ELKHART, INDIANA.

INDOOR QUOITS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 4, 1916.

Application filed January 10, 1916. Serial No. 71,139.

uncarpeted floors without injury to the floor,

carpets or surrounding objects.

- The objects of my invention are, first, the

production of a flexible wear resisting base member or pin mat which is provided with improved scoring means, second, the produc tion of a pin mat or base member provided with simple means to minimize the tendency of quoit deflection therefrom, third, the production of a pin mat provided with an improved quoit pin and securing means and readily detachable from the mat, and, fourth, means carried by the quoit pin for preventing the quoit disengagement therefrom when in a more or less insecure engagement therewith in flight.

On the drawings, Figure 1 is a section in elevation; Fig. 2 is a. broken plan view of the base member or mat; Fig. 3 is a modified form of the quoit pin; Fig. 4 is a plan view of a ring quoit; and Fig. 5 is a plan view of a quoit open at one end.

Similar numerals on the drawings refer to similar members and parts of members. throughout the several views.

Reference to the drawings in detail discloses that the'numeral 1 designates a quoit pin base, or mat, preferably formed of soft vulcanite, circular in form, although it may be square or rectangular, and provided with the centrally located quoit pin boss 2 which is concaved on its under side.

The numeral 4 designates a reduced portion of the quoit pin 3 penetrating a suitable aperture formed centrally of the boss 2, carrying the plain washer 5 contacting with the upper surface of the boss 2, and a cupped washer 6 arranged within the boss concavity and held in close contact therewith by the nut 7 screw threaded upon the lower end of the pin reduced portion 4. The use of the cupped washer ,6 imparts a rigidity to the upright pin 3 not otherwise pomessed, thereby minimizing the lateral deflection thereofwhen struck by a quoit in flight.

Thepin base 1 is thickened at 8 adjacent its center tapering therefrom in thickness to the outer periphery 9 thereof where it is thinner, thereby imparting a desired stiffness at its center to resist a bending tendency as Well as wear resisting qualities and a reduction in the weight thereof.

The pin base 1 is'provided on its upper surface with a plurality of circular ridges 10, 1O concentric with each other and the boss 2, adapted to indicate the score of the player, and adapted also, when struck by a flying quoit, to retard the momentum thereof.-

At Fig. 3 a modification of the structure of pin 3 is shown. Thereon, the numeral 11 designates an annular quoit retaining washer, or stop ring, suitably apertured for mounting it upon the pin 3 .adjacent its top end and held in position thereon by the pins 12 and 13-carried in suitable pin apertures formed in the pin 3 which are spaced above and below-the ring 11. The stop ring 11 is adapted to prevent displacement of thequoit from the pin' 3 when the momentum or a rebound thereof would carry the quoit off the top end thereof. At Figs. 4 and 5 I show ring and horseshoe forms, respectively, of a quoit, preferably made of soft vulcanite and stiffened interiorly by a metal reinforcing piece embedded therein. 4

I claim: 1

1 A device of the class described comprising a resllient pin base provided with circular concentric ridges upon its upper surface; an upright pin carried .by said base; and means for detachably securing said pin to said base.

A device of the class described compIlSlIlg a resilient pin base centrally embossed, saidboss being apertured; an upright pin mounted within said boss aper- I ture; and means for detachably securing said pin within said boss aperture.

device of the class described .comprislng a resilient pin base centrally recessed on its lower surface and provided with an aperture in communicatlon with said recess; a pin mounted upon said base and having one end thereof extending through said aperture; and means within said recess fordetachably securing said pin upon said base.

an upright pin detachably mounted upon said boss.

-6. A device of the class described comprising a flexible pin base centrally embossed and having a cupped recess beneath said boss, said boss having an aperture in communication with said recess; a pin detachably arranged within said aperture the end of which extends into said recess; and a cupped washer detachably mounted upon said pin and within said recess.

7. A device of the classdescribed comprising'a pin support; a quoit pin carried by said support; and a quoit stop member carried by said'quoit pin.

8. A device of the class described comprising a pin support; a quoit pin carried by said support; and aquoit stop ring detachably mounted upon said pin adjacent the top end thereof. V

In testimony whereof I. have hereunto aflixed my si'gnature this 8th day of January, 1916.

ANDREW H. BEARDSLEY.

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