US2432167A - Cribbage board - Google Patents

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Dec. 9, 1947.

Patented Dec. 9, 1947 ZABZJti UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CRIBBAGE BOARD Charles J. Manuel, Durham, N. H. Application August 14, 1946, Serial No. 690,475

2 Claims.

The invention relates to an improved type of cribbage board.

The essential object of the invention is to provide a cribbage board that can conveniently be used when there are more than two players.

The conventional cribbage board can not conveniently be used when there are more than two players. Such would require at least three sets of peg holes parallelly disposed, and while access might be had to the individual sets of holes by the respective players yet such access would not be convenient. Even with the conventional board where there are two sets of peg holes parallelly disposed and to which two players might have easy access yet even in such case it might be better if the sections during the playing did not lie side by side parallelly disposed.

It is accordingly the object of my invention to overcome the difficulties above referred to, especially where more than two are playing, and even provide a better board when two are playing, by providing what may be termed a radiatable board or one composed of individual sections each hav ing the conventional number of peg holes together with any other holes in which the pegs may be deposited, and which sections are capable of lying nested parallelly disposed when the board is not in use but capable of having in use a radiate type of structure or one in which the individual sections would have a radial disposition angularly disposed with relation to each other.

The invention can best be seen and understood by reference to the drawings in which the board is illustrated as essentially adaptable for three players.

Fig. 1 is a plan of the board with its individual sections unradiated when the board is not in use.

Fig. 2 is a rear end elevation of the board as shown in Fig. 1; and

Fig. 3 is a plan of the board with the individual sections radiated as the board is used, and

Fig. 4 is an enlarged plan of a section of the board.

Referring to the drawings: l represents the cribbage board. The board is composed of individual sections comprising an intermediate secticn 2 and outer sections 3 and 4, respectively. Each section contains the conventional peg holes for any individual player. Mortised within one end of the intermediate section is a cross plate 5 with laterally projecting ends 6 having slots l formed therein. These projecting ends of the plate extend to lie contained, respectively, in slots 8 formed in the ends of the outer sections. Pins It are passed, respectively, through the ends of 2 the outer sections and through the slots 1 formed in the recessed ends of the plate whereby the outer sections may be turned to lie nested parallelly disposed with the intermediate section as shown in Fig. 1, or the outer sections be turned to extend outwardly and lie angularly disposed with relation to each other and to the intermediate section, as shown in Fig. 3, thus converting the board into a radiate type of structure in which the sections are easily accessible to three players.

It will be observed that the slots 1 formed in the projecting ends of the plate and recessed in the ends of the outer sections are angularly turned slots with turned ends I. When the sections are nested together, as shown in Fig. 1, the pins passing through the slots will lie within the turned ends 7 of the slots so that the outer sections cannot be turned outwardly until they have been so slideably moved that the pins will leave the turned ends of the slots and enter the main portions of the slots when the outer sections may be turned outwardly into their radiated positions. Not only do the pins contained in the turned ends of the slots in the recessed ends of the plate assist in holding the sections in nested parallel engagement, as shown in Fig. 1, but the sections are also held nested by pins II on the sides of the outer sections fitting snugly within holes l2 formed in the adjacent sides of the intermediate section.

When two are playing the board may be used as shown in Fig. 1 or one of the outer sections may be turned out.

I claim:

1. A cribbage board composed of individual sections and comprising an intermediate section and outer sections, each section having the conventional peg holes, the outer sections having slots formed in the ends thereof, a cross plate embedded within the end of the intermediate section with laterally projecting slotted ends recessed to lie contained within the slots formed in the outer ends of the outer sections, and pins passed respectively through the ends of the outer sections and through the slots formed in the recessed ends of the plate whereby the sections may be turned to lie nested parallelly disposed, or the outer sections be turned to extend outwardly and lie angularly disposed with relation to each other and to the intermediate section.

2. A cribbage board composed of individual sections and comprising an intermediate section and outer sections, each section having the conventional peg holes, the outer sections having slots formed in the ends thereof, a cross plate embedded Within the end of the intermediate section with laterally projecting ends recessed to lie contained within the slots formed in the ends of the outer sections, said projecting ends of the plate having angularly turned slots formed therein with downwardly turned ends, and pins passed respectively through the ends of the outer sections and through the slots in the recessed ends of the plate and lying within the turned end portions of the slots when the sections lie nested together parallelly disposed or upon slideably moving the outer sections he moved out of the turned ends of the slots when the outer sections may be turned to extend outwardly and lie angularly disposed with relation to each other and to the intermediate section.

CHARLES J. MANUEL.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS 10 Number Name Date 1,977,842 Badanes Oct. 23, 1934, 2,108,527 Cudmore Feb. 15, 1938 2,384,040 Miller Sept. 4, 1945

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