US1370017A - Game-board - Google Patents

Description

w. m. ERIEBELA GAME BOARD.

APPLicmoN FILED APR, 23, I920.

Paiaented Mar. 1, 1921.

v INVENTOR imam M. 61mm! 1 ATTORNEY UNITED r AT 1;

RUDOLPH M. GRIEBEL, OF SEATTLE, WASHINGTON.

GAME-BOARD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented a1-;. 1, 1921,

Application filed. A ril 23, 1920. Serial No. 375,9;5.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RUDOLPH M. GRIEBEL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Seattle, in the county of King and State of lVashington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Game-Boards, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in games; and has for its object the provision of a game-board of simple design with which an extremely interesting and attractive game may be played. V

The invention'consists in the novel construction of a tation and combination of parts, details and accessories, as will be fully described in'the following specifications, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and finally set forth in the appended claim.

In said drawings, Figure 1 is a planview of a game-board embodying'my invention.

Fig. 2 is a View in vertical cross-section of I the same. Fig. 8 is a fragmentary perspectlve view, showing one of the details of-the invention more fully.

H Referring to said views, wherein similar parts in the several views are indicated by number 10 designates the plane bottom of a playing compartment 12.

A plurality of shallow cups 13, formed of wood, fiber or other suitable composition, are cemented to the bottom and arranged ment. Said cups may be arranged in any symmetrical manner having spaces between the cups and between the cups and the side walls 11 to allow the ball 15 to run freely about the playing compartment. Adjacent each cup a so-called T indicated by 16, is fixedly secured to the board-bottom. Said Ts are intended to alford a position'for the ball when attempting a stroke for its respective cup. Said .Ts maybe of any suit-,

able form, and are shown as ridges molded or secured on the bottom 10, and are of some- What obtuse V-shapedconfiguration. Said Ts are provided for each of said cups, respectively,

game-board and in the adapsimilar reference numerals, the reference;

utilized in preferably symmetrirally within said compait' of play may and are arranged symmetrically V with respect thereto at convenient distances so that the ball may be vaulted from the T,

out of,the cups freely.

- The that the manner'of play is not proscribed play of the game may be described as follows, although it Will be understood .tions, to admitof the ball playingin and exactly and the game-board lends itself very readily to many variations of play.

The play of the game is'to'use'the least number of attempts to toss the ball into each of the cups, successively. or placed in the spective cup, and quick jerk that will toss the ball iii the air and the board. is manipulated to catch the ball in the proper times the ball is tossed in the air, are counted and. the player having the lowest number T16pertaining to the r 7 of; strokes in all of the holes wins the game.

As-additional-features and which may be varying the style of play or method of scoring, the cups 5 ed or otherwise colored in different and distinguishing colors '(not'indicated on the drawingfand theymay be further'characterized' by a number, order of rotation with which the several cups are to be played, or otherwise.

While the game-board and apparatus is very simple, considerable skill and manual dexterity is required. The rules and manner;

bevaried and the interest and V variety oflplay kept up indefinitely. I

aving described my inventionfwhat" I claim, is,- .f 7 I. In a game-board of the class described, a game-board having a; plane bottom, a plue M. .GRIEBEL, c

The ball isrolled the board is given a short 'cup, The strokes, or

may be paint- I I s5 as l7, indicating the wrality'of ball-receiving cupsfspaced apartand elevated above said bottom, a ball adaptg V a plurality of V-shaped

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