US3711095A

US3711095A - Projectile and target apparatus including scoring pieces adopted for attachment to the projectile

Info

Publication number: US3711095A
Application number: US00195221A
Authority: US
Inventors: W Todd
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1971-11-03
Filing date: 1971-11-03
Publication date: 1973-01-16
Anticipated expiration: 1990-01-16

Abstract

A game set including a tossing bowl, scoring chips, and a pair of goals. The scoring chips consist of a pair of small discs spaced apart from one another and joined by a central connector at a spacing sufficient to enable them to be releasably clipped onto the rim of the tossing bowl with a yielding frictional grip. The players stand behind the goals and toss the bowl over both goals, whereupon an opponent attempts to catch the bowl and toss it back. Upon a successful catch or throw an additional chip is attached and the tossing is continued with additional taken care not to dislodge the attached chip.

Description

United States Patent Todd [H] 3,711,095 51 Jan. 16, 1973 [541 PROJECTILE AND TARGET APPARATUS mcwnrgc SC 0RING, PIECES ADAPTED FOR ATTACHMENT TO THE PROJECTILE [76] Inventor: William B. Todd, 4225 Chalmers Avenue, Detroit, Mich. 48215 [22] Filed: Nov. 3, 1971 [21] Appl. No.: 195,221

[52] [1.8. CI. ..273/95 R, 273/102 R 3,208,444 9/1965 Sipos ....273/95 R Primary Examiner-Anton O. Oechsle Assistant Examiner-Marvin Siskind Attorney-Willis Bugbee [57] ABSTRACT A game set including a tossing bowl, scoring chips, and a pair of goals. The scoring chips consist of a pair of small discs spaced apart from one another and joined by a central connector at a spacing sufficient to enable them to be releasably clipped onto the rim of the tossing bowl with a yielding frictional grip. The players stand behind the goals and toss the bowl over both goals, whereupon an opponent attempts to catch the bowl and toss it back. Upon a successful catch or throw an additional chip is attached and the tossing is continued with additional taken care not to dislodge the attached chip.

10 Claims, 7 Drawing Figures PROJECTILE AND TARGET APPARATUS INCLUDING SCORING PIECES ADOPTED FOR ATTACHMENT TO THE PROJECTILE The two players stand back of their respective goals and the starting player, selected by chance, tosses the bowl, with the starting chip attached, over both goals whereupon his opponent attempts to catch it and toss it back without dislodging the attached chip. The tossing of the bowl is continued back and forth over both goals, attaching scoring chips to the bowl in the manner set forth more fully below.

In the drawings,

FIG. 1 is a perspective view, on a reduced scale, showing the game of the present invention being played, with the tossing bowl, equipped with chips, in mid-air,

FIG. 2 is a side elevation, on a reduced scale, of a tossing bowl with two chips seated on its rim;

FIG. 3 is a top plan view, upon a slightly enlarged scale, of the tossing bowl shown in FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is a vertical section taken along the line 44 in FIG. 3;

FIG. 5 is a front elevation, life-size, of one of the scoring chips;

FIG. 6 is a vertical section taken along the line 6-6 in FIG. 5; and

FIG. 7 is a vertical section through a modified chip of convexo-concave shape.

Referring to FIG. I generally, there is shown therein a tossing and catching game set, generally designated 10, as consisting of a tossing bowl 12 to the rim of which grooved game pieces or chips 14 may be yieldably and releasably attached. The game set also includes a pair of similargoals 16 over which the bowl 12 is tossed back and forth during play.

The bowl 12 (FIGS. 2, 3 and 4) as its name suggests has a dished body having a bottom wall 18 from which an annular side wall 20 extends upward to a peripheral portion or rim 22. The bottom wall 18 is preferably considerably thicker than the side wall 20 in order to provide a stabilizing weight portion or ballast 24 tending to hold the rim 22 uppermost while the bowl I2 is being tossed back and forth during play in the manner described below. The how] 10 is conveniently made of a durable synthetic plastic, such as a high impact plastic of the type known to those skilled in the plastic art and conveniently formed by conventional molding operations. It will be understood, however, that the weighted portion or ballast 24 may consist of a separate weight element of a heavier material than the remainder of the bowl, for example, of metallic lead or the like, attached in any suitable way as by a fastener.

The rim 22 of the side wall 20 is sufficiently thin for the yielding and releasable attachment of the grooved game pieces or chips 14, as discussed more fully below. The side wall 20 is preferably of arcuate cross-section. The body 15 has a convex external surface 25 to facilitate catching it in the palms of the hands, a concave internal side surface 27 and a flat internal bottom surface 26, and is of less than hemispherical shape to facilitate clipping the chips to the rim 22 thereof. Such a shape has been referred to in solid geometry as a spherical segment of one base, the base being the circular plane 28 coinciding with and bounded by the edge 30 of the rim 22.

Each game piece or chip 14 (FIGS. 5 and 6) consists of a pair of discs 32 spaced axially apart from one another yet joined to one another by a central connector 34. The discs 32 are preferably of circular shape with rims 36 and are conveniently molded from resilient synthetic plastic material. The connector 34 may consist, for example, of a rivet with an enlarged head 38 on one end of a shank 40 which passes through a spacer 42 such as a washer, and terminating in an upset end 44 at the opposite end of the rivet from the head 38. It is also contemplated that the connector 34 should be formed integral with the discs 32 by a single molding operation. In either case, the above-described construction forms an annular groove 46 between the discs 32 which is approximately the thickness of slightly less than the thickness of the bowl rim 28, so that when the clip 14 is clipped onto the rim 22 it yieldingly but releasably grips the rim 22. The groove 46 is also made slightly less than the thickness of each disc 32 so that another chip or series of chips 14 can be mounted on a previously applied row of chips 14, as shown in FIG. 1. The bowl 12 is of such size as to accommodate a single circular group of chips 14 attached directly to the rim portion 22, and two additional circular groups attached to the chips already pressed onto the bowl rim 22.

The modified game piece or chip, generally designated 50, shown in FIG. 7 is formed of, a pair of axiallyspaced discal shells S2 of arcuate or convexoconcave configuration interconnected and spaced apart from one another by a central connector 54 shown diagrammatically as a spacing plug in FIG. 7 but also adapted to employ the same rivet construction shown in FIG. 6. The shells 52 preferably have facing convex and concave surfaces 56 and 58 of substantially the same radii of curvature as the external and internal surfaces 25 and 27 of the side wall 20 of the bowl I2, and with a groove 60 therebetween of a width slightly less than the thickness of the rim portion 22 of the side wall 20 in order to provide a yielding frictional grip therebetween.

Each goal 16 for convenience oftransportation and storage consists of a pair of base blocks or supporting members 62 (FIG. 1) of heavy material having sockets 64 in the top surface thereof. Seated in. each of the sockets 64 is a rod or upright 66, on the upper ends of which are mounted couplings 68 for the opposite ends 70 of a flexible goal line, cord, orfilamentary connector 72 stretched therebetween. Each upright 66 is preferably formed of a pair of telescoping

tubular members

74 and 76 overlapping at 78 and slidably engaging one another for compactness of storage and transportation. 1

In playing this game, the person who is to have th first service is chosen. by chance, as by tossing a coin. At the start, each player is permitted. three practice tosses before scoring commences. The first server, thus chosen, attaches the extra chip 14 to the rim. of the bowl l2 and while standing behind the goal. line, represented by the core 72 nearest him, endeavors to hand or in both hands. If he catches it in one hand, he

scores two points, or if in two hands one point. He then attaches one of his own chips 14 to the rim of the bowl l2 and tries to toss it back over both goal lines to his opponent. If, on the other hand, he has dropped the bowl, or failed to catch it, he still attaches one of his own chips but does not score. If, however, he has dislodgedthe initial chip (which does not count in scoring) he reattaches it before he tosses the bowl back to his opponent. If the bowl goes wild, i.e. it does not go over the bowl cord 72 or goes over the opponents head, the tosser has to pick it up and replace spilled chips, if any, and three points are subtracted from the tossers score. Assuming that the bowl 12 was properly returned and properly caught by the opponent, the latter scores two points if he catches it with one hand or one point if he catches it with two hands without dislodging the two chips attached to the rim of the bowl. He then adds one of his own chips to the two already on the 'rim of the bowl and tosses it back across the two goal linesor cords 72. The play continues in this manner, each player who successfully catches it attaching one or two chips if a two-handed or onehanded catch, and so on until all 45 chips 14 have been attached to the bowl 12, either directly to the rim portion 22 thereof (FIG. 4) or on top of chips already attached to the rim, as shown in FIG. 1. The game ends when all forty-five chips 14 have been attached to the bowl l2, whereupon the player having the higher score Wll'lS.

This game may be played either indoors or out-ofdoors, by juveniles as well as by adults, and provides excellent exercise as well as furthering weight reduction. It also provides amusement at parties.

l claim:

1. A tossing and catching game set comprising a tossing bowl having a dished body with a bottom wall and with a side wall extending upward from said bottom wall and having a rim at the top thereof,

a multiplicity of game pieces of resilient material having peripheral recesses therein yieldingly and releasably engageable with said rim,

and a pair of goal structures adapted to be positioned in spaced parallel relationship to one another upon a player-supporting surface,

each goal structure having a pair of uprights adapted to be spaced laterally apart from one another on the player-supporting surface, and also having a horizontal goal member extending between the upper portions of said uprights, wherein said tossing bowl is tossed between players standing behind said goal structures and a game piece is attached to the rim of said bowl after a successful toss or catch.

2. A tossing and catching game set, according to claim 1, wherein said bowl has a ballast portion disposed adjacent said bottom wall.

3. A tossing and catching game set, according to claim 2, wherein said ballast portion includes a bottom wall which is thicker than said side wall.

4. A tossing and catching game set, according to claim 2, wherein said ballast portion includes a layer of ballast material of greater density than the material of said bowl body.

5. A tossing and catching game set, according to claim 1, wherein certain of said game pieces comprise discs spaced axiall apart from one another by a distance approxima ely equal to the thickness of said rim, and wherein a centrally-disposed spacing portion interconnects said discs.

6. A tossing and catching game set, according to claim 5, wherein said spacing portion comprises a headed fastener centrally interconnecting said discs.

7. A tossing and catching game set, according to claim 5, wherein said discs are of convexo-concave configuration.

8. A tossing and catching game set, according to claim 1, wherein each goal structure also includes a pair of base members with sockets therein snugly receiving the lower end portions of said uprights.

9. A tossing and catching game set, according to claim 1, wherein each of said uprights includes a pair of telescoping members slidably engaging one another.

10. A tossing and catching game set, according to claim 1, wherein said horizontal goal member comprises a flexible filamentary connector having'its opposite ends secured to said upper portions of said uprights.

Claims

1. A tossing and catching game set comprising a tossing bowl having a dished body with a bottom wall and with a side wall extending upward from said bottom wall and having a rim at the top thereof, a multiplicity of game pieces of resilient material having peripheral recesses therein yieldingly and releasably engageable with said rim, and a pair of goal structures adapted to be positioned in spaced parallel relationship to one another upon a player-supporting surface, each goal structure having a pair of uprights adapted to be spaced laterally apart from one another on the playersupporting surface, and also having a horizontal goal member extending between the upper portions of said uprights, wherein said tossing bowl is tossed between players standing behind said goal structures and a game piece is attached to the rim of said bowl after a successful toss or catch.

5. A tossing and catching game set, according to claim 1, wherein certain of said game pieces comprise discs spaced axially apart from one another by a distance approximately equal to the thickness of said rim, and wherein a centrally-disposed spacing portion interconnects said discs.

10. A tossing and catching game set, according to claim 1, wherein said horizontal goal member comprises a flexible filamentary connector having its opposite ends secured to said upper portions of said uprights.