US565235A - Game apparatus - Google Patents

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Paltn't ed Aug. 4, 1896.

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JOSEPH BRADFORD SARGENT, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS;

GAME APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 565,235, dated August 4, 1896.

Application filed April 19, 1895. Serial No. 546,347. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOSEPH BRADFORD SAR- GENT, of WVorcester, in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and Improved Game Apparatus, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved game apparatus which is simple and durable in construction, arranged to resemble croquet, and adapted to afford considerable amusement to the player.

The invention consists of certain parts and details and combinations of the same, as will be fully described hereinafter, and then pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts inall the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective View of the improvement. Fig. 2 is a sectional side elevation of the same on the line 2 2 of Fig. l, and Fig. 3 is a sectional side elevation of part of the improvement.

The improved game apparatus is provided with a box A, having a top B, made of glass or other transparent or translucent material, to permit the player to view the contents of the box.

In the bottom of the box A are secured a series of pins or wickets 0, similar to those used on croquet grounds and preferably arranged in the same order. Stakes D D are arranged near the upper and lower ends of the box, as plainly indicated in the drawings. One or a number of balls E of any approved material are used for playing the game, the balls not in use being stored in a chamber A, formed on the face of the box-bottom and normally closed by a spring F, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3. The free end of the spring F extends through a slot in the side of the box to be engaged by the operator to permit the latter to lift the spring to get access to the chamber and the balls contained therein.

A ball or balls E are adapted to roll in the box, and are adapted to pass through the wickets by the operator tilting the box in the proper direction.

In order to play the game successfully, it will be necessary for the operator to tilt the box in such a manner as to cause the ball E to start from the stake D and pass through the several wickets O in the same order as is necessary to play ground-croquet. If a ball goes through the wrong wicket, or through any wicket in the wrong direction, then the player must return the ball to the startingpoint and begin again. If more than one ball is used, the game will be rendered quite difficult. The balls are preferably of different colors.

It will be seen that by the arrangement described, much amusement is afforded to the player and considerable skill is required to play the game successfully.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- In a game apparatus, a box provided with a chamber formed on the face of the boxbottom, and a flat spring secured at one end to the box-bottom, and extending over the said chamber normally closing the same, the free end of the said spring extending through a slot in the side of the box and adapted to be engaged by the operator, whereby the said spring can be lifted vertically to gain access to the chamber, as and for the purpose set forth.

JOSEPH BRADFORD SARGENT.

Witnesses:

W. ROBERTSON, H. E. SARGENT.

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