Amusement device

May 19, 1942.

H. SINGER

AMUSEMENT DEVICE Original Filed Feb. 20, 1940

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Patented May 19, 1942

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE

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AMUSEMENT DEVICE

Henry Singer, Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, assignor of one-half to Charles Edison Ludin, Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii

Substituted for abandoned application Serial No.

319,971, February 20, 1940. This application October 10, 1941, Serial No. 414,544

Claims. (CI. 273—142)

This invention relates to the class of games and toys and pertains particularly to improvements in chance controlled devices.

This application constitutes a substitute for applicant’s prior application Ser. No. 319,971, filed February 20, 1940.

The primary object of the present invention is to provide a game device employing one or more rotating disks associated with a stationary indicator means, the disk being provided with a plurality of marked off indicia bearing areas in connection with which the indicator means operates to designate which of the areas selected by players wins after the disk has been spun or rotated and allowed to come to rest.

Another object of the invention is to provide in association with a spinning disk game, a novel means for supporting one or more such spinning disks and for controlling the rotation of the same so that one person handling the game device may have a certain amount of control over the disks to slow up and stop the same, the disks having associated therewith a stationary indicator cooperating with markings upon a face of the disk.

A further object of the invention is to provide a novel game device, comprising a plurality of rotatable disks of different diameters arranged in graduated order upon a supporting axle with a stationary indicator associated with each disk, and a novel means under the control of a player of the game for retarding the rotation of all of the disks as a group after the disks have been set spinning whereby the length of time which the disks are permitted to rotate may be controlled.

The invention will be best understood from a consideration of the following detailed description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, with the understanding, however, that the invention is not to be confined to any strict conformity with the showing of the drawings but may be changed or modified so long as such changes or modifications mark no material departure from the salient features of the invention as expressed in the appended claims.

In the drawings—

Figure 1 is a view in end elevation of the simplified form of device embodying the present invention;

Figure 2 is a sectional view on the line 2—2 of Figure 1;

Figure 3 is a view in end elevation of the multiple disk hand supported form of the invention;

Figure 4 is a sectional view on the line 4—4 of Figure 3;

Figure 5 is a longitudinal sectional view through a stand or frame supported form of the inven5 tion; and

Figure 6 is a sectional view on the line 6—6 of Figure 5.

The present invention has been illustrated in the accompanying drawings in several different 10 forms or modifications but the basic feature or features of the invention is present in each form. In referring more particularly to the drawings, reference will be first made to the simplest form of the present invention which is illustrated in ¹⁵ Figures 1 and 2. In this simple form, the invention may be constructed for the use of a child, in which case the rotating disk will be provided with areas having printed therein pictures or. other matter which would be attractive to a child, ²⁰ which pictures may be designated by various numbers so that a number of children may be amused by each selecting a picture or number and then noting or seeing after the one handling the device has spun the disk, which child has ²⁵ made the proper selection by noting which picture stops adjacent to an indicator. In the simple form of the device there is provided a shaft I having a head 2 secured at one end. This shaft passes through the center of a disk 3 which rotates on the shaft and upon one face of which areas may be laid off to receive pictures or other identifying matter.

The numeral 4 designates a handle for the toy which comprises an elongated fixed portion 5 and a shiftable portion 6, through the longitudinal centers of which portions the axle or shaft f passes, the end of the shaft remote from its head 2 being threaded, as indicated at 7, for detachable connection in the outer portion 5 of the handle. The inner portion 6 of the handle has longitudinal movement upon the portion 5 and upon the shaft or axle and upon the end of the movable portion 6 there is fixed a stationary disk 8 ₄₅ at. one point adjacent the periphery of which there is formed an indicator of a suitable character such as the arrow head 9. The pictured side of the rotating disk 3 is adjacent the non-rotating disk 8 and the pictures are disposed in a 50 circular series lying beyond the periphery of the disk 8 so that the pointer 9 will designate one of these pictures when the disk has been rotated and allowed to come to a stop or has been stopped by the disk 8 which functions as a friction brake 55 against the face of the disk 3. It will be readily

2,283,583 apparent that in the use of this simplified form of the toy, the user will hold the toy by the handle 4 and rotate the disk 3 on the axle. The disk may be allowed to come to a stop through loss of momentum or it may be stopped by the person 5 holding the toy shifting the handle portion 6 with his thumb so as to bring the brake disk 8 against the face of the rotating disk 3.

By providing the head 2 with a kerf 10 for the reception of a screw driver, the shaft I may 10 be readily uncoupled from the handle and withdrawn through the disk 3 so that another or different style of disk may be substituted.

In Figures 3 and 4 there is illustrated a slightly more complicated form of the toy designed to be 15 held in the hand for operation. In this form a number of rotating disks are provided which are indicated by the numerals 11,12 and 13, and which are rotatably supported upon an axle or shaft 14. The shaft has at one end a fixed head 2d 15 provided with a screw driver slot 16 and at its other end it is screw threaded to receive a securing nut 17. The end of the shaft receiving the nut 17 extends through a handle indicated generally by the numeral 18 and comprising the 25 outer fixed portion 19 and the inner shiftable portion 20, such inner portion carrying upon its end nearest the disks, a brake disk 21. As shown, the nut 17 is embedded in the end of the stationary portion 19 of the handle so that this ^3,1portion can neither rotate nor shift on the shaft, but the portion 20, while it is held against rotation on the shaft, may be shifted longitudinally of the shaft. Between the adjacent rotating disks and between the disks It and 21, there are 35 supported upon the shaft the freely rotatable spacer disks 22.

Instead of providing the brake disk 21 with an indicator or pointer as in the form of the invention previously described, the stationary shaft ⁴⁰head has secured thereto an arm in the form of a wire 23 which extends radially therefrom and carries at its outer end the stepped axially extending bar 24 which extends across and in close proximity to the peripheries of the rotating 45 disks 11, 12 and 13. These disks are of different diameters as shown, and are disposed in stepped arrangement upon the shaft 14, the smallest disk II being disposed adjacent the brake disk 21 while the larger rotating disk is near the outer 50 end of the toy. Thus all of the disks lying behind the smallest one will have a peripheral portion exposed to the view of the use of the toy and the disk 11 will have a peripheral portion exposed around the edge of the brake disk 21 and 55 these peripheral portions of the several disks are laid off in spaces, each of which is identified by a number or in some other suitable manner. Each of the rotating disks has the same number of spaces as the others and each disk carries 60 stop fingers extending from the numbered face thereof, as indicated at 25, and located at the adjoining boundaries of the numbered areas.

The stepped arm 24 carries on each of the stepped portions thereof a swinging tab 26 which, 65 when the toy is held with the supporting bar or wire 23 vertical, hang down across the faces of the adjacent rotating disks, each tab lying between a pair of the fingers 25 of the adjacent disk as shown in Figure 4. From this it will be 70 readily understood that the tabs 26 function as means for gradually retarding the rotation of the adjacent disks through contact with the fingers 25 and also for indicating which numbered area of each disk is a winner by the disk stopping ⁷⁵ with the fingers bordering such area upon opposite sides of the indicator tab.

After the several disks have been set spinning, they may be quickly stopped or their rotation checked by the operator of the device by movement of the shiftable portion 20 of the handle toward the rotating disks so as to force the brake disk 21 against the adjacent spacer 22 and move the other disks and spacers together into frictional contact. This will bring about a rapid checking of the rotation of the disks so that the winning numbers or spaces of the several disks may be determined quickly.

In Figures 5 and 6, there is illustrated a frame support form of the multiple disk type of the invention just described. In this construction there is provided a frame structure indicated generally by the numeral 27 and shown as having upwardly converging end bars 28 between the tops or apices of which is supported the stepped bar 29. The lower ends of the converging end bars are secured to a base frame 39 which may be provided with suitable cushioned feet 31 so that the device may be set upon a table or other supporting structure without danger of marring the same.

Extending lengthwise of the frame and supported at its ends by the end bars is an axle 32 on which is a shiftable brake handle 33 carrying a brake disk 34 which is concentric with the axle. The axle supports a series of rotating disks of graduated diameters, as indicated at 35, which correspond with the disks II, 12 and 13 previously described, and each of these rotating disks is located beneath an offset or stepped portion 29' of the stepped bar 29, upon each of which portions a swinging tab 36 is suspended. The disks are provided with the peripheral axial fingers 37 for engagement with the adjacent hanging tabs 36 and for defining the numbered or otherwise identified areas upon the faces of the disks. Between the rotating graduated disks 35 the axle supports spacers 38 corresponding with the spacers 22 previously referred to. The operation of the table form of the invention is exactly the same as the operation of the hand supported form illustrated in Figures 3 and 4, therefore, a detailed statement of the operation for the two forms is not necessary as one statement will apply to both.

In using the game device described and employing the plurality of disks which, although here shown as having three disks, may be provided with any desired number, the person selected for running or operating the game spins the several disks by hand by an upward or downward movement of the hand across the periphery of each disk. Any previously determined arrangement may be made for betting on the disks or upon the numbers carried by the disks if the game is to be used in this manner, or if it is to be used merely for pleasure, the several players will previously select the numbers which they wish to have win, without putting up any stakes upon such numbers as it is not essential that this game be played with stakes in order that amusement may be had therefrom. After all of the selections have been made by the players to the numbers which they pick to win, the operator of the device may quickly stop the rotation of the disks by shifting the brake disk carrying handle toward the spinning disks so as to bring such disks and the adjacent spacer members into frictional contact, thus slowing up and stopping the disks so that the tab associated with

2,283, each disk will indicate the winning number or area for that disk.

From the foregoing, it will be readily apparent that there has been here disclosed a relatively simple but novel type of game device which may 6 be employed for amusement by children or adults and which does not require any study or extensive knowledge for its operation.