Game with throwing piece

• US 4,491,327 A
• Filed: 09/02/1983
• Issued: 01/01/1985
• Est. Priority Date: 09/02/1983
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Leycester W. Morris
• Original Assignee: Leycester W. Morris
• Inventors: Morris, Leycester W.
• Primary Examiner(s): SHAPIRO, PAUL
• Application Number:
  US06/529,157
• Time in Patent Office: 487 Days
• Field of Search: 273/336-339, 273/427, 273/428, D21/4, D21/50, D21/203
• US Class Current: 273/343
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2067/063 tossing, e.g. rings or horseshoes around or on, e.g. posts, hooks
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2208/12 specially adapted for children
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 67/06 Ring or disc tossing games , e.g. quoits; Throwing or tossing games, e.g. using balls; Games for manually rolling balls, e.g. marbles

Abstract

A competitive game which includes spaced, U-shaped pipe wickets and a throwing piece in the form of an S which can catch on a horizontal run of the wicket or on the vertical legs or on both to provide varying score points.

Claims

1. A game which comprises in combination

(a) a U-shaped wicket having a support to locate the wicket as an inverted U above the ground with upright legs and a horizontal bight as a cross-bar, and

(b) a throwing piece to be cast at an upright wicket comprising an S-shaped generally symmetrical member,

(c) the S-shaped throwing piece having a cross member extending essentially transverse of the S between the loops and ending in a corner formation.

2. In a game which utilizes a U-shaped wicket as an inverted U above the ground with upright legs and a horizontal bight as a cross-bar, and a throwing piece to be cast at the upright wicket comprising an S-shaped, generally symmetrical member, that improvement in which the throwing piece has a central axis passing through the center of two symmetrical loops, the loops being formed on each side of a central cross-member which is angled to said central axis, the inside of each loop being composed of a continuously changing, blended curve with a series of ensmalling radii to the end of the loop, which end is directed toward said axis.

3. A game as defined in claim 2 in which the outer perimeter of each loop terminates in a corner with an inwardly extending surface angled away from said corner toward said central axis and toward said cross-member.