US1477460A - Game appliance - Google Patents

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me. 11,1923. A @477,46

MELSMVYH GAME APPLANCE Filed June lO 1922 i Y ATTORNEYS Patented liec. il, t

HERBERT BENJAMIN SMITH, F BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

GAME APPLIANCE.

.application fric-1 June l0, 1922. Serial No. 567,248.

To all w/l'omt't may concern.' the hand l2 of a player by the provision ot Be it known that l, HERBERT B. SMITH, an angular strap 13 attached to the said a citizen ot the United States, and resident body ll, this strap being retained upon the oi the city of `New York, borough of Brookrear face of the body in the form ot two l lyn, county ot Kings, and State of New minor end loops 14 and a major central loop 60 York, have invented a new and Improved l whereby the central portion of the hand Game Appliance, of which the following' is may be inserted to a point between the maa full, clear, and exact description. jor loop l5 and the rear of the body ll,

lli/Iy invention relates to a game appliance while the little finger and thumb pass and aims to provide a. member ot this type through both of the end loops thus ait'ording 65 more particularly in the nature of a bat or an ideal means of attaching the appliance to striking member, which will present certain the hand. improvements over devices of this character With a. view of causing the body ll to heretofore placed upon the market. snugly bear against the palm ot the player it is an object of the present invention to so that the body is virtually rigid with the 70 provide a game appliance or the nature hand I prefer to convex the rear face of the stated which may be associated with the body ll, as has been indicated at 16, and hand of a player, and by means of which thus it will be obvious that the players hand such games as hand ball, punch ball, etc., will curve around this rear face and the 2@ may be played in a more lively manner than convexity of the same will fall into the con- 75 has heretofore been possible, aside from the cavity ot' the palm.

fact that the hand of the player will be pre- Further it will be noted that I convenvented from being bruised or otherwise iniently shape the outer or plain face of the A jured. appliance to also present a convexity 17 and A further object oi' my invention is that by this expedient it will be understood that So oi constructing a device of the character first a great amount of skill will be necesstated by means of which more velocity may sary in order to direct a projectile, such as a be imparted to the ball than has been hereto ball, which is struck b y this `tace, and also a tore possible, by the usual method of protar greater velocity will be imparted to the jecting the ball solely by the hand. ball when thus struck so that the game will 85 Among further objects of my invention be greatly enlivened, it being further unare that ot providing a bat which will be derstood in this connection that the body ll capable o'fbeing constructed at a nominal may be formed of any suitable material figure and which will tit into the hand so which may further enhance the results in that a wearer will not be handicapped by this connection. 9o utilizing the same. F rom the foregoing', it will be seen that Vsfith these and further objects in mind there is provided a waferelike bat body ll my present invention embraces a game apwhich is gibbous in any cross-section, that pliance in the nature ot a bat comprising a is, outwardly bulged or rotund on opposite fio body adapted to be grasped by the hands oi sides of its plane of general iiatness. 95 the player, winch body may be strapped to Thus the objects of this invention are acthe hand it this is desired. complished it being of course understood Reference is had to the attached sheets ot that the. strap i3 may have its loop portions drawings as illustrating one practical emrendered adjustable bythe provision ot' slidbodimciit ot my invention and in these views able connecting means such as staples 18, 100 it will be seen that; which sl idably embrace the strap and divide Figure l is a rear View ot a player-s hand the loop portions one from the other so that having my improved appliance associated these loop portions will adapt themselves to with it. the various sizes and contours of the plaverls 5@ Figure 2 is a side elevation of the game hand, it being further understood that in- 105.

appliance. cident to the angular disposition of the Figure 3 is an end view thereof. strap that the outer playing face of the In rthese views it willV be noted that the body 1l is presented at a more eiiicient angle reference numeral 11 indicates the body of for the purposes of playing.

the appliance which may be associated with lt will be obvious that numerous modif- El@ cations` of structure might readily be resorted to Without in the least departing from the scope of my claims; which are;

1. A game appliance in the nature of bat 4including` a body gibbous yin cross-secjy in rear oi a striking surface on the forward face of the bat, which surface is convex.

- 3. A game appliance in the nature of a bat including a body presenting a convex another and adapted to bek rear face and a convex playing face, said body having a Width approximately twice` its length.

y Ll. A game appliance in tlie nature of a Wafer-like bat body, and including, in combination with said body, means on the rear face of the body ifor mounting the bat in the players liand and including a plurality of linger a-i'ichorages, said anchorages including adjustable loops forming apart of a common strap presenting a longer intermediate loop 'for a plurality of adjoining fingere or' the hand. f

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