Patent GB-424023-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to apparatus for playing board games
IPC: A63D15/00
Filed: 1933-10-27
Abstract: 424,023. Coin-freed table-game apparatus. HIGHWEBB CO., Ltd., 58, Victoria Street, London, HIGHT, G. F., 26, Blockley Road, North Wembley, and WEBB, C. H., 22, St. Mary's Crescent, Hendon, both in Middlesex. Oct. 27, 1933, No. 29920. [Class 132 (ii)] [See also Group XVIII] Apparatus for a table game comprises a board 3 secured within a glass topped casing 1, discs or like slidable elements 8 being projected over the board by a spring plunger 18 movable transversely of the board. At the end of a game, a setting plate 12, normally disposed below the board 3, is elevated by manually operating means, preferably coinfreed, which simultaneously releases a bar 15 normally held in the position shown in Fig. 1. The bar 15 is then moved manually to sweep all the played discs 8 back against the plate 12, after which it is returned to its normal position where it is locked automatically and lowers the plate 12 in readiness for further play. The projector 18 is slidable in a boss 20 secured to a plate 19 having rods 21, rollers 22 on which are slidable in a slot 17 in the casing wall 16. Springs 24 mounted on the rods 21 between plates 25, 27 also allow a slight angular adjustment to the plunger 18. The plate 12 is slidable in vertical guides by levers 52, Fig. 7, engaging slots in the plate and fixed to a spindle 51, Figs. 6, 7. Also secured to this spindle is a crank arm 58 pivoted to a bar 60 controlling the locking mechanism of bar 15. Normally the bar 15, Fig. 8, is held between projections 74, 70 of a trigger 63 and a trip lever 62 respectively. The trigger and the trip are pivoted at 63<x>, 62<x> respectively, and the trip is biassed by a spring 69 so that its projection 68 bears on a horizontally slidable plate 61. When the coinfreed or other means is operated the spindle 51 is rocked, whereupon the setting plate 12, Fig. 7, is elevated through the levers 52, and the rod 60 moves the plate 61 to the left (Fig. 8). The trip lever 62 is rocked anticlockwise by spring 69 to free the bar 15, the projection 68 on the trip lever entering a notch 67 in plate 61. After the bar 15 has swept the board 3 it is returned and moved against the projection 74 of the trigger 63, the projection 72 on which moves the bar 61 to the right thereby rocking spindle 51 to lower the setting plate 12, while the projection 73 resets the trip lever to normal to lock the bar 15. Coin-freed mechanism. The spindle 51 has an arm 49 adapted to be rocked to the dotted (release) position, Fig. 4, by a plate 34, slidable in guides 35, and biassed by a spring 47, anchored at 48 and connected at 46 to the plate extension 45, to assume normally the position shown. Upon insertion of the appropriate coin in the slot 44 in the plate 34 the latter may be pushed in to the full extent to rock the spindle 51, the coin falling into a receptacle 50. A spring biassed pawl 40 normally rides over the plate 34 and the coin, but should the plate be pressed in. with no coin inserted the pawl engages in the slot 44 and prevents further inward movement of the plate 34. Rotatable drums 76 bearing suitable indicia are provided for registering the scores. Also a rod 79 slidable in a slot 78 in the glass cover 2 is provided, whereby the playing pieces 8 may be moved transversely of the board to any desired playing position prior to projection. The playing board 3 is slidable in slots in the casing and may be made rigid with the back 4 of the casing, a spring controlled bolt 84, Fig. 7, holding the playing board within the casing by engaging a catch 85 thereon. According to the Provisional Specification the collecting and sweeping bar 15 may be entirely contained within the casing and be drawn forward by springs and rearwardly by a cord or other means.