Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Nov., 1899-Accepted, 14th July, 1900
I, THOMAS BICKFORD, of 438, West 64th Street, Chicago, in the County of
Cook, and State of Illinois, one of the United States of America, Mechanic, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
My invention relates particularly to that class of games which is played with
cards arranged in series or packs, and its objects are to provide entertainment
and instruction for two or more players, in an attractive and readily understood
form.
The features peculiar to my invention involve and promote the arts of the
correct pronunciation of words or orthorpy, and the speaking or expressing ideas
and thoughts with clearness, exactness, style and force of diction, according to
approved forms of current usage. In carrying out my invention, I adopt
devices and use methods hereinafter described in detail, the former being illus-
trated in the accompanying drawing which forms a part of this application for
patent, and in which:
Figure 1 represents one of a sample pair of cards used in my improved
gome, and
Figure 2 represents the companion or correlative card of said pair.
In the drawing, the cards (Figure 1) and A', (Figure 2) are samples of a
series or pack of cards which constitute the devices employed in my game, il
boing understood that each pair of cards contains words, phrases or sentences
peculiar to itself. On the card A is printed several sentences as 1, 2, 3 and 4,
each expressing in bad or faulty form the ideas or thoughts referred to therein,
and without anything to indicate the correct pronunciation of the words, or the
correct form of expression or best style or diction, according to any approved
standard or authority. In selecting the sentences for the cards in the pack
corresponding to the card, it is preferable to choose those which are commonly
misconstructed. On the card is printed sentences correlative to those on the
card A, and same are correspondingly numbered or lettered to facilitate the
selection of cards of the respective pairs. Each sentence on the card A¹ is so
constructed that it will include the best style or diction, as well as indicate the
correct pronunciation of the words forming parts of said sentences. On the
lower margin of the card is printed a key to pronunciation, as B, which may
be of any desired form and include the signs commonly used for such purpose
or other arbitrary signs.
In selecting the matter for the cards, I may use words alone on the cards A,
and simply indicate their pronunciation on the correlative cards A. Or I may
use sentences alone on the cards A with rhetorical directions or reconstructions
on the cards A', or I may combine both orthoepy and rhetoric in the same cards
or pack of cards.
In use in the form of a game, the cards may be shuffled and then dealt equally
to the several players, and the games may begin by the player at the left of the

page_text: dealer selecting from his cards one corresponding in general form to the card A',
on which is indicated in correct form, diction or pronunciation the words,
phrases or sentences, which are incorrectly, incompletely or without pronuncia-
fion marks, given on the correlative card A. The beginner or starter may then
ask the person holding the correlative card, to pronounce properly, or express
correctly, according to the card held by him, the words, phrases or sentences
appearing on said card A. If the respondent succeed in giving all of the
sentences or words correctly, or such number of them as may be agreed upon
in advance, he will be entitled to take the correlative card from his interrogator
and thus with his own card form a "book." Should he fail, he would he obliged
to deliver his card to his interrogator who would secure the "book." The other
players would follow in turn, and after all the cards had been paired off in the
manner indicated, the person having the largest number of books" would be
declared winner. It is apparent that the above described method of playing
the game or using the cards might be modified in various ways without depar
ture from the features of entertainment and instruction. It is also obvious that
such cards could be provided with words, phrases and sentences in any language,
and thus prove a valuable aid in the teaching of languages foreign to the
players, as well as constituting an educational medium in schools and colleges.
"
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my suid
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
1 consider novel and desire to claim is: --
1. A game consisting of a pack or series of cards of suitable form, size and
number, each of said cards having indicated thereon, words, phrases and sentences
expressing ideas and thoughts, said cards being printed or arranged in pairs,
the cards of each pair provided with means whereby they are correlated, and one
of each pair having the words without pronunciation marks, and having the
phrases and sentences in defective, incorrect or incomplete form, according to
a companion or correlative card having the same words with pronunciation marks,
and the same ideas and thoughts expressed in an approved form used as a
standard.
2. A game consisting of a pack or series of cards of suitable form, size and
number, arranged in pairs, the cards of each pair provided with means whereby
they are correlated, each pair bearing a distinctive number or character, one
card of each pair having phrases or sentences expressing ideas or thoughts, and
the companion or correlative card having phrases or sentences expressing the
same ideas or thoughts, but in better or standard form.
3. A game consisting of a series on pack of cards of suitable form, size and
number, arranged in pairs necording to the matter printed thereon, each pair
bearing a distinctive number or character, one card of each pair having words
indicated thereon without marks and notes indicating pronunciation, and the
correlative card with marks and notes indicating pronunciation, to be used as
a standard.
4. A game consisting of a series or pack of cards of suitable form, size and
number, arranged in pairs, one of the cards in each pair having words, phrases
or sentences printed thereon, in one language, and the other card in each pair
having printed thereon the corresponding words, phrases and sentences in another
language.
BAYA
H. D. FITZPATRICK,
100, Wellington Street, Glasgow, Agent.

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1. HE A-GEN (NOT A-GAŃ)
STOOD BEHIND THE COUNTER.
2.AMONG SEV-ER-AL (NOT SEV-RUL)
AM-ATURS (NOT, AM-A-TOOR'S OR
AM-A-TURS) HE IS THE BEST.
3. IT WAS NOT A JAY-LIN (NOT
JAV-E-LIN) THAT I KNOW,
THAT PIERCED HIS AB-DO-MEN
(NOT AB-DU-MEN.
4. HE INVESTIGATED THE NATURE
OF KON-TOOR'S (NOT KON-TOORS)
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3. IT WAS NOT A JAVELIN,
THAT I KNOW OF, THAT PIERCED
HIS ABDOMEN.