A New Game with a Board and Balls.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Jan., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 5th Sept., 1893-Accepted, 28th Oct., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New Game with a Board and Balls.
We GEORGE ELI KING, JAMES KING, ALBERT WILLIAM KING, and
HARRY KING, all of 17 Lammas Street, Nottingham, in the County of
Nottinghamshire, Fitters, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
Our invention relates to a new game, which we will call Tiltre-balance.
The above game shall consist of a board, which shall be supported or suspended
in such a manner (preferably on a centre at certain parts of the board, at one part
only at a time) so that the board can be tilted, (or jerked if suspended) in any
direction required by the player.
There shall also be a certain number of different coloured balls.
There shall also be two stands one for the centre point, the other for the board
to rest on when not in play.
The playing board shall be partly surrounded by a gutter.
The playing board shall contain a quantity of holes on the surface, some of which
shall be numbered, so that when the balls go in any of them the player will score,
according to the figure in that hole, and the remaining holes shall be called catch-
holes, so that when the balls go in any of them, they will be reckoned dead, and no
score from them, the same if the balls go in the gutter.
There shall also be a recess at one end of the board to put the balls in one at a
time, which shall be on an incline, or at an angle with the board, so that the
board will have to be tilted from the level before the ball will start rolling or leave
the starting hole.
Dated 2nd day of January 1893.
GEORGE ELI KING.
JAMES KING.
ALBERT WILLIAM KING.
HARRY KING.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New Game with a Board and Balls.
We GEORGE ELI KING, JAMES KING, ALBERT WILLIAM KING, and
HARRY KING, all of 17 Lammas Street, Notttingham, in the County of
Nottinghamshire, Fitters, 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:-
Our invention relates to a new game, which we will call Tiltre-balance.
In order that we may be more clearly understood, we will refer to the following
drawings, in which the letters and figures have the same reference throughout.
The above game consists of an oblong board or table, a plan of which is shown
in Figure 1 supported on a centre-point, as shown in Figures 2 and 3, the board or
table having a pair of handles at each end H', H2, H3, H', as shown in Figures 1, 3
& 4, by which it can be manipulated, and tilted in any direction required by the
player..
The game board or table has three different centre-holes, as shown in Figures 1
and 3, by the dotted circles L³, L, L³, whereby the game can be varied by
supporting the board or table on any one of those centre-holes, or it can be
suspended from the ceiling by a rod or chain instead of being on a stand.

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In connection with the above game are three red balls, but we do not limit
ourselves to the number or colour of the said balls.
There shall also be two stands, one for the centre-point, for the board or table to
work upon, the other for the board or table to rest upon when not being played
with, or a combined stand as shown in Figures 2, 3, 4, or an arrangement for
suspending the board or table from the ceiling:
Figure 1 showing plan of the said board or table shall be composed of two
smaller boards A¹, A', which we will call the playing boards. The said playing
boards shall contain a number of holes in the surface shown by the circles C, some
of which are numbered as shown, the others being blank, so that the object of the
player is to miss the blank or catch-holes, and get the balls in the highest numbered
holes, which are coloured red, (and marked with a cross X on the drawings) by the
skilful tilting of the said board or table.
The said playing boards shall each be surrounded by a gutter G G G G G G G G
to prevent the balls falling on to the floor.
The holes D D D D in the gutters are for the purpose of retaining the balls that
roll off the playing boards into the gutters.
The holes B B are for holding the balls previous to being put into play.
The recesses 11 12 21 22 31 32 in the playing boards A' and A³ respectively, are
called the start-holes, in one of which the balls are placed one at a time to
commence play from. The board or table having to be tilted a certain amount
before the ball will leave it, thus giving motion to the ball for a start.
S S S S are a continuation of the legs of the stand to prevent the board or table
from being swung round on its centre.
L' L' L³ are the centre-holes in the underside of the board or table showing
the different places where the board or table can be supported when being played
with.
Figure 2 is a section of Fig. 1 at M N; A is the playing board; G G is the
gutter; R, R is the rim or outside; S S are the legs of the stand, also the means
for preventing the board or table from being swung round on its centre ; K is the
cross-piece on which the board or table rests when not being used.
Figure 3 gives a side view of the above game board or table as it is when not
being used, HH2 are the handles; A. is the board or table; S S are the legs of
the stand; P is the pillar which supports the board or table; T is the centre-point
on which the board or table works in the centre-holes L¹ L³ L³.
Figure 4 is a perspective view of the above game board or table, with the player
ready to commence play, with the ball J in the start-hole No. 1.
We may here state the player can only play on one playing board at a time, one
requiring greater skill than the other.
Having given a description of the board or table, the following rules will'show
how the game is played.
Rule I. The skill of the game is to get the three red balls in the three red holes,
(or those marked with X on the drawing).
Rule II. Two or more persons can play, players on opposite sides to play
alternately.
Rule III. To commence play place one of the balls in the start-hole No. 1, the
player must then take hold of the handles at one end of the board or table, and
tilt it until the ball rolls away from the start-hole towards the scoring holes, when
he must contrive to get the ball in one of the red holes, repeat the operation
with the two remaining balls placing them one at a time in the start-hole No. 1.
Rule IV. A player scores according to the number that is in the hole into which
the ball rolls.
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Rule V. When a player gets the three red balls in the three red holes, it is
called a double tilt; and he continues to play the balls over again, but this time
placing the balls in start-hole No. 2, and if he succeeds in getting the three
red holes again he continues to play from start-hole No. 3, until he breaks his
Bcore.

page_text: Rule VI. The game will consist of 50 or 100 to win, or more according to choice
of the players before commencing the game.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :
1. A game board or table having a pair of handles, by which the player can
control its movements, supported or suspended in such a manner so that it can be
tilted in any direction required by the player.
2. A game board or table on which the balls are set in motion by the player
tilting the said board or table.
3. A game board or table on which the balls can be made to alter their course,
and move in any direction desired by the player, by the skilful tilting of the said
board or table.
4. Rule III and Rule V.
G. E. KING.
JAMES KING.
A. W. KING.
HARRY KING.