A New Game, and Apparatus for Playing the same.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 6th July, 1895
Complete Specification Lelt, 27th July, 1895-Accepted, 31st Aug.; 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New Game, and Apparatus for Playing the same.
1, IGNAZ SULZBACHER, of the Firm of Oppenheimer and Sulzbacher, of
18 Steinbuchler Strasse Nuremberg, in the Empire of Germany, Manufacturers,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a new game and to apparatus for playing the same.
According to my invention I provide a representation of a castle or tower
preferably made collapsable and provided with openings or windows into which
guides representing drawbridges or planks are designed to be inserted.
At the bottom of the tower is a block which serves to retain the tower in its
open position and which carries a vertical bracket in which is mounted a lever
adapted to be operated by the impingement against it of marbles projected up the
drawbridges, for instance, by means of a disc held in the hand.
Beneath a platform at the top of the tower is a rotatable spindle or shaft to
which is affixed the representation of a soldier designed, when the spindle or shaft is
turned through the medium of a cord connected thereto and to an arm on the lever,
to move through a slot in the platform.
The game is to project the marbles into the castle or tower so as to strike the
lever and thereby cause the figure to move.
A counterweight can be employed to retain the figure in its normal position.
The block forming the base of the castle or tower is grooved to cause the
marbles projected thereinto to roll out through a suitable opening.
Dated this 6th day of Tulu 100%
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.
A New Game, and Apparatus for Playing the same.
I, IGNAZ SULZBACHER, of the Firm of Oppenheimer and Sulzbacher, of
18, Steinbuchler Strasse, Nuremberg, in the Empire of Germany, Manufacturers,
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:-
This invention relates to a new game and to apparatus for playing the same.
According to my invention I provide a representation of a castle or tower
preferably made collapsable and provided with openings or windows into which
guides representing drawbridges or planks are designed to be inserted.
At the bottom of the tower is a block which serves to retain the tower in its
open position and which carries a vertical bracket in which is mounted a lever
adapted to be operated by the impingement against it of marbles projected up the
drawbridges, for instance, by means of a disc held in the hand.
Beneath a platform at the top of the tower is a rotatable spindle or shaft to
which is affixed the representation of a soldier designed, when the spindle or shaft.
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page_text: is turned through the medium of a cord connected thereto and to an arm on the
lever, to move through a slot in the platform.
The game is to project the marbles into the castle or tower so as to strike the
lever and thereby cause the figure to move.
A counterweight can be employed to retain the figure in its normal position.
The block forming the base of the castle or tower is grooved to cause the
marbles projected thereinto to roll out through a suitable opening.
To enable my invention to be fully understood I will describe it by reference to
the accompanying drawings, in which:
Figure 1 is a plan with the top removed of the apparatus to be used in playing
my new game.
Figure 2 is a vertical section on the line 2-2, Figure 1.
a is the collapsable castle or tower of cardboard or other suitable material
and b, b the openings or windows in the same. c, c are the drawbridges or planks
forming guides inserted in the windows b, b.
is the block at the bottom of the tower which serves to retain the latter in its
open position and is provided with a groove d' to enable marbles projected into the
tower to roll out through the opening d e, e are the arms of the vertical bracket
in which is mounted the lever f preferably made of wire and of the shape shewn
in Figure 1, being bent in the middle to the form of a circle on to which the
marbles, projected up the drawbridges or planks c, c, can drop.
9, Figure 2, is the platform at the top of the tower a, the said platform being
provided with a slot h, and i is the rotatable spindle or shaft, which is made hollow
and is fixed in position by means of a rod ; which passes through the same and
through two opposite sides of the castle or tower a. kis the figure of a soldier
affixed to the said spindle i, and is the cord attached at its upper end to the
spindle and at its lower end to an arm m in one with the lever f, the said arm being
provided at its free end with a weight n.
It will be obvious that if, when the figure k is in the position shewn in full lines
in Figure 2, a marble be projected up one of the drawbridges c so as to fall on to
the lever the latter will drop thereby rotating the spindle i and causing the
figure k to move through the slot h in the platform g into the position shewn in
dotted lines in Figure 2.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what 1
claim is :-
1. The new game hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
2. The manufacture and use, for playing the hereinbefore described new game,
of a collapsable castle or tower having openings, a block for retaining the tower in
its open position, guides inserted in the openings of the tower, a spindle mounted
at the upper end of the tower and having a figure affixed thereto and means
whereby the said spindle is rotated and the figure moved through a slot in the roof
of the tower when a marble is projected up one of the said guides into the tower,
substantially as hereinbefore described.
Dated this 27th day of July 1895.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.