Improved Appliance for Toy or Game.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Jan., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 30th Oct. 1803 Accented 2nd Dec. 1803
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION. .
Improved Appliance for Toy or Game.
I, WILLIAM HENRY DALLIMORE of 64 Lynette Avenue Clapham Common
south side in the County of Surrey, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to provide, for the purposes of a parlour game, an
appliance made of card-board, wood, metal, or such like material, with divisious
forming grooves open at intervals along which small balls are made to roll by an
inclination of the hand passing through the openings at intervals from one division
to another.
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I am aware that similar games have been in use, but in my improved toy or
game means are provided for heightening the interest of the game by special
divisions and apertures, and the introduction of a ball of different colour to
that adopted for the two sides who are playing. I provide special rules for
this game which I propose to call "Red White & Blue" or "Dodging the
Sentinel.'
Dated this 28th day of January 1802
JOHN BLACK,
Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Appliance for Toy or Game.
I, WILLIAM HENRY DALLIMORE, of 64 Lynette Avenue, Clapham Common,
south sido, in the County of Surrey, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of
my said invention and in what manner the saine is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The object of my invention is to provide an improved parlour game.
My invention consists of an appliance consisting of a rectangular board, formed
of card-board, wood, metal, or other suitablo material, having walls to form
divisions or grooves, such walls having openings at intervals leading from one
groove to the next. Small balls of various colors are placed in the grooves,
which balls are caused to roll in the grooves, and to move through the openings
into adjacent grooves, so as to effect certain results, in accordance with rules and
regulations.
And in order that my said invention may be particularly described and ascer-
tained, reference is hereby made to the accompanying drawing, being a plan view
of the appliance.
a is a board, 6b are walls forming grooves or divisions, oc is an outer wall
enclosing the grooves, numbered 1, 2 and 3, on each side of the groove 4. ddd are
three balls, which may be white. eee are three other balls, which may be of a red
color. is called the sentinel ball, placed in the groove 4, which may be of a blue
color. gg are gates or openings formed in the walls. Any number of balls,
and other colors may be used, and the number of grooves and gates may also be
varied.
The grooves 1, 2 and 3 on one side are colored red, like the balls e e e, and the
grooves 1, 2 and 3 on the other side are white, like the balls d, d, d.
is colored blue.
The groove 4
In playing the game the following rules may be observed, vis. :-
Red plays first. To win the point, he must get his pieces into white's first

page_text: groove, and white's pieces into his own first groove, without the sentinel leaving
its groove.
If he succeeds he scores one. If, however, during the play, the
soutine! leaves his groove No. 4, the play is immediately suspended and white
Всогея оne.
White then plays in the same manner, and subject to the same rules.
If a player, during play, touches or interferes with a piece, his opponent scores
one and plays.
Any number of points to form a game, may be arranged between the players
before starting.
The color scoring the greatest number of points wins the game.
The method of playing is to hold the board in both hands, and tilt the pieces-into
position, taking care that the sentinel does not leave its groove.
Other rules may be arranged for playing with the appliance.
I am aware that analogous games have been in use, in which balls ruoning in
grooves are arranged to be manipulated; and I do not broadly claim such arrange-
ments of balls running in grooves.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invon-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. An improved appliance consisting of a rectangular board, divided by parallel
walls into a number of divisions or grooves; the internal walls having gatos or
openings, substantially as and for the purposes herein before described and illus-
trated by the drawing.
2. In combination with the aforesaid improved appliance, the application and use
of a sentinel ball with balls of various colors, substantially as and for the purposes
herein before described and illustrated by the drawing.
3. The general construction, combination, and arrangement of the several and
respective parts, together forming my invention of an improved appliance for
toy or game, substantially as herein before described and illustrated by the
drawing.
Dated 30th October 1893.