Novel Means, Devices, and Appliances for Playing Games on a Board.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Oct., 1889-Accepted, 23rd Nov., 1889
COMPLETE DI DUIFICATION.
Novel Means, Devices, and Appliances for Playing Games on a
Board.
I ALBERT EUBULE EVANS of 42 Stanton Road Ilkeston Derbyshire Clerk in Holy
Orders 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 has reference to mechanism, devices, and appliances for actuating
puppets so that games may be played therewith, on a board.
In order that the invention may be easily understood I refer to the accompanying
drawings in which Figure 1 is a view of the board. Fig. 2 is a view in section of one
of the puppets.
be
1 provide a board of any convenient material size and shape, a fig. 1, which may
marked out in imitation of the ground for any game (in the drawing, fig. 1, it is
marked out in imitation of a Football ground). Upon said board is a convenient
number of moveable puppets, & fig. 2, formed of any suitable material and severally
placed in a proper position. Each puppet can be temporalily fixed to the board
by means of a vertical peg c figure 2 of any suitable material with which it is
furnished underneath, which peg passes into a socket in the board and holds the
puppet firm whilst it is being actuated in the manner hereinafter mentioned. The
mechanical contrivances employed for actuating each puppet are, as follows. There
is a hollow inside the puppet in which the neck of the puppet works up and down.
The head of the puppet is attached to a moveable metal rod, d fig. 2, which passes
longitudinally through the body and is pivoted to a lug, e fig. 2, formed on the back
of either leg which leg is also pivoted to the body at, h fig. 2, so that when the head
is pressed down by the player the foot is thrown forward. To ensure the restoration
of the leg to its original position I insert in the body of the puppet a spiral spring, f
fig. 2, which surrounds the said rod d. The upper end of this spring bears upwards
against the base of the neck or against a pin or equivalent, g, fig. 2, fixed or fastened
to the upper part of the rod d, to which pin the rod may or may not be attached.
The lower end of the spring, f, presses against the base of the hollow inside the trunk
of the puppet, hence upon the head being released after the downward pressure for
actuating the leg is given thereto, the leg itself is brought back to its original position
by the tension of the spring aforesaid. A similar arrangement of parts may be
adopted for actuating the arm which would be mounted upon a horizontal bar or
spindle, and in this case the head would be pivoted, to a lug formed upon the arm
spindle.
As it is obvious that several games can be played with puppets constructed as is
herein before described it is unnecessary to enumerate rules, or accessories which of
course will depend upon the particular game which is being played.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is.
The means and mechanical contrivances for playing games with moveable puppets
on a board substantially as hereinbefore specified.
ALBERT EUBULE EVANS.