Improvements in and relating to Parlor Game Apparatus.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Apr., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 28 h May, 1896-Accepted, 1st Aug., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Parlor Game Apparatus.
I, ROBERT BOOTH, Mechanical Engineer of 7 Howard Avenue, in the City of
Malden, County of Middlesex, State of Massachusetts in the United States of
America do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in parlor game apparatus, in which the
relative positions of a series of men, figures or pieces upon a field-board are mainly
determined by chance or hazard, and its object is to provide means whereby the
players may at will and instantly vary the conditions which determine the success or
failure of an individual move or series of moves.
My invention consists essentially of one or more moveable determinators either as
discs, endless bands or of other convenient forms and of any suitable material, each
having a series of permutating perforations, indentations, projections or figures in
color, and being provided with means for readily varying its position in relation
to a perforated field board, in combination with a series of men or pieces, together
with means for indicating the coincidence or otherwise of the perforations, of the
field-board with the perforations, indentations, projections or figures of the
determinators.
Dated this 12th dow of Annil 1906
HENRY BOOTH,
Per Power of Attorney for Robert Booth.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Parlor Game Apparatus.
1, ROBERT BOOTH, Mechanical Engineer of 7 Howard Avenue, in the City of
Malden, County of Middlesex, State of Massachusetts in the United States of
America, 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 to improvements in parlor game apparatus, in which the
relative position of a series of men, figures or pieces upon a field-board are mainly
determined by chance or hazard, and its object is to provide means whereby the
players may at will and instantly vary the conditions which determine the success
or failure of an individual move or series of moves.
My invention consists essentially of one or more movable determinators either as
discs, endless bands or of other convenient forms, each having a series of permutating
perforations, indentations, projections or figures in color, and being provided with
means for readily varying its position in relation to a perforated field-board, in
combination with a series of men or pieces with or without springs attached to
themselves or contingent to the respective perforations in the field-board, together
with means for indicating the coincidence or otherwise of the perforations of the
field-board with the perforations, indentations, projections or figures, of the
determinators and thus determining as to the validity of a move, and, to add still
more interest and finish to the game, I also so arrange the construction as to cause

page_text: the inanipulation of a piece to plainly indicate the co-incidence of perforations by
momentarily closing an electric annunciator-circuit.
Fig. 3 a
In the drawings accompanying this specification, Figure 1 is a plan showing
determinators of disc form; Fig. 2 a transverse section of the same;
plan showing determinator of endless band form; Fig. 4 a longitudinal section of
the same, and Fig. 5 shows a man or piece with spring attachment.
Similar letters refer to similar parts.
A, which is the body of the game apparatus, consists of a field-board of box form
having on its upper surface a series of divisions of any desired shape and number, the
counterpart of a chess or checker board, radial rows or otherwise. Each square or
division is perforated as at "B."
"C" is a determinator of any suitable material and of disc form; revoluble
around the center-piece "T" as in Figs. 1 and 2, or of a flexible material, such as
thin sheet-celluloid, and in the form of an endless band running over the rollers "L."
In either case it is variably perforated, as at "D"-that is to say, the positions of the
perforations in the successive rows are dissimilar, but placed in such a manner that
the paths of the perforation will, as the determinator may be moved; align with
those of the field-board. The perforations "R" at the edges of the determinators
are so placed for the purpose of enabling a player; by inserting a peg at the
slot "E" and drawing it from end to end, to move the determinator the exact
required space and thereby to change the relative positions of the perforations in the
determinator with those of the field-board.
Below the determinator "C" (Figs. 1 and 2) is a second determinator "C1."
This latter differs from the former inasmuch as instead of being variably 'perforated
it is variably colored as 'at "F." It will be readily soon that the intermittent
rotation of these permutating determinators around the center-piece will cause the
various circles in the field-board to appear white as at "G" or colored lasat" H"
according to the "co-incidence or otherwise of the perforations of the field-board
and those of the upper determinator with the colored or the plain portions of the
lower determinator.
In an alternative form the perforations in the field-board would be of such smaller
size as to prevent the perforations of the determinators from being seen.
In this case
a plurality of perforated determinators might be used and each man or piece
provided with a spring as shown at "P" (Fig. 5) which normally holds the lower
portion of the piece clear of the determinators, but perinits the piece to be depressed
for the purpose of detecting the co-incidence or otherwise of the perforations of
the field-board with those of the determinators, thus determining the validity of a
move by the co-incidence of perforations instead of, as in the previous case; by color.
As a modification of the above I attach to the field-board a metallic plate connected
with one pole of an electric battery, and below the perforated determinators' another
metallic plate connected with an electric bell and the alternate pole of the battery,
in which case the piece or mian, also metallic, will, if the perforations are co-incident,
complete the electric circuit and cause the bell to ring.
It will be evident that projections or indentations might be substituted for
perforations for color with a similar effect, and that ratchets etc. might be substituted
for the perforations and the pegs used therewith.
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 I
claim is :-
1. In a parlor game apparatus, a divisioned field-board with perforations or slots
and one or more men or pieces, in combination with one or more movable
permutating determinators having certain perforations, indentations, projections or
colored figures, and means for supporting and rotating said determinators, together
with means for indicating the co-incidence or otherwise of said respected perforations,
indentations, projections or colored figures; all substantially as shown and for the
purpose specified.

page_text: 2. In a parlor game apparatus,-a divisioned field-board having perforations or
slots, in combination with one or more movable permutating determinators having
certain perforations, indentations, projections or colored figures and means for rotating
said determinators, all substantially as set forth.
3. In a parlor game apparatus,-a divisioned field-board having perforations or
slots, and one or more men or pieces, in combination with one or more permutating
determinators having certain perforations, indentations, projections or colored figures,
and means for rotating said determinators all substantially as set forth and for the
purpose specified.
ليوم
1000
HENRY BOOTH,
Per Power of Attorney for Robert Booth.