Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Dec., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 26th Feb., 1896-Accepted, 4th Apr., 1896
I, JACQUES DEVER of 13 Rue d'Ath, St. Gilles, Brussels in the Kingdom of
Belgium, Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The said invention relates to a game. It consists of an open or glazed frame,
inside of which are two strings.
On these, the figure of a dwarf holding a sword, the latter of pliable metal,
slides up and down. At the top and bottom of one of the strings, a spring is
secured in order to lessen the shock when the dwarf reaches either extremity.
On the right-hand side of the frame, there is a scale of points, represented by
pips similar to those on the faces of dice. Immediately below the square, which
begins each row, there is fixed a projecting pin. On the outside of the frame and
on the right-hand side thereof, is fixed the mechanical contrivance by which the
dwarf figure is set in motion. On the axle of the wheel which actuates the dwarf
figure one end of a string is fastened so that it may wind itself round the said
axle; the other end of this string is carried up, on the outside of the frame, and
near the top thereof it is passed over a pulley on the outside into the frame, where
it is brought over another pulley and down to the dwarf figure to the head of
which it is attached.
When the dwarf figure is at the bottom of the frame all that is necessary to
make it rise, or slide upwards on the string, is to give a turn to the wheel,
whereupon the string outside the frame winds itself round the axle drawing up
the dwarf figure to a greater or less height according to the amount of rotary force
given to the said wheel. The sword in the hand of the dwarf figure will, when its
upward motion stops, point to one of the rows of dice-marked squares.
In order to make the dwarf figure descend, all one has to do is to pull upwards
the part of the string which is outside the frame.
It is self-evident that the means of moving the dwarf figure and also the marking
of the points may be varied without going beyond the scope of the present invention
as above described.
Dated this 30th day of November 1895.
L. DUVINAGE,
Agent for Applicant.
DI BUITIVATION.
A New Game.
I, JACQUES DEVER of 13 Rue d'Ath, St. Gilles, Brussels, in the Kingdom
of Belgium, Manufacturer 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 :-
The said invention relates to a game. It consists of an open or glazed frame,
inside of which are two strings marked respectively (A) and (B) in the accompanying
drawing. On these, the figure of a dwarf (C) holding a sword, the latter of pliable

page_text: metal, slides up and down. At the top and bottom of the string (B) a spring is
secured in order to lessen the shock when the dwarf reaches either extremity. On
the right-hand side of the frame there is a scale of points, represented by pips similar
to those on the faces of dice.
Immediately below the square, which begins each row, there is fixed a projecting
pin (G). On the outside of the frame and on the right-hand side thereof, is fixed
the mechanical contrivance by which the dwarf figure is set in motion. On the
axle (D) of the wheel which actuates the dwarf figure one end of a string may
wind itself round the said axle; the other end of this string is carried up, on the
outside of the frame, and near the top thereof it is passed over the pulley (E)
on the outside into the frame, where it is brought over the pulley (F) and down
to the dwarf figure to the head of which it is attached,
When the dwarf figure is at the bottom of the frame, all that is necessary to
make it rise, or slide upwards on the string, is to give a turn to the wheel,
whereupon the string outside the frame winds itself round the axle (D), drawing
up the dwarf figure to a greater or less height according to the amount of rotary
force given to the said wheel. The sword in the hand of the dwarf figure will,
when its upward motion stops, point to one of the rows of dice-marked squares.
In order to make the dwarf figure descend, all one has to do is to pull upwards
the part of the string which is outside the frame.
It is self-evident that the means of moving the dwarf figure and also the
marking of the points may be varied without going beyond the scope of the
present invention as above described.
.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
A new game distinguished by the placing of a dwarf figure ou two vertical
strings situated inside of a frame, the said dwarf figure being adapted to slide up
and down the said frame, motion being given to the said dwarf figure by means of
a motive-wheel on the axle of which a string winds itself, and the said dwarf figure
holding a sword which points to a dice-marked scale of points the sum of which
points, on the row indicated by the sword, gives the number gained by the player.
Dated this 25th day of February 1896.
L. DUVINAGE,
Agent for Applicant.