AN IMPROVED BAGATELLE OR GAME BOARD
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Henly, of Swindon, for the Invention of "AN
IMPROVED BAGATELLE OR GAME BOARD."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Henly at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 31st July. 1876.
ROBERT HENLY, of Swindon. "AN IMPROVED BAGATELLE OR GAME BOARD."
The Invention consists in making and using cups or holes of various sizes, together
with balls, of one size or of various sizes in conjunction with moveable pins,
which may be arranged to act as guides to the course of the balls in some cases,
and obstructions to be avoided in others; also in arranging the legs of the board,
when legs are used, so that they may fold under and within the frame of the board
when not in use.
The board may be made of wood, slate, or metal, with or without legs; but when
legs are used the frame of the board is to be made sufficiently deep to hold the legs
when folded up within it. The cups can be made of wood, bone, ivory, metal, or other
convenient material. A rubber cushion is supplied to the board all round; the
top end of the board can be semicircular in shape on plan. The pins are to be
of metal with sockets or holes in the board for their reception; these pins may be
placed in any direction on the board, but they are more particularly intended to
form fences round the cups with open spaces left in any direction desired, also to
form variable obstruction fences on the board where desired.
The board is to be placed and used on varying slants, and not on the level,
though it may be used on the level if desired.
It is intended to actuate the balls by a spring piston or by a cue.

page_text: The Invention consists in making and using cups or holes of various sizes, together
with balls, of one size or of various sizes, in conjunction with moveable pins, which
may be arranged to act as guides to the course of the balls in some cases, and
obstructions to be avoided in others; also in arranging the legs of the board, when
legs are used, so that they may fold under and within the frame of the board when
not in use.
The board may be made of wood, slate, or metal, with or without legs; but when
legs are used the frame of the board is to be made sufficiently deep to hold the legs
when folded up within it. The cups can be made of wood, bone, ivory, metal, or
other convenient material. A rubber cushion is supplied to the board all round;
the top end of the board can be semicircular in shape on plan. The pins are
to be of metal with sockets or holes in the board for their reception; these pins may
be placed in any direction on the board, but they are more particularly intended to
form fences round the cups with open spaces left in any direction desired, also to
form variable obstruction fences on the board when desired.
The board is to be placed and used on varying slants, and not on the level,
though it may be used on the level if desired.
It is intended to actuate the balls by a spring piston or by a cue.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Henly, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Thirtieth day of January, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven.
PORER DENLY