New or Improved Game.
Year: 1894

page_text: COMPLEIE DIEVIFICATION.
New or Improved Game.
I, WILLIAM MAY, of The Emporium, Carlisle, in the County of Cumberland,
Tailor, 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
This invention has for its object a new or improved game of skill which may be
played by young and old alike by the aid of a board, a magnet of horse-shoe or
other form, and a roller of suitable length and diameter.
The board, which may be of any suitable size and shape, has indicated upon its
upper sun face by lines, colouring or in any other manner, a straight or sinuous or
paitly straight and partly sinuous course along each side of which a number of stops
are arranged and which is graduated from end to end to a suitable scale.
The width of this course is the same or slightly greater than the length of the
roller, the game being played by each player placing the roller which is preferably
of steel across one end of the course and rolling it along said course as far as
possible by the attractive influence of the magnet so that it will escape the
stops, which stops, when it is desired to make the same more difficult, may be
magnetised.
And in order that this invention may be more fully understood and carried into
practice I will now proceed to describe the same with reference to the accompanying
drawing which 18 a perspective view of a board, roller and magnet suitable for
playing my improved game.
The board a, which may be of any size and shape has a straight or sinuous or
partly straight and partly sinuous course 6 indicated upon its upper surface by
lines, colouring or other means, which course is graduated from end to end to a
suitable scale and has a number of stops arranged along each side of it, said
stops being magnetised when it is desired to make the game more difficult.
The game is played by placing a steel roller d of suitable diameter and about
the same length as the width of the comse b across one end of the latter and rolling
it as far as possible along said course by the attractive influence of a magnet e of
horse-shoe or other form, the winner being he who succeeds in rolling the roller
farthest as indicated by the graduations.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inveu-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I
claim is-
(1) A game played by means of a board a having a straight oi sinuous or paitly
straight and partly smous course indicated thereon roller d a magnet e
substantially as and in the manner described and illustrated m the accompanying
drawing.
(2.) A game board having a straight or sinuous or partly straight and partly
sinuous course indicated the con said course being graduated from end to end and
having a number of stops arranged along each side thereof substantially as
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 3rd day of October 1894.
CASTLE SMITH,
Invention" Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.
CASTLE SMITH,
"Invention" Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.