An Improved Apparatus for Playing the Game of Parlour Quoits.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Sept., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 12th Oct., 1894-Accepted, 17th Nov., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Apparatus for Playing the Game of Parlour Quoits.
We, ROBERT BODINGTON, of Leicester and Queensberry Streets Carlton, in
the Colony of Victoria Millwright, and HENRY WILLIAM SHARP, of Mayfield
Avenue off Glenferrie Road Malvern, near Melbourne in the said Colony Mechanist
do bereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has been devised for the purpose of enabling the ordinary game
of quoits to be played as a parlour game.
The apparatus comprises a "projector" for throwing the "quoits" on to a peg or
into a receiver.
The "projector" consists in its simplest form of an upright bar of wood or
other material which is pivotted or fulcrummed near its lower end upon a bracket
secured to or forming part of a suitable base piece and having at its upper end a
flat tray or holder made wider at the front than at the back. This tray or holder
is made of such a width as to retain the brass or other rings used as quoits and is
so constructed as to prevent said quoits from sliding backwards out of the holder
whilst leaving them free to be thrown forwards.
A rubber or other buffer or stop is secured to the front of the base piece for
the lower end of the above mentioned pivotted bar or lever to butt against and a
small flat spring is also arranged behind this lower end for the purpose of returning
said pivotted bar or lever to its normal or inclined position.
A modification of this projector can be made by securing the holder or tray
above referred to upon the upper end of a vertically arranged spring, a buffer
being secured upon a rigid bar or support projecting up from the base piece of
the projector in front of such spring.
The peg above referred to may be fitted on or in a flat disc of wood or other
material and the receiver may consist of a circular vessel which by preference
has a central hole in the bottom for the purpose of receiving the peg or pin
above mentioned. With these contrivances the game can be played with either
the peg or the vessel alone or both can be used together in which case more
points might be scored if a quoit is thrown on to or over the peg than if it were
simply thrown into the vessel.
Dated this Ninth day of August, One thousand eight hundred and ninety-four.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Apparatus for Playing the Game of Parlour Quoits.
We, ROBERT BODINGTON of Leicester and Queensberry Streets Carlton, in
the Colony of Victoria, Millwright, and HENRY WILLIAM SHARP, of Mayfield
Avenue, off Glenferrie Road Malvern near Melbourne in the said Colony
Mechanist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
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page_text: the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
This invention has been devised for the purpose of enabling the ordinary game
of quoits to be played as a parlour game.
The apparatus comprises a "projector" for throwing the quoits on to a peg or
into a receiver.
The "projector" consists in its simplest form of an upright bar of wood or
other material which is pivotted or fulcrummed near its lower end upon a bracket
secured to or forming part of a suitable base piece and having at its upper end a
flat tray or holder made wider at the front than at the back. This tray or holder
is made of such a width as to retain the brass or other rings used as quoits and is
so constructed as to prevent said quoits from sliding backwards out of the holder
whilst leaving them free to be thrown forwards. A rubber or other buffer or stop
is secured to the front of the base piece for the lower end of the above mentioned
pivotted bar or lever to butt against and a small flat spring is also arranged
behind this lower end for the purpose of returning said pivotted bar or lever to
its normal or inclined position.
A modification of this projector can be made by securing the holder or tray
above referred to upon the upper end of a vertically arranged spring, a buffer
being secured upon a rigid bar or support projecting up from the base piece of
the projector in front of such spring.
The peg above referred to may be fitted on or in a flat disc of wood or other
material and the receiver may consist of a circular vessel which by preference
has a central hole in the bottom for the purpose of receiving the peg or pin
above mentioned. With these contrivances the game can be played with either
the peg or the vessel alone or both can be used together in which case more
points might be scored if a quoit is thrown on to or over the peg than if it were
simply thrown into the vessel.
Referring to the accompanying drawings,--
Figure 1, is a side elevation, and
Figure 2, a plan of part of this improved apparatus for playing the game of
parlour-quoits.
Figure 3, is a vertical transverse section on line 3-3 Figure 2.
Figure 4, is a side elevation, and
Figure 5, a plan of the tray or holder of the "
projector."
Figure 6, is a vertical transverse section on line 6-6 Figure 5.
Figure 7, is a side elevation, and
Figure 8, a plan of the peg and receiver or cup on to or into which the quoits
are intended to be thrown by the projector.
Figure 9, is a side elevation of a modified construction of projector, whilst
Figures 10, and 11, are respectively a side and front elevation illustrating
another modification of said projector.
The same letters of reference indicate the same or corresponding parts in all the
figures.
A represents an upright bar of wood or other material which as herein before
described is pivotted or fulcrummed near its lower end upon a bracket B projecting
upwardly from a base piece C whilst D represents the tray or holder which is
-fixed upon the upper end of said bar as shown. This tray is made wider at the
front than at the back as illustrated in Figure 5 and its sides d are turned up
to a certain height and are such a width apart as just to receive and hold the
rings E used as quoits as illustrated in Figures 4, 5, and 6 so that the rings will
be prevented from sliding backwards out of the tray or holder but will be free
to move forwards when the apparatus is operated as hereinafter described.
F represents the rubber or other buffer which is secured to the front of the
base piece C in order to act as a check for the lower end of the pivotted bar

page_text: or lever A whilst G represents the spring which is arranged behind the lower.
end of said bar and serves to return it to its normal position.
In the modification shown in Figure 9 the tray or holder D.is fitted upon the
upper end of a vertically arranged spring H the buffer F being secured upon a
rigid upright stepped into the base piece C of the projector.
If preferred instead of the tray or holder D above described a horizontal
forwardly projecting pin I might be used as illustrated in Figures 10 and 11 the
quoits being merely hung upon said pin when they are required to be thrown.
This pin might if desired be provided upon the upper end of the pivotted bar
or lever A below the tray or holder D so that players could have the option of
using either the pin or the holder as they might prefer.
J (Figures 7 and 8) represents the upright peg and K the receiver or cup on to
or into which the quoits are thrown by the projector whilst j, represents the flat
disc of wood or other material in which the peg J is fitted. The receiver or
cup K is formed with a small hole for the peg J to pass through as above
described so that either the peg or the receiver or both can be used as preferred.
In order to use this improved apparatus for playing the game of parlour
quoits the player places one of the quoits in the tray or holder D as shown in
Figures 4, 5, and 6, or on the pin I as in Figures 10 and 11 and then with his
finger pulls the lower end of the bar or lever A more or less sharply towards
the base piece C according to the distance of the peg J or receiver or cup K
from the projector. When the movement of the bar or lever with the holder D
is suddenly arrested by the lower end of said bar coming in contact with the
buffer F as indicated by dotted lines in Figure 1 the quoit will be shot forward
out of the tray or holder with a velocity corresponding to that imparted to the
tray or holder by the finger of the player operating the bar or lever A.
The manner of employing the modification shown in Figure 9 is substantially
the same except that the spring H is drawn back a certain distance (according
to the judgment of the player) as indicated by the dotted lines in that figure
and then released, when it will immediately spring forward into its normal position
thereby projecting the quoit forward out of the tray or holder.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is,
First. The herein described apparatus for playing the game of parlour quoits
consisting essentially of a pivotted bar or lever (such as A) having a tray or holder
(such as D) adapted to contain a ring or quoit in such a manner as to allow said
ring or quoit to be thrown forward out of it when the apparatus is operated
substantially as and for the purposes herein described with reference to the
accompanying drawings.
Second. In apparatus for playing the game of parlour quoits a tray or holder
(such as D) made wider at the front than at the back so that it will hold a ring or
quoit and prevent it passing out at the back whilst leaving it free to be thrown
forwards substantially as and for the purposes herein described with reference to
the accompanying drawings.
Third. In apparatus for playing the game of parlour quoits the combined peg
and receiver or cup (such as J K) the former projecting up through a hole in the
latter so that either can be used separately if preferred substantially as and for the
purposes herein described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Fourth. In apparatus for playing the game of parlour quoits a vertically arranged
spring (such as H) carrying a holder for the rings or quoits at its upper end
substantially as and for the purposes herein described with reference to the
accompanying drawings.
Fifth. In apparatus for playing the game of parlour quoits the modification of
quoit holder consisting of a pin (such as I) projecting forwardly from the lever of

page_text: a "projector" substantially as and for the purposes herein described with reference
to Figures 10 and 11 of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this Thirty-first day of August, One thousand eight hundred and
ninety-four.
ROBT. BODINGTON.
H. W. SHARP.
Haseltine, Lake & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicants.