An Improved Toy and Game.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Jan., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 19th Oct., 1892-Accepted, 3rd Dec., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Toy and Game.
We HENRY FRANCIS BOUGHTON of Regent Street Barnsley in the County of
York Engineer WILLIAM HENRY JESSOP TALLENTS of Church Street in the
Town aforesaid Draper and EDWARD DODD and ROBERT PARKER DODD of
48 Kingscote Road Edgbaston Birmingham in the County of Warwick Civil
Engineers do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved toy and game and consists in arranging a
tube channel or other convenient form of track which is elevated at one end and
suitably inclines towards a base where it is twisted curved or spirally formed into
one or more convolutions and then continues in a level or inclined form on said
base and may terminate with a stop or in the form of a round or other shaped table
containing a suitable number of holes or pockets arranged similarly to a bagatelle
board or said table may have a number of pegs pins or skittles or equivalent
devices suitable for a marble or ball to hit mark or enter.
Where preferred convolutions as aforesaid may be made at any part of the inclined
portion of said tube channel or other form of track and one or more twists or curves
may be arranged at the base.
We employ one or more glass or other marbles or balls which when operating
said toy or playing a game with the same we place at the commencing or elevated
end of the track and we allow the said marbles or balls to descend and in so doing
they roll with sufficient speed so as to be kept by centrifugal force in on or against
the convoluted circular or twisted part of the tube channel or other form of track
and the said marbles or balls subsequently travel down to the stop or to the
bagatelle form of table or roll into the holes or pockets formed therein or knock
against the pins or skittles and the said holes or pockets or pins pegs or skittles
may be suitably numbered or figured in order that a game may be played.
Dated this 15th day of January 1892.
H. F. BOUGHTON, M.I. Mech. E.,
Barnsley and Sheffield, Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Toy and Game.
We HENRY FRANCIS BOUGHTON of Regent Street Barnsley in the County of
York Engineer WILLIAM HENRY JESSOP TALLENTS of Church Street in the
Town aforesaid Draper and EDWARD DODD and ROBERT PARKER DODD of
48 Kingscote Road Edgebaston Birmingham in the County of Warwick Civil
Engineers 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 relates to an improved toy and game and consists in arranging a
tube channel or other convenient form of track which is elevated at one end and
suitably inclines towards a base where it is spirally formed into two or more
convolutions and then continues level or inclined and terminates in the form of a
table which may contain pegs pins skittles for a marble to run between or hit or a
number of pockets or holes for marbles or balls to roll into. Where preferred
convolutions as aforesaid may be made at any part of the inclined portion of said
tube channel or other form of track and one or more twists or curves may be
arranged at the base. We employ one or more glass or other marbles or balls

page_text: which when operating said toy or playing a game with the same we place at the
commencing or elevated end of the track and we allow the said marbles to descend
and in so doing they roll with sufficient speed so as to be kept up by centrifugal
force in or against the convoluted parts of the channel and the said marbles subse-
quently travel down to the table and roll into the holes or pockets which are
numbered in accordance with the rules of the game.
Fig. 1. is an isometric perspective view of our invention and Fig. 2. is a cross
sectional elevation of the channel with marble therein.
Similar letters of reference denote corresponding parts in each view.
The channel form of track A is inclined from the starting rest or clevated
portion a¹ and descends until it reaches the base a where it is twisted into two
convolutions a³ it is then curved towards the table a' which is formed with a
number of holes a³ the latter being marked with any suitable numbers.
Preferably two balls C are used by each player one blue and one white the blue
counting double. Exactly twenty one wins.
Each ball is placed as shown for starting and spins centrifugally until it arrives
at the table at where it scores in accordance with the pocket or hole it enters.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is.
1. In a toy or game the arranging of an inclined track A made with two or
more convolutions a' and terminating in a table form a' containing holes substantially
as described and used in the manner stated.
Dated this 18th day of October 1892.
H. F. BOUGHTON, M.I. Mech. E.,
Commercial Street, Sheffield, Agent.