Improvements in or connected with Roulette and like Games and Apparatus for Playing the same.
Year: 1899

page_text: Improvements in or connected with Roulette and like Games and
Apparatus for Playing the same.
I, MARSHALL GEORGE WOOD, of 21, St. James' Street, Brighton, in the County
of Sussex, Novelist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
Hollows:-
My invention relates to roulette and like games and to apparatus for playing
the same.
In 1oulette or like wheels used for games of chance and for similar purposes it
has not hitherto been found possible, by turning one such wheel only, to cause
two independent yet simultaneous indications of numbers, names or the like.
I effect this object by constructing the wheel with a lower rim or (lateral)
flange which may be either flat or grooved, and which may either form a con-
tinuation of the lower surface of the wheel, o may project from its outer
(ordinary) circumference at any suitable distance trom the lower edge thereof
In the space or trench thus left between the upper or true m of the wheel
and the wall of the encular well within which it revolves, a second ball or a
teetotum or other indicator may be set in motion by the same turn of the wiist
(or other propulsive action) as sets in motion the ball, teetotum, picture, or other
indicator on the main surface of the wheel.
If the axis upon which the wheel revolves is vertical (as in the roulette wheels
employed for the well-known game of roulette) 1 prefer not to turn this outer rim
upwards to any considerable extent, but if the axis is horizontal, that is to say,
if the wheel stands and spins at right angles to the table, I find that the ball, "
teetotum or the like placed on the said outer 11m moves more freely if the rim
itself be turned high enough to constitute a second and deeper groove, outside
the groove and cucumference of the ordinary roulette model.
Dated the fith day of Falurane 1000
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agents for the Aplicant.

page_text: manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:--
My invention relates to roulette and like games and to apparatus for playing
the same.
In 1oulette or like wheels used for games of chance and for similar purposes it
has not hitherto been found possible, by turning one such wheel only, to cause
two independent yet simultaneous indications of numbers, names or the like
Now, according to my invention I effect this object by constructing the wheel
with a lower rim or (lateral) flange which may be either flat or grooved, and
which may either form a continuation of the lower surface of the wheel, or may
project from its outer (ordinary) circumference at any suitable distance from
the lower edge thereof.
In the space o trench thus left between the upper or true rim of the wheel
and the wall of the circular well within which it revolves, a second ball or a
tectotum or other indicator may be set in motion by the same turn of the wrist
(or other propulsive action) as sets in motion the ball, teetotum, picture, or other
indicator on the main surface of the wheel.
If the axis upon which the wheel revolves is vertical (as in the roulette wheels
employed for the well-known game of roulette) I prefer not to turn this outer iim
upwards to any considerable extent, but if the axis is horizontal, that is to say,
if the wheel stands and spins at right angles to the table, I find that the ball,
teetotum on the like placed on the said outer rim moves more freely if the rim
itself be turned high enough to constitute a second and deeper groove, outside
the groove and circumference of the ordinary roulette model.
To enable the invention to be fully understood I will describe it by reference
to the accompanying drawing, in which:-
Figure is a vertical section of roulette apparatus made according to the
invention.
Figure 2 is a plan of the said apparatus.
a is the wheel, which wheel is mounted upon an upright pin on pivot b, fixed
in the recessed case c, the said pivot or pin 6 passing up into the central pillai d
having at its upper end the handle e by means of which the wheel a can be
turned upon the said pivot in the usual manner
f is the lower rim or flange which is here shewn flat although it may be
grooved if desired, the said flange forming a continuation of the lower suiface
of the wheel a, although, as above mentioned, it may extend laterally from the
periphery of the wheel at any suitable distance from the said lower surface
With this construction of roulette wheel a space is left between the periphery
of the wheel a and the inner surface of the recessed case in which the said
wheel is caused to revolve, the bottom of this space being formed by the lower
rim o flange f above mentioned.
With such apparatus, therefore, the usual manipulation for turning the wheel
can be employed for actuating two balls or the like instead of one as heretofore.
In the diawing I have illustrated a ball in the ordinary roulette wheel a and
a facetted disc or block in the space g between the wheel and the case.
2
The apparatus can be employed for example for playing a game which I call
"Yukon wherein a number of miners are presumed to be racing to Klondike
over the last 100 miles of the Yukon River. The number of men corresponds
to the number of facets upon the disc or block and is preferably six, in which
case the disc or block is a hexagon. The names of the various miners are im-
printed upon the facets of the hexagon. To play the game a number of players
play against a person who 1otates the roulette wheel a so as to cause the ball h
and the disc to spin in such a manner that when the wheel a comes to rest the
ball is on one of a series of numbered divisions marked around the said wheel
whilst the disc has the name of one of the miners upon the uppermost facet.
This indicates that the miner whose name appears is to go forward a number of
miles corresponding to the number division in which the ball rests on the wheel a.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed. 1 declare that what
I claim 1s
1. In roulette wheels the arrangement whereby two independent indications of
numbers, names or the like can be simultaneously obtained by a single manipula-
tion of the wheel, substantially as herein before described.
2. The described apparatus for playing roulette and like games, comprising a
wheel adapted to be rotated in a recess case and a flange or rim projecting from
the periphery of the wheel within the recessed case so as to form the bottom of
the space between the periphery of the wheel and the wall of the recess in the
case, substantially as herein before described.
3. Apparatus for playing roulette and like games constructed substantially as
herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury. London,
Agents for the Aplicant.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury. London,
Agents for the Aplicant.