A New Parlour Game.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Mar., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 10th Aug., 1894-Accepted, 15th Sept., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New Parlour Game.
HARRY OWEN ROBERTS 4 Commercial Road Gloucester Manager of Mineral
Water Factory do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
:-
A game called Salomo, consisting of a board, made of card, wood or any other
suitable material, marked out in squares, in the centre of which squares circles called
bulls eyes are marked.
Also small discs, coloured or otherwise, made of bone, wood or any other suitable
material, these for the purposes of the game are called men.
Also larger discs, coloured or otherwise, made of bone, wood or any other suitable
material, these are for the purpose of flipping i.e. pressing the edge of the small
discs sharply & by this means causing them to jump on to one of the bulls eyes in
the squares marked on the board. These with a copy of the rules are packed in a
box & with the board constitute the game.
The game is played by partners being chosen, who should arrange themselves
alternately round the table, as far as possible in equal numbers each of the 4 sides
of the board which must be placed in the centre of the table. The men are
placed in a straight line in front of the players, about 2 inches from the edge of
the table, this is called the starting line. The object of the players (who play in
turn) is to get the men into the squares on the board, this is done by pressing the
edge of one of the men with the large counter provided & causing it to jump, for
When a
every man so placed on the board the player is entitled to another turn.
man has been got on the board, the player may jump over & take off his opponents
men as at the game of draughts, the men so taken off to be placed on the table
& reflipped again subsequently. If a man is flipped on to another man of the same
colour if only leaning on it in the slightest degree, it constitutes a king which can
move in any direction & take off opponents men, but if of another colour, the first
is considered dead & must be removed from the board & the one last flipped
take its place.
on,
The side that first succeeds in getting all their men on the board wins the
game.
A code of rules regulates the whole proceedings.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New Parlour Game.
HARRY OWEN ROBERTS 4 Commercial Road Gloucester Manager of Mineral
Water Works 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 :-
A. game called "Salomo," consisting of a board, made of card, wood, or any
other suitable material, marked out in squares, in the centre of which squares,
circles called bull's-eyes are marked. Also small discs, coloured or otherwise made
of bone, wood or any other suitable material, these for the purposes of the game are
called men. Also larger discs, coloured or otherwise made of bone, wood or any
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page_text: other suitable material, these are for the purpose of flipping, i.e. pressing the edge
of the small discs sharply and by this means causing them to jump on to one of the
bull's-eyes in the squares marked on the board. These with a copy of the rules
are packed in a box and with the board constitute the game.
The game is played by partners being chosen who should arrange themselves
alternately round the table, as far as possible in equal numbers each of the four
sides of the board, which must be placed in the centre of the table, the men being
placed in a straight line in front of the players, about 2 inches from the edge of the
table, this is called the starting line.
The object of the players, who play in turn is to get the men into the squares on
the board, this is done by pressing the edge of one of the men with the large
disc provided and causing it to jump, for every man so placed on the board the
player is entitled to another turn. When a man has been got on the board, the
player may jump over and take off his opponents men as at the game of draughts,
the men so taken off to be placed on the table and be reflipped subsequently.
If a man is flipped on to another man of the same colour, if only leaning on it in
the slightest degree, it constitutes a king, which can move in any direction and
take off opponents men, but if it is flipped on to a man of another colour, the first
on is considered dead and must be removed from the board and the one last flipped
take its place.
The side that first succeeds in getting all their men on the board wins the
game.
A code of rules regulates the whole proceedings.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :
A new parlour game to be played in the manner and with the articles herein-
before described.
Dated this Ninth day of August Eighteen hundred and ninety-four.