A New Table Game and Apparatus for Playing the same.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Aug., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 29th Apr., 1893-Accepted, 2nd June, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New Table Game and Apparatus for Playing the same.
I, JOHN SMITH, of 1, Braemar Road, Tottenham, in the County of Middlesex,
Commercial Traveller, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to a
surrounded by elastic cushions.
The surface of the table or board is divided into four equal parts by central
cross lines and at the central portion of the table or board a rectangular space is
marked.
new game to be played upon a table or board
In practice I find it advantageous to make the table or board of dimensions
proportionate to those of the outside lines of a lawn tennis court and to make the
rectangular space of dimensions proportionate to those of the space enclosed by
the inside lines of a lawn tennis court.
The game which is advantageously played by two or four persons with cues
preferably consists in endeavouring to send a ball from one of the courts in one
corner of the board or table to the small court at the opposite corner of the board
or table, the ball in its course having to strike the cushion.
Dated the 10th day of August 1892.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New Table Game and Apparatus for Playing the same.
I, JOHN SMITH, of 1, Braemar Road, Tottenham, in the County of Middlesex,
Commercial Traveller, 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 a new game to be played upon a table or board
surrounded by elastic cushions.
The surface of the table or board is divided into four equal parts by central
cross lines and at the central portion of the table or board a rectangular space is
marked.
To enable my invention to be fully understood I will describe the same by
reference to the accompanying drawing which represents a plan view of a board
or table upon which the new game is to be played.
The said table or board, which is surrounded by cushions a, a similar to those
upon a billiard table, is preferably of a length of 78 inches and of a breadth
of 36 inches, and has marked upon it the central longitudinal line 6 and the
central transverse line c. At each end of the board, parallel with the transverse
line c and at, say, 21 inches therefrom are the base lines d, d; and at the sides of
the board, say, four and a half inches from the cushions are lines e, e which join
the base lines d, d, the said lines d d, e e forming the rectangular space herein-
before referred to and (with the portions of the lines be which they contain) the
courts f, g, h, i which I term "service courts."
The game is played with cues and balls by two or more players somewhat as
follows, that is to say, the first player starts by striking the ball with a cue from
the base line of, say, the court i and sending it against the cushion in such a manner
that it will stop in, say, the court f. If, however, he fails to do this his opponent

page_text: scores and the player again takes the ball and endeavours to send it from the base
line in the court into the court g striking in its course the cushion: if the ball
enters the court into which the player endeavours to send it, the opponent then
strikes the ball to send it into one of the courts h, i and should' he fail in doing this
the score counts to the player; whereas, if he succeeds the player again endeavours
to send the ball into one of the courts f, g and so on until one or the other of the
players fails.
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 :-
Apparatus for playing a new game comprising a table surrounded by cushions
and divided upon its surface substantially in the manner hereinbefore described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Dated the 20th day of April 1902
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.