A New Game Apparatus
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Nov., 1889-Accepted, 21st Dec., 1889
A New Game Apparatus.
I, CHARLES ELLIS, of Selby Street, Hull Grocer, do hereby declare the nature of
the said 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 apparatus associated with pictorial or
structural representations of the Eiffel Tower which are printed or impressed on
paper or other suitable material and if require'l mounted on cardboard or other suitable
material or may be cast or otherwise formed in metal and may be used when
pictorially represented in a horizontal position, or may be vertically erected into a
structural representation of the Tower, in each case with the various platforms thereof
pictorially or structurally represented, the successive intersections of the framing of
the Tower being numbered from the base to the summit of flag-staff thereof in
numerical order, or being pierced for the reception of wooden or metal pegs or
representations of men or other lay figures or being countersunk for the reception
of marbles or being otherwise adapted to receive any other appropriate marking or
indicating device.
The accompanying drawing represents a pictorial device of such nature intended
to be used on the flat or in a horizontal position. a. represents the framing of the
Tower which may he represented by impressions on, indentations in, or raised parts
above the surface of the paper, board or other basis of the device, or may be cast
in motal of a skeleton formation. b. c. d, respectively represent the first, second.
and third platforms of the Tower and, e, represents the sumunit or flagstaff
thereof.
The parts numbered represent the intersections of the framing, each succeeding
horizontal line of which may be numbered in numerical order, or each intersection
of which may be numbered in like order, in such a manner as that the one side of
the centre line is the counterpart of the other. The central intersection of the
framing of each platform b. c. d. and the summit or flagstaff, e, is also likewise
numbered.
Each of such numbered intersectious may, as aforesaid, be pierced with a holo
adapted to receive wooden or metal pegs or representations of men or other appropriate
lay figures which may vary in shape, color and design, or such intersections may
be countersunk and adapted for receiving marbles or the like, or they may be
otherwise adapted as aforesaid :-Such pegs, inen, marbles, or the like being used in
indicating the progress of the game.
When the apparatus is intended to be used as a structural representation of the
Eiffel Tower, it is made in four like side parts, and preferably with a removable
dome, & summit, each of such side parts representing one side of the Tower, and if
of a rigid formation being curved to correspond with the gradually decreasing width
of the Tower from the base to the summit, so as to permit of the side parts being
fitted together with their corners in proper juxtaposition, and in which position they
can be permanently or detachably secured together by any suitable catches or other
means, so that the device will stand erect in approximate facsimile of the Tower.
such case all sides of the Tower are numbered alike.
In
The apparatus is intended to be used in play by two or more persons who can
arrange for a peg or lay figure race either up or up and down the Tower, each player
taking a distinguishing pog or lay figure and using the same throughout the game,
the progress of the men being dependent upon the numbers indicated by the
spinning of a teetotum or by other chosen means, the men of the different players
being moved in turn and as aforesaid advanced according to the indications given by
the teetotum or its equivalent.

page_text: The special object of each player is to ascend or ascend and descend the Tower
before the other or any of the others, starting from the entrance No. 1. exactly landing
on each platform in ascending, & ascending exactly, to the summit or flagstaff, and
exactly landing on each platform in descending, and descending exactly to the exit,
No. 1. and so winning the game.
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 ;-
The hereinbefore described improved game apparatus.
Dated this Sth day of November 1889.
DAY, DAVIES & HUNT,
321, High Holborn, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.