A New or Improved Game of Chance and Skill.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Apr., 1890
Complete Specification Left. 10th Jan., 1891-Accepted, 11th Apr., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Game of Chance and Skill.
I, WALTER ARNOLD BRADLEY, Bull Hill, Mellor, Marple Bridge, Derbyshire,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to a new or improved game of chance and skill and consists
essentially of a ball having distinguishing characters or other values marked upon-
or assigned to its surface or affixed thereto or protruding. therefrom and of a rod or
staff fitted with a receiver for the ball and furnished with an indicator or indicators
capable of denoting its values. In carrying my invention into practice I take any
suitable material such as wood ivory paper indiarubber composition glass clay iron
brass tin or the like and shape it into the form of a ball or other suitable form and
I apportion and distribute over its surface various letters words numbers or other
distinguishing characters or values. I further make a rod or staff of like material
and fit the same with a receiver capable of receiving the ball and furnish it with an
indicator or indicators capable of denoting severally the various characters or values
of the ball. The rod or staff may also be provided with a shield for the hand and
an attachment cord or elastic extending between any points of the rod or staff and
receiver: and the ball and may be accompanied by a plane or board upon which the
game may be played. A suitable device may likewise be provided for recording
the scores and directions and rules may be issued to accompany the appliances for
the game. The game is designed to be played by the said ball being flung up or
moved in any direction and caught by the receiver possessing the indicators each of
the several distinguishing characters or values denoted by the indicator or indicators
being recorded in scoring in accordance with rules for determining the game. As
my improvements are capable of some slight modification without departing from
the principles thereof, I do not restrict myself to materials dimensions nor to the
precise form or placement of the several parts thereof.
Dated this Eleventh day of April 1890.
WALTER ARNOLD BRADLEY.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or. Improved Game of Chance. and. Skill.
I, WALTER ARNOLD BRADLEY, of Bull Hill, Mellor, Marple Bridge, Derby-
shire, Gentleman, 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 :-
My invention relates to a new or improved game of chance and skill, and consists
essentially of a ball or other spherical or irregular shaped object, having numbers,
letters, words, figures, or other distinguishing characters or values marked upon,
affixed to, sunk in, protruding from, or otherwise assigned, allotted or attributed to
its surface; and in combination therewith of a receiver capable of receiving the
said ball or object, such receiver being furnished with an indicator or indicators
capable of denoting the said several distinguishing characters or values thereof. Such
said receiver may be fitted to a rod or staff, or may be affixed to, or accompanied
by.a board.
The said rod or staff may also be provided with a shield for the hand, and an
attachment cord or elastic extending between any points of the said rod or staff and
receiver, and the said ball or object. A suitable device or register may likewise be

page_text: provided for recording any scores made in the game, and rules and directions may
be issued to accompany the appliances for the game.
In order more clearly to describe this my invention and the manner of carrying
the same into practice I have annexed hereunto a sheet of drawings—in the several
views therein shown similar letters refer to similar parts.
Fig. 1 represents a ball having its surface distinguished by numbers, and is shown
attached by a cord or elastic to a receiver furnished with an indicator and fitted on
a rod or staff.
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Fig. 2 represents a board which may be inclined to any angle and to the base of
which in the drawing a receiver is affixed and
Fig. 3 represents a register suitable for recording any scores that may be made
in the game.
I form the ball a either of the shape shown in Fig. 1 on the drawing or of any
spherical or irregular shape and of any material that may be preferred such as
wood, ivory, paper, india-rubber, composition, glass, clay, iron, brass, tin or any
other metal or material, and I apportion and distribute over the surface thereof
either numbers b as shown in the drawing, or various letters words, figures, or other
distinguishing characters or values, and I form the receiver c and the rod or staff d
of any similar or other material that may be preferred either of the shapes shown
on the drawing or of any preferred shapes that may be suited to receive the said
ball or any other form of ball or object that may be employed, and I furnish the
said receiver with an indicator or indicators e capable of denoting the several
distinguishing characters or values of the said ball or object; the scores of the said
characters or values so denoted may be recorded as shown in Fig. 3, or by any
other convenient method.
The game is designed and intended to be played by the said hereinbefore
described ball a or other object being flung up or moved in any direction and
caught by the receiver possessing the indicators when the said several distinguishing
characters or values b denoted by the indicator e or indicators can be recorded in
scoring upon the register for in some other convenient way in accordance with
rules for determining the game.
In a modification of my invention shown in Fig. 2 the ball a may be rolled up or
otherwise moved upon the board g and caught by the receiver c or by a receiver
held in the hand or otherwise when the scores may be indicated and recorded as
hereinbefore described..
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1st. A game of chance and skill which may be played by means of a ball or other
spherical or irregular shaped object having numbers, letters, words, figures, or other
distinguishing characters or values marked upon, affixed to sunk in, protruding
from, or otherwise assigned, allotted, or attributed to its surface to be used in
combination with a receiver capable of receiving the said ball or object, such
receiver being furnished with an indicator or indicators capable of denoting the
said several distinguishing characters or values, which receiver may be affixed to a
rod or staff or board, or may be used in any other convenient manner, in order that
the said ball or object may be flung up or moved in any direction with the design
that the same may be caught by the receiver possessing the indicator or indicators
with the intent of denoting such distinguishing characters or values by means of
such indicator or indicators in the manner and for the purposes substantially as
hereinbefore described.
2nd. The assignment, allotment, or attributing of numbers, letters, words, figures
or other distinguishing characters or values to the surface of a ball or other spherical
or irregular shaped object with the design or intent of the same being flung up or
moved in any direction to be caught by a receiver furnished with an indicator or

page_text: indicators capable of denoting such characters or values for the purposes of a game
substantially as hereinbefore described or shown.
3rd. The combination of a ball or other spherical or irregular shaped object, the
characters or values assigned, allotted or attributed to the surface of the said ball
or object, and a receiver furnished with an indicator or indicators to be used for the
purposes and in the manner substantially as hereinbefore described.
Dated this 9th day of January 1891.
WALTER ARNOLD BRADLEY,
Applicant.