A New or improved Gaming
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Aug., 1889-Accepted, 26th Oct., 1889
A New or improved Gaming
I, ROBERT HERMANN WITTIG of Crimmitschau in the Empire of Germany,
Manufacturer 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 an improved gaming table and has for its purpose to
provide a handy, commodious clean and compact article of this class having
moreover the advantage of greater elegance, more solid coustruction and extensive
practical applicability over any similar tables hitherto known.
To attain these ends, the improved gaming table is constructed as follows, reference
being had to the accompanying drawing, in which
Fig. 1 is an elevation of the table.
Fig. 2 represents the leaf.
Fig. 3 is a cross section of a corner of the table, and
Fig. 4 a top view of a recess a.
The leaf A supported in the usual manner by a suitable number of legs or posts,
is preferably square and has at each corner recesses a, adapted to be closed by
sliding lids introduced in front. Each recess a, shewn in Figs. 3 and 4 is
provided with a plate of sheet metal or other suitable material capable of being
turned about the fastening screws and serving as a stand for a glass or tumbler.
To ensure a safe position of the latter; the plate is given a high rim having a slot for
receiving any handle the drinking vessel may be furnished with. In the latter case,
the plate t, in order to place the vessel thereon, is merely so turned as to cause
the slot to be directed to the corner of the table, Fig. 3. The recess a has further-
more a hollowing e which serves to receive, and owing to its inclined bottom, to
convey the ashes of cigars, that may be laid into the cavities f and y, into the
ash box h.
The recess a is also provided with a dish-like cavity i serving as a receptacle for
the coin or counters employed in the game. Beside the hollowing e referred to, a
box-like recess k is destined to contain matches which can be struck on the surfaces m
coated with a suitable igniting substance.
All lids b being closed, the table can be employed like a ordinary table for domestic
purposes, and to use it for playing, the lids are simply drawn out to present all the
commodities provided. Moreover the lids are furnished on their bottom surface with
a tablet P
of parchment or other convenient material in order to be utilized, when
drawn out and introduced upside down into slits of the leaf A, for making notes
during the game, while pins o, consisting of a metal tube enclosing a slate- or lead
pencil and holding the lids in position when closing the recesses a, serve simultaneously
as writing material.
The leaf may also be provided with a draft- or chess board in the middle and with a
drawer for the marks or chessmen.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
A gaming table consisting of a leaf A supported by a suitable number of legs or

page_text: posts and provided with the appliances specified for placing drinking vessels, cigars,
ashes and gaming equivalents, holding and striking matches, and making notes,
substantially as illustrated and described.
R. H. WITTIG.
By Huelser & Co.,
Attorneys.