A New Toy or Game.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Sept., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 6th Nov., 1889-Accepted, 5th July, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New Toy or Game.
I, JOHN LORD HINDE Toy Manufacturer 14 City Road London do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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1 take a small box of wood millboard or other material, of oblong shape preferably,
in the bottom and inside of which I make a number of circular indentations at intervals
in a line with one another, running the length of the box. I place in the box a number
of white or other colored balls equal to the number of indentations having previously
printed on the balls various letters of the alphabet. The balls are to be guided by the
operator in to the holes, where the balls will be held in position, and provided the
operator has guided the balls cleverly enough to arrange the balls with the required
lotters uppermost, will be found to spell such words as the letters constitute. And so
my invention becomes an amusement or toy.
I sometimes make holes in place of the indentations to receive the lettered balls so
that the operator may adjust the positions of the balls after they have dropped into the
holes, by touching them from beneath the box with his fingers.
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JOHN L. HINDE.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New Toy or Game.
1, JOHN LORD HINDE, of 1ª City Road, Finsbury, E.C. in the County of London,
Brush 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 :-
My invention consists of a box, made of wood, millboard, or any other material, and
glazed at the top, with balls placed in the interior, and to tilt the box so that each ball
shall roll into the hole allotted to it, and to correspond with each other, for the purpose
of providing a new toy game.
And in order that my invention may be thoroughly understood, I now proceed to
describe the accompanying drawings thereof, reference being bad to letters and figures
marked thereon.
As an instance of how my Invention may he worked, in Figure 1 I give an example
of it applied to a game in which lettered balls are used.
Figure 1, represents the plan of the top of the box E, and the glass top A and the
boarder B with the interior bed or bottom pierced with holes D), each hole beneath
each letter of the word "oracle," are formed to receive either of the balls F.
Figure 2, is the transverse section on-line a, b, of figure 1, with the ball F in the
bolo D with the letter Cuppermost to correspond with the letter C in the word
oracle in the bed or bottom of the box C.
I take a small box E of wood, millboard or other material, of oblong shape
preferably, in the bottom Cand inside of which I make a number of circular indenta-
tions or holes D, at intervals in a line with one another, running the length of the box.
I place in the box a number of white or coloured or illustrated balls F equal to the
number of indentations or holes D, having previously printed on the balls various
letters of the alphabet, or illustrations.
The balls F are to be guided by the operator into the holes D, where the balls will
be held in position; and provided the operator has guided the balls cleverly enough
to arrange the balls F with the required letters or illustrations uppermost, will be
found to spell the word "oracle or construct such designs as the sectional illustrations
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page_text: upon the balls comprise when truely placed and by different arrangements of the
lettered balls, a large number of other words can be spelt with the component letters
of that word, or in case of illustrated balls, many designs & patterns can be con-
structed, and so my invention becomes an amusemont or toy.
1 sometimes make holes passing through the bottom of the box in place of the
indentations as in figure 2, to receive the lettered coloured or illustrated balls so that
the operator may adjust the positions of the balls after they have dropped into the
holes, by touching them from beneath the box with his fingers..
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 :-
First. The combination of a box, with a bottom C and the holes or indentations D
with lettered or coloured, or illustrated balls F in the interior, for the purpose of
providing a game by tilting or inclining the box, to roll the balls in the holes,
substantially as herein described and according to the accompanying drawings.
Secondly. The holes so constructed that a ball may be manipulated from outside the
box in such a way that any desired surface of the ball will show uppermost, substantially
as described.
Dated this 5th day of November 1889