A Game or Pastime.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd June, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 1st Mar., 1893-Accepted, 2nd June, 1893
A Game or Pastime.
We MILES WILLIAMS 86 Queens Road Bootle, Chemist ROBERT SNELL
WILLIAMS 86 Queens Road Bootle Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
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This invention is a new game of pastime differing from billiards or bagatelle
and in which two four or more persons can join in the game and consists in a table
or stand about 3 feet high, on legs, and being 16 ft. long or longer or shorter as
desired and 2 feet or so wide arranged with raised sides & having a gutter or
groove all round & marks or numbers for scoring on the top. The top of the
table forms a slide for wood or metal figured or numbered weights called "jacks'
or men which are slid or slided from either end of the table by the hand or
mechanically. The position of the "jacks in sections or marks on the table
indicating the score which may be any number up.
Dated this 2nd day of June 1892.
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MILES WILLIAMS.
ROBERT SNELL WILLIAMS.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Game or Pastime.
MILES WILLIAMS 86 Queens Road Bootle Liverpool Manufacturing Chemist
ROBERT SNELL WILLIAMS 86 Queens Road Bootle Liverpool Engineer 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 is a new game or pastime-which we call "Slydit "- differing
from billiards or bagatelle and in which two four or more persons can join in the
game & consists in a table or stand about 3 ft. high on legs and being 16 ft. long
longer or shorter as desired & two feet or so wide arranged with raised sides and
having a gutter or groove all round and marks or numbers for scoring on the top
or face of the table. The top of the table forms a slide for wood or metal figured
or numbered weights-which may be in varying forms and sizes-and are called
"jacks" or men which are slid or slided from either end of the table by the hand.
The position of the jacks in sections or marks on the table at both ends indicates
the score which may be any number up. We do not confine ourselves to the
precise length, breadth or height of the table or to the top of it being either wood,
metal, glass or other composition and the top may be sanded, waxed or otherwise
made slippery or glossy to facilitate the sliding of the jacks. A 16 ft. table may
be made thus:-6 or 8 turned legs are fixed equidistant to a firm framework of
wood, upon this is placed the top or slide and is, preferably, composed of pitch
pine or other close grained wood in pieces of about inches by 2 inches and
16 ft. long, bolted and tightly pressed together, all round the top of the table is
fixed a gutter about 4 inches wide below the table level but with raised outer sides
above it so that the jacks when slid off the table fall into the gutter. The slide
or top of the table is then made level.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
1st. A new game or pastime-which we call "Slydit" differing from billiards
and bagatelle in having jacks or men which are slid or slided by the hand and
having no cues balls or pockets.
Dated this 28th day of February 1892
MILES WILLIAMS.
ROBT. SNELL WILLIAMS.