A New Game.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Nov., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 19th Aug., 1892-Accepted, 19th Dec., 1592.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New Game.
I, ROBERT MARRINER PAINTER of Penkhull, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs. Com-
mission Agent do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The invention relates to a new game.
In accordance with the novelty of the invention in connection with the new game,
which may advantageously be called "Hurricane Ball, or Table Football," a "field
of play" is enclosed by a collapsable fence or boundary (which may be made of
any suitable material): at the ends of the field of play are "goals" such field of
play representing, in miniature, the field of play as used in the game known as
Association Football. The game is played with a ball, made of suitable material,
which may be set in motion by the action of blowing, by a person expelling the air
from the lungs, either through a tube or blow-pipe provided with the game, or
through the lips or by any other means of causing motion to the ball, by air in
motion being directed upon it. The game may be played by two or more persons,
the object being for the player or players on either side to obtain as many goals as
possible a goal being scored when the ball passes through the opening in the
fence or boundary termed the goal.
A code of rules is provided with the game for the guidance of players.
Dated this Eighteenth day of November 1801
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New Game..
I ROBERT MARRINER PAINTER of Penkhull, Stoke-on-Trent, Commission
Agent 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 :-
The game in accordance with this invention and which may appropriately be termed
the Hurricane Ball or Table Football, may be played by two or more persons,
the object being for the player or players on either side to obtain as many goals as
possible, a goal being scored, when the ball employed, passes through an opening
at each end of a collapsible fence or boundary, which latter forms a salient feature
in the invention, as do also the openings above referred to, hereinafter referred to,
as the "goals," these latter being of special construction. A code of rules is
provided with the game for the guidance of players; and, a mouth, tube or blow
pipe is provided with the same for causing motion to be imparted to the ball, on air
in motion being directed upon the latter.
In order that the said invention may be the better understood, the accompanying
sheet of drawings is appended, referring to which,
Figure 1 is a general view of the device as it would appear in situ, the several
parts connected together and the whole erected and placed ready for use, say on a
parlor or other table.
Figure 2 is a detailed view to an enlarged scale of one of the "goals" above
referred to.
Figure 3 is a detail view to an enlarged scale and to be hereinafter referred to,
of a portion of the enclosing boundary or fence.
Figure 4 represents the mouth tube or blow pipe.
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As will be seen on reference to Figure 1, a field of play" is enclosed by a
boundary or fence the several parts of which including the specially constructed

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"goals" above referred to, are indicated by the reference letters A. A¹, B. B. B. B,
C. C. C¹ C, D. D' D'.
The ball being indicated at E.
The field of play" represents in miniature the "field of play" as used in the
game known as "Association Football." The game is played with a ball which is
set in motion by the action of blowing or expelling air from the lungs of the player,
through the mouth tube or blow pipe referred to above.
The uprights, standards or short: posts B. B. B. B. have adapted to them at or
about the middle, the detachable rods C. C. jointed and feruled at G, the detail of
this being shewn at Figure 3. Similar rods C¹ C¹ are provided at each end of the
"field of play," one end being entered into each of the four posts or uprights and
the other being entered through and taking a bearing in eyes as shewn at c. on the
i outer face of the two "goals" above referred to. D. D represent pieces of any
suitable elastic material passing round the top and bottom respectively of each of
the four short posts or uprights above referred to and secured at the lower ends to
the goals as shown at d; or the parts marked D2 may be of wire. One ring is
fixed on pin at top of post B and the elastic is then stretched all round the fence
at top, and the other ring is placed on the same pin as first.
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The goals A. A' are; as shewn in the detail view Figure. 2, formed in two halves,
and are readily fitted together and detached by means of the device b.
a,
The several portions of the whole apparatus are so devised, as to allow of
being packed in a box of very small dimensions and erected ready for use in a
very brief space of time and vice versa may be disconnected and packed with
equal rapidity.
The balls which I propose to use would preferably be inflated thin india
rubber bailoons having a small shot inserted into same before inflation causing
them to run and roll exactly as a football in the ordinary game, and further are
prevented from rising in the air and leaving "the field of play" too frequently.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner; the same is to be performed, I wish it to be
understood, I am aware it has already been proposed in connection with parlor
games to employ balls blown about by the players upon a table between goal
posts subject to certain conditions, in order to get the ball through one goal or
the other, I therefore make no claim to the employment generally of balls or
goals in connection with parlor games, but what I claim is :-
Firstly. In what are known popularly as "parlor games" of the description
in which a ball is, or balls are, blown about a table by the players, the device,
generally as shewn, Figures 1, 2 and 3 of the accompanying sheet of drawings
and substantially as herein set forth.
Secondly. In games such as those referred to in the preceding claim, the
collapsible fence or boundary, (Figure 1, of the accompanying sheet of drawings)
substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.
Thirdly. In games such as those referred to in the first. claim hereof, the
special construction of goal, shewn Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying sheet
of drawings, substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.
Fourthly. In games such as those above referred to the use of a balloon device
weighted with a shot, as and for the purposes herein set forth.
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JAMES STEVENSON,
Gray's Inn Chambers, 20, High Holborn, W.C., Agent for Applicant."