Improvements in Implements Employed in the Game of Quoits or like Games.
Year: 1888

page_text: Improvements in Implements Employed in the Game of Quoits or
like Games.
1 WILLIAM DE WILDE CATER of 55 and 56 Pall Mall in the County of Middlesex,
Army Contractor do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :—
This invention relates to improvements in quoits designed especially for indoor
use, ships decks, lawns where the grass may not be damaged or other like situations.
For this purpose I make my improved quoits of substantially the standard forms
that obtain for such instruments except as to the absence of a cutting edge.
I am aware that quoits of metal of a flat annulus covered with vulcanized rubber
sheet have been used but such an implement is open to the objection of the spring of
the india rubber causing it to bound or jump in too lively a manner for good play to
be attained.
I form my improved indoor or other quoit of an interior or weighting annulus of
metal or other suitable weighting material and over or around this I apply a filling
material adapted to make up the quoit to the desired shape or substance which filling
material may be composed of cork wood preferably light in weight relatively to the
core, and applied in bulk, layers or agglomerated dust or as sawdust or layers or
filling of cork carpet linoleum or other like materials or oil cloth may be used.
Over the whole as a protecting covering I prefer to apply leather suitably treated
especially where low price of production is not such an immediate object or felt
or cloth or other covering fabric waterproof or otherwise may be used.
A convenient agglomerating material for the cork, cork dust or sawdust flock or
other filling material employed is india rubber solution applied and consolidated.
Other solutions or matters may be applied adapted to the particular filling materials
adopted.
The pegs or posts may be of wood or metal or wood and metal either with or
without a sheathing of india rubber or somewhat deadening material and formed

page_text: at their bases as pins or to fit into pointed spear or other sockets or into bases of
enlarged or enlarged and weighted area, so as thereby to obtain a base adapted
to support the individual pin in its place and upright against the blow of the quoit in
play.
This invention is also applicable to the manufacture of annular implements for use
in the game of quoitetta, ringolette or other allied games played with annuli.
In certain games the respective rings and pegs if desired may be rendered easy of
identification by variation in the coloring.
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page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Implements Employed in the Game of Quoits or
like Games.
I WILLIAM DE WILDE CATER of 55 & 56 Pall Mall, in the County of Middlesex,
Army Contractor, 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 improvements in quoits designed especially for indoor
use, ships decks, lawns where the grass may not be damaged or other like situations.
For this purpose I make my improved quoits of substantially the standard forms
that obtain for such instruments except as to the absence of a cutting edge.
I am aware that quoits of metal of a flat annulus covered with vulcanised rubber
sheet have been used but such an implement is open to the objection of the spring of
the india rubber causing it to bound or jump in too lively a manner for good play to
be attained.
I form my improved indoor or other quoit of an interior stiffening or weighting
annulus of metal or other suitable weighting material and over or around this I apply
a filling material adapted to make up the quoit to the desired shape or substance
which filling material may be composed of cork, wood preferably light in weight
relatively to the core, and applied in bulk, layers or agglomerated dust or as saw dust
or layers or filling of cork carpet-linoleum or other like materials or oil cloth may be
used.
Over the whole as a protecting covering I prefer to apply leather suitably treated
especially where low price of production is not such an immediate object; or felt,
or cloth, or other covering fabric, waterproof or otherwise, may be used.
A convenient agglomerating material for the cork, cork dust or sawdust, flock or
other filling material employed is india rubber solution applied and consolidated.
Other solutions or matters may be applied, adapted to the particular filling materials
adopted.
The pegs or posts may be of wood or metal or wood and metal either with or
without a sheathing of india rubber or somewhat deadening material and formed at
their bases as pins or to fit into pointed spear or other sockets or into bases of
enlarged or enlarged and weighted area, so as thereby to obtain a base adapted
to support the individual pin in its place and upright against the blow of the quoit in
play.
This invention is also applicable to the manufacture of annular implements for use
in the game of quoitetta, ringolette or other allied games played with annuli.
In certain games the respective rings and pegs if desired may be rendered easy of
identification by variation in the colouring.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shows a sectional view, Figure 2 a side view, and Figure 3 a plan view
of a quoit according to my invention made of superposed layers of semi elastic
material and an enclosing casing of leather or like protecting material.
Figure 4 shows an alternative modification in section, attained by wrapping.

page_text: Figure 5 shows another alternative modification also in section attained by
cementing or packing granular or flockulent matters or the like, compressed within a
protecting covering.
Figure 6 shows another alternative modification also in section attained by semi
elastic matter interleaved with fabric or sheet.
In each of the foregoing arrangements the surrounding casing and filling matters
have a solid core intended to give weight and facilitate directness of delivery of
the quoit.
a is the core preferably of lead and of annular form giving shape and stiffness
or backbone to the article.
bis the filling supplemented in the case of the modification, Fig. 6, by inter-
mediate layers of sheet material.
In the arrangement according to Fig. 1 it is designed, where cost is not required
to be minimised, to use layers of cork, kamptulicon, ground cork and rubber as the
filling, cemented in superposition on and around the metal core a and covered with a
casing of leather c.
In Figure 5 the filling 6 may represent sawdust, corkdust or other suitable
granular or reduced or fibrous matter either compounded or not with a cementing
material and the covering may be waterproofed or painted.
In Figure 6 the filling b may represent matters such as described with reference to
Figure interleaved with sheet material d which may be cemented canvas, plain
canvas or other equivalent material.
In either arrangement the covering may be leather, artificial leather, skin, or
textile or felted or other suitable covering aided by a waterproofing or preservative
matter applied thereto.
The pins onto which the quoits are to be thrown may be applied on the floor by a
spike protruding therefrom but I generally prefer to use a pin supported or held on
a number of spikes from a base piece as shown by Figures 7 and 8 in side view and
plan view or by a base weight as shown by like views Figs. 9 and 10 or by both pins
and weight as indicated by the dotted lines (Fig. 9) where puncture of the floor is
not material e being the pin f the base and y the floor spikes.
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:
1. The manufacture and use of indoor or like quoits or rings for playing games not
intended to strike into the surface on which they are used from semi elastic material
on a solid core with or without a casing as set forth.
2. The manufacture and use of quoits or like rings, for use in playing games on
surfaces not desired to be indented or injured by the use of the same, from semi elastic
materials substantially as set forth in combination with pegs or pins capable of
application to such surfaces as set forth.
Dated the 23rd day of November 1888.
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London,
Agents for the Applicant.