Improvements in Games Played with Counters or Discs.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Sept., 1890
Complete Specification Left. 14th Apr.. 1891-Accepted, 30th May, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Games Played with Counters or Discs.
I JOHN FRANCIS PEASGOOD of 4 Maberley Road Upper Norwood in the
County of Surrey Manufacturer of Games do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a new game which is an imitation or modification of
bagatelle and also to other games which are played by means of shooting counters
or discs of ivory bone wood or other suitable substance. I cover a board with cloth
felt baize or other material in which round pieces have been punched out in
positions corresponding to the holes upon an ordinary bagatelle board and owing to
the thickness of the cloth or other material I obtain sunk or depressed circles of
which the surface of the board upon which the material is mounted forms the base.
Or I print a card to represent a cloth-covered board with the several circles left
blank and preferably I have these circles sunk by means of embossing and numbered
respectively as the holes of a bagatelle board. I also adopt this idea of embossed
cards for other games played with counters or discs. With the printed or embossed
and printed card I supply a soft pad made of cloth felt or other material calculated
to impart a spring to the counter or disc when the same is pressed on its edge and
is thus impelled from the player.
This loose pad is of utility for all other games played by means of discs which
are pressed on the rim or edge.
The above game is played by shooting discs of ivory bone or wood from a given
position by means of other pieces of ivory bone wood or other suitable material
into the several embedded or printed circles at the opposite end of the board and
scoring as in ordinary bagatelle.
Dated this Second day of September 1890.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Games Played with Counters or Discs.
1 JOHN FRANCIS PEASGOOD of 4 Maberley Road, Upper Norwood, in the
County of Surrey, Manufacturer of Games, 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 for improvements in games played with counters or discs has for
its object to provide a new game, somewhat similar in principle to bagatelle, in
which the cost of the apparatus necessary for the playing of the gaine shall be very
small indeed compared to that of a bagatelle table, balls and cues and consists
essentially in a flat board on which are marked circles corresponding to the pockets
of a bagatelle board and numbered in a similar manner, of a felt or other suitable
disc, and of a number of counters or discs and a blade of ivory bone or the like.
In playing the game the felt disc is arranged at a suitable distance from the
board and a counter or disc is placed thereon and projected towards the board by
pressing on its edge with the blade the object being, to project the counter or disc
into one or other of the circles or pockets. The scoring is the same as in bagatelle,
the rules being modified to suit the difference in the apparatus.
It will be readily understood that the apparatus may be modified in various
ways without departing from the nature of my invention.
For example the pockets in the board instead of being simple circles marked
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there on may be pieces completely cut out or be depressions in the board.
board may be of card or wood having the ordinary part printed in a suitable
colour such as green and the pockets left blank or it may he covered with felt.
The board may also be of sufficient length to contain the felt disc from which the
counters or discs are projected and the felt disc may be fixed in position on the
hoard or the board may be entirely covered with felt.”
In the accompany sheet of drawings,
Fig. 1 represents a plan of one modification of board.
Figs. 2 are plan and elevation of the felt disc.
Figs. 3 are plan and elevation of a counter or disc and
Figs. 4 are plan and elevation of a blade all constructed according to this
invention.
The circles are marked on the card board A. and are numbered as shown 1 to 9.
The felt dise B is placed at a sullicient distance away from the board both being
placed on an ordinary table or other support.
A counter or disc (of bone, ivory or the like is then placed on the dise B and
is propelled towards the board by pressing on the edge of the counter or disc C
with the edge of the blade D.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The apparatus consisting of a board or paper marked with numbered circles,
of a felt or other spring dise, and of ivory or bone counters or discs and blade
substantially as described.
2. The apparatus for playing a game with counters or dises substantially as
described with reference to the drawings.
Dated this 9th day of April 1891.