A Puzzle or Game.
Year: 1899

page_text: I, ALBERT EDWARD BAKER, of 72, Lozells Street, Birmingham, Jewel Case
Finisher, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a puzzle that is intended to represent a football match
and it consists of a metal or other bed preferably tin stamped or otherwise formed
In or on the surface of the tin or other bed are a number of projections suitably
arranged that represent the players in the positions they would occupy on a foot-
ball field, approximately.
The goals are similarly stamped out of this metal bed.
The ball preferably will consist of a shot of the required size, and the object
and puzzle is to manipulate the shot past the players into goal.
The metal bed is enclosed in a frame on all its sides with a glass top.
The men will be so arranged on the field as to make it a matter of some skill
to work the ball into goal.
Dated this Qth
J. 1900
EDWD. J. PAYNE & SON,
Warwick Chambers, 104, Colmore Row, Birmingham,
Patent Agents for the Applicant.
A Puzzle or Game.
I, ALBERT EDWARD BAKER, of 72, Lozells Street, Birmingham, Jewel Case
Finisher, 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, reference being had to the accompanying diagram, which
will assist in explaining the object that I have in view :-
My invention relates to a puzzle that is intended to represent a football match,
the puzzle being to manipulate the ball, represented by a shot, past the players,
represented by projections, into goal.
For my purpose I use a metal or other bed to represent the field, preferably
stamped from tin or otherwise formed, and enclosed in a frame or case having a
glass top.
Attached to or stamped up from the surface of the tin or other bed A are a
number of projections B representing the players suitably arranged in approxi-
mately the several positions they would occupy on a football field.
The goals C are similarly attached to or stamped or otherwise formed out of
the bed A.

page_text: The ball D preferably will consist of a shot of the required size or a ball of
other substance.
The object of course is to so work the ball past the various players B by tilting
the frame or case as required so as to obtain a goal; consequently to make it
somewhat difficult, it will be observed the players are situated very close together
at the goals, and to cause as much obstruction in the field as possible, as to
render it a matter of some skill to work the ball past the players into goal, the
players being so. arranged that the ball can only by careful manipulation of the
case containing the field and ball etc. pass through between the players into goal.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
1.Arranging in a case or frame a number of projections representing players
in the several positions they would approximately occupy on a football field,
together with goals and football, so as to demonstrate a match, by the manipulation
of the case or frame, substantially in manner as described and illustrated.
2. A puzzle or game arranged and operating in manner substantially as herein
set forth and illustrated.
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EDWD. J. PAYNE & SON,
Warwick Chambers, 104, Colmore Row, Birmingham,
Patent Agents for the Applicant.