GB433457A - Improvements in apparatus for playing a table football game - Google Patents

Abstract

433,457. Table games. RACKHAM, L., 93, Gainsborough Road, Liverpool. Feb. 3, 1934, No. 3563. [Class 132 (ii)] In a table football game apparatus of the kind in which the player figures move over a slotted board and are connected to operating means by supports passing through slots in the board, the supports are of wire bent to engage the slot so as to keep the shoulders of the figure square to the slot and at the lower ends are pivotally attached to the operating rods or wires. A spigot similarly mounted is provided to take a figure for a corner kick, and the goalkeepers are separately mounted for greater range of movement. The wire support D, Fig. 4, of the figure is doubly bent to engage the slot B and ends in a close coil d<1> in which the down-turned end f<1> of the operating rod F is located. The slots are mainly parallel to the sides of the board but have ends converging towards the opponents' goals, and in some cases sinuous parts to allow the figures usually to face the opponents' goals. For the " kick off " the centre forwards guide slots have short extensions b<2>, c<2>. The goal players' supports have double open bends f<2>, Fig. 9, to lie upon the board and a close bend f<3> Fig. 4, to limit the play forwardly, the transverse play being limited by a slot a<4> the width of the goal. For a " corner kick " a slot K, Fig. 5, is provided in each corner with a socket k<1 >underneath fitted to an operating rod and adapted to take one of the figures which is mounted so that it can be tipped from its usual position and mounted in the socket k<1>. In one form of the board each slot accommodates a single figure, but as shown in Fig. 5 slots b<3> and c<3> are provided with two figures which may be of the same or opposite sides. The field of play may be flat or as shown in Fig. 7 it may slope down from the ends towards the centre line. A bottom cover board A<1>, Fig. 7, may be provided with hinged flap ends H, which can be turned up when all the operating rods are thrust in, and a cover J is adapted to be slid over the sides and ends to enclose the whole apparatus.