US1564863A - Table game - Google Patents

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G. W. LAING Dec. 8, 1925- TABLE GAME Filed Nov. 6. 1924 llo L 3Jilk7 3 uv VEN TOR I I M A L. W E n A TTORNEYS vPatented Dec.. 8v, 19275.

UNITED; STATES erzoncfn'vv. LAYING, or vANooUvER, 'Brtrrrsn COLUMBIA, CANADA;

To all whom t may concern: i

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. LAING, a

Y citizen of the United States of America,

and a resident of the cityrof Vancouver, in the Province of British Columbia, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Table. Games, of which the vfollowing is a specification.

. My invention relates to improvements in table games, the objects of which are to provide a device on which two or more players can play games with Vvarious countings, and in which the development of skill lenhances the amusement to be derived from its use. A further ,object is to so construct they device that it may bel conveniently folded up to form a container in which its component parts are enclosed when not required for use. v Y.

The invention consists essentially of a iioor divided into playing courts and inner courts and barriers, over or through which shooters are tobe projected to score, as will be more fully described in the 'following specication, in which Fig. 1 is a general view of my invention.

Fig. 2 is a view showing the game partly folded up. A Y

Fig. 3 is a view of a shooter stick.

Fig. 4 is a view of a shooter.

In the drawings like haracters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each figure.

The numeral 1 indicates generally a floor which is provided with side fences and which is hinged transversely in four places as at 3, that the ends may be folded over as shown in Figure 2, to form a two piece cover 4 for the game. The floor is divided into six sections, 5 and 5^ which constitute playing courts, 6 and 6^ being inner courts and a pair of narrow spaces 7 upon which barriers 8 and 8^ are erected. The inner courts 6 and 6^ are marked out in spaces 9, 10 and 11 of different colours, each colour being given a count number forthe purpose of scoring, such numbers being preferably increased according to the increased difficulty in projecting the shooter to rest upon it.

A fence 12 is disposed between the inner courts and 6^, which is higherat its outer ends than in the centre. The barriers 8 and 8^ may be of any desired form, but are prefv Application mea November s, 1924. Vsemi No. 748,231.

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count, a pair of posts 14, a centre rail 16; j

As a means of deadening the noise of playing and to add resilience to the floor, the playing courts 5 and 5^ are covered with a greenbaize carpet 17, though this isnot essential to the game. i v rIhe numeral 18. indicates a shooter stick which mayy be. of any suitableV length and which is provided with a blunt chisel point I N f iastate; PA 'BENT @iF-Flic I a top rail 15 and y 19 by which the shooter 2() istipped and projected. The shooter 2O is formed from a rectangular block having a head end 21 which is of greater cross sectional area than the reverse end 22 and which serves to per-v mitof it being'projectedmore readily in a i desired direction. undercut on an angle as at 23, so thaty asY pressure is applied thereupon by the shooting stick 18, the shooter is raised to an inclined position with the head 21 uppermost and is projected upwards and forwardly through the barrier and onto yone of the inner courts 6 and 6^. f

Having thus described the several parts of my invention, I willnow explain one method of play. i

`Two players each having an equal number of shooters 20 of distinctive colour, take play their shooters alternatively. The player shooting from the playing' court 5 endeavour-v ing to project his shooter through or over the 'barrier 8 and `onto one of the spaces' 9, l() or 11 of the inner court 6 and on succeeding,

scoring according to court value of the space so covered. Should the player from playing ground 5 succeed in projecting his yshooter over the fence V12 onto one ofthe spaces in the inner court 6^, he is entitled to score dou- `The end of thel tip is their stand at opposite ends of the game and 1. A table game comprising a pairof i yplaying courts` and a pair of inner courts separated by barriers past which a yplaying media isadapted to be projected to score A' `on either of the inner courts, and a fence separating the inner courts one 'from the other. i

2. In a table game having a playin area and a scoring area, a playing media a apted j to be projected from the playing areato the tione affordingV playing veourt-s, intermedi- Y. scoring area,V said playing' media being ate sections hingedly oonneetngzthe end substantiallyrectangular in Cross Section and sections to the inner section and barriers 10 having aV heavy forward end andr a chisel` carried by the intermediate seoipions.

shaped rear or tipping end. Dated at Vancouver, B. C.; this 29th day 3. A table game comprising an inner base of September, 1924. A

Section affording an inner court, end sec- Y GEORGE W. LAING.

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