US166776A - Improvement in game-boards - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AUGUST HERZG, OF GUTTENBERG, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN GAME-BOARDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 166,776, dated August 17, 1875; application filed July 12, 1815.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, AUGUST HERZOG, of Guttenberg, Hudson county, New Jersey,

have invented an Improved Game-Box, ot'v is to be used as a receptacle for the pieces employed in various games, such as the games ot' chess, checkers, cards, and others, and which will also contain the necessary boards or diagrams required in such games, and a writing-surface to keep the requisite account of the standing of each player.

My invention consists of the peculiar construction and arrangement of box hereinafter more-fully described.

In the drawing, the letter A represents onehalt', and the letter B the other halt, ot' my improved box. These two halves or receptacles are joined by hinges a, a, so that they can be folded together, as in Fig. 4, or unfolded, as in Fig. 1. C and D are the covers for the halves A and B of the box, respectively, each,v

cover being hinged by a flexible band or otherwise to the edge: ot' that side b ot' each halt'- box that receives the hinges rt, as shown. When the box is opened the covers C D constitute, in connection with the intervening y edges 0 b, one continuous surface, which may be subdivided or marked to constitute the game-board. Thus it is in the drawing shown as constituting a chess-board. The folding game-board C D and the cover is kept in line on the opened box, and properly closed on the closed box by catches d d, which are indicated in the drawing, and4 each cover serves thus to `in the halt' B of the box.

confine within its half of the box the figures or pieces which the same is designed to contain. The halt' A ot the box is shown to be divided by tixed 'partitions c c, which are indicated by dotted lines in Fig. l into three compartments, of which one may contain playing-cards, another chess-meu, the third a sponge for cleaning the marking-slate. But the division into compartments may be varied, and separate boxes may be placed within the halt' A, or there may be no partitions at all inone or both halves ot' the box. The half B of the box is shown to be divided into two equal parts by a partition, j', each part receiving a box that contains pieces used in various games, or there may be more or less such subdivisions The upper edge of the partition f is grooved to constitute a slatepencil receptacle, g; but such receptacle may be formed within the half B or A of the box in other equivalent manner. The back h ot' each half ot' the' box is made ot' slate, or covered on the outside with a composition that will render it a writingtablet. The whole box, when closed, can be locked -by a suitable catch or clasp, c'.

The advantages ot' this box are, chiey, that it will constitute a game-board, and at the same time a receptacle for other games that are not used on such game-board; and, secondly, that it also constitutes a writingtablet and a receptacle for writing material to be used in games ot' cards, and at other games that can be played while the box is closed.

I claim as my invention- The box consisting of two hinged receptacles, AB, provided with the interior hinged covers G D, forming a gaine-board, substantially as herein shown and described.

AUGUST HERZOG.

Witnesses:

E. OARLEToN WEBB, F. V. BEIEsEN.

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