US377832A - Domino - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES I APATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL S. KIMBALL, OF BANGOR, MAINE.

`DOMINO.

SPECIPICATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No, 3'7'7,832, dated February 14, 1888.

Application filed March 7, 1887. Serial No. 229,912. (No model.) l

.To all whom, it may concern.-

Beit known that 1, SAMUEL S.'KIMBALL,

of Bangor, in the county of Penobscot and State of Maine, have invented new Improvements in Dominos called Square and Crown Dominos, of which t-he following is a specification.

v The invention consists in the construction of the individual dominos, and also in their shape in connection with the system of marking on them, which renders them adapted to various new games besides those played with the ordinary dominos.

The improved dominos are represented in the accompanying drawings, in whichv Figure l is a plan view of the blank from which the dominos are made. Fig. 2 is a rear view of .one of the dominos when completed. Fig. 3 is a plan view of a complete set of the dominos. Fig. 4. shows the method of combining and matching the dominos in playing square and crown muggins, and Fig. shows the method of matching in playing-free for all.7

Each domino, as shown, is square, instead of oblong or triangular, as heretofore.

Each domino is made from a blank, A, as shown in Fig. l, of sheet metal, paper, leather, or other suitable material. The blank is nearly square in shape, and has at two diagonally-opposite corners projecting aps a b.

To make the domino, the blank is creased at the lines .r x, and the parts c cand d d are folded over thel central portion, covering the same. The parts c c fold with their edges within those of the parts d d, as indicated in Fig. 2 by dotted lines. The iiap c covers the corners of cc, and the flap b. covers ilap a. A

rivet, e, secures the parts in position. The pips and other markings on the dominos may be made by punching the front plate of the domino in the appropriate manner. V

The full set of dominos consists of thirtylive pieces, as shown in Fig. 3. In their marking thefour edges of the domino are provided with markings. In the first column of s even three of the sides of each domino are blank, and the remaining sides are in one domino blank, and in theremainder are marked with pips consecutively from one to six, six being the highest marking used.

` In thet-hird, fourth, and fifth columns, (passing by the second for the present,) on oppov site edges, the dominos are marked with pips, and on the other two edges they are marked with -figures. Every possible combination of the digits taken in pairs from one to six are used, both in pips and figures. l The flgures and pips on each domino correspond with each other, as shown. On the center of each of the dominos so far described, in which the aggregate sum of the pipskand figures is divisible by vc, there is a crown that is on the fiveblank, the one-four, the two-three, the foury.

six, and the double live. In addition to these twenty-eight pieces, which correspond with the twenty-eight pieces in an ordinaryset of dominos, except as to the duplication of figlures and the crowns, there are seven other pieces, shown in the second column of Fig. 3. The rst of these has four crowns-one on each edge. The remaining six have each a crown on one edge, and on the edges opposite the. crown pips rising from one to six.

edges only, since the center crowns are indi-- cators only in matching, although usedin counting. 1 y g l In playing square and crown muggins iigures can only match with gures and pips with pips. Crowns, however, can match with both gures and pips of the denomination of five. The playing, matching, and drawing are conducted as in ordinary dominos. Variations, toadd to the interest, can be introduced in the method of scoring. The player who is rst exhausted can either score according to the total pips, flgures, and crowns in hisadversaries hands, according to the crown-pieces alone held, according to the crown-pieces played, or according to the aggregate of the exposed edges of the dominos played.

In `playing free for all, as shown in Fig.

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5, pips and figures of the same denomination match, crowns matching, as before. In this game the same or dierent methods of scoring may be adopted.

These will indicate a few of the capabilities of the square and crown dominos.

I claim as my invention- 1. A square domino made of a square blank having projecting aps a b on diagonally-opposite corners, the four corners of the blank being bent over the back of the domino with the flaps a bon the outside, one Vflap covering the other, and the partsbeing held by a rivet passed through the overlying flaps a b, substantially as set forth.

2. The herein-described set of square dominos, comprising twenty-eight dominos, having the pips arranged and disposed on two opposite sides of each domino, substantially as described, so that the set shall include all the possible dissimilar combinations of blanks and pips from blank to six, and each piece which has pips on two opposite edges having also on the two adjacent remaining edges figures corresponding in denomination with the number of pips, substantially as set forth, and a supplemental set of seven pieces, each piece having, on one edge at least, an arbitrary symbol, such as a cr wn, and the seven having on the opposite e ge one a crown and the remainder pips varying in number from one to six, consecutively, as set forth.

or both, is divisible by five having on its cen-4 ter an arbitrary symbol, such as a crown, and asupplemental set of seven pieces,one of which has on each of its four edges an arbitrary symbol, such as a crown, and the remai ning pieces having on one edge a crown, on the opposite edges pips ranging in number from one to six, consecutively, and on the remaining adjacent edges figures ranging from one to six, consecutively, each piece having similar numbers on opposite edges, substantially as set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

SAMUEL s. KiuBALr..

NVitnesscs:

DANIEL H. FERNA Li), JOHN S. KIMBALL.

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