US442438A

US442438A - Parlor-tennis

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Publication number: US442438A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1890-12-09
Anticipated expiration: 1907-12-09

Description

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E. HORSMAN, Jr.

PARLOR TENNIS.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EINVARD I. HORSMAN, JR., OF BROOKLYN, NEV YORK.

PARLOR-TENNIS.

SIRECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 442,438, dated December 9, 1890.

Application filed September 22, 1890. Serial No. 365,743. (No model.)

To all whom it may concer/L.-

Be it. known that I, EDWARD IiIEsoN lIoRs- MAN, J r., a resident of Brooklyn, Kings county,

State of New York, have invented an Iiny proved Parlor-' lennis, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a new and useful parlor gaine.

My object is to provide an indooror parlor gaine, to be played by two, three, or four persons, that shall approximate lawn-tennis, and that shall use to a verygreat extent the saine rules.

The invention consists in combining with a court-mats properly lmarked to represent courts a movable transverse net and counters and propelling-disks, as hereinafter described.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, wherein*- Figure l represents a perspective view of the court-mat, the net, and the counters or disks as they appear in the progress of the gaine. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the mat and net as folded up.

Referring` to the drawings, A A represents the court-mat; B, the net, which is made of pasteboard, board, or some other suitable substance of sufficient length to extend `across the court-mat and supported by posts E E, which are fastened at either end.

D are the counter-disks.

The mat is made of felt or analogous substance and is by lines a a divided into courts or spaces l) b, preferably so as to give the mat the appearance of a reduced lawn-tennis court. The lines and courts may be produced by varying colors. G G represent the Dlayers propelling-disks.

The gaine is -played by substituting in the place, of racquets, as in lawn-tennis proper, a players propelling-disk G, and instead of balls using disks of a smaller or other size. The disk or counter D is tolie flat on the court-mat and may be jumped or propelled in any direction by placing the edge of the players disk G near the edge of the smaller disk and gradually applying pressure with a retracting motion. until the edges of the disks snap asunder, which gives to the disk D an upward and forward motion, which can be varied according to the skill of the pla-yer. The point in 'the game is to propel the counter-disk D by the disk G back and forth over the net E in accordance with ordinary lawntennis or other rules.

By making the mat of felt or the like it is flexible and also elastic, thereby furnishing the foundation on which the disks can be actuated in manner described.

I claim-- The combination of the elastic Inat A, marked into courts b b, with the removable net7 B and with the counters D and propelling-disks G, as specified.

EDWARD I. HORSMAN, JR.

Witnesses:

ARTHUR v. BRIESEN, R. C. MITCHELL.