US463468A

US463468A - truman

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Publication number: US463468A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1891-11-17
Anticipated expiration: 1908-11-17

Description

(No Model.)

B. H. TRUMAN.

' TOY.

No. 463,468. Patented Nov. 1'7, 1891..

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDGAR H. TRUMAN, OF WILMINGTON, DELAWARE.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 463,468, dated November 17, 1891.

Application filed October 13, 1890. Serial No. 367,982. (No model) and Fig. 3 a vertical section through line w in Fig. 1.

My invention relates to improvements in toy games; and its object is to provide a simple and inexpensive device designed notonly to afford a source of innocent amusement to the young, but also an attractive and fascinating entertainment for families and social circles generally.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, A designates a tablet, preferably circular in form, which may be made of wood or' other suitable material. The center of the tablet is provided with transverse lines, forming nine squares, within which are a corresponding number of shallow cavities or depressions B, designed to engage the same number of small balls or marbles, which are of two different olors, and are numbered 1 to 9, inclusive. A circular barrier C,having four openings D, surrounds the central square. The said openings D are respectively placed opposite the corner squares. The spaces between the cavities and also between the central square and the barrier must be sufficientlylarge to allow free passage for the marbles. The tablet is encircled by a rim F, forming, in connection with the barrier O, a groove or channel in which the marbles are placed at the beginning of the game. In order to prevent loss of the marbles the tablet is provided with a cover which, if desired, may be transparent, so that it need not be removed while the game is in progress. If preferred, it may bear an appropriate ornamental label with the rules of the game.

The game is performed by balancing the tablet on the hands and gradually and carefully changing its horizontal position until all the marbles are passed through the openings in the barrier and finally made to occupy the cavities in succession. A number of persons may by turns engage in the game, and the I player who first succeeds in stopping and arranging the marbles in the cavities in such positions that the sum of their numerals in each row when counted transverselyin either direction or diagonally shall amount to fifteen is the winner of the game. The players may agree upon any limit of time for the game, and the one who makes in that time the highest number of points is the winner; or, if it be preferred, the players can fix a limit of time during which the game must be completed by each, and so in turn the board trated nine balls are used. Of these four are supposed to be colored and five uncolored.

The device maybe readily adapted to the popular diverting game of tit-tat-toe, three in a row by playing the marbles so that three of the same color shall occupy any one row of the cavities.

What I claim as new is- The hereimdescribed toy, consisting of a tablet provided centrally with a series of shallow cavities or pockets disposed in the form of a square and adapted to engage a corresponding number of marbles or balls colored, as described, a sectionalcircular barrier outside of the square. and having four openings D respectively opposite the corners of the square, and a rim encircling the tablet, forming, in connection with the said barrier, a groove in which the marbles may be placed at the beginning of the game, substantially 0