US718917A - Playing-card. - Google Patents

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PATBNTED JAN. 20, 1903.

v, R. can. PLAYING CARDS.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 17, 1902.

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No. 718,917. PATENTBD JAN. 29, 1903. V. R GOXE.

PLAYING CARDS.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 17. 1902. no MODEL. 2 SHEETS-SHEET a.

Unrrnn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

VIRGINIA ROSALIE OOXE, OF KNOXVILL I, TENNESSEE.

PLAYING-CARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 718,917, dated January 20, 1903.

Application filed February 17, 1902. Serial No. 94,492. (No model.)

y I do hereby declare the following to be a full,

clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to playing-cards, and

particularly to cards for games to be played by four or six players.

The object of the invention is to produce a game in which the leading cards bear representations or designations of race-horses. I have applied to said game the name handicap-whist.

Figures 1 to 6, inclusive, illustrate cards each of which is the leading card of a suit. Figs. 7, S, 9, and 10 illustrate a series of cards which appear in each suit.

The entire pack of cards is composed of six suits, each containing fourteen cards. Each of the race-horse cards illustrated by Figs. 1 to 6, inclusive, represents a race-horse, designated, preferably, by picture, name, and color, the name and color being distinct for each horse. Each of said race-horse cards is the leading card of its suit, the remainder of its suit being made up of the thirteen cards illustrated by Figs. 7, 8, 9, and 10, said thirteen cards taking the color of the leading card. Aside from the leading card, the cards of every suit have the same number and relative value as the cards in a suit in the ordinary pack used for playing euchre, Whist, &c. The ace (shown in Fig. 10) is the second of the suit. The cards illustrated by Figs. 7 and 8 are respectively the king and queen of such ordinary playing-cards. These constitute the third and fourth cards of the suit. The fifth card of the suit (illustrated by Fig. 9) represents a jockey, preferably by picture and name. On each of the leading or racer cards a flag or other suitable device is placed upon one or more corners of the card and colored to conform to the color of its suit. The third, fourth, and fifth cards are also preferably provided at each corner with a suitable device or emblem bearing the color of the suit to which the card belongs. In the case of the king and queen such emblem or device may be a crown or coronet, and in the case of the jockey such device or emblem may be a jockeys cap.

The ten cards illustrated by Fig. 10 are the ten spot-cards of the pack in ordinary use; but in each of the six suits of my game the spots differ in color from the color applied to the other groups, and the color of the spotcards in each suit is the same as the color of the racer, king, queen, and jockey cards of the same suit.

One of the six leading or racer cards is made an advantage card, said card representing a horse having carried off all prizes and highest stakes. It takes everything, and the suit of that card permanently represents trumps, and every card of that suit counts one to the holder at the end of the hand. Said suit may therefore be called the advantage suit. In the drawings the card illustrated by Fig. 1 is said advantage card. Its color is blue, indicating the success of its horse Criterion in carrying off all prizes and stakes.

The four leading cards illustrated by Figs. 2, 3, 4, and 5 designate horses Tornado, Drifton, Longshot, and Fleetfoot, which are represented in the game as running even and no advantage or disadvantage attaches to them in the game and all have the same relative value. Their colors are respectively red, yellow, purple, and green.

The card illustrated by Fig. 6 designates Old Bones, a horse that is slow and losing in the races and bearing orange color. This is a disadvantage card, having lower value than the other leading cards. Said card handicaps the holder and sets him back one point, and every card of this suit discounts one to the holder, just as every card of the suit to which the advantage card belongs counts one for the holder at the end of the hand. Said suit to which the disadvantage card belongs may therefore be called the disadvantage suit.

It will be understood that any desired col- 2. A pack of playing-cards, said pack being ors may be chosen as substitutes for those composed in part of a plurality of cards repherein mentioned. resentin race-horses runnin even and of I I u b u The racers or leadin cards take ever thin an advanta e card re 136861113111 a horse Win- 27 y a a p a 5 and have the same value as okers. nlng all races, and of a disadvantage card 20 My improved pack of cards may beused for representing a slow or losing horse, and of ordinary card games, after taking out two cards representing jockeys.

suits and the six racers. In testimony whereof I affix my signature, I claim as my invention in presence of two witnesses, this 14th day of IO 1. A pack of playing-cards, said pack be- February, in the year 1902.

in composed in part of a plurality of cards representing race-horses running even and VIRGINIA ROSALIE COXE' an advantage card representing a horse win- Witnesses: ning all races and of a disadvantage card HENRY H. INGERSOLL, 15 representing a slow or losing horse. ROBERT PFLANZE.

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