USD5072S - Design for combination game-board - Google Patents

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D21-349 AU Ex ozr 0R D 005072 WILLIAM HEARN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

DESIGN FOR COMBINATION GAME-BOARD.

Specification forming part of Design No. 5,072, dated July 4, 1871.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DESIGN FCR COMBINATION GAME-BOARD.

Specification forming part of Design No. 5,072, dated July 4, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM HEARN, of the city, county, and State of New Y ork, have invented and produced a new and original Design for a Combination Gaine-Board, of which the following is a specification:

My design is represented by the accompanying photograph, to which I refer for illustration, and of which the following is a description:

A backgammon-board is represented by a square of one hundred and forty-tour squares, divided by distinctive lines into four tables containing six columns each.

A Polish draught-board is represented by a square of one hundred squares, centrally localized within the backgannnon-board.

A chess-board is represented by a square of sixty-four squares, centrally localized within the Polish draught-board.

A foX-andgeese board is represented by a cross of five (four square) squares, centrally localized within the chess-board.

A solitaire-board is represented by a six-sided figure, containing` the foX-and-geese board, and four extra squares between its wings.

A nine-men Morris-board is represented by a square of thirty-six squares, containing the foxand-geese board, and appropriately divided by it.

A triangular draught-board is represented by a triangular half of the Polish one.

The adjoining diagonal rows of squares of each gaine-board are distinguished from each other by different shades corresponding to different colors on the model from which taken.

The several game-boards are represented localized as follows, viz: All of them by distinctive boundary lines. The Polish-draught, the chess, and the foX-and-geesc boards by differentlyshaded squares on the same diagonal rows on opposite sides of their boundary limits. The chessboard by a tier of distinctive figures on the outside tier of squares of the Polish drnught-bimrd.

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