US137113A - Improvement in game-table tops - Google Patents

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G. a. THOMSON.

Game-Table Top s.

No. 137,113, PatentedMarch25,1873.

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PATENT OFFICE.

GILES Gr. THOMSON, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

lmeaovemrur IN GAME-TABLE TOPS.

Specification formln g part of Letters Patent No. 137,113, dated March 26, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, GILES G. THOMSON, of the city of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a Table-Top, combining an index, either movable or stationary, for keeping games played with cards, in combination with said table-top, of which the following is a specification My invention relates to that class of cardtables which are used principally upon railway cars and steamboats, for the amusement of the passengers thereon, being especially adapted for playing the games of cribbage and pitch, and it consists in providing the table-top with recesses for holding cards, counters, &c., the covers. of these recesses being made reversible, so that one side will present a smooth surface, similar in appearance to the rest of the table-top, and the other side being provided with a cribbage or pitch-board, which is brought on top by reversing the slide or cover when either of the respective games are played.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 represents the table-top, the smooth side of the recess-covers being uppermost. Fig. 2 shows the covers reversed, one of them representing a pitch, and the other a cribbageboard. Fig. 3 represents a modification in which the respective boards are stationary.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspondin g parts in the different figures.

A represents the table-top, and may be of circular form as here represented, or of such other configuration as may suit the taste of the manufacturer, or the situation in which it is to be used. A and B are two recesses in the table of sufficient capacity to contain the articles required for playing the different games which may be played upon the table. These recesses are provided near the surface of the table with grooves, into which a projection or tongue upon the slides a and b enters. These slides are shown in Fig. 1 with their smooth sides uppermost, and partly withdrawn, so as to show the recess beneath, but when they are closed the table presents a smooth and unbroken surface. In Fig.2 the slides are shown reversed, the slide a presenting upon its upper surface the pitch-board e, and the slide b the cribbage-board f. C represents a rectangular frame or ledge, within which the cards are placed when the table is used on rail way cars, in order to prevent their being shaken 05, but is not required in places where the motion is steady, as upon steamboats.

It will be obvious that other games may be placed upon the slides or sliding boards, instead of those here represented, still retaining the same arrangement of parts. In Fig. 3 Ihave shown a modification of my improvement, in which the game-boards are stationary, and the cards, pegs, or counters may be carried in a drawer beneath the table.

Having thus described my invention, Iclaim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent The table A, provided with the slides a, I), having a cribbage and pitch-board upon their under surfaces, in combination with receptacles beneath, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

GILES G. THOMSON.

Witnesses:

L. N. BLYDENBURGH, HENRY STODDARD.

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