An improved apparatus for use in playing a bagatelle game

摘要

358,713. Table games. ROSENDAL, O. F., 118, Haverstock Hill, Hampstead, London. Sept. 29, 1930, No. 29110. Grant of Patent opposed. [Class 132 (ii).] Apparatus for playing a bagatelle game comprises an inclined board 1, which may be made of pressed metal, supported on a table by a flat strip 3 and having a guideway 4 from which a ball is projected round the rail 2 having a semicircular portion 2a near the end of which are springy nails 6, 7, 8, off which the ball rebounds and falls into one of the scoring pens shown or into one of a number of cups with each of which a stop or nail is associated. Balls 5 are stored in a channel 9 with a sliding lid 10. The ball is positioned in the guideway 4 by means of an incline 12 inclined in the opposite direction to the guideway 4 and is projected by a pusher a in the form of a drum-stick. According to the Provisional Specification the springy rails 6 may be adjustable in the board.