US1286657A - Billiard-ball. - Google Patents

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J. P. LAMBERT.

BILUARD BALL. APPLICATION HLED SEPT-11,1917- 1,286,657. Patented Dec. 3, 1918.

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BILLIARD-BALL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 3, 1918.

Application filed September 11, 1917. Serial No. 190,781.

To all whom it may concern .7

Be it known that I, JOSEPH P. LAMBERT, a subject of the King of Great Britain, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Billiard-Ball, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Among the principal objects which the present invention has in view are: to add a feature of chance to games played with billiard balls; to provide means for scoring independently of the rolling of the billiard balls; to permit a chance score and a skill score being made in games employing billiard balls; and to av id unnecessary interference with the playing of the conventional games wherein billiard balls are used.

Drawings.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a billiard ball constructed and arranged in accordance with the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a section thereof, the section being taken as on the line 22 in Fig. 1.

Description.

ject ball is usually colored to distinguish it from the two one balls.

When constructed and arranged in accordance with the present invention, a series of spots 7, or level areas, is formed on the surface of the ball. The spots are disposed in paired relation, the members of each pair being at the extremes of a diameter of the ball. Usually some symbol, and preferably a numeral, is disposed on all of the spots 7, the symbol on each spot being independent Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the from above and this is used as the particular counter.

When playing a game using the ball having the symbol spots 7, after each shot, the player examines the said ballto ascertain the symbol which is exposed at the top of the ball. This symbol isadded to the score with which the player is credited.

It is obvious that the rules of the game may be infinitely varied and the count of the honor score as ascertained by the symbol, may be dependent upon the success of the shot or score of the regular game whatever that may be. In other words, the rules may provide that the score of the honor shall depend upon the success or failure of the billiard shot with which the object ball is moved.

A further feature of cliance is added to the game by the fact that the spots 7 being relatively small in area to avoid interfering as much as possible with the roll of the object ball, the possibility of the said object ball settling upon a spot is somewhat re duced. It will be understood, of course, that in the event of the ball not so settling upon one of the spots, the honor count would not be allowed.

It will be understood that the spots 7 may be produced on the object ball by grinding or other well-known and approved means.

Claim.

A rolling ball as characterized having a plurality of flat settling spots formed in the surface thereof, said spots being widely separated and disposed in paired relation, the members of each pair being disposed at the extremities of the same axis, said spots being provided with game counter symbols, the symbol on each spot being difierent from all other symbols. JOSEPH P. LAMBERT.

Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. 0."

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