US1694103A - Game counter and process of making the same - Google Patents

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' Dec. 4, 1928.

W. J. MCNALLY GAME COUNTER AND PROCESS CF MAKING THE SAM-E Filed Jurie 24, 1927 @gif Patented D/ecl 4, 1928.

UNITED STATES vPATENT OFFICE.

, WILLIAM J. MC'NALLY,- OF FRAMINGHAMpMASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO DENNISON MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF FRAMINGHAM, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF `lVIASSACIHUSETTS.

GAME COUNTER ANDrRocnss oF MAKING THE sans.

al Application led June 24, 1927. Serial No. 201,135.

This invention relates to game counters, such as poker chips and the like, and to a method of making the same and has for its principal object thei provision of a game counter which may be easily and economically manufactured from inexpensive materials,

yet which will be durable in use,y lightl 1n weight and attractive in appearance.

Heretofore poker chips have usually been made of ivory, bone, composition substances or laminated bristol board, and have been generally satisfactory in use.l All of these materials are, however, more or less expensive and, as the formation of disc-like chips involves considerable waste of material the cost of manufacture necessitates a high 'selling price of the products. In order to res duce the maufacturing cost of these articles, I have devised a method of making =poker chips of news board which, as is well known,

is considerably cheaper than bristol board and much less expensive than ivory or bone.

E The process preferably consists in applying a paper sheet to each surface of a strip of news board, cutting disc-like portions from. the

strip, pressing the discs thereby rounding their peripheral edges, and building up the composite edge with a composition of vegetable Wax.

t In the accompanying drawings which illustrate the several steps in the process and show a recommended form of the improved article, 1

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a sheet of news board having a paper strip applied to each surface;

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the sheet after several discs have been cutout;

Fig. 3 shows a plan view and an edge view of one of the cut-out discs;

Fig. 4 is an enlarged diametrical section through a vdisc after the pressing operation;

Fig. 5 is a similar view after the application of the wax; and

ter. The several steps of the process may readily be performed by hand operations or by suitable machinery. Preferably, the news 30 board sheet 7 of suitable thickness, is me- Fig. 6 is a plan -view of the completed counchines; and the periphery of the discs is built up linto rounded edges by the application of a rapidly solidifying, molten vegetable wax 11. The edge may, if desired, be bui'ed or frictionally polished.

It will be noted from Figs. 4 and 5 that the pressing operation tends to round the peripheral edges of the discs, as at 12, and that the Wax 11 covers the edges of the paper strips 8 and 9. By providing paper sheets of the appropriate color and by coloring the wax correspondingly, the resulting poker chip will yhave smooth surfaces and rounded edges of substantially the same texture and tint, and will simulate very closely the appearance of a bone or ivory cpuntenf It will be found that the wax edge adheres so closely to the periphery of the disc that the circumferential line of union, as at 13, is scarcely distinguishable. Game counters constructed as aforesaid are substantially as wear-resisting in use as those heretofore provided and will not break as readily as bbne chips, yet they may be manufactured in quantity at slight cost and sold at'a low price. It will be understood, however, that details of structure may be varied or changes `in the steps of the processof manufacture may be practiced without departing from the essence of the invention as delined in the following claims.

I claim 1. A game counter consisting of a bod portion of sheet material and a paper striii applied upon eachsurface of said sheet, and 1 h ailfing a peripheral edgeof wax-like mate-v ria 2. A game counter cnsisting of a body portion of sheet material and a 'paper strip applied upon each surface of the news board, and'having -a rounded peripheral edge of wax-like material.

3. A game counter comp'rising a disc body of sheet material, a paper disc appliedl upon each surface ofthe disc body, the peripheries of the disc body and paper discs substantially registering with each other, and a rounded edge of wax-like material, said material extending over the pexipheral edges of the paper discs. v

4. A process of making game counters including as'steps applying paper strips to the front and back surfaces of a sheet, cutting" a disc from the sheet',` and vbuilding up the periphery of the disc with a wax-like substance.

5. A process of making game counters in-l cluding as steps applying aper strips to the front and back surfaces o a sheet, cutting a 5 disc from the sheet, pressing the disc and rounding the peripheral ed es thereof,.and

building up the periphery o the disc with a wax-like substance.- v

6. A process of making game counters in- 10 cluding as steps adhesively applying paper strips to the front and back surfaces of, a sheet, cutting a disc from the sheet, pressing the dise` and rounding the peripheral edges thereof, applying a wax-like substance to the edge of the disc and over said rounded edges, and rounding the resulting edge.

Signed by me at Framingham, Massachusetts, this twentieth day of June, 1927.

. y x .WILLIAM J. MCNALLY.

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