Quest Pistols # 101

Identify the pastime game, from this patent image dating back to 1920s.

Answer

Fussball or Table Football invented by H S Thornton.He also holds the patent for the same received in 1923.the patent reads:

'205,991. Thornton, H. S. Oct. 14, 1922. Table games.-Apparatus for playing a table football game comprises a number of horizontal rods 4 mounted in bearings 5 on opposite sides of a table C. The rods are capable of a longitudinal and part rotary movement and carry downwardly depending effigies 6 to which they are preferably attached by elastic bands 7, Fig. 3. In use, the groups of rods A, B are operated by opposing players orr sides with the object of driving the-ball through the goals 2.'