IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR INDICATING AND REGISTERING PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION THE SCORE' FOR BILLIARDS AND OTHER GAMES
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Louis Henry Christian Jacob Carle, of Brownlow
Street, Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR INDICATING AND REGISTERING
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Louis Henry Christian
Jacob Carle at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 29th November 1861.
I, LOUIS HENRY CHRISTIAN JACOB CARLE, of Brownlow Street, Holborn in
the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR INDICATING AND REGISTERING THE
SCORE' FOR BILLIARDS AND OTHER GAMES," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object, the indicating and registering of the
"score" or number of points and number of games played at billiards or other
games, , in order that the players at and the owners of billiard or bagatelle tables,
racket courts, bowls, skittles, or other games may ascertain the number of
games played from time to time as desired. For this purpose I will describe
one simple arrangement of apparatus suitable for being applied to a board or
instrument for marking or indicating the "score" for each-player or side as
the game (whatever it may be) progresses, each game when finished being
securely registered for each player or side. I would however remark that I
do not confine myself to the use of any particular arrangement of marking,
indicating, or registering apparatus, as the same may be greatly varied and
readily adapted for the purposes of carrying out my Invention, which consists
in applying self-acting registering apparatus (for registering the number of-

page_text: games played) to the boards or marking instruments employed for marking
and indicating the "score" of each player or side when playing at billiards or
other games. And in order that my Invention may be readily applied to the
boards or marking apparatus generally used for marking and indicating the
"score" for billiard players in which a pointer sliding in a groove or slot is
employed, I will proceed to describe the apparatus connected, with each pointer
to cause it to indicate the "score" and register each game in succession
according to my Invention.
The pointer is formed with a click or catch at the back which takes into a
toothed rack supported in bearings and enclosed in a case at the back of the
board or instrument on which the numbers for marking the score are placed.
The pointer can only move in one direction from zero upwards, the click or
catch being in gear with the toothed rack, but when it arrives at the end of the
slot and indicates 10, 20, 40, 50, or other number, it is caused to act upon
a pin, arm, or projection, which gives a small amount of motion to a wheel on
the face of which numbers are marked from zero upwards, which numbers are
brought forward in succession opposite to an opening in the case so as to be
seen from the exterior if desired. The registering wheel may give motion to
counting apparatus so as to register high numbers if desired. The pointer is
so arranged that when it arrives at the extremity of its movement an incline
or projection thereon acts upon the toothed rack, causing it to make a partial
revolution so as to disconnect the click or catch and thus allow the pointer to
be put back-to zero to recommence another game or part of a game, the rack
being returned to its former position by the pointer on arriving at the starting
point. Apparatus may also be attached to ensure the pointer being passed
from one extremity of its motion to another in either direction, or the pointer
may be returned by a separate slot. The apparatus may be placed in a hori-
zontal or vertical position, or apparatus of this description may be arranged
with a circular dial-plate the pointer having continuous or alternate rotary
motion and connected with suitable counting and registering apparatus similar
to that employed in connection with gas and other meters but suitably ar
ranged and adapted for the purposes of my Invention. In-place-of employing
apparatus such as before described for ascertaining the number of games
played, the pointer or marker may be so arranged as to cause a ball, or counter,
or other medium to be transferred by valves, stops, or other contrivances from
onc chamber or place to another, only accessible to the owner of the apparatus.
Signal or tell-tale apparatus may be employed in connection with the above,

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
:
by the said Louis Henry Christian Jacob Carle in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 29th May 1862.
"
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LOUIS HENRY
CHRISTIAN JACOB CARLE, of Brownlow Street, Holborn, in the County of
"Middlesex, send greeting.
.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Louis Henry Christian Jacob Carle,. Her special licence that I, the
said Louis Henry Christian Jacob Carle, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Louis Henry Christian Jacob Carle, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree, with, and-no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term 'therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make; use, exercise, and vend, within the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of
Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR INDICATING
AND REGISTERING THE "SCORE" FOR BILLIARDS AND OTHER GAMES," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said Louis Henry Christian Jacob, Carle, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or
one of their hands and seals, should, particularly.describe and ascertain the nature
of the said Invention, and in what manner, the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent..
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Louis Henry Christian Jacob Carle, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained.in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say:-
This Invention has for its object the indicating and registering of the "score,"
or number of points, and number of games played at billiards or other games;
in order that, the players at and owners of billiard. of bagatelle tables, racket
courts, bowls, skittles, or other games may ascertain the number of games
played from time to time as desired. For this purpose I will describe one
simple arrangement of apparatus, suitable for being applied to a board or
instrument for marking or indicating the "score" for each player or side as the
game; (whatever it may be) progresses, each game when finished being securely
registered for each player or side. I would however remark that I do not

page_text: confine myself to the use of any particular arrangement of marking, indicating,
or registering apparatus, as the same may be greatly varied and readily adapted
for the purpose of carrying out my Invention, which consists in applying self-
acting registering apparatus (for registering the number of games played) to
the boards or marking instruments employed for marking and indicating the
"score of each player or side when playing at billiards or other games.
And in order that my Invention may be readily applied to the boards or mark-
ing apparatus generally used for marking and indicating the "score" for billiard
players, in which a pointer sliding in a groove or slot is employed, I will pro-
'ceed.to describe apparatus suitable for being arranged in connection with each
pointer, to cause it to indicate the "score," and register each game in succes-
sion according to my Invention.
"
Figure 1, Sheet 1, of the Drawings hereunto annexed, shows a plan in section,
and Figure 2, part of a front view of indicating apparatus arranged according
to my Invention. The pointer a is formed with a click or catch a' at the
back which takes into at oothed rack b, supported and moving on bearings b', and
enclosed in a case c at the back of the board or instrument 6, on which the
numbers for marking the "score" are placed. The pointer a can only move
in one direction from zero upwards whilst the click or catch a¹ is in gear with
the toothed rack b, but when it arrives at the end of the slot, which may be
arranged to indicate 10, 20, 40, 50, or other number, it is caused to act upon
the pin or projection, e, which by means of the hinged projection e' gives a small
amount of motion to the toothed wheel f, on the face of which numbers are
marked from zero upwards, which numbers are brought forward in succession
opposite to an opening in the case, so as to be seen from the exterior in order
that the players or the owner of the board may ascertain the number of games
played from time to time as desired. The registering wheel may also give
motion to counting apparatus, so as to register high numbers if desired. The
pointer a is so arranged that when it arrives at the extremity of its movement
an incline or projection a³ thereon acts upon a projection or incline bª on the
toothed rack to cause it to make a partial revolution, so as to disconnect the click
or catch a', and thus allow the pointer_a_to be put-back-to-zero-to-recommence-
another game or part of a game, the rack being returned to its former position
by a projection a³ on the pointer acting on a projection 63 on the rack for this
purpose, when the pointer a is brought back to the starting point. Apparatus
may also be attached to ensure the pointer being passed from one extremity of
its motion to another in either direction, or the pointer may be returned by a
separate slot in the indicating board if preferred. The apparatus may be placed
in a horizontal or vertical position, or apparatus of this description may be

page_text: arranged with a circular dial plate, as shown in Sheet 2 of the Drawings, the
pointer having continuous or alternate rotary motion, and this apparatus may
be connected with suitable counting and registering apparatus similar to that
employed in connection with gas and other meters, but suitably and adapted
for the purposes of my Invention.
The circular self-registering and indicating apparatus shown at Figures 3,
4, and 5 consists of a circular dial plate a numbered from one to fifty, and
having two hands or pointers 6 and 6', one of which 6 is fixed upon and gives
motion to the central axis e when moved to the right or in one direction only.
The axis c carries and gives motion to a ratchet wheel d, upon which there is a
projection d' which on making one revolution acts upon one end of the lever e,
which gives motion by a driver e¹ to the ratchet-toothed ringf, which is enclosed
at the back of the dial plate a, and upon which ring numbers are marked from
1 upwards; and after each revolution of the hands or pointers 6, 6', on the dial,
one of the successive numbers marked on the internal dial ring fis brought
opposite to a glazed opening 9 in the front dial so as to indicate to the players
and owners of the indicating board the number of games played thereon. The
dial ring may have a projection thereon to come against a stop when it has
made a complete revolution, such stop being in the interior of the case, and only
accessible to the owner of the registering apparatus. Or the ring f may be
caused to give motion to suitable counting apparatus, so as to register any
number of revolutions of the ring f. In place of employing apparatus such as
before described for ascertaining the number of games played, the pointer or
marker may be so arranged as to cause a ball or counter, or other medium, to
be transferred by valves, stops, or other contrivances from one chamber of
place to another only accessible to the owner of the apparatus. Signal or tell-
tale apparatus may be employed in connection with the above-described appa-
ratus to indicaté (by sounding a bell or otherwise) to the players or others
when a game has been completed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Louis Henry Christian Jacob Carle, have
hereunto set my hand and seal this Twenty-ninth day of May, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
LOUIS H. CH. J. CARLE. (L.S.)
Witness,
J. G. TONGUE, Patent Agent,
34, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, W.C.