IMPROVEMENTS IN NUMERICAL REGISTERING AND INDICATING APPARATUS
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George George, of Liverpool, in the County of..
Lancaster, Gas Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
NUMERICAL REGISTERING AND INDICATING APPARATUS."
Sealed the 18th April 1871, and dated the 19th October 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George George at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
19th October 1870..
I, GEORGE GEORGE, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Gas
5 Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "Im-
PROVEMENTS IN NUMERICAL REGISTERING AND INDICATING APPARATUS," to be as
follows:-
The first part of my Invention relates to apparatus for registering and
indicating the quantity of gas, water, or other fluid allowed to flow
through meters, and consists in the employment in each such apparatus
of three or more pointers working around a common centre and moving
when in use over a dial formed with concentric circles of figures. Either.

page_text: the larger or the smaller circle (preferably the former) contains the units
of registration, the next the tens, then the hundreds, and so on. Any
other multiple of the said units may be used. One pointer is fixed on a
central arbor and all the others on concentric sleeves surrounding that
arbor. The sleeves project a less distance beyond the arbor the larger
they are in diameter. For the purpose of bringing each pointer close to
its circle of indicating figures, I form the dial with successive raised
circles, the central or smallest one being the lowest; or I make the dial
with a flat surface, and bend downwards the ends of the pointers, so that
they come into close contact with their respective circles of figures.
Motion is communicated to the said pointers by a train of properly
disposed toothed wheels and pinions operated by a worm and wheel or
equivalent mechanism from the moving part of the meter. A ratchet
and pawl is affixed to one of the wheel or pinion spindles to prevent the
registering apparatus from being turned backwards.
The second part of my Invention relates to apparatus for registering
and indicating the numbers attained or won by players at the game of
Bezique or equivalent game. Here two dials are employed, one for each
player or side of players, and each dial is provided with two circles of the
requisite figures, say, tens and hundreds, and two pointers adjusted to
be moved by hand around the same centre; these pointers are geared
by toothed gearing, so that a full revolution of ten tens will cause the
other pointer to make a one hundred unit of movement. The tens
pointer is formed with a finger piece to allow it to be easily caught,
and a ratchet and pawl is provided to prevent it from being moved
backwards. A third pointer is also fitted to each dial for the purpose
of shewing the position or number from which the tens pointer was
moved; this however is moved around the circumference of the dial,
and is not part of the registering apparatus. In practice I prefer to fit
the two dials above mentioned in the lid of a box or. case formed to hold
the playing cards, and to provide means for sustaining the lid at an
angle during the marking.
The third part of my Invention consists of apparatus for registering
and indicating the score during the playing of billiards and similar
games. A circular dial of suitable size with concentric circles of figures,
such as ten divisions of the numerals, making one hundred on the outer
circle, and ten divisions each of one hundred, making one thousand on
the inner circle, is provided, and two or more pointers working around

page_text: the same centre are fitted thereto; these pointers are geared together by ·
toothed gearing so as to register correctly, and the units hand is so
formed or fitted that it can be moved from time to time as required. A
ratchet wheel and pawl are provided to prevent it from being turned
backwards. A trip piece is also provided and actuated from the pointer
arbour, so as to sound a bell during every unit movement or for several
movements. If desired a pointer can be provided to shew the position
from which the pointer was moved. So also can a thumb or finger push
piece, lever, pallet, and wheel be used to move the pointer around from
its arbor the distance required from time to time, by simply pressing on
such push piece.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George George in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 19th April 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
GEORGE, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Gas Engineer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of October, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the
thirty-fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said George George, Her special
license that I, the said George George, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said George George, 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
NUMERICAL REGISTERING AND INDICATING APPARATUS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said George George, 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

page_text: DIA
said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George George, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, reference being had to the accompanying Sheets of
illustrative Drawings, and to the figures and letters of reference marked
thereon, that is to say :-
The first part of my Invention relates to apparatus for registering and
indicating the quantity of gas, water, or other fluid allowed to flow
through meters, and consists in the employment in each such apparatus
of three or more pointers working around a common centre, and moving,
when in use, over a dial formed with concentric circles of figures.
Either the larger or the smaller circle (preferably the former) contains.
the units of registration, the next the tens, then the hundreds, and so on.
Any other multiple of the said units may be used. One pointer is fixed
on a central arbor, and all the others on concentric sleeves surrounding
that arbor. The sleeves project a less distance beyond the dial the larger
they are in diameter. For the purpose of bringing each pointer close to
its circle of indicating figures, I form the dial with successive raised
circles, the central or smallest one being the lowest; or I make the dial
with a flat surface and bend downwards the ends of the pointers, so that
they come into close contact with their respective circles of figures.
Motion is communicated to the said pointers by a train of properly
disposed toothed wheels and pinions operated by a worm and wheel or
equivalent mechanism from the moving part of the meter. A ratchet
and pawl is affixed to one of the wheel or pinion spindles to prevent the
registering apparatus from being turned backwards.
The second part of my Invention relates to apparatus for registering
and indicating the numbers attained or won by players at the game of
Bezique or equivalent game. Here two dials are employed, one for each
player or side of players, and each dial is provided with two circles of
the requisite figures, say, tens and hundreds, and two pointers adjusted
to be moved by hand around the same centre; these pointers are geared
by toothed gearing, so that a full revolution of ten tens will cause the
other pointer to make a one hundred unit of movement. The tens
pointer is formed with a finger piece to allow it to be easily caught,
and a ratchet and pawl is provided to prevent it from being moved

page_text: backwards. A third pointer is also fitted to each dial for the purpose
of shewing the position or number from which the tens pointer was
moved; this however is moved around the circumference of the dial,
and is not part of the registering apparatus. In practice I prefer to fit.
the two dials above mentioned in the lid of a box or case formed to hold
the playing cards, and to provide means for sustaining the lid at an
angle during the marking.
The third part of my Invention consists of apparatus for registering
and indicating the score during the playing of billiards and similar games.
A circular dial of suitable size with concentric circles of figures, such as
ten divisions of the numerals, making one hundred on the outer circle,
and ten divisions each of one hundred, making one thousand on the
inner circle, is provided, and two or more pointers working around the
same centre are fitted thereto; these pointers are geared together by
toothed gearing, so as to register correctly, and the units hand is so
formed or fitted that it can be moved from time to time as required. A
ratchet wheel and pawi are provided to prevent it from being turned.
backwards. A trip piece is also provided and actuated from the pointer
arbor, so as to sound a bell during every unit movement or for several
movements. If desired, a pointer can be provided to shew the position
from which the pointer was moved. So also can a thumb or finger
push piece, lever, pallet, and wheel be used to move the pointer around
from its arbor the distance required from time to time, by simply

page_text: 1 to 15 on Fig 2. The units pointer a is secured on the arbor b. and
the other pointers a¹, a², a³, and a³, on sleeves c; the tens pointer it
will be evident is operated through the pinions 6 and wheel 3; d is the
dial with step-like concentric circles; e, front plate; e¹, back plate;
f, enclosing plate; g, ratchet and pawl to prevent backwards movement.
Fig. 5 is a transverse section of a modification in which the dial is flat,
j
and the ends of the maintane are hant
the other pointers a¹, a², a³, and a³, on sleeves c; the tens pointer it
will be evident is operated through the pinions 6 and wheel 3; d is the
dial with step-like concentric circles; e, front plate; e¹, back plate;
f, enclosing plate; g, ratchet and pawl to prevent backwards movement.
Fig. 5 is a transverse section of a modification in which the dial is flat,
and the ends of the pointers are bent.
h is the dial; i, arbor and sleeves; j, pointers with downwards bent
ends; k, enclosing glass.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE SECOND PART.—
SHEET A.
Fig. 6 is a perspective view, Fig. 7 a view in plan and horizontal
section, and Fig. 8 a view in side elevation and longitudinal section, all
of a card containing box, the lid of which is fitted with two indicating
apparatus for registering the numbers attained at the game of Bezique
or similar game.
Here is the box; it is shewn with the lid raised into an angular
position for convenience in viewing the dials m; n, tens pointers with
finger pieces; o, hundreds pointers. The pointers n are secured to the
arbors p, p, each carrying a wheel q; wheel q gears with wheel r
secured on the arbours carrying the pinion t geared with wheel u secured
on the sleeve v; w is a movable piece secured on the disc or plate x,
free to be moved and provided to shew the position from which the units
pointer is moved every time a score is added, and to prevent errors; y is
a ratchet wheel and spring pushed pawl to prevent the tens pointers from
being moved backwards. A draw piece can be provided to disengage
the spring pawl from the ratchet wheel, and to allow the whole to be
turned backwards to zero if desired. It will be obvious that three or
more of these registering apparatus may be fitted to a box, or two or
more to any other article, or each one may be fitted to a separate stand.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE THIRD PART.
SHEET B.
Fig. 9 is a front view of a double apparatus for scoring at billiards or
similar game, the face of the dial and pointers are shewn in one and the
gearing and bell in the other. The arrangement of the parts as regards

page_text: described under the second part, and shewn by Figs. 6, 7, and 8.
a is the dial; b, units pointer secured on the arbor c carrying the
wheel d; d gears with e or arbor f carrying pinion g, which gears
with h on the sleeve i, and drives the twenties pointer j; k is a pinion
carrying catch pins 7, which come into contact with the trip piece m, and
cause the hammer n to sound the bell o every unit movement; p is a
piece free to be moved; this is brought opposite 6 just before moving it
each time a score has to be added, hence it shews the position from
which was last moved, and so tends to prevent error.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS ILLUSTRATIVE OF MODIFICATION OF THIRD
PART. SHEET C.
Fig. 10 is an elevation, the front plate and dial being removed, of a
modification of apparatus for scoring at billiards; Fig. 11 is a view
partly in section and partly in elevation.
Here push pieces o are employed for each dial. The said push pieces
transmit motion to the levers 1, pawl 2, and ratchet wheel 3, secured on
the units pointer arbor 4, and also to the connecting rod 5 and hammer 6,
so as to sound the bell 7. The motion of the arbor 4 is transmitted by
the toothed wheels and pinions 8 to a sleeve carrying the tens or twenties
pointer. 9 is a barrel whereto a band, cord, or chain 10 is affixed; said
band, cord, or chain 10 is led over the pulley 11, and supports a
weight 12. The object of 9, 10, 11, and 12, is to ensure correct regis-
tration. A spring may be used instead of the weight 12. 13 is a spring
to bring the levers 1 back into position; 14 is a check pawl.
When a game has been played out, and it is desired to bring both unit
pointers at once to zero, pressure is applied to the push piece 15; this,
which has a longer travel than pieces o, operates the cranks 16 and all
the levers 1 a sufficient distance to disengage the pawls 2 and check
pawls 13 from the ratchet wheel 3, hence the weights 12 cause the
wheels to run in the backwards direction, and quickly bring the pointers
The same motion which brings the pointers to zero is com-
municated through the levers 16 to the small numerical registering
apparatus shewn, in which the pawl 17 operates a ratchet wheel 18,
from whose arbor 19 motion may be conveyed to any convenient pointer
and dial arranged in accordance with any of the modifications herein-
before described. It is proposed that the registering apparatus in
to zero.

page_text: communication with push pieces 15 should be under lock, and open
only to the proprietor of the apparatus. In this way there would be a
record of the number of games played, and a check upon the person
in charge.
In Figs. 10 and 11 the apparatus is arranged to score 100 as a game;
it will be evident it may be arranged for 50 or any other number.
.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and par-
ticularized the same, I claim, the numerical registering apparatus,
arranged and operating substantially as described for the purposes
şet forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said George George, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, the Seventeenth day of April, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.
In the presence of
.
J. T. KING,
Patent Agent,
Liverpool.
GEORGE GEORGE. (L.S.)