AN IMPROVED APPARATUS OR MARKING BOARD TO BE USED IN SCORING GAMES
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Lancaster and Warren William De la Rue,
both of Bunhill Row, in the City of London, for the Invention of
"AN IMPROVED APPARATUS OR MARKING BOARD TO BE USED IN SCORING
GAMES."
Sealed the 15th April 1873, and dated the 20th February 1873.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Lancaster and
Warren William De la Rue at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 20th February 1873.
We, GEORGE LANCASTER and WARREN WILLIAM DE LA RUE, both of
Bunhill Row, in the City of London, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS OR MARKING BOARD TO BE
USED IN SCORING GAMES," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object an improved apparatus or marking
board to be used in scoring games.
This apparatus or marking board is constructed of several plates of
cardboard all of the same external dimensions rivetted together. The

page_text: upper of these plates has two parallel longitudinal slots punched out of
it. The slots are by preference situated symmetrically and about one-
third of the breadth of the plate apart, and they extend for nearly, but
not quite the whole length of the plate. These slots we prefer to make
of about one-eighth of an inch in breadth, but they may be of any other
size. The lower plate is solid. The plate or plates intermediate between
the upper and lower plates act as filling pieces to keep the upper and
lower plates apart. The intermediate plate or plates are slotted in a
similar manner to the upper plate with the exception that in the inter-
mediate plate or plates the slots are broader than in the upper plate, say
about double the breadth. These plates when rivetted together form the
marking board which thus has in its upper surface a pair of parallel guide
grooves. At the bottom of these guide grooves run small slides which
arc inserted before the parts of the apparatus or marking board are
rivetted together. These slides are just of a size to run in the slots in
the intermediate piece or pieces, but cannot escape through the slot in
the upper plate.
On the upper plate of the apparatus or marking board are two scales
suitably figured in two columns parallel to the two guides. Two pointers
are attached to the two slides, and theso may be set so as to point to any
positions upon the scales.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Lancaster and Warren William de la Rue
in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 20th August 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, GEORGE
LANCASTER and WARREN WILLIAM DE LA RUE, both of Bunhill Row,
in the City of London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of February, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the
thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto us, the said George Lancaster and Warren
William De la Rue, Her special license that we, the said George Lancaster

page_text: and Warren William De la Rue, our executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as we, the said George Lancaster and Warren William
De la Rue, our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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
"AN IMPROVED APPARATUS OR MARKING BOARD TO BE USED IN SCORING
GAMES," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said
George Lancaster and Warren William De la Rue, our executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under our or their hands
and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us or them, 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 Warren William De la Rue, on
behalf of myself and the said George Lancaster, 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 an improved apparatus or marking
board to be used in scoring games.
This apparatus or marking board is constructed of several plates of
cardboard all of the same external dimensions rivitted together. The
upper of these plates has two parallel longitudinal slots punched out of
it. The slots are by preference situated symmetrically and about one-
third of the breadth of the plate apart, and they extend for nearly but
not quite the whole length of the plate. These slots we prefer to make
of about one-eighth of an inch in breadth, but they may be of any other
size. The lower plate is solid. The plate or plates intermediate between
the upper and lower plates act as filling pieces to keep the upper and
lower plates apart. The intermediate plate or plates are slotted in a
similar manner to the upper plate with the exception that in the inter-
mediate plate or in one or more of these plates the slots are broader
than in the upper plate, say about double the breadth.
These plates

page_text: What we claim is the apparatus or marking board substantially as
herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Warren William De la Rue, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Ninth day of August, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three.
WARREN WILLIAM DE LA RUE. (L.S.)

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Lancaster and Warren William De la Rue,
both of Bunhill Row, in the City of London, for the Invention of
"AN IMPROVED APPARATUS OR MARKING BOARD TO BE USED IN SCORING
GAMES."
Sealed the 15th April 1873, and dated the 20th February 1873.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Lancaster and
Warren William De la Rue at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 20th February 1873.
We, GEORGE LANCASTER and WARREN WILLIAM DE LA RUE, both of
Bunhill Row, in the City of London, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS OR MARKING BOARD TO BE
USED IN SCORING GAMES," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object an improved apparatus or marking
board to be used in scoring games.
This apparatus or marking board is constructed of several plates of
cardboard all of the same external dimensions rivetted together. The

page_text: upper of these plates has two parallel longitudinal slots punched out of
it. The slots are by preference situated symmetrically and about one-
third of the breadth of the plate apart, and they extend for nearly, but
not quite the whole length of the plate. These slots we prefer to make
of about one-eighth of an inch in breadth, but they may be of any other
size. The lower plate is solid. The plate or plates intermediate between
the upper and lower plates act as filling pieces to keep the upper and
lower plates apart. The intermediate plate or plates are slotted in a
similar manner to the upper plate with the exception that in the inter-
mediate plate or plates the slots are broader than in the upper plate, say
about double the breadth. These plates when rivetted together form the
marking board which thus has in its upper surface a pair of parallel guide
grooves. At the bottom of these guide grooves run small slides which
are inserted before the parts of the apparatus or marking board are
rivetted together. These slides are just of a size to run in the slots in
the intermediate piece or pieces, but cannot escape through the slot in
the upper plate.
On the upper plate of the apparatus or marking board are two scales
suitably figured in two columns parallel to the two guides. Two pointers
are attached to the two slides, and these may be set so as to point to any
positions upon the scales.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Lancaster and Warren William de la Rue
in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 20th August 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, GEORGE
LANCASTER and WARREN WILLIAM DE LA RUE, both of Bunhill Row,
in the City of London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of February, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the 3
thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto us, the said George Lancaster and Warren
William De la Rue, Her special license that we, the said George Lancaster

page_text: and Warren William De la Rue, our executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as we, the said George Lancaster and Warren William
De la Rue, our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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
"AN IMPROVED APPARATUS OR MARKING BOARD TO BE USED IN SCORING
GAMES," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said
George Lancaster and Warren William De la Rue, our executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under our or their hands
and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us or them, 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 Warren William De la Rue, on
behalf of myself and the said George Lancaster, 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 an improved apparatus or marking
board to be used in scoring games.
This apparatus or marking board is constructed of several plates of
cardboard all of the same external dimensions rivitted together. The
upper of these plates has two parallel longitudinal slots punched out of
it. The slots are by preference situated symmetrically and about one-
third of the breadth of the plate apart, and they extend for nearly but
not quite the whole length of the plate. These slots we prefer to make
of about one-eighth of an inch in breadth, but they may be of any other
size. The lower plate is solid. The plate or plates intermediate between.
the upper and lower plates act as filling pieces to keep the upper and
lower plates apart. The intermediate plate or plates are slotted in a
similar manner to the upper plate with the exception that in the inter-
mediate plate or in one or more of these plates the slots are broader
than in the upper plate, say about double the breadth. These plates

page_text: What we claim is the apparatus or marking board substantially as
herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Warren William De la Rue, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Ninth day of August, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three.
WARREN WILLIAM DE LA RUE. (L.S.)