AN IMPROVED COUNTER ESPECIALLY SUITED FOR A GAME COUNTER TO BE INSERTED IN THE STOCK OF A FOWLING PIECE
Year: 1885

page_text: I Sir RALPH PAYNE-GAILWEY of Cowling Hall, Bedale, in the County of York
Baronet do hereby déclare the nature of my invention for "AN IMPROVED
COUNTER ESPECIALLY SUITED FOR A GAME COUNTER TO BE INSERTED IN THE
STOCK OF A FOWLING PIECE and in what manner the same is to be performed to
be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement
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This invention has for its object an improved counter especially suited for a game
counter to be inserted in the stock of a fowling piece
My counter consists of two or more wheels or, barrels each with figures from
0 to 9 on its periphery These wheels are mounted one beyond the other on a
spindle carried in lugs projecting from the inner side of a frame plate which is let
into the stock of the gun The frame plate has holes cut in it through which, the
peripheries of the wheels may slightly project and one of the holes also allows a
milled barrel which is fast with the first or units wheel to appear so that it can be
turned by the finger
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Each wheel has also ratchet teeth upon it with which in each case a spring pawĺ
fixed upon the frame plate engages to prevent the wheel being turned accidentally
or in the wrong direction The pawls also compel the wheels to move definitely
step by step
Between the units wheel and the tens wheel there is a thin disc of spring
steel it is fixed to the units wheel on one side by a small screw near the
periphery The spindle passes freely through the steel disc Diametrically
opposite to the point at which the disc is attached to the units wheel the disc is
provided with a projecting tooth and upon the side of the tooth is a pin
is immediately opposite the ratchet teeth on the tens wheel but it is not sufficiently
long to enter between them when the disc is in the position which it naturally
assumes close to the end of the units wheel to which it is attached
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The pin
Also between the units wheel and the tens wheel there is a stud fixed, upon the,
frame plate The stud is formed to a knife edge on one side and this edge is close
against the end of the units wheel
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The action of the counter is as follows at each kill or for each count the
milled barrel 18 moved by the finger one step in the direction in which it is free to
turn-the pawl preventing it being moved either less or more than a step unless
it be intentionally The movement of the units wheel does not affect the tens
wheel until the tooth of the spring disc comes round to the knife edge stud fixed
on the frame plate but at this turn the tens wheel also is moved a step
happens because the tooth on the disc has to pass outside the stud and the stud
entering thus between the spring disc and the wheel to which it is attached
This

page_text: deflects the disc so far that the pin upon pro
teeth of the tens wheel and then the pin as it moves round with the units wheel
acting against one of these teeth carries the tens wheel round also
The tens wheel makes only a single step for by this time the tooth upon the
spring disc has passed the stationary stud upon the frame plate and then
immediately the disc springs back to its natural position.
The tens wheel may in like manner actuate a hundreds wheel but this is not
usually required for a game counter
In order that my said invention may be most fully understood and readily carried
into effect I will proceed to describe the drawings hereunto annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS,
Figure 1 is a front view of a game marker constructed in accordance with my
invention. It is drawn to about twice the actual size
Figure 2 18 a back view of the same
Figure 3 18 a longitudinal section
Figure 4 is a back view of the frame plate with the wheels and spindle removed.
Figure 5 18 an end view of the units wheels with the spring disc fixed upon it
Figure 6 18 an end view of the tens wheel with the ratchet teeth which serve
spring disc
both for the spring pawl and for the engagement of the pin on the
a a is the frame plate, it 18 let into the gun stock and fixed by screws.
c is the units wheel free to
a¹ a¹ are lugs on the frame plate carrying a spindle b
turn on the spindle. d is the milled barrel in one piece with or fixed to the units
wheel 18 the tens wheel similarly mounted upon the spindle
wheels enter apertures in the frame plate which keep the wheels in place upon the
spindle.
Both these
Through the apertures also the figures upon the wheels representing the score
are read
co are the ratchet teeth upon the units wheel and e¹. e¹ are the ratchet teeth
upon the tens wheel f 18 the spring pawl fixed to the frame plate and engaging
with the teeth c¹ g is the corresponding spring pawl engaging with the teeth e¹
h18 a disc of thin sheet steel attached to the end of the units wheel c, by a
screw h¹, the tooth upon the spring disc is marked h The pin upon the tooth
which at suitable times engages with the ratchet teeth e' is marked h**
The knife edge stud fixed on the frame plate which enters between the tooth h³
and the end of the wheel c 18 marked 2
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
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1 A counter in which the units wheel gives movement to the tens wheel (a step
once in each revolution) by means of a disc or part h, operating with a fixed
stud 2, to engage and liberate the tens wheel at suitable times substantially as
described
2 My improved counter substantially as described and represented by the
annexed Drawings