Improved Counting Apparatus applicable to Games Played with Cards.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Mar.; 1897
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Dec., 1897-Accepted, 22nd Mar., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Counting Apparatus applicable to Games Played with
Cards.
We, WILLIAM H. MARTIN and HORACE W. WHITE, both of Santa Monica,
California, U.S.A., Inventors, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:
The object of this invention is to provide a simple apparatus for keeping count
when playing eribbage and such like games.
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The invention comprises a suitable casing in which are arranged a double set of
ratchet-wheels, each having a projecting tooth. Two spur-wheels, adjacent to the
ratchet-wheels, are actuated by the teeth and carry indicators pointing to a dial on
the top of the casing. The ratchet-wheels have covers which are
imprinted with indicators thereon, and which, like the indicators
aforementioned, are on the outside of the casing. The covers and
ratchet-wheels are capable of being rotated by knobs upon their spindles or stems,
and from which stems project indicators or pointers capable of travelling around a
dial on the outside of the casing. The ratchet-wheels are engaged by pawls
carrying hammers which sound gongs when the apparatus is manipulated.
Dated this 22nd day of March 1897.
PERCY R. J. WILLIS,
Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Counting Apparatus applicable to Games Played with
Cards.
We, WILLIAM H. MARTIN and HORACE W. WHITE, both of Santa Monica,
California, U.S.A., Inventors, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement: —
My invention relates to cribbage counters in which the game is counted by
turning a knob in place of moving pegs as in the usual manner of counting the
game, and the object of my invention is to shew each count with a counting hand
and an indicator adding the several counts and increasing the number of points
from sixty to seven hundred and twenty with a register so that any number of
points agreed upon may be played. I attain these objects by the mechanism
llustrated in the accompanying drawings in which
Figure 1 is a top view, shewing both sides to have counted 15 points and the
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page_text: counting hands, turned back to the starting point preparatory to starting again;
Fig. 2 a top view after removal of the cover or face, one of the knobs, one counting
hand, one register hand, and one of the wheel covers exposing the works of that
section; Fig. 3 a side view; Fig. 4 a section on line ee of Fig. 2.
In Fig. 1 M represents the cover or face, having dials N, N, and 0, 0,
indicators P P, R, division line; E E the knobs, with counting hands F F.
L L
are register hands; CC the ratchet wheel covers, having pointed
indicators D D.
The wheel covers CC are flush on top with the face M and turn in the
dials N N.
In Fig. 2, A is the ratchet, having a tooth B, that turns a spur wheel K. G, the
dog which drives the ratchet A, and moves forward and back from H to H, stop
posts, using but one half of the circle in A. The spring pawl stops A from
turning back and carries a hammer which strikes the gong J when A is turning
forward. A has sixty teeth, corresponding in number with the number of points
on the dials N N. In the wheel covered section, C represents the ratchet wheel
cover, having a painted indicator D, and secured to A with three small screws, at
equal distances near the edge; E the knob with a counting hand F; K, a spur
wheel carrying a register hand L.
Fig. 3 shews the counting hands and register hands to clear the cover or face,
X represents the knob-shanks, their lower ends turning in socket U, arranged
in the base S; T T spur wheel pins, their lower ends turning in sockets U, the
same as X, the tip ends carrying register hands L L and their upper ends turning
in the face M. The knobs E E, the hands F F, and the dogs G G, are secured
to the knob shanks X. In turning forward, EFG X carrying with
them A B C D. In turning the knob back A B C D stand still. When D has
been once around, beginning at "60" on the dial N of the face M, the tooth B of
the ratchet A, will turn the spur wheel K one notch, the register hand L showing
one game or sixty points on the dial O.
In beginning the game, hands and indicators must point central. The counting
hand may be pointed to any number on the dial N° from "1" to "30" always
beginning with "1"; the gong J indicating the movement.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is:-
The combination in a cribbage counter of a double set of ratchet wheels A cach
having a tooth B, spur wheels K carrying indicators L, actuated by said teeth,
secured wheel covers Chaving pointed indicators D, knobs E for operating said
covers, stems X carrying counting indicators F, dogs G driving said ratchets A,
pawls carrying hammers, gongs J adapted to be struck by said hammers, all
inclosed in a case having a cover M with dials thereon cooperating with
indicators D, F and L all substantially as described.
Dated this 22nd day of December 1897.
P. R. J. WILLIS,
Agent for Applicants.