An Improved Indicator for use when Playing Cards.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Apr., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 30th June, 1890-Accepted, 2nd Aug., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Indicator for use when Playing Cards.
I, HENRY SIMPSON, of 2 St. James' Square, in the City and County of
Northampton, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide a simple form of indicator whereby the
trump card can be ascertained at a glance.
According to this invention, on a suitable base, I paint, print, or otherwise form one
each of the different suits used on cards i.e., I paint, print, or otherwise form a heart,
spade, diamond, and club, each equi-distant from a common centre. Over this centre
pivot a circular plate from which a quadrant has been cut away, so that one only
of the marks of the different suits can be seen at one time.
When the cards are dealt the pivotted plate is moved so that the quadrant exposes
the mark of the trump suit and this is left and placed in a conspicuous place while the
hand is played.
Dated this 23rd day of Anvil 1900
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CASTLE SMITH,
Invention " Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Indicator for use when Playing Cards.
I, HENRY SIMPSON, of 2 St. James' Square, in the City and County of
Northampton, Engineer, 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 :-
The object of this invention is to provide a simple form of indicator whereby the
trump suit can be ascertained at a glance.
According to this invention, on a suitable base I paint, print, or otherwise form one
each of the different suits used on cards i.e., I paint, print, or otherwise form a heart,
spade, diamond, and club, each equidistant from a common centre. Over this centre
I pivot a circular or other shaped plate or cover, from which a quadrant or portion
has been cut away, so that one only of the marks of the different suits can be seen
at one time.
When the cards are dealt the pivotted plate is moved so that the quadrant exposes
the mark of the trump suit and this is left and placed in a conspicuous place while the
hand is played.
In the accompanying drawings I have shown a circular scoring board to which my
invention has been applied.
Figure 1 is a plan, and
Figure 2 an edge view.
The circular or other shaped plate or cover A is pivotted at B, so as to revolve over
the base C, on which a heart, spade, diamond, and club are painted, printed, embossed,
stamped or otherwise formed or affixed, each equidistant from the common centre B,
and from each other. A quadrant or portion of the revoluble plate or cover A
is cut away so as to expose one only of the marks of the different suits.
Figure 1 the diamond is exposed, but by rotating the plate or cover A in the
direction of the hands of a clock, i.e. from left to right, the club, heart, and spade will
be successively exposed.
In
Although I have shewn my invention as combined with a circular scoring board, I
wish it to be distinctly understood that I make no claim to such combination, nor

page_text: do I claim the combination of an indicator with a scoring board of any other shape,
as obviously my indicator may be made quite independently of any scoring or
other board.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
An indicator for use when playing cards consisting of a base C on which
are formed or affixed equidistant, representations of the four different suits used
on cards, over which revolves a circular or other shaped plate or cover A with a
quadrant or portion cut away substantially as described and illustrated and for the
purpose stated.
Dated this 30th day of June 1890.
CASTLE SMITH,
"Invention" Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.