IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SCORING OR INDICATING THE NUMBER OF RUNS MADE IN PLAYING THE GAME OF CRICKET WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE IN PART APPLICABLE TO LAWN TENNIS MARKERS AND TO APPARATUS FOR SCORING OR MARKING FOR OTHER PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick Dening of Chard in the County of Somerset
Hotel Proprietor, for an invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR
SCORING OR INDICATING THE NUMBER OF RUNS MADE IN PLAYING THE GAME
OF CRICKET WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE IN PART APPLICABLE TO LAWN
TENNIS MARKERS AND TO APPARATUS FOR SCORING OR MARKING FOR OTHER
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick Dening at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 18th March 1882.
FREDERICK DENING of Chard in the County of Somerset Hotel Proprietor
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SCORING OR INDICATING THE NUMBER OF
RUNS MADE IN PLAYING THE GAME OF CRICKET WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE IN
PART APPLICABLE TO LAWN TENNIS MARKERS AND TO APPARATUS FOR SCORING
OR MARKING FOR OTHER GAMES
"
My invention consists of the improvements hereinafter described in "telegraph
boards" or apparatus for scoring or indicating the number of runs made in playing
the game of cricket the said improvements being in part applicable to apparatus
for scoring or marking for other games.
According to my Invention I connect the board on which the numbers are to be
exhibited to its stand in such a manner as to admit of its ready separation there-
from and I so construct the said stand that its parts may be readily separated and
packed with the board conveniently for carriage and I form on the face of the
board boxes or frames in which I mount cylinders or rollers the axes of which
project through the said boxes or frames and carry winches or handles by which
the said cylinders or rollers may be turned. The said cylinders are arranged in
pairs and to them are affixed bands or strips of canvas or other suitable material
each of which bands has painted or otherwise marked on it the figures 1 to 9 and
the cipher 0 and is attached at its ends to one of the pairs of rollers the whole
being so arranged that by turning the said winches the figures marked on the

page_text: several bands may be brought one at a time before openings in the fronts of the
boxes in which the rollers are mounted each band by the turning of the winches
being separately wound onto one and off the other of the pair of rollers to which it
is attached. By this means the required numbers or groups of figures may be
readily exhibited on the board
That part of my invention which consists in the mounting of rollers carrying
figured bands in boxes on the face of the "telegraph board" is applicable to lawn
tennis markers and to apparatus for marking or scoring for other games.
5
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Frederick Dening in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
18th September 1882.
FREDERICK DENING of Chard in the County of Somerset Hotel Proprietor
" IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SCORING OR INDICATING THE NUMBER OF
RUNS MADE IN PLAYING THE GAME OF CRICKET WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE IN
PART APPLICABLE TO LAWN TENNIS MARKERS AND TO APPARATUS FOR SCORING
OR MARKING FOR OTHER GAMES
"
"
My invention consists of the improvements hereinafter described in "cricket
telegraph boards
or apparatus for scoring or indicating the number of runs made
in playing the game of cricket the said improvements being in part applicable to
apparatus for scoring or marking for other games.
According to my invention I connect the board on which the numbers are to be
exhibited to its stand in such a manner as to admit of its ready separation there-
from and I so construct the said stand that its parts may be readily separated and
packed with the board conveniently for carriage and I form on or affix to the face
of the board boxes or frames in which I mount cylinders or rollers and the axes of
which project through the said boxes or frames and carry winches or handles by
which the said cylinders or rollers may be turned the said cylinders are arranged
in pairs and to them are attached bands or strips of canvas or other suitable
material each of which bands has painted or otherwise marked on it the figures 1
to 9 and the cipher 0 and is attached at its ends to one of the pairs of rollers the
whole being so arranged that by turning the said winches the figures marked on
the several bands may be brought one at a time before openings in the fronts of
the boxes in which the rollers are mounted each band by the turning of the
winches being separately wound onto one and off the other of the pair of rollers to
which it is attached.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention I will proceed to describe the
manner in which it is to be performed reference being had to the accompanying
Drawings and to the letters and figures marked thereon.
Figure 1 of the said drawings is a front elevation Figure 2 is a side elevation
and Figure 3 is a section (taken on the line A Figure 1) of a cricket telegraph to
which my improvements are applied.

page_text: The same letters and figures of reference indicate the same parts in the said
Figures 1 2 and 3.
a is the board and 6 6¹ is the stand thereof. c c are the boxes or frames affixed to
the face of the board a. dd (see Figure 3) are the cylinders rollers mounted in
the said boxes. ee are the figured bands of canvas attached to the said rollers.
ff are the axes of the rollers and f¹ f¹ are the winches on the ends of the said
axes by turning which winches the required figures on the bands ff are brought
before the openings in the fronts of the boxes c c.
By this means the required figures or groups of figures may be readily displayed
and the inconveniences attendant on the use of the ordinary detached figured plate
or boards are avoided.
The stand on which the board a is mounted consists of two uprights b b con-
nected by a bar b¹ the said uprights and bar being secured together by pins 62 68
63 63 are brachets on which the board a rests and 66 are hooks on the uprights bb
which hooks are engaged with eyes a¹ a¹ on the board a.
This method of constructing the stand b and connecting the board a to it admits
of the board and stand and of the parts b b and 6 of the said stand being readily
separated and packed conveniently for carriage.
Instead of the usual separate indicator for showing the numbers of the batsmen
in I prefer to combine with a cricket telegraph of the kind hereinbefore described
an indicator consisting of tablets bearing figures corresponding to the numbers of
the batsmen on the card the said tablets being mounted on axes or pivots which
rest in slots formed in a frame or frames secured to the board the said tablets being
so arranged as to be capable of being secured either in the same plane as the board
or in a plane at right angles thereto the figures on the said tablets being displayed
when they are in the former position and hidden when they are in the latter
position.
Figure 4 of the accompanying Drawings is a front elevation of a cricket
telegraph board provided with an indicator of the kind herein before described.
One of such tablets with a portion of its frame is shown separately drawn to a
larger scale in Figures 5, 6, 7 and 8 Figures 5 and 7 being elevations and Figures 6
and 8 sections taken on the line BC Figures 5 and 7 respectively. The said
tablets are shown secured in one position in Figures 5 and 6 and in the other
position in Figures 7 and 8.
a a are the tablets a¹ a¹ the pivots 66 the frames in which the tablets work and
b' b the slots in which the pivots rest. The tablets are pivotted slightly above
their centres and consequently when free to turn they take the position shewn in
Figures 5 and 6. cc are catches jointed at c¹ c¹ to the frames bb by means of
which the tablets are secured in either the horizontal or vertical position as
hereinafter described
The method of using this arrangement is as follows:-The tablets bearing the
figures which are required to be hidden are turned into the horizontal position and
when so turned are secured by the catches c c which turn on their joints c¹ c¹ and
rest at their lower ends on the upper faces of the tablets as shown in Figures 7
and 8. When it is required to exhibit the figures on the tablets the catches are
raised into the recesses b' b' in the frames b b and the tablets then turn by gravity
into the vertical position as shown in Figures 5 and 6 in which position they
are retained by the lips c² c² on the catches c c and by the stops 63 63 on the
frames b.
The improvements herein before described with reference to "cricket telegraph
boards are applicable to lawn tennis markers and to apparatus for marking or
scoring for other games.
Having thus described the nature of my invention and the manner in which the
same is to be performed I wish it to be understood that I claim as my said
Invention of "Improvements in apparatus for scoring or indicating the number of
runs made in playing the game of cricket which improvements are in part

page_text: applicable to lawn tennis markers and to apparatus for scoring or marking for
other games."
The arrangement herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying
Drawing consisting of bands of canvas or other suitable material bearing figures
and attached to rollers mounted in frames formed on or affixed to the face of a
board by turning which rollers any one of the figures on each of the said bands
may be displayed as required essentially as and for the purpose hereinbefore
described.
In Witness whereof I the said Frederick Dening have hereunto set my
hand and seal this fifteenth day of September in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and eighty two.
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