Improvements in Game Scorers.
Year: 1896

page_text: I, THOMAS FREDERIC BARBER, of 263, Southtown Road, Great Yarmouth, in
the County of Norfolk, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention relates to providing billiard and other game scoring boards with
means whereby, when the usual roller is rotated to its starting point, the game last
played will be indicated on a dial or the like thereby preventing fraud.
For this purpose I adapt to one end of the roller a train of wheels in connection
with a hand or pointer and a dial or a numbered disc so arranged that when the
roller is rotated into its starting point to score for a new game, the said hand or
pointer or the disc will be moved through one division thereby indicating that
a game has been plave 1.
The roller is provided with a ratchet wheel and pawl to prevent it being rotated
backwards.
In practice I find it advantageous to enclose my game scorer in a suitable case
having a glass window through which the face of the dial is visible, which window
may, if desired, be provided with a shutter or blind.
It will be obvious that the knob for rotating the roller can be fixed to the
roller outside the case containing my scorer or that it may be on the other end of
the said roller.
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G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in Game Scorers.
I, THOMAS FREDERIC BARBER, of 263, Southtown Road, Great Yarmouth, in
the County of Norfolk, Gentleman, 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:-
This invention relates to providing billiard and other game scoring boards with
means whereby, when the usual roller is rotated to its starting point, the game last
played will be indicated on a dial or the like thereby preventing fraud.
For this purpose I adapt to one end of the roller a train of wheels in connection
with a hand or pointer or hands or pointers and a dial or a numbered disc so
arranged that when the roller is rotated into its starting point to score for a new
game, the said hand or pointer or the disc will be moved through one division
thereby indicating that a game has been played.

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pawi to prevent it being rotated
In practice I find it advantageous to enclose my game scorer in a suitable case
having a glass window through which the face of the dial is visible, which window
may, if desired, be provided with a shutter or blind.
It will be obvious that the knob for rotating the roller can be fixed to the roller
outside the case containing my scorer or that it may be on the other end of the
said roller.
To enable my invention to be fully understood I will describe the same by
reference to the accompanying drawing, in which :-
Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of a billiard marker having my scorer applied
thereto :
Figure 2 is an end elevation of the same:
Figure 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Figure 1.1
A is the billiard marker and B one of the rollers thereof.
a is the dial or disc of my game scorer the said dial being numbered similarly to
the dial or face of a clock, that is to say, being divided into 12 divisions each of
which is subdivided into five divisions. b, 6 are the two pointers or hands
corresponding to the minute and hour hands of a clock. c is the train of wheels
whereby motion is imparted to the two hands b and b' to cause them to move around
the dial in the ordinary manner. d is the main or driving spindle of the train of
wheels cand e is a key or the like which engages with the square end of the said
main spindle d and which is rigidly secured to the roller B of the billiard marker A
in such a manner that when the said roiler B is rotated by means of its handle B¹
the train of wheels is operated so as to move the hands b, b.
fis the ratchet wheel mounted on the main spindle d and g is the spring pawl
engaging therewith for preventing the backward movement of the roller B.
My game scorer is provided with a metal casing & which is attached to the end
of the billiard marker as shewn and which is fitted with a glass front i. This glass
front may, if desired, be provided as above mentioned with a shutter or blind."
The wheels forming the train are so proportioned and arranged that one
revolution of the roller B causes the large hand or pointer b to move through one
of the subdivisions, the smaller hand & therefore moving through a twelfth of such
a division.
It will, therefore, be obvious that the large pointer will move through five
subdivisions or one division of the dial face when five games of 100 points each
have been scored on the billiard marker and that when the larger hand 6 is moved
right round the dial or has indicated that 60 games of a 100 points each have been
played the smaller hand 5 will have moved through one division thus indicating
that the larger hand has been once round the dial.
To enable games of 50 points to be indicated on my scorer I dispense with the
hereinbefore described ratchet wheel and pawl g and make the spindle independent
of the ruller, means such as a ratchet and pawl being provided whereby the roller
only actuates the train of wheels when turning in one direction so that when one
game has been scored the roller can be turned back to zero. In this case each
subdivision on the dial face represents two games of fifty points each.
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 :-
1. The combination with a billiard marker or other game scoring board of
a device for indicating the number of games played, such device consisting
of a numbered dial, of a pointer or pointers designed to move over the said dial
and of a train of wheels whereby the pointer or peinters is or are moved a
predetermined distance over the face of the dial to correspond with the movement
of the indicator, for instance a roller, of the game scoring board, substantially as
described and illustrated,

page_text: 2. The manufacture and use of the improved game scoring device, hereinbefore
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 1st day of March 1897.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.