AN IN- PROVED INDICATOR FOR MARKING GAMES OF SKILL OR CHANCE OR OTHER LIKE DUDDARDS
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edwin Round, of Sheffield, in the County of
York, Silver Plate Manufacturer, for the Invention of "AN IN-
PROVED INDICATOR FOR MARKING GAMES OF SKILL OR CHANCE OR OTHER LIKE
DUDDARDS"
Sealed the 20th May 1870, and dated the 23rd November 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edwin Round at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
23rd November 1869.
I, EDWIN ROUND, of Sheffield, in the County of York, Silver Plate
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"AN IMPROVED INDICATOR FOR MARKING GAMES OF SKILL OR CHANCE OR OTHER
LIRE PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
This Invention is intended to apply to indicators or markers to be used
for marking games of skill or chance, but it may also be applied to any
other purposes for which indicators are or may be used, and consists of
a revolving or rotary disc carrying numbers, letters, or other marks

page_text: thereon, furnished with a permanent opaque screen or shutter affixed
in front, or it may be in front and behind thereof, and made to
cover the whole of such revolving disc with the exception of a space or
spaces therein formed for the purpose, through which any number or
letter can be seen when brought into the said space. The revolving
disk may conveniently have one or more handles attached to its periphery
or to the axis on which it is made to work for the purposes of actuating
it, and a hinged or other foot piece or stand may be attached to both
disc and screen, so that they may stand at any angle or lie flat. The
apparatus may be made of metal, wood, or of any suitable materials.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Edwin Round in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 23rd May 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWIN
ROUND, of Sheffield, in the County of York, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand cight hundred and sixty-nine, in the
thirty-third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Edwin Round, Her special licence,
that I, the said Edwin Round, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Edwin Round, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed.
should and lawfully might make, usc, cxcrcise, and vend, within the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and
Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED INDICATOR FOR MARKING
GAMES OP SKILL OR CHANCE OR OTHER LIKE PURPOSE," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Edwin Round, my executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one
of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be
performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edwin Round, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, that is to say :-
This Invention is intended to apply to indicators or markers to be used
for marking games of skill or chance, but it may also be applied to any
other purposes for which indicators are or may be used, and consists of
a revolving or rotary disc carrying numbers, letters, or other marks
thereon furnished with a permanent opaque screen or shutter affixed in
front, or it may be in front and behind thereof, and made to cover the
whole face of such revolving disc with the exception of a space or spaces
therein formed for the purpose, through which any number or letter can
be seen when brought into the said space. The revolving disk may
conveniently have one or more handles attached to its periphery or to
the axis on which it is made to work for the purposes of actuating it,
and a hinged or other foot piece or stand may be attached to both disc
and screen so that they may stand at any angle or lie flat. The
apparatus may be made of metal, wood, or of any suitable materials.
In the accompanying Drawing, which will serve as an illustration of
my Invention, the indicator is made of wood, and the disc and screen
are shown at an angle inclined to the stand or foot piece, but they may
be made if desired at right angles to it.
Figure I. is a front elevation, and Figure 2 is a side elevation.
a is the stand or foot piece; b, the support for the screens b*; c,
the
revolving disc having numbers on intended to appear at the orifice d;
e, spindle on which the disc works; f, handle of disc.
In witness whereof, I, tho said Edwin Round, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of May, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy.
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Witness to the signature of
the said Edwin Round,
GEORGE H. SAMPSON.
EDWIN ROUND. (L.S.)