Improvements in Apparatus Employed in Scoring at Billiards and other Games.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Apr., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Aug., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 5th Oct., 1888
Improvements in Apparatus Employed in Scoring at Billiards
and other Games.
I FREDERICK HENRY AYRES of 111 Aldersgate Street in the City of London,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
These improvements are designed to improve the operation of the fingers, indicators
or pointers in scoring apparatus for use in playing games at billiards, bagatelle,
bésique, whist and other games by supporting those indicators in a more convenient
manner.
The indicators of ebony for billiards or other material for those or other games are
mounted on straps or clasp parts which slide on tubular rails. These rails may be of
angular or other suitable form adapted to the shapes of the indicator clasps and to
effectually prevent the rocking of the indicators and liability to scratch the face of
the dial or board carrying the indications.
The indicators may have rearward projections, or pins, or equivalent parts entering
slits, or slots, in the rails, or inlet wearing parts may by inlaying in the board face
adjacent to the sliding indicators' channel aid to prevent injury to the face.
Dated the with day of Ancil 1000
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London,
Agents for the Applicant.

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I FREDERICK HENRY AYRES of 111 Aldersgate Street, in the City of London,
Manufacturer, 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:-
These improvements are designed to improve the operation of the fingers, indicators
or pointers in scoring apparatus for use in playing games at billiards, bagatelle,
bésique, whist and other games by supporting those indicators in a more convenient
manner..
The indicators of ebony for billiards or other material for those or other games are
mounted on straps or clasp parts which slide on tubular rails. These rails may be of
angular or other suitable form adapted to the shapes of the indicator clasps and to
effectually, prevent the rocking of the indicators and liability to scratch the face
of the dial.or.board carrying the indications.
The indicators.may have rearward.projections, or pins, or equivalent parts entering
slits or slots, in the rails, or inlet wearing parts may by inlaying in the board face
adjacent to the sliding indicators' channel aid to prevent injury to the face.
DESCRIPTION OF THE. DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 and Fig. 1 show respectively the left hand part of "spot" and the right
hand corresponding portion of "plain" registers of a Billiard Marking Board the
middle portion of the registers being omitted for convenience of the drawings.
a
are numerical indications for use in signalling the progress of the game,
aa, a³, a are the two "spot" and two "plain" indicators which run on the angular
rods or rails 6, 62, 63, respectively these rods being screwed at their ends to the
frame or otherwise fastened in position.
Fig. 2 is a rear view of one end of the board shewn by Eig..1..
Fig. 3 is a back view Fig. 4.a sectional view (taken through the line of middle of
the angular guiding strap a) and Fig. 5 is an edge view of one of the sliding
indicators: Fig. 5 indicates the section of bar.
The bars 62, 63, 6; are secured by the screws 68 to the frame 6 and they are
further held in place by fillets 66, 66 at their rear screwed edgewise into the frame b
by screws 67 67. The several indicators are slung thereon by their correspondingly
shaped tubular supports or shoes a³. The straps, shoes or tubular supports are con-
nected to the backs of the indicators by means of screws a passing through the metal
inner side of the tube into the indicator the tube being cut away to admit of the
screws being driven.

page_text: Fig. 6 is a face or front view of a whist marker having a pointer similarly mounted
on a rod of cross section corresponding to the strap of the index finger.
Other marking indicators for games may be similarly mounted.
By these means the pointers are prevented from rocking on their supporting rails
and from scratching the face of the board.
Figs. 7 and 8 show respectively sections of angular and square rods and runners.
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:
The manufacture and use of game markers or scoring apparatus with bars and
runners, straps or supports for the indicators so shaped to correspond, as to prevent
rocking and scratching as and for the purpose substantially hereinbefore set forth.
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London,
Agents for the Applicant.
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London,
Agents for the Applicant.