AN IMPROVED METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR SCORING LAWN TENNIS AND OTHER LIKE GAMES
Year: 1884

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
I EDWIN RUCK KESTERTON of 93 Long Acre in the County of Middlesex
Carriage Builder do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention for AN
IMPROVED METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR SCORING LAWN TENNIS AND
OTHER LIKE GAMES to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to construct or arrange an apparatus in or by
which the progress of a game can be scored during its progress the register being
visible from both sides.
For the purposes
of my
Invention I mount a series of plates of metal or other
material upon rings or supports mounted on a pedestal or attached to a frame and
in such a manner that the plates can be turned. Each plate has the necessary.
numeral or sign, with a repent on the next following plate to enable the scoring to
be read from both sides of the apparatus.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
I EDWIN RUCK KESTERTON of 93 Long Acre in the County of Middlesex,
Carriage Builder, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention for "AN
IMPROVED METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR SCORING LAWN TENNIS AND
OTHER LIKE GAMES," and in what manner the same is to be performed, to ba
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The object of this Invention is to construct or arrange an apparatus in or by
which the progress of a game can be scored during its progress the register being
visible from both sides.

page_text: For the purpose of my Invention I mount a series of plates of metal or other
material upon rings or supports mounted on a pedestal or attached to a frame and
in such a manner that the plates can be turned. Each plate has the necessary
numeral or sign, with a repeat on the next following plate, to enable the scoring to
be read from both sides of the apparatus.
In the annexed Drawings I show three examples of my apparatus for the
purpose above mentioned. In Figure 1 A is the support the lower end B of which
may be forced into the ground or be attached to a wall or to a spread out foot to
stand upon the ground or otherwise. The upper part of the support A has a bent
over bar C to which a couple of rings D D are fastened and these have a series of
plates E E hung to them, said plates E E having numerals or other devices on
them according to the denominations or callings of the game that are intended to be
registered.
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For the game of "lawn tennis the plates are numbered on one face in
white and on the other in red or in such color as to be easily read from a
reasonable distance, the plates from one side only being turned over to indicate a
different numeral or sign this being exhibited from both sides of the apparatus as
indicated at Figure 1 in which the backplate is shown partially turned up.
The apparatus thus described would represent "game" only but by having a
second set of plates similarly or otherwise marked, and of smaller size fitted on to
the same upright as shown on the left hand side of Figure 1, the "setts" can be
registered as each game is completed, the record being visible to the players from
both sides of the play-ground.
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The diagram Figure 2 shows the arrangement of numbering the plates for both
"games" and "sotts."
Figure 3 represents a slightly modified arrangement of plates for the same
purpose. In this arrangement the rings are formed by turning the inner ends of
the plates to be threaded over the upper part of the pedestal or upright support A,
the plates in succession being folded round on the upright as a hinge pivot as and
for the same purpose as described for Figure 1.
-In-Figuro-4-the-plates have rods whose ends are in the rings of a fork F forming
part of or attached to an upright.
Other methods of hanging loose fitting plates on uprights can be adopted but
those shown are sufficient to indicate the nature of my Invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
Mounting a series of plates by rings or their equivalents on supports in such a
manner that the numerals or signs of the same qualification can be seen from both
sides of the apparatus simultaneously as described and as shown on the annexed
Drawings.
Dated this 2nd day of September 1884.