Improvements in or connected with Apparatus for Scoring or. Marking Games.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Sept., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 29th June, 1894-Accepted, 4th Aug., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Apparatus for Scoring or.
Marking Games.
We, WILLIAM BRAYSHAW ANDREWS, of Booth Ferry Road, Goole, in the
County of York, Architect, and JOHN HALL, of Pasture Road, Goole aforesaid,
Mechanic, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to the improved construction of a device or apparatus
adapted for scoring or marking points or other desired records in a game.
Our said apparatus in its simplest form consists in a plate, preferably of metal,
having an arm pivoted at one end to a stud fixed in the said plate, so that the said
arm can be moved over the surface of the plate. A series of holes or recesses are
formed in the plate in an arc of a circle, having the said stud as its centre, and the
free end of the aforesaid arm passes over these holes. A projection is provided on
the underside of the arm to enter the said holes, and the arm itself may consist of
a flat spring to enable the said projection to be moved from one hole to another, or
the arm may be rigid, and the projection be operated by an independent spring on
the arm.
A knob or other suitable device is affixed to the upper side of the arm to enable
it to be grasped by the fingers when required to be moved. The aforesaid
projection is preferably bevelled, so that a side pull or pressure on the aforesaid
knob will suffice to move it from one hole to another, while the pressure of the
spring will hold it sufficiently firmly in any one hole to prevent accidental
displacement therefrom.
The plate may be provided with a prolongation to form a handle, or a separate
handle may be affixed thereto.
Any desired indication or value may be stamped or otherwise marked on the
plate against each hole, according to the particular game for which the apparatus
is required. Thus for example, a plate having five holes and the numbers "1"
to "5" stamped against them, forms a convenient ball check for an umpire at
cricket, the arm being moved forward one hole as each ball is played.
Two or more arms, each with its separate series of holes may be combined with
the same plate. Thus in constructing a lawn tennis scorer, we employ a plate
having six arms, three to each side in the game. Que arm has a series of eight
holes, five of the said holes being marked, "O," "15," "30," "40," "G,"
respectively for "points," and the remaining three, "15," "30," "40," for "owed."
Another arm has seven holes, marked "0," to "6" for "games," while the remaining
arm has five holes, marked "1" to "5" for "setts." The other three arms are
provided with similar sets of holes marked in the same manner. Our improved
lawn tennis scorer will thus shew at a glance the condition of affairs for each side
in the game.
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The above examples are given as instances of the use of our invention, but it is
obvious that by varying the number of arms and holes and marking the said holes
with the values required in each case, our apparatus may be employed for other
games than those above mentioned.
Dated this 20th ..
1909

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Apparatus for Scoring or
Marking Games.
We, WILLIAM BRAYSHAW ANDREWS, of Booth Ferry Road, Goole, in the
County of York, Architect, and JOHN HALL, of Pasture Road, Goole aforesaid,
Mechanic, 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 :-
Our invention relates to the improved construction of a device or apparatus
adapted for scoring or marking points, or other desired records in a game.
Our said apparatus in its simplest form consists in a plate, preferably of metal,
having an arm pivoted at one end to a stud fixed in the said plate, so that the said
arm can be moved over the front surface of the plate.
A series of holes are made in the plate, or a series of recesses in its front surface,
such holes or recesses being in an arc of a circle, having the aforesaid stud as its
centre, and the free end of the aforesaid arm passes over these holes or recesses.
A projection is provided on the underside of the arm to enter the said holes or
recesses, and the arm itself may consist of a flat spring to enable the said projection
to be moved from one hole or recess to another, or the arm may be rigid and the
projection be operated by an independent spring on the arm.
A knob or other suitable device is affixed to the upper side of the arm to enable
it to be grasped by the fingers when required to be moved. The aforesaid
projection is preferably bevelled, so that a side pull or pressure on the aforesaid
knob will suffice to move it from one hole or recess to another, while the pressure
of the spring will hold it sufficiently firmly in any one hole or recess to prevent
accidental displacement therefrom.
The plate may be provided with a prolongation to form a handle, or a separate
handle may be affixed thereto.
Any desired indication or value may be stamped or otherwise marked on the
plate against each hole or recess, according to the particular game for which the.
apparatus is designed, also two or more arms, each with its separate series of holes.
or recesses, may be combined with the same plate, the plate being shaped in any
suitable manner in accordance with the number and position of the arms.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings, forming part of this Specification, in
which similar letters of reference denote similar parts throughout :
Fig. 1 is a plan, and
Fig. 2 a section through A, A, in Fig. 1 of a ball check for use by an umpire at
cricket, constructed in accordance with our invention.
Fig. 3 is a plan, and
Fig. 4 a section through B, B, in Fig. 3 of a lawn tennis scorer, constructed in
accordance with our invention.
Fig. 5 is a section shewing an arm of modified construction.
The umpire's cricket ball check, shewn in Figs. 1 and 2, represents one of the
simplest forms of our invention. It consists of a sector shaped plate C, having a
flat spring arm D moving at one end about a stud E.
Five recesses F are formed in the plate in the arc of a circle, having the stud E
for its centre.
. On the underside of the spring arm D a projection H is affixed, adapted to enter
any one of the recesses F; the said projection is bevelled, as shewn, so that it can
the more readily pass from one recess to the other, when the knob J on the arm is
pushed sideways by the fingers.
The numbers "1" to "5" are stamped or marked against the recesses F, and the
apparatus forms a convenient ball check for an umpire at cricket, the arm D being
moved forward one recess as each ball is played.

page_text: The lawn tennis scorer, shewn in Figs. 3 and 4 represents a more complicated
form of our invention. A plate C, preferably of semi-circular form is used, having
six spring arms D, three to each side in the game, moving about studs E fixed in
the plate. One arm has a series of eight holes F1 five of the said holes being
marked "0," "15," "30," "40," "G," respectively for "points," and the remaining
three, "15," "30," "40," for "owed." Another arm has seven holes, marked "()
to "6" for "games," while the remaining arm has six holes, marked "0" to "5"
for "setts."
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The other three arms are provided with similar sets of holes marked in the same
manner. Our improved lawn tennis scorer will thus shew at a glance the condition
of affairs for each. side in the game. The arms are provided with bevelled
projections H and knobs J as before described.
The plate C is shewn furnished with a prolongation C¹ to form a handle, but a
separate handle may be attached if preferred.
The cricket ball check may also, if desired, be provided with a handle.
The above examples are given as instances of the use of our invention, but it is
obvious that by varying the number of arms and holes and marking the said holes
with the values required in each case, our apparatus may be employed for other
games than those above mentioned.
Although the cricket ball check is described as constructed with recesses F, boles
may be employed instead, if preferred, while recesses may be used in place of the
holes shewn in the lawn tennis scorer.
In practice the projections H may conveniently consist of prolongations of the
stems of the knobs J, as shewn.
In the modification shewn in Fig. 5, a rigid arm D moves about a stud E and
has affixed to its upper surface a flat spring D₁ carrying the knob J and
projection H, a hole K is formed in the arm D to allow the projection H to pass
through.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim, is:-
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1. In an apparatus for scoring games, in combination, a plate having holes or
recesses, a spring arm moving about a stud on the face of said plate and provided
on its upper side with a knob and on its underside with a bevelled projection
adapted to engage with any one of said holes or recesses, substantially as set
forth.
2. In an apparatus for scoring games, in combination, a plate having holes or
recesses, a rigid arm moving about a stud on the face of said plate, provided on its
upper side with a flat spring having on its upper side a knob and on its underside a
bevelled projection adapted to engage with anyone of said holes or recesses,
substantially as set forth, with reference to Fig. 5 of the accompanying drawings.
3. A cricket ball check, consisting of a plate C, having five holes or recesses F,
a spring arm D movable about a stud E on the face of said plate and provided with
a knob J and bevelled projection H, adapted to engage with said holes or recesses F,
all substantially as and for the purpose described, with reference to Figs. 1 and 2
of the accompanying drawings.
4. A lawn tennis scorer, consisting of a plate C, having six series of holes F¹ and
six spring arms D, movable about studs E on the face of said plate and each
provided with a knob J and bevelled projection H, adapted to engage with said
holes F, all substantially as and for the purpose described, with reference to Figs. 3
and 4 of the accompanying drawings.
D 1 f Tune 1901
AMBROSE MYALL,
2, Lancaster Place, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicants.