A Mechanical Counter, Especially Applicable for Scoring the Game of Golf.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Sept., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 26th June, 1890-Accepted, 26th July, 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Mechanical Counter, Especially Applicable for Scoring the
Game of Golf.
1 GERALD ROBERT SPENCER of the Naval and Military Club 94 Piccadilly
London in the County of Middlesex late Captain Royal Artillery, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:
This invention relates to a counting machine having one or more dises with consecutive
numbers marked thereon placed within a case through which by means of suitable
openings one of the figures of each disc may be exposed to view.
These discs represent respectively units, tens, and hundreds according to the range
of numbers which the counting machine should be capable of registering.
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The "units" disc is provided with ratchets operated upon by means of a pawl
movement and the "tens" disc depends for its motion upon the "units disc in
such a manner that it moves one unit representing ten upon each complete. revolution
of the "units" disc.
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In case of a hundreds "disc this depends in the same manner for a unit
movement upon each complete revolution of the "tens "disc and so on.
So far the counting machine resembles in construction and in operation, counting
machines such as are employed for many registering purposes.
The object of my invention is to combine with a counting machine such as above
described a subsidiary "units" disc, or "units" and "tens discs according to the
range of numbers which the counting machine should be capable of registering to be
operated simultaneously with the primary counting mechanism and to be capable of
being set to zero without interfering therewith.
By this means while the primary counting mechanism may go on registering so
as to show the total number of scores registered, the subsidiary counting mechanism
shows the total number scored since it was last set at zero and provides a sum
which deducted from the total indicated by the primary counting mechanism will give
the total number scored at the period when the subsidiary counting mechanism was
last set at zero.
For use in the game of Golf such counting mechanism may conveniently consist
of a * units " and
tensdisc for the primary counting mechanism and a "units"
disc for the subsidiary counting mechanism and the following description of the
machine thus reduced to a simple form will explain the nature of my invention.
The units "dise of the primary counting mechanism has ten indents or ratchets
operated upon by a spring pawl moved by a draw bolt outside the case which
encloses the mechanism. A second spring pawl is provided at the opposite side of
the "units" disc to prevent this disc from performing any return movement
when the draw bolt is returned to its normal position. Upon the "units" disc I
provide a projection which engages in detents formed in the "tens "disc so as to
move this through one tenth of a revolution for each complete revolution of the
"units" disc.
I provide a spring with a wedge shaped stop thereon to drop into the detents of
the "tens" disc so as to prevent any accidental movement of this disc but allowing
for its movement by the projection upon the "units" disc engaging in another of
its detents and urging its rotation sufficiently to lift the wedge shaped stop from
the detent in which it engaged and allow it to drop into the next succeeding one.
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Upon the shaft or axis of the "units" disc I secure a spur wheel engaging with
another spur wheel of equal diameter fitted loosely upon the shaft or axis of the units
dise of the subsidiary counting mechanism; but connected therewith by a spring pawl
attached to the spur wheel and engaging with ratchet teeth formed upon this shaft or axis.

page_text: By this arrangement the subsidiary counting mechanism is carried forward by the
movement of the primary counting mechanism and may be set forward to zero by
means of a button or suitable handle at the exterior of the case which being turned
in one direction moves the "units" disc of the subsidiary counting mechanism with
its shaft or axis operating the pawl engaging therewith so as not to rotate the spur
wheel and consequently without disturbing the primary counting mechanism.
In order to set the primary counting mechanism at zero the "units" disc may be
operated by the draw bolt but to save time the "tens" dise may be independently
set to zero by a movement communicated thereto through a suitable opening in
the case.
In order to preserve a record of the state of the index of the primary counting
mechanism at each period when the subsidiary counting mechanism is set at zero
I provide a card which may be conveniently fitted in a slide at the back of the case
of the counting mechanism, so ruled and figured that an indentation made in the
required square will serve to record the number registered by the subsidiary
counting mechanism at each period when it was set at zero while the total
number registered by the primary counting mechanism affords a check upon such
recorils.
The indentation in the card may conveniently be made by a metal pointer which may
be carried in a suitable recess made for this purpose in the case enclosing the counting
mechanism.
* way of September 2009
AYRTON & THOMAS,
9 & 10, Southampton Buildings, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A. Mechanical Counter, Especially Applicable for Scoring the
Game of Golf..
GERALD ROBERT SPENCER of the Naval and Military Club 94 Piccadilly London
in the County of Middlesex late Captain Royal Artillery 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 a counting machine having one or more discs with
consecutive numbers marked thereon and placed within a case through which by means
of suitable openings one of the figures of each disc may be exposed to view. These
discs represent respectively units, tens, and hundreds according to the range of
numbers which the counting machine should he capable of registering.
The "units" disc is provided with ratchets operated upon by means of a pawl
movement and the "tens" disc depends for its motion upon the "units" disc in such
a manner that it moves one unit, representing ten, upon each complete revolution of
the "units" disc.
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In case of a hundreds disc, this depends in the same manner for a unit movement
upon each complete revolution of the "
tens disc and so on.
So far the counting machine resembles in construction and in operation counting
machines such as are employed for many registering purposes.
The object of my invention is to combine with a counting machine such as
above described a subsidiary 4:
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units disc or
"units" and "tens" discs according
to the range of numbers which the counting machine should be capable of
registering, to be operated simultaneously with the primary counting mechanism
and to be capable of being set to zero without interfering therewith.
By this means while the primary counting mechanism may go on registering so as to
show the total number of scores registered, the subsidiary mechanism shows the total
number scored since it was last set at zero and provides a sun which deducted from
the total indicated by the primary counting mechanism will give the total number
scored at the period when the subsidiary counting mechanism was last set at zero.

page_text: For use in the game of Golf such counting mechanism may conveniently consist of
a. "units" and tons disc for primary counting mechanism and a "units" disc for the
subsidiary counting mechanism of which the following is a description referring to
the accompanying drawings in all the Figures of which the same part is indicated by
like reference letters.
Figure 1 is a front view of the counting machine.
Figure 2 is an end view of Figure 1.
Figure 3 is a back view of the counting machine showing a card upon which
records of scores are marked.
Figure 4 is an enlarged view of Figure 3 with the card and back plate removed to
exhibit the internal mechanism.
Figure 5 is a view of the subsidiary "units" disc with its pinion and ratchet
wheel connection.
The "units dise A of the primary counting mechanism has ten indents or
ratchets B operated upon by a spring pawl C moved by a draw-bolt D outside the
case which encloses the mechanism. A second spring pawl E is provided at the
opposite side of the units disc A to prevent this disc from performing any return
movement when the draw-bolt D is returned to its normal position by the action of
the spring F.
Upon the "units" disc A. I provide a projection G which engages in detents H, of
which there are ten, formed in the "tens" disc so as to move this through one tenth
of a revolution for each complete revolution of the "units" disc A.
1 provide a spring with a wedge shaped stop K thercon to drop into the detents H
of the tens" disc successively so as to prevent any accidental movement of this
disc but allowing for its movement by the projection upon the "units" disc A
engaging in another of its detents H and urging its rotation sufficiently to lift the
wedge shaped stop K from the detent in which it engaged and allow it to drop
into the next succeeding one.
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Upon the shaft or axis of the "units" disc A I secure a spur wheel L engaging
with a spur wheel M. of equal diameter fitted loosely upon the shaft or axis of the
subsidiary units dise N but connected therewith by a spring pawl P attached to
the spur wheel M and engaging with ratchet teeth Q formed upon this shaft or
axis.
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By this arrangement the subsidiary units "dise N is rotated by the movement of
the primary "units" disc A and may be set forward to zero by means of a button
or suitable handle R at the exterior of the case which being turned in the direction
of the arrow shown in Figure 1 moves the subsidiary "units" disc N with its shaft
or axis operating the pawl I so as not to rotate the spur wheel M and consequently
without disturbing the primary counting mechanism.
In order to set the primary counting mechanism at zero the "units" disc A may
be operated by the draw-boli D but to save time the "tens" disc J may be
independently set at zero by a movement communicated thereto through an opening
which may if desired be made in the case to partly expose the "tens" disc J for this
purpose.
In order to preserve a record of the state of the index of the primary counting
mechanism at each period when the subsidiary counting mechanism is set to zero
I provide a card, which may conveniently be fitted in a slide S (see Fig. 2.) at the
back of the case of the counting mechanism, so ruled and figured that an indentation
made in the required.square will serve to record the number registered by the subsidiary
counting mechanism at each period when it was set at zero while the total number
registered by the primary counting mechanism affords a check upon such
records.
The indentation in the card may conveniently be made by a metal pointer T
which may be carried in a suitable recess made for this purpose in the case enclosing
he counting mechanism.
This pin may be provided with a ring for attaching one end of a chain the
other end of which may be attached to a similar ring U secured to the case.

page_text: 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. In a counting machine for recording scores in games, the combination of
subsidiary counting mechanism with the primary counting meclianism to record not
only the total number of scores but the number of scores made since some subsequent
starting point the subsidiary counting mechanism being capable of being set to
zero without disturbing the primary counting inechanism substantially as describied.
2. The combination of a counting machine having primary and subsidiary counting
mechanisin, with a record card, ruled as shown in Figure 3, for recording by
indentations in squares the number of strokes made between the various holes in the
game of Golf, substantially as described.
Dated this 23rd day of June 1890.
AYRTON & THOMAS,
Agents for the Applicant.