A REGISTER WITH SLIDING OR MOVEABLE INDICATOR OR INDICATORS FOR SCOREING GAMES OR SIMILAR PURPOSES
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Wood, of Newport, in the County of Monmouth-
shire, for an Invention of "A REGISTER WITH SLIDING OR MOVEABLE
INDICATOR OR INDICATORS FOR SCOREING GAMES OR SIMILAR PURPOSES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Wood at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 18th July 1881.
JAMES WOOD, of Newport, in the County of Monmouthshire.
"A REGISTER
WITH SLIDING OR MOVEABLE INDICATOR OR INDICATORS FOR SCOREING GAMES OR
SIMILAR PURPOSES."
It can be manufactured on wood, ivory, metal, or other suitable material or
combination of materials. The Drawings are simply illustrative of my Invention.
It is formed by a slot, slots, or hollow in the centre or body of the material, with
a flange on either or both sides thereof. On the flange, flanges, or borders of slot
or slots are affixed, engraved, or otherwise delineated figures or numerals by units,
tens, and other necessary followers. The sliding or moveable indicator or indicators
marked on the Drawings I within the slot or slots is hinged or secured to a guide or
guides, so as to record or indicate the score or number on the left or right hand of
flange or flanges, as may be required, for registering or scoreing the gaine made by
one or more players. The Drawing marked A represents the register as employing
one or more indicators, and also its application of registering by units and tens;
B, with single direct indicator; C, with single reversible indicator; and D, its
utility in a ring or disc form. I do not limit myself to any particular shape,
precise relative dimensions, or to the use of any special material or combination
of materials.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said James Wood in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 11th January
1882.
JAMES WOOD, late of Newport, in the County of Monmouth, but now of
Bladud Buildings, in the City of Bath, in the County of Somerset. "A REGISTER
WITH SLIDING OR MOVEABLE INDICATOR OR INDICATORS FOR SCORING GAMES
AND OTHER SUITABLE PURPOSES."
My Invention is designed to provide a means by which each person engaged in
a game may readily score or check his own, and in some instances also, his
opponent's progress towards the number to be attained, and the appliance or
register is intended to be applied or affixed to billiard and other cues, bats, card
tables, and other articles where the registering of numbers is requisite; or it may
be made in a portable form and conveniently carried in the pocket. The register
can be manufactured of wood, ivory, or metal, or of other suitable material,
according to taste or requirements, and the following description will suffice for
any material or materials:-I take a sheet or strip of metal or other suitable
material the dimensions that the register is to be when finished, and by means of
dies, punches, or cutting or slotting tools I so shape the material as to give it the
contour of the article to which it is to be applied or affixed, and to make a slot or
slots down the length of the material, leaving a flange on either or both sides of
such slot or slots, as shewn in the accompanying Drawings. On the flange or
flanges I affix, engrave, stamp, or otherwise delineate figures or numerals by units,
tens, and other necessary followers. In the slot or slots an indicator marked in
the Drawings I is placed, and capable of being slid from end to end, so that it may
be brought over or made to point to or otherwise expose to view any required
number on the flange or flanges, and to and beneath the plate of such indicator or
indicators I screw, rivet, or otherwise secure a spring marked "a" in the slot or
slots, so as to produce a tension, and by its resistance help the indicator from
working loose, and so that the same may be moved or slid on the face of the
register to its required position of mark. I sometimes make the indicators hinged;
they are then reversible, and after one has been made to travel or score along one
flange of the register to the end, it may be reversed and made to travel or score
along the opposite flange. A represents a register with one or more indicators, and
shews the method of registering by units and tens; B represents a register with
two or more indicators, according to required dimensions; C represents a register
with a reversible indicator; D represents a register with a direct indicator;
E represents a register in a ring or disc form; and F and G represents enlarged
form of indicator shewing a convenient method of attaching indicator to the slotted
plate or face of register. The plate or face of register and the indicators may, if
desired, be formed of different materials; for example, the register may be of silver
and the indicators of ivory, or to the contrary, or of wood and metal in a similar
manner. When the appliance is attached to a cue, bat, card table, or other suitable
article, it may be sunk and held in its place by screws or their equivalent, so as
not to be in the way when in use; or it may be mounted as circumstances may
require or fancy dictate.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and in what manner the
same may be performed, I would have it distinctly understood that I do not limit
myself to any particular shape or precise relative dimensions of parts, or to the
use of any special material or combination of materials, and I declare what I
consider novel and claim as my Invention is,-
1. A register for scoring or checking the scoring of numbers, such register having
indicator or indicators sliding in a slot or slots, substantially as hereinbefore set
forth.

page_text: 2. A register for the purposes aforesaid with a reversible indicator sliding in a
slot, substantially as hereinbefore described.
3. The combination of such a registering appliance, as hereinbefore described
and claimed with a billiard or other cues or bats.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Wood, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Tenth day of January, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty two.
JAMES WOOD. (L.S.)