Check for an Umpire in a Cricket Match
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd May, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 16th Feb., 1894-Accepted, 28th Apr., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Check for an Umpire in a Cricket Match to Count the Balls as they
are Bowled by the Bowler, so that there shall be no Mistake in
the Number Bowled, the said Number being Five to an Over.
WILLIAM CHARLES DAWSON-105 Cromwell Road South Kensington 'S. W.
Butler do hereby declare the nature of this invention-to-be-as follows:-
A check made with an enamelled dial with figures printed on in black from one
to five, worked by cog wheel on back of dial by three springs the whole encased in
metal case the size of watch with slot to show numbers, slot having glass cover the
dial being worked round by pressing spring on top.
May 23rd 1893.
WILLIAM CHARLES DAWSON.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Check for an Umpire in a Cricket Match to Count the Balls as they
are Bowled by the Bowler, so that there shall be no Mistake in
the Number Bowled, the said Number being Five to an Over.
WILLIAM CHARLES DAWSON of Gilling Castle, Gilling in the County of
Yorks and late of 105 Cromwell Road S. W. Butler, 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 :-
The alphabetic letters in this description refer to the accompanying diagrams.
The works of my invention are placed within a case similar to an ordinary watch
case. The button at a forms a cap fitted upon the end of a circular solid wire
pusher indicated by the letter b which passes through the side of the case at p and
is narrowed to form a shoulder at q-then passed through part indicated by c and
then through o & m & is then pinned at the end to keep all in place. o is a bar
hinged to the side of case at n attached to b and has a pusher e hinged to the end
of cat d and which operates on a ratchet wheel by pushing at the face of the
angular tooth standing at right angles to a tangent of the circle made with the
circumference of the ratchet wheel.
c is a thin spring pressing upon the hinged end of pusher e to make it return
into position for another push each push bringing an orderly succession of figures
up to 5 on the dial Fig. 2 under the slot as at Fig. 3. Number 2 stands under the
slot on the accompanying diagrams. Fig. 3 represents the dial cap & slot with the
other figures dotted to represent their position under the cap.
In Fig. 1 letter shows a ratchet wheel revolving as at jon a spindle fastened to
the centre of the dial cap. Letter f is the back face of the dial. Letter is a
spring riveted to the side of the case at h pressing on the ratchet at i to keep it in
position till pressed again by e. Letter m is a spring attached to case at K at one
end and to bat the other. The action then is to press the cap a with the fore
finger while the case lies in the palm of the hand a moves b&b pushes o
& o pushes e & e moves the ratchet wheel & the wheel the figured dial. The dial
placing the figures 1. 2. 3. 4. 5 in order. 1 figure for each push appears under the
slot of dial cap where it can be easily read by the operator.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion & in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is