A New or Improved Counting Apparatus applicable for Scoring Billiards and other Games, for Turnstiles, for Gas Meters, and for other similar purposes.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Aug, 1897
Complete Specification Left, 16th Nov., 1897-Accepted, 26th Mar., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Counting Apparatus applicable for Scoring
Billiards and other Games, for Turnstiles, for Gas Meters, and for
other similar purposes.
I, EDWIN PRIEST, of 81, Bridge Street, Manchester, Clock and Indicator Maker,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to such apparatus as may be employed to record and exhibit
the progress of the score in a game of billiards or similar games and is also
applicable to turnstiles, gas meters and like purposes, and has for its object to so
simplify such apparatus that in place of a separate dial for the units tens and
hundreds a single dial may be made to suffice.
My improved recording apparatus consists as aforesaid of a single circular dial
having its face divided by preference into two concentric sets of divisions and
provided with hands similar to the hour and minute hands of a clock, the shorter
by preference of which may be revolved in any convenient manner to indicate the
divisions on the inner circle and the longer hand being caused to follow through a
train of wheel gearing to indicate the divisions on the outer circle.
As applied to recording an individual score in a game at billiards, I prefer to
divide the inner circle into ten divisions representing the units and the outer circle
into one hundred so that ten complete complete revolutions of the units hand shall
give one revolution of the longer hand or a complete game of one hundred and in
order to act as a check upon the number of games played or the number of com-
plete hundreds recorded I provide a third hand so geared and actuated as to indicate
on the outer circle the number of complete hundreds recorded.
The hands can be arranged to be set at zero at any time without delay.
As applied to turnstiles, gas meters, and the like a similar arrangement of
divisioned circles and hands may be employed and the inner circle may be divided
into one hundred and the outer circle to one thousand to give a higher reading as
desired.
Dated in 95th dox of August 1897.

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A New or Improved Counting Apparatus applicable for Scoring
Billiards and other Games, for Turnstiles, for Gas Meters, and for
other similar purposes.
I, EDWIN PRIEST, of 81, Bridge Street, Manchester, Clock and Indicator Maker,
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:
My invention relates to such apparatus as may be employed to record the progress
of the score in a game of billiards or similar games and is also applicable to
turnstiles, gas meters, & similar purposes, and has for its object to simplify such
apparatus that in place of a seperate dial for units, tens & hundreds, a single dial
may be made to suffice. My improved counting apparatus consists of a single
circular dial having its face divided by preference into two concentric sets of
divisions & provided with hands similar to the hour & minute hands of a clock,
the shorter by preference of which may be revolved in any convenient manner to
indicate the divisions on the inner circle & the longer hand being caused to follow
through a train of wheels to indicate the divisions on the outer circle.
applied to counting an individual score in a game of billiards, I prefer to divide the
inner circle into ten divisions representing the units and the outer circle into one
hundred so that ten complete revolutions of the units hand shall give one revolu-
tion of the longer hand or a complete game of one hundred.
As
The arrangement I here fully describe by the help of a drawing and letters of
reference to the chief claim as under.
Figure 1 is an elevation through Y Y without dial or case.
Figure 2 is a cross section through X X.
Figure 3 is an elevation of dial.
A is scale for Figures 1 & 2.
B is scale for Figure 3.
The spindle (a) in Figure 2 driven through universal joint (b) by handwheel (c)
or any other method of application transmitting motion to spindle (d) in ordinary
manner through a pair of bevel wheels on shafts (a) and (d). On shaf d, is
wheel (e) carrying the unit finger (f) in wheel (e) also gears wheel (9) carrying
pinion (h) which drives wheel (5). On wheel (j) is carried finger (k) which indicates
tens, () is also geared into wheel (1) carrying gathering pallet (m) which gives
motion to wheel (n) carrying finger (o) which indicates hundreds and thousands.
Wheel (n) is held in position by steel spring (p) which admits of this finger being
placed at zero when desired. Finger () is placed in position by a friction spring,
which also admits of independent motion to zero. Finger (f) on spindle (d) is at
once placed at zero by a single revolution. (r) is a click & ratchet to prevent the
machine being put backwards. And in order to act as a check upon the number
of games played or the number of complete hundreds finger o is so geared & actuated
as to indicate on the inner circle the number of complete hundreds & thousands
recorded. The hands are arranged with friction springs, like a clock, to be set
a zero at anytime. Being made on the metric or decimal system, the hands can
never get out of their relative position to each other, counting themselves out to
zero without any alteration of the hands.
As applied to turnstiles, gas meters and the like a similar arrangement of
divisioned circles & hands may be employed & the two concentric circles divided
into hundreds and thousands to give a higher reading as desired.

page_text: Having now particularly described & ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion & in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:-
:-
An indicating & counting apparatus specially applicable for scoring billiard &
other games for turnstiles for gas meters, to accomplish on one dial (with two
concentric divisions) a quick correct result by a simple arrangement of hands
similar to the hands of a clock & to show at sight any indicated number from one
to thousands, calculated throughout on the decimal or metric system counting
itself out to zero automatically as applied by drawing.
Dated this 12th day of November 1897
EDWIN PRIEST,
81, Bridge Street, Manchester.