US1075859A - Indicating device. - Google Patents

Description

F. ROSEWATER.

INDIGATING DEVICE.

APPLICATION rum) APR. 2, 1913.

1,075,359, Patented Oct. 14, 1913.

WITNESSES: INVENTOR IRANK ROSEWATER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

INDICATING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 2, 1913. Serial No. 758,403.

Patented Oct. 14, 1913.

To all whom it may concern:

'30 it known that I, FRANK Rosnwarnn, a citizen of the United States," residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented an Indicating Device, of which the following is a specification.

' My invention consists in a contrivance for indicating numerals or other characters in scoring games, and in spelling out words as an amusement or educational exercise also in the playin of games.

It is il ustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which: Figures 1 and 2 show the 'two opposite sides of the device when in operation. Fig.

i 3 shows a flat view of a containing envelop,

and Figs. 4 and 5 show the opposite faces of the game disk 13 bearing upon either side a series of characters to be indicated. Fig.

6 shows the device with the envelo/12A partly open, as seen in Fig. 6.

open and, supported by the end. exhibiting its face bearing the score in an almost upright position as if mounted on an easel.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

Figs. 1 and 2 show the opposite sides of the complete device with the disks B B automaticall held within the adjustable envelop A, t e outer edge of their peripheries, projecting slightly beyond the top and bottom respectively of the casing formed by the closed envelop, passing throu h a series of slots located opposite each 0t er along the parallel folds. Placing the projecting ends of any disk between ones fingers it may easily be revolved and the figures or char:

acters on its face alternately exposed through the orifice alining with it on the face of the envelop A. The envelop may be kept closed through the insertion of the lip i into the incision hh, or b sealing the lid in to the lap m or it ma he left partially e device in Fig. 1 indicates a score of 4 games and 3 points,

and in Fig. 2 the formation of the word he.

Fi 3 shows the envelop opened flat, ex-

. hibitmg the lip 11, the incis on hh into which the lip Is to be inserted the slots 99 gg g and gg through which the edges of the dislzsl pass and by means of which when the envelo is wholly or partially closed, the disks are eld in place and may be revolved.to suit the objects desired, and the orifices (id and 'd'd' through which the respective figures and characters on the face of the disks B B are alternately exposed while the remaining ones remain hidden from view.

Fig. 4 shows thedisk B faced with a double series of numerals, one of which has its figures each inclosed within a circle. They are alined close to the outer edge of, the disk so as to alternately appear visible through the orifice d on the face of the envelo A, labeled Games, as the disk is revo ved. The object of the circled series of figures is to denote that the score of points is minus or in the hole without impairing the service of the device in simultaneously indicating the score of games and without requiring a separate disk or other device for the purpose.

Fig. 6 exhibits the device with its scoring face in a nearly upright posture, similar to that of a picture mounted on an easel, and indicating a score of 4 games and 3 points, the end is acting as a support to the middle part on which the .score is indicated, the disks B passing through the slotted portions of the folds in the envelop, between which they are clasped and revolved.

It is obvious that if the sizes of the respective slots and disks are properly adapted to each other, the disks will be clasped between the edges of the slots with sufliclent firmness that while easily revolved they will remain stationary whenever stopped and will always travel in a uniform circuit, and that if the characters on the disks are properly located with respect to the orifices in the envelop they will all in turn be duly exposed to view isolated from the rest and distin ished thereby for indicating. It is also'o vious that the length of the envelop A, the number of disks it contains and the variety of characters or series of characters on the face of the respective disks ma be indefinitelyextended so as to form wor s of varied length and a variety of numbers of eatly varied numerical quantity, the inlabels, such as base ball in one instance and 1 card games in the other, by suiting the labels on the envelop and the characters on the disks accordingly and that this facility for labeling the exposed characters can be further increased by reversing the folds of the envelop and exposing the other side of the sheet it forms faced with a different series of labels or distinguishing marks. It is also obvious that when the envelop is left open, as seen in Fig; 6, not only both sides of the upper fold but both sides of the envelop also may be printed with approprlat-e labels suitable to the position of the respective orifices and afi'ording four different forms of label for each orifice to suit-different games to be scored or other uses; also that this duality of service is applicable to any of the uses to which the device may be 'put. It is also obvious that for games 1n which the units arenot scored a cipher may be substituted on the envelo in place of an orifice and the necessity o a special disk for the units obviated, thereby reducing the relative compass and cost of the device. It is furthermore obvious that by proper alinement of the successive apertures in the face sides of the envelop the characters ex posed may be formed into words on one side and numbers on the other, and that the device may thus be used as a game, the players each successively forming and naming a word on one side and requiring their re- I spective opponents, without seeing the other side, to give the number there shown, scoring favorably if correct and unfavorably if incorrect. Based on the relation between the figures on one side and the alphabetical letters on the other, a variety of games may be devised. It is also obvious that the disks,

. unhampered by eyelets or other binding devices, may be made to overlap each other to an extent greatly economizing the compass of the evice, and that the facility with which the disks may be taken out of the envelop readily enables their arrangement to be altered or their faces reversed; it is also obvious that the size and position of the respective orifices in the envelop A could be enlarged or altered to suit the nature of the registry to be made and the size the month, as needed. It is obvious thatthe side is of the envelop could be slitted vertically near its ends and the end strips fastened to the side we while the middle portion remained open continuing its support of the scoring side in the position shown in Fig. 6.

The envelop may be made of tough card board, cloth-lined card board, cambric,linen, leather or other suitable material. The disks may be made of stiff card board, celluloiril or plate metal or other suitable mater1a The advantage I claim for my device is the wide range of service it is capable of, its simplicity, its economy both in compass and cost of construction, its facility for reversing faces and interchanging arts, the perfect freedom of its faces from t e obtrusion of parts or marks not pertinent to its service, its facility to stand up without extraneous devices and keep the score more conspicuously in view of the players, and also the facility of not only using either face of the folded envelop but also of the new faces formed by reversing the folds of the envelop and exposing the labels on its other side.

I am aware that game counters have hitherto been used in which indexed rotary disks have been employed, either revolving on a pivot or spindle or else between flaps formed bycurved incisions or slots in a flat plate, but not revolving between the slotted parallel folds of an envelop such as herein described. I do not therefore claim the combination of an indexed rotary disk, revolving either with or without a pivot, together with a slotted flat plate, but

I claim:

1. In a game counter or analogous device, the combination of the apertured envelop A containing two parallel folds each provided with a series of slots arranged so that each slot shall have another slot directly opposite to it in the opposite fold, together with a series of disks of uniform diameter, each placed between two opposite slots fitted so as to bear slightly against the outer edges of the disks and each also provided with a series of characters on one or both faces so located with respect to the apertures in the envelop A as to be successively exposed to view through the apertures, isolated from.

the remaining characters, as the disks are made to revolve, all substantially as herein set forth and described.

2. In a game counter or analo ous device,

' placed between two opposite slots fitted so the remainin characters, as the disks are as to bear slightly against the outer edges of made to revo ve, all substantially as herein the disks and each also provided with a series set forth and described of characters on one or both faces so 10- FRANK ROSEWATER. 5 cated with respect to the apertures in the Witnesses:

envelopl A as to be successively exposed to ABRAHAM KUTZ,

view t rough the apertures, isolated from Ismn Smear.

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