US1086077A - Scoring device. - Google Patents

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S. E. PAGE.

SCORING DEVICE.

APPLIUATION FILED AUG. 30, 1912.

Patented Feb. '3, 1914.

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' Specification out Letters serene Application fiiefi'August 30, 1912. Serial 717,839:

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SYDNEY ELLIo'rr PAGE, a subject of the King of Great Britain, re-

slding at- London, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Scoring Devices, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements inscoring devices, ment to a card in games of cards such as bridge, dominoes, and the like.

The objects of my improvement are, firstly to provide a writing surface which as nearly flush with the table surface as possible; and secondly to attach the said surface to the table in such a way that it may always be at hand when wanted. I attain more especially for attachthese objects by the mechanism illustrated in:

the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents the invention embodied in a detachable device with a clamping plate andscrews; Fig. 2 shows a detachable device with a clamping plate and spring: hinge; and Fig. 3 is an end view of Fig. 2'

with the The d tachable paper removed.

connection with-a card table a portion of which is indicated at t, but may beused with any table.

Fig. 1 shows one form of the detachable scorer. The writing is bent around the edge of the table and-terminates as a clamping plate having exten sions a through which pass clamping screws 15 by which the surface is firmly secured to a table or other support. The paper box e is formed with the extended flexible side It and the flange 1 which cooperating with the catches g removably secure the box to the clamping plate; the ridges i provide a paper space between the side It and the plate a. plate is is flexibly secured, or it may preferably be formed with a spring hinge, sothat the paper may be thereby held while being torn off againstthe sharp edge m. Referring to Figs. 2 and 3, the writing surface a has the flap 6 connected by a spring hinge p at one of its long sides, and the writing surface has the long edges overturned, on the right-hand side to form a guiding ridge and on the left-hand side to form the hinge and a guiding ridge; the paper fits accurately in the recess formed by the overturned edges and a. corresponding dip in the cross bars of the flap 6 further serves to hold the table for scoring the points shallevice is intended primarily for de- 1 .ruled to suit the game surface a in this case paper a steady. The clamping 'plate s is formed integrally with the brackets '12 and with a serrated edge which is pressed against the underside of the tableby the action of the spring hinge 1- formed with a spring strong enough to give a satisfactory grip to hold the plate a. Overturnedparts 9 guide the paper over the bent zdown portion. In order that the paper rollsha-ll not unwind when not required, spring strips or tongues Z are formed within press against the edges of the paper roll and prevent it turning owingto the friction set up. In certain cases where but little room is availablethe brackets '22 can be so hinged to the clamping plate that they can be pressed with the paper roll somewhat beyond the edge of the table when the folding legs thereof are up, but may fall back beyond the edge when the legs are down so that the table may be put away on itsedge without damaging the scorer. It will be seen that by providinglugs on the bent down portions of the surface a the device could readily. be attached to the table by ordinary screws passing through the beading strip 11 In any of the figures provided stamped with the score points of any particular game.

The paper may be in which it is used and the rolls of paper may readily be changed by springing them into the brack ets v, where they may be prevented from too free rotation by the springs Z, struckup from'the metal of brackets '12.

In Fig. 2, the bar m is to represent the division line used for the game of bridge Having finished a score, the flap b is raised, the paper 0 pulled along and the used part out off against the fine edge a: of the flap b.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is S 1. The combination, in a table attachment for scoring and the like, of a; thin body portion having a downward addition and hav ing overturned lateral strip of paper from a roll, a flap having a transverse tearing edge thereon, a springcontrolled hinge connecting the said flap and the body portion so that the flap normally presses down on the latter, a clamping plate attached to said downward addition and projecting longitudinally underneath the end of the body portion to an extent not appreciably greater than the size of a roll of paper, means for connecting edges for guiding 9.

Patented Feb. 3,1914.

the bracket '0 which the space n may be a the clamping plate with the under surface of a table so that the said body portion may be thereby removably secured to single table edges of varying thickness whollyfrom one end, and means for rotatably securing a single roll of paper on said clampingplate.

2. The combination, in a table attachment for scoring and the like, of a thin body portion having a downward addition and having overturned lateral edges for guiding a strip of paper from a roll, a cutting-0E edge flexibly secured to and supported transversely the body portion, a clamping plate projecting longitudinally underneath the end of the body portion to an extent not appreciably greater than the size of a full roll of paper, a spring'controlled hinge between the said clamping plate and the extremity of said downward addition, and means for rotatably securing a single roll of paper on said clamping plate.

3. The combination, in a table attachment for scoring and the like, of a thin body portion having a downward addition and having overturned lateral edges for guiding a strip of paper from a roll thereof, a flap having a transverse tearing edge thereon, a spring-controlled hinge connecting the said flap and the body portion so that the flap normally presses down on the latter, a clamping plate projecting longitudinally underneath the end of the said body portion to an extent not appreciably greater than the size of a full roll of paper, a springcontrolled hinge between the said clamping plate and the extremity of said downward addition, and means for rotatably securing a single roll of paper on said clamping plate.

4. The combination, in a table attachment for scoring and the like, of a thin body portion having a downward addition and having overturned lateral edges for guiding a strip of paper from a roll, an open flap having a transverse tearing-edge along its top edge and having depressed cross-bars, a spring-controlled hinge connecting the said flap and the body portion, a clamping plate projecting longitudinally underneath the end of the said body portion to an extent not appreciably greater than the size of a full roll of paper, a spring-controlled hinge between said clamping plate and the extremity of said downward addition, and means for rotatably securing a single roll of paper on said clamping plate.

5. The combination, in a table attachment for scoring and the like, of a thin body portion having a downward addition and having overturned lateral edges for guiding a strip of paper from a roll thereof, a cutting edge flexibly secured to and supported transversely of the body portion, a clamping plate projecting longitudinally underneath the end of the bodyportion to an extent not appreciably greater than the size of a full roll of paper, a spring-controlled hinge between said clamping plate and the extremity of said downward addition, and flexible brackets attached to the said clamping plate and having pivots for entering the hollow center of a single paper roll and having flexible tongues or strips bearing against the paper roll, all substantially as described herein.

In testimony whereof I afix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

SYDNEY ELLioi r PAGE.

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