US1167715A - Score-board. - Google Patents

Description

J. L. PREO.

SCORE BOARD.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.13. 1914.

Patented Jan. 11, 1916.

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JOHN L. PREO, OF NEJV YORK, N. Y.

SCORE-BOARD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 3131, 1916.

Application filed March 13, 1914. Serial No. 824,468.

To (ZZZ whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN L. PREO, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, borough of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful improve ment in Score-Boards, of which the follow ing is a full, clear, and exact specification.

This invention relates to a class of devices adapted to be employed for displaying the results of athletic games, and the like.

My invention has for its object primarily to provide a score board designed to be utilized for permitting the results of a series of sporting events, especially baseball games and the like, to be displayed thereon in a manner whereby the score of the games played during agiven period may be shown in their regular order, and wherein is employed a supporting board having on one face thereof a schedule divided into a number of parallel spaced vertical. columns on each of which are designated the names of the contesting clubs matched to play games on given days, and in the board between the columns are a number of pairs of spaced slits w ereby the parts of the board therebetween may be guided in spaced relation to the face thereof which is opposite to the schedule so as to provide vertically disposed pockets as well as serving as retaining members, or sections.

Another obiect of the invention is to provide one or a plurality of flexible scores slides, or strips, one of which is removably inserted in each of the pockets between its retaining members and the adjacent marginal edges of the board; and still another object of the invention is to provide each score strip with notched ends, or locking parts adapted to be engaged by the retaining members in a manner to hold the score strips against accidental displacement in the board.

A further object of the invention is to provide a score board which is susceptible of being made of card board, or other cheap material so as to be sold at a very reasonable price.

\Vith these and other objects in view, the invention will be hereinafter more particularly described with reference to the accompanying drawing which forms a part of this specification, and will then be pointed out in the claims at the end of the description.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a front elevation of one form of score board embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a section the line H-H of Fig. 1, with the score strips removed therefrom. Fig. 3 is an elevation of one of the removable score strips employed in the device, and Fig. a is a plan of an auxiliary removable slide adapted to be used in conjunction with the score board.

The device, or score board has a supporting board 10 which may be of any desired shape and size, and this supporting board is preferably made of card board, or other material of a like class whereby the device may be manufacturedto be sold at a very reasonable price. On one face of the score board 10 is a schedule 11 which is printed, or otherwise inscribed thereon, and this schedule is of a size so that it occupies only a portion of the score board proper, in order to permit the space around the schedule to be used for displaying advertising matter, or items of current news as occasion requires. The schedule 11 is divided into a number of parallel spaced columns, as 12, on each of which are designated the names of the contesting clubs, as shown at 13", that are matched to play games on given days, and while I show in the drawing the adaptability of the device for displaying the scores of baseball games, it will be understood that instead thereof other athletic events may be displayed thereon. In the board between the columns 19 of the schedule are a number of pairs of parallelly coursing slits, as and 13 for reception of interchangeable flexible score slides, or strips 16.

The flexible slidable score strips 16 are preferably alike in formation, and each strip is slightly longer as well as somewhat wider than the pockets of the supporting board so that the marginal edges of each strip when inserted in one of the pockets will overlap the adjacent edges of the board at its pockets. In order to hold the score strips against accidental displacement in the pockets 15 one or both of the upper and taken on lower ends of each strip may be notched to provide locking parts, as 17 and 17 On one or both faces of the strips 16 is printed or otherwise inscribed a schedule 18 which corresponds to the tabulations of the schedule ll of the supporting board 10, and on the schedule 18 are displayed the score, as 19, made by each club in one or more games played during a number of days. After the score on the strip has been suitably marked, the attendant slips its longitudinal edges into the respective slits 13, 13 of the pair of slits in the proper column, which is readily performed by flexing both the said strip and the part 14:, so that the upper and lower edges of the latter engage the cutouts 17, 17Fig. 3and the projecting lugs 17", 17 extend beyond the length of the slits as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 1. Thus fixed in position, the strip 16 is held non-movable both vertically and latterly and against bulging out longitudinally, which when the board is displayed out of doors would subject the strip to be blown out of its seat by a forceful gust of wind.

If desired part of the lower portion of the supporting board 10 may be provided with two parallel vertically disposed spaced slits, as 20 and 21, in which is removably inserted a slidable flexible strip 22 of card board or other like material. The strip 22 is somewhat wider than the length of the slits 20 and 21, and the upper and lower edges of this strip are notched, at 23 and 23. The notches 23 and 23 are slightly wider than the section of the supporting board between the slits 20 and 21 so that when the strip 22 is inserted through the slits after the ends of the board have been suitably bent the portion of the board therebetween may be guided into the notches 23 and 23 for holding it against accidental displacement to the board, and on the strip 22 may be displayed any suitable item of news, or other matter if desired.

In the foregoing description, I have embodied the preferred form of my invention, but I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself thereto, as I am aware that modifications may be made therein without departing from the principle, or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention, therefore I reserve to myself the right to make such changes as fairly fall within the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A device of the character described, comprising a supporting board having a number of spaced vertical columns, a plurality of vertically disposed flexible retaining members provided on the board, one of Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cen the members being arranged between each of two adjacent columns, and said members being in spaced relation to the board to provide vertically disposed pockets in the board, and a plurality of flexible strips, each being removably disposed in one of the pockets so that one of the faces of each strip will be displayed in one of the spaces be tween the columns of thesupporting board, substantially as described and for the purpose specified.

2. A device of the character described, comprising a supporting board having a number of spaced vertical columns, a plurality of vertically disposed flexible retaining members provided on the board, one of the members being arranged between each of two adjacent columns, and said members being in spaced relation to the body of the board to provide vertically disposed pockets in the board, and a. plurality of flexible strips, each being removably disposed in one of the pockets so that one of the faces of each strip will be displayed in one of the spaces between the columns of the supporting board, and the ends of each strip having notches in which are seated the parts of the supporting board at the ends of the pockets in which the strip is disposed, substantially as described and for the purpose specified.

3. In a device of the character described, a flexible supporting board having spaced vertically disposed columns and an integral section therebetween, formed by a pair of vertically disposed slits in the board, and the flexible section being disposed in spaced relation to the body of the board to form a pocket, and a flexible strip disposed in the pocket so that one of its faces is displayed in the space between the columns, and the ends of the strip having notches in which are seated the parts of the supporting board at the ends of the slits for removably locking the strip to the supporting board, substantially as set forth and for the purpose specified. v

This specification signed and witnessed this twelfth day of March, A. D. 1914.

JOHN L. PREO.

Witnesses:

Boer. B. ABBOTT, M. DERMODY.

ts each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G.

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