US1299489A - Card-scorer. - Google Patents

Description

A. G. E. LOWMAN.

CARD SCORER. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 1. 1917.

Patented Apr. 8, 1919.

vented certain new and ments in Card-Scorers, of which the fbllowmg is the specification.

The invention relates to improvements in card scorers and one of the important objects of the invention is to construct an ordinary card box so that it canbe utilized for scoring purposes, while another is to arrange a scorer which can be utilized for keeping the count of a great variety of card games.

A further but less important object is to provide a cheap, efiicient scorer as part of the card box which will not materially increase the, cost of production of the box.

With the above objects in view the invention consists esmntially in the arrangement and construction of parts hereinafter more and later pointed out in the appended claim, reference being had to the accompanying drawing in which Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a card box constructed in accordance with my invention.

Fig. 2 represents a vertical cross sectional view through the box.

In the drawing like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each figure.

1 represents the ordinary rectangular cardboard card box having one end closed as shown at 2 and the other end provided with a closure flap 3. This box is utilized at the present time to receive the ordinary pack of playing cards. Actually the interior dinnensions of the box are such that it will just nicely contain the pack of cards.

In playing a great variety of card games it has been customary to employ separate score pads for keeping the a few exceptions to this where wood boxes are made to contain the cards and the boxes are constructed so that a special count can kept, such as, say for the game of crib- However the 0' games.

According to my invention the ordinary cardboard box is utilized for keeping the count after the cards have been removed for Specification of Letters Patent.

count. There are.

Patented Apr. 8, 1919.-

Application filed March 1. 1917. Serial No. 151,779.-

playing purposes. To accomplish this end I as indicated will admit the pegs and retain them so that a proper score can be indicated. This feabeen used for some time.

The perforations or holes which I make in the box are placed in definite fixed positions so that they can be used for keepin the score of a great variety of games. special arrangement of the perforations is now described.

Up the center and running lengthwise of the box I provide a series of openings 6, these being numbered, in the present in stance consecutively, and from the ends of the box inwardly 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. At the center of the box I place the word Games and in view of this name the center series of numbers are considered as game numbers. At the right and left hand sides of the box I locate further scoring numbers, there being a set of these for each player, those on the right side being utilized by one player (1 those on the left hand by the other and ings on the box,

spective players sitting opposite; @n each side of the game numbers I locate nine horizontal rows of perforations 7 with four holes or perforations in each row and the rows are numbered consecutively 1, 2, 3, a, 5, 8, 7, 8, 9 with each perforation in the row bearing its particular designating These holes are used for keeping the initial count. Directly above these rows of numbers I locate nine holes indicated generally by the reference numeral 8- and consecutively and these holes are utllized to indicate hundreds. Above arrange a horizontal dicated generally 9 and are utilized to indicate thousands and immethe top of the box I place a. furnumber.

ther horizontal row of four perforations 10 which are numbered consecutively 1 to 4 an are utilized to count what is known as rubof bridge. Between the Rubbers and I further color the box so that the perforations indicating those indicating rubbers will appear on a background distinct fromthe other perforations.

At the bottom of the box and for each player I locate a single right hand perforation indicated at 11 and a single right hand perforation indicated at 12, the perforation 11 being utilized as a zero foration 12 is used for indicating a minus score such as occurs in the game five-hundred. Preferably I circumscribe this latter hole 12 with a circle and color the interior 0 tghe circle a different color from that of the The rows of initial count perforations are divided by a centrally located divisional line 13 for a purpose shortly described.

The above described scorer can be utilized for scoring games including that of bridge and five-hundred which are more or less irregular. in utilizing the box for the ordinary card games wherein the score progresses regularly from one up to whatever score determined upon as a game I utilize the rows of initial count perforations to keep the score and these per;- forations will accommodate any score from 1 to 9999. lif it is desired to carry the score higher than this, one can tab the thousands in the holes 9 which indicate thousands. t will be readily understood that each time a game is scored one places a peg in the game holes 6.

- To utilize the score for five-hundred the score is counted in the usual way as just indicated and any minus count is indicated by marking the score with the pegs and inserting a further peg in the hole 12 to indicate that the score marked is a minus or no ative one.

l n utilizing the score for keeping a bridge score one counts the points on the hole while the pernumbered perforations,

right hand side of the line on the left hand side of the line 13. The honors and points are added together from time to time and carried ahead by placing a peg in one or other of the holes 8 indicating undreds, and carrying the remainder of the score in the right handinitial score perforations 7 the same way a peg the Each time one scores a game into the thousands by utilizing thousands hole perforations 9. e indicates this by placing a peg in the game perforations 6 and each time he scores a rubber he indicates it by placing a peg in one of the rubber holes 10.

particular arrangement of perforations is an important one as it allows of the keeping of the score for practically all ordinary games as well as the more diflicult scoring as required in the game of bridge.

What I claim as my invention is z- As a new article of manufacture, a cardboard box having a series of centrally ar ranged, lengthwise extending, consecutively therein indicating game's,horizontal rows of perforations at opposite sides of the game-perforations an numbered consecutively from 1 to 9, there being four perforations in each row, a series of consecutively num the ninth row of horizontal perforations in each instance and indicating hundreds, a series of consecutively numbered perforations above the latter perforations and indicating thousands, a series of consecutively numbered perforations above the latter tions and indicating rubbers, a divisional line passing lengthwise of the box at each side and centrally between the horizontal rows of perforations and a single designatedperforation at each end of the box indicating a negative score.

Signed at Winnipeg,

uary, 191?.

AlWlllS GEORGE EDWARD lrOWlilAlL in the presence of-- Gr. S. Boxnm n, LAND Fos'rnn.

this 8th day of (lan- Thescore can be further carrie 1n perfora- 13 and the honors I bered perforations aboye

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