US1324382A - Scoreboard - Google Patents

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Cs E. BUCKLIEA SCOREBOARD.

APPLICATION FILED APR.3.19I9.

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CHARLES EDWIN BUCKLEY, 0F CHAMPAIGN, ILLINOIS.

SCOREBOARD.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 9, 1919.

Application led April 3, 1919. Serial No. 287,187.

To all whom z't may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES EDWIN BUCKLEY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Champaign, in the county of Champaign and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Scoreboards, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in scoreboards, and the invention relates to boards especially adapted for scoring progressive five hundred, wherein the board is provided with the scoring scale, and with openings arranged in a predetermined manner and bearing Value indicating legends, together with a series of pegs for engaging the Opeliings to indicate by their position the table at which the player is playing and the total score, whether plus or minus.

lin the drawings:

Figure 1 is a plan View of the board;

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2 2 of Fig. l.;

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the scoring pegs;

F ig. 4 is a side view of one of the pegs.

in the present embodiment of the invention, a suitable board 1 is provided which may be of any convenient size, and this board is provided, preferably near its top, with schedules :2 and 3, one of the said schedules 2 being the regular scoring schedule for tive hundred, while that 3 is the Avondale schedule. Each of these schedules, as shown, consists of a list of the amounts pertaining to each suit, arranged in regular order, the suits being distinguished by the representation of the figure on the suit, as, for instance, spades, clubs, diamonds and hearts.

At the opposite end of the board from the schedules and at the top are two peg holes 4 and 5, one, the hole 4, having the legend Plus above the same, While the other, 5, has the legend Minus Beneath these holes is a series of nine holes 6, being arranged in rows of three, and the holes are numbered from l to 9, successively. Above this series is the legend Table, the peg holes 6 being designed to indicate the table at which the player sits. Below the schedule and at the left of the series 6 of holes there is a series 7 of peg holes, twenty-seven in number in the present instance, although it is obvious that thisY number might be varied.

and bearing legends,

These holes 7 bear legends above them, indicatmg the total score. The lower left hand opening bears the legend 10 and succeeding openings of this row mount by tens. .In the next upper row, the left hand openmg bears the legend 100, and the legends mount in hundreds toward the right. The uppermost row scores in thousands.

At the bottom of the board is explanatory matter, indicated at 8, which may be of any desired character. Two series of pegs are provided, a series 9 bearing numbers and a series l0 which are blank. Each peg, as shown in F ig. 6, comprises the peg body and the head, and the numerals are placed on the heads of the series 9, the said numerals running from l to 9.

ln scoring, the user indicates his table, i9 for instance, by placing the peg 9, which is numbered l, in that opening 6 which is numbered 9. Should he, for instance, make seven in clubs, with the regular schedule, he will place a blank peg in the opening 4- indicating plus, and a second blank peg in the opening 7 bearing the legend 100, and a third blank peg in the opening 7 bearing the legend 20, thus scoring 120. Should he on the next hand bid seven hearts and fail to take seven tricks, he will place the blank peg in the opening 4- in the opening 5, and will move that peg in the opening Z bearing the legend 20 to that opening 7 bearing the legend 80, removing the blank peg in the opening 7 bearing the legend 1GO, thus indicating that his score is minus 80.,

lil/'hen the player changes tables, should he change to table 17, for instance, numbered l is removed from 6 numbered 9 bered WZ.

In practice, the suit designations of the schedules are colored in accordance with the suit, as, for instance, spades and clubs are colored black and hearts and diamonds red.

I claim:

A scoreboard for live hundred comprising the board having a plurality of series of peg openings, one of said serles being table indicating openings and being numbered successively, another of said series being Plus and Minus indicating openings the other of the series being score value indicating openings and having numerals indicating values adjacent the peg the opening to the opening 6 numthereto, and arplurality of series of pegs for named series of openings to indicate certain coperating with the openings, the members tables.

of one series being blank and adapted to co- CHARLES EDWIN BUCKLEY operate with the second and last named series of openings, the other of the said Witnesses:

series bearing indicating numerals and be- JNO. E. FEELY,

ing adapted to coperate with the first W. A. CALVERT.

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