US1687033A - Radio football score board - Google Patents

Description

Oct. 9, 1928.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GERALD D. NELSON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR 'IO RADIO CORPORATION OF AMERICA, A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE.

RADIO FOOTBALL, SCORE BOARD.

Application filed July 8, 1926. Serial No. 121,082.

This invention relates to improvements in game scoring apparatus and one of the objects is to provide a simple, compact and convenient arrangement for aiding the visualization of the progress of a foot ball game as reported over the radio.

A further object consists of providing a game board which is lined to stimulate a grid iron or foot ball field with a movable element indicating a foot ball which is readily movable along the length of the field. Its particular adaptation may be used in connection with a simple score card which may be easily and cheaply constructed but yet of an effective value.

It is also intended to provide a simple and effective score card which may be cheaply enough constructed so that it may be widely distributed gratis for advertising purposes.

Further and more definite objects and features will be readily understood by the following description, claims and accompanying drawings, in which Fig. 1 shows a front view of the score card and Fig. 2 shows a rear view and the method of fastening the slider on to the card, and

Fig.3 shows the foot ball element with fastener attached ready to be inserted into the card.

1 shows the body of the card having indicia 333, etc. These are used for indicating the five or ten yard. lines as desired. 2 is the foot ball element with indicating pointers 5 for locating the exact position of the ball. This is mounted by means of a simple paper fastener or equivalent device as indicated at 4. This is shown particularly in Fig. 3 where the shape of the fastener is shown to readily fit into the slot 7 of the score card running the length of the field.

The fastener may be inserted in this slot and bent over fiat as shown in Fig. 2. This is not only to hold the foot ball element in place but also serves as a convenient means of moving the element about. A firm grip on the element is possible by grasping it with the fingers underneath and the thumb on the top button. This simple expedient also prevents it from binding in the slot, the fastener taking the entire strain. Also with the foot ball element on one side of the slot and the two supporting prongs 9 of the paper fastener on the other side, considerable rigidity is added to the structure of the card and undesirable opening of the slot is prevented. Proper instructions may be added as at 8 with the names of the teams playing at 10 and 11. Other desirable wording such as advertising matter may be added as at 12 and the seasonal score card may be placed on the back as at 13.

It can thus be seen that a simple, convenient, cheap and practical arrangement is devised for the use in keeping of foot ball scores. This apparatus can also be used for other purposes than for foot ball'as for instance in recording of. temperatures or barometric pressures. With such usage, the daily record would be written on the back. This invention is believed to/ reside in the simplicity of construction and the cheapness with which it can be assembled rather than in the fundamental principles to which it relates. It is so designed that it may easily be developed on a quantity production basis and sold or given away as an advertising novelty at negligible expense.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. An advertising novelty comprising a card having a series of parallel lines thereon and a slot arranged transversely of said lines, an indicator having a mark thereon and carrying a pair of tangs passing through said slot and bent over to contact the under side of the card, the outer faces of said tangs contacting the bounding edges of said slot and the width-of said tangs being substantially greater than the width of said slot, whereby the mark on the indicator remains parallel to the lines on the card as the indicator is moved along the slot.

2. ,An advertising novelty comprising a card having a series of parallel lines thereon and a slot arranged transversely of said lines, a flat indicator simulating a ball and having a mark thereon adapted to align with one of said parallel lines and a central aperture, a securing member having a cirwidth of said tangs being substantially cular head whose lower face engages said greater than the width of said slot, whereby indicatorand a pair of tangs passing thru rotation of the indicator is prevented and said aperture and said slot and being bent the mark thereon remains parallel to the 5 over to contact the under side of said card, lines on the card as it is moved along the the outer faces of said tangs contacting with slot. 1 I the bounding edges of said slot and the GERALD D. NELSON.

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