US384707A

US384707A - Game-counter

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Publication number: US384707A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1888-06-19
Anticipated expiration: 1905-06-19

Description

(No Model.)

P. G. NASH.

GAME COUNTER.

No. 384,707. Patented June 19, 1888.

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at the beginning of the count.

"UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK G, NASH, OF SAN FRANCISCO, GALlFORNIA.

GAME-COUNTER.

SPECIFICATIQN forming part oi Letters Patent No. 384,707, dated June 19, 1888.

Application filed February 8, 1888. Serial No. 263,423.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK G. NASH, of the city and county of San Francisco, State of California, have invented an Improvement in Counting or Scoring Boards; and I hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and em act description of the same.

My invention relates to the class of want ing devices for scoring games, and particularly to that form adapted for games of cards, such as cribbagc, the.

My invention consists in a plate having one or more longitudinal slots with short crossslots opening out from. each side thereof, and in double-headed pegs fitted and adapted to be moved in the slots, all of which, together with details of construction, I shall hereinafter fully describe.

The object of my invention is to provide a cribbageboard with the pegs so arranged that they cannot be disconnected, so that all danger of inisplacemcnt or loss is avoided.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1. is a plan of my board. Fig. 2 is a cross-section olsanic.

A is the plate, having formed in it the longitudinal slots I which form the ways for the scoring-pegs, and the cross slots (7, opening out from each side of slots 'B and forming the scoring-slots. At one end the main or Way slots have extensions L for the pegs to rest in D are the scoring-pegs. They are douhle-headed-that is to say, their centers are turned down, so as to pass easily along the nay-slots and into the scorn slots--and each end or head is left large enough to prevent the peg from dropping down through the slot or from being drawn up l'rom its place. The pegs are thus held permanently in place to the board and cannot be niislaid or lost.

An important feature of my board is that the tongues c, which are formed between the scoring-slots O, are all upwardly inclined to The purpose of this is to their l'reo ends. keep the pegs in place in the scoring-slots by providing an upgrade toward the 'e'ayslots, and therefore said pegs are not liable to be disturbed by any jarring of the table on which the board rests.

(No model.)

E arelugs on the center of the plate, which serve to mark off into divisions the scoringslots,whereby the counting and placing of the pegs may be rapid. In starting, the pegs all rest in the extension-slots Z). is made, one of the pegs is slid along the ca:- tensiou into the Way-slot B, and when opposite to that scoring-slot O which represents the count is slipped into said slot. Upon the next count the second peg is used, and the pegs go down one side and up the other, just as in 01 dinary cribbage-boards.

Having thus described my inveutiomwhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. A counting or scoring board consisting of a plate having a longitudinal slot or slots forming the Ways for the scoring-pegs, and crossslots opening out from each side thereof, and pegs fitted to the plate to move in the Way-slots and enter the scoringslots, substantially as herein described.

A counting or scoring board consisting of a plate having longitudinal slots forming Ways for the scoring-pegs, and cross-slots opening out from each side thereof, and pegs having turned-down centers fitting and sliding in the slots, and enlarged heads or ends,vvhereby said pegs are confined in the slots, substantially as herein described.

3. A counting or scoring board consisting of plate having a plural number of longitudinal slots forming ways for the scoring pegs, and cross -slots opening out from each side thereof, said cross-slots having an upgrade to the Way-slots for preventing the pegs from being jarred from place, and scoringpegs fitted to the plates to move in the Way slots and enter the scoring-slots, substantially as herein described.

a. A counting or scoring board consisting of a plate having a plural number of longitudinal way-slots, and cross scoring-slots opening out therefrom, said cross-slots having an upgrade to the Wayslots, scoring-pegs having turneddown centers fitting and sliding in the slots, and enlarged heads or ends, whereby said pegs are confined in the slots, substantially as herein described.

The counting or scoring hoard consist "When a count r ing of a plate, A, having the way-slets B,with In witness whereof I have hereunto set my extension-slots b atone end, and cross scoringhand.

slots 0, opening out from each side of the Wayslots, said cross-slots having an upgrade to FRANK G. NASH. the way-slots, and the sliding pegs D, fitted in the slots and having enlarged heads or ends, Witnesses:

whereby they are confined, substantially as S. H. NoURsE, herein described. H. 0. LEE.