US398081A

US398081A - Pool-register

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Publication number: US398081A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1889-02-19
Anticipated expiration: 1906-02-19

Description

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E. R. ROBBINS. POOL REGISTER.

(No Model.)

Patented Feb. 19

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDlYARD R. ROBBINS, OF SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA.

POOL-REGISTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 398,081, dated February 19, 1889.

Application filed October 15, 1888.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD R. ROBBINS, of Sacramento, Sacramento county, State of California, have invented an Improvement in and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

eating or registering the points made inthe connection therewith of by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which- Serial No. 288,142.. (No model.)

game at one time. As it is only necessary to pocket eight balls to win a game, only eightare shown in each of the compartments, and

Q as each competitor has a number assigned to Fifteen-Ball-Pool Registers and Advertisers;

him it is only necessary for the game-keeper to move the slide corresponding to any nnm ber backward, so as to expose as many balls My invention relates to a device for indij as have been pocketed by the competitor, and

, the condition ot' the game is thus easily shown game known as fifteen-ball pool, and in 1 I an advertising device, all of which will be more fully explained Figure 1 is a front view of my invention A is an exterior frame or case having the 5 horizontal guides B arranged across the back, so that the sliding caps or covers C may at a glance.

The balls with which the game is played do not need to be removed from the receptacle in which they run from the pockets of the table, and thus considerable trouble in moving balls about. is avoided. The whole forms an attractive and convenient registering device.

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

travel in these guides and when closed they will cover the spaces between the guides, and when open they will expose these spaces. partition, D, is fixed vertically across the center of the case, so that only one-half is open to expose the slides and the other half may be used as an advertisingspace for any form of advertising-card or other device, which is fixed across the front and supported above 1 the line of travel of the sides, so that they may travel through the vertical partition D and beneath the advertising-card or other device E.

1. A pool-registering device, consisting of a case having horizontal channels with balls fixed permanently therein to one-half their length, slides traveling in guides, so as to con- 5 coal or expose the balls, and an inclosed or -Within the space covered by the convex;

highest number that might engage in i l l I I l i I uncovered chamber into which the slides run when the balls are exposed, substantially as herein described.

2. A registering device for ball-pool, consisting of a case having channels, within half of which balls are fixed, slides traveling in guides over said channels, and having numbered disks fixed to them, substantially as herein described.

3. A case having a verticalcentral partition, horizontal channels extending across the case and containing balls upon one side of the partition, in combination with covers sliding in grooves and through the central partition, and having numbered disks or knobs upon them, substantially as herein described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

EDWARD R. ROBBINS.

Witnesses:

S. H. N OURSE, H. 0. LEE.