US563235A

US563235A - Playing-card

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Publication number: US563235A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1896-06-30
Anticipated expiration: 1913-06-30

Description

(No Model.)

Y J. OMWAKE.

PLAYING CARD No. 563,235. Patented June 30, 18-96.

WITNESSES:

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN OMWAKE, OFCINGINNATI, OHIO.

PLAYING-CARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 563,235, dated June 30, 1896.

Application filed August 1, 1895.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JOHN OMW'AKE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cincinnati, Hamilton county, State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Playing-Cards, of which the follow ing is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, wherein the figure illustrates a face view of a series of cards embodying my invention.

My invention relates to playing-cards, and is more especially applicable to that character of cards employed for playing poker, wherein eleven and twelve spot cards of each suit are employed, in addition to the ordinary deck of fifty-two cards.

Heretofore squeezers, or cards which have representations of the denominations and suit indicated in the corners of the cards, have been employed to ascertain the character or value of the card without the necessity of exposing the faces of the cards. However, where two numerals are employed to designate the denomination of the card, trouble has been experienced because of the necessity of exposing both numerals and a considerable portion of the faces of the cards, in order to determine the character of all of the cards held in the hand.

The object of my invention is to obviate these difficulties heretofore found in playingcards; and to this end my invention consists in employing signs, preferably numerical signs of different characters, as Arabic and Roman numerals, at right angles or nearly right angles to each other on the corners of Serial No. 557,834. (No model.)

the playingcards and extending in a line substantially parallel to one edge of the card, to designate the value of the cards so marked.

The representation in the drawing designates the hand of five cards, a, b, c, d, and e, each of which has a double Arabic numeral f to indicate the denomination of the cards. Above and at right angles,or at nearly right angles, to the Arabic numerals on each of these cards are Roman numerals g, h, 'i, j, and k, of the same value, so that when the cards are squeezed, in the manner indicated in the drawing, the denomination of the cards can be determined from the Roman numerals, notwithstanding the fact that no determination of the value of the cards could be arrived at from the Arabic numerals. It will be seen that these numerals and the suitspot form a straight line at their outer edges.

Having described one form of my invention, and it being understood that I do not limit myself to the exact details shown and described, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A playing-card, carrying near one corner a designation of value expressed by two or more Arabic numerals and in close proximity thereto the designation of the like value expressed by Roman numerals, that are at right angles to the Arabic numerals, substantially as described.

JOHN OMWAKE.

Witnesses FREDERICK HORMAN, \VILLIAM M. TIMBERMAN.