US64718A - taylor - Google Patents

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SIMPSON a, TAYLOR.

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Patented May 14, 1867.

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Lrtz'cr-s- Patent No. 64,718, Jute/1' dilly 14, 18 7.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that We, GEORGE SIMPSON and RoLLIN M. TAYLOR, of the town of Vi'aterbury, in the county of Washington, in the State of Vermont, have invented a certian new and useful Apparatus for Counting and Registering Billiards; and the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same. reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 represents a view of the internal arrangement of mechanism in asectonv cut across the diameter. Figure 2 shows a face view of the dial, numbers, and counting finger, and the game indicator. Figure 3 shows a plan or face view of the mechanism for recording the number of games played, by the tallying of each game.

Figure 4 shows a broken-off section representing the action of the registering ot' the game, and the mode of operating signal-bell.

The object of our invention is to introduce a more neat and practical method of counting the points, or keeping tally, in a game of billiards, and at the same time recording the number of games played on each table by means of the tallying, so that the owners or proprietors of billiard saloons may detect any fraud attempted by the players or by those employed to take the change and pay for the use of the tables.

Our invention consists in the arrangement and combination of dials with numbers, hands to indicate, abell to give notice when the game is up, with an internal notched disk, a series of two or more ratchet-wheels with numbers to record and indicate from one hundred to one hundred thousand, with pawls to operate them as each game is tallied by the players or the keeper, so that a true record of the number of games played is registered in the apparatus, and cannot be put back without opening the box and breaking the seal. To enable others to make and as e our invention, we will describe it in detail, referring to the drawings and Our billiard register may be made of Wood or of metal, in the form of a cloc size, so that the hand or pointer A will beet sufficient strength to be moved by indicate the points on the dials B will be sulficiently legible to be seen on placed or suspended over the table so as to be'as convenient to k ordinary buttons on the rod.

k or watch of any desirable the cue, and the figures wh n both sides, the apparatus being cop the tally on the dials as it is to move the On one side the; hand or pointer A has nothing to do with thcinternal mechanism, and may be moved either backward or forward to the points indicated. On the otl A is attached to an arbor, a, on the inner end of which is spring-finger, has a series of notches, e a e e c,

ier side the hand or pointer C, which rests on a dis 56, which on its edge, so that the spring-finger C will click into themat eveiy five or ten points that is indicated by the pointer A on the dial B, so that it cannot be turned back. When the one hundred points have been tallied on the straight-side dial, the spring finger G falls into larger, deeper notch in the disk I), and catches a toothfon the large ratchet-wheel D, and moves it one notch or figure, which registers a game, andnt the same time operates the hammer to strike the bell (Z to give the players or attendant notice that the game is up. On one side of the large ratchet-wheel D are the numbers to correspond with the number of the teeth in the wheel, so that every time the bell is struck there is a game recorded, which numbe may be seen through the glass in the opening E. The large wheel D may record one hundred games or more, according to the size of the disk. When the wheel D has made one revolution, the projection 1 on it catches into a cog, 2', on a counter-wheel H, and moves it one notch or figure on its face, which is also shown in the recordthrough the glass in the opening F, so that hundreds and thousands of games may be recorded, and by adding other counting-wheels many thousands of games may all be indicated, and the owners or proprietors of billiardtables may know the number of games that have been played on each table, should they be absent for months or year". t is an established fact that the game of billiards has long been an institution in most parts of the civilized world, and that it is becoming more and more popular in tl known fact that there are frauds constantly practised by those employed to a of knowing the number of games played as kept by the tally now in use.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The arrangement of the two external dials with movable hands A A, to indicate the points tallied by each player, and the hell to give notice when the game is up, in combination with the internal notched disk D, springtinger and pawl C, and a series of ratchet-wheels H I J, having numbers to register and indicate tl played, the same being operated in keeping tl purposes specified.

iis country, and it is also a wellttcnd them, and no possible means to games re tally, substantially in the manner herein described, i'or the (illt). SIMPSON.

it. M. TAYLOR.

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