US754442A

US754442A - Progressive-score tally.

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Publication number: US754442A
Application number: US18657103A
Authority: US
Inventors: Irving W Green
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1903-12-26
Filing date: 1903-12-26
Publication date: 1904-03-15
Anticipated expiration: 1921-03-15

Description

.110. 754,442; PATENTED MAR. 15, 1904.

- I. w. GREEN.

PROGRESSIVE soon TALLY.

AIPLIGILTION IILED D110. 26, 1903.

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PATENT OFFICE.

IRVING W. GREEN, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

PROGRESSIVE-SCORE TALLY.

, SPEGIFICATI ONforming part of Letters Patent No. 754,442, dated March 15, 1904.

Application filed December 26, 1903. Serial No. 186,571. (No model.)

of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Progressive-Score Tallies, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to improvements in score-cards, and especially to cards or slips for indicating the number of games Won by the person holding the card in playing what is known as progressive pedro or similar games where four persons play at each table and two or more tables are used, each table being numbered and the two winners at each table moving to the next table at the end of each game.

The object of the invention is to provide a very simple and comprehensive card, so arranged that any mistake or dishonesty in the score may be detected at once and one which is novel and attractive in appearance.

To this end the invention consists in providing a card which is scored across, so that parts may be severed, and provided with figures and indicating-words, substantially as shown in the accompanying drawing, in whichv the figure represents the face of a card embodying the invention. p

A is a long narrow strip of paper, cardboard,or other suitable material, having a head or top portion A bearing data indicating the table at which the player holding the slip shall play the first game and also the couple to which he shall belong where the players are to play as partners, the-word Couple being printed and a blank left in which may be written 1 or 2 to designate the particular couple to which the player holding the slip belongs, this space being left blank when the players are not to play as partners. An indicated line on which the player is to write his name is also provided, and between this line and the. lower portion A of the slip is a space in which any information, ornamental "picture, design, or other matter may be printed or placed. On the lower portion A of the card or slip and near the left-handedge thereof is printed a column of figures, with the heading Table No, to indicate the number of each table at which the player will play and arranged in the order in which he will play at these tables, reading from the bottom of the column up. Therefore if, as shown in the drawing, the player holds a slip marked Table No. l in the heading the figure at the bottom of said column will be 1, as he is to play at this table first, and the figure next above in the column will be 4, as upon winning a game at table No. 1 he will move to table No. 4. Near the right-hand edge of the lower portion of the strips is a column of figures arranged in their numerical order, beginning with 1 at the bottom of the column, which number is placed opposite the second number from the bottom of the column indicating the table, so that when the player moves from table No. 1 to table No. 4, as indicated in the ta ble-column, the other column will indicate that one game has been Won by showing the figure 1 opposite the figure 4. The lower portion of the card is also scored transversely across at B between the numbers of each column, forming detachable strips C, so that every time the player wins a game he may tear of? one of these strips, and the strip remaining at the bottom of his card should always indicate the table at which he is then sitting and also the number of games he has won. sitting at the table indicated on the bottom of his card, it will at a glance be seen that amistake has been made and that he has detached more strips than he has won games or that he has not detached as many. Cards like'the one shown in the drawing are used at thefirst table when there are but four tables; but when more or less tables are used the table-column must be correspondingly numbered to include the other tables. The cards for the second table must show a 2 at the bottom of the table-column, those for the third table a 8', &c., so that the numbers in said columns will be arranged according to the order in which the player will play at the tables.

The. column indicating the number of games won may be omitted, if desired, the games won being ascertained by counting the num- If the player is not ber of strips still attached to the card and subtracting that number from the total number originally contained in the card.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim is- 1. A score-card having ahead portion provided with data indicating the table at which the player shall first play and a lower portion provided with a column of figures corresponding with the numbers of the tables and arranged in the order in which the player will successively sit at the tables, and provided with a column of figures arranged in their numerical order, beginning with the figure 1 which is placed opposite the number in the other column indicating the second table at which the player will sit.

2. A score-card having a head portion provided with data indicating the table at which the player shall first play and the couple at that table to which he belongs, and a lower portion provided with a column of figures corresponding to the numbers of the tables arranged in the order in which the player is to play at the tables with the number indicating the first table at which he plays, at the bottom of the'column, a second column of figures arranged in their numerical order beginning with the figure 1 with said figure opposite the figure in the tablecolumn indicating the second table at which the player will play, data at the top of each column to identify the same, and lines extending across the card between the figures of each column upon which line the card is to be severed.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

IRVING W. GREEN.

Witnesses:

OTTO F. BARTHEL, THoMAs Gr. LONGSTAFF'.