US942178A - Game-schedule. - Google Patents

Description

C. H. LOVELL.

GAME SCHEDULE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 21, 1908.

942, 1 78; Patented Dec. 7, 1909.

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CHRISTOPHER H. LOVELL, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

GAME-SCHEDULE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. '7, 1909.

Application filed September 21, 1908. Serial No. 454,071.

To all whom it may concern: 1

Be it known that I, CHRISTOPHER H. Lov- ELL, a citizen of the United States, and resident of St. Louis, Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Game-Schedules, of which the following is a specification containing a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

My invention relates to a game schedule particularly adapted for indicating the dates of games played between baseball clubs, although the schedule can be advantageously utilized for indicating the dates of any athletic sports or pastimes which are to be played by a number of contestants on different dates.

To the above purposes, my invention consists in certain novel features of construction and arrangement of parts, which will be hereinafter more fully set forth, pointed out in the claim, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a face view of a schedule of my improved construction, a portion of the front disk being broken away in order to show a portion of the under disk; Fig. 2 is a section taken on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

In the construction of my improved schedule, I employ a pair of disks 1 and 2, which are formed of thin cardboard, celluloid, metal, or analogous light, strong material, said disks being identical in size and held to rotate upon a centrally disposed rivet 3.

Formed through the disk 1 is a radially arranged slot 4, and printed immediately adjacent this slot are the names of the various contestants taking part in the scheduled games, and said contestants being consecutively numbered.

In the present instance I have shown the schedule as adapted for indicating the dates of baseball games; and, therefore, the names of the various teams forming the base ball leagues appear adjacent the slot 4.

The space adjacent the edge of the disk 1 is divided by radially arranged lines 5, each space representing a month, and being marked with the names of the months of the baseball season, and each of these spaces representing months as subdivided by ra dially arranged lines 6; and printed'in the spaces between these subdividing lines are the days of the month on which games are to be played by the various clubs.

Formed integral with the edge of the lower disk 2 is an extension 7, on which is printed an arrow, or like guiding mark; and printed on the outer portion of the face of the disk 2 is a series of circles 8, which are concentric with the edge of said disk, and thus the outer portion of the face of said disk is divided into a series of circular spaces which appear through the slot 4 in direct alinement with the names of the clubs printed adjacent said slot.

Printed in radial rows on the face of the disk 2 in the spaces between the circular lines 8, and in a color distinctive relative to the color in which the list and numbers of the contestants on the upper disk are printed, are numbers corresponding to the numbers appearing adjacent the names of the clubs; and the arrangement of these numbers upon the disk 2 must necessarily correspond with the complete schedule prepared for the entire number of games to be played by all of the clubs.

To ascertain the names of the clubs playing or contesting on a certain date; for instance, on the 29th and 30th of April, one disk is rotated relative to the other so as to bring the arrow on the extension or tab 7 directly opposite the numbers 29 and 30 in the space in which the playing dates of April are printed, and this movement brings a radial row of figures into View through the slot 4, with the numeral 7 opposite the first name on the list of clubs, with the numeral 6 opposite the second name on said list, with the numeral 5 opposite the third name on the list, and with the numeral 4 0pposite the eighth name on the list; and thus it will be readily seen that on the 29th and 30th of April, clubs numbered 1 and 7 2 and 6, 3 and 5, and 8 and 4 are scheduled to play games or contests.

The numbers printed on the lowermost disk are preferably printed in a different color from the names and numbers of the contestants appearing on the upper disk in order to designate that the numbers appearing through the slot 4 represents the visiting teams or contestants.

If desired, certain of the numbers indicating the days of the month can be provided with inclosing circles or frames, thus indicating Sunday games, and morning and afternoon games.

A schedule of my improved construction is simple, complete, inexpensive, very compact, and provides simple means whereby all forms of games and contests Which are played by a number of clubs or contestants can be readily indicated.

I claim A game schedule, comprising a pair of disks rotatably connected, there being a slot formed in one of said disks, a list of contestants marked on the face of said disk adjacent the slot, and the contestants being consecutively numbered, schedule dates printed on the face of said disk adjacent the edge thereof, a series of radially arranged rows of numbers printed on the face of the second disk, which numbers correspond to

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