US977686A - Tally. - Google Patents

Description

Patented Dev/.6,1910

M. TAYLOR.

TALLY.

APPLICATION FILED No.1, 190s.

MARSHALL TAYLOR,

0F PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANA.

TALLY.

Application filed December l,

Specification of Letters Patent.'

Patented Dec. 6, M910.

1908. Serial No. 465,554.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARSHALL TAYLOR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Tally, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to tallies for various kinds of card games at card parties where there are a number of tables and four players at each table, and where each person plays with several different partners during the progress of a series of games, and particularly to parties where four or seven tables are used. The rule heretofore has been for the winners at one table to move to the next and play there as opponents so that it frequently happens that one player meets with another several times during the series, while there are other players with whom yhe does not play at all.

The object of this invention is to provide a tally arrangement which designates the partner and the table of each player for every game in such a manner that each player plays once with and twice against each other player.

The accompanying drawing shows a series of t-ally cards adapted for four tables of four players each andv embodying my invention.

The object in view is attained, rst, by numbering or marking the tables, and second, by numbering or distinctly marking the tallies from l to 16, where four tables are used, as shown in the drawing, and from 1 to 28 where seven tables are used. lf four tables are used it requires l5 games to be played to go once around, while if seven tables are used 27 games are necessary for a round. All tables play a game of the same number of points and all finish their game.

Each tallie contains, preferably at its top, a figure designating the number of the player. lt is provided with three columns or lines of figures with suitable headings therefor, and with a blank column or line for the score. The first column of gures indicates the numbers of the games, and the figures in this column are identical on all of the cards. The second column of figures indicates the tables at which the respective games are to be played, while the third col umn of figures indicates the partner with whom each game is played. The figures in the second and third columns are not the same on any two tallies. F or instance, the player holding tally No. l plays the first game at the third table with the person holding tally No. 5, as partner. Looking at tally No. 5 it is seen that this player plays the first game at the third table with the person holding tally No. l. Looking now at tallies Nos. 9 and 13 it is seen that these persons play the first game at table No. 3 as partners and therefore are the opponents of players Nos. l and 5, and so on throughout the list. rilhe numbers on the tallies are arranged in such a mamier that by following the same any two players meet three times but no more, once as partners and twice as opponents. The tallies therefore offer a convenient manner of insuring thateach player plays the requisite number of times with and against each of the other players.

ln attaining the object of my invention it is not necessary that the particular arrangement of numbers given in the drawing be followed, as numerous other arrangements can be made upon exactly the same principle. The tally may be of any size, shape or design, and may have the arrangement of numbers written, printed or otherwise placed thereon, or written, printed or otherwise placed on a piece arranged to be placed on the tally, or may have thereon any other printed matter used on tallies.

TWhat I claim is:

l. A tally set comprising a series of cards or tablets each having thereon three columns or lines of figures, one indicating consecutively the numbers of the games to be played, another indicating the table at which each game is to be played, and the third indicating the number of the partner at each of the games, the rst column or line of figures being identical on all of the cards or tablets of the set, while the second and third columns or lines of figures r fe not identical on any two cards or tablets of the set, said second column or line of figures being different on each card or tablet of the set from the third column or line of figures.

2. A tally set comprising a series of cards or tablets each having thereon three columns or lines of figures, one indicating consecutively the numbers ofthe games to be played, another indicating the table at which each game is to be played, and the third indicating the number of the partner at each of the games, the first column or line of figures being identical on all of the cards 01" tablets 0f being S0 alxanged as 'to indcae that each the set7 While the second and third columns player plays as a pal'tner with evey other 10 or lines lof gulistarefnt delptcal1 on ami player.

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