US986675A

US986675A - Pocket bridge-score.

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Publication number: US986675A
Application number: US52478909A
Authority: US
Inventors: Harold W Bennet
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1909-10-27
Filing date: 1909-10-27
Publication date: 1911-03-14
Anticipated expiration: 1928-03-14

Description

H. W. BENNET.

POCKET BRIDGE SGORE.

APPLICATION FILED 0013.27, 1909.

Patented 11111114, 1911.

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PATENT OFFICE.

HAROLD W. 'BENNET, OF EVANSTOII,ILLINOIS.

rooxn'r BRIDGE-SCORE;

Specification of Letters Patent.

pplication filed October 27, 1909. Serial No. 524,789.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HAROLD W. BENNET, a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Evanston, Cook county, Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Pocket Bridge-Scores, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in bridge whist score devices, and has for its object the production of a device by means of which the various elements that go to make up the bridge whist score in a form convenient for use.

A further ob'ect is the production of a device that can be cheaply constructed. These and such other objects as may hereinafter appear are attained by my device, embodiments of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents a front view of my device. Fig. 2 represents a back view of my device in position ona pencil. Fig. 3 represents a sectional view on the line 33 of Fig. 2, lookin in the direction indicated by the arrows. ig. 4 re resen s a cross-sectional view of a modifie form of my device. Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in the several figures of the drawings.

Referring now to the drawin s: 5 re resents a cylindrical metallicbo y close at one end 6 and slightly tapering at the other end 7, and provlded with a central cylin-' drical bore 8. The central bore is adapted to receive a pencil 9 the point of which may be protected by turning the pencil end for end, the point being contained within the cylinder. On the outersurface'of the cylinder, and extending longitudinally thereof, are four lines aa spaced apart at ual distances from each other and exten ing entirely about the outer periphery-of the cylinder are eleven lines b-b spaced apart at substantially equal distances from each are combined-- other. These two sets of lines crossing each other at right angles subdivide the outer surface of the cylinder into a series of rectangular subdivisions cc in four parallel columns of eleven subdivisions each. Within these spaces or subdivisions are imprinted or stamped various designating words, figures and symbols that go to make up a bridge Whist score, but arran ed in a new iind novel manner, as will be fhlly set forth .ater.

It'w'ill be understood by, those familiar with the game that one of the difficulties in arranging a convenient score is the fact that in addition to the suit values a different set of values is given for notrump, and the various honor values in the individual suits are greatly in excess of those in no trump. In order to overcome these obstacles and provide a convenient and systematic table of scores or values, I enter in the first eripheral series of subdivisions the following four no trump values:

4 Aces 1 hand 100 4 Aces 3Aoes a0 This completes the no t-ruinp values, and leaves the balance of the subdivisions for the four suits. So in the next or second peripheral row ofsubdivisionsI place the following: A large representation of a heart, a club, a diamond and a spade, and having within the lines of the figures the following legends: g

In the heart1 trick 8; in. the club 1 trick 4; in the diamond1 trick 6; in the spade-1 trick'2. This completes the values of the tricks.

In the nine spaces or subdivisions below the heart, I place the honor values that obtain when hearts are trumps, as follows:

3 Hon. '4 Hon. .rH on. 4 Hon. 5 Hon. 5 Hon- Gd. Slam Lt. Slam Chicane 1 hand 1 in 7pc 1 hand 10 a2 4o 04 so 40 20 16 In the nine spaces or subdivisions below In Fig. 4 I-haveshowna devicehavin a rectangular cross-section, in the use of whlch the trick and honor, values for each suit would be placed on one side,t-he no trump values stilloccupying the top space or subdivision on each .side. I I

The device can be used forapencil holder or protector, and can also bemade Smaller Patented Mar. 14, 1911.

and mounted as a watch charm, or carried in the pocket.

I am aware that bridge whist scores are printed on cards and the like, but the pecul- 1ar arrangement, and its adaptation to a metallic case, has roduced a new and useful article 'of manu acture.

I'claim:

As a new article of manufacture, a pocket bridge whist score consistin of a cylindrical body adapted at one en for the reception of a holding device or member and having its surface marked off into panels by a series of vertical lines and a series of intersecting peripheral lines, the top row of panels being provided with characters indicating ing one of the four suits-an the value of tricks and honors in a no-trum play, the next circumferential series of pane s being provided each with a mbol indicatwith characters indicating the value of tricks in that suit, and eachvertical row of panels below said trump suit panels being provided with characters indicating the value of the various honors and slams and chicane in that 25 particular suit, for the purpose set forth.

Signed by me at Chicago, Illinois, this 18th day of October, 1909.

HAROLD W. BENNET. Witnesses:

WM. B. DURNION, E. H. CLEGG.