US446701A - Game-counter - Google Patents

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0. ZIMMERLING.

GAME COUNTER ,70 1 Patented Feb. 1 '7, 1 89 1.

MU y UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES ZIMMERLIN G, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENN SYLVANIA.

GAME-COUNTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 446,701, dated February 17, 1891. Application filed March 21, 1890. Serial No. 844,794. (No model.)

To (LZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES ZIMMERLING, a citizen of the United States, residingin the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and usefulImprovem ent in Gain e-Counters, which im prove ment is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to improvements in game-counters; and it consists, first, of aboard having the marks or characters indicating the trump-cards, games, and points played in segments of concentric circles thereon; second, of an index or pointer having a fingeror thumb-piece for conveniently operating the same, and, third, of the combination of parts herein described.

Figure 1 represents a face viewof a gamecounter embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a side view of one of the indicators or fingers thereof.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the two figures.

Referring to the drawings, A designates a game-counter formed of a suitable field or board B, having printed or otherwise marked tors C E.

pivoted to the board and each crimped, forming a finger or thumb piece G, whereby it can be readily operated by the party using the counter.

The pivots of the im'leX-fingers F are respectively between the indicators 0, D, and E and the center of the concentric circles, in the segments of which are located the said indicators, so that there is no interference of the index-fingers or pointers in performing their work.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A garlic-counter consisting of a single plate or board having trump, game, and point indicators thereon each in the form of segments of concentric circles, two of the segments being on opposite ends of the boards and the other segment on the side and between the other segments, and a single pointer for each segment pivoted between the center of its circle and its segment, said parts being combined substantially as described.

A game-counter consisting of a single plate or board having trump, game, and point indicators thereon and in the form of segments of concentric circles, and a single crimped pointer for each indicator pivoted between its segments and the center of its circle, each pointer having its path of travel outside of and free from the path of travel of the others, said parts being combined substantially as described.

GHARLES ZIMMERLING.

Witnesses:

JOHN A. W IEDERsHEm, A. P. JENNINGS.

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