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US 5,685,779 AGranted
Electronic scoreboard device
OwnerSavvas C. Tsoukalasinventor
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Abstract
An electronic scoreboard device including a housing comprising a scorekeeping display adapted for billiards. The housing has circuitry therein for control of the scorekeeping display. One of two side walls of the housing has a power switch disposed thereon for selectively activating or deactivating the scorekeeping display. The scorekeeping display adds or subtracts from scores automatically to display a player's scores thereon.
Claims1
An electronic scoreboard device for keeping score of straight pool and snooker pool games comprising, in combination:
- a housing having a generally rectangular configuration, the housing having a top wall, a bottom wall, a front wall, a rear wall and two side walls, the top wall having an elongated recess formed therein, the front wall comprising a scorekeeping display, the scorekeeping display indicating a plurality of player's scores, games won by each player, a predetermined race to amount, a game reset, a reset button, a game selection button, an enter button, buttons corresponding to billiard balls and a help screen, the housing having means therein for control of the scorekeeping display, one of the side walls having a power switch disposed thereon for selectively activating or deactivating the scorekeeping display, the front wall having a chalkboard disposed thereon, a lower end of the chalkboard having a shelf extending outwardly therefrom, the housing having a pair of mounting bosses extending outwardly from upper and lower ends of the rear wall, each of the mounting bosses having an aperture therethrough for securement of the housing to a recipient surface;
- a cue stick holder secured to one of the side walls of the housing, the cue stick holder comprising a boss extending outwardly from the side wall, the boss having a plurality of apertures therethrough, the apertures being of a diameter less than a diameter of a handle portion of a pool cue;
- a billiard rules display secured to the bottom wall of the housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.