Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1892 — Electrical Pool Marker. [ARTICLE]

Electrical Pool Marker.

Players of the seductive game of pool often find it desirable, especially on private tables, to dispense with the services of the attendant whose duty it is to mark the score. To meet such conditions an electrical register has teen devised by which the -progress' of the game can be accurately recorded. Contact buttons are so arranged in front of the pockets that when a ball is holed it strikes the button, ana the point Is registered by an annunciator on the wall of the room. The same principle has been applied to a pin-pool table. Push buttons are fixed in place of .pins on an ordinary pool table, and the balls passing over the buttons make a connection which is shown on the annunciator, so that when the player has finished scoring the total number of points made are automatically recorded.