Printed matter – Tally – Game
Reexamination Certificate
2000-04-28
2001-04-17
Wellington, A. L. (Department: 3722)
Printed matter
Tally
Game
C283S102000, C283S107000, C283S109000, C283S115000, C283S117000, C281S038000, C281S039000, C281S051000, C033S485000, C033S494000, C033S511000, C033S549000, C033S553000, C033S561100, C033S561200, C033S679100, C033S712000, C033S755000, C033S756000, C033S759000, C033S783000, C043S001000, C043S004000, C043S005000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06217077
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to measurement devices and systems, and more particularly to such devices and systems as pertain to the determination of scores for game animals according to establish scoring for game animals.
2. Background Information
As with any sport's aficionados, avid hunters tend to compete against others and against themselves using a scoring system as the proverbial yardstick.
In the case of scoring systems used to rate horned or antlered game animals, there is a correspondence between the score which is assigned to a particular animal and such things as the distance of the “inside spread” (the widest point between inside surfaces of the animal's “main beams”); the length of each “main beam” (the primary antler or horn projection from which all “points” or other sub-components of the “rack” extend); the length of each point; and the circumference of the main beam.
There exist at least two primary scoring systems for most horned and antlered game animals, but each system relies on measuring substantially the same features of a game animal's rack.
Present practices in the scoring of game animals are somewhat needlessly cumbersome. Typically, a person who scores a game animal will use a flexible tape measure, masking tape for attaching the tape measure to points of measurement origin, and a scratch pad for recording the various measurements. Also, the use of a tape measure (with its cumulative total gradations being clearly visible during use) to make the actual measurement, especially if done by the hunter himself, injects a certain temptation to skew the numbers in a positive direction if the particular measurement is “just short” of a desired objective.
It would well serve recreational hunters to provide a scoring system for use in scoring game animals, which system would be based upon the use of standardized measuring devices, easy to follow scoring guides with sequential steps for scoring, and simple to use measurement recording markers which obviate the need for such steps as marking on a tape measure, or using tape to mark the length on a tape measure, as well as having to fumble around with a pen or pencil.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is an object of the present invention to provide an improved game animal scoring system for facilitating the orderly measurement and recordation of lengths and dimensions as pertain to scoring a game animal according to established rules.
It is another object of the present invention to provide an improved game animal scoring system which, by lacking cumulative length indicia on the primary measuring device, both simplifies initial length determination and lessens temptation for users to initially exaggerate measurements.
In satisfaction of these and related objects as will be clear from the balance of this text, the present invention provides an improved and simplified game animal scoring system. The system includes a flexible, cable member which is used to initially establish absolute length or (as applicable) distance between two points on a structure, or between two structures. The cable member lacks cumulative length indicia, but includes incremental indicia which are ultimately used (knowing the distance between each indicia) to arrive at a distance as expressed in established units (inches, for example). The system includes an alligator clip or similar, mechanically removable marker member for mechanically, but removably marking an endpoint of any given measurement. A ruler-like device (also included) is used to determine the length (by established units) between the far-most indicia from the origination end of the cable member to the point on the cable member as corresponds to the endpoint of the taken measurement.
As measurements are taken, they are recorded on reusable score card which includes spaces for recording measurements and indicia for indicating the proper measurements to be taken as well as the sequence thereof and prescribed calculations to be made therefrom.
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Henderson Mark T.
Henry David G.
Wellington A. L.
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