Tally card with shiftable leaf for selective indicia viewing

Claim 1

A BRIDGE TALLY COMPRISING A FLAT TUBULAR SHEATH INCLUDING FRONT AND REAR PANELS, AN INSERT ENCLOSED WITHIN SAID SHEATH AND LONGITUDINALLY SHIFTABLE THEREIN, SAID INSERT BEING OF A LENGTH LESS THAN THE LENGTH OF SAID SHEATH AND CARRYING ON THE FORWARD FACE THEREOF A PLURALITY OF COLUMNS OF INDICIA, INCLUDING OUTER COLUMNS AND AN INTERMEDIATE COLUMNS, DENOTING THE TABLE AND PARTNER NUMBERS FOR DIFFERENT PLAY ARRANGEMENTS, SAID FRONT PANEL GENERALLY CONCEALING SAID INSERT AND INCLUDING A WINDOW SPACE DIMENSIONED TO EXPOSED THERETHROUGH AN INDICIA COLUMN BROUGHT INTO ALIGNMENT THEREWITH, THE LOWER CORNERS OF SAID SHEATH BEING CUT AWAY TO EXPOSE THE LOWER CORNERS OF SAID INSERT WHEREBY SAID LOWER CORNERS OF SAID INSERT MANY BE MANUALLY MANIPULATED TO SHIFT SAID INSERT LONGITUDINALLY WITHIN SAID SHEATH TO BRING ANY OF SAID COLUMNS INTO ALIGNMENT WITH SAID WINDOW SPACE, THE ARRANGEMENT OF SAID COLUMNS AND THE LENGTH OF SAID INSERT BEING SUCH THAT EXCEPT FOR SAID CORNERS THE INSERT IS WHOLLY CONFINED WITHIN THE SHEATH WHEN SHIFTED TO POSITION ANY OF SAID COLUMNS BENEATH SAID WINDOW SPACE, AND THE CUT AWAY CORNERS DEFINING SHOULDERS POSITIONED TO HAVE ONE THEREOF IN ALIGNMENT WITH AN ADJACENT END OF SAID INSERT WHEN AN OUTER INDICIA COLUMN IS IN ALIGNMENT WITH SAID WINDOW SPACE.