A COMBINED BILLIARD CUE AND MARKER to be as follows:- dial.
Year: 1884

page_text: ARTHUR LEWIS ADEY gentleman 21 Salisbury Road Edinburgh. I, ARTHUR
LEWIS ADEY do hereby declare the nature of said invention for "A COMBINED
BILLIARD CUE AND MARKER to be as follows:-
dial.
"
Take an ordinary billiard cuo and sink into the butt an ivory or bone dial
marked up to 100 points as in Fig I. Let the dial be so sunk into the shaft of
the cue, that the hand may not touch the buttons that run on either side of the
Billiard markers may thus be dispensed with as the tables may be let by
the hour and the players can move the buttons on the dial, whenever thoy make
any points. This adaptation will be of special advantage in private rooms.
this town there is, eg, a public room, where this cue being used a saving of £150
a year could be effected.
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The drawing represents the dial itself, which may be indexed up to a hundred
game (or more) and also to a fifty. For instance, if the player make a break of
20 points he just moves his own button from, say 20 to 40: thus å marker can be
disponsed with: they being very unreliable, as they rarely mark a game correctly,
this will be a great comfort to players.
The position of the dial is to be, in the ordinary cue, about half a foot from the
end or butt of the cue, so as to give the hand room to grasp the cue without
touching the buttons: in the ebony-butted or spliced cue it is to be placed with
the top just where the ebony or splice is fixed into the rest of tho cục.
The size of the dial will be about five inches long by 1 inches broad.
Arrangement of the dial: it is to be inserted into the cuo to a depth of about
half an inch, so as to allow the hands freo play over the place it occupies. The
part of the dial marked 100 is to stand pointing towards the top of the cue, so
that the buttons or knobs may be easily moved along the travellers. This dial
may also be fixed into the tables.
A dial in a single form marked up to 100 of about half an inch in breadth with
a single button could also be used, if preferred.

page_text: ARTHUR LEWIS ADEY gentleman Swallow Cottage Greenisland Belfast. I do
hereby declare the nature of said invention for A COMBINED BILLIARD CUE AND
MARKER and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
Take an ordinary billiard cue and into the butt sink a bone or ivory dial as
shown in the drawing accompanying Form C. Let the dial be so sunk into the
cue that the hands may have free play over it so as not to shift the knobs on
which the indices run. Let the dial be marked in divisions of five up to 100.
When a player makes a break, for example, 20 let him shift his knob, whether spot
or plain, from, say, 40 to 60 and he may at the same time mark the score of his
opponent. By using a cue with a dial, markers may be dispensed with, as the
tables may be let by the hour. Now as during the many years I have played
billiards, I have never found a marker, who would mark properly (save in matches)
this cue will bo a great comfort. It will also be of great use in private rooms,
where it is so hard to get a proper marker. Its great use will be in public rooms,
where, this cue being used, a great saving of money may be effected: c.g. cach
table now requires a marker to satisfy players, but in a room with half-a-dozen
tables, say, one man, these cues being used, could manage the whole room and the
wages of the other five markers be saved. All the one person having to do being
to take note of the hours the tables are used,
(Position of the dial,) Let it be sunk into the butt of the cue at a distance of
about four inches from the end of the cue to the depth of two-fifths of an inch (of
an inch). Let the dial be placed with the part marked 100 pointing towards the
top of the cue & be placed on the planed side of the butt.
(Size of the dial.) Six inches and three quartors in length (6 inches) and
three-fifths of an inch in width ( of an inch) and three-sixteenths of an inch in
thickness (of an inch) but the size will or may depend on the maker.
(Construction of the dial.) The ivory being indexed up to 100 sec drawing
letter A, two knobs (B) having small pointers, one knob being white to represent
the plain ball, the other black to represent the spot ball, are to run up the dial, so
that they may move the pointers to the desired spot. The knobs (B. B.) will run
in two slits in the dial (C.C.C. C.C.C.) and be constructed in a simple mechanical
manner. It may be as well to place a thin cushion of india-rubber (D. D.) at each
end of the dial to prevent jarring. Also the cue will be required to be planed
down a little the whole length of the dial on both sides and at both ends of the
dial, see, (E.E.E. E.E.E & E.E.) so that the knobs may be more easily reached.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed: I declare that what
I claim is:
1* The combination of the marker with the cuc, whereby the cuo becomes, as
it were, both cue and marking-board:
2nd The sinking of a dial-marker into the butt of the cuc, so that no obstruction
meets the hand of the player."
Dated this 1st day of November 1884.