Improvements in Clips or Holders for Billiard Cues, Walking Sticks Umbrellas and like Articles.
Year: 1897

page_text: Improvements in Clips or Holders for Billiard Cues, Walking Sticks
Umbrellas and like Articles.
We, ALFRED HENRY WESTON of 77 Finsbury Pavement, London Chandelier
Manufacturer SIDNEY ERNEST FRASER and LAURISTON EVELYN FRASER both of
51 Charing Cross Road London Billiard Requisite Manufacturers do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The invention has for its object to provide an Improved Clip or Holder for
Billiard Cues, Walking Sticks, Umbrellas and like articles, also for athletic
appliances and apparatus used in games, such as cricket bats, golf clubs and the
like for retention in an upright position when not in use.
Holders hitherto used, made in metal of horseshoe shape, with spring action,
and having bone or other hard substance guides at opening, through which the
article to be held is forced, unavoidably cause such articles, by repeated passage,
to become indented and damaged on surface, besides causing the holder itself, by
the nature of its construction, to quickly get out of order.
The clip or holder which the said Alfred Henry Weston has devised is intended
to remedy these defects For which purpose he constructs a claw or holder in
metal or other serviceable material of horseshoe or other convenient shape, and
in sizes appropriate to the articles to be held. For the hard guides at opening
hitherto used, he substitutes hollow air balls, round or oval, or hollow chambers
of other shape, of India or other rubber, or other flexible or suitable material, so
attached to holder as to revolve, and by deflating and inflating as the article to be
held passes in or out. to form a natural automatic spring, obviating injurious
frictional resistance, at the same time assuring easy and effectual retention of the
article. The invention can be made in durable patterns, and can be used singly,
or applied in numbers to form racks on walls or fixed on circular and other stands
and wood work.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Clips or Holders for Billiard Cues, Walking Sticks,
Umbrellas and like Articles.
We, ALFRED HENRY WESTON of 77 Finsbury Pavement, London, Chandelier
Manufacturer, and SIDNEY ERNEST FRASER and LAURISTON EVELYN FRASER of
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page_text: 51 Charing Cross Road, London, Billiard Requisite Manufacturers, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
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use. The
Its object is to provide an improved clip or holder for retaining billiard cues,
walking sticks, umbrellas, cricket bats, golf clubs, and other similar articles
in an upright position (in racks or otherwise) when not in
repeated friction which occurs in forcing a cue or other article into or out of a
holder with two bone or other hard substances guides or fasteners at its opening,
causes the cue or other article, and the two guides or fasteners to become worn.
This invention substitutes two hollow balls or air chambers, made of india-rubber
or other suitable flexible material (so attached to the holder as to revolve) for the
two non-flexible guides or fasteners hitherto used, and thereby lessens the friction.
enused in passing the article to be held, into or out of the holder, which it allows
to be done with greater ease.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is
The substitution of flexible vaides or fasteners for Hon
Mexible guides or
fasteners.
Dated this 16th day of November 1897.
ERNEST L. CHAPMAN,
Agent for the said Alfred Henry Weston Sidney Ernest Fraser & Lauriston
Evelyn Fraser.