Improvements in Rests for Billiard Cues.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 25th May, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 25th Feb., 1892-Accepted, 26th Mar., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Rests for Billiard Cues.
I, GEORGE RICHARD SHORT of 6 Garth Cottages, Pendarren Works, Merthyr
Tydvil, in the County of Glamorgan, Wales, Billiard Table Renovator, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to rests for billiard cues adapted to support the cue in
various positions. The rest proper is provided with a handle preferably made in
lengths or sections like a fishing rod which may be joined together or separated
according to the length of handle required for use with the rest at each particular
operation.
The rest proper consists of a body portion which may with advantage be cast in
metal though other material may be employed and having a tube or socket into
which the stick or handle may be inserted; this is the most convenient arrange-
ment as the handle can then be detached promptly as required but it will be
understood that the handle may be connected to the rest in any other suitable
manner. The shape of the body portion of the rest may be varied to suit circum-
stances and it may be solid or open, a convenient form however consists of a hollow
frame in which the handle socket is secured or of which the socket forms part and
carrying three pads of a soft or cushioning material such as leather, rubber or the
like, two of these pads being intended to support the rest upon the billiard table
while the third pad may be slightly hollowed or recessed so as to form a support
for the billiard cue. From this frame extends a leg carrying another pad preferably
provided with three curved recesses and thus adapted to receive the cue in different
positions. The pads may be connected with the rest in any convenient manner as
by forming the portions of the rest which receive the pads into jaws and fitting the
pads into these and then rivetting them through. Conveniently the jaws may be
made of the same width as the pad that portion of the pad which fits between the
jaws being reduced accordingly so that the pad and rest are flush at those portions.
The approximate exterior contour of the pads is circular the circle however being
interrupted by the portions removed.
In use the handle of the required length is inserted into the socket and the rest.
placed at the required position upon the table and turned about so as to present.
the required supporting pad to the cue according to the requirements of the
contemplated stroke.
Dated this 23rd day of September 1891.
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,.
Agents for the Applicant..
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Rests for Billiard Cues.
I, GEORGE RICHARD SHORT, of 6 Garth Cottages, Pendarren Works, Merthyr
Tydvil, in the County of Glamorgan, Wales, Billiard Table Renovator, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This invention relates to rests for billiard cues adapted to support the cue in
various positions.
The rest proper is provided with a handle preferably made in lengths or sections
like a fishing rod which may be joined together or separated according to the
length of handle required for use with the rest at each particular stroke.
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page_text: The invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanying drawings
in which
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the rest.
Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the rest with the handle attached, and
Fig. 3 is a view showing the rest in another position.
Figure 1 shows the rest proper consisting of a body portion which may with
advantage be cast in metal though other material may be employed if desired.
The shape of the body portion of the rest may be varied to suit requirements and
may if desired be cast solid, but I have found the most convenient shape to consist
in a frame A. having a central tube or socket A' for the reception of the stick or
handle.
From the socket A' the rest branches in different directions forming any desired
number but preferably four arms B C D F, the outer extremities of which
preferably terminate in jaws bed for carrying pads G H I K of a soft or
cushioning material such as leather, rubber or the like. These pads may be
connected with the arms of the rest in any convenient manner as by fitting them
into the jaws and rivetting them through.
The two pads GH are approximately circular and are intended to support. the
rest upon the billiard table, while the third pad 1 is slightly hollowed or recessed
as shown at 1 to form a support for the billiard cue.
The fourth pad K carried by the longer arm of the rest is preferably provided
with three curved recesses K K K and is thus adapted to receive the cue in
different positions and at various angles.
The arms branching from the socket A' are also curved out or hollowed where
possible as seen at B and C to form additional supports for the cue.
L is the stick or handle of the rest and fits into the socket A'. This handle may
be of any desired length, but I have found a convenient method is to form it in
lengths or sections like a fishing rod which may be joined together or separated,
according to the length of handle required, or if desired the sections could be
arranged to slide telescopically.
Figures 2 and 3 show the rest in use, the dotted lines M representing the cue,
which in the case of Figure 2 is riding on the curved out or hollow face Bt of the
rest, the recessed pad lying on the table and forming the support for the rest.
In Figure 3 the cue M is resting on the recessed or hollow face K of the pad K
which with the circular pad G lies on the table and forms the support for the rest.
It will thus be seen that the rest can be turned about in a variety of ways to present
a suitable resting surface for the cue.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed declare that what. I
claim is,-
1. In a billiard cue rest the combination with the socket A of the arms BCDF
recessed or hollowed out as at B and C to form additional rests for the cue
substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
2. In a billiard cue rest the combination with the arms BC D F of the circular
pads G and H for supporting the rest on the billiard table and the hollowed or
recessed pads and K for affording additional rests for the cue substantially as
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
3. The billiard cuc rest substantially as described and illustrated in the accom
panying drawings.
Dated this 24th day of February 1892.
GEORGE RICHARD SHORT.
W. P. Thompson & Boult,
Agents for the Applicant.