Time Registering Apparatus for Billiard Tables.
Year: 1896

page_text: IDIONAL
Time Registering Apparatus for Billiard Tables.
HENRY WALDER, Billiard Table Manufacturer, of 13 Moorfields in the City of
London do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to mechanism for registering the time a Billiard Table
is in play, for the purpose of checking the takings.
For the above purpose, a clock or watch is combined with a Billiard Table,
preferably by being fixed to the Gas or Lighting fittings or immediately above the
iable, such clock or watch being capable of being stopped or started by the
movement of a lever or suitable appendage.
The said lever or appendage is made of such a shape or size as to cover or
extend over a portion of the playing surface of the table in such a manner as to
prevent a game being played upon the table. Upon the said lever or appendage
being lowered or placed on or near to the playing surface of the table the clock
or watch is stopped, but upon the lever or appendage being removed the clock or
watch is started or allowed to work and thus the time the table is in use is duly,
registered by the said clock or watch.
By means of mechanism arranged as above described, an obstruction is placed
upon or near to the playing surface of the table preventing it being used for the
game and at the same time the clock or watch in the combination is stopped, but
upon the said obstruction being removed the table is free to be played upon an'l
the act of removing the obstruction sets the clock or watch going and thus the
time the table is being played upon is recorded upon the said clock or watch.
Dated this Fourteenth day of December 1896.
Time Registering Apparatus for Billiard Tables.
HENRY WALDER, Billiard Tables Manufacturer, of 13 Moorfields in the Uity of
London 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 mechanism for registering the time a Billiard Table
is in play, for the purpose of checking the takings.
For the above purpose, a clock or watch is combined with a Billiard Table,
preferably by being fixed to the Gas or Lighting fittings or immediately above
the table, such clock or watch being capable of being stopped or started by the
movement of a lever or suitable appendage.
The said lever or appendage is made of such a shape or size as to cover or extend
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page_text: over a portion of the playing surface of the table, in such a manner as to prevent
a game being played upon the table. Upon the said lever or appendage being
lowered or placed on or near to the playing surface of the table the clock or watch
is stopped, but upon the lever or appendage being removed the clock or watch is
started or allowed to work and thus the time the table is in use is duly registered 4
by the said clock or watch.
By means of mechanism arranged as above described, an obstruction is placed
upon or near to the playing surface of the table preventing it being used for the
game and at the same time the clock or watch in the combination is stopped, but
upon the said obstruction being removed the table is free to be played upon and
the act of removing the obstruction sets the clock or watch going and thus the
time the table is being played upon is recorded upon the said clock or watch. It
is evident that instead of the lever or appendage being connected directly with the
works of the clock or watch it may be litted to a separate set of wheels and dial
in such a manner that the clock or watch may continue to work during the time
the separate wheels for registering the time the table is in use, are stopped.
One way of constructing the time registering apparatus is as follows:
Fig. 1. is a front view (with part of dial removed) and Fig. 2. is a side view of
the apparatus.
The
An ordinary clock is fixed in a box A. An arbor b. (preferably that of the
"fourth" wheel of the clock) is extended through the back of the clock and upon.
this arbor is fixed a pinion a. to drive a toothed-wheel & turning in lever e. Both
pinion c. and toothed-wheel d. are actuated by the clock contained in Box A.
The lever e. is capable of being burned upon pin el. Another toothed-wheel f. is
fitted to arbor g on the end of which, in front of dial j, is fixed hand h. to point
to the hours, and parts of hours, upon the said dial j. A horizontal lever k is
pivoted at and is made wedge-shaped at . The lever . is supported by an
adjustable screw in a swinging bar 7. hung or hinged at to box A.
lever 7. rests upon disc or cam m. provided with a notch m² and long arm m³ at the
end of which is a cross piece mi (or other suitable termination). The disc or
cam m. is capable of being turned upon pin m². The drawings show the long
arm m in a horizontal position and the swinging bar 7. resting upon the circum-
ference of the disc or cam m. which allows the two wheels f and d to be brought
into gear.
On lowering the long arm m into a perpendicular position the
swinging bar 1. falls into the slot m¹ which allows the wedge-shaped end
lever to fall, and the lever e is pushed forward by spring n which disengages
the teeth of the two wheels d and f. To use the apparatus above described, it is
placed above a Billiard Table (or the like), preferably over the centre of the table
by being clamped to the Gas or Lighting fittings, and at such a height that the
cross piece m³ falls upon or near to the playing surface of the table and obstructs
the run of the balls. Upon the clock in box A being set going the pinion and
wheeld is thereby set in motion, and on lowering the long arm m³ the toothed-
wheel d is made to disengage wheel f, as above described, and in consequence
during the time the obstruction (cross bar m³) is close to the surface of the table
the hand remains stationary but on the obstruction being removed wheels d
and are again put in gear and the hand h travels round the dial j registering
the time.
of
The spring o. is to prevent the hand & from slipping, and the springs p. q. are
used to insure the levers e and k moving in the desired direction.
It is evident that by altering the number of the sheaves of the pinion and teeth
of the wheels, or by adding further wheels the compass of the dial may be
modified.
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. A. Billiard Table or the like in combination with clockwork in connection

page_text: with which clockwork are obstructing parts capable of being placed to, and
removed from the playing surface or the said table, the act of placing or removing
such obstructing parts controlling the clockwork in order that the time the said
table is in use may be registered or ascertained, substantially as described in the
specification.
2. In connection wth an ordinary clock or watch movement: lever e, pinion c,
wheels d and f, hand h, dial j, lever k, swinging bar 1, and set screw, disc or
cam m, slot m', bar m³, and cross bar m³ in combination with a billiard table or
the like substantially as described and illustrated and for the purpose mentioned
in the specification.
Dated this 11th dose of September 1897