An Improved Chalk-holder for Billiard and Bagatelle Tables.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Dec., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 13th Sept., 1890-Accepted, 1st Nov., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Chalk-holder for Billiard and Bagatelle Tables.
I, THEOPHILUS THORLEY, of 31 St. Augustine's Parade, in the City and County of
Bristol, Builder, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists in an improved receptacle for attachment to billiard and
bagatelle tables and is designed to receive the chalk required, as is well understood,
for cues.
The holder consists of a cup free to turn, within limits, on trunnions
supported in bearings forming part of a frame which is open. at the front and is,
at the top, screwed or otherwise secured to the underside of the table. Neither the
cup nor the frame project beyond the side or end of the table. The axis about
which the cup turns is parallel with the table side or end. Normally the cup lies in
such a position that its mouth is approximately horizontal and uppermost, and when
in this position the piece of chalk placed therein rests in the cup. The cup bears at
the back against the frame or against a bar placed across the frame. Projecting
downwards from the bottom of the cup is a plate which extends longitudinally from
end to end of the cup.
When the chalk is required, the player, having the palm of his hand uppermost,
exerts an inward pressure on the finger plate at the bottom of the cup and by so
doing causes the cup to turn on its trunnions so that the cup becomes reversed or
partially reversed and thus the chalk is ejected therefrom into the hand of the
operator.
The finger plate acts as a stop to prevent the cup from being tilted further than
the requisite extent. When the hand is withdrawn the cup, being counterbalanced,
resumes its normal position in the frame and is ready for replacement of the chalk.
The appliance is simple and quick in action.
Dated this 12th day of December 1900
NICHOLAS WATTS,
Bristol Bank Buildings, Bristol, Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Chalk-holder for Billiard and Bagatelle Tables.
I, THEOPHILUS THORLEY, of 31 Saint Augustine's Parade, in the City and County
of Bristol, Builder, 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 consists in an improved receptacle for attachment to billiard and
bagatelle tables for containing chalk employed, as is well understood, for application
to the ends of the cues used in playing at billiards and bagatelle.
The chalk holder which constitutes this invention consists of a cup pivotted in a
frame in which it is free to turn within limits. The frame which is secured to the
underside of the table is open at the front, which is "flush" or even with the side
or end of the table.
Projecting downwards from the cup and extending longitudinally along the same
is a plate on which a player requiring the chalk exerts an inward pressure thereby
causing the cup to turn sufficiently on its hinge to eject the chalk into the hand.
The cup is prevented from being moved to more than the requisite degree by contact
of the finger plate with a bar fixed across the frame at the back thereof. When the
player's hand is withdrawn the cup, being so balanced, swings back to its normal
position ready for replacement therein of the chalk.

page_text: in the accompanying sheet of drawings,
Fig. 1 represents a front view of my improved chalk holder for billiard and
bagatelle tables.
Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section shewing the chalk cup in its normal
position.
Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section shewing the chalk cup tilted as for ejection
of the chalk.
The appliance consists of a frame a, which is arranged to be secured to the under-
side of a billiard or bagatelle table, and a cup 6 free to turn on hinges in the frame.
The frame is secured by screws or otherwise to the table, having been first adjusted
so that the front of the frame is flush or even with the edge of the table. In the
cup is deposited the chalk c for chalking the ends of cues.
b
The cup is balanced so
as to normally assume the position shown at Figs. 1 and 2, but by a backward
pressure exerted on the plate d at the front thereof by a player's finger ends, the cup
is tilied, as shown at Fig. 3, and the chalk is ejected into the player's hand. The
cup is prevented by the bare at the back of the frame, and preferably covered with
india-rubber or other suitable substance to subdue sound, from being tilted beyond
the necessary point, and when the player's hand is withdrawn the cup, being counter-
balanced, swings back to its normal position.
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
An improved chalk-holder for billiard and bagatelle tables, consisting of a counter-
weighted cup such as b with finger plate d, said cup being hinged in a frame such
as a, with stop bar e, in such manner that on a backward pressure being exerted on
the said plate the cup is tilted and the chalk ejected, the cup on removal of the
pressure swinging back to its normal position, substantially as herein before described
with reference to the accompanying drawing.
.
Dated this 12th day of September 1890.
NICHOLAS WATTS,
Bristol Bank Buildings, Bristol, Agent.