An Improved Billiard Table Attachment.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Oct., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 28th Jan., 1893-Accepted, 4th Mar., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Billiard Table Attachment.
1, JOHN GOODSON, of 213 Vauxhall Bridge Road in the County of Middlesex,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object to provide a billiard table attachment or fixing
for containing the chalk and other requisites for the use of players and consists of a
hollow base or socket with flange secured to the frame or other convenient part of
the table, and in which the material is placed and secured by a screwed cap or plug
provided with an opening for the insertion of the cue end.
The attachment can be so arranged that the opening in the body, cap or plug
faces either in a vertical or horizontal direction. When used to contain chalk, the
said chalk is placed in the attachment, and the cap or plug screwed on it; the player
then inserts the end of the cue through the cap, plug or other opening, and rotates
it until the leather tip is sufficiently coated. The attachment is also arranged to
chalk the side of the upper part of the cue if required.
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For the purpose of dressing the surface of the leather tips, 1 insert in the attach-
ment a disc having a concave surface roughened with file, rasp or other teeth, and
secure it in position by means of the cap or plug. Discs of glass paper or other
cutting composition are also secured in a similar manner.
Dated this 21st day of October 1892.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Billiard Table Attachment.
I, JOHN GOODSON of 213 Vauxhall Bridge Road, in the County of Middlesex,
Engineer, 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 has for its object to provide a billiard table attachment or fixing
for containing the chalk and other requisites for the use of players; and consists
of a hollow base or socket secured to the frame or in any other convenient place
and in which the material is placed and secured by a screwed cap or plug provided
with an opening for the insertion of the cue end.
In the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings
Figure represents a vertical section of a billiard table attachment constructed
according to this invention and
Figure 2 is a front elevation of the same.
Figures 3 and 4 represent similar views of an attachment having a circular flange
for securing it to the table.
Figures 5 and 6 represent a vertical section and front elevation of an attachment
with the body let into the frame of the table and
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Figures 7 and 8 represent a vertical section and a front elevation of an attachment
for dressing the leather tips of billiard cnes.
Referring to Figures 1 to 4 of the drawings the body or socket a is secured to
the billiard table by the flange b and the chalk being placed in the socket, a cap <
with conical opening is screwed down on it and secures it firmly in position. To
chalk the tip of a cue it is only necessary to insert it in the conical cap and rotate
the cue until it is sufficiently coated. The body of the attachment is cut away as.
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page_text: shown to enable the player to chalk the sides of the cue itself, and also the tip
from either side as desired.
In the arrangement shown in Figures 5 and 6 the body a is let into the table and
secured by screws in the Hange and a screwed cap similar to that shown in
Figure 1 screwed into it.
In the leather tip dressing device shown in Figures 7 and 8 a steel concave dished
disc d is let into the body e and secured by the screwed cap f the concave surface
being roughened with teeth. The end of the cue is inserted through the hole, in
the cap and rotated until the tip is dressed to the form and surface required.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. A billiard table attachment for containing chalk comprising a body for
holding the chalk and a screwed conical cap for securing the chalk 'substantially
as described.
2. The arrangement and construction of billiard table attachments substantially
as described with reference to Figures 1 to 6 of the drawings.
3. In a billiard table attachment for dressing the tips of billiard cues, the com-
bination of a base e concave roughened disc d and screwed cap substantially as
described with reference to Figures 7 and 8 of the drawings..
Dated this 27th day of January 1893.