A New Fixed Billiard-chalk Holder.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 15th July, 1897
Complete Specification Left, 12th Apr., 1898-Accepted, 4th June, 1898
A New Fixed Billiard-chalk Holder.
I, JOHN HUGH MALTBY, Engineer, Bedford Music Hall, Arlington Road,
Camden Town, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The invention consists of a square or round box or boxes arranged alone or in
series in any form that may be desirable ornamented or otherwise and attached
or not to standards with clips for cues as may be needed, to contain ordinary cube
or specially made chalks.
The box or boxes can also be attached to or in a wall or to the legs or sides of
billiard or bagatelle or other tables or to any fixed point that may be convenient.
The invention is made of metal wood or other material whatsoever and in any
shape to suit convenience.
Each box or series of boxes is fitted or hinged with lever or other lock in such
manner as to admit of the free adjustment or removal of suitable chalks, and a
suitable orifice round or otherwise is provided for application of the cue.
Doted this 15th day of Tul, 1907
JOHN HUGH MALTBY.
JOIN HUGH MALTBY, of the Bedford Music Hall, High Street, Camden Town,
London, N.W., 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:-
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My invention relates to a fixed billiard chalk holder and has chiefly for its
object to prevent the purloining of the chalk and to serve as an advertising
medium.
A chalk holder constructed according to my said invention comprises a wall
bracket to which the chalk box is secured in any desired position.
In the accompanying drawing
Fig. 1 represents a front elevation, part of the wall bracket being broken away.
Fig. 2 shows a section on the line of Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is a plan of the locking plate.
In carrying my aforesaid invention into practice I employ a bracket consisting
of a plate a made of any suitable shape and material and fixed to the wall by
screws or the like. On the said plate I provide a projection b presenting an in-
clined plane and which may either be attached thereto in any appropriate manner,
or stamped from, or cast on, such plate.

page_text: To the aforesaid projection b is fixed, by screws or other means, a box c designed
for the reception of one or more billiard chalks d. Provision may be made for
introducing these chalks from the top or side of the box which is closed by means
of a locking plate e. As shown, this plate is furnished with projections el fitting
into corresponding recesses or slots in the front of the box, and with a lock e² the
bolt 3 of which is adapted to engage with a recess or slot in the back of the box.
The bottom of this box c presents apertures f, through which the tip of the cue
is introduced for chalking the same.
As the billiard player is obliged to look at the holder when chalking his cue,
I utilize the face of such holder for advertising purposes.
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:-
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First. A billiard chalk holder adapted to be fixed to the wall.
Second. A. fixed billiard chalk holder comprising a wall bracket ab and a chalk
box c, the faces of which are used for advertising purposes, substantially as set
forth.
Third. In a billiard chalk holder a chalk box having a locking plate e for pre-
venting the purloining of the chalks, substantially as set forth.
Fourth. A billiard chalk holder, constructed substantially as and for the purposes
herein before set forth and represented in the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 12th day of April 1898.
J. LINCOLN & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.