Improved Holder for Billiard and other Cues.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Oct., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 14th July, 1892-Accepted, 27th Aug., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Holder for Billiard and other Cues.
I CHARLES CHESNEY COOK Lieutenant 1st Bombay Lancers, Deesa, Bombay
Presidency in the Empire of India, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to provide a holder in which cues such as billiard
cues may be suspended by their smaller ends in the most suitable manner to prevent
them from becoming warped and from which they may be readily removed when
required.
For this purpose I provide an eccentric or a semi circular piece pivoted eccen-
trically so as to be capable of being lifted and to fall by its own gravity to a point
at which it is arrested by a suitable stop. place this eccentric or semi-circular
piece pivoted eccentrically in such a position relatively to a projecting block that
the distance between the block and the periphery of the eccentric when it has
dropped to its full limit is less than the diameter of the smaller end of the cues to
be suspended.
To suspend a cue it is sufficient to enter the smaller end between the projecting
block and the eccentric thereby raising the eccentric to the required height to
allow the cue to pass a sufficient distance for it to be retained by its own weight
when released as it tends by frictional contact to draw down the eccentric and
thus to bind the cue against the block.
A row of eccentrics each pivoted at one side of a block and dropping towards
the other side of the adjacent block may be set upon a rail of sufficient length to
provide for suspending any desired number of cues.
The blocks and the eccentrics may be provided with india rubber pads at the
parts which come in contact with the cue to afford the necessary grip of the
eccentric and avoid any indentation.
Dated this with October 1801
AYRTON & THOMAS,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Holder for Billiard and other Cues.
I, CHARLES CHESNEY COOK, Lieutenant, 1st Bombay Lancers, Deera,
Bombay Presidency, in the Empire of India, 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 :-
The object of my invention is to provide a holder in which cues such as billiard
cues may be suspended by their smaller ends in the most suitable manner to prevent
them from becoming warped and from which they may be readily removed when
required.
For this purpose an eccentric or a semicircular piece is pivoted eccentrically so
as to be capable of being lifted and to fall by its own gravity to a point at
which it is arrested by a suitable stop. This eccentric or semicircular piece
pivoted eccentrically is placed in such a position relatively to a projecting block
that the distance between the block and the periphery of the eccentric, when it has
dropped to its full limit, is less than the diameter of the smaller end of the cues to
be suspended.
To suspend a cue it is sufficient to enter the smaller end between the projecting

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block and the eccentric, thereby raising the eccentric to the required height to
allow the cue to pass a sufficient distance for it to be retained by its own weight
when released, as it tends to draw down the eccentric by frictional contact, and
thus to bind the cue against the block.
A row of eccentrics, each pivoted at one side of a block and dropping towards
the other side of the adjacent block are set upon a rail of sufficient length to
provide for suspending any desired number of cues.
The blocks and the eccentrics are provided, with india-rubber pads at the parts
which come in contact with the cue, to afford the necessary grip of the eccentric,
and avoid any indentation.
In the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings
Fig. 1. is a front elevation of a portion of a cue rack, constructed according to
this invention.
Fig. 2. is a vertical cross section of the same.
Figs. 3 and 4 are detail views.
Cylindrical blocks a lined on the convex face with india-rubber fare eccentrically
pivotted to the board h, by means of the screws d, in proximity to fixed blocks b,
also faced with elastic material e on the faces adjacent to the blocks a. A block a
is mounted on either side of each block b. Pins c acting on the top surface of the
blocks, prevent the blocks from moving too far, either upwards or downwards.
The distance between the adjacent faces of the blocks a &b when the blocks a
are in their lowest position is less than the diameter of the smaller end of the
smallest cuc. The smaller end of the cue g is inserted from below, and is passed
a short distance upwards between the blocks a and b, raising the block a.
cue is then gently lowered and the block a falls by its own weight, and the cue is
gripped between the two elastic faces of the blocks a and b. The cue is removed
by giving it a simultaneous upward and outward motion.
The
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 holder for billiard and other cues, consisting of a fixed block and an
eccentrically pivotted block mounted in proximity to one another on a fixed support
substantially as described.
2. A cue rack consisting of a fixed support h and of the sets of fixed blocks b
and eccentrically pivotted blocks a, two pivotted blocks a being mounted, in
proximity to one fixed block, on the support h, substantially as described.
e,
3. A cue rack consisting of the fixed support h, of the block b with elastic faces
fixed on the support h, and of the cylindrical blocks a, with elastic faces f, eccen-
trically pivotted on the support h, the whole, substantially as described with
reference to the drawings.
Dated this Fourteenth day of July 1892.
AYRTON & THOMAS,
59 & 60, Chancery Lane, London.