Improvements in Apparatus for Holding Chalk for Application to Billiard Cues.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Mar., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 13th Dec., 1898-Accepted, 11th Mar., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Holding Chalk for Application to
Billiard Cues.
I, HAROLD GRANVILLE BARNARD, of 57, Cheapside, in the City of London,
Solicitor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists of supplying a portable box or receptacle for the more
convenient and safe carrying of chalk used for billiard cues.
The portable box or receptacle may be made of any wood, metal or other
substance and may be in design similar to any ordinary matchbox having a spring
lid and a sliding back.
The advantages of my invention are as follows that is to say. It allows the
chalk to be placed in the pocket of the billiard player without breaking and
without soiling the clothes of the player, and thus is always to hand when
required, enabling the billiard player to carry his own chalk about with him
habitually and so making him independent of the chalk supplied in billiard
rooms, &c. It prevents the chalk being wasted as is at present frequently the case,
by the chalk coming in contact with other substances with nothing to protect it.
The chalk used by billiard players is essentially soft and very easily broken
and my invention supplies the necessary protective covering.
My apparatus may be constructed in the following ways.
A box fitting rather closely to the chalk of the ordinary size used by billiard
players having on one side a sliding lid which can be withdrawn so as to replace
the chalk when necessary and on another side a round hole bevelled and made
large enough to admit easily the tip of the cue.
cue
SO as
back
To cover this hole there may be any kind of lid preferably a lid having a small
spring on the same side as the hinges and a catch on the other side similar to the
commonest kind of metal match-boxes, and it may be made square to cover the
whole side of the box or round to cover only the hole which admits the cue.
the
be made having the four sides and
The box may also
unmovable and the side containing the hole for the admittance of the
made to slide out
to allow
taken
the chalk to be
out
and replaced.
be made to
The parts described as sliding may also
open with hinges and a spring or other fastening to keep the same closed. The
box may be constructed also without a lid and having one or more holes for
admittance of the cue. It may be made of any shape size or design and may be
engraved or carved, but I prefer to make it so that the interior is only just large
enough to retain the piece of chalk and externally so that it is as small and com-
pact as possible. It may also be made with a ring or spring clasp so that it may
be readily attached to a watch-chain and for this purpose it might be made in
gold or silver.
D1 21: 02d of Verch 1898

page_text: Improvements in Apparatus for Holding Chalk for Application to
Billiard Cues.
I, HAROLD GRANVILLE BARNARD, of 57, Cheapside, in the City of London,
Solicitor, 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:-
My invention consists of supplying a portable box or receptacle for the more
convenient and safe carrying of chalk used for billiard cues.
The portable box or receptacle may be made of any wood metal or other
substance and may be in design similar to any ordinary match box having a spring
lid and a sliding back.
The advantages of my invention are as follows that is to say: It allows the
chalk to be placed in the pocket of the billiard player without breaking &
without soiling the clothes of the player and thus is always to hand when
required enabling the player to carry his
own chalk about with him
habitually and so making him independent of the chalk supplied in billiard
rooms. It prevents the chalk being wasted as is at present frequently the case
by the chalk coming in contact with other substances with nothing to protect it.
The chalk used by billiard players is especially soft, and very easily broken and
my invention supplies the necessary protective covering.
It is also a novel personal ornament and may be made in gold or silver.
My apparatus may be constructed in the following ways:
A box made of thin hard material preferably of silver or other metal fitting very
closely to the chalk used by billiard players having on one side a sliding cover BB
in which is a circular hole large enough to admit easily the tip of a cue.
To cover
this hole may be any kind of lid either round to cover only the hole or square
to cover the top of the box & which lid A is fastened or fitted preferably with
the hinges ee to the sliding cover B B and with a spring and catch D, D.
The sliding cover is to allow the chalk to be replaced.
The cover B B may also be made to open with hinges instead of sliding. The
box may be constructed of any size or design and engraved or carved but
to make it to fit a piece of chalk half the depth of the square size of chalk c.dinarily
prefer
used.
It may also be made with a ring or spring clasp so that it may be readily attached
to the watch chain.
Having now particularly described and a certained the nature of my said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:
A portable chalk holder for conveniently and economically protecting chalks
for billiard cues having a sliding cover and lid with hinges springs and fastenings
as above described.
Data 1: 1911 1