US1175068A - Pool-table attachment. - Google Patents

Description

J. F. McNAMARA.

POOL TABLE ATTACHMENT. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 11. 1915.

Patented Mar. 14, 1916.

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JOHN F. MQN'AMARA, 0F DANBURY, CONNECTICUT.

POOL-TABLE ATTACHMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 14, 1916.

Application filed June 11, 1915. Serial No. 33,534.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN F. MONAMARA, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Danbury, county of Fairfield, State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pool-Table Attachments; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in attachments for pool tables and more especially to an attachment or holder in which the triangle is locked.

The main object resides in an improved triangle holder from which the triangle may be removed for spotting the balls as required in commencing a game.

A further aim is to provide a combined ball drawer or receptacle and triangle holder especially adapted for pool tables embodying the automatic runways for delivering the balls that go into the pockets to a drawer or other suitable receptacle, so that the receptacle while maintaining the triangle looked against unauthorized re-. moval, still allows removal of one or more balls and the cue ball for spotting purposes following a scratch.

Another object is to provide a triangle holder in the form of a drawer adapted to be disposed so that the automatic runways will deliver the balls within the triangle which latter confines the balls in a convenient manner and a definite and accessible place.

The invention further aims to provide a triangle holder to which the balls are returned from the pockets, the balls being always accessible for spotting purposes without unlocking the triangle.

The invention also resides in the salient features of construction, arrangements and combinations of parts hereinafter described, claimed and illustrated in its referred embodiment in the accompanylng drawings wherein tional view of the attachment taken about views, the numeral 1 designates a box-like frame secured to the underside of a pool table 2 which has incorporated the automatlc runways 3 for returning or deliverlng the balls that enter the pockets to the drawer 4, the latter being sliadably arranged in the frame 1.

The drawer consists preferably of a flat bottom 5 having a front wall 6, only, to which the handle 7 is fixed. The drawer bottom 5 slides beneath a V-shaped. vertical wall 8 which depends from an inclined top wall portion 9 extending inwardly from and carried by the side walls of frame 1.

The common or main runway 3 leads to the base of the V-compartment 10, which is defined by wall 8, and projects slightly beyond the latter to form a lip 3 beneath which an apex of the triangle 11 is adapted to engage, as shown in Figs. 3 and 5. The,

opposite side of the triangle lies substantially parallel to the front wall 6 of the drawer and is adapted to engage with an overlying frame member 1 of the frame 1 on an attempt to remove the triangle through the top of the frame. The edges of the top wall 9 are preferably extended inwardly as at 9, Fig. 10, to form a ledge which overhangs the triangle: .With the triangle thus arranged in the drawer, the pocketed balls are delivered thereinto as is obvious from Fig. 3.

The front end of the frame extends beyond the body of the table (see Fig. 1) whereby access, through the top of the frame, to the balls in the drawer may always be had, such accessibility being desired when it is necessary to spot one or more balls.

The drawer is normally locked closed by the pivotally mounted latch 12 engaging in keeper 13 provided on the underside of the bottom 5. Adjacent the pivotal mounting of the latch a spring 14 is fastened for yieldably holding the latch in an operative position. Pivoted to the outer end of the latch is a release lever 15 having a heel 16 adapted to bear against the keeper and force the latch therefrom. The free end of the release lever extends downwardly and engages in the slotted rear terminal of a slide 17 of a coin controlled mechanism.

The term coin is used here to include a check, or its equivalent, and it is not intended to limit the invention to a triangle nor to the specified shape of the frame compartment.

The coin controlled mechanism is mounted on a support 18 in which are'formed guiding grooves 19 and 20. The slide 17 is guided in groove 19 and has a downturned projectlon 17 on its forward end for normal engagement in a recess 21 formed in the wall of a coin receiving opening 22, the latter beingprovided in an underlying pusher slide 23 which is guided in groove 20. The inner end of the slide 23 is formed with a down-turned stop 24 for engaging one end wall of a recess 25 provided'in the'support 18 to receive acoiled spring 26 which latter is interposed between the stop and the opposite end wall of the recess to hold normally the pusher slide in projected position whereby the coin opening 22 is uncovered. Depending pins 27 engage shoulders 28 of slide 17 to limit the outward movement thereof.

From the foregoing, it is clear that, upon pushing on the outer or knob end of the pusher slide without inserting a coin-in the opening 22, the latch releasing slide 17 is unafi'ected. However, upon the insertion of a coin, the latter establishes an operative connection between the slides by acting upon the projection 17 and therefore, a push on slide 23 will effect a sliding of element 17 which rocks release lever 15 for unlatching or unlocking the drawer. The coin is carried by slide 23 over an opening 29 through which it drops into a collection receptacle 30. The drawer, upon being released, is started in its opening movement by a spring actuated plunger or bumper 31 suitably mounted in the frame 1 by bracket 32.

'After the triangle is used for spotting the balls and returned to the drawer, the latter is closed and automatically locked by the.

latch 12. For ascertaining that the drawer is completely closed, a signal in the form of a bell 33 is arranged in the path of the drawer to be operated thereby when pushed inwardly.

The operation having been set forth during the description, a restatement of the manner of operation is not thought necessary here, it being understood that, while the balls are always accessible, the triangle cannot be removed unless the proper coin is inserted in the coin opening of the pusher slide.

What is claimed is:

1. An attachment of the character described comprising, in combination, a ball delivering runway, a framehaving a V-compartment. into which the runway projects for delivering balls thereto, a drawer movably mounted on the frame and constituting a bottom for the compartment thereof, a triangle arranged on the drawer within the V-compartment and engaging under the projecting runway, means for locking automatically the drawer shut, and a signal for indicating when the drawer is in position to be locked.

2. An attachment of the character described, comprising, in combination, a ball delivering runway, a frame having a V-compartment into which the runway projects for delivering balls thereto,, a drawer movably mounted on the frame and constituting a bottom for the compartment thereof, a triangle arranged on the drawer within the V-compartment and having an apex engaging beneath the runway to prevent removal from the drawer when locked, and alock for the drawer.

3. An attachment of the character described comprising, in combination with a table having a ball runway, a frame secured to the-table and having an open top portion through which access to the balls therein may be obtained, the table ball runway being arranged for delivering balls to the frame, a drawer arranged in the frame, a triangle in the drawer, said triangle being engaged beneath the runway, means on the frame to engage the triangle, and a lock for the drawer whereby to prevent disengagement of the triangle from the runway and drawer ex cept when the latter is withdrawn from the frame. Y

4. An attachment of the character described comprising, in combination with a table having a ball runway, a frame secured to the table and having an open top portion through which access to the ballstherein may be obtained, the table ball runway be- 2 ing aranged for delivering balls to the frame, a drawer arranged in the frame to receive the balls from the runway, a triangle moval from the holder, said holder being ing a runway, a triangle holder arranged to receive the balls from the runway, and means 15 to lock the triangle to the holder, said holder bein formed so as to permit access thereto for t e purpose of removing the balls while the triangle remains locked.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature 20 in presence of two witnesses:

J OHN F. MCNAMARA'.

' Witnesses: V

EUGENE C. DnMPsEY, CHAS. E. Moonn.

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