US1574590A

US1574590A - Chalk holder

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Publication number: US1574590A
Application number: US698158A
Authority: US
Inventors: George F Miller
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1924-03-10
Filing date: 1924-03-10
Publication date: 1926-02-23
Anticipated expiration: 1943-02-23

Description

MILLER CHALK HOLDER Filed March 10, 1924 0 fl 6 5 M Z I I l J i 6 \Am a?? Patented Feb. 23, 1926..

UlTED GEORGEF. MILLER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

CHALK Application filed March 10, 19%.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, Gnonen i lttiiritnu, a citizen of the United States, residing Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Chalk Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates, more particularly, to holders for the blocks of billiard chalk used in chalking billiard cue tips; my primary objects being to provide a novel, simple and economical construction of holder for such articles, which, while securely holding the chalk, will permit of the chalking of the cue tips as desired; to provide a construction which may be attached to an'end of a supporting cord, or if desired to a finger of the player; to provide a construc tion which will be highly durable and not be liable to impairment by frequentrecharging of pieces of chalk into it and which will not mar, or otherwise damage, objects with which it may come into contact, such as for example, the billiard table at which it is located; and other objects as will be manifest from the following description.

Referring to the accompanying drawlug-- igure 1 is a perspective view of a chalkholder embodying my invention, showing it as supported from a suspending cord and charged with a piece of chalk. Figure 2 is a similar view of the structure shown in l, with the cord omitted, the s ructure being viewed from its bottom side. Figure is a section taken at the line 3 on Fig. l and viewed in the direction of the arrow, with the cord omitted; and Figure 1, a plan view of a blank from which the holder of the preceding figures may be formed, the dotted rectangle illustrated representing the area contacted by one end of the piece of chalk when the latter is positioned in the finished holder as shown in the preceding figures.

My improved holder, in accordance with the preferred embodiment of the invention, is formed from a single blank of any suitable, relatively soft, material as for example leather, a form of blank suitable for this purpose being represented at 5, this blank presenting the main, generally circular, body portion 6 and the tabs 7 extending laterally therefrom in opposite directions at its opposite edges. The body portion 6, at its central portion, is apertured, as repre- HGLDER.

FSerial No. 698,158.

sented at 8, to permit a billiard cue tip, in the finished condition of the holder, and with a piece of chalk shown at 14 inserted therein as shown, to be introduced through the bottom of the holder and into engagement with an end of the chalk exposed at this opening. The extremities of the tabs 7 contain apertures 9 for, a purpose hereinafter described. The blank, preliminarily soaked with water, is then pressed, in any suitable press and with the application of relatively great pressure, into a condition to form the casing, or receptacle portion 10 which is formed from the body portion 6 of the blank, the tabs 7 extending from opposite edges of the upper, open, end of the casing 10 shown.

The opening 8, shown circular, is of such size and shape that the side walls thereof form stop means for the inner end of the chalk introduced into the casing through the upper, open, end of the casing. The tabs 7 in the use ofthe holder extend in deflecteo condition relative to the walls carrying them and thus crosswise of the upper, open, end of the casing, the apertures 9 providing for attachment thereto of one end of a holder suspending cord, represented at 11, as commonly used. When desired, the apertures 9 may be made sufficienty large to permit the holder to be slipped over a finger of the user where it is desired that the holder be carried on the players hand. The tabs 7 are preferably pressed, and set, into substantially the form shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, to. provide the portions 12 which extend crosswise of one end of the chalk let, and the fiatwise-opposed extensions 18 which contain the apertures 9 and extend at angles to-the portions '12. I

It will be understood from the foregoing that a piece of chalk introduced into the casing 10 is held against displacement therein by the stop means provided at the opposite open ends of the casing and formed of the walls of the opening 8 and the tabs. 7.

A holder constructed in accordance with my invention is not only of simple c011- struction and economical to manufacture, but is very durable, and by reason of the fact that the chalk is introduced into the casing from the end thereof opposite that containing the aperture for the billiard cue tip, weakening of the stop means at this end of the casing, in the repeated use of the holder, is avoided. Furthermore, the device being formed of relatively soft-material, danger of marring of objects with which it may come into contact, is obviated.

lVhile I have illustrated and described a particular construction of holder embodying my invention and have described it as made in accordance with a certain method, I do not wish to be understood as intending to limit the invention thereto as the same may be embodied in other forms of struc ture and other methods of manufacture employed in producing the holder, and in this connection it may be stated, by way of example ot a modification of the structure and the method employed in forming it, that the holder may be formed of suitable soft rubber molded or otherwise caused to present the desired form;

VJhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A chalk-colder formed of a casingforming portion open at its opposite ends and adapted for the insertion therein of the piece of chalk through one of its open ends, stop-means at its other end for engagement by one end of the chalk, and stop-forming means at the end of the easing through which the chalk is introduced therein formed of portions having flatwiseopposed extensions angularly disposed rel ative to said portions.

2. A chalk-holder formed of a casingiorining portion open at its opposite enc s and adapted for the insertion therein of the piece of chalk through one of its open ends, stop-means at its other open end for engagement by one end of the chalk, and stop-forming means at the end of the casing through which the chalk is introduced therein formed of fiatwise opposed apertured' extensions angularly disposed relative to said portions.

3. A chalk-holder comprising a one-piece casingforming portion with the edge portions of each of its side walls integral with adjacent side walls, said casing being open at its opposite ends and adapted for the insertion therein of the piece of chalk through one of its open ends, and stop means at its opposite, open, ends, for the chalk, one of said'stop-means being movable relative to said side walls for permitting introduction of the chalk into said casing.

4. A chalk-holder formed of a one-piece structure comprising a casing open at its opposite ends and adapted for the insertion therein of the piece of chalk through one of its open ends, said structure being formed with stop-means at its other end for engagement by one end of the chalk and with portions at the other, open, end, having flatwise-opposed, apertured, extensions angularly disposed relative to said portions, said portions overlapping an end of the chalk.

(1A chalk-holder formed of a casingforming portion, the walls of which are connected together at their adjacent side edges, said casing-forming portion being open at its opposite ends and adapted for the insertion therein of the piece of chalk through one of its open ends, stop means at the other, open, end for engagement by one of the chalk, and stop-means, movable relative to said side walls into and out of stop-torming position, at the end of the casing-forming portion through which the chalk is introduced therein.

6. A chalk-holder formed from a single blank of leather pressed to form a casing, the lateral edge-portions of each side wall of which are integral with adjacent edgeportions and open at its opposite ends and adapted for the insertion therein of the piece of chalk through one of its open ends, with a flange at its other, open, end forming a stop and with stop-forming means at the end thereof through which the chalk is introduced into the casing.

7. A chalk-holder formed from a single blank of leather pressed to form a casing, the lateral edge-portions of each side wall of which are integral with adjacent edgeportions and open at its opposite ends and adapted for the insertion therein of the piece of chalk through one of its open ends, with a flange at its other, open, end forming a stop and with stop-forming portions at the end thereof through which the chalk is introduced into the casing.

GEORGE F. MILLER.