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POOL-RACK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 294,581, datei March 4, 1884.

Applieation tiled January .'t. lrsl.

",e it known that we. llton tt'iLLnN- nick and S'rnenlcN nn (il Muvo, both otXew York eity, in the eounty ot' New York and State of New York, have invented an lmproved loolllaek; and we do hereby deelare that the followingl is a l'nll, elear.y and exact description thereot', rel'ereneebeing had tothe accompanying drawings, makingl part otthis applieation.

(.)ur invention relates to eertain new and useful improvements in that kindoi'pool-raeks whieh are adapted to et't'eet the auttnmitie diseharge t'ronl the shelves ot' all the balls enntained thereon` in order that they maybe eolleeted rapidly in some suitable reeeptaele in whieh they may be Carried bythe gaine-keeper tothe table tinplaeelnent thereon; and it eon sists in the novel deviees and combinations of deviees hereinat't er more fully deseribed. and most partieularly pointed ont in the elaims ot' this speeitieation.

`To enable those skilled in the art to whieh our invention relates to make and use poolraelts eontaininek` the same, we will now proeeed to more t'ully deseribe the eonstrumion and operation uta eontrivanee embraeilre` our improvements, referring by letters to the aeeompanyingdrawir1gs,wl1ioh form part o1' this speciieation, and in which we have shown our invention Carried ont in that Yorin in which we have so far practiced it.

In the drawings, Figure l is a face or l'ront View ot' a pta'rl-raek iliade aeeording lo our invention. Fig. L is a vertical section thereof'7 taken at the lino .r .r ot' lfig. l. Fig. 8 isa partial front view, with portions removed in order to better show the interior eonstruetion. Fig. 4 is a detail view, showing partially one ofthe pertorated vertical partitions. Fig. 5is a horizontal or eross seetion at the line 1/ y; ot' Figa l, and Fig. o is a tace or lfront view ot' a rack of moditied construction.

In the several figures the saine part will be found designated loy the same letters ot` reference.

a are the shelves i'or the balls, and they are all secured at their Vl'ront eorners to two verti eal strips, e f', and at their 1' ar Corners to strips l) I, which hold them all securely in a (Nomadela fixed relative position. and whieh together with said .shelves eonstitute a skeleton set ot1 shelves eapable ot' movenwnt bodily up and down within the ease or body ot' the raek. as will be presently explained.

,lhe ease or body ol.' the raek consists, essen tially. of a baek board, fl, a base, n, a top, (l, and double sides f/ Il, the inner l]oards.g,te11n ine` the vertical partitions against which the ends of' the shelves u abut, while the outer boards, t'orln the outer edges ol'the raek, as shown. The partitions y; are eaeh perforated with a series ot'holes. equal in number to the number ot' shelves a, and eat'h slightly greater in diameter than the diannfler ot' a ptml-ball. and. the distanees between the partitions .r/ and the outer side pieces, Il, are sueh that a verti eal passageway is t'ormed at eaeh side of the raek otsut'tieient eapaeity te serve as a eonduit I'or the balls to deseend from any of the shelves tft'rl'nn whieh they may pass into said eonduitl to the bottom ot'the raek. The baek strips ot' the set ot shelves are fitted to slide vertieally in reeesses or seats in the baek board IE, see Fig'. Tijl their upward movement being limited by stops at s. lhee Fig. l.)

e are fillets seenred to the 'aee of the raek near each side, and pro'ieetingI slightly over the front edges ot' the set; ot shelves a, (see Figs. `l and 5ft so as to retain the shelves in plaee. laeh shell' n. has its top surface inelined downwardly l'rom the middle toward eaeh end, as plainly shown at Fig. l, and also made slightly dishing or inclined trom the front to the rear edge, see ljig. 2.) and the bottom of eaeh eireular hole in eaeh partition n r/ isloeated more or less above the top surfaiee ot' the end portion ot' the shelf u next belowl said shelf. The object ot' the tlloubly-inelined surface, endwise ot' eaeh shelf is to conduce to distribution of theballs toward opposite ends of the same and different shelves, in order that in discharging the Contents of the shelves all the balls may not he crowded into one only ot' the vertical conduits referred to, and the ineli nation backward 0r dishing ont widthwise of eaeh shelfis to prevent any ball from tumbling oil' of any shell forwardly.

Just beneath the lower one of the shelves a, preferably. is placed an eeeentrie button or lifter device, i, which is provided, for convenience of manipulation, with a handle, j, by means of which it may be turned. ',lhe function of this device is to lift up the set of shelves until the stops at s s prevent. them from further upward movement, and this extent of upward movement is such as to just bring the top surfaces ol' the end portions of all the shelves on a level with the bottoms or lower` most parts ofthe circular holes in the stationary perforated partitions g y.

At the lower ends of the vertical conduits or passages (formed between the partitions gg and side pieces, l1 lz, ofthe rack) are arranged inclined guideways in m, onto which any balls that may deseen d within said passa ge-wav will fall, and by which they will be guided toward the middle of the floor or base board u ol' the pool-rack.

o o are rubber cushions, arranged on top oi' and near the uppermost portions of the lguideways m in, as shown. These rubbers are for the descending balls to strike on, and serve not only to prevent undue abrasion of the surfaces ofthe ball, but also to render the crnitrivauce more noiseless in its action.

`The operation ofthe eoutrivance shown and thus far decribed will be easily undcrstotul to be as follows: Supposing the gamelieeper to have placed lor the players to have put.) all the poeketed balls upon all or on several of the shelves a, (some having, rolled toward one end of one shell' and some toward the opposite end on another shelf) and it is desired to collect the balls for replacement on the table. The set of shelves are simply lifted or elevat ed (by turning' the handlej, and thus operating the lii'teul when the ends ot' all the shelves being thus brought into proper relationship with all the holes in thc two vertical Vpartitions yy, all the balls will roll by gravity through these holes, and, falling; down through the passageways or vertical conduits, will roll down over the guideways m m, and out onto the lioor or base n of the pool-rack, from whence or at which locality they may be gathered into a suitable tray or otherwise, as usual.

At Fig. o' we have shown, in front elevation, a modified forni of pool-rack made according.;I to our invention, in which the shelves, instead of each having its top surface inclined in opposite direction from the middle toward each end, each has its top surface inclined from one end to the other, the inclination oi' the shelves 'being alternately in opposite directions, so

that every other shelf will discharge into the saine conduit, and one half of them will discharge their contents into one conduit andthe other half into the other. This arrangement and construction of shelves we deem, probably, the best shown, for even should the marker enter all balls placed in the rack at one side of the rack, the balls must get distributed to the different conduits. in this` ligure we have shown the front edges ol' all the shelves covered or hidden by straight facings or llets so that the structure presents a more symmetrical appearance than if the oppositely oblique shellsurlaees or front cdges were visible.

0f course the lifting device shown may be dispensed with, and the set of shelves lifted by taking hold of the lower part of any one ot' them, and other changes of the details may be made without departingl from the pith of our invention, which rests in the combination of a set of shelves, that may be lifted, with side conduits perforated so that when lifted the shelves will autoinatimill)v l iseharge their contents into the chutes.

V'hat we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. In combination with vert ical side conduits or passage-ways and suitable supporting means, a set of shelves which are free to be moved up and down, and stationary perforated partitions between said conduits and said set ot' shelves, all substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

L. ln eonibination with a lifting set of shelves, and means for the discharge of their contents into ball-conduits, as explained, a device for elevating the shelves, all as set forth.

23. ,ln combination with a movable set of shelves and side conduits, as described, a stop or stops to regulate the extent to which thc shelves can be lifted to insure the coincidence of the shelves with thc openings through which the balls must pass to get from the shelves into the conduits, as set forth.

1. l'n combination with a vertical conduit or passz'ige-way i'or the fall of the balls in a pool-rack, a rubber or other cushion to break the fall and render the descent oi' the balls less noisy, as set forth.

fitness our handsthislilth davol'January, lill: l'

ll. W. COLLFNDlllt. S'illllliN llli GAETANO.

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