US617221A

US617221A - Francis beattie

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Publication number: US617221A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1899-01-03
Anticipated expiration: 1916-01-03

Description

Patented Ian. 3, I899.

No. 6l7,22l.

r. BEATTIE. BILLIARD CUE HOLDER. (Application filad Nov. 22, 1897.)

(No Model.)

llnrrnn STATES FRANCIS BEATTIE, OF BANFF, CANADA.

BlLLlARD-CUE HOLDER.

{$PEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 617,221, dated January 3, 1899.

Application filed November 22, 1897. Serial No. 659,375. (No model.)

which I have obtained Canadian Patent No.

56,247, dated June 12, 1897;) and I do hereby 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.

My said invention relates to improvements in stands or racks for holding billiard-cues in a pool or billiard room.

In most of the stands of which I am aware it is necessary to pass the tip of the one through an opening and raise the cue until the butt-end rests upon the supporting-base, this taking considerable time, and in passing the tip through the opening and in withdrawing it the tip is often injured and the end of the cue scratched. In fact, I have found in using the ordinary cue racks or stands that more tips are broken in placing the cues in and removing them from the ordinary racks than there are in actual use in playing.

The object of the present invention is to provide a stand or rack which shall be free from the defects above mentioned and which will hold the cues in convenient position to be taken for use, and which, while permitting their ready removal when desired, will hold them effectively against accidental displacement.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in whicl1-- Figure 1 is a plan View of the stand, and Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same.

In the drawings, the numeral 1 represents a suitable support or cross-bar carrying a series of projecting arms 2, corresponding in number to the size of the holder or stand and the number of the cues which it is desired the stand shall hold. These arms 2 are bifurcated horizontally on their outer ends to provide spaces in which are journaled disks 3, which are designed to retain the ends of the cues between the arms. The disks are preferably made of rubber, thicker in the center and tapering toward the edges, and it is advisable to make the edges notched or serrated.

It is desirable to form the arms of metal with screw-shanks, as shown in detail in Fig. 1, so that they may be screwed directly into any suitable wooden support, the cross-bar 1 above referred to being representative of any such support, and may be readily removed and replaced. This cross-bar may be supported at a suitable height above a base 5 by means of the side standards 6, and the base is preferably channeled or recessed, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2, to retain the buttend of the cues in place.

The arms are placed sufliciently far apart to readily accommodate the upper ends of the cues and so that the edges of the adjacent disks are of slightly less distance apart than the diameter of the portion of the one which contacts with them when the one is in the position shown in dotted lines. By reason of this the friction of the one with the disks will, when the cue is in the position referred to, prevent the cue from falling out of the space between the two arms; but when it is desired to remove the one it is only necessary to grasp it and draw it outwardly, when the disks will rotate and permit the cue to swing out from between the arms and be released thereby.

It will ofcourse be understood that the stand may be made of any suitable material and of any size to adapt it for holding any number of cues.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim is- 1. A billiard-cue holder comprising a sup port; arms carried thereby providing space for the cues; and rotatable frictional retaining-pieces formed of resilient material for retaining the cues in said spaces, said retaining-pieces being mounted on the same horizontal plane, substantially as described.

2. A billiard-cue holder comprising a support; arms, having bifurcated outer ends secured to said support; and disks formed of resilient material, journaled in said bifurca tions, said disks being on the same horizontal plane, substantially as described.

8. A billiard-cue holder comprising a base having a recessed face to receive the buttends of the cues; a cross-bar supported from said base; arms carried by said cross-bar and 'In witness whereof I have hereunto set my having bifurcated ends; and disks of i'esilihand in presence of two Witnesses. ent material rotatably journaled in said bifurcations and retaining the upper ends of FRANCIS BEATTIE' 5 the cues between the arms, said disks being Witnesses:

journaled 0n the same horizontal plane, sub- J. G. CLARK,

stantially as described. GEO. PARIS.