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Application filed March 31,1892, Serial No. 427,179, (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

. Be it known that I, Charles II. Fuchs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Tiffin, in the county of Seneca and State'of Ohio, 5 have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pool Racks and Spotters, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanyin°· drawings.

io . This invention relates to new and useful improvements in pool racks and spotters; and the invention consists in the peculiar construction of a frame having a spiral runway or rack formed therein and a spotter-frame 15 formed, at the base, into which said runway discharges, with movable stops in said runway to divide the same into compartments, these stops extending below the base of the frame and adapted to be automatically re20 moved· from across the runways when the frame is lowered upon the table.

The invention further consists in the peculiar construction of the spotter-frame, and, further, in the peculiar construction, arrange25 ment, and combination of the various parts, all as more fully hereinafter described.

_ In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my invention, showing it suspended above a billiard-table ready to receive the 30 balls. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section thereof on line x x. Fig. 3 is an enlarged vertical section thereof on line y y, Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a detached plan view of the spotter-frame, showing the balls therein. Fig. 5 is a similar view 35 showing the frame lifted to stop the balls.

The frame of my device consists of four standards A arranged ninety degrees apart and connected at the top by the curved arms B, secured to a central apertured head C. 4° Lliese standards have formed in them a series of loops or eyes D of a suitable size to allow a pool-ball to pass freely therethrough, and these loops are spirally arranged in the different standards and are connected by means 45 °f a spiral way formed by the two wires a b, secured on the inner faces of these loops in lugs c, as plainly shown in Fig. 3. At the lower end these standards are provided with the downwardly and inwardly project50 ing fingers E, which support the spotterframe of the usual triangular shape located centrally within the main frame of the device and formingthe base thereof. This spotter-frame consists of two triangular-shaped wires d e, the upper one inclosing a larger 55 area than the lower one and the lower one being of an area equal exactly to the triangle in which the balls are formed when they are spotted. The spiral way in the frame is divided into compartments or sections by 60 means of movable stops /, which are connected to a sliding bar g. This bar is secured to the frame by means of the pin h, sliding in the slot i, and has the footy extending normally below the bottom of the frame, in 65 which position the stops will be arranged to cross the runway. These sliding frames are preferably arranged upon the opposite standards, dividing each circle of the spiral way into two sections, which are suitablynumbered 70 by means of plates k, cast integral with the standards. This frame being suspended with the point of the spotter upon the point in the pool-table upon which the head ball is desired to be spotted and having the pool-balls 75 placed in the frame, the operator lowers the device until the spotter-frame rests upon the table. In the downward movement the feet j will strike the table and be lifted up, withdrawing the stops / from across the runway, 80 allowing the balls to pass freely downward, being discharged by the inwardly-extending spout I into the spotter-frame. In this position, the lowerfranlecZ restingupon the table, the balls will fall loosely into the inclosure in 85 the upper frame, as shown in Fig. 4. Now, in order to form them into the compact triangle the operator raises the frame, and the lower frame impinging against the lower side of the balls will force them inward into such 90 compact shape, as shown in Fig. 5.

Any suitable device may be employed for raising and lowering the frame. That which I have shown consists of the supporting-rod F, slidingly engaging in the tube G, supported 95 from the bracket H. This bracket has the sheaves I, over which pass the cords J, secured at one end to a weight K and at the other end to the rod F.

M is a cord passing over the sheaves NN' 100 and extending down to a handle O in convenient proximity to the operator. This cord at the lower end is connected to the weight

K, also constructed that when the operator ·- I ^ι· WWJWV WB^SW^W'W * i·-^1.

479,213 pulls on the handle O he will raise the weight K, allowing the frame to drop.