Improvements in Combination Billiard and Dining Tables.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Feb., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 10th Nov., 1993-Accepted, 13th Jan., 1894
Improvements in Combination Billiard and Dining Tables.
CHARLES HENRY WOOD 57 Wostenholm Road Sharrow Sheffield in the
County of York General Merchant do hereby declare the nature of this invention.
to be as follows:-
My invention consists of an ordinary dining or other similar table being converted
at leasure into a billiard table or board by the addition of hinged cushions arranged
and fitted with suitable corner and side pockets.
The way in which I carry out my invention or apply the same to an ordinary
dining table is as follows. I hinge the cushions to the edges of the table which
when not in use as a billiard table can be opened or allowed to hang below the.
edges of the table and so form a suitable moulding round the table when required
for use as a billiard table the cushions are closed or raised and secured in position.
by means of the pocket brasses the latter being suitably provided for such.
purpose.
Dated this 8th day of February 1893.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Combination Billiard and Dining Tables.
I CHARLES HENRY WOOD of No. 57 Wostenholm Road Sharrow Sheffield in.
the County of York General Merchant do hereby declare the nature of this.
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My invention consists in attaching cushions to the edges of dining, billiard and
other similar tables by means of hinges secured to the frame part of the cushions
and to the edges of the tables when the cushions are raised in position for use as a
billiard table they are secured in position by means of the pocket brasses which are-
made with legs attached thereto of sufficient length to fit into holes of corresponding
width and depth into the frame part of the cushions when it is desired to use the
table for dining purposes the brasses are raised from the frame part of the cushion
and they are held suspended under the table by the pockets which are attached to.
the brasses and the table the cushions thus being released may be lowered or turned
down thus leaving the table top as an ordinary flat top table the cushions thus
having the appearance of a moulding around the table.
The novel part of my invention consists in being able at leasure to immediately
convert a table made under my invention into either a dining table or into that of a
billiard table by simply raising or lowering the cushions into position as and when
required either for dining or gameing purposes.
My invention will be more fully understood by reference to the accompanying
sheet of drawings in which
Fig. 1. is a plan of a dining table with my cushions attached and in position for
forming a billiard table.
Fig. 2. is an enlarged cross sectional elevation taken on line a a of Fig. 1. and
Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a corner of my improved table when the cushions.
are clear of top and when the table can be used as a dining table.

page_text: The improved cushions B are attached to the edges b¹ of table top 6 by means
of hinges 63. The middle pocket brasses 6 are fixed to the wood work of cushion B
and the end pocket brasses 6 are arranged to be removed and when the cushions B
are hung down as shown in unsectioned part on left hand side of Fig. 2 and in
perspective view Fig. 3 the said pocket brasses 6 are removed.
The corners of the top of table are cut preferably to the angle shown at Fig. 1
and the edges are rounded at the top.
The table top 62 may be made of any material and covered with cloth and the
cushions B may have india rubber faces and may be covered with cloth. The said
cushions B hang down and form a moulding on the sides of table when it is
required to be used as a dining or other ordinary table as shewn at Fig. 3 and
when it is required as a billiard table they are fixed to position shown at Figs. 1
and 2.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
Firstly. The mode of attaching cushions to dining billiard and other similar
tables as herein described.
Secondly. The mode of securing the cushions in position when raised for use as a
billiard table as herein described.
Lastly. The making of combination billiard and dining tables, as hereinbefore
substantially set forth and described.
Dated this 9th day of November 1893.
C. H. WOOD.