Improvements in Convertible Billiard and Dining Tables.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application. 21st June, 1894
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Date of Application. 21st June, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 21st Feb., 1893-Accepted, 8th Apr., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Convertible Billiard and Dining Tables.
I, WALTER KITTERIDGE of 14 Eldon Road Walthamstow in the County of
Essex a member of the Firm of William Kitteridge & Sons of the same place
Billiard Table Makers do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be a
follows:-
A convertible billiard and dining table which is convertible from one to the
other by means of adjustable metal screws nuts & plates as follows:-
4, 6 or 8 metal screws, about 4 inches long, are fitted vertically on the wooden
under side of the bed of the table on to each screw is fitted a metal nut the same
length as the said screw.
At the top end of each leg of the stand or frame of the table is bored a hole or
socket large enough to receive the whole of each screw and nut, if desired such
sockets may be bored in the cross rails of the said stand or frame.
Close to each of the said sockets is fitted (on a pivot or screw) a metal plate.
When the table is used as a billiard table the said plates are adjusted so as to cover
the sockets and the said screws and nuts (which support the bed of the table) rest
thereon. When the table is used for dining purposes the said adjustable plates are
moved off the sockets and the screws and nuts drop therein and thus the bed of the
table is lowered to the necessary level.
Dated this 21st day of June 1894.
Improvements in Convertible Billard and Dining Tabies.
I, WALTER KITTERIDGE, of 14, Eldon Road Walthamstow, in the County of
Essex, a member of the Firm of William Kitteridge and Sons of the same place,
Billiard Table Makers 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 :-
This invention has for its object improvements in convertible billiard and dining
tables, whereby a rigid true and steady table is constructed so as to be easily
converted from one to the other and is constructed as follows:-
:-
Four, six, or eight legs support a stand or frame, made of wood, or other suitable
material. Crossrails made of wood or other suitable material are tenoned or dove-
tailed into the sides of the said stand or frame, the number varying according to
the size of the table. On the wooden underside of the bed of the table, there are
fixed vertically, four, six, or eight metal screws, according to the size of the table,
each screw being about three inches in length, or equal to the difference of level
between a billiard and a dining table.
A corresponding number of metal nuts the same length as the said screws and
about two inches in diameter actuates on the said screws.
The said metal screws and nuts are made to obtain the necessary height required
for a billiard table and to level the same.
At the top end of each leg of the stand or frame is bored a hole or socket largo
enough to receive the whole of each said screw and nut..

page_text: If desired such holes or sockets may be bored into the crossrails, sides, or ends of
the said stand or frame.
Adjacent to each of the said holes or sockets is a metal plate, the said plate
being pivoted or screwed at one end thereof, which can be adjusted either exactly
over the said hole or socket, or away from it.
To raise the table to the necessary height of a billiard table adjacent to each of
the said holes or sockets the bed of the table is lifted by hand, high enough so that
the metal screw and nut fixed on the wooden underside of the bed of the table
herein beforesaid will arise from within the said hole or socket, and the said metal
plate can be adjusted to cover the hole or socket, and the said screw and nut rest
thereon. The same operation is then performed at each said hole or socket.
The table can then be levelled by means of the metal nuts actuating on the said
metal screws.
When the table is used for dining purposes, adjacent to each of the said holes or
sockets the bed of the table is slightly lifted and the metal plate is moved off the
said hole or socket and the metal screw and nut herein beforesaid is lowered therein.
The same operation is then performed at each said holes or sockets. The bed of
the table then lies on or next to the top edge of the stand or frame of the said
table, thus producing the necessary height.
In lieu of raising or lowering the bed of the said table by hand, I may use screw-
rods, and wormwheels nctuated by a winch or its equivalents of all or any other
parts thereof.
To enable my invention to be fully understood will describe the same with
reference to the accompanying sheet of drawings in which:
Fig. 1. is a side elevation of a table constructed according to my invention and
rnised into the position of a billiard table.
Fig. 2. is a similar view shewing the table converted into a dining table.
Fig. 3. is a plan thereof with the bed of the table removed.
Fig. 4. is a part longitudinal section raised into the position of a billiard table.
Fig. 5. is a similar view shewing the table converted into a dining table.
Figs. 6. and 7. illustrates the metal screw and nut A. also the metal plate 1.
also the crossrail C.
D. is a stop plate for the metal plate B. E. is a hole or socket.
The same letters of reference being used throughout all the figures to indicate
the same or corresponding part of my invention.
The arrangement herein described is equally applicable to bagatelle, card and
similar tables as to billiard tables without departing from the nature thereof.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed declare that what I
claim is
1. A billiard and dining table convertible from one to the other by means of
four, six or eight metal screws fixed to the wooden underside of the bed of the said
table, having a corresponding number of metal nuts to netuate on said metal screws,
also holes or sockets bored into the legs at the top end thereof, or the crossrails,
sides, or ends of the stand or frame of the said table, also metal plates pivoted at
one end thereof adjacent to the top of said holes or sockets and actuated
substantially as herein beforesaid.
2. A billiard and dining table convertible from one to the other by means of
metal screws, nuts, holes or sockets, and adjustable metal plates. The said tal le
raised or lowered by hand, or by screwrods and worm-wheels actuated by a winch
or its equivalents of all, or any other parts thereof as herein described.
Dated this 21st day of February 1895.
WALTER KITTERIDGE.