Improvements in or relating to Billiard Tables.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Mar., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 24th Dec., 1889-Accepted 1st Feb., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Billiard Tables.
I WILLIAM HENRY HUDSON of the firm of Orme and Sons Billiard Table Makers
of Blackfriars Street Manchester in the County of Lancaster do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in securing first the pocket plates to the
cushion rails and secondly the pockets to the table and pocket plates and thirdly to
an improvement in the leather covers for the pocket plates. According to one
arrangement I form each pocket plate which may be of metal wood or other suitable
material with feet or flanges by which it is secured to the cushion rails by screws or
by sinall bolts, the nuts for the bolts being let into the rails. The pocket plates may
either be flush with the top of the cushion rail or above or below it.
In place of making the plate and feet in one piece I may employ independent feet
each formed with a projection or recess and secured to the cushion rail; the ends of
the pocket plate are formed to fit over or into such projections or recesses the parts
being firmly bound together when the plate is put into position. As a substitute for
the feet secured to the rails I may prolong a portion of the cushion rails and shape
such portion so that the pocket plate can be fitted on to the same.
In order to dispense with nailing or tacking the pockets to the cushion rails I
employ according to the second part of my improvements a piece of wire or other
suitable substance shaped to fit underneath the pocket opening and bent to pass
upwards along the ends of the cushion rails the ends of the wire being supported by
or secured to the pocket plate. The pocket is threaded upon this wire which is
secured in any convenient manner to the under side of the cushion rails; or the wire
with the top part of the pocket threaded on it may be prolonged to pass under the
pocket plate to which it may be attached in any convenient manner.
By this arrangement one piece of wire suitably bent supports the pocket under the
pocket plate and along the ends of the cushion rails as well as below the pocket
opening.
In order to dispense with the labour of sewing the leathers on to the pocket
plates I propose according to the third part of my improvements to mould the
leathers to fit the plates and to secure them in position by metal clips or equivalents.
The moulded leathers can be specially shaped to carry the wires on which the pockets
are threaded, the leather the wire and the pocket being all secured together by the
metal clips above mentioned.
By this improvement the leathers can be readily put on or taken off and new
pockets can be attached without necessitating new leathers and without damaging the
old leathers and without any stitching.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Billiard Tables.
1, WILLIAM HENRY HUDSON, of the firm of Orme and Sons, Billiard Table
Makers, of Blackfriars Street, Manchester in the County of Lancaster, 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 relates to improvements in securing first, the pocket plates to the
cushion rails, and secondly, the pockets to the table and pocket plates and thirdly, to
an improvement in the leather covers for the pocket plates.

page_text: According to my first improvement I form each pocket plate in one piece of
metal wood or other suitable material and I-employ separate feet or flanges which
are secured to the cushion rails. The ends of each pocket plate are formed to fit
over projections on or into recesses in the feet so that the parts are firmly bound
together when the pocket plate is put into position. The pocket plates may either be
flush with the top of the cushion rail or above or below it.
As a substitute. fort the feet. secured to the rails I may prolong a portion of the
cushion rails and shape such portion so that the pocket. plate can be fitted on to the
same..
In order to dispense with nailing or tacking the pockets to the cushion. rails I
employ according to the second part of my improvements a piece of wire or other
suitable substance shaped to fit underneath the pocket opening, and bent to pass
upwards along the ends of the cushion rails, the ends of the wire being supported
by or secured to the pocket plate. The pocket is threaded upon this wire which is
secured in any convenient manner to the under side of the cushion rails; or the wire
with the top part of the pocket threaded on it may be prolonged to pass under the
pocket plate to which it may be attached in any convenient manner.
By this arrangement one piece of wire suitably bent supports the pocket under the
pocket plate and along the ends of the cushion rails as well as below the pocket
opening.
In order to dispense with the labour of sewing the leathers on to the pocket plates
I propose according to the third part of my improvements to mould the leathers to
fit the plates and to secure them in position by metal clips or equivalents. The
moulded leathers can be specially shaped to carry the wires on which the pockets are
threaded, the leather the wire and the pocket being all secured together by the metal.
clips above mentioned..
By this improvement the leathers can be readily put on or taken off and new
pockets, can be attached without necessitating new leathers and without damaging the
old, leathers and without any stitching.
And in order that my invention may be fully understood. and readily carried into
effect I will describe the accompanying, two Sheets of Drawings reference being had.
to the figures and letters marked thereon.
Figure 1 is a front view and Fig. 2 a. side view hoth partly in section of a billiard
table pocket fitted with my three improvements. Figs. 3 and 4 are plan views of the
same, the latter partly in section. Figs. 5, 6, and 7 are detail views of the. pocket
plate. Figs. 8, 9, and 10 are detail views of the wire support for the pocket.
Figs. 11 and 12 are detail views of my improved leather cover for a pocket plate.
Fig. 13 is a transverse section illustrating the mode of attaching my improved
leather cover to a pocket-plate.
In Figures 1 to 4 a designates the cushion rail of a billiard table; the pocket
plate with its feet or flanges c by which it is secured to the cushion rails.a> as
hereinbefore mentioned the feet c being independent pieces secured to the cushion
rails a by screws d. Each end of the pocket plate 6 has a recess. 6 as seen best in
the detail views Figs. 5, 6, 7, which recesses are formed. to fit over projections.c² on
the feet c.
In Figures-1 to 3-is also shown the shaped wire e the form of which is best seen
in the detail views Figs. 8, 9, and 10. Upon this wire e is threaded the pocket and
the wire with the pocket is. then secured-in-position by the screws g the ends of the
wire e being fitted into recesses 611 formed to receive them. in. the pocket plate b, see
Figs. 5 and 6 Instead of threading the top of the pocket fupon the ordinary. wire e¹
which is secured in the pocket plate b in the usual way the ends of the specially
shaped wire e may be prolonged and carried across the underside of the pocket plate b
to which it may be secured.
The improved leathers which are shown in Figs. 1 to 3 as well as in the detail
views, Figs. 11, 12 and 13 are according to my invention moulded to fit the pocket
plates band are secured in position thereon by screwed studs and nuts as illustrated
best by Fig. 13.

page_text: 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 1
claim is :-
1. The combination with a billiard table pocket plate, of feet or flanges formed as
independent parts and secured to the cushion rails as means for connecting the
pocket plate to the table substantially as herein described and as illustrated.
2. The combination with a billiard table pocket, of the specially shaped wire e
secured to the table and formed to support the pocket without nailing or tacking the
same substantially as herein set forth."
3. The improved leather cover formed by moulding and adapted to be secured to
the pocket plate by screw studs and nuts, metal clips or equivalents so as to dispense
with sewing or stitching substantially as herein described and as illustrated.
Dated this 23rd day of December 1889.
H. B. BARLOW,
17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agent for Applicant.
H. B. BARLOW,
17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agent for Applicant.