Improvements in Billiard Tables.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Apr., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 18th Jan., 1890-Accepted, 22nd Feb., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Billiard Tables.
I, FREDERICK ROBERT WRIGHT, of No. 162 Westminster Bridge Road, in the
County of Surrey, Billiard Table Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
The pockets of billiard tables usually consist of network or other fabric suspended.
from a horizontal bent metal bar, the ends of which are secured to the cushion
frames on each side of the pocket, usually by letting these ends into the upper faces
of the frames and fixing them by screws. Sometimes these screws become loosened,
or the bar becomes otherwise displaced so as to project inconveniently above the
cushion frame.
My invention relates to ineans of fixing the bent bars that carry the pockets in
such a way as to avoid this inconvenience. When it is desired to fix the bent bar
permanently I make it with a flat flap pojecting vertically down from each end of it,
and I let these flaps flush into the end wood of the cushion frames securing them by
screws, which instead of merely screwing into the wood end ways of the grain, by
preference take into metal nut pieces let into the wood of the frames.
In many cases it is desirable to make the pockets removeable for purposes of
cleaning.
In such cases I bend the horizontal metal bar and form its ends in such a manner,
that the one end presents an eye which engages on a vertical pin projecting from.a
plate attached to the cushion frame at the one side of the pocket, and the other end
is hooked to engage in a catch plate at the other side of the pocket. Also from the
ends of the bent horizontal bar extend downwards the limbs of a wire or rod which
is bent to U form and is again bent at right angles so that its loop is turned
horizontally under the table and I secure the net or other fabric of the pocket all
round to the frame thus formed. When it is required to remove the pocket, it is only
necessary to raise the bent bar a little, disengaging the one end of its horizontal bar
from the catch plate, turning it bodily on the pin at its other end, as on a hinge,
and, if desired, lifting it off from the pin. The hinge pin may be on the bent bar
and the eye on the plate attached to the cushion frame, and a small spring draw bolt
may be fitted in the other end of the bent bar, this bolt engaging in a catch plate
secured to the cushion frame.
Dated this 19th dow of Annil 1880.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.
*COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Billiard Tables.
I, FREDERICK ROBERT WRIGHT of No. 162 Westminster Bridge Road, in the
County of Surrey, Billiard Table Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to he particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The pockets of billiard tables usually consist of network or other fabric suspended
from a horizontal bent metal bar the ends of which are secured to the cushion frames
on each side of the pocket, usually by letting these ends into the upper faces of the
frames and fixing them by screws.
Sometimes these screws become loosened, or the bar becomes otherwise displaced
so as to project inconveniently above the cushion frame.

page_text: My invention relates to means of fixing the bent bars that carry the pockets in
such a way as to avoid this inconvenience. When it is desired to fix the bent bar
permanently, I make and fix it as shewn in plan by Fig. 1 and in section by Fg. 2.
The bar A has a flat flap B projecting vertically down from each end of it, I let
these flaps flush into the end wood of the cushion frames securing them by screws,
as shewn in Fig. 2. But instead of merely screwing these into the wood endways of
the grain, I make them by preference to take into metal nut pieces C let into the
wood of the frames. In many cases it is desirable to make the pockets removeable
for purposes of cleaning. In such cases I construct the pockets as shewn in plan
by Fig. 3 and perspective by Fig. 4. I bend the metal bar A and provide its one end
with a pin D to engage in a socket E formed on a plate screwed to the cushion frame
as shewn in Fig. 5 at the one side of the pocket, and its other end with a spring
bolt F to engage in the hole of a catch plate H, shewn in Fig. 6, at the other side of
the pocket. Also from near the ends of the bar extend downwards the links of a
wire or rod G which is bent to U form and is again bent at right angles so that its
loop is turned horizontally under the table, and I secure the net or other fabric of
the pocket all round to the frame thus formed. When it is required to remove the
pocket it is only necessary to withdraw the bolt F, disengaging the one end of the
horizontal bar from the catch plate, turning it bodily on the pin D at its other end,
(as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 3, as on a hinge,) and if desired, lifting it
out from the socket. The hinge pin may be on the plate E and the eye on the
bent bar.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. Securing the bent bar of a billiard table pocket by making the bar with flat
flaps at its ends let into and screwed to the cushion frames substantially as described
with reference to Figs. 1 and 2.
2. The construction of removeable pocket for a billiard table substantially as described
with reference to Figs. 3, 4, 5 and 6.
Dated this 18th day of January 1890.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.