Improvements in the Cushions of Billiard Tables.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Nov., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 16th Aug., 1890-Accepted, 20th Sept., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Cushions of Billiard Tables.
1, JOHN WATKINS of 1 Ash Grove, Victoria Road, Headingley, near Leeds,
Manager, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object the improvement in cushions on billiard tables.
The improvement consists in making the cushions of thin flat metal ribbon on fine
metal wire woven or wound round a core of wood or other suitable material which
core is afterwards withdrawn, the cushion so made to be cased in leather, rubber,
cloth, or other suitable material.
Dated this 16th day of November 1889.
J. E. EVANS-JACKSON,
1, Furnival Street, Holborn, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Cushions of Billiard Tables.
I JOHN WATKINS of 1 Ash Grove Victoria Road, Headingley, near Leeds in the
County of York, Manager 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 the improvement of cushions on billiard tables.
The improvements consist in making the cushions of thin-flat metal ribbon or fine
metal wire woven or wound round a core of wood or other suitable material which
core is afterwards withdrawn the cushion so made to be cased in leather, rubber cloth
or other suitable material.
And in order that my said invention may be the better understood I will proceed to
explain the same with reference to the accompanying sheet of drawings in which
Fig. 1 represents side view of a portion of a billiard cushion constructed according
to this invention.
Figs. 2 3 4 and
are various sections of cushions hereafter referred to.
The same letters denote the same parts in all the figures.
a is the outer covering of cloth or other suitable materials b is the outer frame of
woven or braided wire c is inner frame of similar material.
I prefer to use fine hardened steel wire braided over a suitable core or mandrel (for
which purpose I find the method of braiding employed by the American Braided Wire
Company very suitable) and while the core or mandrel is still in place I braid a
second and in some cases a third covering of similar wire over the first one the core
or mandrel is then removed and the elasticity of the cushion adjusted after which it is
covered with cloth or other suitable material.
A cushion constructed as above and covered with cloth is not liable to deterioration
from damp heat or cold and will retain its elasticity under any conditions of climate
and temperature which is not the case with the rubber cushions now in use.
Instead of wire to form the cushion I may use thin metal ribbon but I find the
most suitable material is braided wire when used in two or more layers as above
described.
Figure 2 shews a section of a cushion of the ordinary shape Figure 3 a section of a
circular cushion Figure 4 a section of an elliptical cushion Figure 5 is a section of
a cushion with one semicircular and three straight sides.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is :-
:―
I. Constructing cushions for billiard tables by braiding weaving or winding one or
more layers of wire or thin metal ribbon over a suitable mandrel or core which is
afterwards withdrawn and the cushion covered with cloth leather or other suitable
material all substantially as described.
II. The improved cushions for billiard tables substantially as described and
shewn.
Dated this Sixteenth dow of 1000
ERNEST
SALAMAN,
65 & 66, Chancery Lane, London, Agent for Applicant.