An Improvement in Billiard Tables.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application,
6th
Sept
1000
Complete Specification Left, 11th Nov., 1889-Accepted, 21st Dec, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 11th Nov., 1889-Accepted, 21st Dec, 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Billiard Tables.
I, JESSE JOHN BROWN of Sandhurst in the County of Kent, Gentleman, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to means of rendering the playing of billiards more convenient
by an appliance whereby such balls as are pocketted are at once brought within easy
reach of the player. For this purpose, I lead from each pocket a spout or guide
inclined downwards towards the end of the table where the player stands to play.
Any ball that has been pocketted runs down this spout or guide by gravity and
lodges in that part of it which is at the end of the table in a position visible and
accessible to the player.
2
2000
ABEL & JMRAY.
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Billiard Tables.
I, JESSE JOHN BROWN, of Sandhurst, in the County of Kent, Gentleman, 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 means of rendering the playing of billiards more convenient
by an appliance whereby such balls as are pocketted are at once brought within easy
reach of the player.
For this purpose, I lead from each pocket a spout or guide inclined downwards
towards the end of the table where the player stands to play.
Any ball that has been pocketted runs down this spout or guide by gravity and
lodges in that part of it which is at the end of the table, in a position visible and
accessible to the player.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings is a plan (the slab being supposed to be
removed) of a billiard table with my invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a central
longitudinal section. Fig. 3 is a plan and Fig. 4 is an elevation of one of the side
pockets and Fig. 5 is a plan of one of the corner pockets. Under the table near
each side I fix a spout or guide A, sloping down from the spot end to a transverse
spout B fixed outside the end of the table. The side pockets communicate at their
bottoms by sloping conduits C with the spouts A. The corner pockets also com-
municate with the spouts A by sloping conduits D, which are shewn in the drawings
as passing round the faces of the legs so as to avoid cutting passages through the
legs of existing tables to which my invention may be applied. Instead of these
circuitous conduits D, the conduits from the corner pockets may in a new table be
made direct into the spouts A as indicated by the dotted lines E. By this arrange-
inent, any ball on entering a pocket descends by gravity along one or other of the
sioping spouts to the end spout B, where a number of the balls may be readily acces-
sible to the player who has to play from that end of the table. In order to provide for
sending the red ball back to the spot end of the table I provide a central spout F
sloping down from the baulk end to a transverse spout G at the spot end of the table,
so that a player or attendant at that end can readily replace the ball on the spot.
The spouts A A, instead of being accommodated as shewn within the frame of the
table, might be attached outside the side rails of the frame, as may be readily under-
stood.

page_text: 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
In combination with a billiard table, sloping conduits, spouts or guides leading
from the pockets down to a transverse spout at one end of the table, so that pocketted
balls descend by gravity to a position within easy reach of the player, substantially as
described.
Dated this 11th day of November 1889.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant