An Improved Cushion for Billiard, Bagatelle, and similar Tables.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 20th May, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 20th Feb., 1892-Accepted, 9th Apr., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Cushion for Billiard, Bagatelle, and similar Tables.
I WILLIAM CURRIE Junr. 6 Strathearn Road Edinburgh Scotland Gentleman
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My improved cushion, consists of a cushion made of india rubber gutta percha or
balata or mixture of them, vulcanized or not, made hollow and filled up with sponge
rubber. One or more holes through a solid cushion filled up as described gives
similar results. The cushion may be made as described or else made in one
operation always taking care that the inside of the cushion consists of sponge
rubber.
Dated this 10th day of Mar 1901
WILLIAM CURRIE, JUNR.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Cushion for Billiard, Bagatelle, and similar Tables.
I, WILLIAM CURRIE, Junior of 6, Strathearn Road, Edinburgh in the County
of Edinburgh, India-rubber Manufacturer, 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:-
The invention relates to the cushions which surround the inner edges of billiard,
bagatelle and similar table tops against which the balls strike as they are propelled
by the players.
The invention consists essentially of a cushion composed of an outer layer or
skin of vulcanised, or non-vulcanised india-rubber, gutta-percha, balata or such
like substance or material or mixture of them filled up with (or the interior of
which is composed of) a material such as spongy rubber.
In carrying out the invention I construct an outer layer or skin of india-rubber
or the like by any of the processes well known to india-rubber manufacturers, and
place in the interior thereof a filling of soft or spongy india-rubber or the like in
order that the cushion, shall be more clastic than the solid rubber cushions at
present used, or, in place of the foregoing method, the cushions may be made in one
operation, both spongy part and skin.
The same result may be obtained by making one or more holes longitudinally of
a solid rubber cushion and filling it or them up with the soft spongy material as
before described, or even in this case also the cushion may be made at one operation.
I may here mention that although I have described the cushion as constructed
with an outer layer or skin of rubber or the like, such outer layer may be dispensed
with entirely, and the cushion constructed of spongy rubber or other similar
material alone.
It will be understood that the shape of the cushion may be the same as that
hitherto used, though I would have it understood that I do not confine myself
to use any
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page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is :-
A cushion for billiard, bagatelle or similar tables constructed substantially
as described.
Per pro EMMOTT & CO., LIMITED,
Robert Wood, Secretary,
2, New Bridge Street, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.