AN IMPROVED OBLONG, DRAWING-ROOM BAGATELLE AND BILLIARD TABLE WITH REVERSIBLE TOP, AND MADE IN VARIOUS SHAPES AND SIZES
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Wilson, of No. 184, Wigmore Street, in
the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED OBLONG,
DRAWING-ROOM BAGATELLE AND BILLIARD TABLE WITH REVERSIBLE TOP, AND
MADE IN VARIOUS SHAPES AND SIZES."
Sealed the 18th April 1868, and dated the 15th October 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Wilson at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
15th October 1862.
I, WILLIAM WILSON, of No. 18ª, Wigmore Street, in the County of Mid-
dlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED
OBLONG DRAWING-200M BAGATELLE AND BILLIARD TABLE WITH REVERSIBLE TOP, AND
MADE IN VARIOUS SHAPES AND SIZES," to be as follows:-
the
An oblong drawing-room bagatelle and billiard table, so constructed that
game is on one side, and by reversing the top forms a drawing-room table,
made oblong, oval, circular, and other shapes, and in various sizes; the pecu-
liarity of this Invention is in its compactness, that side of the table on which
the game is played being concealed in the frame of the table when shut, and
the top has only to be turned over when the game is required to be played.
That side of the table on which the game is played has a channel or rim. on
both sides for the balls to run in, which continues round the board or table,. and
at the end has a double or single indicator, thus
made moveable.at
the end marked B, to direct the balls to the number required. The double

page_text: indicators are placed right and left, or the single indicator on either side, for
bagatelle or billiard table or board. The stand is made with a frame or rim
for the game to be enclosed in, supported on a pillar and claws or otherwise.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Wilson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the !
15th April 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
WILSON, of Number 184, Wigmore Street, in the County of Middlesex, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-sixth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said William Wilson, Her special licence that I, the said William
Wilson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said William Wilson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"AN IMPROVED OBLONG DRAWING-ROOM BAGATELLE AND BILLIÁRD TABLE WITH REVER-
SIBLE TOP, AND MADE IN VARIOUS SHAPES AND SIZES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said William Wilson, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to
be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Wilson, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
This Invention consists of an oblong drawing-room bagatelle and billiard
table, so constructed that the game is on one side, and by reversing the top forms
a drawing-room table, made oblong, oval, circular, and other shapes, and in
various sizes, the peculiarity of this Invention is in its compactness, that sido

page_text: of the table on which the game is played being concealed in the frame of the
table when shut, and the top has only to be turned over when the game is
required to be played. That side of the table on which the game is played
has a channel or rim on both sides, or may be with a groove or bridge or
tunnel inclosed. The table as under shews, as marked A, for the balls to run
in, and continues round the board or table, and at the end has a double or
single indicator marked B, made moveable to direct the balls. The double
indicators are placed right and left for bagatelle or billiard table.
Number 1 Figure shews the table open; Number 2 Figure, when shut, also
bagatelle or billiard board on the same principle.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Wilson, have hereunto set my
. hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three..