IMPROVEMENTS IN BILLIARD TABLES
Year: 1884

page_text: I EUSTACE BENNETT of No. 11 Coningham Road Shepherd's Bush, in the County
of Middlesex, Accountants' Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN BILLIARD TABLES, to be as follows:-
A mode or means by which a billiard ball, or billiard balls, or balls similar to
billiard balls, may be transmitted from a pocket, or pockets, of a billiard table, to
another pocket, or other pockets, of said billiard table, with great facility. The
pockets of the billiard table, to be mado of india rubber, or other elastic material;
each pocket to have an aperture in it, at the bottom or side thereof, sufficiently
large for an ordinary billiard ball, or a ball similar thereto, to pass through a tube,
or half tube, to be attached, or affixed, to the three pockets, on one side of the
billiard table, also a tube or half tube to be attached, or affixed, to the other three
pockets, on the other side of the billiard table; the said tube, or half tube, to be
open, where attached, or affixed, to the said pockets, the aperture to be of a
sufficient size to admit or emit, an ordinary billiard ball, or billiard balls, or a ball,
or balls similar thereto; the tube, or half tube, to be level, or nearly level, to run
along the side of the billiard table, extending from the top pocket, to the bottom
pocket and also supported in the vicinity of that part of it, which is adjacent to
the middle pocket of the billiard table, by a pivot attached to the tube or half
tube, and the billiard table. The tube, or half tube, to be affixed to the pockets,
so that the aperture, or apertures, of the pocket, or pockets, may meet the
aperture or apertures, of the tube, or half tube. A tube, or half tube, to be
affixed to the opposite side of the billiard table, where the other three pockets are,
in a similar way to that described above. When the tube, or tubes, or half tube
or half tubes, or a pocket, or pockets, are depressed, or raised, at either end, or
nearly at either end, of the billiard table, the ball or balls, above described, when
therein, will move or travel; by this means, time and trouble, will be saved, in
removing the said ball or balls, from one part of the billiard table, to another part
of the said billiard table.
The this rath
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page_text: I EUSTACE BENNETT of Number 11 Coningham Road, Shepherd's Bush, in the
County of Middlesex, Accountants Clerk do hereby declare the nature of my
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN BILLIARD TABLES" and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
My Invention has reference to a mode or method of readily transmitting
billiard balls or similar balls from a pocket or pockets of a billiard table to another
pocket or pockets of 'the same, without the trouble of removing the said balls
from one part of the billiard table to another part thereof in the manner hitherto
required.
For this purpose the several pockets of the billiard table are made of strips
(round or otherwise) of covered india rubber or other elastic material, with a
band of india rubber attached to the back thereof and in each pocket there is
formed an aperture at the bottom or side thereof sufficiently large to allow an
ordinary billiard ball to pass through.
Each corner pocket is to have an ordinary tassel affixed to the bottom of it as
usual.
The three pockets on each side of the billiard table are put into communication
one with another by means of a half tube made of metal wood gutta percha or
other suitable material lined with cloth flannel sheet india rubber or other suitable
material with curved wires fitted to the top at a distance of about one inch apart
thereby forming a tube of sufficient diameter to admit easily a billiard ball of the.
ordinary size. The said tubes are to be open where connected with the said
pockets so as to be capable of receiving a billiard ball and they are to extend in a
linė horizontal or nearly so from the top to the bottom pocket on each side of the
table and to be supported at or near the middle by a pivot or axis fixed to the
table.
:
The tube on each side of the table is to be affixed to the pockets so that their
respective apertures may be caused to meet and they are to be fastened together
-by-making-the-ends-of-the-strips-and-bands of the pockets to pass through holes
in the tubes such strips and bands being secured on the other side.
When the tube or tubes or a pocket or pockets is raised or lowered at or near
either end of the table the ball or balls contained therein will be caused to travel
along the tube or tubes and pass from one pocket to another as required without
the necessity of removing the ball or balls as at present.
Having thus stated the nature of the said Invention in order that it may be
better understood I will proceed to describe it more particularly by the aid of
the accompanying Drawings, in which the same letters of reference indicate
corresponding parts.

page_text: The half tube is shewn at C. C. with curved wires E. E. connecting the pockets
D along the two sides of the billiard table. B is the pivot or axis for the purpose
of depressing or elevating one or other end of the tube as may be required.
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 :-
The mode or method by which billiard balls may be conveyed, from one part
of a billiard table to another part thereof by means of a tube connecting together
the pockets on each side of the table such tube or tubes being combined with the
said pockets substantially in the manner described.