Improvements in Pockets for Billiard Tables.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Nov., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 10th Aug., 1894-Accepted, 15th Sept., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Pockets for Billiard Tables.
I, WILLIAM CLARK of 88 Warriner Gardens Battersea Park, London, Cabinet
Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
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My invention relates to improvements in pockets for billiard tables and has for
its object to provide a pocket of such construction that the ball can be removed
without any difficulty.
In carrying my invention into practice, I form the pocket in shape, similar to
those of ordinary construction, and provided at the side at a short distance from the
bottom of same with an opening through which the ball will easily pass, when the
bottom of the pocket is raised, the said opening being at such a distance from
the bottom as to leave sufficient to support the ball and to prevent same from being
removed until the bottom is raised, and in order that same may not fall through
the said opening when entering the pocket, I place a small guiding net within same
slanting towards the opposite side to that in which the opening is formed, the said
guiding net being furnished on either side with extensions by means of which it is
secured to the sides of the table.
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For preference the said opening is kite shaped, and requires no india-rubber or
other elastic material around the edge, as generally the case with pockets provided
with openings.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Pockets for Billiard Tables.
I WILLIAM CLARK of 88 Warriner Gardens Battersea Park, London, Cabinet
Maker, 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 improvements in pockets for billiard tables and has for
its object to provide a pocket of such construction that the ball can be removed
without any difficulty.
Upon the accompanying sheet of drawings illustrating my invention:-
Figure 1 represents a front view of a pocket with ball shewn suspended therein.
Figure 2 is a similar view shewing method of removing ball from pocket.
Figure 3 is a section through a portion of the pocket shewing position of
guiding net.
In carrying my invention into practice 1 form the pocket A which in shape and
material is otherwise similar to those of ordinary construction with an opening Bat
one side at a short distance from the bottom of same through which opening the
ball C will easily pass when the bottom a of the pocket A is raised the said opening
being at such a distance from the bottom as to leave sufficient net to support the
ball and to prevent same from being removed until the bottom is raised, and in

page_text: order that same may not fall through the said opening when entering the pocket,
I provide a small guiding net D within the pocket slanting towards the opposite
side to that in which the opening is formed, the said guiding net being furnished
on either side with extension cords E E by means of which it is secured to the
sides of the table.
For preference the said opening B is kite shaped, and requires no india-rubber
or other elastic material around the edge as generally is the case with pockets
provided with openings.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. Pockets for billiard tables having an opening formed therein and provided
internally with a guiding net or guard as and for the purposes described.
2. Pockets for billiard tables constructed and arranged substantially as described
and for the purposes set forth.
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