IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE AND CONSTRUCTION OF INDIA-RUBBER CUSHIONS FOR BILLIARD TABLES
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Moseley, of Manchester, in the County
of Lancaster, India-rubber Manufacturer, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE AND CONSTRUCTION OF INDIA-RUBBER
CUSHIONS FOR BILLIARD TABLES."
Sealed the 22nd December 1870, and dated the 13th July 1870..
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Moseley at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the.
13th July 1870.
I, CHARLES MOSELEY, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
India-rubber Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE AND CONSTRUCTION OF
INDIA-RUBBER CUSHIONS FOR BILLIARD TABLES," to be as follows:-
This improvement consists in manufacturing and constructing the
cushions for billiard tables of cellular or hollow moulded vulcanized
india-rubber, whereby is obtained the elasticity of the natural india-
rubber cushion at present in use with the advantage of not being
affected by the temperature of the atmosphere. The degree of clasticity

page_text: may be modified or increased by the shape or size of the cell or cells,
which are formed by means of a core or cores of the desired shape and
size.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Charles Moseley in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 12th January 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
MOSELEY, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, India-rubber
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of July, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-fourth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Charles Moseley, Her special licence that I,
the said Charles Moseley, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Charles Moseley, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times thereafter 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU-
FACTURE AND CONSTRUCTION OF INDIA-RUBBER CUSHIONS FOR BILLIARD TABLES,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Charles Moseley.
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 Charles Moseley, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement (that is to say):-
This improvement consists in manufacturing and constructing the
cushions for billiard tables of cellular or hollow moulded vulcanized

page_text: india-rubber, whereby is obtained the elasticity of the natural india-
rubber cushion at present in use with the advantage of not being
affected by the temperature of the atmosphere. The degree of elasticity
may be modified or increased by the shape or size of the cell or cells,
which are formed by means of a core or cores of the desired shape and
size.
And in order that my Invention may be fully understood and readily
carried into operation I will proceed to describe the accompanying
Drawing, which represents in section part of an ordinary billiard table
to which one mode of constructing my improved cushions is applied.
a is the table; b, the woodwork of the side; and c the ball; d is a
section of my improved cushion, which is made of vulcanized india-
rubber, with any convenient number of cells or perforations. These cells
or perforations are moulded on core bars, or they are otherwise produced,
the particular mode of construction being immaterial. The effect of
these cells or perforations is to render vulcanized india-rubber cushions
as elastic as those made of natural india-rubber as now customary, and
the improved cushions are unaffected by the variations in the tem-
perature, whereas those made of the natural india-rubber become hard
in cold weather, and require to be softened by hot water pockets or
otherwise before the table can be played upon. The degree of elasticity
of my improved cushions may be modified by varying the number, shape,
and positions of the cells or perforations.
Having thus stated the nature of my Invention, and described a
convenient mode of performing the same, I wish it to be understood
that I do not limit myself to the details given, but that what I claim
as my Invention is, the manufacture and construction of cushions
for billiard tables of moulded vulcanized india-rubber with cells or
perforations in the manner and for the purposes described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Moseley, have hereto set
my hand and seal, this Eleventh day of January, One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-one.