IMPROVEMENTS IN BILLIARD TABLES TO AFFORD GREATER VARIETY IN THE Character of THE GAMES PLAYED THEREON
Year: 1875

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Julius Patzschke at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
26th November 1875.
I, JULIUS PATZSCHKE, of Russel Street, Covent Garden, in the County
of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN BILLIARD TABLES TO AFFORD GREATER VARIETY IN THE
Character of THE GAMES PLAYED THEREON," to be as follows:-
According to this Invention the cloths, covers, or surfaces of billiard
tables have fields, compartments, or devices indicated thereon, such
fields, compartments, or devices being numbered in such manner as to
represent different values when the billiard ball comes to rest within
either of such fields.
The fields, compartments, or devices may be arranged at optional
distances apart, and may take the form of triangles, quadrangles,
hexagons, octagons, ovals, circles, or other devices or designs, the
numbers placed thereon being optional.
In the manufacture of billiard table cloths or covers the fields, com-
partments, or devices may be worked in with silk or woollen threads of
different colours, or the fields as well as the numbers may be woven,
sown, embroidered, or pressed in or be otherwise delineated,

page_text: Billiard table cloths or covers already on the table may have the fields
or devices drawn or painted thereon with colours or be printed upon or
treated with caustic matter, but in all cases, however, the numbers as
well as the fields are delineated they must be so arranged that the ball
in its rolling thereon meets with no impediment.
The numbers and their fields may be delineated upon the billiard table
cloth or cover, as shown on the Drawing annexed, either single or in
triangles, quadrangles, or polygonal forms, or in oval, circular, or divers
other forms or groups, or the numbers may be placed consecutive, or one
and the same number may be repeated various times one above the
other. .
Divisions may be substituted for the fields, which divisions, according
to this Invention, may be delineated on the billiard table cloth or cover,
as above described, being either worked or woven in or otherwise deli-
neated, whereby the numbers on the board of the billiard table appear,
which numbers may be inlaid in plates of metal, horn, wood, bone, or
other material on the board.
Billiard cloths now in use may also be made available with fields or
devices and their numbers by grouping the numbers with their different
fields either marked with chalk colours, painted, printed, or delineated
by means of caustic or otherwise.
In like manner to the game of "pyramids,”
"nine pins,' 33 86 cannon,"
and "
grand partie," which have resulted from the Invention of the
billiard table and game, so does the use of devices and numbers on the
billiard table according to this Invention produce all sorts of com- :
binations and entertaining games. Success in playing these improved
games will depend on the calculation and dexterity of the player to hit
with the play ball or his own ball the adversary's ball in such manner
that the latter is placed in a certain field, compartment, device, or
number.
The borders of billiard tables may also be numbered. in dininiame