Improvements in Billiard Table Pockets.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Dec., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Sept., 1892-Accepted, 8th Oct., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Billiard Table Pockets.
We, WILLIAM HENRY HUDSON, of the firm of Orme and Sons, Blackfriars
Street, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Billiard Table Manufacturers,
and ALBERT EDWARD COOPER, of 68 Derby Street, Hyde Road, Manchester
aforesaid, Cabinet Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows
Our invention relates to improvements in billiard table pockets and our improve-
ments consist chiefly in making and arranging such pockets in a novel manner as
follows:--
The upper portion of the pocket is secured to the pocket brass, and the lower
portion is suspended from the upper in such manner as to form a double pocket.
The pocket on the side nearest the table is held extended by means of a wire or
equivalent to receive the ball, while the hand can be readily inserted at the back to
withdraw the ball from the pocket through the slit or opening between the upper
and lower portions.
Dated this 2nd dow of December 1891
H. B. BARLOW,
Agent for Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Billiard Table Pockets.
We, WILLIAM HENRY HUDSON, of the firm of Orme and Sons, Blackfriars
Street, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Billiard Table Manufacturers,
and ALBERT EDWARD COOPER, of 68 Derby Street, Hyde Road, Manchester
aforesaid, 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 ascer-
tained in and by the following statement :-
Our invention relates to improvements in billiard table pockets and our improve-
ments consist chiefly in making and arranging such pockets in a novel manner as
follows:-
The upper portion of the pocket is secured to the pocket brass, and the lower
portion is suspended from the upper in such manner as to form a double pocket.
The pocket on the side nearest the table is held extended by means of a wire or
equivalent to receive the ball, while the hand can be readily inserted at the back
to withdraw the ball from the pocket through the slit or opening between the upper
and lower portions.
And in order that our invention may be fully understood and readily carried
into effect we will describe the accompanying sheet of drawings reference being
had to the figures and letters marked thereon.
Figures 1 and 2 are transverse vertical sections of our improved billiard table
pocket.
In these views, a designates the cushion rail, 6 the cushion, c the pocket plate
or brass, d the leather which covers the pocket plate, and e the upper portion of
our improved pocket which is secured to the leather d and so suspended from the
plate or brass c. The lower portion f of the pocket is firmly secured to the upper
portion e along the edges of the latter at g on each side but in such manner as to
leave an aperture through which the hand can be inserted from the back of the

page_text: pocket. The lower portion f is held extended by means of a leather covered
wire h or in other convenient manner.
In Fig. 1 the ball i, having entered from the table in the direction indicated by
the arrow X, is lying in the bottom of the pocket f and the upper portion of the
pocket e is shown in the position which it normally occupies.
In Fig. 2 the upper portion e is shown pushed back over the centre of the
pocket into the position which it occupies when the hand is introduced from
the back in order to withdraw the ball i from the pocket in the direction indicated
by the arrow Y.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is
1. Forming a billiard table pocket in two portions and in such a manner that a
hand can be introduced from the back of the pocket and the ball withdrawn there-
from substantially as herein set forth.
2. The improved billiard table pocket made and arranged substantially as and
for the purposes described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 1st day of September 1892.
H. B. BARLOW,
17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agent for Applicants.