Improvements in and connected with Billiard Tables.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd July, 1898-Accepted, 17th Sept., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Billiard Tables.
OTTO BEHRENS, of 1, Kalte Thalstrasse, Wolfenbüttel, in the German Empire,
Merchant, 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 :-
This invention relates to certain improvements in connection with billiard tables
whereby the tables may be easily taken apart and be readily adjusted in level. It is
more especially intended for use in connection with billiard tables constructed for
use in dwelling houses where space is limited and a special billiard room cannot be
provided. In such cases the billiard table can be temporarily erected and when no
longer required may be readily taken apart and be stored in a comparatively small
space. Billiard tables in which these improvements are embodied inay also advan
tageously be employed in houses and buildings such as inns to which the public
resort and where the room ordinarily occupied by them is occasionally required for
other purposes.
A further advantage is that the cost of these improvements is so
low that the billiard tables may be constructed more cheaply with them than without
so that their more general use may be encouraged.
I will describe my improvements with reference to the accompanying drawings
in which:-
Figure 1 represents a perspective view of part of a table to which these improve-
ments have been adapted.
Figure 2 shews a leg of the table in elevation on a larger scale.
Figure 3 illustrates the means whereby each leg can be attached to the table, as
seen from below.
Figure 4 shews a partial longitudinal section and
Figure 5 a partial plan of the table.
Figures 6, 7 and 8, represent modifications in the construction of the table
legs.
The billiard table consists of the usual bed f, covered with cloth: the sides c¹, and
the cushions c attached thereto.
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The sides care provided with pins or dowels d,
which pass through corresponding holes formed in the bed f, below which they may
be secured by means of the keys e passing through slots in the dowels.
Each of the legs consists of two parts, of which the upper part al is fixed to the
underside of the bed f. This part may be tubular and bow shaped with openings in
its dependent ends for the reception of corresponding pins or projections formed on
or secured in the lower part a of the leg which has a forked shape as indicated by
the drawings. The upper part of the leg is fixed to a plate shewn by Figure 3, and
this plate in turn is fixed to the underside of the table by screws passed through it.
To avoid loose parts as much as possible, it is preferred that the pins or projections
of the lower part of the leg, which fit into the dependent ends of the upper part a',
should be cast or formed integrally with the lower part as shewn by Figure 2, or be
screwed therein as indicated by Figure 8. It will be apparent that the positions may
be reversed, that is to say, the pins or projections may be in the upper part and fit
into the lower part.

page_text: The lower part of each leg may be of ornamental form as for example that
indicated by Figures 1 and 2, or it may be perfectly plain, ending in a disc as
shewn by Figure 6, or be otherwise constructed as to form. The dependent ends of
the upper part may be more than two as indicated by Figure where four such ends
are shewn.
In such a case the construction of the lower part of the leg will be
When the upper and lower parts of the legs are connected by pins or projections
such as Figure 8, the screwed part k may have a projecting milled collar, by rotat-
ing which the table may be levelled.
correspondingly modified.
If greater stability for the legs be desired, the lower end of each may be provided
with a peg h (see additional sketch in Figure 1), and this peg may fit into a hole i¹
in a socket plate i, screwed to the floor.
When a billiard table constructed as herein before described is required to be re-
moved the keys e are removed whereupon the sides may be lifted off separately or
collectively. The bed and the attached upper parts of the legs are then separated
from the lower parts a, and the separated parts may be stored away in a com-
paratively small space.
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. In a billiard table, sides c¹ having dowels d passing through the bed f and
secured below it by keys e, and legs constructed in two parts of which the upper
parts are fixed below the bed f and the lower parts a fit into the upper parts, sub-
stantially as and for the purpose set forth with reference to the accompanying
drawings.
2. Billiard table legs constructed in two parts of which the upper part of each
leg is fixed below the table bed and the lower part is adapted to fit into the
upper part, substantially as herein before described with reference to the accom-
panying drawings.
3. Billiard table legs constructed in two parts of which the upper part of each leg
is fixed below the table bed and the lower part is constructed to fit into the upper
part or the reverse by means of a screwed pin whereby the level of the table may be
adjusted, substantially as described.
Dated this 22nd day of July AD 1000