Novel or Improved Detachable Appliances or Means for Enabling the Game of Billiards to be played on Dining Tables and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Dec., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 12th Sept., 1899-Accepted, 14th Oct., 1899
Date of Application, raç DEC., 1990
Complete Specification Left, 12th Sept., 1899-Accepted, 14th Oct., 1899
Novel or Improved Detachable Appliances or Means for Enabling the
Game of Billiards to be played on Dining Tables and the like.
I, JOHN WILLIAM DEAN, 272, Waterloo Road, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent,
Staffordshire, Accountant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This my invention has reference to novel or improved detachable and portable
appliances or means for attachment to dining or like tables so that the game of
billiards may be played thereon, the object of my said invention being to enable
such tables to be temporally used for the purpose named.
In carrying this invention into practice I take four mahogany, oak or other
suitable wood rails of suitable size and transverse section, which rails
may be in two or more lengths and wholly or partially covered with
any suitable cloth, or grained painted or varnished, and fitted with
3 suitable number of suitably shaped brass or like suitable metallic
rims or loops with net-work or like suitable pockets, and pivottally connected or
hinged thereto so that such rails may be folded for stowing away or packed
together when not required for use, each rail having a plain, a cloth-covered or
other suitable solid or tubular india-rubber or like suitable elastic-bar or piping
of suitable size and cross-section cemented, glued or otherwise suitably attached,
fastened or fixed to their inner face or surface for the balls used to strike against,
such rails being fastened on or to the table used by metallic thumb-nuts, clamps
or other suitable fastenings.
If preferred a covering or sheet of green-baize, or cloth such as is used for
covering the bed of billiard-tables may first be spread over or upon the table to be
used and such rails afterwards clamped or attached to such tables to keep such
cloth or baize stretched thereon.
Dated this 9th day of December 1898
JOHN NEWTON,
Longport, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs., Agent for Applicant.
Novel or Improved Detachable Appliances or Means for Enabling the
Game of Billiards to be played on Dining Tables and the like.
I, JOHN WILLIAM DEAN, 272, Waterloo Road, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent,
Staffordshire, Accountant, 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 my invention has reference to novel or improved detachable and portable

page_text: appliances or means for attaching to dining or like tables to enable the game
of billiards to be played on such tables, the object of my said invention being to
enable such tables to be used for the purpose named.
In carrying this invention into practice I take four or more mahogany, oak, teak
or other suitable wood rails of suitable size, transverse section and length wholly
or partially covered with any suitable cloth, or grained, painted, varnished or
decorated in any suitable style. One end of a suitably, shaped brass or other
suitable metallic loop or pocket-rim having a net-work or other suitable pocket
attached thereto being fitted, screwed or pivottally connected to the upper surface
of each end of each side rail, or to the upper surface of the end
rails SO
that such rails when not in use may be closly packed for
portability or transport, each rail having a plain, a cloth covered solid or tubular
india-rubber or like suitable elastic or flexible bar or tubing of suitable size
and transverse section cemented, glued or otherwise suitably fastened or fixed to
its inner side or surface at a suitable distance down from their top inside edge
for the balls used to strike against, such rails being fastened on or to the top
surface of the table used by metallic-clamps or like suitable fastenings.
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Instead of using the table cloth or covering a sheet of green-baize, or cloth such
as is used for covering the bed of billiard-tables may be substituted and spread
over the table to be used, and the said rails afterwards clamped to such tables to
keep such cloth or baize stretched.
In order that my said invention may be more readily understood and explained
in detail I have hereunto annexed a sheet of drawings on which letters of reference
are marked.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a plan view of a table having two detachable wood rails at each of
its sides, and one detachable rail at each of its ends.
Figure 2 is a side elevation of the table top and rails shewn at Figure 1.
Figure 3 is an enlarged side elevation of a portion of one of the side rails,
shewing the curved portion of the end and side detachable metallic pocket-rims or
pocket plates raised.
Figure 4 is an enlarged side elevation of the end portion of one of the rails
shewing that ordinary or flat detachable metallic pocket-rims or loops may be
used if desired.
Figure 5 is an enlarged plan view of the end portion of such rails.
Figure 6 is a sectional elevation on line A-B of Figure 5 looking in the
direction indicated by arrow C, showing a solid india-rubber or flexible cushion
secured thereto by glue or cement and a cloth covering, such flexible cushion
may be tubular as shewn by the dotted lines into which air may be forced or
pumped to render same pneumatic.
Figure 7 is an enlarged sectional elevation through line D-E of Figure 1
shewing a tubular india-rubber or elastic cushion secured to its rail by cement or
glue and a cloth covering into which tube air may be pumped or forced, or such
cushion may be solid, and the method of securing such rails to tables for use, and
Figures 8 and 9 are enlarged plan views of the detachable metallic corner and
side pocket-rims or pocket-plates.
After covering a table with the cloth to be used the side rails a and b, c and d
may be first conneted by a pocket rim or plate e, f respectively by placing the
ends of such pocket plates into the recesses in the top end surface or portion of
their respective rails shewn enlarged at Figure 5, the ends of the corner pocket
plates are then fitted into and secured in the recesses at the ends of such side
rails, and into the recesses of the end rails g, h so as to form a framing as shewn
at Figure 1, a removable metallic clamp i similar to that shewn at Figure 7 may
be used for clamping such rails to the table used.
On reference to Figures 5 and 6. j represents a brass or similar suitable
metallic plate screwed at its lower end against an india-rubber, a leather or like
suitable flexible washer or pad k recessed into the rail so that the upper end of

page_text: such metallic plate may be forced over the recessed straight portion of the pocket
rims or pocket plates to retain same therein.
An india-rubber, a leather or like suitable washer or pad 7 may be placed on or
fixed to the head m of the clamps i used to avoid injury or marking the underside
of the table to which such rails may be clamped.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
The novel or improved combination or arrangement of four or more cloth-
covered, painted, varnished or decorated detachable rails a, b, c, d and g, h of any
suitable transverse section having a solid, a tubular or pneumatic plain or cloth
covered india-rubber or like suitable cushions attached to their inner surface
connected together at their ends by suitably shaped detachable pocket-plates or
pocket-rims having net-work or like suitable pockets attached or connected thereto
for clamping or fixing to a dining or like suitable table temporarily for enabling
the game of billiards to be played on such tables as herein substantially set forth
and illustrated on the drawings hereto annexed.
Dated this 11th day of September 1899.
JOHN NEWTON,
Longport, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs., Agent for Applicant.
JOHN NEWTON,
Longport, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs., Agent for Applicant.