US281518A

US281518A - Supplemental pocket for pool and billiard tables

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Publication number: US281518A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1883-07-17
Anticipated expiration: 1900-07-17

Description

(No Model.)

F. K'IEKENAPP. SUPPLEMENTAL-POCKET FOR POOL AND BILLIARD TABLES.

Patented July 17, 1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK KIEKENAPP, OF FARIBAULT, .MINNESOTA.

SUPPLEMENTAL POCKET FOR POOL AND BILLIARD TABLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 281,518, dated July 17, 1883.

Application filed April 19, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

' Be it known that I, FREDERICK KIEKEN'APP, of Faribault, in the county of Rice and State of Minnesota, have invented a new and Improved Supplemental Pocket for P001 and Billiard Tables; and I do hereby. declarethe following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to. the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and to the figures and letters of referencemarked thereon.

My invention has for its object to provide a protective lining for the ordinary open work or knitted pockets of pool and billiard tables, whereby the knitted pockets are rendered durable and capable of lasting as long as the other parts of the table.

To this end it consists in the provision of a supplementary pocket, of leather, paper, rubber, or other suitable equivalent flexible material, adapted to be inserted into the ordinary knitted pocket of atable, having its upper portion cut away at its front for the admission of the ball, and extended at its back so as to project above the level of the table and receive the impact of the ball; and it further consists in forming upwardly-extending flexible fingers at the front cut-away portion of such supplementary pocket, which fingers are adapted to be tacked or otherwise fastened to the table, and, while/they do not project up so as to interfere with the ready entrance of the ball into the pocket, protect the front portion of the knitted pocket from contact with the ball.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents aperspective view of a supplemental pocket constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view, and Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the same. I

Similar letters of reference in the several figures indicate the same parts. 7

"A represents a supplemental pocket,con-- structed preferably of leather, molded or the front side and across the bottom, as shown.

' wise, and flush, or nearly so, with the tablepressed into the shape shown,.the parts being united by a central seam, at, extending" down 4.

practical use it is slipped into the ordinary 6o knitted pocket of a billiard or pool table, with its open front toward the entrance to the pocket proper,and with the ends of its fingers B fastened to the edge of the table by tacks or other- 5 top, and the upper end of the extended rear portion, 0, projecting up sufficiently high to receive the impact of a ball when driven into the pocket.

It will be apparent that a knitted pocket provided with my invention will be completely protected from wear by the balls, and will last as long as any other part of the table.

Instead of constructing the supplemental pocket of leather, it may be made of rubber, paper, vulcanized fiber, felt, or other suitable equivalent material.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new 1. A supplemental pocket for billiard or pool tables, adapted to be slipped into the ordinary knitted pocket," consisting of a body of leather or like materiahhaving its upper portion cut away at the front to admit the ball, and its upperback portion extended up so as to receive the impact of the ball, substantially as described. I V

2. Thehereindescribed supplemental pocket, consisting of the body of leather or like material, having the open front, the flexible flar- 9o ing fingers, and the extended back, as set forth.

Witnesses: 5 v JOHN MULLIN,'