US119262A

US119262A - Improvement in game-tables

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Publication number: US119262A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1871-09-26
Anticipated expiration: 1888-09-26

Description

m MANUEL BRUNSWICK.

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UNITED STATES EMNEL BRUNSWICK, or CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN GAME-TABLES.

Y Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 119,262, dated September 26, 1871.

y To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMANUEL BRUNSWICK, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain tables upon which to play games with balls and cues, of which the fol lowing is a specication, reference being had to the accompanying drawing.

My invention relates to a table of novel construction, upon which to play with balls and cues a gaine similar to bagatelle or Jenny Lind, and the invention consists in substituting for the row of open holes across a bagatelletable a series of holes arranged in a circle, and covered by a circular block having a series of radial openings leading inward to the va-rious holes or pockets,

as hereinafter more fully described.

Figure 1 is a horizontal sectional view of my improved table, one side or half being taken on the line :v x and the other on the liney y of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section of the table through its center.

In constructing my table, I first provide a body or bed, A, similar in every respect to an ordinary bagatelletable, being semioircular at one end and rectangular at the other, and being provided with a cushioned rirn around its outer edge, the bed being, of course, mounted on legs in the usual manner. Through the bed of the table, at or near the semicircular end, I make a number of holes or pockets, a, arranged in a circular row, and under the opposite end of the table I place an equal number of cups or sockets, o, as shown in both figures. Lengthwise under the bed of the i table I mount a series of inclined troughs or chutes, d, connecting the respective holes or pockets a with the corresponding cups c, as shown. Upon top of the table, over the holes or pockets a, I secure a circular block or head piece, C, large enough to cover all the holes, and inward through the sides of this block I make radial openings or passages bon a level with the bed of the table, the passages being at equal distances apart and leading one to each of the holes a.

In playing upon the table thus constructed the Lmy table requires considerable skill.

object is, of course, to drive the balls into the holes t so that they will drop down through, off from the table, in the same manner as in Jenny Lind and bagatelle. In the latter games the holes or pockets being arranged in a row across the table, and being left open and unguarded, it is comparatively easy to pocket the balls; but on my table it will be seen that the front pocket is the only one into which a ball may be driven direct from the opposite end of the table, as the passages e leading to all the other pockets stand at various angles, so that the ball driven from the head of the table must be either cushioned or caromed before it will enter the passages b. It will thus be seen that to pocket the balls upon This is especially the case as to driving the balls into the pockets around on the back sides of the head C. The balls, when they fall through the holes af, drop into the chutes and roll down in the respective sockets, as in Jenny Lind. If desired, the head C may set out from the end of the table so that the balls can pass aroundbehind it; and the end of the table may be of any other desired form than the one shown. The balls and the pockets or holes may be numbered and any suitable rules adopted for playing games upon the table. Y

In manufacturing my tables I propose to screw the legs into the body and to attach the sockets or cups to a detachable board, so that when the table is to be packed the legs and the sockets may be taken oli', so that the table can be secured in a compact form.

u Having described my invention, what I claim is- The table A, provided with the holes a, and with the head piece Chaving the 4radial passages b, arranged substantially as described.

EMANUEL BRUNSWICK.

Witnesses FRED. E. HELD, GEORGE PoHL.