US1259694A - Billiard and other game table. - Google Patents

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C. WESLOW'.

BILLIARD AND OTHER GAME TABLE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 26.1917

Patented Mar. 19, 19,18.

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C. WESLOW.

BILLIARD AND OTHER GAME TABLE.

' APPLICATION FILED JUNE 25.19M- 1,259,694w Patented Mar.19,191&

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CHARLES WESLOVT, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

BILLIARD AND OTHER GAME TABLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 19, 1918.

Application filed June 26, 1917. Serial No. 176,937.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES l/VnsLow, a citizen of the United States, residing in Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Billiard and other Game Tables, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide an improved pool or billiard table for use in playing any or all of the various games of billiard or pool type, which are played upon a substantially horizontal table surrounded by cushioned rails having resilient inner surfaces, the impact against which throws the ball away therefrom; and such tables of my improved form, are of an extremely simple and cheap form of construction; easily and quickly adjusted into level; and the resilient or cushioned portions of the rails of the table, are easily and quickly renewable at very small cost.

In Figures 1 to 3 inclusive I have shown my said invention as adapted to a table of the pool-type having six pockets, one at each corner, and'one upon either of the longest dimensioned sides, located at or adjacent to the centers thereof.

My said invention is fully shown and described in the following specification, of which the accompanying drawing forms a part; wherein similar letters or numerals of reference designate like or equivalent parts wherever found throughout the several views, and in which:

Fig. 1 shows a top side view in perspective of my improved form of six-pocket pool-table; while Figs. 2 and 3 are views in detail of various portions of the table so constructed; and

Fig. 4 is a top side View in perspective of the corner portion of a table, showing my invention as adapted for and applied to tables of the well-known billiard table type, unprovided with pockets.

Fig. 5 is a detail side view in vertical section of a corner of the table and its supporting leg of a modified form of construction.

Fig. 6 is an end inner view in detail of a modified form of cushioning rail.

Fig. 7 is a top plan view of a table corner of the pool-table shown in Figs. 1 and 2 showing such table transformed into a nonpooket billiard-table, by the insertion in the pockets of removable pocket-closing blocks.

smooth upper surface, which may be of any a suitable material; and B are the side rails superposed upon and rigidly secured to such top or bed A at theends and sides thereof, in any suitable manner, usually by screws or nails as shown. In the pool-table type, pockets C are made in and through the table-top or bed at the corners, and like pockets C, adjacent to the center of each of the longest sides, and the ends of the side and end rails B are angled as indicated at 1, so as to permit free passage of the balls into such pockets C and C, through which they pass into a suitable box or receptacle K.

The side rails D are provided at the ends with substantially V or U shaped slots 3, usually and preferably formed only in the straight faced end portions l of such rails; and to form the resilient, elastic rail-cushions to throw back the halls upon the tabletop A, along the inner side of such rails are arranged suitable resilient or elastic strips or hands D, usually and preferably of highly elastic rubber, which are preferably tightly stretched, and held in place by having the ends thereof drawn tightly into the V or U shaped slots 8 in the rail ends, as indicated at 5 of Fig. 1; or the same may be secured in place and preferably under tension in any other desired manner.

Such bands may be of any suitable resilient material, that will cause the balls to rebound therefrom with what may be termed a billiard deflect; and in Fig. 6 instead of the resilient elastic rubber-band shown in Fig. 1, I have shown a metallic coil-spring used in the place of such rubber hand. For cheapness of construction, and in order to be able to quickly transform the pocket pooltable as shown in Fig. 1, into a non-pocketed billiard table, upon which an ordinary 3 or 4 ball, or a pin-pool billiard game may be executed; and in Fig. 7 I have shown in detail a top plan view of a removable plug in position therein, which may be inserted in the corner pockets'of the table to close ends of the resilient bands D, similar 'to the bands D of the main portion of the main-rails; but as this resilient band must be brought into'the corner into the forin of a right angled reentrant triangle the center of such band D is secured in place'by a nail or bolt 10:; and for the purpose of securing the plug 11in position in the pocket a reniovable securing pin is. inserted in the corner-plug when in position in the angle of the wire stop-guard E.

I Each of the pockets 0 and O is-provided above the same with a suitable stop-guard Etc defieet the balls into the pockets and prevent thesa ne froin passing'ofi' the table; each usually andpreferablyconsisting of a Wire bent intothe outwardly bowed forin shown in 1 and each having downwardly extending prongs bent at right angles thereto at "either end, which fit into suitable perforations at 6, formed to receive them in the'upper portionsof the side rails B. r The plugs which fill the center pocket Q differonly frorn the plugs which'fill the corner pockets in that the rubber bands D havenoangles, and are straight as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 1.

It will beseen thatwhen the rubber or other materialv used for the cushions D or 1) becomes deteriorated through age or use, that the oldworn-out bands inay be instantaneously removed, and new and perfect ones as instantaneously replaced in position.

As hereinbefore described, the game table consists only of a; legless bed A, and the other described parts superposed thereupon and the sarne may beplaced upon any table or other suitable support, and used for playing. However, I may provide feet F which when not v desired for use, may be taken off and stored away, and will take up butlittl'e space; and when such supporting feet are used, the same n ay be of any desired form and material, usually wood; and as shown inFigzfi, where the feet are desired 7 to be removably and adjustably attached to the bed A,they may be secured thereto by suitable screws 12 and provided with rounded tips 13, of rubber or metal or other suitable material. Another forin in which the feet F are removable and readily adjustable as to. height for leveling the table is'shown in Fig.2, wherein the rnain body portion of the foot consists of a main footmember 13 provided with a like tip 13. In the top of the foot-member 13 is located a substantially U-shaped resilient bow or leg-holder, consisting of a securing springineniber, fitting into the cavity li formed in or adjacent to a corner of the ghed. By these arrangements the table bed can be leveled, irrespective of the irregularity of the floor or other surface upon which it is supported. y

Inthe modified forni of Figs. '8; and 9, the side rails 13 are provided with inner grooves in which lie the cushions, which in this case comprise a singleendlcss band 13 of rubber orthe like. In Fig. 8, soin'e'iftfhe pockets are shown exposed, as for a pooltable, while others are closed, as for a billiard table.

when thetable is used as'apool-table and the pockets exposed, the band at each corner pocket is carried behind a block M placed between the ends of the adjacent rails B to the outsideof the pockets, At'the side pockets,the bandis carried around the 'iipright's Nsecured to the side of the bed at metatside of the side pockets. The, band D is made short'enough'to give sufficient tension so that by means of 'thi s arraiigenie it, the. cushions forining'portions "of the band, are firrnly'held in the grooves. v When the table i tohe used as a billiard table, thefband is. removed from: around the uprights N, and the space-between thefends of the [side rails D is filled with a grooved plug 0 madeto fit snugly in said spaceand form a continuation of the front faceof'the side rails, the groove P oftheplugforining a continuation of the "groove or, the side rails.

At the. corner the-pocket is "closed "by "a notched plug Q, the notch formingfthecbrner ofthe table. This iiotchlis also provided with grooves B fo-rrninga. continuation of the grooves of the side rails,andterminating at the cut-away portion Sat theftip of-the plug. The elastic band is passed through said grooves and said cut awayw portion .and around the. block Miasfshownr Thenotched plug is'hel'd in placeby the elig agenientof its beveled portion T under 'the under-cut portion U of the cornerblock M.. In the form of foot F shOWn'in'Fi'g. 10, the foot nieinber 13? i provided with an axial cavity 15 passing entirely there,- through, in which'is'placed a resilient split key 16v having its lower curvedendil6 ex,- tending below'thefoot member to form a hearingsurface, nd its upp'er'rsilie'nt end portions extending into and frictionally engaging in the, cavit'yl l i'n'the bed 6i the table. The'height lof'thesje feetinay headjusted by drawing the resilient end portions part the way] out efsaid cavity, or the legs be removed; by dra in the resinent manners. allf of the'way out.v

Many modifications in V the censti'uction of my improved form of billiard and pool-table herein shown, described and claimed, may be made without departing from the scope of my invention and I do not intend to limit myself to the exact forms thereof shown.

I claim 1. In a device of the class described, a table-top or bed; a railing superposed upon such table or bed formin a raised boundary; and a resilient or elastic cushioning strip band superposed longitudinally upon the inner face of such railing secured in position by having the ends thereof secured in slots in the rail members under tension.

2. In a device of the class described, a table-top or bed, a railing superposed upon such table or bed forming a rectangular raised boundary, composed of four rail-members and a resilient or elastic cushioning strip band, superposed upon the inner face of such railing and secured in position by having the ends thereof secured in binding securing slots in the ends of the rail members.

3. In a device of the class described, a

table-top or bed having pockets formed therein at the corners and at the centers of the longest sides; side and end rails mounted upon and secured to said table top or bed, extending from pocket to pocket, having the ends cut off at the inner s1de portions at an angle of approximately 45 degrees, and at a substantially right angle at the rear portions; binding securing-slots in the right angled portions of such rails, the space between the ends of such rails being sufficient to permit of the balls dropping into the pockets, a cushioning strip band of resilient materlal secured at the ends in the binding securing-slots of each of the rails; and stops extending over the pockets from the end of one rail to the abutting end of another, for deflecting the balls into the pockets and for preventing the same from passing out over such pockets.

CHARLES WESLOW. Witnesses:

H. M. KILPATRICK, H. D. PENNEY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of fidteata.

Washington, D. G.

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