US290360A

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Publication number: US290360A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1883-12-18
Anticipated expiration: 1900-12-18

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(NoMod'el.) l l Ii'. -SGHLUETER- GAME TABLE. No. 290,860. Patented Dec. 18.' 1883.

, L @a L u/'zleyf j x l zv'e/ajv ll'NifrEn STATES BATENT @mica FREDERICK SCHLUETER, OF NEV YORK, N. Y.

GAME-TABLl-L SPECIFICATIONVforming part of Letters Patent No. 290,360, dated December 1,8, 1883.

v Application filed September 5,1883. (No model.)

To m71 107mm, it 'lm/w concern.-

Be it known that I, FREDERICK SOHLUE rER, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Game-Table, of which the following is a specification.

The nature of niy'inventionconsists in the construction of a table similar to a billiard or bagatelle table, with a xed cushion in its central part and a number of pockets o'r holes in the face of the table, whereby by the use of a nurnber of balls and a billiard-cue a new game is produced.

The accompanying drawing represents a top View of my improved game-table.

A represents the top of the table, made of any desirable size, and provided with cushions C similar to a billiard-table. I prefer to make me saine about three feet wide by seven feet l'our incheslong.

In the center of the table, near the upper end, acushion, B, is rmly attached, constructed similar to the side cushions, C. This cushion B is made circular. but the same may be made flat or straight on its upper side.

The holes or pockets ce a (of which there are nine, although their number may be increased or diminished) are arranged as shown in the drawing-namely, three above or behind the fixed cushion B and three on each side. l The holes pass through the table, and if provided with pockets the same must be of sufficient size to receive two or more balls, or the holes may connect with a suitable channel on the under side of the table through which the balls are carried to the front of the table.

The game is played with nine (more or less) v holes a3 and at, may be pushed by contact with balls, one of which must be colored.` The colored ball is spotted at m, between the three upperholes a, and if pushed into anyone of 4o holes counts double the value marked on each hole. I have marked these holes 3, Il, 5, 6, 7, 8, 18, 19, and 30; but any other valuation may be given. rlhe white or plain balls are placed upon a line and between the spots a a or n a, and are driven by means of a billiardcue, so that they rst strike against the iiXed cushion B and then into any one of the holes a. Any ball not going into a hole and not below the 5o another ball into any of the holes; but if any ball passes below the holes ai c4, the same must be removed. Any white ball going into a hole, after first having come in contact with the ixed cushions B, counts Whatever value is marked upon that hole.

I do not claim a central cushion on a billiard-table, nor a number of holes in the upper end ofa table similar, as in a bagatelle-table, by themselves and independent o f each other; but

Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, .is-

A table, A, provided with side cushions, C, in combination with a fixed circular central cushion, B, and a series of holes, a a, arranged around the sides and upper end of said cushion B, in the manner and for the purpose substantially as set forth.

VFREDERICK SCHLUETER.

Vitnesses:

HENRY E. BAEDER, J. B. NoNEs.