US576238A

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Publication number: US576238A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1897-02-02
Anticipated expiration: 1914-02-02

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W. E. TAFT. PNEUMATIG BILLIARD CUSHION.

No. 576.238. Patented Peb. 2, 1897.

WITNESSl-:E:

VALTER E. TAFT, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR TO JOHN A. CARTER, OF SAME PLACE.

PN EU IVIATIC BlLLlARD-CUSH|ON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 576,238, dated February 2, 1897.

Application filed August 24., 1896. Serial No. 603,758. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, t may concern:

Beit known that I, VALTER E. TAFT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Provi. dence, in the State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and` useful Improvement in Pneumatic Billiardushions, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide billiard-cushion having great elasticity and resilience, whereby the billiard-balls may be caused to travel for a long distance upon the expenditure of a slight amount of force; and my invention consists in the combination and arrangement of the air-tube with a pivotallysupported engaging strip, by means of which l the impact of the ball will be transmitted to the air-tube and its full reacting impulse be impart-ed to the ball.

In the accom anvimT drawings Figure l` u b t: 7 b

represents a detail section of the edge of a bi1liard-table, showing the transverse section of a cushion embodying my improvement. Fig. 2 represents a section taken in the line 2 2 of Fig. l. Fig. 3 represents a transverse section of the cushion, showing a modification.

In the drawings, A represents the billiardtable, B the air-tube of the cushion, and O the engaging strip, placed in the front of the cushion, as shown in the section, Fig. 1. The engaging strip O is preferably made of rubber, molded in the form of cross-section required for the proper engagement of the billiard -balls therewith, but the said strip may be made of any other suitable material and extend from end to end of the cushion. The air-tube B is held in the groove a of the wooden strip D,

and between the strip D and the wooden strip E is placed the sheet-metal strip F, which is turned up at its opposite edges to form the narrow lianges h and c, the rear iiange c serving to hold the strip F in position and the flange b to provide in conjunction with the shoulder d of the wooden strip -D a groove or .recess e, adapted to ,loosely receive the lower ends of the steel "plateslG, which are attached by vulcanization to the engaging strip C, and by this means the engaging strip will be so supported as to be capable of a slight rocking movement upon the impact of the billiardball therewith.

The wooden strip D is first lirmly secured to the rail K, and the wooden strip E and me tallic strip F secured to the under side of the strip D, and the textile fabric I-l, which is preferably vulcanized onto the engaging strip O, glued to the Linder surface fof the strip E,

and also to the upper surface g of the stripy D, thus holding the air-tube B and the engaging strip C in position. The cushion-cloth or outer covering I is then to be secured to the cushion as usual, and the rail K then secured in position, as shown in Fig. l. Vhen the billiard-ball J strikes against the engaging strip C at the point 7L, the said strip will be forced backward against the resilience of the confined air in the air-tube B, and the reaction of the air in the tube B will cause the ball to rebound with great speed from the edge of the cushion, the air-tube being so arranged relatively to the strip O that the required resilient action will be developed at the point of impact h.

A desirable modification is shown in Fig. 3, in which the steel plates G and the metallic strip F are dispensed with and the engaging strip C is made to extend downward to the cornerj of the strip E in front of the shoul der d, the lower edge of the strip E being held toits turning seat j by means of the teX- tile fabric H. The engaging strip E and the billiard-ball J will thus be free to receive the resilient action of the air in the tube B without waste of energy.

-I claim as my inventionl. In a billiard-cushion, the combination of the air-tube, with the pivotally-held engaging strip arranged in front of the air-tube, substantially as described.

2. In a billiard-cushion, the combination of the air-tube, with the pivotally-held engaging strip arranged in front of the air-tube, and the flexible fabric for holding the en gaging strip in contact with the air-tube, substantially as described.

3. In a billiard-cushion, the combination of the air-tube, with the pivotally-held engaging strip arranged in front of the air-tube, the flexible fabric for holding the vengaging strip in contact with the air-tube, and the outer covering of the cushion, substantially as described.

. WALTER E.' TAFT. Witnesses:

SOCRATES SCHOLFIELD, HARRY J. GAncEAU.

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