US19546A - Billiard-table top or - Google Patents

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T O FICE.

GHAS. OROLEY, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

BILLIARD-TABLE '.roP'oB. BED.

T 0 all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, CHARLES CRoLEY, of the city of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Billiard- Table Tops or Beds; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the letters of reference marked thereon and made to form' part of this specification.'

Similar letters refer to like parts of the improvement.

The object of my improvement consists in'constructing the top or bed of billiard tables-so that the end of the wood will form the surface of the table-and the nature of the improvement consists in the manner employed of arranging the bed,` to the frame of the table, in such a manner that the expansion and contraction of the bed, will not in any wise interfere with the level of the bed, when the end of the wood employed is made to form the surface of the bed or table or in other words when the grains of the-wood composing the bed, is placed at right angles with the surface of the bed-and a bed of a table thus constructed will deaden the vsounds produced by the balls in playing, comparedrwith the sound made on a bed, constructed after the' ordinary' panel plan.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my improvement I will proceed to describe'its construction and operation by referring direct to the accompanying drawinofs.

Figure l, shows a view of the under part of the bed of the table showing the manner of attaching the bed to the frame portion of the table. Fig. 2, is a longitudinal section of the bed and frame of the table. Fig. 3, is an end view of the table frame-and Fig. t, is a side view of the frame.

a a, represents the table bed frame-and (B, B,) the bed which is made with blocks of wood by gluing them together so that the grain of the wood will be at right angles with the surface of the bed.

The manner of connecting the bed B- B- with the frame (a, of the table is fully represented in Figs. 1 and 2, and the object in connect-ing it is to allow the bed to expand and contract without interfering with the level of the bed and the first thing to be attended to in so doing is to leave -a space between the bed Bl and framel (a) .around its sides and ends-as represented at ('R) for expanding-and then the bed is held down on the frame piece (a, a, a,) by means of the cross bars (O, O, 0,) attached to the under part of the frame and bed by means ofscrews (f, f, f,) and blocks of wood (el, CZ, Z,) as fully represented in Figs. l and 2, and the cross pieces (O, O, O,) are made not to lit between the frame pieces (g, g, 9,) and end of the frame (a, ca) at' the under part of the bed for the purpose of allowing all parts of the bed to move in its contraction and expansion and thus prevent its springing up and down at any point. But the cross pieces at the same time are made to hold the bed (B, B,) sufficiently firm to keep it at all times rmly bedded on the frame pieces (a, (1,) of the table-and a bed thus constructed and held to t-he frame of the table-it will not warp and get out of level by shrinking as table beds do constructed after the panel planand in common use-for when beds are made after the panel plan the grain of the wood is made to run in different directions in the bed which causes a reaction in the parts of the bed and the wood in continuallyT shrinking and swelling from the different conditions of the weather cause the bed to become untrue when the grain of the wood is made to run parallel with the surface of the bed-as it does when they are constructed on the panel plan. But when the bed is made with the grain of the wood to run at right angles with the surface of the bed the shrinking and swelling is obviated as .woodwill not expand and contract but very little endwise and vnot sufiicient in the thickness of a bed to produce practical defects.'

(O, O,). is supposed to be the cushions of` the table.

As before stated beds constructed after the improved plan by having the surface of the bed made with the end of the wood will not produce as much noise by the st-riking and rolling of the ball-as is made on the ordinary panel beds and the cause of it is there is not as much vibration in the improved bed as there is in the panel bed which vibration is the cause of noise.

The bed frame is provided with spir'it levels, 7L, it, one or two on the sides and one on the ends for ascertaining when the bed is level and with proper kind of screws atthe cross bars (C, C, 0,) screws (f, f, and blocks of Wood (d, al, 65,) arranged as represented for the purpose of allowingthe bed (B, 13,) to expand and contract Without 15 becoming untrue as before mentioned and for other purposes specified in the foregoing specification.

CHARLES CROLEY. Witnesses:

CHARLES H. Fox, M. BENSON.

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