Plugs for pocket billiard tables
OwnerA. George Leeinventor
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Abstract
Pocket plug assemblies for converting a pocket billiard table to a carom billiard table and to a snooker pool table in which the plug has a cushion rail portion supported from the permanent rail portion of the table in a manner positioning the ball engaging edges of the rail portions in alignment with the ball engaging edge of the permanent rails and so that the impact of a ball striking the cushion rail portions of the plug is absorbed by the permanent rail portions of the table.
Claims4
A pocket plug for use with a pocket billiard table having permanent rail assemblies with a solid support portion and a resilient cushion portion at the perimeter and above the top of the table interrupted by ball receiving pockets, said pocket plug comprising, a rail subassembly having a solid support portion and a resilient cushion portion mounted on said solid support portion, said plug being adapted to be disposed in a pocket of said table with an end in abutment with the permanent rail assembly adjacent to the pocket, and means including a bracket member mounted on said solid support portion of said pocket plug and having parts projecting beyond the end thereof and being adapted for detachable connection to said permanent rail assembly to maintain said pocket plug in said pocket with said resilient cushion portion thereon in alignment with the resilient cushion portion of said permanent rail assembly, and fastening means associated with said bracket parts and adapted to releasably connect said bracket parts to said permanent rail assembly.
A pocket plug for use with a pocket billiard table having permanent rail assemblies with a solid support portion and a resilient cushion portion at the perimeter and above the top of the table interrupted by ball receiving pockets, said pocket plug comprising, a rail subassembly having a solid support portion and a resilient cushion portion mounted on said solid support portion, said plug being adapted to be disposed in a pocket of said table with an end in abutment with the permanent rail assembly adjacent to the pocket, and means including a bracket member mounted on said solid support portion of said pocket plug and projecting beyond the end thereof and being adapted to detachably engage said permanent rail assembly to maintain said pocket plug in said pocket with said cushion portion of said permanent rail assembly, and fastening means associated with said bracket member and adapted to releasably connect said bracket member to said permanent rail assembly, said plug having a vertical dimension less than the vertical dimension of said permanent rail assemblies.
A pocket plug for use with a pocket billiard table having permanent rail assemblies with a solid support portion and a resilient cushion portion at the perimeter and above the top of the table interrupted by ball receiving pockets, said pocket plug comprising, a rail subassembly having a solid support portion and a resilient cushion portion mounted on said solid support portion, said plug having a vertical dimension less than the vertical dimension of said permanent rail assemblies and being adapted to be disposed in a pocket of said table with an end in abutment with the permanent rail assembly adjacent to the pocket, means operatively associated with said solid support portion of said pocket plug and a solid support of said permanent rail assembly to maintain said pocket plug in said pocket with said resilient cushion portion thereof in alignment with the resilient cushion of said permanent rail assembly, said means including a screw fastener releasably connecting said solid support portions of said permanent rail assemblies and said plug to each other with the latter in elevated relationship to the top of said table.
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