Patent Model - Improvement in Billiard-Tables
Maker and role
William Griffith (b.1819, d.1873), Patentee
Production date
Nov 26 1872
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Object detail
Media/Materials
Wood, iron
Measurements
4 1/2 x 12 x 6 1/4" (11.4 x 30.5 x 15.9cm)
Description
Griffith's patent "relates to a new manner of bracing and sustaining the top of a billiard-table." His invention "consists in the arrangement of metallic bars, which connect with the end slabs and press under a middle bridge of the billiard-table, serving to draw the slabs firmly together, and also to hold the middle of the table up, and thus keep the top level." (Patent Number 133,365)
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Object number
2015.14.1501a-c
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