Patent Application
20050221902
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to a billiard table sideboard, particularly to one having a fixing wall fixed around a frame under the billiard table and having its bottom edge flush with that of the table frame, and a sideboard positioned at the outer side of he fixing wall and having a higher height than the fixing wall and combined with the fixing wall by tightening means such as thumb screws. Then the sideboard can be separated from the fixing wall to save the size and cost for package and transportation in case of need. In using, the sideboard is combined with the fixing wall tightly by the thumbscrews.
2. Description of the Prior Art
A conventional billiard table shown in
The table 10 consists of an invisible frame (hidden and not shown) made up of lateral and longitudinal boards crossing with each other, a table board 11, four side fences 12 and four sideboards 15. The four side fences 12 are fixed on the four outer sides of the table board 11, defining a hollow space on the table board 11 to prevent billiard balls from falling off the table board 11. Further, a pocket hole 13 is formed respectively at the four corners of the table 10 and an intermediate section of each of two longitudinal sides of the fences 12.
The four sideboards 15 are positioned at the outer sides of the combining locations of the frame, the table board 11, and the fences 12 to hide the combining locations to present a flat holistic appearance.
As for the sideboards 15, they have a function of sealing the four sides of the billiard table, with their lower edges surpassing the lower edges of the frame. As the sideboards 15 are fixed firmly with the table 10, the surpassing portions of the sideboards 15 may augment the cost for package and transportation, in spite of separate packaging of the table 10 and the feet 16. Furthermore, the length of the surpassing portions of the sideboards 15 may be different, depending on the demand of buyers. If it is small, the size and cost for package and transportation may not so large, but if large, the size and cost for package and transportation may be larger. So the billiard table sideboards should be improved.
This invention has been devised to offer a billiard table sideboard for benefit of assembling and disassembling for saving its size and cost for package and transportation.
The feature of the invention is a fixing wall fixed around the circumference of a frame of the billiard table and having its lower edge flush with that of the frame, and a sideboard positioned at the outer side of the fixing wall and fixed tightly together with the fixing wall by thumb screws passing through holes in the fixing wall and then engages with female-threaded holes of the sideboard. Thus the higher sideboard than the fixing wall can be separated from the fixing wall in case of packaging and transporting to save the size of the billiard table and the cost for package and transportation.
This invention will be better understood by referring to the accompanying drawings, wherein:
A preferred embodiment of a billiard table sideboard in the present invention, as shown in
The table 20 consists of a frame 21 shown in
The main improvement in the invention is plural fixing walls 25 fixed upright at the outer circumference of the frame 21 and having its lower edge flush with that of the lower edge of the frame 21, as shown in
In packaging, the thumbscrews 26 are screwed off, separating the sideboards from the fixing walls 2, with the sideboards 24 placed flat on the table board 22. Thus the size of the table can be reduced to a large extend to save the cost for package and transportation not a little.
While the preferred embodiment of the invention has been described above, it will be recognized and understood that various modifications may be made therein and the appended claims are intended to cover all such modifications that may fall within the spirit and scope of the invention.
