Table with wheels

[100-uper]

Somebody must have thought of a table with wheels. I am not talking about little casters- but some decent big wheels like they have on a grand piano. You would be able to move the table aside if you needed the space and move it back later. There would need to be adjustment to relevel it every time of course.

As I said I can't be the first to think of this so why has it not been done- or has it?

In 1906 Wright & Co. filed a patent for a billiard table which was made to be portable by fitting it with wheels which were be raised when not in use. Its not clear from the patent whether it was ever done with a full-sized table. It's more likely you would want to move a smaller table, so probably not.

However, when Joe Davis was touring theatres giving exhibitions during the war, Jelks & Co developed a full sized table which they claimed "could be wheeled into position on stage, levelled and left accurate in a period of seven minutes."

[bricktip]

I suppose it's possible to have a mechanism to lower the whole table into the floor when not in use, so then the table never actually moves.

[throtts]

Apparently you can move a full size snooker table with the proper jacks if your floor is dead level, ie, hard tiled flooring.. WSS can carry out this service I am told...

[Particle Physics]

I've had a brainwave about how we can sort Phil's table. If we go down to Tescos and nick 8 shopping trolleys.......................

[steve clarke]

[QUOTE=Particle Physics;659241]I've had a brainwave about how we can sort Phil's table. If we go down to Tescos and nick 8 shopping trolleys.......................[/QUOTE)

LOL Too expensive - down our way you have to put £1 in each one.........................

[Geoff Large]

You can move a full size table on wheels , but the joints will move under the slightest ridge or out of level floor that you are pushing the wheeled dollies over , this will disturb any joint filler and loosen it up .
Back in the 1980s Enbuild of liverpool often moved tables with 6 x 1.5 ton jacks on wheels , these where set between the legs down each side of the table , I once had to strip a table down that had been moved this way and relevel plus refill all the slate joints , don't get me wrong it is an ideal way to move a table in one go within a building to a new location if doorways allow , but only if the Bed cloth is coming off , then you will see the joints and once in the new location you level the table and reset the joints before restretching old bed cloth or recovering with a new bed cloth again .

moving a table over a distorted unlevel floor can be dangerous though and is not advised , in this case fully strip down the table .

also Some american pool tables ( SAM ) have clamped to steel frame slates if the frame distorts the slate will break .