Portable shuffleboard game

Claim 1

A portable shuffleboard game utilizing pucks, comprising, a portable lightweight molded base of longitudinal shape having a smooth longitudinally extending playing surface and a divider wall having a length less than said base and a termination end within said playing surface, said divider wall extending from one end of said base longitudinally along said playing surface to said termination end thereby to separate said playing surface into adjacent parallely extending forward and rebounding alleys communicating with each other over a transition portion of said playing surface adjacent said termination end of said divider wall to permit passage of pucks from one of said alleys to the other, a generally v-shaped resilient puck rebounding device located adjacent said transition portion of the playing surface opposite both said forward and rebounding alleys, said generally V-shaped puck rebounding device having first and second resilient leg portions respectively located opposite the forward and rebounding alleys and angularly related to one another to effectuate bouncing the puck travelling along the forward alley from one resilient cushion to the other resilient cushion and into the rebounding alley towards a scoring area on said playing surface adjacent the end of said rebounding alley opposite said resilient rebounding device; said first and second resilient leg portions of the puck rebounding device respectively comprising an endless resilient stretched membrane and a pair of upright posts operatively connected to said base and around which the membrane is mounted whereby each of said membranes provides a stretched rebounding side defining one of said resilient leg portions of said rebounding device, one post of each of said resilient leg portions being located adjacent the apex of said V-shaped puck rebounding device and having a protruding edge formed integrally therewith and extending generally vertically upwardly from said base along the length of its associated post and generally perpendicularly to and in engagement along the entire width of the stretched puck rebounding side of its associated resilient membrane, said protruding edges of said apex-located posts being located in closely spaced and generally perpendicular relation to each other to define a generally V-shaped configuration in plan at the apex of said rebounding device to enable said resilient membrane effectively and operatively to extend closely to the apex and enable pucks which contact said membranes near the apex to be resiliently reflected.