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US3889945A Expired / Lapsed US ⏱️ 0.0 years remaining

Billiard table with accessories

Assignee: Individual
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Filing: 1973-04-19
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Granted: 1975-06-17
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Expires: 1993-04-19
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Abstract

Abstract A billiard table with accessories in which the heavy and expensive parts of the conventional table are either eliminated or supplanted by better or cheaper members, such as for making the table ''''knock down'''' and portable, either in the home or easily transported by automobile, structure for eliminating the customary clumsy appearing overhead lighting of the table surface by supplanting the fixture by using a table surface of transparent glass or plastic with the lighting fixture invisible underneath the table, a soft pliable sheet of plastic supplanting the present table surface cloth which is easily torn with the tip of the cue by inexperienced or careless players, the soft plastic sheet being more difficult to tear and incidentally permit the ball to roll thereover more accurately due to the woofs and warps of the usual cloth becoming twisted or worn unevenly, eliminating the ''''return Ball tunnels'''' underneath the table bed and supplanting same by a simple inexpensive pull cord attached to the bottom of each pocket to easily and quickly pull out onto the table the balls or gliders therein, supplanting the costly rubber cushions surrounding the table top with a cheap rigid wooden rail and using gliders instead of balls the gliders having a rubber ring encircling them to impact the wooden rail for securing the required re-action or by using a hollow glider of rigid plastic to provide an even better rebound, shaping the gliders so that they will contact the rail or other gliders with the same effect as with plastic balls on the conventional pool table, and providing a table top of inherent plastic material having ''''cut outs'''' for the more convenient and labor saving attachment of the pockets, recesses for the table legs, and a surrounding shallow trough for the rails which trough is adapted to be filled with a heavy rigid material such as portland cement which has the effect of more efficiently rebounding the balls or gliders due to its greater inherent weight than if the rails were separately attached to the bed.

Inventors

  • 👤 Robert Ellis

Bibliographic Details

Application Number —
Jurisdiction US
Data Source google_patents
Last Synchronized 2026-10-29 13:49
CPC Classifications
A; A63; A63D; A63D15/00

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 2
Claim 1
Independent Claim 361 words
In a billiard table with associated accessories, a horizontally disposed level playing surface, a horizontally disposed level surface under said playing surface forming a support therefor, holes through said support surface defining pockets, said support surface and said playing surface being surrounded by a raised border, said playing surface comprising a thin integral sheet of plastic material which is adapted to be reversible on top of said support surface, holes through said sheet of material adapted to mate with the holes in said support surface, billiard balls adapted to roll across one surface of said sheet of plastic material and be propelled into said pockets when said one surface is uppermost, said one surface being pliable and sufficiently soft and roughened to gradually retard the speed of one of said billiard balls rolling thereover, the opposite surface from said roughened surface of said plastic material being considerably more smooth and slippery than said roughened surface, and gliders adapted to slide across said opposite surface and be propelled into said pockets when said opposite surface is uppermost. 2. in a billiard table with associated accessories, a horizontally disposed level playing surface, said playing surface being surrounded by a raised border of rigid material, said raised border being positioned so as to be elevated above and protruding inwardly over said playing surface by support means, the protruding portion of said raised border having an inner edge, a plurality of similarly associated gliders adapted to slide across said playing surface and to impact into said inner edge of said raised border, each gliders having a centrally upstanding rigid projection thereon with an elastic rubber ring tightly slipped over said upstanding projection, a bulbous circular projection below said rubber ring and extending radially outward therefrom, said bulbous projection being of rigid plastic material, the elevation of said rubber ring on said glider being level with the elevation of said inner edge above said playing surface such that said rubber ring will rebound from said inner edge, whereas the elevation of said circular projection above the playing surface is such that similar gliders will rebound therfrom, yet said circular projection will slide beneath said raised border.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim 361 words
In a billiard table with associated accessories, a horizontally disposed level playing surface, a horizontally disposed level surface under said playing surface forming a support therefor, holes through said support surface defining pockets, said support surface and said playing surface being surrounded by a raised border, said playing surface comprising a thin integral sheet of plastic material which is adapted to be reversible on top of said support surface, holes through said sheet of material adapted to mate with the holes in said support surface, billiard balls adapted to roll across one surface of said sheet of plastic material and be propelled into said pockets when said one surface is uppermost, said one surface being pliable and sufficiently soft and roughened to gradually retard the speed of one of said billiard balls rolling thereover, the opposite surface from said roughened surface of said plastic material being considerably more smooth and slippery than said roughened surface, and gliders adapted to slide across said opposite surface and be propelled into said pockets when said opposite surface is uppermost. 2. in a billiard table with associated accessories, a horizontally disposed level playing surface, said playing surface being surrounded by a raised border of rigid material, said raised border being positioned so as to be elevated above and protruding inwardly over said playing surface by support means, the protruding portion of said raised border having an inner edge, a plurality of similarly associated gliders adapted to slide across said playing surface and to impact into said inner edge of said raised border, each gliders having a centrally upstanding rigid projection thereon with an elastic rubber ring tightly slipped over said upstanding projection, a bulbous circular projection below said rubber ring and extending radially outward therefrom, said bulbous projection being of rigid plastic material, the elevation of said rubber ring on said glider being level with the elevation of said inner edge above said playing surface such that said rubber ring will rebound from said inner edge, whereas the elevation of said circular projection above the playing surface is such that similar gliders will rebound therfrom, yet said circular projection will slide beneath said raised border.

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USPTO Annuity & Maintenance Windows

Annuity Stage Window Opens Payment Deadline Surcharge Period Until Estimated Fee Status
3.5 Years (Year 4) 1978-06-16 1978-12-16 1979-06-17 $2000.00 Window Closed / Lapsed
7.5 Years (Year 8) 1982-06-16 1982-12-16 1983-06-17 $3760.00 Window Closed / Lapsed
11.5 Years (Year 12) 1986-06-16 1986-12-16 1987-06-17 $7700.00 Window Closed / Lapsed

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