US20110159975A1

US20110159975A1 - Pool table structure

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Publication number: US20110159975A1
Application number: US12/648,299
Authority: US
Inventors: Te-Yao Tasi
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2009-12-28
Filing date: 2009-12-28
Publication date: 2011-06-30

Abstract

A pool table structure is formed by arranging a plurality of support legs to form a rectangular body, a corner connecting seat is installed on said support leg, the corner connecting seat has a base and a clamp portion, the base is locked to the support leg, the clamp portion is connected to the base, the clamp portion has two clamps, the two clamps are respectively disposed with a groove and perpendicular to each other, a surrounding plate is installed between each two said corner connecting seats and the surrounding plate is allowed to install in the groove of the corner connecting seat, and at least one supporting plate is installed between the surrounding plates. The positioning of the surrounding plate is easier by disposing the groove on the clamp of the corner connecting seat, and locking the base of the corner connecting seat to the support leg simplifies the assembly of the pool table and reduces elements to decrease the cost.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a pool table structure, which is simple, convenient for assembly, thereby decreasing a customer's labor cost expenses.
2. Description of Related Art
As we know, billiards is an indoor leisure sport. Because it needs to utilize dynamics principle and abundant experience if you want to play it well, and the playing skill thereof is novelty and the sport itself is highly worth viewing, it is popular in the recent years. Some favorites possess billiards facilities in their own house for exercising and playing it any time they want. To transport a pool table conveniently and decrease the cost thereof, it is detached first, and assembled after being transported to a destination. Please refer to FIG. 1. Elements such as support legs 51, leg top plates 52, corner connecting elements 53, surrounding plates 54, support plate 55 and corner plates 56 of a conventional pool table 5 are separated while being left the factory to be convenient on transportation and lower on the cost thereof, and a customer himself must then assembles them after they buy the pool table.
But, while being assembled, the leg top plate is easy to flee away when the leg top plate 52 and the support leg 51 of the conventional pool table are assembled; it needs time on a position adjustment. Besides, when the two surrounding plates are coupled to each other, they are locked together through the corner connecting element 53 and at least six screws 57. To obtain the eye appealing and the positioning of the pool table, a corner plate 56 is installed between the two adjacent surrounding plates, allowing the two surrounding plates 54 to be positioned respectively along the two sides of the corner plate 56, but the needed screws 57 are increased relatively. Furthermore, the positions of the corner connecting element 53 and the surrounding plate 54 will be caused to depart from anticipated positions relatedly if the position of the leg top plate 52 is not adjusted after fleeing way, causing the pool table 5 to be in a unstable and nonlevel state to influence the ball playing accuracy of a player. Besides, an assembler must spare one hand to difficult supporting and positioning or ask for other person's help to carry out a locking operation when they assembles the corner connecting element 53, the surrounding plate 54 and the corner plate 56, causing the assembly to be very inconvenient. Besides, to improve the stability of the conventional pool table 5, several crisscrossing support plates 55 are configured in a rectangular frame surrounded by the surrounding plates 54; it is obvious that the conventional structure not only has very complex components but is time consuming and labor consuming to the assembler. Moreover, the structure is not firm and suitable for a consumer themselves' assembly, and a professional is needed to assemble and adjust the pool table 5 manually; it is not only causes a higher assembly cost but increases a consumer's expenses.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

To improve the deficits mentioned above, the present invention is proposed. The present invention mainly forms a rectangular body arranged by a plurality of support legs, a corner connecting seat is installed on the support leg, and the corner connecting seat has a base and a clamp portion; the clamp portion is coupled to the base and has two clamps; the two clamps are respectively disposed with a groove and perpendicular to each other; a surrounding plate is installed between the two corner connecting seats and in the groove of the corner connecting seat; at least one support plate is installed between the two support plates; the positioning of the surrounding plate is easier by disposing the groove on the clamp of the corner connecting seat, and locking the base of the corner connecting seat to the support leg simplifies the assembly of the pool table and reduces elements to decrease the cost.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The present invention can be more fully understood by reference to the following description and accompanying drawings, in which:

FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a conventional pool table;

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of a main body of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a partly exploded view of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a partly exploded view of the present invention; and

FIG. 6 is an exploded view of a supporting plate in FIG. 3.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

First, please refer to FIGS. 2 to 5. The present invention provides a pool table structure. A main body 1A of a pool table 1 mainly includes a plurality of support legs 10, corner connecting seats 20, surrounding plates 30 and supporting plates 40.
The support legs 10 are arranged to form a rectangular body and respectively have a screw hole 11.
The corner connecting seat 20 is installed on the support leg 10 and has a base 21 and a clamp portion 22, where the base 21 is disposed with a long slot 211 corresponding to the screw hole 11 of the support leg 10, thereby passing a locking element 23 through the support leg 10 and the corner connecting seat 20 to lock them together. Furthermore, the clamp portion 22 is connected to the base 21 with an inclined angle θ and has two clamps 220, where the two clamps 220 are respectively disposed with a groove 221 and perpendicular to each other, and the clamp 220 is disposed with a plurality of holes 222. A strengthening plate 223 used for increasing stability of locking the corner connecting seat 20 to the support leg 10 can be disposed between the two clamps 220.
The surrounding plates 30 are placed between the two corner connecting seat 20 and constituted by long surround plates 31 and short surrounding plates 32, where the long surrounding plates 31 and the short surrounding plates 32 are respectively installed between the two corner connecting seats 20 oppositely to form a rectangular frame. The two ends of the long and short surrounding plates are respectively disposed with screw holes 311 and 321 corresponding to the holes 222 of the clamp 220, thereby passing locking elements 33 through the corner connecting seat 20 and the surrounding plate 30, and two separated side-by-side grooves 312 are respectively disposed on planned positions of the long surrounding plate 31 and a hole 313 is disposed on the groove 312.
The supporting plates 40 is a trapezoid plate and slidably disposed on the groove 312, and the two sides of the supporting plate 10 are respectively disposed with a screw hole 411 corresponding to the holes 313 of the long surrounding plate 31, thereby passing locking elements 412 through the long surrounding plate and the supporting plate 40 to lock them together.
While putting the pool table 1 formed by assembling the aforementioned components into practice, a locking element 23 is passed through the long slot 211 on the base 21 of the corner connecting seat 20 and the screw hole 11 of the support leg 10 to lock the corner connecting seat 20 and the support leg 10 together, and long surrounding plates 31 and the short surrounding plates 32 of the surrounding plate 30 can be respectively positioned in the aforementioned grooves 221 by disposing the groove 221 respectively on the two clamps 220 of the corner connecting seat 20, ensuring that an assembler carries out the assembly without supporting the surrounding plate 30. Furthermore, the locking element 33 is used to pass through the hole 222 of the clamp 220 and insert into the screw hole 311 of the surrounding plate 30 to lock the surrounding plate 30 to the corner connecting seat 20, thereby coupling the surrounding plates 30 to a rectangular frame. Besides, to improve the stability of the whole frame, the supporting plates 40 may be installed in the grooves 312 of the long surrounding plates 31 along the long surrounding plates 31; the supporting plate 40 is locked to the long surrounding plate 31 by passing the locking element 412 through the hole 313 of the groove 312 and then locking and fixing it to the long surrounding plate 31.
Because the corner connecting seat 20 only has the base 21 and the clamp portion 22, and the groove 221 is disposed on the clamp 220 of the corner connecting seat 20 such that the structure of the present invention is simple. When the pool table 1 is assembled, the base 21 of the corner connecting seat 20 can be locked to the support leg 10 directly, and surrounding plate 30 can be installed in the groove 231 of the clamp 220 directly; it is different from the conventional pool table 5, where the leg top plate 52 must first be coupled to the support leg 51, and the corner connecting element 53 also needs to be locked to the surrounding plate 54 and corner plate 56 respectively, thus it can be seen that the assembly of the pool table 1 of the present invention is easier. Moreover, disposing the groove 221 on the clamp 220 of the corner connecting seat can further be helpful to the positioning of the surrounding plate 30 so as to improve the stability of the pool table 1. Therefore, the present invention has improved obviously the deficits of the complexity of the assembly procedures and the cost increasing of the more elements of the conventional pool table 5. Besides, fleeing-away will not happen when the corner connecting seat 20 and the support leg 10 are locked together such that there is no adjustment to be needed and no deficit of the deflection and the position departing of the surrounding plate 30.
Additional advantages and modifications will readily occur to those skilled in the art. Therefore, the invention in its broader aspects is not limited to the specific details and representative embodiments shown and described herein. Accordingly, various modifications may be made without departing from the spirit or scope of the general inventive concept as defined by the appended claims and their equivalents.

Claims

1. A pool table structure, formed by arranging a plurality of support legs to form a rectangular body, a corner connecting seat being installed on said support leg, said corner connecting seat having a base and a clamp portion, said base being locked to said support leg, said clamp portion being connected to said base, said clamp portion having two clamps, said two clamps being respectively disposed with a groove and perpendicular to each other, a surrounding plate being installed between each two said corner connecting seats and said surrounding plate being allowed to install in said groove of said corner connecting seat, and at least one supporting plate being installed between said surrounding plates.

2. The pool table structure according to claim 1, wherein said support leg and said corner connecting seat are locked to each other through a locking element.

3. The pool table structure according to claim. 2, wherein said support leg has a screw hole, said base of said corner connecting seat is disposed with a long slot, and said locking element is passed through said long slot and said screw hole.

4. The pool table structure according to claim. 3, wherein said clamp portion is coupled to said base with an inclined angle.

5. The pool table structure according to claim 4, wherein said surround plates are constituted by long surrounding plates and short surrounding plates, said long surrounding plates and said short surrounding plates are respectively installed pair wise oppositely between two said corner connecting seats.

6. The pool table structure according to claim. 5, wherein said clamp and said surrounding plate is locked together through a locking element.

7. The pool table structure according to claim 6, wherein said clamp is disposed with a plurality of holes, two ends of said long and short surrounding plate are respectively disposed with screw holes respectively corresponding to holes of said clamp for passing said locking element through and locking up said corner connecting seat and said surrounding plate.

8. The pool table structure according to claim 7, wherein a strengthening plate is coupled to said two clamps; said strengthening plate is used for improving the stability of locking said corner connecting seat to said support leg.

9. The pool table structure according to claim 8, wherein said long surrounding plats are respectively disposed with two separated side-by-side grooves on planned positioned thereof, and a hole is disposed on said groove.

10. The pool table structure according to claim 9, wherein two sides of said supporting plate are respectively disposed with a screw hole corresponding to said hole of said long surrounding plate, thereby passing a locking element through said long surrounding plate and said supporting plate to lock said long surrounding plate and said supporting plate together.