US3658328A - Pool game tables and components for use therein - Google Patents

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US3658328A
US3658328A US809275A US3658328DA US3658328A US 3658328 A US3658328 A US 3658328A US 809275 A US809275 A US 809275A US 3658328D A US3658328D A US 3658328DA US 3658328 A US3658328 A US 3658328A
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  • ABSTRACT Pool game tables and components for use therein are characterized each by having a playing recess in a casting for accommodating pool balls, there furthermore being a plurality of passageways interiorly of the body of the casting and the casting includes a bed having a substantially plane face at the bottom of the recess and a perimetrical rail surrounding the recess, each of the passageways having a pool hall inlet at a different location around the rail adjacent to the rail and the substantially plane face of the bed for the passageway to receive a pool ball through the pool ball inlet from the recess, and each of the passageways having a pool ball outlet and communicating with the pool ball inlet of the passageway for a pool ball to move through the passageway from the pool ball inlet to the pool ball outlet of the passageway by gravity under conditions where
  • An object of this invention is the provision of pool game tables and components of pool game tables wherein a playing recess in a casting is allied with passageways in the same casting for the structure to convey pool balls by gravity from the recess through the passageways, having the casting available also for buttressing pool ball activity in the recess and in the passageways.
  • Another object herein is to provide cast pool game table components which afford foundation for trim such as billiard cloth and cushion members.
  • a further object of this invention is to provide pool game tables and components thereof wherein a playing recess in a casting and lead lines securely embedded in cast material of the casting are interrelated for the structure to convey pool balls from the recess by gravity through passageways in the lead lines.
  • a further object herein is that of providing pool game tables of the character indicated in which the recess and passageways in the casting share with pool ball receiver means of the table, the receiver means preferably being allied with a hollow pedestal of the table, for the table to convey pool balls by gravity from the recess through the passageways and into the pool ball receiver means and the latter to hold the pool balls received for re-use in play.
  • Another object herein is to provide top components of pedestal pool game tables.
  • Another object of this invention is the provision of a component of the character indicated wherein a bed, a perimetrical rail and pool ball lead lines are all members of a cast monolithic slab within which the lead lines extend embedded in material of the casting in a comolded relation to the material and have their inlets adjacent to the rail at dispersed locations within a recess in a normally up side of the slab and have their outlets grouped adjacent to the normally vertical axis of the slab and communicating for pool balls to move by gravity through the lead lines from the inlets and to have egress through said outlets and from a normally down side of the slab within a concentrated zone.
  • a further object herein is to provide a pedestal pool game table in which pool ball lead lines affiliated with a recess in top structure of the table share with hollow pedestal and receptacle means of the table and with the recess for the table to convey pool balls by gravity from the recess through the lead lines and hollow and hold the pool balls in the receptacle means within reach for re-use in play.
  • a pool game table which includes game table top structure and support and pool ball receiver means, the table top structure comprising bed and perimetrical rail means as members of a casting which includes a bed having a substantially plane face at the bottom of a recess in a normally up side of the casting, and a perimetrical rail surrounding the recess, there being a plurality of passageways interiorly of the body of the casting, each of the passageways having a pool hall inlet communicating with the recess at a different location around the rail adjacent to the rail and the substantially plane face of the bed for the passageway to receive a pool ball through the pool ball inlet of the passageway from the recess, and each of the passageways having a pool hall outlet and communicating with the pool hall inlet of the passageway for a pool ball to move through the passageway from the pool ball inlet to the pool ball outlet by gravity under conditions where the recess is entrant in a downward direction and the substantially plane face of the bed is approximately level, and the support
  • Tables in further preferred embodiments of the present invention are predestal tables wherein the support means includes pedestal means for supporting the table top structure in a position having the aforementioned recess entrant in a downward direction and the substantially plane face of the bed approximately level, and the pool ball receiver means includes pool ball receptacle means extending from the pedestal means through a side aperture in the pedestal means and communicating with the pool ball inlets through the aperture and a hollow in the pedestal means for the receptacle means to receive pool balls from the pool ball outlets through the hollow and aperture by gravity while the support means supports the table top structure in a position having the recess entrant in a downward direction and the substantially plane face of the bed approximately level.
  • the support means includes pedestal means for supporting the table top structure in a position having the aforementioned recess entrant in a downward direction and the substantially plane face of the bed approximately level
  • the pool ball receiver means includes pool ball receptacle means extending from the pedestal means through a side aperture in the pedestal means and communicating with the pool ball inlets
  • the present invention also in certain aspects thereof embodies pool table components in which bed and perimetrical rail means occur as members of a casting which comprises a bed having a substantially plane face at a bottom of a recess, and a rail surrounding this recess on a normally up side of the casting, there being a plurality of passageways interiorly of the body of the casting, each of the passageways having a pool ball inlet communicating with the recess at a different location around the rail adjacent to the rail and the substantially plane face of the bed for the passageway to receive a pool ball through the pool ball inlet of the passageway from the recess, and each of the passageways having a pool ball outlet and communicating with the pool ball inlet of the passageway and with the exterior of the casting for a pool ball to move through the passageway from the pool ball inlet to the pool ball outlet by gravity and have egress from the pool hall outlet to the exterior of the casting when the casting is in a position wherein the recess is entrant in a downward direction and the substantially plane face of
  • FIG. 1 is a top plan view of a pool game table featuring a top component and support and pool ball receiver structure, the view being partially in dashed line and broken away for indicating certain details of the table which are found in depth of the table;
  • FIG. 2 is a side elevation of the same table as that of FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 3 is a cross section taken of the table in FIG. I in the vertical plane of line 3-3;
  • FIG. 4 is a bottom plan view of the pedestal cap member in the table of the preceding figures and also introduces leveling means of the table in bottom plan view;
  • FIG. 5 is a cross sectional elevation taken at line 55 in FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 6 relates to a modified embodiment of this invention and is a view in top plan of a pool game table, representing in dashed lines and in partially broken away regions certain support and pool ball conveyor and receptacle structure of the table existing in depth of the table.
  • a pool game table 10 is characterized by having in the structure thereof a top component 11 which comprises bed and perimetrical rail means 13 wherein bed 14 and the perimetrical rail 15 as well as a plurality of tubular pool ball lead lines 16 all are members of a casting made for example of concrete as cast material 29, or of any other suitable material as the cast material, having the tubular lead lines embedded therein and integrally bonded thereto by comolding. These lead lines afford passageways interiorly of the casting.
  • the casting has a recess 18 within the surround of the perimetrical rail in a normally up side 17, there being a substantially plane face 19 of the bed at the bottom of the recess.
  • the area of the substantially plane face 19 of the bed is about the same in all four quadrants leading from the normally vertical axis of the recess 18 up to the perimetrical rail 15.
  • Top component 11 includes cushion members 80 connected with rail 15 of the casting and also is lined with billiard cloth 81 or other suitable lining connected with the casting.
  • An outside border 30 of the casting extends facially backwardly and outwardly from the normally up side 17 of the casting, and the casting marginally at the normally up side in the regions between the notches 27 has a substantially uniform width from the innermost faces of sectors 15a of the perimetrical rail 15 to this outside border. It therefore follows that the lateral ends of the rail sectors 15a toward recess 18 longitudinally extend between the notches 27 substantially concentrically with the outside border 30.
  • Bed 14 forms a truncated substantially central portion 32 of the casting on the normally down side 31 directly behind a geometrically central area of the substantially plane face 19 of the bed.
  • the truncated central portion 32 as facially exposed on side 31 is generally plane having the normally vertical axis of the recess 18 substantially perpendicular thereto and extends generally parallel with the substantially plane face 19 of the bed 14. From this truncated central portion 32 the bed face diverges outwardly and forwardly toward the outside border 30 and joins with the rear facial end of that border.
  • the normally down side 31 is generally conical substantially coaxial with the normally vertical axis of the recess 18 in the region between the truncated central portion 32 and a substantially circular junction with the border 30 which thence facially itself, as exemplified, is generally conical substantially coaxially with the normally vertical axis of the recess 18 to a substantially circular juncture with the normally up side 17 of the casting.
  • each lead line 16 Both an elbow 20 and a tubular portion 22 of each lead line 16 are embedded in the cast material 29 in a comolded and thus integrally bonded relation to the cast material and thus contribute as members of the casting.
  • Each lead line progresses longitudinally away from the substantially plane face 19 of the bed 14 so that when the latter face is about level a pool ball entering the passageway any one of the lead lines 16 at pool ball inlet 21 thereof will be conveyed through the particular lead line to a pool ball outlet 23 of the lead line passageway by gravity.
  • the lead lines 16 have their passageway outlets 23 grouped within the truncated central portion 32 directly behind the geometrically central area of the substantially plane face 19 of the casting for the lead lines to deliver pool balls by gravity to these outlets.
  • Lead lines 16 moreover communicate for pool balls moving to the outlets 23 to have egress from the casting by gravity through a thimble 45 which is embedded in cast material of the truncated central portion 32 in a comolded and thus integrally bonded relation to that material.
  • a normally downwardly open chamber 46 of the thimble is in communication with the pool ball outlets 23 and with the exterior of the casting on the normally down side 31 of the casting through the substantially central area of this side of the casting. Accordingly, chamber 46 is closed against the cast material 29 by a normally inverted bottom 47 of the thimble and by a side wall 48 of the thimble.
  • the tubular portions 22 of the lead lines 16 are joined with this thimble side wall at the pool ball outlets 23 for these outlets to deliver pool balls into the chamber 46. From the elbows 20, the tubular portions 22 progress increasingly farther away from the substantially plane face 19 of the bed 14 and longitudinally toward the thimble 45 in a substantially radial relation to the thimble.
  • the pool ball inlets 21 are entrant in the notches 27 adjacent to the perimetrical rail 15, and are six in number with their centers spaced substantially equidistantly apart from each other, as preferred, although this number or spacing, or both, may be otherwise if desired. Also, as preferred, the centers of the pool ball inlets 21 are approximately on a circle having center on the normally vertical axis of the recess 18 while the lateral innermost ends of the cushion members in the recess extend substantially on arcs of a circle longitudinally between the notches 27 with the latter circle being centered on the same axis.
  • the elbows 20 at the pool ball inlets 21 provide cladding 25 externally facially of the casting within the notches 27 in the perimetrical rail 15.
  • Cladding 25 leads up to the crest of the rail 15 between the rail sectors 15a.
  • other external faces of the casting including the face of border 30, the face of the perimetrical rail 15 outside the notches 27, and the substantially plane face 19 of the bed 14, also occur on cladding.
  • the normally up side 17 and border 30 of the casting are characterized by having the casting include a cupped cladding shell 40 which interiorly facially is in a comolded and thus integrally bonded relation to the cast material 29 at the normally up side 17 and at border 30.
  • Shell 40 is connected with outer ends of the elbows 20 around the pool ball inlets 21 and thus with the cladding 25 afforded by these elbows. More particularly, a normally inverted bottom 41 of the cupped shell 40 occurs externally facially in the casting and thereby presents the substantially plane face 19 of the casting at the bottom of the recess 18 and that of the perimetrical rail 15 outside th notches 27, while a flange 42 of the shell occurs externally facially in the casting at border 30.
  • Each elbow 20 is a product of fiber glass and resin and is connected at inner end with the related tubular portion 22, the latter being made of ebonite, while the cup-shaped shell 40 and thimble 45 are each products of fiber glass and resin, although any other suitable material or materials may of course be substituted for any of those just named with reference to any or all of the several members.
  • such materials 29 as concrete it is usually sufficient then to finish off the normally bottom face 31 of the casting such as with a screed or a trowel in an open mold, thereafter allowing the casting to set and then stripping the casting of the mold.
  • the cushion members 80 and billiard cloth 8] are bonded at interior face by means of an appropriate adhesive to the cupped shell 40 thus to line the recess 18.
  • the pool ball playing surface at the bottom of the recess may for example directly be that of cladding, or of paint on cladding, in each instance in the absence of billiard cloth, or be that of the cast material which is comolded with the tubular lead lines, or be of billiard cloth or of paint in each instance directly on the cast material in the absence of intermediate cladding, in the several instances having the cushion members appropriately connected with the casting.
  • cupped cladding shell 40 preestablishes surface of the casting and that it associates well with the tubular lead lines with or without a thimble in the mold and in the resulting cast product.
  • Table is a pool game pedestal table wherein support and pool ball receiver means 83 are hollow communicating with the pool ball outlets 23 and with the exterior of the table for the support and pool ball receiver means to receive pool balls by gravity from these pool ball outlets, issue the pool balls received to the exterior of the table, and contain the pool balls thus issued.
  • a pedestal 84 in the support and pool ball receiver structure includes a pillar 85, such as of concrete, and which as shown is tubular having a longitudinal hollow or passage 86 therein and a side aperture in the form of a notch 87 laterally communicating with the passage 86 from a normally upper end 88 of the pillar.
  • Pedestal 84 further comprises a base 89 extending beneath the pillar 85 for supporting the pillar such as by resting upon the floor of a room or on earth in an outdoor location. While table 10 may be considered as being either for indoor or outdoor use, FIG. 1 represents installation for outdoor recreation, with the lower portion of the pillar 85 extending underground to base 89, the latter being placed to serve as a footing, such as of concrete, against earth preferably below frostline.
  • a pool ball receptacle embodying a tray 90 in the pool ball support and receiver structure is accommodated open upright by insertion into the passage 86 and notch 87 from the normally upper end 88 of the pillar and thence by lowering into the seated position shown against the pillar at the bottom of .notch 87. In the latter position the tray 90, still open upward,
  • Tray 90 projects into the passage 86 and through the notch 87 and thence radially from the pillar 85 outside the pillar, for receiving pool balls delivered by gravity through passage 86 and delivering the pool balls received to the exterior of the pillar through notch 87.
  • Tray 90 may be made of fiber glass and resin or of any other suitable material or materials as occasion may demand.
  • a cap 91 of the pedestal 84 Seating upon the normally upper end 88 of the pillar 85 is a cap 91 of the pedestal 84; this cap, being made of concrete or of any other suitable material, has a central opening 92 therein communicating with passage 86 and is aligned with the tray 90 for pool balls to enter the passage by gravity from the cap and thence fall into the tray inside the pillar.
  • the alignment of cap opening 92 with the pillar 85 for the latter purpose is assured and preserved by a plug-like longitudinal extension 91a of the cap which substantially interfits with the pillar inside the passage 86 and substantially closes off the notch 87 for a distance down the pillar toward the tray 90.
  • tray 90 is inclined from inner end in passage 86 toward the outer end outside the pillar 85 for delivering pool balls through this notch.
  • the inner end of tray 90 is connected with hanger means 94 and is engaged with the normally upper end 88 of the pillar by the hanger means for supporting the tray inclined as aforementioned and maintaining the inner end of the tray substantially against the innermost face of extension 910 of the cap 93 in passage 86.
  • Tray 90 is configurated, having a taper, for engaging the pillar 85 adjacent to notch 87 against endwise movement of the tray outwardly through the notch.
  • Table 10 also is characterized by leveling means 95 for leveling the table top structure 11.
  • leveling means 95 for leveling the table top structure 11.
  • a plu rality of relatively movable leveling screws 95a are mounted in the cap 91 for adjustably leveling the table top structure and extend upwardly into contact with the normally down side 31 of the casing at the face of the truncated central portion 32 of the casting for transmitting load of the table top structure to the pedestal 84.
  • a tubular extension 45a of the thimble 45 projects male into opening 92 of the cap 91 for aligning the table top structure 11 with pedestal 84 and transmitting pool balls from the pool ball outlets 23 to the opening 92, and to maintain telescopic interfit with the cap such as when the leveling screws 95a are being adjusted for leveling the substantially plane face 19 of the bed 14.
  • a pool game table 10' wherein the top structure 11" is substantially rectangular in plan, having a bed 14', a perimetrical rail 15' and tubular lead lines 16' occur along with thimble 45', as well as with a pedestal 84 and a pool ball receptacle all as members of the same casting in a comolded and thus integrally bonded relation to cast material 29.
  • the feature of leveling the table top structure relative to the pedestal accordingly accordingly has been omitted.
  • An elongated extension 45a' of the thimble leads all the way to a shell 90a of the receptacle, being connected with the latter shell, and the extension 450 and shell 90a are embedded in the cast material 29' in a comolded and integrally bonded relation to this material.
  • Receptacle 90' is upwardly open accessibly from the exterior of the casting for receiving pool balls from the pool ball inlets 21' leading from the recess 18 thence to the pool ball outlets 23 and the remainder of the pool hall gravity conveying system terminating at the receptacle 90'.
  • a pool game table which includes, game table top structure and support and pool ball receiver means, said game table top structure comprising bed and rail means as members of a casting which includes a bed having a substantially plane face at the bottom of a recess in a normally up side of said casting, and a rail surrounding said recess, there being a plurality of passageways leading interiorly of the body of said casting, each of said passageways having a pool ball inlet communicating the said recess at a different location around said rail adjacent to said rail and said substantially plane face of said bed for said passageway to receive a pool ball into said casting through said pool ball inlet of said passageway from said recess, and each of said passageways having a pool ball outlet grouped together with said pool ball outlets of the other of said passageways adjacent to the normally vertical axis of said recess in a region behind said substantially plane face of said bed and said passageway communicating for a pool ball to move through said passageway from said pool ball inlet to said pool ball outlet by gravity under conditions wherein said rece
  • said support means includes, a pillar having said hollow therein and said side aperture is a notch in said pillar communicating with said hollow from a normally upper end of said pillar, and a cap seating upon said normally upper end of said pillar and supporting load of said game table top structure, said cap having an extension substantially fitting said pillar to align said cap with said pillar and substantially close ofi said notch part way down said pillar, there being an opening in said cap intercommunicating with said hollow and said pool ball outlets for pool balls from said pool ball outlets to pass through said cap opening and enter said hollow, and said pool hall receptacle means includes a pool ball tray seating at the bottom of said notch upon said pillar and supported within said hollow in said pillar, having said pool hall tray extend for receiving pool balls delivered through said cap opening into said hollow by gravity and delivering the pool balls received to the exterior of said pillar through said notch under said cap extension.
  • the combination as set forth in claim 2 wherein said tray is configurated for engaging said pillar adjacent to said notch against endwise movement of said tray outwardly through said notch, and hanger means leading from a portion of said tray in said hollow of said pillar bears upon said normally upper end of said pillar for maintaining said tray under a face of said cap in said hollow of said pillar when said cap is seated upon said normally upper end of said pillar.
  • a pool game table which includes, game table top structure and support and pool ball receiver means, said game table top structure comprising bed and rail means as members of a casting which includes a bed having a substantially plane face at the bottom of a recess in a normally up side of said casting, and a rail surrounding said recess, there being a pool ball outlet thimble securely embedded in material of said casting adjacent to the normally vertical axis of said recess in a region behind said substantially plane face of said bed and there being a plurality of passageways interiorly of the body of said casting, each of said passageways having a pool ball inlet communicating with said recess at a different location around said rail adjacent to said rail and said substantially plane face of said bed for said passageway to receive a pool ball into said casting through said pool ball inlet of said passageway from said recess, and each of said passageways having a pool hall outlet into the interior of said thimble and said passageway communicating for a pool ball to move through said passageway from said pool ball inlet to
  • said thimble has a tubular extension outside said casting, and said tubular extension and a normally upper end portion of said pedestal means being male and female companions for being moved one into the other in assembling said casting and said support means.
  • the table includes adjustable leveling means mounted for leveling said table top structure, said leveling means extending between said pedestal means and said game table top structure for transmitting load of said game table top structure to said pedestal means.
  • said support and pool ball receiver means comprises, pillar means for supporting said game table top structure in a position wherein said recess is entrant in a downward direction and said substantially plane face of said bed is approximately level, and pool ball receptacle means associated with a side aperture in said pillar means and communicating with said pool ball outlets through a hollow in said pillar means to receive pool balls from said pool ball outlets by gravity and for the pool balls received in said receptacle means to be removed from said hollow through said aperture while said pillar means supports said game table top structure in a position wherein said recess is entrant in a downward direction and said substantially plane face of said bed is approximately level.
  • the table includes adjustable leveling means mounted for leveling said game table top structure and extending between said pillar means and said table top structure for transmitting load of said game table top structure to said pillar means.
  • said pillar means includes a pillar having said hollow and aperture therein, and a cap seating upon a normally upper end of said pillar, said cap having an opening for pool balls to pass from said pool ball outlets through said cap and enter said hollow by gravity while said pillar means supports said game table top structure in a position wherein said recess is entrant in a downward direction and said substantially plane face of said bed is approximately level, and said receptacle means includes a tray forwardly having a portion seated upon an edge of said pillar in said aperture and rearwardly having an end in said hollow further engaged with said pillar, for said tray to receive by gravity the pool balls delivered into said hollow from said pool hall outlets and for said aperture thence to serve as an exit for the pool balls received into said tray.
  • the combination as set forth in claim 9 wherein the table includes adjustable leveling means mounted for leveling said game table top structure and extending between said cap and said game table top structure.
  • said aperture in said pillar is a notch coextending with said hollow from said normally upper end of said pillar, and said cap has an extension substantially fitting with said pillar for aligning said cap with said pillar and for substantially closing off said notch for a distance along said pillar.
  • the combination as set forth in claim 9 wherein said tray seated upon said edge of said pillar in said notch is configurated for engaging said pillar adjacent to said notch against endwise movement of said tray outwardly through said notch, and hanger means leads from said inner end of said tray in said hollow and engages said normally upper end of said pillar for supporting said tray in position under a face of said cap in said hollow when said cap is on said normally upper end of said pillar.
  • the combination as set forth in claim 14 wherein the table includes adjustable leveling means extending between said cap and said game table top structure and mounted for leveling said table top structure.
  • a pool game table component which includes, bed and rail means comprising as members of a casting, a bed having a substantially plane face at the bottom of a recess in a normally up side of said casting, and a rail surrounding said recess, there being a plurality of tubular ducts each characterized by having an elbow extending embedded in said bed of said casting and each of said elbows introducing a pool hall inlet of said tubular duct communicating with said recess at a different location around said rail adjacent to said rail and said substantially plane face of said bed for said elbow to receive a pool ball through said pool ball inlet of said tubular duct from said recess, and each of said tubular ducts having a tubular extension leading embedded in said bed of said casting and said tubular extension forming a pool ball outlet, said pool ball outlets being grouped together in a location normally lower than said substantially plane face of said bed, and said tubular extensions of said tubular ducts converging with reference to each other leading toward said group of pool ball outlets and communicating
  • cladding connected with said elbows includes a layer covering said substantially plane face of said bed at the bottom of said recess in a comolded and thus integrally bonded relation to material of said casting, and each of said pool ball inlets communicates with said recess through an aperture in said cladding layer.
  • a cupped cladding shell including said cladding layer covering said substantially plane face of said bed at the bottom of said recess further comprises an extension of said layer covering said rail in said recess in a comolded and thus integrally bonded relation to material of said casting.
  • a cupped cladding shell including said cladding layer covering said substantially plane face of said bed at the bottom of said recess further comprises an extension of said layer covering said rail in said recess in a comolded and thus integrally bonded relation to material of said casting, portions of said rail in said casting have notches therein within said recess and said pool ball inlets enter said notches, and extensions of said elbows clad said rail in said notches in a comolded and thus integrally bonded relation to material of said casting.
  • pool hall outlets are grouped in a region adjacent to a normally down side of said casting and the normally vertical axis of said recess and said tubular ducts communicate with the exterior of said casting through said normally down side of said casting for pool balls passing through said ducts to have egress from said casting by gravity under conditions wherein said recess is entrant in a downward direction and said substantially plane face of said bed is approximately level.
  • a thimble open communicating with a normally down side of said casting is embedded in material of said casting in a comolded and thus integrally bonded relation to said material, and each of said tubular ducts has said pool ball outlet thereof emptying into the interior of said thimble, for a pool ball moving through any of said tubular ducts to pass by gravity through said thimble when said casting is in a position wherein said recess is entrant in a downward direction and said substantially plane face of said bed is approximately level.
  • a pool game table component which includes, bed and rail means comprising as members of a casting, a bed having a substantially plane face at the bottom of a recess in a normally up side of said casting, and a rail surrounding said recess, there being a plurality of tubular ducts and a thimble embedded in material of said casting, each of said tubular ducts having a pool ball inlet communicating with said recess at a different location around said rail adjacent to said rail and said substantially plane face of said bed, for said tubular duct to receive a pool ball through said pool ball inlet from said recess, and said thimble being disposed communicating with a normally down side of said casting in a location adjacent to a normally vertical axis of said recess and communicating with a pool ball outlet of each of said tubular ducts, for a pool ball to move through said pool ball inlet to said pool ball outlet of said duct and through said thimble by gravity to said normally down side of said casting when said casting
  • a cupped cladding shell is in a comolded and thus integrally bonded relation to material of said casting at said normally up side and thence backward at an outside border of said casting from said normally up side, said cladding shell being connected with said tubular ducts and open thereto for pool balls in said recess to enter said pool hall inlets.
  • each of said tubular ducts includes leading embedded in material of said casting, an elbow and a tubular extension from said elbow, said elbows of said tubular ducts being connected with said cupped cladding shell and said pool ball inlets being through said shell into said elbows, and said tubular extensions of said tubular ducts leading convergently with reference to each other toward said pool ball outlets and being connected with said thimble, having said pool hall outlets opening into the interior of said thimble.
  • pool game table component includes pool hall cushion membersdisposed in said recess and connected with said cladding shell adjacent to said rail of said casting, and said component is lined with billiard cloth covering said cupped cladding shell at the bottom of said recess.
  • a pool game table the combination which includes, game table top structure and support and pool ball receiver means, said game table top structure comprising bed and rail means and said bed and rail means comprising as members of a casting, a bed having a substantially plane face at the bottom of a recess in a normally up side of said casting, and a rail surrounding said recess, and said game table top structure further including a plurality of tubular ducts each being characterized by having an elbow extending embedded in said bed of said casting and each of said elbows introducing adjacent to said rail a pool ball inlet of said duct communicating with said recess at a different location around said rail adjacent to said rail and said substantially plane face of said bed for said elbow to receive a pool ball through said pool ball inlet of said tubular duct from said recess, and each of said tubular ducts having a tubular extension leading embedded in said bed of said casting from said elbow and forming a pool ball outlet grouped together with said pool ball outlets of the other of said tubular extensions in a location normally

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Pool game tables and components for use therein are characterized each by having a playing recess in a casting for accommodating pool balls, there furthermore being a plurality of passageways interiorly of the body of the casting and the casting includes a bed having a substantially plane face at the bottom of the recess and a perimetrical rail surrounding the recess, each of the passageways having a pool ball inlet at a different location around the rail adjacent to the rail and the substantially plane face of the bed for the passageway to receive a pool ball through the pool ball inlet from the recess, and each of the passageways having a pool ball outlet and communicating with the pool ball inlet of the passageway for a pool ball to move through the passageway from the pool ball inlet to the pool ball outlet of the passageway by gravity under conditions where the recess is entrant in a downward direction and the substantially plane face of the bed is approximately level.

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Kooker [4 1 Apr. 25, 1972 POOL GAME TABLES AND COMPONENTS FOR USE THEREIN Primary ExaminerRichard C. Pinkham Assistant E.raminerTheatrice Brown Attorney-John B. Armentrout [5 7] ABSTRACT Pool game tables and components for use therein are characterized each by having a playing recess in a casting for accommodating pool balls, there furthermore being a plurality of passageways interiorly of the body of the casting and the casting includes a bed having a substantially plane face at the bottom of the recess and a perimetrical rail surrounding the recess, each of the passageways having a pool hall inlet at a different location around the rail adjacent to the rail and the substantially plane face of the bed for the passageway to receive a pool ball through the pool ball inlet from the recess, and each of the passageways having a pool ball outlet and communicating with the pool ball inlet of the passageway for a pool ball to move through the passageway from the pool ball inlet to the pool ball outlet of the passageway by gravity under conditions where the recess is entrant in a downward direction and the substantially plane face of the bed is approximately level.
29 Claims, 6 Drawing Figures PATENTEBAPR 25 m2 3,658 328 sum 1 BF 3 INVENTOR Donald B. Koo/rer ATTORNEY POOL GAME TABLES AND COMPONENTS FOR USE THEREIN The present invention relates to game tables and their components and is more particularly concerned with improvements in pool game tables and in component structure for use in pool game tables.
An object of this invention is the provision of pool game tables and components of pool game tables wherein a playing recess in a casting is allied with passageways in the same casting for the structure to convey pool balls by gravity from the recess through the passageways, having the casting available also for buttressing pool ball activity in the recess and in the passageways.
Another object herein is to provide cast pool game table components which afford foundation for trim such as billiard cloth and cushion members.
A further object of this invention is to provide pool game tables and components thereof wherein a playing recess in a casting and lead lines securely embedded in cast material of the casting are interrelated for the structure to convey pool balls from the recess by gravity through passageways in the lead lines.
A further object herein is that of providing pool game tables of the character indicated in which the recess and passageways in the casting share with pool ball receiver means of the table, the receiver means preferably being allied with a hollow pedestal of the table, for the table to convey pool balls by gravity from the recess through the passageways and into the pool ball receiver means and the latter to hold the pool balls received for re-use in play.
Another object herein is to provide top components of pedestal pool game tables.
Another object of this invention is the provision of a component of the character indicated wherein a bed, a perimetrical rail and pool ball lead lines are all members of a cast monolithic slab within which the lead lines extend embedded in material of the casting in a comolded relation to the material and have their inlets adjacent to the rail at dispersed locations within a recess in a normally up side of the slab and have their outlets grouped adjacent to the normally vertical axis of the slab and communicating for pool balls to move by gravity through the lead lines from the inlets and to have egress through said outlets and from a normally down side of the slab within a concentrated zone.
A further object herein is to provide a pedestal pool game table in which pool ball lead lines affiliated with a recess in top structure of the table share with hollow pedestal and receptacle means of the table and with the recess for the table to convey pool balls by gravity from the recess through the lead lines and hollow and hold the pool balls in the receptacle means within reach for re-use in play.
Other objects in part will be obvious and in part will be pointed out more fully hereinafter.
In accordance with practice of the present invention a pool game table is provided which includes game table top structure and support and pool ball receiver means, the table top structure comprising bed and perimetrical rail means as members of a casting which includes a bed having a substantially plane face at the bottom of a recess in a normally up side of the casting, and a perimetrical rail surrounding the recess, there being a plurality of passageways interiorly of the body of the casting, each of the passageways having a pool hall inlet communicating with the recess at a different location around the rail adjacent to the rail and the substantially plane face of the bed for the passageway to receive a pool ball through the pool ball inlet of the passageway from the recess, and each of the passageways having a pool hall outlet and communicating with the pool hall inlet of the passageway for a pool ball to move through the passageway from the pool ball inlet to the pool ball outlet by gravity under conditions where the recess is entrant in a downward direction and the substantially plane face of the bed is approximately level, and the support and pool ball receiver means hereinbefore referred to including, support means for supporting the table top structure in a position wherein the aforementioned recess is entrant in a downward direction and the substantially plane face of the bed is approximately level, and pool hall receiver means communicating with the pool ball outlets for receiving pool balls by gravity from the pool hall outlets and holding the pool balls received accessible from the exterior of the table while the support means supports the table top structure in a position wherein the recess is entrant in a downward direction and the substantially plane face of the bed is approximately level. Tables in further preferred embodiments of the present invention are predestal tables wherein the support means includes pedestal means for supporting the table top structure in a position having the aforementioned recess entrant in a downward direction and the substantially plane face of the bed approximately level, and the pool ball receiver means includes pool ball receptacle means extending from the pedestal means through a side aperture in the pedestal means and communicating with the pool ball inlets through the aperture and a hollow in the pedestal means for the receptacle means to receive pool balls from the pool ball outlets through the hollow and aperture by gravity while the support means supports the table top structure in a position having the recess entrant in a downward direction and the substantially plane face of the bed approximately level.
The present invention also in certain aspects thereof embodies pool table components in which bed and perimetrical rail means occur as members of a casting which comprises a bed having a substantially plane face at a bottom of a recess, and a rail surrounding this recess on a normally up side of the casting, there being a plurality of passageways interiorly of the body of the casting, each of the passageways having a pool ball inlet communicating with the recess at a different location around the rail adjacent to the rail and the substantially plane face of the bed for the passageway to receive a pool ball through the pool ball inlet of the passageway from the recess, and each of the passageways having a pool ball outlet and communicating with the pool ball inlet of the passageway and with the exterior of the casting for a pool ball to move through the passageway from the pool ball inlet to the pool ball outlet by gravity and have egress from the pool hall outlet to the exterior of the casting when the casting is in a position wherein the recess is entrant in a downward direction and the substantially plane face of the bed is approximately level.
In the accompanying drawings which represent presently preferred embodiments of this invention:
FIG. 1 is a top plan view of a pool game table featuring a top component and support and pool ball receiver structure, the view being partially in dashed line and broken away for indicating certain details of the table which are found in depth of the table;
FIG. 2 is a side elevation of the same table as that of FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a cross section taken of the table in FIG. I in the vertical plane of line 3-3;
FIG. 4 is a bottom plan view of the pedestal cap member in the table of the preceding figures and also introduces leveling means of the table in bottom plan view;
FIG. 5 is a cross sectional elevation taken at line 55 in FIG. 1; and
FIG. 6 relates to a modified embodiment of this invention and is a view in top plan of a pool game table, representing in dashed lines and in partially broken away regions certain support and pool ball conveyor and receptacle structure of the table existing in depth of the table.
Referring now more particularly to the embodiment represented in FIGS. 1 to 5 of the drawings herein, a pool game table 10 is characterized by having in the structure thereof a top component 11 which comprises bed and perimetrical rail means 13 wherein bed 14 and the perimetrical rail 15 as well as a plurality of tubular pool ball lead lines 16 all are members of a casting made for example of concrete as cast material 29, or of any other suitable material as the cast material, having the tubular lead lines embedded therein and integrally bonded thereto by comolding. These lead lines afford passageways interiorly of the casting. The casting has a recess 18 within the surround of the perimetrical rail in a normally up side 17, there being a substantially plane face 19 of the bed at the bottom of the recess. Geometrically, the area of the substantially plane face 19 of the bed is about the same in all four quadrants leading from the normally vertical axis of the recess 18 up to the perimetrical rail 15.
Top component 11 includes cushion members 80 connected with rail 15 of the casting and also is lined with billiard cloth 81 or other suitable lining connected with the casting. There are notches 27 in the table top component 11 entering between longitudinal ends of the cushion members 80, which notches furthermore in the present embodiment are into the rail 15 between longitudinal ends of sectors 15a of the rail. An outside border 30 of the casting extends facially backwardly and outwardly from the normally up side 17 of the casting, and the casting marginally at the normally up side in the regions between the notches 27 has a substantially uniform width from the innermost faces of sectors 15a of the perimetrical rail 15 to this outside border. It therefore follows that the lateral ends of the rail sectors 15a toward recess 18 longitudinally extend between the notches 27 substantially concentrically with the outside border 30. By having the outside border 30 lead facially backwardly and outwardly from the crest of the perimetrical rail 15, as preferred, there are advantages among which are those of accordingly reducing bulk of the casting while preserving strength laterally across the perimetrical rail and facilitating reach by players of the game toward the innermost region of the recess 18 from the outside border.
Bed 14 forms a truncated substantially central portion 32 of the casting on the normally down side 31 directly behind a geometrically central area of the substantially plane face 19 of the bed. The truncated central portion 32 as facially exposed on side 31 is generally plane having the normally vertical axis of the recess 18 substantially perpendicular thereto and extends generally parallel with the substantially plane face 19 of the bed 14. From this truncated central portion 32 the bed face diverges outwardly and forwardly toward the outside border 30 and joins with the rear facial end of that border. As exemplified, the normally down side 31 is generally conical substantially coaxial with the normally vertical axis of the recess 18 in the region between the truncated central portion 32 and a substantially circular junction with the border 30 which thence facially itself, as exemplified, is generally conical substantially coaxially with the normally vertical axis of the recess 18 to a substantially circular juncture with the normally up side 17 of the casting.
Both an elbow 20 and a tubular portion 22 of each lead line 16 are embedded in the cast material 29 in a comolded and thus integrally bonded relation to the cast material and thus contribute as members of the casting. Each lead line progresses longitudinally away from the substantially plane face 19 of the bed 14 so that when the latter face is about level a pool ball entering the passageway any one of the lead lines 16 at pool ball inlet 21 thereof will be conveyed through the particular lead line to a pool ball outlet 23 of the lead line passageway by gravity. In further detail, the lead lines 16 have their passageway outlets 23 grouped within the truncated central portion 32 directly behind the geometrically central area of the substantially plane face 19 of the casting for the lead lines to deliver pool balls by gravity to these outlets.
Lead lines 16 moreover communicate for pool balls moving to the outlets 23 to have egress from the casting by gravity through a thimble 45 which is embedded in cast material of the truncated central portion 32 in a comolded and thus integrally bonded relation to that material. A normally downwardly open chamber 46 of the thimble is in communication with the pool ball outlets 23 and with the exterior of the casting on the normally down side 31 of the casting through the substantially central area of this side of the casting. Accordingly, chamber 46 is closed against the cast material 29 by a normally inverted bottom 47 of the thimble and by a side wall 48 of the thimble. The tubular portions 22 of the lead lines 16 are joined with this thimble side wall at the pool ball outlets 23 for these outlets to deliver pool balls into the chamber 46. From the elbows 20, the tubular portions 22 progress increasingly farther away from the substantially plane face 19 of the bed 14 and longitudinally toward the thimble 45 in a substantially radial relation to the thimble.
The pool ball inlets 21 are entrant in the notches 27 adjacent to the perimetrical rail 15, and are six in number with their centers spaced substantially equidistantly apart from each other, as preferred, although this number or spacing, or both, may be otherwise if desired. Also, as preferred, the centers of the pool ball inlets 21 are approximately on a circle having center on the normally vertical axis of the recess 18 while the lateral innermost ends of the cushion members in the recess extend substantially on arcs of a circle longitudinally between the notches 27 with the latter circle being centered on the same axis.
The elbows 20 at the pool ball inlets 21 provide cladding 25 externally facially of the casting within the notches 27 in the perimetrical rail 15. Cladding 25 leads up to the crest of the rail 15 between the rail sectors 15a. Moreover, in the present embodiment, other external faces of the casting, including the face of border 30, the face of the perimetrical rail 15 outside the notches 27, and the substantially plane face 19 of the bed 14, also occur on cladding. In the latter regard, the normally up side 17 and border 30 of the casting are characterized by having the casting include a cupped cladding shell 40 which interiorly facially is in a comolded and thus integrally bonded relation to the cast material 29 at the normally up side 17 and at border 30. Shell 40, however, is connected with outer ends of the elbows 20 around the pool ball inlets 21 and thus with the cladding 25 afforded by these elbows. More particularly, a normally inverted bottom 41 of the cupped shell 40 occurs externally facially in the casting and thereby presents the substantially plane face 19 of the casting at the bottom of the recess 18 and that of the perimetrical rail 15 outside th notches 27, while a flange 42 of the shell occurs externally facially in the casting at border 30. Each elbow 20 is a product of fiber glass and resin and is connected at inner end with the related tubular portion 22, the latter being made of ebonite, while the cup-shaped shell 40 and thimble 45 are each products of fiber glass and resin, although any other suitable material or materials may of course be substituted for any of those just named with reference to any or all of the several members.
In producing the casting hereinbefore described it is advantageous to provide a unit which includes the cupped shell 40, the thimble 45 and the lead lines 16 interconnected with the cupped shell and the thimble as these lead lines are to be in the casting, and to provide a mold which is female at the bottom and side respectively to the bottom 41 and flange 42 respectively of the cupped shell as they are to occur male in the casting, and under these conditions place the aforementioned unit in the mold with the cupped shell 40 resting male at bottom 41 on the female bottom of the mold and with the flange 42 resting male against the female side of the mold, and then filling the mold with casting material 29 behind the cupped shell and in over the lead lines 16 up to and embedding the thimble 45. In working with such materials 29 as concrete it is usually sufficient then to finish off the normally bottom face 31 of the casting such as with a screed or a trowel in an open mold, thereafter allowing the casting to set and then stripping the casting of the mold.
In table top component 11 the cushion members 80 and billiard cloth 8] are bonded at interior face by means of an appropriate adhesive to the cupped shell 40 thus to line the recess 18. In other embodiments still in accordance with the present invention the pool ball playing surface at the bottom of the recess may for example directly be that of cladding, or of paint on cladding, in each instance in the absence of billiard cloth, or be that of the cast material which is comolded with the tubular lead lines, or be of billiard cloth or of paint in each instance directly on the cast material in the absence of intermediate cladding, in the several instances having the cushion members appropriately connected with the casting. A number of advantages, however, are found as an incident to including the cupped cladding shell 40, among which are that it preestablishes surface of the casting and that it associates well with the tubular lead lines with or without a thimble in the mold and in the resulting cast product.
Table is a pool game pedestal table wherein support and pool ball receiver means 83 are hollow communicating with the pool ball outlets 23 and with the exterior of the table for the support and pool ball receiver means to receive pool balls by gravity from these pool ball outlets, issue the pool balls received to the exterior of the table, and contain the pool balls thus issued. A pedestal 84 in the support and pool ball receiver structure includes a pillar 85, such as of concrete, and which as shown is tubular having a longitudinal hollow or passage 86 therein and a side aperture in the form of a notch 87 laterally communicating with the passage 86 from a normally upper end 88 of the pillar. Pedestal 84 further comprises a base 89 extending beneath the pillar 85 for supporting the pillar such as by resting upon the floor of a room or on earth in an outdoor location. While table 10 may be considered as being either for indoor or outdoor use, FIG. 1 represents installation for outdoor recreation, with the lower portion of the pillar 85 extending underground to base 89, the latter being placed to serve as a footing, such as of concrete, against earth preferably below frostline.
A pool ball receptacle embodying a tray 90 in the pool ball support and receiver structure is accommodated open upright by insertion into the passage 86 and notch 87 from the normally upper end 88 of the pillar and thence by lowering into the seated position shown against the pillar at the bottom of .notch 87. In the latter position the tray 90, still open upward,
projects into the passage 86 and through the notch 87 and thence radially from the pillar 85 outside the pillar, for receiving pool balls delivered by gravity through passage 86 and delivering the pool balls received to the exterior of the pillar through notch 87. Tray 90 may be made of fiber glass and resin or of any other suitable material or materials as occasion may demand.
Seating upon the normally upper end 88 of the pillar 85 is a cap 91 of the pedestal 84; this cap, being made of concrete or of any other suitable material, has a central opening 92 therein communicating with passage 86 and is aligned with the tray 90 for pool balls to enter the passage by gravity from the cap and thence fall into the tray inside the pillar. The alignment of cap opening 92 with the pillar 85 for the latter purpose is assured and preserved by a plug-like longitudinal extension 91a of the cap which substantially interfits with the pillar inside the passage 86 and substantially closes off the notch 87 for a distance down the pillar toward the tray 90. Besides being seated on the pillar at the bottom of notch 87, tray 90 is inclined from inner end in passage 86 toward the outer end outside the pillar 85 for delivering pool balls through this notch. The inner end of tray 90 is connected with hanger means 94 and is engaged with the normally upper end 88 of the pillar by the hanger means for supporting the tray inclined as aforementioned and maintaining the inner end of the tray substantially against the innermost face of extension 910 of the cap 93 in passage 86. Tray 90 is configurated, having a taper, for engaging the pillar 85 adjacent to notch 87 against endwise movement of the tray outwardly through the notch.
Table 10 also is characterized by leveling means 95 for leveling the table top structure 11. In the leveling means a plu rality of relatively movable leveling screws 95a are mounted in the cap 91 for adjustably leveling the table top structure and extend upwardly into contact with the normally down side 31 of the casing at the face of the truncated central portion 32 of the casting for transmitting load of the table top structure to the pedestal 84. From the truncated central portion 32 a tubular extension 45a of the thimble 45 projects male into opening 92 of the cap 91 for aligning the table top structure 11 with pedestal 84 and transmitting pool balls from the pool ball outlets 23 to the opening 92, and to maintain telescopic interfit with the cap such as when the leveling screws 95a are being adjusted for leveling the substantially plane face 19 of the bed 14.
In accordance with the embodiment represented in FIG. 6, a pool game table 10' is provided wherein the top structure 11" is substantially rectangular in plan, having a bed 14', a perimetrical rail 15' and tubular lead lines 16' occur along with thimble 45', as well as with a pedestal 84 and a pool ball receptacle all as members of the same casting in a comolded and thus integrally bonded relation to cast material 29. The feature of leveling the table top structure relative to the pedestal accordingly has been omitted. An elongated extension 45a' of the thimble leads all the way to a shell 90a of the receptacle, being connected with the latter shell, and the extension 450 and shell 90a are embedded in the cast material 29' in a comolded and integrally bonded relation to this material. Receptacle 90' is upwardly open accessibly from the exterior of the casting for receiving pool balls from the pool ball inlets 21' leading from the recess 18 thence to the pool ball outlets 23 and the remainder of the pool hall gravity conveying system terminating at the receptacle 90'.
As the invention lends itself to many possible embodiments and as many possible changes may be made in the embodiments hereinbefore set forth, it will be distinctly understood that all matter described herein is to be interpreted as illustrative and not as a limitation.
I claim:
1. In a pool game table, the combination which includes, game table top structure and support and pool ball receiver means, said game table top structure comprising bed and rail means as members of a casting which includes a bed having a substantially plane face at the bottom of a recess in a normally up side of said casting, and a rail surrounding said recess, there being a plurality of passageways leading interiorly of the body of said casting, each of said passageways having a pool ball inlet communicating the said recess at a different location around said rail adjacent to said rail and said substantially plane face of said bed for said passageway to receive a pool ball into said casting through said pool ball inlet of said passageway from said recess, and each of said passageways having a pool ball outlet grouped together with said pool ball outlets of the other of said passageways adjacent to the normally vertical axis of said recess in a region behind said substantially plane face of said bed and said passageway communicating for a pool ball to move through said passageway from said pool ball inlet to said pool ball outlet by gravity under conditions wherein said recess is entrant in a downward direction and said substantially plane face of said bed is approximately level, and said support and pool ball receiver means including, pedestal means for supporting said game table top structure, adjustable leveling means extending between said pedestal means and said game table top structure and mounted for transmitting load of said game table top structure to said pedestal means and adjusting said game table top structure into a position wherein said recess is entrant in a downward direction and said substantially plane face of said bed is approximately level, and pool ball receptacle means associated with a side aperture in said pedestal means and communicating with said pool hall outlets through a hollow in said pedestal means to receive pool balls from said outlets through said hollow by gravity and for the pool balls received in said receptacle means to be removed through said side aperture from the interior of said pedestal means while said pedestal means under load transmitted through said leveling means supports said table top structure in a position wherein said recess is entrant in a downward direction and said substantially plane face of said bed is approximately level.
2. In a pool game table, the combination as set forth in claim 1 wherein said support means includes, a pillar having said hollow therein and said side aperture is a notch in said pillar communicating with said hollow from a normally upper end of said pillar, and a cap seating upon said normally upper end of said pillar and supporting load of said game table top structure, said cap having an extension substantially fitting said pillar to align said cap with said pillar and substantially close ofi said notch part way down said pillar, there being an opening in said cap intercommunicating with said hollow and said pool ball outlets for pool balls from said pool ball outlets to pass through said cap opening and enter said hollow, and said pool hall receptacle means includes a pool ball tray seating at the bottom of said notch upon said pillar and supported within said hollow in said pillar, having said pool hall tray extend for receiving pool balls delivered through said cap opening into said hollow by gravity and delivering the pool balls received to the exterior of said pillar through said notch under said cap extension.
3. In a pool game table, the combination as set forth in claim 2 wherein said tray is configurated for engaging said pillar adjacent to said notch against endwise movement of said tray outwardly through said notch, and hanger means leading from a portion of said tray in said hollow of said pillar bears upon said normally upper end of said pillar for maintaining said tray under a face of said cap in said hollow of said pillar when said cap is seated upon said normally upper end of said pillar.
4. In a pool game table, the combination which includes, game table top structure and support and pool ball receiver means, said game table top structure comprising bed and rail means as members of a casting which includes a bed having a substantially plane face at the bottom of a recess in a normally up side of said casting, and a rail surrounding said recess, there being a pool ball outlet thimble securely embedded in material of said casting adjacent to the normally vertical axis of said recess in a region behind said substantially plane face of said bed and there being a plurality of passageways interiorly of the body of said casting, each of said passageways having a pool ball inlet communicating with said recess at a different location around said rail adjacent to said rail and said substantially plane face of said bed for said passageway to receive a pool ball into said casting through said pool ball inlet of said passageway from said recess, and each of said passageways having a pool hall outlet into the interior of said thimble and said passageway communicating for a pool ball to move through said passageway from said pool ball inlet to said pool ball outlet and thence into said thimble by gravity under conditions wherein said recess is entrant in a downward direction and said substantially plane face of said bed is approximately level, and said support and pool ball receiver means including pedestal means for supporting said game table top structure in a position wherein said recess is entrant in a downward direction and said substantially plane face of said bed is approximately level, and pool ball receptacle means associated with a side aperture in said pedestal means and communicating with the interior of said thimble through a hollow in said pedestal means to receive pool balls from said thimble through said pedestal means by gravity and for the pool balls received in said receptacle means to be removed through said side aperture from the interior of said pedestal means while said pedestal means supports said game table top structure in a position wherein said recess is entrant in a downward direction and said substantially plane face of said bed is approximately level.
5. In a pool game table, the combination as set forth in claim 4 wherein said thimble has a tubular extension outside said casting, and said tubular extension and a normally upper end portion of said pedestal means being male and female companions for being moved one into the other in assembling said casting and said support means.
6. In a pool game table, the combination as set forth in claim 5 wherein the table includes adjustable leveling means mounted for leveling said table top structure, said leveling means extending between said pedestal means and said game table top structure for transmitting load of said game table top structure to said pedestal means.
7. In a pool game table, the combination as set forth in claim 5 wherein said pool hall outlets are grouped adjacent to the normally vertical axis of said recess having said tubular ducts communicating for pool balls to have egress from the interior of said casting adjacent to the normally vertical axis of said recess, and said support and pool ball receiver means comprises, pillar means for supporting said game table top structure in a position wherein said recess is entrant in a downward direction and said substantially plane face of said bed is approximately level, and pool ball receptacle means associated with a side aperture in said pillar means and communicating with said pool ball outlets through a hollow in said pillar means to receive pool balls from said pool ball outlets by gravity and for the pool balls received in said receptacle means to be removed from said hollow through said aperture while said pillar means supports said game table top structure in a position wherein said recess is entrant in a downward direction and said substantially plane face of said bed is approximately level.
8. In a pool game table, the combination as set forth in claim 7 wherein the table includes adjustable leveling means mounted for leveling said game table top structure and extending between said pillar means and said table top structure for transmitting load of said game table top structure to said pillar means.
9. In a pool game table, the combination as set forth in claim 7 wherein said pillar means includes a pillar having said hollow and aperture therein, and a cap seating upon a normally upper end of said pillar, said cap having an opening for pool balls to pass from said pool ball outlets through said cap and enter said hollow by gravity while said pillar means supports said game table top structure in a position wherein said recess is entrant in a downward direction and said substantially plane face of said bed is approximately level, and said receptacle means includes a tray forwardly having a portion seated upon an edge of said pillar in said aperture and rearwardly having an end in said hollow further engaged with said pillar, for said tray to receive by gravity the pool balls delivered into said hollow from said pool hall outlets and for said aperture thence to serve as an exit for the pool balls received into said tray.
10. In a pool game table, the combination as set forth in claim 9 wherein the table includes adjustable leveling means mounted for leveling said game table top structure and extending between said cap and said game table top structure.
11. In a pool game table, the combination as set forth in claim 9 wherein said aperture in said pillar is a notch coextending with said hollow from said normally upper end of said pillar, and said cap has an extension substantially fitting with said pillar for aligning said cap with said pillar and for substantially closing off said notch for a distance along said pillar.
12. In a pool game table, the combination as set forth in claim 11 wherein said notch reaches below said extension of said cap and said notch below said cap extension affords an exit from said hollow for the pool balls received in said tray.
13. In a pool game table, the combination as set forth in claim 9 wherein said tray seated upon said edge of said pillar in said aperture is configurated for engaging said pillar ad jacent to said aperture against endwise movement of said tray outwardly through said aperture.
14. In a pool game table, the combination as set forth in claim 9 wherein said tray seated upon said edge of said pillar in said notch is configurated for engaging said pillar adjacent to said notch against endwise movement of said tray outwardly through said notch, and hanger means leads from said inner end of said tray in said hollow and engages said normally upper end of said pillar for supporting said tray in position under a face of said cap in said hollow when said cap is on said normally upper end of said pillar.
15. In a pool game table, the combination as set forth in claim 14 wherein the table includes adjustable leveling means extending between said cap and said game table top structure and mounted for leveling said table top structure.
16. In a pool game table component, the combination which includes, bed and rail means comprising as members of a casting, a bed having a substantially plane face at the bottom of a recess in a normally up side of said casting, and a rail surrounding said recess, there being a plurality of tubular ducts each characterized by having an elbow extending embedded in said bed of said casting and each of said elbows introducing a pool hall inlet of said tubular duct communicating with said recess at a different location around said rail adjacent to said rail and said substantially plane face of said bed for said elbow to receive a pool ball through said pool ball inlet of said tubular duct from said recess, and each of said tubular ducts having a tubular extension leading embedded in said bed of said casting and said tubular extension forming a pool ball outlet, said pool ball outlets being grouped together in a location normally lower than said substantially plane face of said bed, and said tubular extensions of said tubular ducts converging with reference to each other leading toward said group of pool ball outlets and communicating with the exterior of said casting,
for a pool ball to move by gravity through any of said tubular ducts from said pool ball inlet of said tubular duct to said pool ball outlet of said tubular duct and have egress from said casting under conditions wherein said recess is entrant in a downward direction and said substantially plane face of said bed is approximately level.
17. In a pool game table component, the combination as set forth in claim 16 wherein cladding connected with said elbows includes a layer covering said substantially plane face of said bed at the bottom of said recess in a comolded and thus integrally bonded relation to material of said casting, and each of said pool ball inlets communicates with said recess through an aperture in said cladding layer.
18. In a pool game table component, the combination as set forth in claim 17 wherein a cupped cladding shell including said cladding layer covering said substantially plane face of said bed at the bottom of said recess further comprises an extension of said layer covering said rail in said recess in a comolded and thus integrally bonded relation to material of said casting.
19. In a pool game table component, the combination as set forth in claim 18 wherein a cupped cladding shell including said cladding layer covering said substantially plane face of said bed at the bottom of said recess further comprises an extension of said layer covering said rail in said recess in a comolded and thus integrally bonded relation to material of said casting, portions of said rail in said casting have notches therein within said recess and said pool ball inlets enter said notches, and extensions of said elbows clad said rail in said notches in a comolded and thus integrally bonded relation to material of said casting.
20. In a pool game table component, the combination as set forth in claim 16 wherein portions of said rail in said casting have notches therein within said recess and said pool ball inlets enter said notches, and extensions of said elbows clad said rail in said notches in a comolded and thus integrally bonded relation to material of said casting.
21. In a pool game table component, the combination as set forth in claim 16 wherein said pool hall outlets are grouped in a region adjacent to a normally down side of said casting and the normally vertical axis of said recess and said tubular ducts communicate with the exterior of said casting through said normally down side of said casting for pool balls passing through said ducts to have egress from said casting by gravity under conditions wherein said recess is entrant in a downward direction and said substantially plane face of said bed is approximately level.
22. In a pool game table component, the combination as set forth in claim 16 wherein a thimble open communicating with a normally down side of said casting is embedded in material of said casting in a comolded and thus integrally bonded relation to said material, and each of said tubular ducts has said pool ball outlet thereof emptying into the interior of said thimble, for a pool ball moving through any of said tubular ducts to pass by gravity through said thimble when said casting is in a position wherein said recess is entrant in a downward direction and said substantially plane face of said bed is approximately level.
23. In a pool game table component, the combination which includes, bed and rail means comprising as members of a casting, a bed having a substantially plane face at the bottom of a recess in a normally up side of said casting, and a rail surrounding said recess, there being a plurality of tubular ducts and a thimble embedded in material of said casting, each of said tubular ducts having a pool ball inlet communicating with said recess at a different location around said rail adjacent to said rail and said substantially plane face of said bed, for said tubular duct to receive a pool ball through said pool ball inlet from said recess, and said thimble being disposed communicating with a normally down side of said casting in a location adjacent to a normally vertical axis of said recess and communicating with a pool ball outlet of each of said tubular ducts, for a pool ball to move through said pool ball inlet to said pool ball outlet of said duct and through said thimble by gravity to said normally down side of said casting when said casting is in a position wherein said recess is entrant in a downward direction and said substantially plane face of said bed is approximately level.
24. In a pool game table component, the combination as set forth in claim 23 wherein a cupped cladding shell is in a comolded and thus integrally bonded relation to material of said casting at said normally up side and thence backward at an outside border of said casting from said normally up side, said cladding shell being connected with said tubular ducts and open thereto for pool balls in said recess to enter said pool hall inlets.
25. In a pool game table component, the combination as set forth in claim 24 wherein each of said tubular ducts includes leading embedded in material of said casting, an elbow and a tubular extension from said elbow, said elbows of said tubular ducts being connected with said cupped cladding shell and said pool ball inlets being through said shell into said elbows, and said tubular extensions of said tubular ducts leading convergently with reference to each other toward said pool ball outlets and being connected with said thimble, having said pool hall outlets opening into the interior of said thimble.
26. In a pool game table component, the combination as set forth in claim 23 wherein said pool game table component includes pool hall cushion membersdisposed in said recess and connected with said cladding shell adjacent to said rail of said casting, and said component is lined with billiard cloth covering said cupped cladding shell at the bottom of said recess.
27. In a pool game table component, the combination as set forth in claim 26 wherein said cushion members, at innermost lateral ends in said recess, substantially define arcs lying on a circle between said pool ball inlets.
28. In a pool game table component, the combination as set forth in claim 26 wherein an outside border of said casting lies substantially on a circle concentric with said circle of said cushion members.
29. In a pool game table, the combination which includes, game table top structure and support and pool ball receiver means, said game table top structure comprising bed and rail means and said bed and rail means comprising as members of a casting, a bed having a substantially plane face at the bottom of a recess in a normally up side of said casting, and a rail surrounding said recess, and said game table top structure further including a plurality of tubular ducts each being characterized by having an elbow extending embedded in said bed of said casting and each of said elbows introducing adjacent to said rail a pool ball inlet of said duct communicating with said recess at a different location around said rail adjacent to said rail and said substantially plane face of said bed for said elbow to receive a pool ball through said pool ball inlet of said tubular duct from said recess, and each of said tubular ducts having a tubular extension leading embedded in said bed of said casting from said elbow and forming a pool ball outlet grouped together with said pool ball outlets of the other of said tubular extensions in a location normally lower than the substantially plane face of said bed, said tubular extensions of said tubular ducts converging with reference to each other leading toward said group of pool ball outlets, and said elbows and said tubulevel, and pool ball receiver means communicating to receive pool balls from said pool ball outlets by gravity and to hold the pool balls received to be removed from said receiver means to the exterior of the table while said support means supports said game table top structures in a position wherein said recess is entrant in a downward direction and said substantially plane face of said bed is approximately level.

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1. In a pool game table, the combination which includes, game table top structure and support and pool ball receiver means, said game table top structure comprising bed and rail means as members of a casting which includes a bed having a substantially plane face at the bottom of a recess in a normally up side of said casting, and a rail surrounding said recess, there being a plurality of passageways leading interiorly of the body of said casting, each of said passageways having a pool ball inlet communicating the said recess at a different location around said rail adjacent to said rail and said substantially plane face of said bed for said passageway to receive a pool ball into said casting through said pool ball inlet of said passageway from said recess, and each of said passageways having a pool ball outlet grouped together with said pool ball outlets of the other of said passageways adjacent to the normally vertical axis of said recess in a region behind said substantially plane face of said bed and said passageway communicating for a pool ball to move through said passageway from said pool ball inlet to said pool ball outlet by gravity under conditions wherein said recess is entrant in a downward direction and said substantially plane face of said bed is approximately level, and said support and pool ball receiver means including, pedestal means for supporting said game table top structure, adjustable leveling means extending between said pedestal means and said game table top structure and mounted for transmitting load of said game table top structure to said pedestal means and adjusting said game table top structure into a position wherein said recess is entrant in a downward direction and said substantially plane face of said bed is approximately level, and pool ball receptacle means associated with a side aperture in said pedestal means and communicating with said pool ball outlets through a hollow in said pedestal means to receive pool balls from said outlets through said hollow by gravity and for the pool balls received in said receptacle means to be removed through said side aperture from the interior of said pedestal means while said pedestal means under load transmitted through said leveling means supports said table top structure in a position wherein said recess is entrant in a downward direction and said substantially plane face of said bed is approximately level.
2. In a pool game table, the combination as set forth in claim 1 wherein said support means includes, a pillar having said hollow therein and said side aperture is a notch in said pillar communicating with said hollow from a normally upper end of said pillar, and a cap seating upon said normally upper end of said pillar and supporting load of said game table top structure, said cap having an extension substantially fitting said pillar to align said cap with said pillar and substantially close off said notch part way down said pillar, there being an opening in said cap intercommunicating with said hollow and said pool ball outlets for pool balls from said pool ball outlets to pass through said cap opening and enter said hollow, and said pool ball receptacle means includes a pool ball tray seating at the bottom of said notch upon said pillar and supported within said hollow in said pillar, having said pool ball tray extend for receiving pool balls delivered through said cap opening into said hollow by gravity and delivering the pool balls received to the exterior of said pillar through said notch under said cap extension.
3. In a pool game table, the combination as set forth in claim 2 wherein said tray is configurated for engaging said pillar adjacent to said notch against endwise movement of said tray outwardly through said notch, and hanger means leading from a portion of said tray in said hollow of said pillar bears upon said normally upper end of said pillar for maintaining said tray under a face of said cap in said hollow of said pillar when said cap is seated upon said normally upper end of said pillar.
4. In a pool game table, the combination which includes, game table top structure and support and pool ball receiver means, said game table top structure comprising bed and rail means as members of a casting which includes a bed having a substantially plane face at the bottom of a recess in a normally up side of said casting, and a rail surrounding said recess, there being a pool ball outlet thimble securely embedded in material of said casting adjacent to the normally vertical axis of said recess in a region behind said substantially plane face of said bed and there being a plurality of passageways interiorly of the body of said casting, each of said passageways having a pool ball inlet communicating with said recess at a different location around said rail adjacent to said rail and said substantially plane face of said bed for said passageway to receive a pool ball into said casting through said pool ball inlet of said passageway from said recess, and each of said passageways having a pool ball outlet into the interior of said thimble and said passageway communicating for a pool ball to move through said passageway from said pool ball inlet to said pool ball outlet and thence into said thimble by gravity under conditions wherein said recess is entrant in a downward direction and said substantially plane face of said bed is approximately level, and said support and pool ball receiver means including pedestal means for supporting said game table top structure in a position wherein said recess is entrant in a downward direction and said substantially plane face of said bed is approximately level, and pool ball receptacle means associated with a side aperture in said pedestal means and communicating with the interior of said thimble through a hollow in said pedestal means to receive pool balls from said thimble through said pedestal means by gravity and for the pool balls received in said receptacle means to be removed through said side aperture from the interior of said pedestal means while said pedestal means supports said game table top structure in a position wherein said recess is entrant in a downward direction and said substantially plane face of said bed is approximately level.
5. In a pool game table, the combination as set forth in claim 4 wherein said thimble has a tubular extension outside said casting, and said tubular extension and a normally upper end portion of said pedestal means being male and female companions for being moved one into the other in assembling said casting and said support means.
6. In a pool game table, the combination as set forth in claim 5 wherein the table includes adjustable leveling means mounted for leveling said table top structure, said leveling means extending between said pedestal means and said game table top structure for transmitting load of said game table top structure to said pedestal means.
7. In a pool game table, the combination as set forth in claim 5 wherein said pool ball outlets are grouped adjacent to the normally vertical axis of said recess having said tubular ducts communicating for pool balls to have egress from the interior of said casting adjacent to the normally vertical axis of said recess, and said support and pool ball receiver means comprises, pillAr means for supporting said game table top structure in a position wherein said recess is entrant in a downward direction and said substantially plane face of said bed is approximately level, and pool ball receptacle means associated with a side aperture in said pillar means and communicating with said pool ball outlets through a hollow in said pillar means to receive pool balls from said pool ball outlets by gravity and for the pool balls received in said receptacle means to be removed from said hollow through said aperture while said pillar means supports said game table top structure in a position wherein said recess is entrant in a downward direction and said substantially plane face of said bed is approximately level.
8. In a pool game table, the combination as set forth in claim 7 wherein the table includes adjustable leveling means mounted for leveling said game table top structure and extending between said pillar means and said table top structure for transmitting load of said game table top structure to said pillar means.
9. In a pool game table, the combination as set forth in claim 7 wherein said pillar means includes a pillar having said hollow and aperture therein, and a cap seating upon a normally upper end of said pillar, said cap having an opening for pool balls to pass from said pool ball outlets through said cap and enter said hollow by gravity while said pillar means supports said game table top structure in a position wherein said recess is entrant in a downward direction and said substantially plane face of said bed is approximately level, and said receptacle means includes a tray forwardly having a portion seated upon an edge of said pillar in said aperture and rearwardly having an end in said hollow further engaged with said pillar, for said tray to receive by gravity the pool balls delivered into said hollow from said pool ball outlets and for said aperture thence to serve as an exit for the pool balls received into said tray.
10. In a pool game table, the combination as set forth in claim 9 wherein the table includes adjustable leveling means mounted for leveling said game table top structure and extending between said cap and said game table top structure.
11. In a pool game table, the combination as set forth in claim 9 wherein said aperture in said pillar is a notch coextending with said hollow from said normally upper end of said pillar, and said cap has an extension substantially fitting with said pillar for aligning said cap with said pillar and for substantially closing off said notch for a distance along said pillar.
12. In a pool game table, the combination as set forth in claim 11 wherein said notch reaches below said extension of said cap and said notch below said cap extension affords an exit from said hollow for the pool balls received in said tray.
13. In a pool game table, the combination as set forth in claim 9 wherein said tray seated upon said edge of said pillar in said aperture is configurated for engaging said pillar adjacent to said aperture against endwise movement of said tray outwardly through said aperture.
14. In a pool game table, the combination as set forth in claim 9 wherein said tray seated upon said edge of said pillar in said notch is configurated for engaging said pillar adjacent to said notch against endwise movement of said tray outwardly through said notch, and hanger means leads from said inner end of said tray in said hollow and engages said normally upper end of said pillar for supporting said tray in position under a face of said cap in said hollow when said cap is on said normally upper end of said pillar.
15. In a pool game table, the combination as set forth in claim 14 wherein the table includes adjustable leveling means extending between said cap and said game table top structure and mounted for leveling said table top structure.
16. In a pool game table component, the combination which includes, bed and rail means comprising as members of a casting, a bed having a substantiaLly plane face at the bottom of a recess in a normally up side of said casting, and a rail surrounding said recess, there being a plurality of tubular ducts each characterized by having an elbow extending embedded in said bed of said casting and each of said elbows introducing a pool ball inlet of said tubular duct communicating with said recess at a different location around said rail adjacent to said rail and said substantially plane face of said bed for said elbow to receive a pool ball through said pool ball inlet of said tubular duct from said recess, and each of said tubular ducts having a tubular extension leading embedded in said bed of said casting and said tubular extension forming a pool ball outlet, said pool ball outlets being grouped together in a location normally lower than said substantially plane face of said bed, and said tubular extensions of said tubular ducts converging with reference to each other leading toward said group of pool ball outlets and communicating with the exterior of said casting, for a pool ball to move by gravity through any of said tubular ducts from said pool ball inlet of said tubular duct to said pool ball outlet of said tubular duct and have egress from said casting under conditions wherein said recess is entrant in a downward direction and said substantially plane face of said bed is approximately level.
17. In a pool game table component, the combination as set forth in claim 16 wherein cladding connected with said elbows includes a layer covering said substantially plane face of said bed at the bottom of said recess in a comolded and thus integrally bonded relation to material of said casting, and each of said pool ball inlets communicates with said recess through an aperture in said cladding layer.
18. In a pool game table component, the combination as set forth in claim 17 wherein a cupped cladding shell including said cladding layer covering said substantially plane face of said bed at the bottom of said recess further comprises an extension of said layer covering said rail in said recess in a comolded and thus integrally bonded relation to material of said casting.
19. In a pool game table component, the combination as set forth in claim 18 wherein a cupped cladding shell including said cladding layer covering said substantially plane face of said bed at the bottom of said recess further comprises an extension of said layer covering said rail in said recess in a comolded and thus integrally bonded relation to material of said casting, portions of said rail in said casting have notches therein within said recess and said pool ball inlets enter said notches, and extensions of said elbows clad said rail in said notches in a comolded and thus integrally bonded relation to material of said casting.
20. In a pool game table component, the combination as set forth in claim 16 wherein portions of said rail in said casting have notches therein within said recess and said pool ball inlets enter said notches, and extensions of said elbows clad said rail in said notches in a comolded and thus integrally bonded relation to material of said casting.
21. In a pool game table component, the combination as set forth in claim 16 wherein said pool ball outlets are grouped in a region adjacent to a normally down side of said casting and the normally vertical axis of said recess and said tubular ducts communicate with the exterior of said casting through said normally down side of said casting for pool balls passing through said ducts to have egress from said casting by gravity under conditions wherein said recess is entrant in a downward direction and said substantially plane face of said bed is approximately level.
22. In a pool game table component, the combination as set forth in claim 16 wherein a thimble open communicating with a normally down side of said casting is embedded in material of said casting in a comolded and thus integrally bonded relation to said material, and each of said tubular ducts has said pool ball outlet tHereof emptying into the interior of said thimble, for a pool ball moving through any of said tubular ducts to pass by gravity through said thimble when said casting is in a position wherein said recess is entrant in a downward direction and said substantially plane face of said bed is approximately level.
23. In a pool game table component, the combination which includes, bed and rail means comprising as members of a casting, a bed having a substantially plane face at the bottom of a recess in a normally up side of said casting, and a rail surrounding said recess, there being a plurality of tubular ducts and a thimble embedded in material of said casting, each of said tubular ducts having a pool ball inlet communicating with said recess at a different location around said rail adjacent to said rail and said substantially plane face of said bed, for said tubular duct to receive a pool ball through said pool ball inlet from said recess, and said thimble being disposed communicating with a normally down side of said casting in a location adjacent to a normally vertical axis of said recess and communicating with a pool ball outlet of each of said tubular ducts, for a pool ball to move through said pool ball inlet to said pool ball outlet of said duct and through said thimble by gravity to said normally down side of said casting when said casting is in a position wherein said recess is entrant in a downward direction and said substantially plane face of said bed is approximately level.
24. In a pool game table component, the combination as set forth in claim 23 wherein a cupped cladding shell is in a comolded and thus integrally bonded relation to material of said casting at said normally up side and thence backward at an outside border of said casting from said normally up side, said cladding shell being connected with said tubular ducts and open thereto for pool balls in said recess to enter said pool ball inlets.
25. In a pool game table component, the combination as set forth in claim 24 wherein each of said tubular ducts includes leading embedded in material of said casting, an elbow and a tubular extension from said elbow, said elbows of said tubular ducts being connected with said cupped cladding shell and said pool ball inlets being through said shell into said elbows, and said tubular extensions of said tubular ducts leading convergently with reference to each other toward said pool ball outlets and being connected with said thimble, having said pool ball outlets opening into the interior of said thimble.
26. In a pool game table component, the combination as set forth in claim 23 wherein said pool game table component includes pool ball cushion members disposed in said recess and connected with said cladding shell adjacent to said rail of said casting, and said component is lined with billiard cloth covering said cupped cladding shell at the bottom of said recess.
27. In a pool game table component, the combination as set forth in claim 26 wherein said cushion members, at innermost lateral ends in said recess, substantially define arcs lying on a circle between said pool ball inlets.
28. In a pool game table component, the combination as set forth in claim 26 wherein an outside border of said casting lies substantially on a circle concentric with said circle of said cushion members.
29. In a pool game table, the combination which includes, game table top structure and support and pool ball receiver means, said game table top structure comprising bed and rail means and said bed and rail means comprising as members of a casting, a bed having a substantially plane face at the bottom of a recess in a normally up side of said casting, and a rail surrounding said recess, and said game table top structure further including a plurality of tubular ducts each being characterized by having an elbow extending embedded in said bed of said casting and each of said elbows introducing adjacent to said rail a pool ball inlet of said duct communicating with said recEss at a different location around said rail adjacent to said rail and said substantially plane face of said bed for said elbow to receive a pool ball through said pool ball inlet of said tubular duct from said recess, and each of said tubular ducts having a tubular extension leading embedded in said bed of said casting from said elbow and forming a pool ball outlet grouped together with said pool ball outlets of the other of said tubular extensions in a location normally lower than the substantially plane face of said bed, said tubular extensions of said tubular ducts converging with reference to each other leading toward said group of pool ball outlets, and said elbows and said tubular extensions communicating for a pool ball to move from said pool ball inlet to said pool ball outlet of any of said tubular ducts by gravity and thence to be received, under conditions wherein said recess is entrant in a downward direction and said substantially plane face of said bed is approximately level, and said support and pool ball receiver means including support means for supporting said table top structure in a position wherein said recess is entrant in a downward direction and said substantially plane face of said bed is approximately level, and pool ball receiver means communicating to receive pool balls from said pool ball outlets by gravity and to hold the pool balls received to be removed from said receiver means to the exterior of the table while said support means supports said game table top structures in a position wherein said recess is entrant in a downward direction and said substantially plane face of said bed is approximately level.
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