Combination package and rack for pool balls
OwnerTerry M. Haberinventor
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Abstract
The packaging includes bottom, intermediate and top trays of triangular outline each having depending flared side walls, the side walls of the top tray extending sufficiently to overlap both the intermediate and bottom trays to provide a stacked array similar to a truncated pyramid. A majority of the pool balls are supported in circular openings in the top surface of the bottom tray, the remaining pool balls forming a smaller triangular array in openings on the top surface of the intermediate tray, the bottom portions of the remaining pool balls nesting between adjacent top portions of the majority of balls. The trays are transparent so that the balls are visible and the intermediate tray can be separated from the top and bottom tray and its depending side walls utilized as a rack for the pool balls.
Claims5
A combination package and rack for pool balls comprising, in combination:
- (a) a bottom tray having downwardly depending side walls and an upper surface including a first plurality of openings of smaller diameters than the diameters of said pool balls for supporting a majority of said pool balls respectively;
- (b) an intermediate tray having downwardly depending side walls positionable on and supported by the marginal edge of said upper surface of said bottom tray, said intermediate tray having an upper surface including a second plurality of openings of smaller diameters than the diameters of said pool balls for supporting the remainder of said pool balls;
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- (c) a top tray having downwardly depending side walls positionable over both said bottom tray and intermediate tray to cover the same and having an imperforate upper surface, adjacent marginal wall portions of said top tray and bottom tray including cooperating fastening means for holding said top tray onto said bottom tray, said downwardly depending side walls of said intermediate tray functioning as a pool ball rack when separated from said top and bottom trays for properly positioning all of said pool balls in a triangular array preparatory to play.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.