Feed channels for pool tables

A games table for playing games such as pool with object balls and a smaller diameter cue ball, said table being of the kind having a floor-standing housing supporting a top playing surface, pockets at the periphery of said surface, a ball outlet at a side of the housing, a racking arrangement for storing balls within the housing, and channels within the housing interconnecting said pockets, said outlet and said racking arrangement, said channels and racking arrangement having rails along with the ball are adapted to run, and wherein said racking arrangement comprises:

• an elongate rack pivotable between a storage position at which balls are stored on said rack and a delivery position at which said balls are discharged from said rack for delivery to the player;
• said rack having said rails therealong arranged to align said balls along a single axis in said storage position of said rack;
• an elongate feed structure for feeding balls to the rack, said feed structure having said rails therealong for guiding said balls;
• an aperture between said feed structure and said rack through which said smaller diameter cue ball can drop but not the larger diameter said object balls;
• a first downwardly inclined ramp defined by spaced-apart rails connecting said feed structure with said rack and along which said larger diameter object balls can run over said aperture to said rack;
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• a second downwardly inclined ramp defined by spaced-apart rails connecting said feed structure with said aperture and along which said smaller diameter cue ball can run to said aperture, said rails of said second ramp being below and between and of steeper inclination than said rails of said first ramp;
• whereby when all object balls have been fed to said rack, the last said object ball is supported on said first ramp and is then operable to hold said cue ball on said second ramp and thereby block same from dropping through said aperture.