Toy pool table components

Toy pool table components adapted to be attached to a piece of furniture having a top with a substantially horizontal upper planar surface and a periphery of finite thickness spaced from the floor by support means such that at least parts of the periphery are clear of the support means comprising:

• a plurality of ball receiving pockets mountable adjacent a portion of the periphery;
• each pocket having an opening for receiving a ball from the horizontal planar surface;
• elastic boundary means extending between adjacent pockets for biasing the pockets into engagement with the top and for providing a resilient cushion for balls between the pockets;
• each pocket including a bracket having a portion with a lower surface for bearing upon the horizontal upper planar surface;
• a bar depending downwardly from the bracket;
• a brace carried by the bar below the bracket for vertical movement of the brace along the bar from a position in which the uppermost portion of the brace is proximate the lower surface of the bracket to any one of a plurality of selectable spaced positions for accommodating different thicknesses of the periphery of the top;
• the bracket being generally "U" shaped with straight, spaced apart sections extending from a bight section;
• each of the straight sections having a free end opposite the bight section;
• portions of the straight sections adjacent the free ends overlying the horizontal upper surface and the bight section projecting outboard of the periphery;
• the bight section having an inwardly projecting lip disposed below the upper horizontal planar surface;
• and
• a hollow ball receiving cup having an outwardly projecting rim along a segment of the upper edge being seatable in the bracket with the rim engaging the lip.

Toy pool table components adapted to be attached to a piece of furniture having a top with a substantially horizontal upper planar surface and a periphery of finite thickness spaced from the floor by support means such that at least parts of the periphery are clear of the support means comprising:

• a plurality of ball receiving pockets mountable adjacent a portion of the periphery;
• each pocket having an opening for receiving a ball from the horizontal planar surface;
• elastic boundary means extending between adjacent pockets for biasing the pockets into engagement with the top and for providing a resilient cushion for balls between the pockets;
• each pocket including a bracket having a portion with a lower surface for bearing upon the horizontal upper planar surface;
• a bar depending downwardly from the bracket;
• a brace carried by the bar below the bracket for vertical movement of the brace along the bar from a position in which the uppermost portion of the brace is proximate the lower surface of the bracket to any one of a plurality of selectable spaced positions for accommodating different thicknesses of the periphery of the top;
• the bar having opposed inward and outward vertical edges;
• one vertical edge having ratchet teeth;
• the brace including an arm having an inner end that extends beneath the horizontal planar surface and an opposed outer end;
• the arm including a slot adjacent the outer end for receiving the bar;
• and
• a pawl tooth positioned within the slot for engaging the ratchet teeth to arrest the vertical movement of the arm along the bar.

A toy pool game comprising:

• a plurality of balls;
• a playing surface;
• impact means for propelling the balls upon the playing surface;
• a plurality of ball receiving pockets mountable on the playing surface;
• each pocket including a bracket having portions bearing upon the playing surface;
• spaced apart bars depending downwardly from each bracket;
• each pocket including a brace having spaced apart arms with each arm carried by one of the depending bars permitting vertical movement of the brace toward and away from the portions of the bracket bearing upon the playing surface;
• at least one of the bars depending from each bracket having ratchet teeth along one vertical edge;
• one of the arms of each brace having a slot receiving the bar having the ratchet teeth and having a pawl tooth positioned within the slot for engaging the ratchet teeth to arrest the vertical movement of the brace;
• and
• elastic means extending between adjacent pockets for biasing the pockets into engagement with the playing surface and for providing a resilient cushion for the balls between the pockets.