Game board for practicing aspects of bowls, billiard and petanque
AssigneeSociete des Jeux d'Aquitaine
InventorJean Bonnet
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Abstract
A special game board designed for the practice of a game of bowls which associates some aspects of the games of petanque and/or billiards more particularly. The board has a rectangular horizontal plate mounted on legs and edged along its two longitudinal sides with lateral bands or banks, extending above the plate and provided with a padding or similar structure of a resilient material. On at least one of the lateral sides, with a bowl collecting trough, on the plate defined a quadrangular game area extending in the plate half portion provided with the trough. The table is covered with a shock and noise absorbent resilient material which allows the bowls to run and is installed between 40 and 50 cm. A shock and noise absorbing band made up of a curtain is provided on the outer side of each trough.
Claims17
A special game board for the practice of game of bowls, associating some aspects of the games of billiards and of petanque comprising:
- a rectangular horizontal plate mounted on legs;
- laterals bands or banks connected to lateral sides and protruding above the plate;
- a resilient padding material attached to at least one lateral band;
- a trough for recovering bowls arranged at an end of said plate;
- a quadrangular area of game marked in a portion of said board provided with said trough;
- a resilient material substantially covering said plate to absorb shocks and noise while allowing bowls to run;
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- means for absorbing shock and noise arranged in said trough;
- wherein said plate is a composite structure comprising a lower plate of approximately thirty millimeters thickness, made from agglomerated flax processed at high temperature with a resin, and said resilient material is a high density cork plate, approximately four millimeters thick which is in turn covered with felt approximately five millimeters thick.
A special game board for the practice of game of bowls, associating some aspects of the games of billiards and of petanque comprising:
- a rectangular horizontal plate mounted on legs;
- laterals bands or banks connected to lateral sides and protruding above the plate;
- a resilient padding material attached to at least one lateral band;
- a trough for recovering bowls arranged at an end of said plate;
- a quadrangular area of game marked in a portion of said board provided with said trough;
- a resilient material substantially covering said plate to absorb shocks and noise while allowing bowls to run;
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- means for absorbing shock and noise arranged in said trough;
- wherein said means for absorbing shock and noise is a suspended curtain which is a rectangular shaped carpet exhibiting a ballasted lower edge and lies in the immediate vicinity of the bottom of the trough;
- wherein said curtain is extended at its upper end and in the direction of the surface of game, by a substantially horizontal portion the end of which matches with a rounded endge of a horizontal plate in overhanging arrangement over a portion of the trough.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.