Billiard ball rack
OwnerRussell H. Bonn, Jr.inventor
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Abstract
A billiard rack wherein balls are compressed towards the center of the rack from all sides of the rack simultaneously. The billiard ball rack has a retractable actuator that activates packing bars to compress the balls, and resets the packing bars to their original position after compression. The packing bars have an angled edge for seating the balls into the table surface when the retractable actuator is actuated. Additionally, a method of compacting balls by urging the balls from at least three sides to the center of a frame.
Claims16
A billiard ball rack for arranging balls on a table into a compact predetermined arrangement of balls, comprising:
- a frame comprising at least three sides, said frame being large enough to surround loosely grouped balls;
- and
- packing bar means affixed to said frame for pushing the balls away from said at least three sides towards a center of said frame.
A billiard ball rack for arranging balls on a table into a compact predetermined arrangement of balls, comprising:
- a frame comprising at least three sides, said frame being large enough to surround loosely grouped balls;
- packing bars affixed to said frame for urging the balls towards a frame's center;
- retractable actuator for each respective packing bar for pushing a respective said packing bar, said retractable actuator for each respective packing bar comprising an apparatus that simultaneously and progressively urges a respective said packing bar towards said frame's center upon activation and returns said respective packing bar to an original position when deactivated.
A method of arranging billiard balls on a table into a compact predetermined arrangement of balls, the method comprising the steps of:
- a) surrounding loosely grouped balls within an at least three sided frame;
- and
- b) compacting the balls in a center of the at least three sided frame packing bars comprising pushing the balls away from the at least three sides towards the center.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.