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US 5,735,749 AGranted
Carpet pool game
OwnerBechara Charbel, Joseph Machaalaniinventors
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Abstract
A carpet pool game and method of playing the same employing three different sets of game balls, mallets and a detachably interconnected assembly of side boards and goal boards including an integrally formed ramp structure preventing game balls from coming to rest too close to the outer boundary of the game.
Claims9
A game apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of walls with ramps integrally formed thereon, the walls being detachably interconnected to provide an outer boundary of a game field, each ramp including a narrow portion positioned over the game field, each ramp tapering from the outer boundary to the narrow portion, the plurality of walls including two end walls and two side walls, each of the end walls being formed with an aperture sized sufficiently large to receive a game ball therethrough, the side walls being marked with visible indicia for initially positioning game balls along the game field;
- a plurality of game balls sized to be received through the apertures;
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- a mallet for striking the game balls, the mallet being marked with visible indicia which, when the mallet is placed in a predetermined position across the game field, provide visual cues for initially positioning the game balls across the game field.
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A game apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of walls with ramps integrally formed thereon, the walls being detachably interconnected to provide an outer boundary of a game field, each ramp including a narrow portion positioned over the game field, each ramp tapering from the outer boundary to the narrow portion, the plurality of walls including two end walls and two side walls, each of the end walls being formed with an aperture sized sufficiently large to receive a game ball therethrough, the side walls being marked with visible indicia for initially positioning game balls along the game field;
- a plurality of game balls sized to be received through the apertures, the plurality of game balls including a first and second set of game balls equal in number and a third set of game balls, the first, second and third sets of game balls each being colored differently;
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- a mallet for striking the game balls, the mallet being marked with visible indicia for initially positioning game balls across the game field.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.