Air hockey table

In an air-hockey table having a playing surface with a plurality of air-conducting openings therein, a blower supplying air to the openings and a pair of goals, the improvement in the playing surface comprising:

• a central playing-surface region having a lower portion lying below a reference plane;
• and
• a pair of spaced-apart outer playing-surface regions lying above the reference plane, substantially the entire playing surface forming a smooth-curved surface.

A surface member with a playing surface for use in an air hockey table, the surface member being a cylindrical portion and defining a plurality of air-conducting openings in the playing surface through which air is received from a blower, comprising:

• a central playing-surface region having a lower portion lying below a reference plane;
• and
• a pair of spaced-apart outer playing-surface regions lying above the reference plane.

In a table hockey game table having a playing surface and a pair of goals, the improvement wherein the playing surface is of a non-planar, cylindrical portion and includes a smooth-curved surface having spaced-apart outer playing-surface regions and a central playing region which is lower than the spaced-apart outer playing-surface regions.