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US 9,861,191 B1Granted
Billiard table leveling device
AssigneeJianxi Rasson Billiard Mfg. Co. Ltd.
InventorJin Song
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Abstract
The present invention is pool or billiard table having a system of multiple local section, wedge leveling devices secured in recesses in a support frame, which allow a user to precisely and in very small increments adjust sectionwise leveling of a slate slab.
Claims9
A playing table, for pool or billiards with legs supporting a support frame, which in turn supports a horizontal playing slab with a level top playing surface comprising:
- (a) the support frame having a peripheral rectangular section and cross pieces that connect longer opposing parts of the peripheral rectangular section, where the peripheral rectangular section and the cross pieces have side walls;
- (b) multiple recesses are defined in a top surface of the support frame and cross pieces, each recess defining a box section in a center part of the support frame or cross piece and each box section being continuous with an access section that defines an opening in a side wall and an opening into the box section;
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- (c) one or more wedge leveling devices, each fixed within one of the recesses under a bottom surface of the horizontal playing slab and each having a support box with a wedge incline surface as a floor of a wedge space lower at a front part and higher toward a rear part and open to a top surface of the support box and a threaded adjuster fixed in a front wall of the support box where the support box is fixed within the box section;
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- (d) each wedge leveling device further comprising a wedge piece located in the wedge space and having a bottom inclined surface slidably engaged to the floor of the wedge incline surface, where the wedge piece is further engaged to the end of a rotatable bolt that is engaged with the threaded adjuster and extends into the access section terminating in a bolt head.
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