US PATENT SUBCLASS 473 / 20
.~.~ Playing surface having unconventional number, entrance opening, or arrangement of pockets or having additional or shiftable carom or bumper means thereon

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473 /   HD   GAMES USING TANGIBLE PROJECTILE

1  DF  BILLIARDS OR POOL {8}
4  DF  .~ Table or gameboard {16}
20.~.~ Playing surface having unconventional number, entrance opening, or arrangement of pockets or having additional or shiftable carom or bumper means thereon

DEFINITION

Classification: 473/20

Playing surface having unconventional number, entrance opening, or arrangement of pockets or having additional or shiftable carom or bumper means thereon:

(under subclass 4) Subject matter (a) wherein the table or gameboard has a playing surface having ball receiving pockets and wherein (1) the number of pockets disposed on the playing surface, (2) the specific locations of the pockets on the playing surface, or (3) the shape of the ball receiving openings of the pockets on the playing surface differ from the number, arrangement, or opening shape of the pockets of the playing surface of a conventional or standard pocketed pool table or gameboard; a conventional or standard pocketed pool table or gameboard having a rectangularly shaped playing surface with six pockets thereon, one pocket being located at each of the corners of the playing surface and one pocket being located in the middle of each of the longitudinal sides of the playing surface, and the ball receiving openings of the pockets being generally circular in shape; or (b) wherein the playing surface has located thereon, in addition to the peripheral carom rails defining the playing surface, at least one additional means for rebounding a ball therefrom; or wherein at least one of the peripheral carom rails, a portion thereof, or an additional ball rebounding means located on the playing surface is so mounted on the playing surface that it may be moved over the surface by a ball striking and rebounding from it.

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28, for the structural details of a ball receiving pocket located in or on a table or gameboard.