Class Information
Number: 473/1
Name: Games using tangible projectile > Billiards or pool
Description: Subject matter relating to a game which generally involves a horizontally disposed, planar playing surface bounded and defined by raised carom rails (i.e., bumper rails) for confining on the playing surface a plurality of balls which are being projected over the playing surface either into one another or rebounded off of the carom rails; the playing surface either (a) is continuous and has a continuous carom rail rim so that it is devoid of any pockets or other ball receiving receptacles (i.e., a billiard playing surface) or (b) has one or more pockets or receptacles adapted to receive therein or pass therethrough one or more of the balls (i.e., a pool or pocketed playing surface); in playing the game, at least one ball, commonly known as the cue ball, acts as a secondary projecting device and is used to strike and move over the playing surface one or more of the other balls, commonly known as object balls, which act as targets for the cue ball, the cue ball is first forcibly struck by a player aiming and manipulating a first projecting device, commonly known as a cue or cue stick, so as to project the cue ball either directly into engagement with the one or more of the object balls or by first banking or rebounding it off of one or more of the carom rails and then into engagement with the one or more of the object balls so as to move and either position the object balls in a specified arrangement on the playing surface or to pocket them, whereby the player may achieve a score according to the rules specified for the game.
Sub-classes under this class:
Patents under this class:
| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7134965 |
Process for playing the billiard game of 5-Ball |
Nov. 14, 2006 |
| 6986714 |
Billiards game |
Jan. 17, 2006 |
| 6905417 |
Automatic pool cue tip tapper |
Jun. 14, 2005 |
| 6902490 |
Billiard games |
Jun. 7, 2005 |
| 6893017 |
Combined shuffle board and pool game assembly |
May. 17, 2005 |
| 6872147 |
Billiard table having easily assembling structure |
Mar. 29, 2005 |
| 6761642 |
Billiards, and method of playing the same |
Jul. 13, 2004 |
| 6755750 |
Talc dispenser for cue stick |
Jun. 29, 2004 |
| 6709341 |
Wheel-chair accessible billiard table |
Mar. 23, 2004 |
| 6602143 |
Pool cue tip sharpening device |
Aug. 5, 2003 |
| 6595862 |
Billiards ball rack |
Jul. 22, 2003 |
| 6582316 |
Method and device for developing accurate aim |
Jun. 24, 2003 |
| 6537156 |
Billiards rack and associated methods of playing billiards |
Mar. 25, 2003 |
| 6419588 |
Assistive billiard cue device |
Jul. 16, 2002 |
| 6371860 |
Foul line indicator for pool tables |
Apr. 16, 2002 |
| 6341399 |
Pool cue multi-function tip tool |
Jan. 29, 2002 |
| 6315675 |
Score counter for billiards game |
Nov. 13, 2001 |
| 6276689 |
Combined pool and poker gambling game |
Aug. 21, 2001 |
| 6226825 |
Pool cue multi-function tip tool |
May. 8, 2001 |
| 6132320 |
Playing surface leveling apparatus and method |
Oct. 17, 2000 |
| 5941778 |
Luminescent billiard game system |
Aug. 24, 1999 |
| 5860868 |
Score display assembly |
Jan. 19, 1999 |
| 5853333 |
Gimbaled cue bridge |
Dec. 29, 1998 |
| 5800273 |
Method and apparatus for playing a pocket billiard game |
Sep. 1, 1998 |
| 5738591 |
Queuing system |
Apr. 14, 1998 |
| 5685779 |
Electronic scoreboard device |
Nov. 11, 1997 |
| 5595389 |
Method and apparatus for producing "personalized" video games using CD discs |
Jan. 21, 1997 |
| 5590810 |
Order of participation control device |
Jan. 7, 1997 |
| 5529542 |
Reducing velocity of a rolling object |
Jun. 25, 1996 |
| 5505665 |
Apparatus for monitoring game challenges |
Apr. 9, 1996 |
| 5409536 |
Powder dispensing device |
Apr. 25, 1995 |
| 5350171 |
Method and apparatus for playing a pocket billiard game |
Sep. 27, 1994 |
| 5338261 |
Pool cue stand and chalk holder |
Aug. 16, 1994 |
| 5240121 |
Holder for pool ball rack |
Aug. 31, 1993 |
| 5171013 |
Detector system for object movement in a game |
Dec. 15, 1992 |
| 5171012 |
Detector system for object movement in a game |
Dec. 15, 1992 |
| 5129187 |
Cue-tip conditioner |
Jul. 14, 1992 |
| 5104122 |
Means and method for conditioning and maintaining a pool cue tip |
Apr. 14, 1992 |
| 5071121 |
Game score computing device |
Dec. 10, 1991 |
| 5066009 |
Cue ball scratch indicator |
Nov. 19, 1991 |
| 5062636 |
Thread protector and tip maintenance device for a billiard cue |
Nov. 5, 1991 |
| 5039099 |
Chip game apparatus |
Aug. 13, 1991 |
| 5026053 |
Billiard table multiple electronics game device and method |
Jun. 25, 1991 |
| 4877242 |
Apparatus for playing billiards or pool |
Oct. 31, 1989 |
| 4840376 |
Poker and pool apparatus |
Jun. 20, 1989 |
| 4817945 |
Method of scoring pocket billiard bowling |
Apr. 4, 1989 |
| 4785586 |
Cue tip shaping device |
Nov. 22, 1988 |
| 4784388 |
Pocket billiards game |
Nov. 15, 1988 |
| 4524968 |
Device for accommodating billiard balls in spaces provided for billiards playing |
Jun. 25, 1985 |
| 4029313 |
Pool table canopies |
Jun. 14, 1977 |
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