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Billiards utilizing similar and dissimilar balls

US5042803A · kind A · utility

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7Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateNov 28, 1988
Grant dateAug 27, 1991
Priority date
Expiry dateNov 28, 2008

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
  • CPC primaryA63B2243/002
  • WIPO fieldFurniture, games
  • WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

The invention reside in a plurality of spherically balanced billiard balls whereby the balls are divided into two equal sets of balls, each set of balls being identical in mass distribution, and each ball of each set has a mass dissimilar from the mass of any other ball of the respective set. Each set of balls further has one ball with a mass equal to the median mass of the respective set. The plurality of balls further has another ball which has a mass equal to the median mass ball of said two sets.

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