Three-ball pool rack

Abstract

A three-ball pool rack apparatus includes three straight wall portions and three curved corner portions connected between adjacent straight wall portions. The straight wall portions and the curved corner portions define a ball-reception space, and the ball-reception space is of a size which is large enough to retain a maximum of three standard size pool balls. The straight wall portions and the curved corner portions form an equilateral triangular formation. The straight wall portions and the curved corner portions extend perpendicularly upward from a pool table surface when placed thereon. Preferably, a lip extends outward horizontally from top portions of the straight wall portions and the curved corner portions. A finger-reception gap is provided in the ball-reception space when three object balls are contained in the ball-reception space.

What is claimed as being new and desired to be protected by Letters Patent of the united states is as follows:  
     
         1 . A three-ball pool rack, comprising: 
 three straight wall portions,    three curved corner portions connected between adjacent straight wall portions,    wherein said straight wall portions and said curved corner portions define a ball-reception space,    wherein said ball-reception space is of a size which is large enough to retain a maximum of three pool balls.    
     
     
         2 . The rack of    claim 1    wherein said ball-reception space is of a size which is large enough to retain a maximum of three standard size object pool balls.  
     
     
         3 . The rack of    claim 1    wherein said straight wall portions and said curved corner portions form a triangular formation.  
     
     
         4 . The rack of    claim 3    wherein said triangular formation is an equilateral triangular formation.  
     
     
         5 . The rack of    claim 1    wherein said straight wall portions and said curved corner portions extend perpendicularly upward from a pool table surface.  
     
     
         6 . The rack of    claim 1    wherein an inner perpendicular bisector distance from an inside portion of a curved corner portion to an inside portion of an opposite straight wall portion can be about five inches.  
     
     
         7 . The rack of    claim 1    wherein straight wall portions and said curved corner portions are about one eighth inch thick.  
     
     
         8 . The rack of    claim 1   , further including: 
 a lip which extends outward horizontally from top portions of said straight wall portions and said curved corner portions.    
     
     
         9 . The rack of    claim 8    wherein said lip extends horizontally outward from said straight wall portions and said curved corner portions about one quarter inch.  
     
     
         10 . The rack of    claim 8    wherein a first outer perpendicular bisector distance from an outside portion of a lip portion adjacent to a curved corner portion to an outside portion of a lip portion adjacent to an opposite straight wall portion can be about five and three quarter inches.  
     
     
         11 . The rack of    claim 8    wherein a second outer perpendicular bisector distance from an outside portion of a curved corner portion to an outside portion of an opposite straight wall portion can be about five and three quarter inches.  
     
     
         12 . The rack of    claim 1    wherein a finger-reception gap is provided in said ball-reception space when three object balls are contained in said ball-reception space.  
     
     
         13 . A set of pool game equipment, comprising: 
 a pool table,    a cue stick,    a cue ball,    three standard object balls, and    a three-ball pool rack which includes three straight wall portions and three curved corner portions connected between adjacent straight wall portions, wherein said straight wall portions and said curved corner portions define a ball-reception space, and wherein said ball-reception space is of a size which is large enough to retain a maximum of three pool balls.