Convertible Billiard Table with Foldable Dining Top
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current conversion-top pool tables are limited by their large size, heavy weight, and inconvenient design, making them difficult to move and use in residential spaces, compromising functionality, ergonomics, and aesthetics, which restricts their widespread adoption.
Innovation Solution
The design features movably attached and foldable tabletop segments with a lightweight construction, compact ball collector pocket, and integrated pool cue storage, allowing for easy conversion between pool and dining table use, with coordinated height and clearance to enhance usability and aesthetics.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a full size pool table is installed with sufficient clearance for playing around its perimeter, then the playing functionality is improved, but the space occupation increases to at least 17 by 14 feet and weight exceeds 600 pounds
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies the dynamics principle by making the tabletop movable and convertible. The tabletop can be removed or folded to convert the pool table into a dining table, allowing the space to serve dual purposes. This dynamic conversion resolves the contradiction by enabling playing functionality when needed while reducing space occupation when the pool table is not in use.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements multi-functionality by designing a conversion-top pool table where the same structure serves as both a pool table and a dining table. The tabletop can be configured for pool playing or removed/folded to create a dining surface, allowing one piece of furniture to fulfill multiple functions and reduce overall space requirements.
2Ease of operation
If a full size pool table is installed with sufficient clearance for playing around its perimeter, then the playing functionality is improved, but the weight exceeds 600 pounds making it difficult to move
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies the dynamics principle by making the tabletop movable and convertible. The tabletop can be removed or folded to convert the pool table into a dining table, allowing the space to serve dual purposes. This dynamic conversion resolves the contradiction by enabling playing functionality when needed while reducing space occupation when the pool table is not in use.
3Adaptability or versatility
If conversion-top pool tables are designed with traditional structures, then the dining table functionality is achieved, but the design compromises functionality, ergonomics, and aesthetics
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies segmentation by dividing the tabletop into multiple sections or panels that can be independently moved, folded, or removed. This segmentation allows for smoother conversion between pool and dining configurations, improving ergonomics and ease of operation while maintaining both functionalities.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements improved dynamics through enhanced conversion mechanisms that make the transition between pool and dining modes more ergonomic and aesthetically pleasing. The design incorporates features that improve user experience during conversion and in both operational states.
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AI summary
An embodiment of an improved design of a billiard table set with a dining table conversion-top, containing a billiard table with movably attached dining top segments, designed to eliminate inconvenient removal and storage of removable tabletop segments. The billiard dining table set furthermore contains benches featuring a custom height adopted to enable comfortable seating and foldable legs that enable storage of the benches under the dining table. Other embodiments are described and illustrated.