US 7,367,907 B1
Tri-surface table tennis game
William M. Sutton, P.O. Box 3088, Carlsbad, N. Mex. 88221 (US); and Thomas Martinez, 702 N. Canal, Carlsbad, N. Mex. 88220 (US)
Filed on Nov. 16, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/600,574.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/737493, filed on Nov. 17, 2005.
Int. Cl. A63B 67/04 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 473—496 3 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A tri-surface table tennis table, comprising:
a. three table tennis playing surfaces, each table tennis playing surface comprising two lateral sides, a back side facing a playing position and a front end, said front end comprising two sides and three vertexes, so that a side and two vertexes of one surface touch a side and two vertexes of another surface when said three table tennis playing surfaces are aligned at one hundred twenty degrees from each other to create said tri-surface table tennis table;
b. a lower frame;
c. a means to attach said table tennis playing surfaces to said lower frame, wherein the means to attach is selected from the group consisting of commercially available screws, clamps, and nuts and bolts;
d. a means to join said three table tennis playing surfaces in such a way that a tri-surface table tennis table results that allows three sets of players to participate rather than two, wherein the means to join comprises commercially available metal clasps;
e. a trilateral net structure, comprising three pieces of net of equal length and width, each having an inner end and an outer end, wherein the three inner ends are attached to one another and centered on the tri-surface table tennis table and the outer ends of the net are one hundred twenty degrees apart, running to the three touching vertexes of the three tennis table playing surfaces; and
f. a means to attach the outer ends of said trilateral net structure to said table tennis playing surface vertexes, wherein the means to attach comprises commercially available c-clamps.