Patent ID: 7389987
Filing Date: 2008-06-24
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
1. A reconfigurable air table hockey game including at least one air puck and designed to be set upon a flat, horizontal surface comprising: a perforated, bounded playing surface overlying a plenum chamber supplied with air under pressure at least during game play; a score keeping mechanism receiving signals indicative of scoring events; goals for air hockey game play attached to and positioned at opposite ends of the playing surface to accept an air puck and to signal to the score keeping mechanism with the passage of an air puck through one of the goals; and an actuatable control that, when actuated, reconfigures the playing surface for at least one game other than air hockey game play, wherein the actuatable control alters the tilt of the playing surface relative to any flat, horizontal surface upon which the game is set thereby causing the air pucks to slide preferentially toward one end of the playing surface, and wherein the actuatable control further alters at least one of the goals causing the altered goal to reflect, rather than to accept, an air puck, the altered goal being positioned at the high end of the playing surface when it is tilted.