Abstract: A game cabinet has lower and upper housings hinged to one another to enable the upper housing to be swung from a position atop the lower housing to a position alongside and parallel to the lower housing. A target assembly having a frame and a plurality of individual segments removably accommodated in spaces formed by dividers is swingable as a unit about a horizontal axis to provide access to the segments from the rear of the assembly. The segments are biased in one direction by a resilient pad when the target assembly is in an operative position and the biasing force exerted by the pad is adjustable.

Abstract: A pool table having a playing surface with which ball accomodating pockets are associated. Pocketed balls are conveyed by a runway system via a trap toward a compartment at one end of the table that is accessible to a player. The trap has a gate operable to prevent passage of the object balls into the compartment. The operation of the gate is controlled by a latch which is movable between a first position in which it latches the gate in ball-blocking position and a second position in which it enables balls to pass the gate. The position of the latch is responsive to operation of a latch driving motor.

Abstract: A pool table having a playing surface with which ball accommodating pockets are associated. Pocketed balls are conveyed by a runway system via a trap toward a compartment at one end of the table that is accessible to a player. The trap has a gate magnetically latched in closed position so as to prevent passage of the object balls into the compartment until such time as a coin control mechanism is operated to effect unlatching and opening of the gate. The gate is maintained in its open position for a sufficient period of time to permit the passage of all the object balls from the trap to the compartment. Following movement of the last object ball past the gate the latter returns automatically to its closed, latched position.