Printed matter – Tally – Game
Reexamination Certificate
1999-08-12
2001-10-30
Fridie, Jr., Willmon (Department: 3722)
Printed matter
Tally
Game
C283S048100
Reexamination Certificate
active
06308989
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to baseball statistic recording cards and more particularly pertains to a new baseball score card and method for providing a reusable device for keeping records of the events occurring during a baseball game.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The use of baseball statistic recording cards is known in the prior art. More specifically, baseball statistic recording cards heretofore devised and utilized are known to consist basically of familiar, expected and obvious structural configurations, notwithstanding the myriad of designs encompassed by the crowded prior art which have been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements.
Known prior art includes U.S. Pat. No. 402,700; U.S. Pat. No. 5,664,780; U.S. Pat. No. 2,145,664; U.S. Pat. No. 1,601,119; U.S. Pat. No. Des. 352,956; and U.S. Pat. No. 5,556,135.
While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not disclose a new baseball score card and method. The inventive device includes a planar sheet member having a front face and a rear face. Each face includes sections having indicia arranged for facilitating keeping records of the events occurring during a baseball game. The faces are selectively markable to correspond to play results. In an embodiment, the planar sheet member is laminated to permit wiping away of markings in the sections on each face.
In these respects, the baseball score card and method according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in so doing provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of providing a reusable device for keeping records of the events occurring during a baseball game.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of baseball statistic recording cards now present in the prior art, the present invention provides a new baseball score card and method construction wherein the same can be utilized for providing a reusable device for keeping records of the events occurring during a baseball game.
The general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new baseball score card and method apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the baseball statistic recording cards mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new baseball score card and method which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art baseball statistic recording cards, either alone or in any combination thereof.
To attain this, the present invention generally comprises a planar sheet member having a front face and a rear face. Each face includes sections having indicia arranged for facilitating keeping records of the events occurring during a baseball game. The faces are selectively markable to correspond to play results. In an embodiment, the planar sheet member is laminated to permit wiping away of markings in the sections on each face.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the invention in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the invention that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.
As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception, upon which this disclosure is based, may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
Further, the purpose of the foregoing abstract is to enable the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally, and especially the scientists, engineers and practitioners in the art who are not familiar with patent or legal terms or phraseology, to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and essence of the technical disclosure of the application. The abstract is neither intended to define the invention of the application, which is measured by the claims, nor is it intended to be limiting as to the scope of the invention in any way.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a new baseball score card and method apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the baseball statistic recording cards mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new baseball score card and method which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art baseball statistic recording cards, either alone or in any combination thereof.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new baseball score card and method that may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a new baseball score card and method that is of a durable and reliable construction.
An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new baseball score card and method which is susceptible of a low cost of manufacture with regard to both materials and labor, and which accordingly is then susceptible of low prices of sale to the consuming public, thereby making such baseball score card and method economically available to the buying public.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new baseball score card and method which provides in the apparatuses and methods of the prior art some of the advantages thereof, while simultaneously overcoming some of the disadvantages normally associated therewith.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a new baseball score card and method for providing a reusable device for keeping records of the events occurring during a baseball game.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new baseball score card and method which includes a planar sheet member having a front face and a rear face. Each face includes sections having indicia arranged for facilitating keeping records of the events occurring during a baseball game. The faces are selectively markable to correspond to play results. In an embodiment, the planar sheet member is laminated to permit wiping away of markings in the sections on each face.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new baseball score card and method that provides a number of preprinted indicia positioned within sections of a sheet, the indicia corresponding to possible play results.
Even still another object of the present invention is to provide a new baseball score card and method that permits temporary marking of a sheet to correspond to highly individualized results while simultaneously providing an organized neat set of indicia for marking corresponding to more common play results in the sport of baseball.
These together with other objects of the invention, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the invention, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure. For a better understanding of the invention, its operating advan
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