Amusement devices: games – Games accessories – Hand holders
Patent
1982-04-26
1983-12-06
Skogquist, Harland S.
Amusement devices: games
Games accessories
Hand holders
40395, 40401, A63F 306
Patent
active
044189133
ABSTRACT:
The rack permits a single player to play a large number of bingo cards in every game, and without preempting more than his fair share of table space. The rack has a multiplicity of long horizontal rods extending from the player's left to right and supported by a pair of end frames, for instance 4 or 5 such rods, parallel to each other. The rod nearest the player is closest to the table, and is spaced above it a little more than the thickness of two bingo cards. This same spacing is used between rods, i.e., a staircase spacing with the same spacing of the second rod both above and behind the first rod, etc. The bingo cards are mounted in back-to-back pairs in special clips mounted on the rods and pivotal between a vertical position and a horizontal position, reading one card of a pair in each position. Each clip has portions defining a pocket which has an open top and one open side, so that a marginal portion of the pair of bingo cards is received in the pocket. The clip includes a pair of arcuate spring fingers which bow towards one another and are forced apart as the cards are inserted; the reaction of these spring fingers releasably retains the cards. Each clip preferably has an elongated narrow slit through its end member, midway between the spring fingers. Such slits may be aligned from one clip to the next so that a thin plate or strip joins a pair of opposing clips and defines a front pocket and a back pocket. The clips thus joined stay together when no cards are in place, and the connecting plate may be extended to join a second pair or clips so that four cards or six cards, etc., may be rotated as one unit.
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Carpenter Charles B.
Hamilton Norman L.
Hamilton Norman L.
Skogquist Harland S.
Smith, Jr. Roy Hammond
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