Amusement devices: games – Card or tile games – cards or tiles therefor – With educational data
Reexamination Certificate
1999-01-21
2001-04-03
Layno, Benjamin H. (Department: 3711)
Amusement devices: games
Card or tile games, cards or tiles therefor
With educational data
C273S308000, CD21S391000, CD21S383000, C434S205000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06209875
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to domino games and more particularly pertains to a new domino playing piece system for helping children learn and recognize numbers and animals.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The use of domino games is known in the prior art. More specifically, domino games 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 domino games include U.S. Pat. No. 4,004,812; U.S. Pat. No. 4,225,139; U.S. Pat. No. 4,285,522; U.S. Pat. No. 4,239,231; U.S. Pat. No. 4,968,040; and U.S. Pat. No. Des. 328,107.
While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not disclose a new domino playing piece system. The inventive device includes a plurality of playing pieces with each playing piece comprising a display surface having first and second regions and a border between the first and second regions. The display surface of the playing piece has numeric indicia displayed thereon. Each of the first and second regions of the playing piece has an illustration displayed thereon with each illustration representing a numeric value. The sum of the numeric values of the illustrations of the first and second regions equals the value of the numeric indicia displayed on the playing piece.
In these respects, the domino playing piece, system 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 helping children learn and recognize numbers and animals.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of domino games now present in the prior art, the present invention provides a new domino playing piece system construction wherein the same can be utilized for helping children learn and recognize numbers and animals.
The general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new domino playing piece system apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the domino games mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new domino playing piece system which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art domino games, either alone or in any combination thereof.
To attain this, the present invention generally comprises a plurality of playing pieces with each playing piece comprising a display surface having first and second regions and a border between the first and second regions. The display surface of the playing piece has numeric indicia displayed thereon. Each of the first and second regions of the playing piece has an illustration displayed thereon with each illustration representing a numeric value. The sum of the numeric values of the illustrations of the first and second regions equals the value of the numeric indicia displayed on the playing piece.
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 domino playing piece system apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the domino games mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new domino playing piece system which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art domino games, either alone or in any combination thereof.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new domino playing piece system which may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a new domino playing piece system which is of a durable and reliable construction.
An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new domino playing piece system 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 domino playing piece system economically available to the buying public.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new domino playing piece system 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 domino playing piece system for helping children learn and recognize numbers and animals.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new domino playing piece system which includes a plurality of playing pieces with each playing piece comprising a display surface having first and second regions and a border between the first and second regions. The display surface of the playing piece has numeric indicia displayed thereon. Each of the first and second regions of the playing piece has an illustration displayed thereon with each illustration representing a numeric value. The sum of the numeric values of the illustrations of the first and second regions equals the value of the numeric indicia displayed on the playing piece.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new domino playing piece system that relates each number used on a domino playing piece to a different animal illustration.
Even still another object of the present invention is to provide a new domino playing piece system that helps children learn words and numbers through picture association.
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 advantages and the specific objects attained by its
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