Amusement devices: games – Board games – pieces – or boards therefor – Lotto or bingo type
Reexamination Certificate
1999-07-07
2001-01-23
Chapman, Jeanette (Department: 3711)
Amusement devices: games
Board games, pieces, or boards therefor
Lotto or bingo type
C273S287000, C273S269000, C273S282100
Reexamination Certificate
active
06176488
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to a game device, more particularly to a game device with displaying members mounted detachably and swiveledly to a lower mounting board and exposed to or hidden under an upper board superimposed upon the lower mounting board.
2. Description of the Related Art
Bingo is a game played and appreciated by young and old alike. Each of the participants of a bingo game is given a bingo card provided with a unique set of numbers. When a number is drawn randomly from a bag and is called out by the caller, the participants compete by covering the corresponding numbers with tokens in the given card. The first participant to achieve a predetermined arrangement of tokens on the bingo card becomes the winner of the game.
Another way of playing a game of bingo is to use a bingo game box with rows and columns of openings for insertion of game blocks with predetermined printed matter thereon. However, there is no means for fastening the game blocks on the game box, thereby resulting in undesired removal of the game blocks when they are not inserted into the openings.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The object of the present invention is to provide a game device in which a plurality of displaying members with specific print thereon are mounted detachably and swiveledly to a lower mounting board so as to be turnable for expose from or hiding under an upper board that is superimposed upon the lower mounting board. As such, the displaying members may be retained between the lower mounting board and the upper board to preventing misplacing of the same.
According to this invention, the game device includes an upper board, a lower mounting board and a plurality of displaying members. The upper board includes a plurality of upper rows of first displaying areas which respectively define first displaying openings, a plurality of upper rows of first shielded areas, each of which is disposed angularly adjacent to a respective first displaying opening, a plurality of upper columns of second displaying areas which respectively define second displaying openings, and a plurality of upper columns of second shielded areas, each of which is disposed to be angularly displaced and adjacent to a respective second displaying opening. Each first displaying opening and each first shielded area are substantially and respectively identical to each second displaying opening and each second shielded area such that the upper rows and the upper columns constitute an array of displaying openings and shielded areas. The lower mounting board is disposed to be spaced apart from, and is superimposed upon the upper board in a transverse direction. The lower mounting board defines a plurality of lower rows of first leading swept areas which are registered respectively with the upper rows of the first displaying openings in the transverse direction, a plurality of lower rows of first tailing swept areas each of which is disposed angularly adjacent to a respective first leading swept area, and each of which is registered with a respective first shielded area, a plurality of lower columns of second leading swept areas, and a plurality of lower columns of second tailing swept areas each of which is disposed to be angularly displaced and adjacent to a respective second leading swept area. Each first leading area and each first tailing swept area are substantially and respectively identical to each second leading area and each second tailing swept area, such that the lower rows and the lower columns constitute an array of leading and tailing swept areas. Each displaying member includes an upper major wall with a specific print thereon, and is interposed between a respective shielded area and the tailing swept area. Each displaying member is disposed detachably and swiveledly on the lower mounting board and proximate to the tailing swept area, such that the upper major wall is turnable about a swivel axis parallel to the transverse direction between the leading swept area, where the specific print is exposed to a respective displaying opening, and the respective tailing swept area, where the specific print is hidden under the respective shielded area.
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Baker & Botts L.L.P.
Chapman Jeanette
Mendiratta Vishu
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