Amusement devices: games – Card or tile games – cards or tiles therefor – With functional back indicia
Patent
1996-06-21
1997-10-21
Layno, Benjamin H.
Amusement devices: games
Card or tile games, cards or tiles therefor
With functional back indicia
352 99, A63F 100
Patent
active
056788223
ABSTRACT:
A deck of cards having front faces carrying indicia of playing values to and identical back faces each having a first end portion marked with a first image and a second, opposite end portion marked with a second image which is complementary to the first image and inverted relative to the first image so that so that the first and second images of overlying first and second end portions of different cards are aligned in the deck to provide an animated or kinematic effect when the deck is flipped. Front faces of each cards can also have first end and second end portions marked with complementary first and second images, respectively, to provide a kinematic image effect when the cards are flipped. At least three different, complementary images can be provided on respective front faces of different cards to form sequences of reciprocal actions so that exposure in any order when the cards are flipped provides a kinematic effect.
REFERENCES:
patent: 1787592 (1931-01-01), Owens
patent: 3159405 (1964-12-01), Brambier
patent: 3453746 (1969-07-01), Cartwright
"Paper Movie Machines" Authored by Budd Wentz Published 1975 By Troubadour Press S.F. pp. 17, 18, 31 & 32.
Marked Cards, Scarne's Encyclopedia Of Games by John Scarne, Harper & Row Publishers, pp. 434-437. Dec. 1973.
Layno Benjamin H.
Usher Robert W. J.
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