Amusement devices: games – Card or tile games – cards or tiles therefor – Card or tile structure
Patent
1994-02-07
1995-06-06
Layno, Benjamin H.
Amusement devices: games
Card or tile games, cards or tiles therefor
Card or tile structure
2732822, 283117, 40160, 40594, 446147, 446901, B42D 1502, A47G 117, A63H 3338
Patent
active
054215838
ABSTRACT:
There is disclosed herein a new form of print media product which provides enhanced realism through a three-dimensional effect. It includes a master sheet or card having a background picture, along with a picture of a person or an object printed or disposed on a substrate and which substrate is directly adhered to the surface of the card to provide a substantially continuous profile edge around the picture and which edge preferably is substantially perpendicular to the surface of the background picture. This arrangement enables a shadow to exist along this profile edge and to give an enhanced three-dimensional effect. In the case of a trading card, the reverse side preferably has detailed biographical information and detailed life sports statistics. In alternative embodiments, the profile item formed by the picture and its substrate can be removable from another object such as a magazine cover. In other embodiments, the profile can have an opening therein, or be in the form of a box or the like, to allow a material object to be inserted and removed therefrom. In each instance, the profile (picture and its substrate) is relatively thin and flexible to allow the object (e.g., trading card, post card, magazine cover, etc.) to be flexed without destroying or deteriorating the combination of the profile and underlying card or other object.
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Newport News, Sep. 10, 1992, "It's Once, Twice, Three Times a Trading Card", pp 5-6.
Laservision Productions, Inc.
Layno Benjamin H.
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