Amusement devices: games – Board games – pieces – or boards therefor – Lotto or bingo type
Reexamination Certificate
1999-06-02
2001-07-03
Layno, Benjamin H. (Department: 3711)
Amusement devices: games
Board games, pieces, or boards therefor
Lotto or bingo type
C273S274000, C273S287000, C273S285000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06254097
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates generally to games and, more specifically, to a portfolio having one or more bingo game cards and a plurality of tokens attached thereon. Said portfolio, when folded, has a front side and a back side whereupon a logo or advertisement can be imprinted. Upon opening said portfolio, one or more bingo game cards and a plurality of tokens are accessible for playing especially, while traveling in a moving conveyance.
The portfolio is made from a rigid material, such as compressed paper, cardboard, or plastic and is comprised of a number of foldable sections having one part of hook and loop material attached thereon with the exception of the front and back.
The game or game cards and the plurality of tokens having a front side and a back side having a flocking material attached to the back side therein providing means for securing said game card or cards to the portfolio.
On each of the game cards is a length of hook and loop material adhesively attached between the columns and rows on the playing side of the game card or cards and wherein said hook and loop material being of the same mating type as that located on the portfolio surfaces thereby providing means for the transference of the tokens from a holding position on a portfolio surface to a game card surface.
2. Description of the Prior Art
There are other game apparatus designed to hold playing pieces by means of hook and loop, adhesive and magnetism. Typical of these is U.S. Pat. No. 2,282,871 issued to Malbon on May 12, 1942.
Another patent was issued to Hlavac on Jan. 12, 1954 as U.S. Pat. No. 2,665,913. Yet another U.S. Pat. No. 3,477,715 was issued to Nekton on Nov. 11, 1969 and still yet another was issued on Nov. 18, 1969 to Wagner as U.S. Pat. No. 3,479,034. Yet another U.S. Pat. No. 5,040,800 was issued to Ulan on Aug. 20, 1991 and still yet another was issued on Sep. 17, 1974 to Bowerman as U.S. Pat. No. 3,836,151.
U.S. Pat. No. 2,282,871
Inventor: Clifford B. Malbon
Issued: May 12, 1942
This United States Patent discloses improvements to game apparatus of the type in which game pieces or checkers are moved about on a game board. The game board surface is covered with a coating of flocking of cotton or other fibrous material, which is adhesively secured thereto so that a multiplicity of minute short fibers stand erect on the surface, and by coating the engaging surface or surfaces of the checkers in like manner, so that, when the checkers are merely placed on the board, the erect fibers on the board and checkers interlock and prevent the checkers from freely sliding on the board , or from being moved thereon by the action of gravity when the board is tilted even to a nearly vertical position, or from being moved from their positions when the board is accidentally moved suddenly or jarred, the construction permitting the checkers to be slid over the surface of the board nearly as easily as if the flocked surface were not present, and in no way interfering with the checkers from being lifted and placed in other positions.
U.S. Pat. No. 2,665,913
Inventor: Ludvik Hlavac
Issued: Jan. 12, 1954
This United States Patent discloses improvements to game apparatus of the type in which game pieces such as chess, checkers, backgammon, and parcheesi are moved about on a game board. The game board and game pieces are magnetically attracted whereby the game pieces maintain the positions to which they are moved on the surface of the board.
U.S. Pat. No. 3,477,715
Inventor: Armas H. Nekton
Issued: Nov. 11, 1969
This United States Patent discloses a chess board wherein the squares have vertical openings therethrough which receive the shafts of the playing pieces and an inked pad is placed below the openings and is engageable by the bottom ends of the shafts which bear identifying indicia. The playing pieces have reduced shanks received in openings having a corresponding diameter, the lead positions of the playing pieces being disposed above the board. Releasable means are provided for latching the playing pieces in suspended position above the pad. In use the game pieces are pushed into contact with the pad and are then withdrawn from the vertical opening and are stamped on a specially designed printed record sheet to indicate each play as it is made. Means are provided for supporting a record sheet above the inked pad.
U.S. Pat. No. 3,479,034
Inventor: Heinz Wagner
Issued: Nov. 18, 1969
This United States Patent discloses an amusement game or educational device incorporating a board or base plate upon which markers in the form of game pieces, figures, indicators or the like are placed. Both the base plate and the markers are formed at least partially of magnetic material, the base plate or the markers consisting at least partially of ferromagnetic material and the other element(s) at least partially of permanent magnetic material. Disposed over the base plate and at a distance therefrom is a cover plate of transparent material. The markers can be displaced by means of an external guide magnet acting through the cover plate so that such markers can be selectively positioned with respect to the base plate. The cover plate is mounted for movement to vary the spacing between the cover plate and the base plate, the outer limit of the range of adjustment being such as to render the guide magnet incapable of moving the markers.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,040,800
Inventor: Joel Ulan
Issued: Aug. 20, 1991
This United States Patent discloses an apparatus for a board game, wherein playing pieces are moved to and from designated positions on the game board's surface, has a vertically disposed planar game board with the playing surface area represented in perspective, giving the effect of depth and a three-dimensional appearance. Playing pieces, releasably held in their assigned positions by magnets or projections, are angularly truncated at their bases so that each piece when in place extends outwardly and upwardly from the playing surface at a predetermined angle.
U.S. Pat. No. 3,836,151
Inventor: William R. Bowerman
Issued: Sep. 17, 1974
This United States Patent discloses a self storing game apparatus in which a pliable game board or panel having a suitable game design emplaced thereon, such as by embossing, and a plurality of game playing pieces adapted to be selectively arranged on the panel in accordance with the design are made of a common material, as for example vinyl or the like, having a characteristic, which causes the pieces to adhere to the panel when in direct contact therewith. The pliable nature of the vinyl permits folding of the panel for storage purposes as, for example in the user's pocket purse, desk, etc., without the likelihood of the playing pieces being readily dislodged from their position when the panel in folded.
While these game apparatus may be suitable for the purposes for which they were designed, they would not be as suitable for the purposes of the present invention, as hereinafter described.
SUMMARY OF THE PRESENT INVENTION
The present invention discloses a foldable game board for playing bingo or the like having a plurality of playing surfaces upon which surfaces is attached a part of hook and loop material for having attached thereto either playing cards having mating hook and loop material attached to the back thereof or chips having flocking material attached to the back thereof so that when the playing card or chip is attached to the playing surface it will not move until the player so chooses even when the playing surface is jostled about. Furthermore, the face of the playing card has narrow lengths of a part of hook and loop material which is placed between the rows and columns of numbers so that each number is encompassed by the hook and loop material so that the chip with the flocking material attached to the back thereof can be attached securely thereto. The game board is equipped with live hinges so that it can be easily folded upon itself.
A primary object of the present invention is to provide a bingo game card whe
Kroll Michael I.
Layno Benjamin H.
Mendiratta V K
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