Issued Patents -- Toys, Games & Recreation

Decahedron imbedded within a transparent hexahedron game piece   (PDF ,  Text only,  Figure 1)
The ornamental design for a "decahedron imbedded within a transparent hexahedron game piece", as shown and described.

Game system   (PDF ,  Text only,  Figure 1)
A game system with game pieces that have combinations of capture indicia and defense indicia spaced at angular increments.

Dally practicing systems   (PDF ,  Text only,  Figure 1)
A dally practicing system which simulates the conditions of roping a steer with relative safety. The portable dallying practice system takes up slack in a rope without applying excessive tension which could injure the user, provides a clutch system which allows for convenient manipulation of the tension, and provides a safety release mechanism which automatically releases the tension if the tension becomes excessive.

TABLETOP HORSESHOES GAME SYSTEMS   (PDF ,  Text only,  Figure 1)
A tabletop scaled-down horseshoes game system (200) primarily for use indoors that includes a substantially horizontal playing surface (128) and a pair of scaled-down posts (127) to be used as the target for tossed scaled-down horseshoes. An embodiment for use in commercial establishments provides a token to activate the game, a scoreboard (260), a game timer, and pneumatics (202) to lower the posts when the game is over. The commercial establishment game may also incorporate a vending machine (222) to dispense the scaled-down horseshoes to be used with the game system.

Harness system   (PDF ,  Text only,  Figure 1)
A harness system for aiding a mounted rider in maintaining a substantially upright position during a riding procedure. Additionally, it specifically provides a harness system that aids a rider in maintaining a substantially upright position in the saddle during the delivery of a roping procedure.

Heeling/heading roping practicing system   (PDF ,  Text only,  Figure 1)
A compact lightweight portable heeling/heading rope practicing system with a detachable head portion that provides automated movement simulating the movement of bovine legs using pendular motion driven by a hand cranked spring mechanism and/or electric powered motor, and a method of promoting the sale of such rope practicing systems in conjunction with events in which potential purchasers already participate.

Tabletop horseshoes game systems   (PDF ,  Text only,  Figure 1)
A tabletop scaled-down horseshoes game system primarily for use indoors that includes a substantially horizontal playing surface and a pair of scaled-down posts to be used as the target for tossed scaled-down horseshoes. An embodiment for use in commercial establishments provides a token means to activate the game, a means to change and display each player's score, a means to keep track of and display game time, and a means to pneumatically lower the posts when the game is over. The commercial establishment game may also incorporate a vending machine to dispense the scaled-down horseshoes to be used with the game system.

Tabletop horseshoes game system   (PDF ,  Text only,  Figure 1)
A tabletop miniature horseshoes game for use in private residences which includes a substantially horizontal playing surface and a pair of miniature posts to be used as the target for tossed miniature horseshoes. An embodiment for use in commercial establishments provides a token means to activate the game, a means to change and display each players score, a means to keep track of and display game time, and a means to lower the posts when the game is over. The commercial establishment game may also incorporate a vending machine to dispense the 1/10th scale horseshoes to be used with the game.

Water skier warning flag system   (PDF ,  Text only,  Figure 1)
This invention concerns a water skier warning flag system of the type wherein the slackening of the tow rope causes a warning flag at the transom of the ski boat to be raised. A mechanical device mounted on the rear of the transom of a ski boat includes a lever having a normally vertical long lever arm for holding a longitudinally-mounted (normally vertical) standard of a warning flag; and this long lever arm also has a connection point to a ski tow line. The other (short) lever arm is urged by a compression spring to maintain the long lever arm vertical. When a skier is skiing, the tension on the tow line pulls the long lever arm down to horizontal against the pressure of the compression spring; and when the tow line goes slack, the spring pressure returns the long lever arm to vertical.

Golf putter training tools   (PDF ,  Text only,  Figure 1)
This invention provides golf putter training tools for training a golfer's putting stroke. These golf putter training tools assist a golfer in making the putting stroke flat and in a straight "sweeping" line. A wheel, attached to the putter body, is provided adjacent each end of the putter and constructed to roll when the proper putting motion is used. The wheels (provided either as a putter part or as an add-on) extend slightly below the bottom surface of the putter and may include sharp portions along their circumference to impede other than straight rolling.

Dart tool   (PDF ,  Text only,  Figure 1)
A dart tool useful in tournament darts and other games using thrown darts. This unitary dart tool efficiently combines many useful elements and functions, including: extracting a broken dart tip from a dart target by providing, on a thin nub, a tapered slot for grabbing such broken dart; adjusting a dart assembly having a flight shaft, a barrel, and a dart tip; tightening or loosening a threaded connection between a dart tip and a dart barrel by providing a slot for holding the opposed flat portions of a dart tip; tightening or loosening a threaded connection between a flight shaft and a dart barrel by providing a protuberance, which comprises part of the described slot, for holding the hole in the flight shaft; loosening a flight lock of the dart by providing a safe recessed wedge therefor; tightening a flight lock by providing a cylindrical hole therefor; and also permitting keychain attachment and bottle-opening, and providing advertising areas.

Board game apparatus   (PDF ,  Text only,  Figure 1)
A game device consisting of a playing board having a "driving" track around the center of the board. The board has multiple lanes, each divided into successive discrete areas bearing players' instructions. The game also includes at least one listing, adapted to have numbered tokens placed thereon, of numbered "defensive driving" tactics. Playing pieces are provided including pieces in the form of cars for movement around the "driving" track in accordance with the roll of a die and game instructions. The players "solve" a plurality of picture cards, each depicting a unique traffic situation calling for certain of the said listed "defensive driving" tactics; and consecutively numbered tokens are provided for selection of the correct tactics in the correct order; and instruction cards are provided for use depending upon the correctness of tactics selected by the player.

Board game apparatus   (PDF ,  Text only,  Figure 1)
A game device consisting of a rectangular playing board incorporating twenty-seven playing areas or squares arranged in nine rows and three columns. The board is visibly marked for division in three equal sectors of nine squares each. There are two sets of nine playing pieces or tokens marked with the numerals "1", "2", and"3", so that each of two players at opposite ends of the board longitudinally may place pieces on the equal sector near that player, the row nearest the player having the highest numbered tokens, the next row having the next highest numbered tokens, and the third row having the lowest numbered tokens, whereby pieces are moved forward in play either directly or diagonally or both according to the numeral indicated on the particular token.