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Class 273/113 - Pocketed


Subclass of Class 273 - Amusement devices: games
Definition: Games in which pockets are provided into which the projectile
No. of patents: 79
Last issue date: 05/25/2010


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NumberTitleIssue Date
7722042Game comprising a playing surface formed from a resilient material
This invention relates a playing surface (1) for a game that may be played by opposing players or teams of players. The playing surface is formed from a resilient material and may be of polygonal or regular shape. The playing surface is provided with at least...
05/25/2010
7338045Three dimensional maze game
A three-dimensional maze game in the form of a hand-held toy. The hand held toy is in the form of a cube. The toy comprises a substantially cubic non-transparent body containing a plurality of intersecting pathways for an object and an entrance aperture and single/m...
03/04/2008
7320296Animal entertainment device
An entertainment device for use by pets. The entertainment device can have a hollow enclosure with access openings and exit openings. The hollow enclosure may have one or more play items with diameters larger than the access openings and the exit openings within the...
01/22/2008
7284755Bulk vending machine having an integrated game of skill
A bulk vending machine having an integrated game of skill includes a base having a chute door and a coin mechanism operatively attached thereto. The bulk vending machine further includes a hopper in which the bulk product is contained, and the hopper is operatively ...
10/23/2007
7270327Game playing device for rolling balls
A game playing device for rolling balls includes a game surface, a plurality of bar-shape elements and at least one rolling ball that rolls on the game surface. The game surface is made of a fabric and has an area and a shape including a circular shape or a rectangu...
09/18/2007
7165768Variable three-dimensional labyrinth
A variable three-dimensional labyrinth comprises a base, a plurality of central blocks, side blocks, corner blocks, wherein a plurality of buckling pillars are mounted on the base for buckling the central blocks. A plurality of hollow tunnels are formed on the centr...
01/23/2007
7121025Promotional display with liquid interactions
A promotional display comprising a chamber having front and rear panels with inside and outside surfaces, for containing between expanses of the inside surfaces of the panels a first liquid. At least a portion of the outside surface of the front panel comprises a vi...
10/17/2006
6955353Universal lottery game ticket and a lottery game and a method of playing the lottery game using the ticket
A novel lottery ticket as well as a lottery game and method of playing that game using the lottery ticket are disclosed. The lottery ticket can be used to participate in at least one of a plurality of drawing events that occur over a period of time. The lottery tick...
10/18/2005
6945195Animal entertainment device
An entertainment device for use by animals is disclosed. The entertainment device can have a hollow enclosure with access openings and exit openings. The hollow enclosure may have one or more play items with diameters larger than the access openings and the exit ope...
09/20/2005
6878059Cube insertion game
A game comprises a frame and 82 cubical playing pieces, or playing cubes, 81 of which cubes are removably retained in the frame. For playing purposes, the playing cubes are divided into 3 groups: 27 scoring cubes, 54 blank cubes, and 1 pilot cube. During play cubes ...
04/12/2005
6554277Pocketed parachute game
An amusement device including a sheet of flexible material defining an opening, and a pocket defining a mouth joined to the sheet around the opening. The sheet is grasped by participants during a game in which the sheet is held substantially horizontally ...
04/29/2003
6533277Composite cubical maze puzzle
A composite cubical maze puzzle. The puzzle includes a transparent cubical casing constructed by six pieces of transparent square face plate which has four tubular latch sections at four edges to engage respectively with a pain for fastening to a neighbor...
03/18/2003
6361046Marble/disk game
A marble game is described in which a playing surface is provided having designations for the locations of two marbles in contact with each other and with designations of a plurality of shooting positions for a third marble, these being points awarded a p...
03/26/2002
5755438Hockey sphere game
A game device played with rules similar to a hockey game. Te device contains an inflated transparent sphere containing a plurality of handles, nets between the handles, and a ball on the inside of the sphere. The object is to roll or bounce the ball into ...
05/26/1998
5749575Dual maze
A tiltable dual maze game board with rolling ball playing pieces. Each board is identical and can be tilted independently of the other to cause the playing pieces to move up ramps, around obstacles and around or into holes. Each board's control tilt mecha...
05/12/1998
5732945Toy maze
A toy maze comprising a container with a ball having a plurality of passage levels with vertically extending wall segments forming passageways. Each level is separated by a tray having a plurality of apertures, some of which are trap-holes with a mechanis...
03/31/1998
5676371Arcade games
An arcade game including an inclined playing surface, a playing piece which can be directed down the playing surface, and a vibration apparatus operative to overcome the frictional forces between the playing piece and the playing surface. The vibration me...
10/14/1997
5607155Pivoted player-tiltable games table
This invention comprises a games apparatus on which a game involving strength, skill and agility is playable by two or more opposing players who, in playing the game, must struggle against one another as they attempt to score points by directing a playing...
03/04/1997
5564986Convertible bowling lane
The complexity of a convertible bowling lane can be eliminated through the provision of a bowling lane bed 10 having a side 12 along which at least one gutter section 26 extends. The gutter section includes a ball catching surface 30 and a ball deflecting...
10/15/1996
5560606Cubicle maze puzzle
A cubicle maze puzzle including a transparent cubicle main portion having an upper end and a lower end. The main portion has transparent walls formed therein. The walls define a plurality of chambers within the main portion. The walls have a plurality of ...
10/01/1996
5549295Multi-level rotatable concentric ring marble game
A multi-level rotatable concentric ring marble game that includes a circular base, a circular upper peripheral cylinder, a lower peripheral cylinder, a cylindrical collector, and a plurality of concentric rotatable circular rings. The circular base contai...
08/27/1996
5494292Marble maze game device
A game device consisting of a plurality of vertically stacked, alternately rotatable disks (13, 25, 33, 41 and 49) and stationary tiers (10, 19, 29, 37, 45 and 53) each containing passageways through which a spherical game piece may pass. The disks are ro...
02/27/1996
5451055Tower puzzle toy
A tower puzzle toy including a central shaft, a top cap and a bottom cap respectively fastened to the central shaft at two opposite ends, a plurality of rotary decks revolvably mounted around the central shaft and defining a plurality of radial ball chamb...
09/19/1995
5445376Conveyor playing surface game
A moving playing surface amusement game having an object chute disposed at one end and one or more targets disposed at the other end and a movable conveyor playing surface disposed intermediate the object chute and targets. The conveyor playing surface ga...
08/29/1995
5425536Arcade game
An arcade game including an inclined playing surface, a playing piece which can be directed down the playing surface, and a vibration apparatus operative to overcome the frictional forces between the playing piece and the playing surface. The vibration me...
06/20/1995
5301943Puzzle with a toroidal channel engaging a plurality of toroidal rings perpendicular thereto
The apparatus is a puzzle which includes a central toroidal channel with a rotating cogged wheel therein. A plurality of hollow toroidal rings intersect perpendicular to the central toroidal channel. These toroidal rings include balls of different colors....
04/12/1994
5292126Game employing rotating disks
A game has a plurality of playing pieces and a plurality of stacked disks. Each of the disks is pierced by an angularly spaced plurality of peripheral apertures. At least one of the apertures in each of the disks is sized to allow passage of the playing p...
03/08/1994
5281039Pen with a toy labyrinth incorporated therein
A pen having a barrel with a transparent sleeve to hold a refill for writing, wherein an intricate network of winding passage ways is formed around the barrel, where by tilting and turning the ball finds its way starting from its designated point....
01/25/1994
5265873Game of skill
A game of skill having a housing, which is formed from a transparent, essentially cube-shaped body, which exhibits openings concentric in two mutually perpendicular directions to the sides of the body, the thereby remaining frame, consisting of bars, bein...
11/30/1993
5221093Game apparatus
A combination game apparatus is provided having a housing with a plurality of settable dials each having indicia thereon. Setting the correct combination on the game dials provides an output for indicating when a correct input combination has been set on ...
06/22/1993
5205558Spherical puzzle
A spherical puzzle has an internal spherical cavity having a plurality of maze sections interconnected, with an exit opening of an upper maze section spaced at an opposed end of a circuitous path of an underlying maze section. The polar ends of the maze s...
04/27/1993
5176382Logical toy
The logical toy comprises two components (1-2) that are rotatable relative to each other and feature a center part (16, 17) each. Arranged around each center part (16, 17), concentrically, are six hollow cylindrical containers (3-8; 9-14). The container l...
01/05/1993
5172912Rotatable manipulable puzzle
A manipulable, two-sided, self-contained game puzzle with sequentially movable color-coded transfer members for selective movement between color-coded, collared apertures in a first rotatable member to color-coded, collared apertures of a second rotatable...
12/22/1992
5154419Game board storage and retrieval system
A new and improved game board for use in the playing of a traditional board game of India known as CAROM. The improvements of the present invention relate primarily to a spring biased, rotatable pocket system (FIGS. 1-3) for facilitating removal of the ga...
10/13/1992
5123650Multi-panel maze puzzle
A maze puzzle has a plurality of separate discs mounted to be independently rotated about a common shaft, which discs each have a plurality of openings by means of which a ball can pass through the discs from the disc through which it entered to the exit ...
06/23/1992
5066014Sidewinder amusement game
A carnival or amusement park game in which a player is challenged to keep a rolling ball to its objective descending, planar, zig-zag path by manipulating the rotation of the plane of the path. The game may be further enhanced by providing rotational stee...
11/19/1991
5029863Croquet game apparatus
Apparatus including a multi-sectioned trough like organization directing impacted croquet balls from a starting position defined by a series of aligned recesses. Guide plates direct a struck croquet ball through a medial section of the apparatus and direc...
07/09/1991
4964637Roving spinning top puzzle
An apparatus for a game of skill has a base member with a gaming surface with a gaming pathway. An orbital pathway is formed on the base surface, and a handle is attached to the base. A top member has a vertical axis and a spindle that extends along the v...
10/23/1990
4960274Maze type device with optical component
A maze in a housing having a reflector which reflects light waves through ninety degrees to render the illusion of a ball element floating in opposition to gravity. The maze may be in a module enabling an array of maze modules to be used in conjunction wi...
10/02/1990
4953863Game assembly
A game assembly includes a plurality of toy blocks or cubes containing passsageways which are strategically stacked so as to determine the path of a ball dropped through interconnecting passageways within the arrays of stacked blocks or cubes. The blocks ...
09/04/1990
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