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Mountable Printable Placard With Headband

A resilient headband in a shape for being mounted on the head of the user. The headband is equipped with a longitudinal slotted member for holding a placard.

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Class 273/286 - Flexible sheet type


Subclass of Class 273 - Amusement devices: games
Definition: Game structure wherein the surface having a pattern is made
No. of patents: 48
Last issue date: 10/03/2006


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NumberTitleIssue Date
7114722Plastic kubb (coob) game & carrying case
Apparatus that interconnects the twenty-one pieces used to play the ancient backyard target-throwing game “kubb”, pronounced “coob”, into a portable self-contained carrying case that looks like a briefcase. An improvement over transporting kubb in heavy crat...
10/03/2006
7000920Memory engagement game
A memory engagement game is based on Montessori educational principles and employs elements of a trivia game and a bingo game. The game includes a game board having a plurality of openings, a movable cover associated with each opening, a plurality of game cards that...
02/21/2006
6663459Transportable play system, including a bag or a backpack, reversibly convertible into a play surface
A transportable play system simulating a backpack or bag unfolds to provide a self-adhering fabric play surface whereby children can create themes or stories by attaching self-adhering play pieces onto the fabric play surface. When the play surface in the...
12/16/2003
6520825Parade throw
A parade throw and its method of use are disclosed. The parade throw includes a bag having an open top and a contained support member that can be in the form of a disk, ring, or plastic "Frisbee.RTM." like member. The combination of bag and support disk a...
02/18/2003
6401927Pop-up food tray for combination meals
An innovative pop-up food tray for combination meals to function as a lap or seat mounted support for the typical sandwich, drink cup and French fry container related to eating drive-in fast-food while operating an vehicle, which includes the features of ...
06/11/2002
6322485Portable abdominal exercising mat
A portable abdominal exercising mat including a mat portion defined by an upper panel and a lower panel. The upper panel and the lower panel each have an inner surface, an outer surface, an upper edge, a lower edge, and opposed side edges. The lower edge ...
11/27/2001
5961149Toy train and book assembly
The covers and flaps of the cover construction of the book and toy assembly are opened and laid flat. Pop-up and fixed structures on the opened cover construction form a village, and a path or track passes through and by the village. The path passes over ...
10/05/1999
5873570Towel games
A game includes a playing surface that is made from a fabric material such as a beach towel. The playing surface includes reinforcing members near the edges that receive retaining members to maintain the playing surface in desired position and location re...
02/23/1999
5868389Portable game board
A game board is made of a fabric sheet, printed with the game board design, and hemmed at two opposing edges. Two dowels are inserted through the hems. A pair of frame rails include pivotably mounted legs. Holes are provided in the frame rails for inserti...
02/09/1999
5839976Game mat apparatus
A firm, flexible game mat has tapered edges, art work, and transparent portions defining sections of sufficient size and spaced to enable a player to place a foot on and hop from one to the jothers. The trasparent portions also provide areas through which...
11/24/1998
5695191Method and apparatus for a konane game
The invention relates to a new transportable konane game with a pouch that opens into a playable flat surface and new rules of play....
12/09/1997
5647595Marble mat
An apparatus for playing marbles including a first layer of foam material having an upturned perimeter for retaining marbles therewithin and a second layer of foam material affixed to an upper surface of the first layer and within the upturned perimeter. ...
07/15/1997
5577730Flexible vinyl chess mat that converts into a carrying case
This invention consists of a flexible vinyl chess mat having two handles on opposite sides, both disposed in opposing positions to each other and centered on the perimeter of the square shaped chess mat, so that when the chess mat is folded in half, both ...
11/26/1996
5507495Games for teaching alphabet, numbers, colors, shapes and math along with coordination and motor skills
Games for teaching alphabet, numbers, colors, shapes and math along with coordination and motor skills comprising a planar member having a circle at its central interior and having curves therearound to define a plurality of zones around the center. The z...
04/16/1996
5497998Roll up game board and method for making the same
A tambour game board comprising of a series of adjacent rectangular segments each segment having a top and bottom horizontal surface and two side surfaces each being vertical to the top and bottom surfaces. Each segment consisting of a top surface such as...
03/12/1996
5439228Board game apparatus and method of play
A game playing apparatus for use with a signaling device includes sheet material defining a confined playing area and an array of locations delineated on the playing area. The playing area is sized to permit the players to move around the playing area whe...
08/08/1995
5419564Board game
A game apparatus includes fourteen playing pieces and a playing surface divided into sixteen squares. The players try to arrange their own pieces and two wild pieces into a winning configuration of four in a row, the four corner squares of the playing sur...
05/30/1995
5350178Car racing game
A board game simulating an automobile race for one or more players includes a flexible game board with a first race track depicted on one side and a second, generally smaller, track on the opposite side. A textured track surface on preferred embodiments e...
09/27/1994
5332215Football board game
A football board game is arranged to simulate football play employing a passing attack as the sole means of advancing each team along the game board, that in turn is arranged for furled mounting about a storage mandrel. Advancing of the players is effecte...
07/26/1994
5310191Bingo card sheet cover assembly
A flexible polymeric web arranged for storage in a furled configuration positioned within a tubular container is removable from the container for positioning over bingo cards. The sheet formed of a flexible polymeric film includes a plurality of contrasti...
05/10/1994
5308080Method of playing a board game
A game apparatus includes fourteen playing places and a playing surface divided into sixteen squares. The players try to arrange their own pieces and two wild pieces into a winning configuration of four in a row, the four corner squares of the playing sur...
05/03/1994
5280913Apparatus and method of playing double chess game
A modified chess game for play by two opposing players comprises a game board eight squares wide and sixteen squares deep, foldable at its midsection to create a carrying case for the pieces. Each player has a playing pieces set consisting of two kings, t...
01/25/1994
5203571Game board
A game board made of a flexible material, whereby a pocket (28) for receiving the pieces (30) is arranged on a first edge (14) of the game board (10) and the other edges (16, 18, 20) are embodied in the form of pockets (40) with openings (42) for receivin...
04/20/1993
4988110Combination board game and wrapper for edible play pieces
A combination candy wrapper and board game. The candy wrapper has board game indicia printed on its outside surface. The wrapper is initially sealed. Edible playing pieces, candy, are contained within the sealed wrapper. In order to play the board game, t...
01/29/1991
4917386Apparatus and method of playing a board game simulating a race
A game for simulating a race of equal moves comprising a playing surface having a plurality of racing lanes each being subdivided into an equal number of advancement spaces including a starting space and a finishing space. A plurality of playing pieces co...
04/17/1990
4850597Trading and sailing board game
The board game apparatus is intended primarily to provide a game involving trading, negotiating, and sailing. In order that the principle of the invention can be readily understood, a single embodiment thereof is discussed. The object of the game is to ac...
07/25/1989
4848772Foldable game board
A parlor game is played on a mat having a rectangular playing panel on which a playing field is marked and a pocket located along and extending from one margin of the playing panel. Along its margins, the playing panel is fitted with stiffening bars which...
07/18/1989
4842133Chess equipment carrying bag
A fabric bag for carrying and storing chess equipment comprising of two external strap carrying handles, a single external zipper longitudinally enabling the bag to be completely closed or when open to lie flat on a surface, two internal zippered pockets ...
06/27/1989
4787631Action game for children
A game comprising a playing surface and at least one log-like unit upon which a player balances himself and attempts to move from one end of the playing surface to the other end with minimum instances of falling off the log-like unit....
11/29/1988
4712673Combination food carrier and amusement device
A combination food carrier and amusement device comprising first and second panels having a removable bag member and a book secured to the inner surfaces thereof. The first and second panels are provided with removable handle portions which enable the dev...
12/15/1987
4709928Circular game board foldable into small volume
A circular game board foldable into thirds for storage, comprising a circular playing surface bounded by a generally tubular member affixed around the periphery of the playing surface. An elongate spring-like member is disposed in the tubular member, and ...
12/01/1987
4709927Game board construction
This invention relates generally to a game board having a particular novel layered construction. In place of a conventional solid chipboard laminated construction, an undulated midstratum layer is utilized in such manner that air cells or pockets are form...
12/01/1987
4673184Seating surface/gameboard device
A seating surface/gameboard device comprising a web of flexible material for disposition on an outdoor surface, such as the beach. The web is sufficiently large to enable a person to sit thereon and includes gameboard indicia printed thereon. At least one...
06/16/1987
4671514Game board doll
A soft-sculptured, game board doll (10) includes a three-dimensional body portion (12) and removable hair (14), feet (16) and nose (18). A plurality of color markers (54) are selectively registrable over corresponding color areas (52) disposed about body ...
06/09/1987
4619457Bingo game involving promotional coupons
A game for a plurality of players wherein each player is provided with a playing card, said playing card being presented to the players by means of a mass distribution publication. The playing card comprises a matrix of deliniated areas, such a squares, i...
10/28/1986
4500091Game box
In combination a game holder box having a cover mountable upon a support and adapted to store markers, chips or tokens, and a flexible strip overlying the support and adapted to mount the markers selectively over its surface and at one end secured to the ...
02/19/1985
4422645Gameboard and carrying case
A gameboard and carrying case wherein the gameboard is of pliable material, such as leather, so that it is adapted to be rolled into a roll and a carrying case for the gameboard which receives the gameboard when in a rolled condition and in which there ar...
12/27/1983
4408763Gameboard and carrying case
A gameboard and carrying case wherein the gameboard is of pliable material, such as leather, so that it is adapted to be rolled into a roll and a carrying case for the gameboard which receives the gameboard when in a rolled condition and in which there ar...
10/11/1983
4381113Gameboard and carrying case
A gameboard and carrying case wherein the gameboard is of pliable material, such as leather, so that it is adapted to be rolled into a roll and a carrying case for the gameboard which receives the gameboard when in a rolled condition and in which there ar...
04/26/1983
4365438Combination toy and book
A combination toy vehicle and book, which also serves as a container for the toy, is formed by imprinting a multiplicity of uniformly sized pages with scenes upon which a user may operate the toy vehicle. By cutting out an identical region of each page, a...
12/28/1982
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