Did You Know...
...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7086645 | Game with collectible pieces The present invention provides a game including a playing surface, collectible playing pieces, marking pieces, and collectible cards. Players take turns trying to create specific hands by throwing the playing pieces. The first player to successfully claim ownership ... | 08/08/2006 |
| 6918843 | Baseball training bat The present baseball training bat is comprised of a hollow tube with a handle portion and a hitting portion. The hitting portion is substantially smaller in diameter than that on a conventional baseball bat for improving swing accuracy. The distal end of the tube ha... | 07/19/2005 |
| 4365814 | Batting game A batting game is described which comprises a spring loaded, vertical tube mounted on a base and adapted to receive an elongated projectile in the open end of the tube. The projectile is supported by a compressible spring in the tube. A batter strikes the... | 12/28/1982 |
| 4317571 | Bat and projectile game A game wherein a projectile (10) is placed in groove (26) of a base (20) and then launched upwardly by striking the exposed portion of projectile (10) with bat (16).... | 03/02/1982 |
| 4239232 | Game of caddy The invention is a game in which a small piece, called a caddy, is pitched or thrown by a player of one side to a specified location, with certain restrictive requirements, and a player of the other side thereafter, under certain requirements, may play up... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4183532 | Flipper game with adjustable detainer This game is played by batting an elongated cylindrical flipper through the air. The flipper to be batted rests on a holder being supported by an adjustable stand. This holder has a cylindrical groove that keeps the flipper in place and an adjustable deta... | 01/15/1980 |
| 4149724 | Bat and stick game An improvement in the bat and stick game known commonly as "cat and dog" wherein an elongated staff comprising a bat and a thin relatively short baton comprising a stick which is struck by the bat first to twirl it vertically into the air and again to pro... | 04/17/1979 |
| 4093226 | Dinkey game A competitive game played with a shaped paddle and a shaped dinkey which is either hit by the paddle or is rotated end-over-end by the paddle so as to land the dinkey in an open cylindrical-shaped pan that serves as a goal. A cradle in the form of a bent ... | 06/06/1978 |
| 4052065 | Projectile catapult and bat toy A catapult comprising a stand and a spring-mounted plunger receives a projectile which is struck by a bat having at least one flat side to propel to the projectile into the air where it is struck again by the bat.... | 10/04/1977 |
