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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4983242 | Tennis racquet having a sandwich construction, vibration-dampening frame A frame for a tennis racket is formed of an inner tubular member, an outer tubular member, and a dampening sleeve of a visco-elastic material sandwiched between and bonded to the inner and outer layers. The dampening sleeve undergoes plastic deformation u... | 01/08/1991 |
| 4974847 | Lottery pick machine A rotating drum is designed for mixing number balls within an enclosed container. The container has an entry port for the insertion of the balls and an exit port for the exit of the balls after they have been mixed and randomly selected. The machine may b... | 12/04/1990 |
| 4966366 | Matching word game employing cubes Preselected words, appearing on cards, are matched by aranging cubes with different letters on each face, some of which are repeated on different cubes in proportion to their frequency of use in the written language, so that the word is spelled out on the... | 10/30/1990 |
| 4948139 | Bingo game box A case particularly adapted to be utilized when playing Bingo. The case includes a lid which can be opened and expand to have an enlarged playing area substantially twice the surface area of the lid itself, and when thusly deployed, a marker storage area ... | 08/14/1990 |
| 4944514 | Floor finishing material and method An improved material for finishing athletic court, commercial, and residential floor surfaces of wood, linoleum, terrazzo, concrete, or other smooth surface includes at least one elongated sheet having a layer of a uniform flexible film of clear plastic m... | 07/31/1990 |
| 4943062 | Random indicia selector A housing contains a plurality of tetrahedron shaped dice. The faces of the dice bear one or more indicia. The housing includes a tumbling compartment in which all of the dice are shaken and a smaller plurality of pyramidal shaped cavities in which certai... | 07/24/1990 |
| 4936581 | Number selector and marker for lottery card A number selector and card marker in accordance with this invention is usable in connection with the marking of a card or play slip, and it comprises a substantially flat housing having a slot therein for receiving at least a portion of the card. One part... | 06/26/1990 |
| 4934711 | Word and category game The present invention is a word game having a plurality of letter tiles and category cards. The game may also include a letter bag, a plurality of letter racks, and/or a playing board. By taking turns, individual letter tiles are drawn at random by player... | 06/19/1990 |
| 4934700 | Dice word game method This invention discloses a dice word game set of twenty-four identical six-sided dice. Each side of each die is marked with a unique letter of a six-letter target word, so that the die contains all letters in the target word, which in the preferred embodi... | 06/19/1990 |
| 4930775 | Method of playing a bowling game A method of playing a bowling game in which players are allowed at least one ball to knock down pins in each of a plurality of turns of play beginning with a given or beginning pin setup. Each player is required to deliver at least one ball in each of a s... | 06/05/1990 |
| 4930779 | Apparatus for selecting random numbers An improved apparatus for the selection of a predetermined quantity of a plurality of random numbers for use in the playing of a lottery game comprising a plurality of numbered balls and a container for the balls. The container is formed of a base, a holl... | 06/05/1990 |
| 4930780 | Dice game A method of playing a dice game is disclosed wherein a dice box having two play compartments in separated by a common wall, one compartment of which is used to catch the dice when thrown, the second compartment acting as a holding area in which dice are p... | 06/05/1990 |
| 4928964 | Reel driving device for use in the slot machine A reel driving device which comprises a drive disk having a drive shaft fixing boss for prohibiting the drive shaft from idling, and impact mitigating bosses for mitigating an impact force exerted by the motor, provided therein opposed to each other with ... | 05/29/1990 |
| 4928970 | Bingo chip dispenser A bingo chip dispenser is set forth utilizing an elongate cylinder including a pivotally mounted lid with a lowermost hood oriented relative to an opening within the cylinder. A plunger is diametrically aligned with and opposed to the opening within the h... | 05/29/1990 |
| 4927150 | Shiftable block puzzle A shiftable block puzzle comprising a frame with means for retaining a plurality of shiftable blocks and at least one object piece and with allowance for perpendicular movements. The shiftable blocks remain on the playing surface, whereas the object piece... | 05/22/1990 |
| 4927146 | Playing card holder A playing card holder comprises a substantially pentagonal backing plate having fixed thereto a locator block and a transparent view plate. The locator block has first and second stepped edges converging upwardly from the bottom edge of the backing plate.... | 05/22/1990 |
| 4927148 | Lottery kit A kit for lottery playing paraphernalia having a pair of rectangular members formed for positioning face-to-face to provide an openable folio case adapted for containing equipment for playing a lottery, an integral hinge joining the rectangular members al... | 05/22/1990 |
| 4927149 | Playing card holder A playing card holder comprises a substantially pentagonal backing plate with a plurality of pinching members mounted thereon in a preselected arrangement. Each of the pinching members includes a pinch block fastened to the backing plate and a spacer disp... | 05/22/1990 |
| 4927147 | Charade and drawing card game using dice A charade and drawing card game using dice to reference specific words or phrases to be charaded or drawn by players. Eighteen different words or phrases categorized into three letter groups of six words or phrases each comprise the inner rectangular surf... | 05/22/1990 |
| 4925187 | Bowling hand and wrist support device A bowling support device having hand, forearm and wrist portions for maintaining the hand and wrist in the proper position during the delivery swing. A fastening strap secures the support to the wrist of the bowler while allowing upward movement of the ha... | 05/15/1990 |
| 4925194 | Board game apparatus playing piece and method of play A game consisting of a game board with thirty six identical playing pieces and one control playing piece. The board comprises thirty seven spaces. Cube shaped playing pieces have six arrangements of four colors on the six sides which allows a choice of tw... | 05/15/1990 |
| 4923200 | Apparatus for playing card games A card table for playing the game of bridge in which hard spherical elements are substituted for the ordinary plastic or cardboard playing cards. A set of fifty-two spherical elements have replicated thereon indicia of an ordinary deck of playing cards. T... | 05/08/1990 |
| 4921256 | Contrasted projectile target and method of making same Disclosed herein is a multi-sheet projectile target with a marking material that is captively held between a first sheet, which is a target face, and an elastic material located behind the target face. The marking material is selected to contrast with the... | 05/01/1990 |
| 4920964 | Microwavable thermal compress and method and use thereof A microwavable thermal pack and a method of heating the pack. The thermal pack is a completely sealed envelope constructed from opposed laminate layers, portions of which are joined by sealed seams. The layers define an inner chamber within which is dispo... | 05/01/1990 |
| 4921250 | Frangible article A frangible article for use as a target or a projectile is disclosed which is formed of a mixture of sand and decomposable binder shaped and cured to create a rigid, durable article which will fracture upon impact. Several preferred binder compositions an... | 05/01/1990 |
| 4919426 | Dust cover for game board The present invention relates to a dust cover for a game board which is preferably made of a transparent material such as plastic. The periphery of the cover is sized to facilitate placing of the cover over a game board such as, for example, a Scrabble bo... | 04/24/1990 |
| 4919427 | Moebius ring puzzle A puzzle comprises a strip of flexible sheet material formed into a closed loop having twists to define two (or more) Moebius rings manually juxtapositionable with respect to each other. The strip is transparent and includes opaque markings which are view... | 04/24/1990 |
| 4917388 | Resetting gun target A gun target supported by a frame at an oblique angle which upon impact pivots about a hinge pin. The target resets itself to the ready position by nature of an over-center relationship between the hinge pin and target. The target is angled with respect t... | 04/17/1990 |
| 4915393 | Card game method An improved method of playing a card game with a deck of cards having specialty cards that, when played on a penalty card, either transfer the penalty required by the penalty card to the suceeding player, return the penalty required by the penalty card to... | 04/10/1990 |
| 4913433 | Protective lining for bowling alley A bowling alley having at least one elongated bowling ball runway, at least one downwardly offset concave gutter sidewisely depending from the runway, and at least one upwardly offset partition bar sidewisely depending from the opposite side edge of the g... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4913436 | Puzzles and game based on geometric shapes Planar puzzles and a game utilizing these puzzles exploit simple geometric shapes for the design of a plurality of initial configurations that make up each of the puzzles. Each of the initial configurations may be further subdivided into elementary piecep... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4913445 | Method of and apparatus for orientating bowling pins Mounting a right and left angled orientating rod on a pin wheel guard on each side of an opening from a pin wheel, securing a first end of the orientating rods with an adjustable screw to permit adjustment in alignment of each orientating rod so that a se... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4911447 | Random selection device A random determination device includes a generally circular central planar element having an indicating device located thereon where the outer circumference of the central element is generally circular except for inset lobes and where the central element ... | 03/27/1990 |
| 4911448 | Spinner device A spinner device which is designed for use in a game that tests both the imagination and association of one or more players in the course of building a vocabulary. The spinner device is characterized by a frame or stand designed to pivotally receive a dis... | 03/27/1990 |
| 4911427 | Exercise and training machine with microcomputer-assisted training guide An exercise management machine which measures the individual's pulse and is provided with an indicator to inform the user of an exercise program that is suited to the individual and/or an indicator to inform the individual of the results of exercise, and ... | 03/27/1990 |
| 4909518 | Water balloon game A game participant enclosure for a water balloon game includes a plurality of side walls and an overhead protector and water balloon engager supported by the side walls. The protector and engager includes a water balloon opening sufficiently large for a w... | 03/20/1990 |
| 4907805 | Ring puzzle game An improved ring puzzle game having a variable number of adjacent and overlapping rings held by closed loops contained on the top of posts inserted through apertures in a holding box, and an elongated, closed wand for passing through said rings. The objec... | 03/13/1990 |
| 4906004 | Random number selector A random number selector whereby a series of pellets are moved from a collected condition to a series of peripherally arranged recesses. The selector basically includes a body overlaid by a spaced apart cover, where the latter presents, in the apex region... | 03/06/1990 |
| 4906003 | Squash ball game machine A squash ball game machine in which the racket board is tilted (forward and backward) and rocked (sideways) in a direction and angle which the player desires through operation conducted by the player, to catch a falling ball thereon, whereupon the hitting... | 03/06/1990 |
| 4906000 | Automatic skittle game The invention is for an automatic skittle game equipped with a coin or token mechanism and in which the skittles have different point values which are registered automatically on a scoreboard. The automatic skittle game consists primarily of a combination... | 03/06/1990 |
