Patents by Inventor Marvin A. Silbermintz

Marvin A. Silbermintz has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4474371
    Abstract: A game comprising a first device for establishing a pattern of different indicia, including nine colored faces, and a second device having a plurality of square colored tiles of the same colors and greater than the number of colored faces. The tiles fit in a tray having an area greater than all the tiles by at least the area of one tile. Players attempt to match the pattern of colors on the first device by manipulating the tiles in the tray. A mask is provided for placement over the tray to cover all but nine of the tiles located in a predetermined area of the tray corresponding to the area of the pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1982
    Date of Patent: October 2, 1984
    Inventor: Marvin A. Silbermintz
  • Patent number: 4409750
    Abstract: A cube puzzle is disclosed having a plurality of small cubies operatively interconnected to permit manipulation of the cubies and movement thereof from face to face of the cube and into different positions on the cube without disassembly of the cubies. Each cubie has at least one exposed face forming a portion of the surface of the cube, and legible indicia on at least some of the cubie faces are provided. The indicia are arranged in a predetermined relation on the cubies, whereby manipulation of the cube by the user will result in the display of any one of a plurality of predetermined messages on at least one face of the cube. A calender formed from such a cube puzzle has indicia so disposed on selected cubie faces that the date, month abbreviation and name of any day in a year may be displayed on a face of the cube puzzle by proper manipulation thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1983
    Assignee: Ideal Toy Corporation
    Inventor: Marvin A. Silbermintz