Tethered Ring Patents (Class 273/332)
  • Patent number: 11666813
    Abstract: A hook and ring game apparatus providing a plurality of hook-playing surfaces and offering multiple modalities of tossing the ring in order to couple the ring to a plurality of hooks. The hook and ring game apparatus including a vertical target board, an inclined target board coupled to the vertical target board, and a horizontal arc coupled to the inclined target board, with the horizontal arc including a hook and string, the string having one end secured to the horizontal arc, and a second end attached to the ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Inventor: Daniel Christoph
  • Patent number: 11628343
    Abstract: A tethered ring toss game apparatus is provided. In some embodiments, the apparatus may include a target device having a target body, a first bar target, a second bar target, a first hook target, and a second hook target. The first bar target and second bar target may be positioned on opposite sides of the target body, and the first hook target and second hook target may be positioned on opposite sides of the target body. A ring having a ring aperture may be coupled to a first end of a flexible tether, and a second end of the flexible tether may be positioned between 28 and 38 degrees above the target device. The flexible tether may have a length that enables the ring aperture of the ring to be alternatively positioned around each of the first bar target, second bar target, first hook target, and second hook target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Inventor: Tom Doty
  • Patent number: 11439895
    Abstract: A ring and hook system and apparatus includes a toss member tethered by a tether member to a collapsible armature, supported by an inverted u-shaped cantilever receiver angled at approximately 90°, which is attached to a vertical armature. A hanger on the top may be used to secure the armatures on a door and a hook which protrudes horizontally from the bottom of the vertical armature to receive the tethered toss member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Inventor: Greg Michael Stack
  • Patent number: 11013972
    Abstract: A tethered ring game and kit is disclosed comprising a tethered ring, means of attaching the tether to an overhead surface, and a novel bottle support apparatus configured and designed to hold and constrain an ordinary bottle in a substantially upright position. The bottle holder apparatus is fixated on a wall, post, or structure such that when a bottle is inserted and constrained, it is used in an eye-hand coordination game of chance involving a tethered ring and a bottle as the target. In practice, a ring, which is tethered and hanging from above in a position equidistant between the player and a bottle, is swung in a pendulum movement toward the bottle, which is constrained by the apparatus, in an endeavor to capture the ring over the top or neck of the bottle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Inventor: Peter C Meister
  • Patent number: 10080917
    Abstract: A mounting system for a physical therapy device that allows the physical therapy device to be anchored at a desired height. The mounting system includes a top bracket and a bottom bracket that each can be received over an edge of a door. A slide rail extends between the top bracket and the bottom bracket. At least one attachment block is received on the slide rail. The attachment block can be moved along the length of the slide rail and includes an attachment ring, or similar device that allows a physical therapy device to be attached to a stationary point. The mounting system can include a second attachment block for providing additional points of attachment for the physical therapy device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignees: Bonnie Patricia Freudinger, Brian Lorence Laning
    Inventors: Bonnie Patricia Freudinger, Brian Lorence Laning, Lauren Elizabeth Champeau, Heidi Marie Golembiewski
  • Publication number: 20150115530
    Abstract: A ring and hook game (1) has a number of components that allow for the construction and disassembly of an apparatus that allows for play of the game without the use of existing, stationary structures. The main components of the apparatus structure include a vertical structural support (2), a horizontal structural support (3), and a base stand (11). The main components that allow for play of the game include a string (10), a hook (8), and a hook base (6). The combination of both the mobile structure and basic components for play of the game is seen as useful and desirable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventor: Ryan Vanston
  • Publication number: 20140049007
    Abstract: A highly-portable and stylized ring toss game which includes a pierced ring. The piercing in the ring allows a string to be threaded directly through the ring, thereby removing the need to tie a string to the ring and removing the element of string tension from the game, thus allowing for more creative tricks and more uniform gameplay. The ring is suspended from the string a distance away from a backboard with a hook. The ring is tossed along a path toward the backboard with the intent of hooking the ring onto the hook. The ring may be spun or flipped to perform this feat in more dramatic fashion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2013
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Inventors: Kyle P. McGetrick, Christopher P. Puglisi
  • Patent number: 8011664
    Abstract: A multi-player ring toss game is described. The game includes multiple arms extending from a support stand. Players toss rings or similar objects that are tethered to the arms and attempt to hook them on hooks. In specific implementations, the ring toss game is foldable and portable using a folding mechanism to convert the apparatus from a playing position to a storing position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: 5 Mississippi LLC
    Inventors: Cleighton L. Hilbert, Jr., Joseph Hewes Parrish, III
  • Patent number: 7896349
    Abstract: A hook and ring game apparatus and method includes a hook device having a mounting portion with a longitudinal axis substantially transverse to a surface. The hook device further including an arcuate portion extending from the mounting portion forming a sweep of about one-hundred and eighty degrees terminating in a cantilever beam having an acute angle to the surface. Further included is a ring assembly having a tether with a first end portion freely suspended from a selected position in an overhead support and a second end portion adjacent to a ring being operational to freely swing a pendulum type of movement relative to the overhead support. The ring and hook are operational to form a chance element to removably engage one another as the ring moves through the arc path potentially contacting with the hook, with either the ring removably engaging the hook or not engaging the hook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Inventors: Jeremy Christopher Pershin, Jeffery Michael Pershin, Joseph T. Pershin
  • Publication number: 20100187760
    Abstract: A multi-player ring toss game is described. The game includes multiple arms extending from a support stand. Players toss rings or similar objects that are tethered to the arms and attempt to hook them on hooks. In specific implementations, the ring toss game is foldable and portable using a folding mechanism to convert the apparatus from a playing position to a storing position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2009
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Inventors: Cleighton L. Hilbert, JR., Joseph Hewes Parrish, III
  • Publication number: 20090206550
    Abstract: A hook and ring game apparatus and method includes a hook device having a mounting portion with a longitudinal axis substantially transverse to a surface. The hook device further including an arcuate portion extending from the mounting portion forming a sweep of about one-hundred and eighty degrees terminating in a cantilever beam having an acute angle to the surface. Further included is a ring assembly having a tether with a first end portion freely suspended from a selected position in an overhead support and a second end portion adjacent to a ring being operational to freely swing a pendulum type of movement relative to the overhead support. The ring and hook are operational to form a chance element to removably engage one another as the ring moves through the arc path potentially contacting with the hook, with either the ring removably engaging the hook or not engaging the hook.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2008
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Inventors: Jeremy Christopher Pershin, Jeffery Michael Pershin, Joseph T. Pershin
  • Patent number: 5709604
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a ring-swing skill game for play by one or more players. The basic structure of the game apparatus includes an upright game console, a target hook projecting from the front side of the console, a boom projecting from the upper portion of the console, an elongated flexible tether cord suspended from the outer end of the boom, and a ring affixed to the lower free end of the tether cord for swinging movement toward the game console by the one or more players during game play to attain hooking engagement of the ring with the hook. An electrically powered programmable computer board including game scoring circuitry is electrically interconnected to the ring and hook for detecting and recording ring contact with, and ring catches by, the hook as scoring events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 20, 1998
    Inventors: David K. Coats, Marvin Richey
  • Patent number: 5171019
    Abstract: A tethered ring game and kit is disclosed comprising a tethered ring, means for attaching the tether to an overhanging surface, swivel means mounted intermediate the tether and the attachment means for preventing the cord from becoming twisted during use, and an open hook to be mounted on a surface approximately 90.degree. from the overhanging surface and in spaced relation to the attachment means for receiving the tethered ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1992
    Inventor: Grigsby C. Arnette
  • Patent number: 4784391
    Abstract: A new rope game device is disclosed. Threaded on a rope about six feet long with handles on its ends are two larger cylinders, one for each player. Also threaded on the rope is a plurality of smaller cylinders which can pass through the interior of the larger cylinders. In the game two players shake the rope, moving the smaller cylinders toward them through the larger cylinders to claim, and score, them close to the handles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1986
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1988
    Inventor: Sylvia T. Herron
  • Patent number: 4635942
    Abstract: Disclosed is a ring and hook game played by swinging a metal ring attached to a flexible line towards a pair of hooks projecting from a box mounted on a wall. When the ring successfully engages the hooks the ring closes an electrical circuit, activating a light and buzzer connected in parallel within the box. Attachment of the flexible line to a ceiling permits automatic return of the ring after a missed attempt, and the location of the box and the point of attachment of the line, together with appropriate selection of line length, prevent the ring from striking the front wall of the box. The degree of difficulty of the game may easily be varied by rotation of one or both hooks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 1986
    Date of Patent: January 13, 1987
    Inventor: John J. Flaherty, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4564200
    Abstract: A tethered ring game is disclosed wherein a scoring hook is formed of wire rod and has near its mounting portion a break of minimum radius which defines an obtuse angle with the mounting portion and has at a defined distance from the free end of the wire a sweep of circular arc such that a hook is formed at the free end portion, said arc being less than 180.degree.. The hook may be mounted statically to an upright or motively to a counterclockwise rotable arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1984
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1986
    Inventors: Wolson J. Loring, Charles C. Schaedler