Spinner Patents (Class D21/374)
  • Patent number: 11704962
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a gaming apparatus comprising: a digital screen display mounted on a support, an actuation mechanism arranged for moving the digital screen display around an axis of rotation, at least one position identification member, a position sensing mechanism arranged for at least detecting the position of the prize segments with respect to the at least one position identification member; and a computer system. The computer system arranged for transmitting the electronic prize game digital image and associated prize information for display on the digital screen display, and for detecting, based on the position information obtained from the position sensing mechanism, at least one prize segment associated with the at least one stopping position of the digital display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Inventor: John Purcell
  • Patent number: 8132813
    Abstract: A spinner anchors to a variety of magnetic and non-magnetic surfaces. The spinner includes a base, a spinner arm rotatably coupled to the base, and an indicator coupled to the spinner arm. The base of the spinner is shaped to receive a coupling member, such as a cylindrical magnet, configured to anchor the spinner to a plurality of surfaces regardless of their orientation and maintain its location relative to the support surface while the spinner arm and indicator rotate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Educational Insights, Inc.
    Inventors: Riley Wilkinson, Damon R. Saddler
  • Patent number: 8033547
    Abstract: In one of the die structures provided herein, there includes first and second housing structures defined to secure to each other to form a plurality of sides. An internal wheel is provided with an aperture for receiving a peg extending from the first housing structure, such that the internal wheel is rotatably secured thereto. The internal wheel has a perimeter edge defined with spaced apart curved grooves positioned on the periphery thereof. A portion of the perimeter edge is accessible through the first housing structure. Lastly, there is a plurality of labels having indicia printed thereon and separately affixed to the plurality of sides. One of the plurality of labels is defined as an internal wheel label affixed to the internal wheel such that the indicia is visible through a window defined on the first housing structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Funderbolt Studios Inc.
    Inventor: Dan Bryce
  • Patent number: 6926274
    Abstract: A board game for providing hours of challenging and fun play, having a board having an interior, an integrally attached rotating bottle, and a plurality of instructional cards. The board game has a tubular base, having a top and bottom end, and an axis. The top end extends outwardly from the interior of the board, while the bottom end is located within interior of the board. A belt has two ends and is removably hooked at each end to the top end of the tubular base for securing the bottle to the tubular base. The bottom end of the tubular base is swivel mounted to the axis for allowing the bottle to rotate thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2005
    Inventor: Roger Portella
  • Patent number: 6887081
    Abstract: A bible teaching aid that includes a voice generating circuit, a large number of circuit recognizable templates positionable on a housing containing the voice generating circuit, a spinning pointer mechanism that stops randomly at one of a preset number of stop locations, and generates a spoken biblical teaching message stored in one of a large number of keyed memory locations of the voice generating circuit that are keyed to specific stop locations on specific sides of specific templates that corresponds with a biblical figure, event or location depicted at that stop spot on that particular side of that particular template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2005
    Inventor: Lyndell W. Briggs
  • Patent number: 6095520
    Abstract: A device for randomly selecting and illustrating a trump suit for a card game. A spinner is used to point out a trump suit as marked on a flat planar member. The device may also be provided with a marker to track the number of cards dealt in the current hand. A method for playing a card game using the device where from 2 to 7 players may play the game. A series of hands are played, wherein each player is first dealt 7 cards and 1 less card for each subsequent hand. Each hand consists of a series of tricks where each player throws one card, following the suit led if possible. The player who takes the trick, by throwing the highest ranked card, leads the next trick. A series of tricks are played until all cards have been thrown, signalling the end of the hand. Any player who took at least one trick remains to play another hand which is dealt by the winner of the previous hand. The dealer also selects trump, after examining his hand. Hands are played until only one player, the winner, remains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2000
    Inventor: James A. Willkow
  • Patent number: D503951
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2005
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventor: Kimberley K. Karstens
  • Patent number: D512464
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2005
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventor: Kimberley K. Karstens
  • Patent number: D512465
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2005
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventor: Kimberley K. Karstens
  • Patent number: D458973
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2002
    Inventor: Donald Wayne Dickerson
  • Patent number: D483076
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2003
    Assignee: Classroom Products. Inc.
    Inventor: J. Bruce Stoneberg
  • Patent number: D487291
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Inventor: Joseph Luis De La Rosa
  • Patent number: D487292
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Inventor: Thomas S. Kaminski
  • Patent number: D609279
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Bright of Sweden AB
    Inventors: Anna Erika Kristensson, Anna Pernilla Molander
  • Patent number: D625761
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Inventor: Rostislav Frantisek Vaclav Pavlik
  • Patent number: D418175
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1999
    Inventor: Donald Hennessy
  • Patent number: D752151
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Inventor: Paul Francois Contier
  • Patent number: D761915
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: URBAN TREND LLC
    Inventor: Robert Kushner
  • Patent number: D810204
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: UT BRANDS, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Anzalone, Robert Kushner
  • Patent number: D831109
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Inventor: Mary Cooper
  • Patent number: D880616
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Inventor: Matthew Field
  • Patent number: D883392
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Inventor: Ruth Escort
  • Patent number: D916198
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Inventor: Andy Dao Quang Lee
  • Patent number: D923713
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Inventor: Haim Rosenbloum
  • Patent number: D924981
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Inventor: Carrie K. Bodell
  • Toy
    Patent number: D954152
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Streitmonster GmbH
    Inventors: Marcus Heine, Michael Grande
  • Patent number: D982667
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Inventor: Fengshan Tao
  • Patent number: D985066
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Inventor: Xianyong Yuan
  • Patent number: D690368
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: International IP Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Kelly Ann Wojdyla-Gray, Scott Burns
  • Toy
    Patent number: D993323
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Streitmonster GmbH
    Inventors: Marcus Heine, Michael Grande
  • Patent number: D1012188
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventor: Jean-Pierre Legras