Patents Represented by Law Firm Ronald E. Smith, P.A.
  • Patent number: 5918884
    Abstract: A card game that may be played at home or in a casino includes a game board having a plurality of card positions imprinted upon it. The actual card positions may vary, but in a preferred embodiment there are two positions representing Joker cards, thirteen positions representing cards of value Ace through King of any suit, four positions representing the four suites of cards of any value, one position representing a predefined "high" card of any suit, one position representing a predefined "low" card of any suit, and fifty two cards representing all of the cards of a deck of cards. The players cover as many positions as they wish with markers, and a card is selected at random from a shuffled deck of cards. All markers that cover positions that match the randomly selected card are winning markers, and all markers that do not are losing chips. The odds for the Joker position may differ from the odds for the Ace through King positions, and so on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 6, 1999
    Inventor: Joseph T. DiMuro
  • Patent number: 5899900
    Abstract: An epilator includes a pair of tweezers mounted at the leading end of a hollow wand body. An electrical circuit board for generating a radio frequency current is mounted in the trailing end of the wand body. The trailing end of the wand body is coated with a metabolized conductive coating to shield against electromagnetic interference. The tweezers are maintained in normally spaced apart relation to one another by a bias member that is compressed by a manually-operated actuator. The bias member includes an extension member that is in continuous contact with a first tweezer member and which makes contact with an electrical contact member mounted in the second tweezer member when the tweezer members are brought into hair-gripping relation to one another by actuator-driven compression of the bias member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1999
    Inventor: Robert E. Burke