Projector Solely Supported By Participant (e.g., Hockey Stick, Finger, Cue Stick, Etc.) Patents (Class 273/108.5)
  • Patent number: 11179625
    Abstract: A finger flicking football game comprises a waterproof triangular-shaped football for finger flicking and a pair of transportable game boards. Each game board comprises: a planar table surface having a plurality of apertures, each aperture designed to hold a cup sized for playing beer pong, and a pair of goal posts hinged from a rear end of each planar table surface. During game play, the players take turns flicking the football towards the cups in the other player's game board. Should their flicked football land in a cup, that player has scored a six point touchdown and can proceed to finger flick the football towards the other players goal posts for scoring an extra point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Inventor: Craig M. Bauer
  • Patent number: 10307664
    Abstract: A dice rolling table game that comprises of a pair of teams that compete against each other by rolling their dice onto a game-board with multiple holes and flat surfaces that are prescribed a certain amount of points if the dice land onto the said areas, if the dice does not roll onto the board it will not count. If the dice rolls off the board, this may negatively affect the team that threw the dice or positively affect the defense that caught the dice. Games are played to a certain amount of points and the first to reach those points and win by two points, wins the game. Open containers, which are referred to as “post-cups,” are involved in the game, but are not filled with any liquids. The post-cups may be used to toss and catch the dice. There are more than one game modes that will be described in this present invention, but are not limited to in relation to the described invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Inventor: Shawn Christopher Villela
  • Patent number: 9314695
    Abstract: A virtual gaming environment including processing systems and methods and generally includes operations related to visual display of movements and locations of physical game pieces and storage and retrieval of data in accordance with various game events. The game system can comprise a game token, a display, a mobile device, a processor, and combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Inventor: Brian Claffey
  • Publication number: 20140339766
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a hand-held game device comprising a handle for holding the device, an elongated figurine having a longitudinal axis, wherein the figurine is rotatably connected to said handle around an axis of rotation which is at least substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. The present invention thus provides a portable game device providing an entertainment similar to table football.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2012
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Inventor: Adar GOLAD
  • Patent number: 8434762
    Abstract: An air table game assembly has a platform. Outer sections of the platform have a perimeter edge and an interior side with the interior side being adjacent to a central section. A border wall extends around the perimeter edge of each outer section. Openings in the border wall define goals positioned in each of the outer sections. A first barrier is pivotable between a retracted position and a deployed position. The first barrier extends across a first one of the outer sections defining a first excluded section when in the deployed position. A bottom panel is coupled to the border wall in spaced relationship to the platform to define an air chamber. A plurality of vents extends through the platform and a blower is coupled to the bottom panel. The blower urges air through the vents in the platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Inventor: Theodore Kerpovich
  • Patent number: 7798494
    Abstract: An amusement device which uses a case containing balls that are shot from one side of the case to the other, and pegs are positioned at the bottom of the case to facilitate scoring. A second container is positioned at the top of the case so the game can be turned upside down in order to continue the game or to start a new game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Inventor: Gregory Benjamin
  • Patent number: 7533884
    Abstract: The invention is a double handled angling paddle for use with a soccer table-top game apparatus, which includes a planar rectangular base area to serve as a playing surface with upstanding sides defining the boundaries of said playing surface, two pair of goal pockets positioned at opposite ends of the playing surface, and a movable object. Two, double-handled angling paddles are used to propel the movable object about on the playing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Inventor: Nancy Padget
  • Patent number: 7510185
    Abstract: A pusher of a hockey game table includes a main body having an internal spherical space and a pushing knob having a spherical rotary member rotatably disposed in the spherical space of the main body. When holding the pushing knob and pushing the pusher, the pushing knob is angularly displaceable relative to the main body in the direction of the pushing force. Therefore, when pushing the pusher to play the hockey game, the player's wrist can be freely twisted to meet human body engineering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Inventor: Jerry Tsai
  • Patent number: 7506871
    Abstract: A combination of an elevated platform and a game table having a support structure including a game table and an elevated platform. The elevated platform including at least one support arm releasably connectable to the support structure in a play position and further connectable to the support structure in a storage position. The elevated platform may be coupled to the game table for translation relative to the support structure between the play and storage positions. The elevated platform may also be hingedly coupled to the supporting structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignee: DMI Sports, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul Giegerich
  • Publication number: 20080237980
    Abstract: A pusher of a hockey game table includes a main body having an internal spherical space and a pushing knob having a spherical rotary member rotatably disposed in the spherical space of the main body. When holding the pushing knob and pushing the pusher, the pushing knob is angularly displaceable relative to the main body in the direction of the pushing force. Therefore, when pushing the pusher to play the hockey game, the player's wrist can be freely twisted to meet human body engineering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2007
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Inventor: Jerry TSAI
  • Patent number: 7325803
    Abstract: A soccer board game having a ferromagnetic surface and games pieces incorporating magnets to maintain the selective positioning of the game pieces during a play turn. The game pieces have a contoured magnetic base depending on the positioned played. The top surface of the board has a graphic image of a soccer field and a raised perimeter lip defining the field of play. Opposing goals are provided along with a game ball and sticks. During play the defensive player positions his pieces to block goals while the offensive player uses their game stick to strike the ball in an attempt at scoring a goal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2008
    Inventor: Allen Batres Miranda
  • Patent number: 7204487
    Abstract: A board game for at least two individuals to play. The board game is a modified form of soccer that uses roofing nails pounded into a flat surface as “players,” a marble as a soccer ball, and a pair of Popsicle sticks as shooters. In addition, an elastic band is wrapped around into a rectangular fashion to have a rectangular-shaped playing field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2007
    Inventor: Andrew Pohl
  • Patent number: 7182340
    Abstract: A hockey player toy with internal motion rail for puck hitting. The major component is a hockey toy player with special internal mechanism. When the head of the toy player is pulled up, the body, which consists of front piece and back piece, will spin to pull the hockey stick back, ready for a shoot. When the head is pushed down, the body, which consists of front piece and back piece, will spin back, thus move the stick forward to hit the puck. The toy is a big break through from the previous hockey toys in its actuality. It adds a lot of fun and entertainment to the hockey toy games.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Assignee: Sinolink Holdings (China) Ltd.
    Inventor: Dylan Lam Kang Tim
  • Patent number: 7147225
    Abstract: A genuine fully bordered portable polymer enclosure game board, provided with non secured, multiple polymer human imaged soccer figurines, to be disposed in a random pattern determined by the player and allowing for directed movement, inserted with a micro magnetic element, to be applied on a light weight felt fabric, with printed regulation boundaries, underlain with a fine metallic screened mesh, supplied with a minute medium weight glass or polymer sphere, with altered neutral zone pockets, displayed with transparent walled and/or ramped barriers, establishing a newly developed method of play for miniaturized futbol soccer, that implements defensive and offensive formations, risks and opportunity, in a freestyle non controlled environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Inventor: Fausto E. Navarro
  • Patent number: 7006076
    Abstract: A dart game score board includes a case having a front face with two orthogonal arrays of display windows, a plurality of number keys and cancel buttons, two keypads, each having a four digit display, electronic circuitry having a microprocessor and processing firmware programmed to contain the instructions in the source code list, and a microprocessor data/command input-output generator and computational device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Inventor: Willard F. Fougere
  • Patent number: 7004465
    Abstract: A game table for playing a game relating to an ice-related sport. The game table includes a tabletop substantially covered with a sheet of ice. Symbols printed on the tabletop are visible through the ice and relate to the sport of ice hockey, curling, skating, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Inventor: George A. Keith
  • Patent number: 6764074
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a recreational game that promotes coordination, provides a form of exercise, and is an enjoyable pastime. A game box includes a floor, side walls and end walls, wherein each end wall includes a goal formed therein. A center wall extends up from the center of the floor to divide the game box into a plurality of playing areas, and includes one or more passages formed therein to allow a puck to pass from one side of the center wall to the other. Each player utilizes a hockey stick to manipulate a hockey puck. The game is started with a face-off procedure between the players, and once the puck is in play the object is to send the puck through the opponent's goal, which may first require sending the puck through a hole in the center divider. After a goal is made, the face-off procedure is repeated and play resumes until one of the players reaches a predetermined number of goals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2004
    Assignee: K-Bang, LLC
    Inventor: Kim Bangerter
  • Patent number: 6716120
    Abstract: The hockey training aid is a blade having a shank for inserting a stick handle and containing a channel along the lower edge of the blade. A string is fastened at one end to a puck and at the other end to a ball-shaped bead that is freely movable within the channel. The string attached to the bead extends outward from the channel through a slit that also extends along the length of the channel. During use, as the puck moves back-and-forth during stick-handling drills, the bead freely moves back-and-forth within the channel and the tether freely moves along the slit. An additional optional hole is provided at the top of the blade for use as an alternative stationary attachment of an elastic tether to the blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2004
    Inventor: John Normand
  • Patent number: 6616141
    Abstract: A play-table game assembly characterized by a support surface which includes two halves hinged together by a hinge, the support surface having a first orientation in which the two halves are folded towards each other along the hinge, and a second orientation in which the two halves are pivoted about the hinge to form a generally flat plane, each of the halves including a rim such that in the first orientation a storage volume is defined and bounded by the support surface and by the rims folded towards each other, and in the second orientation a user area is defined on the flat plane, a plurality of leg-mounting holes formed at corners of the support surface, formed on one face of the support surface and on an opposite face thereof, at least one playing surface adapted to be placed on at least one of the faces of the support surface when the support surface is in the second orientation, a plurality of legs adapted to be selectively secured to the leg-mounting holes on at least one of the faces of the support s
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2003
    Assignee: Diamant Toys LTD
    Inventor: Asher Diamant
  • Publication number: 20030116912
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a recreational game that promotes coordination, provides a form of exercise, and is an enjoyable pastime. A game box includes a floor, side walls and end walls, wherein each end wall includes a goal formed therein. A center wall extends up from the center of the floor to divide the game box into a plurality of playing areas, and includes one or more passages formed therein to allow a puck to pass from one side of the center wall to the other. Each player utilizes a hockey stick to manipulate a hockey puck. The game is started with a face-off procedure between the players, and once the puck is in play the object is to send the puck through the opponent's goal, which may first require sending the puck through a hole in the center divider. After a goal is made, the face-off procedure is repeated and play resumes until one of the players reaches a predetermined number of goals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Publication date: June 26, 2003
    Inventor: Kim Bangerter
  • Patent number: 6457710
    Abstract: A magnetic table game includes a table having a smooth top playing surface, a goal at each end of the table, a projectile defined by a plastic ring carrying a freely rotatable steel ball bearing, and a pair of plastic sticks containing a magnet in their blade ends for insertion beneath the table to move the projectile along the playing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2002
    Assignee: Wee Play ‘Kids at Heart’ Inc.
    Inventors: Edward Bisbee, Brendan Lowe
  • Patent number: 6457711
    Abstract: A hockey game and apparatus for entertainment and teaching hockey stick handling skills. The hockey game and apparatus includes a collapsible perimeter frame having a pair of end boards and a pair of side boards, each of the end boards has an aperture therein defining a goal. A plurality of dividers is extendable between and removably attachable to each of the side boards. A first two of the dividers has an opening therein positioned generally between opposite ends of the divider and extending through a bottom edge of the dividers. A second two of the dividers has a pair of spaced openings therein extending through the bottom edge of the dividers. The game includes a hockey puck and a pair of hockey sticks. The players each choose a goal and attempt to move the hockey puck through the openings in the dividers and into the other player's goal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2002
    Inventor: Robert Baulesh
  • Patent number: 6345820
    Abstract: A scoring hood for a gaming table, such as an air hockey table, is provided comprising a top, and two sides defining a goal opening which extends into the playing area of the table wherein the sides curve concavedly outwardly from the goal opening to the edge of the playing area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2002
    Assignee: Indian Industries
    Inventors: Jeffrey R. Zucchi, James R. Allshouse