Packing box of playing cards
AssigneeAngel Group Co., Ltd.
InventorYasushi Shigeta
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Abstract
A packing box for packaging of playing cards has, in an assembled state, a shape of a rectangular parallelepiped with six faces including front and rear faces, right and left side faces, and top and bottom faces. The packing box includes cut lines in two locations at a predetermined interval in parallel with a longitudinal direction of the rectangular parallelepiped, and a central band in a portion defined by the cut lines provided in the two locations. The right and left side faces of the packing box can be removed along the cut lines such that side edges of the playing cards within the packing box are exposed.
Claims13
A package of playing cards, the package having, in an assembled state, a shape of a rectangular parallelepiped with six faces including front and rear faces, right and left side faces, and top and bottom faces, the package comprising:
- at least one cut-off line, each of which is formed by parallel cut lines in a longitudinal direction of the rectangular parallelepiped package, allowing detachment of at least one of the left side face and the right side face of the package so as to partially expose the playing cards contained in the package;
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- a break line which allows a remaining part of the package to be torn when the package is set in a card shooter.
A method of setting shuffled playing cards in a shooter, wherein:
- the shuffled playing cards comprise one or more decks of playing cards shuffled in a random order and contained in a package, the package has a shape of a rectangular parallelepiped with six faces including front and rear faces, right and left side faces, and top and bottom faces, and
- the package includes at least one cut-off line, each of which is formed by parallel cut lines in a longitudinal direction of the rectangular parallelepiped and a break line,
- the method comprising:
- detaching at least one of the left side face or the right side face of the package along each of one or more cut-off line of the at least one cut-off line the cut off line so as to partially expose the playing cards;
- inserting a cut card into the shuffled playing cards in the package from the exposed side of the package;
- handling the playing cards using a remaining portion, which is a remaining part of the package, to set the playing cards in the shooter;
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- tearing the break line at the remaining portion of the package in the shooter so as to remove the remaining portion holding the playing cards so that only the playing cards are set in the card shooter.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.