Game chip
AssigneeKeystone Bingo Products, Inc.
InventorFrank Gargione
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Abstract
A chip for a game such as bingo includes a transparent or translucent circular disk surrounded by a ring. The ring has discrete flanges overlying and contacting the outer periphery of the opposite side faces of the disk. The ring is made from a smooth magnetizable sheet material.
Claims8
A game chip comprising a circular disk of translucent or transparent material, a ring surrounding said disk with discrete flanges on the ring overlying and contacting the outer periphery of the opposite side faces of said disk, said ring being a smooth magnetizable sheet material free from burrs and wrinkles, said sheet material being substantially thinner than the thickness of said disk, at least one of said flanges being inclined inwardly whereby the thickest portion of the chip is across the ring at the outer peripheral surface of the disk, the inner periphery of said ring being concave, and a gap between the outer periphery of said disk and the inner periphery of said ring.
A Bingo game chip adapted for use with a pick-up device having a magnet whereby a plurality of chips may be simultaneously removed from a playing card comprising a circular solid disk of translucent or transparent plastic material, a ring surrounding said disk with discrete flanges on the ring overlying and contacting an outer peripheral portion of the opposite side faces of the disk, the radial length of said flanges being different, said ring being a smooth magnetizable sheet material free from burs and wrinkles, said sheet material being substantially thinner than the thickness of said disk, at least one of said flanges being inclined inwardly whereby the thickest portion of the chip is across the ring at the outer periphery of the ring, the inner periphery of said ring being concave and spaced from the outer periphery of the disk.
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