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US 5,676,379 AGranted
Dartboards
AssigneeKulite Tungsten Corporation
InventorHarry William Kicks
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Abstract
A dartboard has a frame with radially and circularly-extending bed-defining members which cross-over one another on the face of the dartboard. The members closer to the frame have notches in which the other members are secured.
Claims16
A dartboard comprising:
- a disc-shaped dartboard body having a substantially flat playing surface;
- radial bed-defining members having a top edge and a bottom edge, said bottom edge pressed into said dartboard body so said top edge is substantially level with said playing surface of said dartboard body, said radial bed-defining members extending radially outward from a point near the center of said dartboard body, said radial bed-defining members having notches on said top edge;
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- circular bed-defining members secured into said notches of said radial bed-defining members, wherein at least one of said notches of said radial bed-defining members is deformed around said circular bed-defining members by the crimping of the material forming the radial bed-defining members so that the material of said radial bed-defining members adjacent said at least one of said notches is squeezed to flow around said circular bed-defining member to secure said circular bed-defining member in said at least one of said notches.
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A dartboard having a playing surface, said dartboard comprising:
- a frame having radially-extending and circularly-extending bed-defining members, wherein the radially-extending and circularly-extending members are secured together by one of the members being formed of a compressible material and having at least one notch, and the other of the members being pushed into the notch, the material forming the notched member being crimped adjacent the notch so that the sidewalls of the notch collapse about the member pushed into the notch and thereby hold the members firmly in place.
A dartboard comprising:
- a disc-shaped dartboard body having a substantially flat playing surface;
- a frame for defining beds in the dartboard body, the frame comprising:
- radially-extending and circularly-extending bed-defining members, wherein at least one of the circularly-extending members comprises a ring for forming the inner or outer bull of the dartboard;
- wherein the radially-extending members are comprised of flat strips of compressible material having a top edge;
- a bottom edge;
- two ends;
- a plurality of notches disposed along one edge of the members;
- a hook disposed at one end of the members for securing the members to the ring forming the bull;
- and two pins, one pin being disposed at each end of the radially-extending members for securing the members into the dartboard;
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- wherein the radially-extending and circularly-extending members are secured together by the circularly-extending members being pushed into the notches of the radially-extending members, by the hooks of the radially-extending members being placed about the ring, and by the material forming the radially-extending members being crimped adjacent the notches and adjacent the hooks so that the sidewalls of the notches and of the hooks collapse about the circularly-extending members and thereby hold the members firmly in place.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.