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US 6,604,976 B2Granted
Segmental toy game
AssigneeStry-Lenkoff Company
InventorRoger Lenkoff
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Abstract
A toy game wherein a unique casing includes hinged top and bottom lids shaped to store and provide nesting and securing cradles for a plurality of sheets some of which include overall visual images and others of which include push-out segments to be fastened to the overall visual images.
Claims17
A game comprising:
- an openable-closable casing having mating top and bottom sections;
- said top and bottom sections each including inner and outer faces and opposed surrounding mating peripheral edges;
- the top and bottom sections being moveable between a closed position and a fully opened position in which the top and bottom sections lie in a common plane;
- at least one changeable visual image sheets, said changeable visual image sheet having an overall visual image printed thereon;
- at least one of said top and bottom sections including sheet retaining raised, opposed border members extending along one face of said section within and along the peripheral edge of said one section to nestingly receive and cradle said at least one changeable visual image sheets with said sheet being sized and shaped to be retained within said border members;
- at least one movable game segment sized to be removably disposable in said fully openable-closable casing to overlie at least a portion of said changeable visual image sheet, said movable game segment including an adheringly responsive fastening member to be movably held in fastened overlying relation with said changeable visual image sheet.
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A game comprising:
- an openable-closable casing having mating top and bottom sections;
- said top and bottom sections each including a panel having inner and outer faces and opposed surrounding mating peripheral sides extending from said panel;
- said casing being movable between a closed position in which said casing defines an enclosed volume and a fully opened position in which the top and bottom sections can lie in a common plane;
- said openable-closable casing being of magnetically responsive material;
- at least one changeable image sheet having a visual image thereon;
- said visual image sheet being contained in said enclosed volume when said casing is closed;
- said openable-closable casing being in the shape of a substantially flat, longitudinally extending, rectangular box sized to accommodate said at least one changeable image sheet;
- at least one of said top and bottom sections having at least one border shaped to cradle said at least one changeable image sheet within said border;
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- at least one moveable game segment sheet;
- said game segment sheet comprising a magnetic scored coated sheet of material sized and configured to nest in said openable-closable casing;
- each scored sheet including a plurality of push-out magnetic coated game segments to be displaced from said game segment sheet to be moveably and selectively fastened to said visual image to overlie at least a portion of said changeable visual image sheet within said border, said movable game segment including an adheringly responsive fastening member to be movably held in fastened overlying relation with said changeable visual image sheet.
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A game comprising an openable-closing firm casing including a pair of magnetically responsive mating top and bottom nesting cradle sections;
- said nesting cradle sections each including pairs of spaced opposed mating peripheral side edges integral with and extending normally from flat panel sections;
- one mating corresponding peripheral side edge of each top and bottom cradle section being hingedly joined allowing for flat opening of the nesting cradle sections to be substantially aligned with said flat panel sections, each flat panel section including opposed inner and outer faces in substantial side-by-side relationship when said cradle sections are in open position, said inner faces of said flat panel sections each including sheet retaining raised pairs of spaced border members extending along said pairs of spaced peripheral side edges of said cradle section and at least one having pairs of spaced indentations extending adjacent said border members to form sheet receiving nesting border members along said opposite face thereof, said border members serving to receive at least one coated scored sheet of material, said sheet being sized and configured to nest in said openable-closable hinged casing and including a plurality of push-out magnetic coated game segments to be displaced from said sheet and moveably and selectively fastened to one portion of said faces of said flat panel sections within one of said border members;
- at least one of said flat sections having a visual image in selected colors within said border members to receive in magnetically fastened relation thereto a selectively colored push-out magnetic coated game segment movably and selectively fastened thereto;
- and, at least one changeable sheet of different visual images also sized to nest in said openable-closable hinged casing within one of said raised border members on one of said flat panel sections to provide a change of visual images within one of said border members of said flat panel sections.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.