EP1224018B1 - Spielkarten - Google Patents

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EP1224018B1
EP1224018B1 EP00968150A EP00968150A EP1224018B1 EP 1224018 B1 EP1224018 B1 EP 1224018B1 EP 00968150 A EP00968150 A EP 00968150A EP 00968150 A EP00968150 A EP 00968150A EP 1224018 B1 EP1224018 B1 EP 1224018B1
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Norman F. Mackenzie
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • A63F3/00—Board games; Raffle games
    • A63F3/06—Lottos or bingo games; Systems, apparatus or devices for checking such games
    • A63F3/065—Tickets or accessories for use therewith
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • A63F1/00—Card games
    • A63F1/02—Cards; Special shapes of cards
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • A63F1/00—Card games
    • A63F1/02—Cards; Special shapes of cards
    • A63F2001/025—Cards; Special shapes of cards with holes or slits

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  • the present invention relates to apparatus for playing a game.
  • Companies are constantly seeking to encourage people to purchase their goods, and to encourage existing customers to purchase more. They are also constantly looking for interesting ways of presenting pictures and graphics, relating either to their products, or to promotional activities in which they are involved. furthermore, companies are constantly looking for new ways to promote these products, and therefore there is a constant demand for inexpensive 'novelty' items which companies can give away as promotional gifts, either with or without their products. These may be simple interactive novelties, and they may also involve winning a prize of some kind.
  • apparatus which may be a game of chance, with a prize or reward; or be a collectable item which displays pictures, graphics, logos, numbers, letters or symbols either on their own or as part of a game of chance.
  • the apparatus would consist of two or more pieces of paper, card, plastic or any other suitable inexpensive material. These cards could be of any shape, but in the versions shown here, are rectangular. The cards would have, cut out from the centre, a section; tab or flange, which could also be of any shape; but which in the present version is a semi-circular cut which creates a tab or flange, which remains attached to the main card at one side.
  • the basis of the game is to match or combine in any way, the images, or information on one card with that on another card, and therefore, two cards are required, the game working by combining a pair.
  • the game could attract a prize by matching or completing the graphics or information on one side of a combined pair, and/or both sides simultaneously, the winning combinations to be decided by the promoter.
  • On one side of the card may be a graphic, picture, logo letters, numbers, symbols, etc, with a centre-section of the graphic, in this case a circular area, replaced by the same circular area from another graphic, picture or device, from another graphic or image.
  • the obverse of the game-card may also carry a graphic, perhaps the name of a reward, the image of an artefact, a money prize etc. These may also be divided between two cards in the same way, i.e., the central panel, separated from the main card around one side, being replaced by a section from another card carrying different informatiom graphic etc.
  • the user would therefore, receive a card with every purchase, and when a number have been collected the user may try to find a match, first by sliding one card over another, then by sliding the tab from the card below, into the space over the tab of the other, and then by pushing the two cards together. If the image one side becomes complete or coherent, the card is turned over to see if the image or information on the other side of the assembled cards also becomes complete or coherent. The same pair may also complete information when similarly conjoined on their opposite sides.
  • the game consists basically of any number of pairs of cards, 1, 2, which when joined in the way in which they are designed to do, may or may not complete the missing image, or part of an image, graphic, information etc, on the surface of one card, and may or may not complete the missing; image/information wholly or in part, on the obverse of the back card.
  • Figs. 1,2,3 and 4 show the cards 1, 2, which may be of any shape, and made in almost any material, such as paper, card, plastic etc., as they may be dispensed to the user.
  • Fig. 1 shows the front surface of one card 1, which bears an image 9 with a circular panel 5, from the centre, replaced by a section 10A from another (Fig.
  • FIG. 3 shows the front surface of the other card 2, which bears an image 10, also with a circular section 6, replaced by the corresponding section from the other (Fig. 1) image 9 on the first card 1.
  • the circular areas, or flanges, 5,6 are partially separated from the main card semi-circular cuts 7,8 running around one side of each of the circular sections 5, 6 from top to bottom.
  • the pair of cards 1, 2 have the cut on opposite sides of the sections 5, 6, however, it will be obvious that the sections 5, 6 may carry the parts of the images 9A, 10A inverted, so that the cuts 7, 8 remain on the same side throughout.
  • FIG. 2 and 4 show the obverse of the cards, 1, 2 with the incoherent/incomplete information occupying the corresponding areas to those on the front.
  • Figs. 2 and 4 show the position of the cuts 7, 8 creating the flanges 5, 6.
  • Fig. 5 and 6 show how the user would bring the cards 1, 2 together, in order to try to complete the image 9 on one side, and the information12 on the other.
  • the user places card 1 on top of card 2 and pushes down on the edge nearest the cut 7 of the flange 5; next, the flange 6 on the card 2 below, is pressed upwards from beneath so that the flange 5 on the upper card 1 can slide beneath the flange 6 on card 2.
  • Fig. 6 shows the same operation from behind, with the information/graphic 12 being completed by the insertion of the back of the flange 5 from the card 1, over the surface of the flange 6 on the card 2.
  • Fig. 7 and 8 show how the user would bring the cards 2,1 together, in order to try to complete the image 10 on one side, and the information11 on the other.
  • the user places card 2 on top of card 1 and pushes down on the edge nearest the cut 8 of the flange 6; next, the flange 5 on the card 1 below, is pressed upwards from beneath so that the flange 6 on the upper card 2 can slide beneath the flange 5 on card 1.
  • the two cards2,1 are pushed together, and merge as in a 'total eclipse' the flange 5 from the lower card 1 will be seen to wholly cover the central section of card 2. Since the central section of card 1 is the missing section 10A of the image from the centre of card 2, the image 10 on card 1 will be seen to be completed by the central panel 5 from card 1.
  • Fig. 6 shows the same operation from behind, with the information/graphic 11 being completed by the insertion of the back of the flange 6 from the card 2, over the surface of the flange 6 on the card 1.
  • the cards 1, 2 have been made up to complete each other, on both sides: however, while this may happen in the course of an actual promotion, and may attract an enhanced reward, it will be appreciated that the completions or matches will occur according to a promoter's discretion. Some pairs, for instance, may complete the image on one side, but not the other. In other cases, the 'missing' central sections may be inverted, completing the image/graphic/information on one side, but not the other, or, requiring the user to 'invert' the cards to obtain a match or completion on the other side.

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  1. Eine Vorrichtung (1, 2), die aus zwei oder mehreren Stücken Papier, Karton, Kunststoff oder Ähnlichem besteht, wobei jedes Stück ein erstes Abbild, erste Grafik oder Daten (9, 10) auf mindestens einer ersten Seite (3, 4), und ferner einen hervorspringenden Rand oder Lappen (5, 6) umfasst, der von der Oberfläche (3, 4) des Stückes herausgeschnitten ist, das einen Abschnitt (9A, 10A) eines weiteren Abbilds, Grafik oder Daten (9,10) auf einem anderen Stück teilweise abgrenzt, wobei der restliche Teil des ersetzten Abschnitts (9A, 10A), d.h. der sich über den Einschnitt (7, 8) hinausdehnende, aber nicht dadurch abgegrenzte Teil, an seiner weitesten Ausdehnung durch die zwischen dem ersetzten Abschnitt (9A, 10A) und dem ersten Abbild (9, 10) geformte Linie abgegrenzt wird, dergestalt, dass durch Schieben des Lappens oder hervorspringenden Rands (6) eines ersten Stückes (2), das unter einem zweiten Stück (1) liegt, über den Lappen oder hervorspringenden Rand (5) des zweiten Stückes (1) hinweg, das Abbild, die Grafik oder Daten (9) auf dem zweiten Stück (1) auf irgendwelche Weise ergänzt wird bzw. die beiden Abbilder, Grafiken oder Daten einander entsprechen oder sich ergänzen, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der hervorspringende Rand oder Lappen (5, 6) von innerhalb der Oberfläche der Stücke (1, 2) herausgeschnitten ist, indem die Ränder der Stücke (1, 2) keinen Teil des Lappens oder hervorspringenden Rands (5, 6) bilden.
  2. Die Vorrichtung (1, 2) gemäß Anspruch 1, wobei das obenerwähnte Schieben des Lappens oder hervorspringenden Rands (5, 10A) über das zweite Stück (1) in den Einschnitt (8) am ersten Stück (2) gleichzeitig bewirkt, dass durch den Lappen oder hervorspringenden Rand (5, 10A) des zweiten Stücks (1) das Abbild, die Grafik oder Daten (10) auf dem ersten Stück (2) ergänzt wird.
  3. Vorrichtung (1, 2) gemäß Anspruch 2, wobei beide Stücke ein zusätzliches Abbild oder Grafik bzw. zusätzliche Daten (11, 12) auf der zweiten Seite tragen, und durch Positionierung des ersten Stückes (2) über dem zweiten Stück (1) dort, wo der Lappen (5) in den Einschnitt (8) eingeschoben wird, das Abbild, die Grafik oder Daten (9/9A, 10/10A, 11/11A, 12/12A) gleichzeitig auf beiden Seiten der Vorrichtung (1, 2) vervollständigt werden können.
  4. Vorrichtung (1, 2) gemäß Ansprüchen 1, 2 oder 3, wobei der Lappen oder hervorspringende Rand (5, 6) an der Mitte des Stücks angebracht ist.
  5. Vorrichtung (1, 2) gemäß Ansprüchen 1, 2 oder 3, wobei der Lappen oder hervorspringende Rand (5, 6) an einer anderen Stelle als der Mitte und innerhalb des von dem Abbild, der Grafik oder den Daten (9,10) besetzten Raums angebracht ist.
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GB9924757 1999-10-19
GB9924757A GB2356352B (en) 1999-10-19 1999-10-19 Game cards
PCT/GB2000/004023 WO2001028645A1 (en) 1999-10-19 2000-10-18 Game cards

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US2652635A (en) * 1952-07-23 1953-09-22 Emory R Conger Quiz card game
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DE60014134T2 (de) 2005-10-06
ATE276811T1 (de) 2004-10-15
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GB2356352B (en) 2004-04-21
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