US20160199726A1 - Set of parts that can be secured - Google Patents

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US20160199726A1
US20160199726A1 US14/902,453 US201414902453A US2016199726A1 US 20160199726 A1 US20160199726 A1 US 20160199726A1 US 201414902453 A US201414902453 A US 201414902453A US 2016199726 A1 US2016199726 A1 US 2016199726A1
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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
    • A63F3/00694—Magnetic board games
    • 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
    • A63F3/00697—Playing pieces
    • 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
    • A63F3/02—Chess; Similar board games
    • 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
    • A63F3/00697—Playing pieces
    • A63F2003/00716—Connectable or stackable playing pieces or parts thereof
    • 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
    • A63F3/00697—Playing pieces
    • A63F2003/00716—Connectable or stackable playing pieces or parts thereof
    • A63F2003/00719—Connectable or stackable playing pieces or parts thereof with connections amongst the playing pieces or parts thereof
    • A63F2003/00725—Peg and socket connection
    • 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
    • A63F3/00697—Playing pieces
    • A63F2003/00716—Connectable or stackable playing pieces or parts thereof
    • A63F2003/00719—Connectable or stackable playing pieces or parts thereof with connections amongst the playing pieces or parts thereof
    • A63F2003/00738—Magnetic
    • 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
    • A63F3/00697—Playing pieces
    • A63F2003/00747—Playing pieces with particular shapes
    • A63F2003/00794—Stereometric shapes
    • A63F2003/00804—Pyramids
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
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    • 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
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    • A63F2003/00826—Changeable playing pieces
    • A63F2003/00829—Changeable playing pieces with adjustable height
    • 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
    • A63F3/00697—Playing pieces
    • A63F2003/00832—Playing pieces with groups of playing pieces, each group having its own characteristic
    • A63F2003/00835—The characteristic being the colour
    • 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
    • A63F3/00697—Playing pieces
    • A63F2003/00832—Playing pieces with groups of playing pieces, each group having its own characteristic
    • A63F2003/00839—The characteristic being size or shape
    • 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
    • A63F3/00697—Playing pieces
    • A63F2003/00867—The playing piece having two characteristics
    • A63F2003/0087—The characteristics being on the opposite sides of the playing piece
    • A63F2003/00873—The characteristics being on the opposite sides of the playing piece with different colours on the opposite sides
    • 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
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    • A63F2003/00867—The playing piece having two characteristics
    • A63F2003/00876—One of the characteristics being a colour

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  • the present invention relates to a set of pieces suitable for being assembled together.
  • the field of the invention is that of board games comprising a board on which pieces are moved.
  • a new game that likewise comprises a board that can be thought of as a checkerboard or a chessboard. That game thus has a set of pieces that are arranged in two series.
  • the two series of pieces are analogous butt they are of colors that are distinct so that they can be distinguished, as in checkers or chess. Generally, one series of pieces is white and the other is black. One series of pieces is for one player and the other series is for that player's opponent.
  • the game is thus played by two players.
  • An object of the game is to take all of the opponent's pieces or to have pieces of one's own color in a dominant position on the board.
  • a player may use one of his or her own pieces, e.g. a white piece, to attack a piece belonging to the opponent, which is black in this example.
  • the player can then stack the two pieces one on the other head-to-head, such that the player's own piece is on top of the opponent's piece. This produces a stack where the black piece is underneath the white piece.
  • stack is relatively unstable, particularly when the pieces are not cylindrical.
  • consideration may be given to pieces that are approximately frustoconical in shape, each having a base that is of area that is significantly greater than its top.
  • An object of the present invention is thus to stabilize the head-to-head assembly of two pieces of different colors, more particularly when the pieces are not cylindrical, and to do so by minimizing the means needed for assembling them together.
  • a set of pieces comprises a first series of pieces and a second series of pieces, the pieces of the two series presenting bodies that are analogous but that differ in their colors, fastener means being fitted to the bodies of each piece in the first series, connection means being fitted to the bodies of each piece of the second series, the connection means being distinct from the fastener means, the fastener means and the connection means co-operating to assemble together the pieces on which they appear;
  • this set is remarkable in that the pieces of the first series do not have connection means and the pieces of the second series do not have fastener means.
  • Two pieces, one piece of the first series and one piece of the second series, can thus be assembled together in simple manner, with this making use of only one means on each of the two pieces.
  • the fastener means are arranged at the tops of the pieces of the first series.
  • connection means are arranged at the tops of the pieces of the second series.
  • the fastener means comprise a magnet with its north pole appearing at the top face and the connection means comprise a magnet with its south pole appearing at its top face.
  • the fastener means and the connection means are mechanical members.
  • the fastener means comprise a cylindrical peg and the connection means comprise a socket matching the peg.
  • FIG. 1 is a diagrammatic section of a piece of the first series in a first embodiment
  • FIG. 2 is a diagrammatic section of a piece of the second series in the first embodiment
  • FIG. 3 is a diagrammatic section of a stack of the two pieces shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 ;
  • FIG. 4 is a diagrammatic section of a piece of the first series in a second embodiment
  • FIG. 5 is a diagrammatic section of a piece of the second series in the second embodiment.
  • FIG. 6 is a diagrammatic section of a stack of the two pieces shown in FIGS. 4 and 5 .
  • a piece 10 of the first series e.g. of white color
  • the body has a magnet 11 as fastener means, which magnet is thus fitted horizontally to its top, being set back a little from the top face 12 of the piece.
  • the magnet is arranged in such a manner that its north pole faces the top face 12 .
  • this piece may be made by over molding a plastics material onto the magnet.
  • a piece 20 of the second series e.g. of black color
  • its body has the same shape and it differs therefrom by its color.
  • the body has a magnet 12 as connection means, which magnet is thus fitted horizontally to its top, being set back a little from the top face 22 of the piece.
  • the magnet is arranged in such a manner that its south pole faces the top face 22 .
  • the connection means are distinct from the fastener means since the two magnets 11 and 12 are arranged opposite ways round.
  • the two above-described pieces 10 and 20 are stacked head-to-head, i.e. their tops 12 and 22 are juxtaposed so that the two magnets 11 and 21 are close to each ocher.
  • the piece 10 of the first series is shown underneath in its normal position while the piece 20 of the second series is placed upside-down on the preceding piece.
  • the two pieces 10 and 20 are temporarily assembled together.
  • each of the pieces presents a zone for assembly purposes. These zones must present surfaces that are plane so that they can come into contact. The magnets are then arranged in these zones.
  • a piece 40 of the first series e.g. of white color
  • the body of the first piece 40 is fitted with a peg 41 that projects from its top 42 .
  • This peg 41 acting as fastener means is in the shape of a vertical solid cylinder.
  • a piece 50 of the second series e.g. of black color, is analogous to the piece 40 described with reference to FIG. 4 .
  • a socket 51 is arranged in the top 52 of the second piece 50 .
  • This socket 51 acts as connection means and is likewise in the form of a vertical cylinder, but this cylinder is hollow.
  • the section of this cylinder is substantially identical to, or very slightly greater than the section of the peg 41 .
  • connection means are distinct from the fastener means.
  • the two above-described pieces 40 and 50 are stacked head-to-head, i.e. their tops are juxtaposed.
  • the peg 41 is received in the socket 51 .
  • the clearance between these two elements is such that a small amount of force is needed to assemble them together.
  • the other piece remains secured thereto.
  • the resulting assembly is such that the piece 40 of the first series is underneath in its normal position, while the piece 50 of the second series is upside-down on the preceding piece.
  • the two pieces 40 and 50 are thus temporarily assembled together.
  • the second embodiment described above is a simple example of mechanical assembly in which the assembly members are mechanical members, namely the peg 41 and the socket 51 .

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FR1301572A FR3007997B1 (fr) 2013-07-03 2013-07-03 Assortiment de pieces susceptibles d'etre assujetties
PCT/FR2014/000156 WO2015001203A1 (fr) 2013-07-03 2014-07-01 Assortiment de pièces susceptibles d'être assujetties

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EP3016725A1 (fr) 2016-05-11
WO2015001203A1 (fr) 2015-01-08
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