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Tray for facilitating games involving cards

a technology for facilitating games and cards, applied in the field of cards, can solve the problems of affecting the playability of cards, and taking time away, and achieve the effect of facilitating card games and board games

Inactive Publication Date: 2008-06-05
LAPORTE CATHERINE
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[0002]The present invention is directed to the field of games. More particularly, the present invention is directed to a device in the nature of a tray which facilitates playing card games and board games involving cards.
[0004]It is an object of the present invention to provide a device to solve these problems. More particularly, the present invention is a tray which can receive as many as four different discard piles and one source pile. Obviously, the number of source piles could be increased, depending on the specific requirements of the game and the number of discard piles, correspondingly, decreased. The tray keeps the piles neatly arrayed enhancing the amusement experience.

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In the playing of such games, the cards have a tendency to slide toward disorganization.
Stopping the game to straighten the various piles is distracting from the amusement intended and takes time away from the actual playing of the game.
Further, misplaced discards require extra reaching to retrieve and, can result in misplays within the game if the wrong card is perceived as the most recent discard.

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[0012]A first embodiment of the tray for facilitating games involving cards is shown in FIGS. 1-3 generally at 20. Card tray 20 includes a central card-receiving compartment 22 having walls 29 and a plurality of auxiliary card-receiving compartments 24a, 24b, 24c, and 24d (shown in this embodiment as being four in number) having walls 21. Walls 29 extend higher than walls 21 since the source pile will, in most instances, be taller than a discard pile formed by a portion of the deck. The internal dimensions of walls 21 and 29 are large enough to receive a conventional sized playing card. As most clearly seen in FIG. 4, card tray 20 actually comprises two separate pieces, a first element 30 made up of central card-receiving compartment 22 having a first end 25, second end 26, first side 27 and second side 28, with a first pair of auxiliary compartments 24a, 24c axially aligned, and formed integrally, with first end 25 and second end 26, respectively. It will be appreciated that the c...

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Abstract

A tray for use with games utilizing cards has a central card-receiving compartment and a plurality of auxiliary discard trays extending in a cruciform about the central compartment. The tray is actually composed of two separate elements for ease in storage and shipping.

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[0001]Applicant claims the benefit of provisional appl. Ser. No. 60 / 742,217 filed Dec. 5, 2005.BACKGROUND AND SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION[0002]The present invention is directed to the field of games. More particularly, the present invention is directed to a device in the nature of a tray which facilitates playing card games and board games involving cards.[0003]In the playing of such games, the cards have a tendency to slide toward disorganization. Stopping the game to straighten the various piles is distracting from the amusement intended and takes time away from the actual playing of the game. Further, misplaced discards require extra reaching to retrieve and, can result in misplays within the game if the wrong card is perceived as the most recent discard.[0004]It is an object of the present invention to provide a device to solve these problems. More particularly, the present invention is a tray which can receive as many as four different discard piles and one source pile. Obviously,...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): A63F1/06
CPCA63F1/06A63F1/14A63F1/062
Inventor LAPORTE, CATHERINE
Owner LAPORTE CATHERINE
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