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Slotted coin toy

Inactive Publication Date: 2012-09-27
SLOTTER
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[0008]A slotted coin toy is a system for playing various coin-related games, that enables individuals with lower skill levels to adapt the original games described above with more aptitude and enjoyment. A slotted coin toy may incorporate several launching capabilities into one simple apparatus that has no moving parts and that can be combined with a card such as a standard credit card or hotel key card to propel coins varying distances and directions in sliding, slapping, throwing, or rolling motions.
[0009]A slotted coin toy provides simplicity in a “catapult” while still being extremely mobile and infinitely adjustable. It also allows for more than just a simple throwing action, having also been designed for sliding, slapping, and rolling a coin. The apparatus is designed to be extremely unstable in a preferred throwing position, and completely unstable in many other throwing positions. It is designed to be only slightly more stable when rolling, slapping, or sliding coins.

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Without hours of practice, individuals today typically lack sufficient skills to play and enjoy these classic games.
The apparatus is designed to be extremely unstable in a preferred throwing position, and completely unstable in many other throwing positions.

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[0027]A slotted coin toy is a hand-held game apparatus for propelling coins towards a target. The apparatus is made up of a base structure with a channel or chute down which a coin can be rolled. This base structured has also been designed with a slot to hold a credit card or similar spring element that is used to hold and launch a coin.

[0028]As seen in Fig.s numbered 1 through 7, the invention can vary in its dimensions, but its features remain consistent. FIG. 1 illustrates an example ideal for use on a table. This example is roughly 3.5 inches long by 2 inches wide (1a) by 0.5 inches thick (2a). These dimensions approximate the size of a credit card, a hotel key card, U.S. State driver's license, or other such cards. Being slim, flat, and small make this embodiment ideal for fitting in a pocket, while still being large enough to control with hands.

[0029]In this example, the primary slot for accepting a credit card (3) is made with a cut perpendicular through the face of side 2a (...

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Abstract

A toy for playing various coin-based games includes a polyhedral block having a slot for inserting a card and a channel for rolling a coin.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION[0001]This application claims priority to U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 61 / 384,196 filed Sep. 17, 2010, and is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety for all purposes.INTRODUCTION[0002]This invention relates generally to skills-based, table-top coin games in which coins can be rolled, slid, slapped, or thrown with a launching apparatus at a target.[0003]For decades, individuals and groups have incorporated coins, marbles, pebbles, wedges of folded paper, wooden discs, or other such low cost, abundant projectiles into games of skill on flat surfaces like tables or floors. Many children play table-top games like tiddlywinks with plastic or wood tokens (U.K.), table-top hockey with three pennies (Canada), football with a folded wad of paper or a paper pocket of sugar (U.S.A), bounce basketball with a quarter (North America), or marbles (many countries). None of these games require an apparatus to propel the chosen projectil...

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IPC IPC(8): A63H29/08
CPCA63F7/0668A63F2007/282A63F7/249A63F7/2481
Inventor ROBINS, CANYONROBINS, DUNCAN G.
Owner SLOTTER
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