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  Toss game apparatusUSPTO Application #: 20070063447Title: Toss game apparatus Abstract: A toss game apparatus is disclosed. The toss game apparatus includes first and second target platforms, each first and second target platform including a top portion, two end portions and two lateral portions, and a means for joining the first and second target platforms at variable distances one from the other. (end of abstract)
Agent: Mark Gholson - Sacramento, CA, US Inventors: Mark Gholson, Adam Mills USPTO Applicaton #: 20070063447 - Class: 273400000 (USPTO) Related Patent Categories: Amusement Devices: Games, Aerial Projectile Game; Game Element (e.g., Target, Etc.) Or Accessory Therefor Other Than Projector Or Projectile, Per Se, Target, Pocketed Or Apertured, Closed-back Or Closed-bottom Pocket The Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20070063447. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0001] The present invention relates generally to toss games and more particularly to a toss game apparatus having a means for joining a pair of apertured target platforms at variable distances one from the other. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] Toss games are well known in the art and generally comprise a pair of rectangular target platforms having a plurality of apertures formed therethrough. The rectangular target platforms are placed a distance apart and players attempt to toss rings or other objects through the apertures in order to score points. [0003] One such toss game is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,927,161. The game consists of two platforms with three circular holes in each platform. These platforms are joined together with a chain or other linkage at a fixed distance. A player stands on top the platform at the end where the linkage is fastened. This player will toss, pitch or lob a disc towards the other platform trying to hit one of the holes. Each hole is worth a particular number of points. Generally a player who scores the first 21 points wins the game. The linkage is of a fixed ten foot chain or other linkage. No provision for storing the linkage is shown or suggested. [0004] A pitch game is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,936,590 and includes two multi apertured rectangular platforms. Colored apertured disc projectiles are supplied in sets of six, one set for each player. A player stands on the edge of one platform and tosses discs in an attempt to drop them through one of the apertures in the second platform. The apertures are scored one, two, three according to a distance away from the thrower. Separable hinges and latches are included for attaching the two rectangular platforms together into a storage or carrying case. The two rectangular platforms are not nestably stackable. [0005] U.S. Pat. No. 5,575,480 discloses a toss game apparatus for alternate use as a target for thrown projectiles or as a support for supporting an individual playing the toss game and includes a frame and a top panel mounted on the frame and deflectable relative to the frame. Interior support member attached to the top panel limit the degree of deflection of the top panel. Carpeting is positioned on the top panel having an upper layer of upwardly projecting fabric fibers angles toward one of the frame ends. The frames are not nestably stackable. [0006] A tossing game and method of play is disclosed in U.S. Patent Application Publication No. 2004/0108658. Two or more players compete by tossing rings toward a target structure whereby points are accumulated. Each target structure is elongate and has a first upper surface portion upon which a player may stand while tossing rings toward an opposing structure, and a second upper surface portion defining a plurality of longitudinally aligned ring-receiving bores. The target structures are not nestably stackable. [0007] U.S. Patent Application Publication No. 2004/0227284 discloses a disk tossing game including a target surface, a plurality of tossing disks, and a scoring peg. In a preferred method of play, each player tosses three rings onto the target surface. The toss is scored according to the landing position of the rings and the scoring position of the scoring peg. The target surfaces are not nest-able stackable. [0008] The prior art toss game apparatus suffer the disadvantage of not providing a means for joining the apertured platforms at variable distances one from the other. Additionally, the prior art toss game apparatus provide for generally rectangular target platforms having horizontal upper surfaces which limit a player's view of the apertures when the target platforms are spaced far apart. Prior art toss games apparatus further are not conveniently stackable. [0009] What is needed is a toss game apparatus that overcomes the disadvantages of the prior art. What is further needed is a toss game apparatus including a means for joining the apertured target platforms at variable distances one from the other. What is also needed is a toss game apparatus having an inclined upper surface. What is also needed is a toss game apparatus that is nestably stackable. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION [0010] The present invention overcomes the disadvantages of the prior art by providing a toss game apparatus including a means for joining a pair of target platforms at variable distances one from the other. A first target platform may include a locking device for locking a rope at variable positions along a rope attached to a second target platform. The target platforms may include a top portion defining an inclined top surface. The top portion may be supported by a pair of lateral portions and a pair of end portions. The end portions may be of different heights to thereby provide for the inclined top surface. [0011] In accordance with one aspect of the invention, a toss game apparatus includes first and second target platforms, each first and second target platform comprising a top portion, first and second end portions and two lateral portions depending from the top portion, and a means for joining the first and second target platforms at variable distances one from the other. [0012] In accordance with another aspect of the invention, a toss game apparatus having an inclined top portion includes first and second target platforms, each first and second target platform comprising a top portion having a plurality of apertures formed therethrough, first and second end portions and two lateral portions depending from the top portion, the first and second end portions being of unequal heights to provide the inclined top portion, and a means for joining the first and second target platforms at variable distances one from the other. [0013] In accordance with yet another aspect of the invention, a toss game apparatus includes first and second target platforms, each first and second target platform comprising a top portion, first and second end portions and two lateral portions depending from the top portion, the first and second end portions being of unequal heights to provide an inclination to the top portion, and a locking device disposed on the first target platform, the locking device lockingly engaging a linkage between the first and second target platforms. [0014] There has been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the invention in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are, of course, additional features of the invention that will be described below and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended herein. [0015] In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein, as well as the abstract, are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting. [0016] As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception upon which this disclosure is based may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS [0017] The present disclosure may be better understood and its numerous features and advantages made apparent to those skilled in the art by referencing the accompanying drawings. [0018] FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a target platform in accordance with the present invention; [0019] FIG. 2 is a side elevation view of a pair of target platforms in accordance with the invention; [0020] FIG. 3A is a cross-sectional view of a first target platform in accordance with the invention; Continue reading... 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