Arachnid, Inc.

Other

General Aquadyne, Inc.

B.i.g. Three Sixty LLC

Martin; John R.

Arachnid 360, LLC

Richard F Jones

John R Martin

Patrick G Rice

Thomas P Myers

Matthew Samuel Malmberg

James R Ligman

Ernest L Ping

Yvonne Marie DeMarce

George H Dell

Matthew S Malmberg

A blank forms a dispenser carton. The dispenser carton receives a rolled sheet to form a dispenser carton assembly. The dispenser carton has a top panel. A dispensing state of the dispenser carton the top panel includes a pair of locking tabs with notches received by a pair of flaps of side panels of the dispenser carton. The pair of flaps each have flap notches. The flap notches provide a gap between a top panel flange and a front panel of the dispenser carton. The pair of locking tabs are received into flap apertures of the pair of flaps. A pair of triangular gaps separate a portion of a back panel of the dispenser carton from left and right side panels to bias the pair of locking tabs against stops of the pair of flaps. A bottom panel of the dispenser carton includes a bottom aperture.

Dispenser carton blank and assembly

A multiple target electronic dart gaming machine having shared electronic components. According to certain embodiments, the multiple targets are mounted on opposite sides of a game board of a target assembly that is housed in a cabinet of the gaming machine. The gaming machine may be floor-standing or wall mountable. Either affixed above the top of the target assembly, below the bottom of the target assembly, or both, is a visual display video monitor for providing players and observers with game scores and the like. The game board may be axially rotated between at least first and second positions so as to allow game play on the different targets. Additionally, the position of the game board may be detected through the use of a detector on or in the board.

Multi-target dart game

A virtual shuffleboard table gaming apparatus including a housing having a playing field, a game acquisition circuit, and a display. As a puck is propelled towards a puck return at the distal end of the playing field, the puck temporarily obstructs at least two beams from transmitters. Sensors that receive the transmitted beams provide information to the game acquisition circuit indicative of the time when the beams were blocked and unblocked. The duration of time the beams are block are used by a game controller to calculate the angle of travel, location, and velocity of the puck. This information is then used by the game controller to determine the travel path and resting place of a virtual puck on a virtual playing field, as well as determine whether the virtual puck rests in a scoring zone and maintain a game score.

Virtual shuffleboard

A method for play of a parlor entertainment unit including a remote activation assembly and an activation-sensing unit. The activation-sensing unit, which may be battery operated and housed in the entertainment unit, may be in an energy-conserving sleep mode until the activation-sensing unit receives a wake-up signal. In one embodiment, the wake-up signal may be generated by the engagement of an activation mechanism, such as a coin slide. After being awoken, the activation-sensing unit may transmit an inquiry to the remote activation assembly as to whether the associated entertainment unit has been selected for play and/or whether there is a sufficient number of credits available for play. If that entertainment unit has not been selected for play, the activation-sensing unit may return to a sleep mode. However, if sufficient play credits are available for the entertainment unit, play may commence.

Parlor game

A method of playing a table card game is provided. A player makes a first wager as to whether a predetermined number of cards in a hand of cards dealt to the player will add up to a predetermined qualifying value. The player may also optionally make a bonus wager as to whether the predetermined number of cards will be a bonus combination. If the player cannot make the qualifying value the player loses the wagers, otherwise the player is paid according to a pay scale. The player may then optionally make a second chance wager and a second chance bonus wager based on the predetermined number of cards in a hand of community cards dealt. If the qualifying value cannot be made from the community hand, the player loses the wagers, otherwise the player is paid according to a pay scale.

Table card game

A method is disclosed for initiating game play on a pay-for-play parlor game, such as a pool table having a playing surface, rails, pockets, a ball holding rack that retains pool balls, and an internal activation-sensing unit. The method includes depositing a game play fee into a remote activation assembly, remotely transmitting an activation signal once the game play fee is deposited, receiving the activation signal at the internal activation-sensing unit, and providing access to the pool balls upon said receiving step. A method is also disclosed for automatically scoring a pool-based game including detecting detectable devices embedded within the pool balls.

Game base

Electronic dart game

A battery powered electronic dart game that is capable of scoring the game of Cricket uses multicolored or flashing lamps to indicate a current mark score. In one embodiment, the multi-colored lamps may be bi-color LED's that indicate four states with regard to marks scored in a particular dart bed. In another embodiment, the flashing lamps may be LED's flashed at different rates to indicate the four states with regard to marks scored in a particular dart bed. In a third embodiment, the lamps may be both colored and flashed to indicate marks scored. A score panel may be connected to a dart board, together containing processing and display driver circuitry for indicating a current score on the lamps and on numerical displays. Alternatively, the display panel may be a separate unit and may completely house the processing and display driver circuitry, thereby providing portability.

Electronic cricket dart game

In underwater diving a record is made on an electronic recorder of the instantaneous pressure to which the diver is subjected at successive time intervals to give complete time-versus-pressure records for any one diver for a given time period, for example, twelve hours. A pressure transducer delivers an electronic signal to the recorder, and this pressure data is recorded at successive time intervals, for example, every minute of the twelve-hour period. The recorded data is read digitally and is read in analogue in the form of an x-y graph, either permanent or fleeting. The recorded data is preferably kept in permanent form on electronic chips also referred to as programmable read-only memories. The entire recording device can be carried by the diver, and the readout apparatus may be located at the surface of the water. Continuous topside monitoring is also provided.

Recorder for decompression data

A dart includes a flexible plastic tip having a comparatively blunt point and is adapted to be thrown at a dart board having an array of target plates formed with holes for receiving and holding the tip. Each target plate shifts inwardly upon being struck by a dart and effects closing of a switch for producing a scoring signal.

Dart game with apertured target plates resiliently mounted

Video cameras and illuminating lights on the helmets of commercial divers are caused to give satisfactory images in turbid water by a combination of camera adjustment and very low light levels. Lights of five to twenty-five watts total are employed with video cameras that have the sensitivity increased five to ten times normal and wherein the useful light range of the camera is adjusted to be three to five times the illumination from the lamps. It is desirable also to render the automatic gain control of the camera inoperative, at least over the lower part of that light range of the camera.

Growing community of inventors

Rockford, IL, United States of America

Richard F Jones