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Kitchenaid, Inc.

William Weigl

Richard L Stottmann

Edward F Ponikwia

Charles E Studebaker

George Churley

Matthew T Weigl

Margaret R Weigl

A card game that includes both wild and skip card features has a predetermined number of cards designated for use as dual-function wild/skip cards. At the option of the card holder at his playing turn, such a dual-function card may be selectively used either as a wild card for melding purposes or as a penalty-imposing card to cause an opponent to whom the card is given to be skipped, i.e., to lose his or her next playing turn or to receive some other comparable or additional penalty.

Multi-function playing element and method of using in a card or tile game

A rummy-type card game that conventionally includes the making and rearranging of RUNs and SETs on a playing surface is played by utilizing a wild card as a substitute for a numbered card. The numbered card that the wild card represents may later be substituted at least from hand by any player for the wild card and the extracted wild card then used to replace another numbered card already on or added to the playing surface. If a wild card is present in a RUN, that grouping becomes locked (unbreakable) from rearrangement until such time as the wild card has been properly replaced during play. In the preferred version of this game, a wild card can only be used in a RUN, and one of several different techniques can be employed to neutralize the locked aspect of a RUN that contains the wild card. Another novel feature is that a wild card may also be used to extract any numbered card from a RUN, including a locked RUN, and the extracted numbered card may then used to that player's best advantage. A further significant feature is to provide non-suit dual-function cards that can be optionally used either as wild or penalty-imposing cards.

Game apparatus for and method of playing a family of associated rummy-type card games

The anchor utilizes a pair of horizontally-offset male/female connections between the base and the anchor, the outer one of which connections is adjacent the outer edges of the base so as to minimize the effects of torque applied as when a player slides into a base while attempting a 'steal'. The horizontal surface area of the anchor is relatively large to enable a dirt-covered anchor to be easily located. Important advantages of the design are to avoid anchor obstruction of dragging equipment when the bases are removed, protecting both the equipment and the anchors, and to minimize risk to a player stepping over an anchor which does not have a base covering it.

Baseball base and anchor

Golf practice device such as a net or the like for use from within or outside a garage, the net being mounted internally of the garage door adjacent its upper edge in both a storage condition and a use condition and being rolled up on a bar or rod and supported out of the way on end brackets on the inside of the door in said storage condition. The mounting and brackets are designed so as to enable the door to be raised and lowered as needed when the device is in storage condition, and to further enable the door to be raised while the net is in its use condition, without obstruction of door movement and without risk of damage to the net or the door. The brackets themselves are also adapted to be mounted on either a vertical wall or suspended from a horizontal ceiling, in either of which locations, the brackets can serve for both storage and use of the net.

Golf practice device

A concentric drive is provided for a food processing tool to permit a plurality of food processing heads to be removably associated with a single drive extension. Each food processing head comprises a disk member having cutting means for performing a desired food processing operation. The food processing head is formed by securing the disk-like member to a disk-mounting flange which extends axially and radially from the upper end of a disk-mounting hub having a D-shaped drive-receiving opening extending entirely therethrough with the remaining portion of the upper end being closed. The disk is flush-mounted to the flange in an orientation to present minimal interference between the cutting means and the hub and mounting flange and such that the hub is concentric with the disk-like member with the closed portion of the upper end of the hub extending to substantially the center of the disk-like member and spaced therefrom by the axial dimension of the disk-mounting flange to permit the cutting means to extend substantially to the center of the disk-like member. Alternate embodiments fuse the drive extension to the disk-mounting hub to produce a food processing tool which permits a cutting surface to extend from near the center of a disk-like member to near its periphery.

Concentric drive for food processing tool

Bridge game for two or three players who competitively bid for a face-down dummy hand which is incapable of verbal response but is capable of providing an approximate point count, indication of the suits of the majority of cards thereof and the specific number of Aces and Kings therein when called upon to do so, all without having any markings on the backs of said cards from which such information can be determined.

Bridge game for two or three

Deck of playing cards for playing Bridge, with means enabling two or three players to bid competitively for an unexposed or partially-exposed dummy hand, the Aces and Kings of said deck being provided with means making their identification normally non-discernible to the naked eye, unless specially conditioned in response to a Slam bid by one of the players asking for a dummy response to signify the number of Aces or Kings contained in its unexposed cards.

Bridge game for two or three individuals, utilizing a standard, four-suit deck of 52 cards. Prearranged dummy hand is selected without viewing the faces of the cards thereof, and the players are subsequently provided with general information relative to the point count and supporting suits of the dummy hand, from which the strength of the dummy can be combined with that of each bidding player's hand for bidding purposes. If, during bidding, a player bids the Blackwood convention, specific information relative to the number of aces or kings in the dummy hand is also provided. Once bidding is completed, the dummy hand is exposed and play proceeds in the regular fashion of the true game of contract bridge.

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Troy, OH, United States of America

William Weigl