LIGHT-UP SHUFFLEBOARD EQUIPMENT

• US 20120025459A1
• Filed: 08/01/2011
• Published: 02/02/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/30/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: M & C Innovations, LLC
• Original Assignee: M & C Innovations, LLC
• Inventors: Vanderberg, Matthew Alexander
• Granted Patent: US 8,702,099 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 273/126.A
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2007/4068 Sliding play elements, e.g. discs or bodies with a low coefficient of friction
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2009/2454 with LED
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 7/0005 played on a table, the ball or other playing body being rolled or slid from one side of the table in more than one direction or having more than one entering position on this same side, e.g. shuffle boards goal posts per se A63F7/305; miniature bowling-alleys A63D3/00
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 7/40 Balls or other moving playing bodies, e.g. pinballs or discs used instead of balls
• CPC Class Codes: H01K 7/04 for indicating

Abstract

A light-up shuffleboard disc includes a lighting component, and a disc component containing the lighting component. The disc component is constructed so as to allow light from the lighting component to illuminate the shuffleboard disc when the lighting component is activated. A light-up shuffleboard set includes a plurality of light-up shuffleboard discs, some of which may be illuminated by a first color for representing a first player, and some of which may be illuminated by a second color for representing a second player.

Claims

1. A light-up shuffleboard disc, comprising:

(a) a lighting component; and

(b) a disc component including the lighting component;

(c) wherein the disc component is constructed so as to allow light from the lighting component to illuminate the shuffleboard disc when the lighting component is activated.

2. The light-up shuffleboard disc of claim 1, wherein the disc component includes a cavity in which the lighting component is received.

3. The light-up shuffleboard disc of claim 2, wherein the lighting component is automatically transitioned into an activated state as the lighting component is fully received within the cavity of the disc component.

4. The light-up shuffleboard disc of claim 3, wherein the disc component is configured to retain the lighting component within the cavity.

5. The light-up shuffleboard disc of claim 4, wherein the disc component is configured to retain the lighting component within the cavity via threaded engagement of walls of the cavity with an outer portion of the lighting component.

6. The light-up shuffleboard disc of claim 3, wherein the cavity includes a recess proximate a bottom thereof.

7. The light-up shuffleboard disc of claim 6, wherein the lighting component includes a light source, and wherein the recess of the disc component is sized and dimensioned to accommodate the light source when the lighting component is fully received within the cavity of the disc component.

8. The light-up shuffleboard disc of claim 7, wherein a bottom of the cavity is partially defined by a planar surface, and wherein, when the lighting component is fully received within the cavity of the disc component, an activation button of the lighting component is depressed via contact with the planar surface, thereby activating the light source of the lighting component.

9. The light-up shuffleboard disc of claim 1, wherein the lighting component comprises an incandescent light bulb.

10. The light-up shuffleboard disc of claim 1, wherein the lighting component comprises a light emitting diode (LED) bulb.

11. The light-up shuffleboard disc of claim 1, wherein the lighting component comprises a fluorescent bulb.

12. The light-up shuffleboard disc of claim 3, wherein the shuffleboard disc is configured to be transitioned between a first state, in which the lighting component is fully received within the cavity and the lighting component is activated, and a second state, in which the lighting component is not fully received within the cavity and the lighting component is not activated.

13-48. -48. (canceled)

49. A method for a light-up shuffleboard set comprising:

(a) determining that a shuffleboard disc is disposed within a certain area of a shuffleboard court;

(b) in response to said determining step, automatically effecting lighting of a light source of the shuffleboard disc.

50. A method for a light-up shuffleboard set comprising:

(a) determining that a shuffleboard disc is disposed within a certain area of a shuffleboard court;

(b) in response to said determining step, automatically effecting lighting of a light source of the shuffleboard court.