Throwing plate system and method

• US 6,073,588 A
• Filed: 08/31/1998
• Issued: 06/13/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 11/14/1994
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Guy L. Mcclung, Therese Karen Mcclung
• Original Assignee: Charles H. Vannatter III, Guy Mcclung
• Inventors: VanNatter, Charles H. III, McClung, Guy L. III
• Primary Examiner(s): Poon, Peter M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): SHAW, ELIZABETH ANNE
• Application Number:
  US09/144,002
• Time in Patent Office: 652 Days
• Field of Search: 119/707, 119/709, 119/710, 40/618, 40/765, 446/46, 446/48
• US Class Current: 119/709
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 15/025 Toys specially adapted for animals
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 15/026 Chewable toys, e.g. for dental care of pets
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 119/905 Breaking or training method

Abstract

Methods have been invented for a person to throw one or more throwing plates that have thereon indicia such as letters, syumbols and/or numbers and, in one aspect, the method includes throwing a series of throwing plates with different colors and/or different indicia thereon.

Claims

1. A flying throwing plate comprising

a disc-shaped flying plate body with a top body plate surface and a bottom body plate surface, the disc-shaped flying plate body with a rim portion that curves down from the top body plate to the bottom body plate, and

an item releasably held on the disc-shaped flying plate body.

2. The flying throwing plate of claim 1 further comprising

at least one recess in the disc-shaped flying plate body, and

an item disposed releasably within the at least one recess.

3. The flying throwing plate of claim 2 wherein the at least one recess is a plurality of recesses, each with an item held releasably therein.

4. The flying throwing plate of claim 2 wherein the at least one recess and the item are sized and configured so that the item is held in the at least one recess by a friction fit.

5. The flying throwing plate of claim 2 wherein the at least one recess and the item have corresponding shapes.

6. The flying throwing plate of claim 2 wherein the item has a raised portion to facilitate removal thereof from the at least one recess.

7. The flying throwing plate of claim 2 wherein the disc-shaped flying plate body has a shape as viewed from above from the group of shapes consisting of circular, square, rectangular, triangular, pentagonal, sexagonal, septagonal, octagonal, and nonagonal.

8. The flying throwing plate of claim 2 wherein there are a plurality of recesses, each with an item releasably held therein, and each item has different indicia thereon.

9. The flying throwing plate of claim 2 wherein the at least one item is releasably held in at least one recess in the disc-shaped flying plate body and a flexible member with one end fixed to the flying throwing plate is disposed with part thereof beneath the at least one item in the at least one recess with a free end of the flexible member extending out from the at least one recess.

10. The flying throwing plate of claim 1 wherein the item is releasably held in at least one hollow container attached to the disc-shaped flying plate body.

11. The flying throwing plate of claim 1 wherein the at least one item is removably held in at least one pocket fixed to the flying throwing plate.

12. The flying throwing plate of claim 1 further comprising

a flexible member fixed to the disc-shaped flying plate body, and

the item releasably held by the flexible member.

13. The flying throwing plate of claim 1 further comprising

a projection projecting from the disc-shaped flying plate body, and

the item having a slot in which the projection is releasably held.

14. The flying throwing plate of claim 1 further comprising

an opening through the disc-shaped flying plate body, and

the item releasably inserted through and held in the opening.

15. The flying throwing plate of claim 1 further comprising

a flexible pocket fixed to the disc-shaped flying plate body,

the pocket having a flexible mouth through which the item is passable, and

the item in the flexible pocket.

16. The flying throwing plate of claim 1 wherein the disc-shaped flying plate body has an upturned lip spaced apart therefrom and the at least one item is releasably held between the lip and the disc-shaped flying plate body.

17. The flying throwing plate of claim 1 further comprising

releasably cooperating fastener material on the disc-shaped flying plate body, and

corresponding releasably cooperating fastener material on the item for releasably holding the item on the disc-shaped flying plate body.

18. A throwing plate game system comprising

a plurality of flying throwing plates,

each flying throwing plate of the plurality of flying throwing plates having a disc-shaped flying plate body, with a top body plate surface and a bottom body plate surface, the disc-shaped flying plate body with a rim portion that curves down from the top body plate to the bottom body plate, and

each disc-shaped flying plate body having different identifying indicia thereon.

19. The throwing plate game system of claim 18 wherein the identifying indicia is numbers.

20. A method for playing a flying throwing plate game, the method comprising

throwing plates of a game system, the game system comprising a plurality of flying throwing plates, each flying throwing plate of the plurality of flying throwing plates having a disc-shaped flying plate body with a top body plate surface and a bottom body plate surface, the disc-shaped flying plate body with a rim portion that curves down from the top body plate to the bottom body plate, each flying throwing plate of the plurality of flying throwing plates having different identifying indicia thereon, and

retrieving of the plurality of flying throwing plates.

21. The method of claim 20 wherein the identifying indicia is numbers.