Light-up shuffleboard equipment

• US 8,764,592 B2
• Filed: 07/29/2011
• Issued: 07/01/2014
• 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
• Primary Examiner(s): Chiu, Raleigh W
• Application Number:
  US13/194,494
• Publication Number:
  US 20120025460A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,068 Days
• Field of Search: 473/588
• US Class Current: 473/588
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2225/74 with powered illuminating means, e.g. lights
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 67/14 Curling stone; Shuffleboard; Similar sliding games

Abstract

A light-up shuffleboard disc includes a lighting component, and a disc component with a cavity for receiving 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 received within the cavity of the disc component. A light-up shuffleboard set includes a light-up shuffleboard court, and a plurality of light-up shuffleboard discs.

Claims

1. A light-up shuffleboard disc, comprising:

(a) a lighting component; and

(b) a disc component including a cavity for receiving the lighting component;

(c) wherein the cavity includes a recess proximate a bottom thereof; and

(d) 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 received within the cavity of the disc component.

2. The light-up shuffleboard disc of claim 1, wherein the disc component is configured to retain the lighting component within the cavity.

3. The light-up shuffleboard disc of claim 2, 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.

4. The light-up shuffleboard disc of claim 1, 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.

5. The light-up shuffleboard disc of claim 4, 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.

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

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

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

9. The light-up shuffleboard disc of claim 1, 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.

10. A method for activating a light-up shuffleboard disc comprising the steps of:

inserting a lighting component, comprising a light source, into a cavity of a shuffleboard disc;

removably securing the lighting component within the cavity, such that the lighting component is fully received within the cavity;

wherein the light source is activated within the cavity when the lighting component is fully received within the cavity;

wherein walls of the cavity are configured for threaded engagement with an outer portion of the lighting component.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein removably securing the lighting component includes screwing the lighting component into the cavity.

12. The method of claim 11, 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 shuffleboard disc, an activation button of the lighting component is depressed via contact with the planar surface, thereby activating the light source of the lighting component.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the light source is one of an incandescent light bulb, a light emitting diode, and a fluorescent bulb.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the shuffleboard disc is translucent so as to allow light from the lighting component to be visible from an exterior of the shuffleboard disc when the light source is activated.