Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
273408000 | Target penetrated by projectile | 17 |
20090039603 | ARCHERY TARGET AND METHOD OF USING SAME - An archery target includes a cylindrical body having a substantially circular top surface, a substantially circular base surface, and an intermediate section extending between the top surface and base surface. The target can be made by winding at least one layer of a flexible material, such as polyurethane foam, to form the cylindrical body. The target can be positioned such that the top surface faces upward and the base surface faces downward, and the user shoots arrows at the intermediate section. After a substantial number of arrows have been shot into the particular area of the intermediate section facing the user, the target can be rotated to expose a previously unused and unblemished area of the intermediate section of the target for further target practice. The target can be part of a kit that includes instructions for using the target accordingly. | 02-12-2009 |
20090058008 | PRINTED TARGET APPARATUS AND METHOD - A target includes a face member, a side wall, and an image. The face member includes a first edge that at least partially surrounds the face member. The side wall is connected to the face member at the first edge. The side wall increases the strength and stability of the target. The image is located on a surface of the face member. A method of making the target includes obtaining a sheet of material; heating the sheet of material; using a mold to define a face member, side wall member, and flange member from the heated sheet of material; cooling the sheet of material after defining the face member, side wall member, and flange member; removing an excess portion of the flange member; and printing an image on the sheet of material. | 03-05-2009 |
20090096172 | Composite archery target - A composite archery target | 04-16-2009 |
20090121439 | Web or Grid for a Darts Game Board - A web or grid for a game board for use in playing a combination of darts and a card game with sets of darts, has a plurality of elongate members disposed parallel to each of two mutually perpendicular axes, to define a plurality of rectangular openings. The web or grid, when provided over a main surface of a body of the game board divides the main surface into a plurality of target areas. A game board for the combination game has a body which defines a substantially flat playing surface into or against which a dart is receivable, and a web or grid which divides the playing surface into target areas in each of which is provided a representation of a respective playing card. | 05-14-2009 |
20110127724 | GAMES USING DARTS OR ARROWS - The present document describes games using darts or arrows. More particularly, this description relates to targets and accessories used for new games. | 06-02-2011 |
20110187053 | TOY BLOW GUN, A PROJECTILE, A TARGET AND A SET INCLUDING SAME - According to embodiments of the present invention, there is provided a toy kit. The toy kit comprises a user-operatable blow gun; a projectile, the projectile being made from a first material; a target, the target being made from a second material; the first material and the second material being selected such that when the projectile is expelled from the user-operatable blow gun under a blow force applied by a user, it penetrates exclusively the target. | 08-04-2011 |
20110260406 | Method and apparatus for playing darts - Three dimensional targets are disclosed that can be added to a dart board. The target has a raised hard cover having a bottom surface and a top surface and sides linking the bottom surface and the top surface, wherein the top surface has at least one hole which forms a target area. The target also has attachment means on the bottom surface of the hard cover for attaching the raised projection to the playing surface of the dart board. | 10-27-2011 |
20120080848 | ARCHERY TARGET WITH THREE DIMENSIONAL TARGET AREA - The present disclosure relates to a portable archery target. The portable archery target includes a main target body having a geometric shape. The geometric shape has a first side and a second side. The first side has a first target zone, while the second side has a second target zone that is separate and distinct from the first target zone. At least one of the first target zone and the second target zone has a first three-dimensional animal-simulating indicia. The present disclosure also relates to a method of manufacturing a portable archery target. The method includes adding a resin into a mold cavity that defines a geometric shape of the portable archery target. The mold cavity has a first surface that defines a first target zone and a second surface that defines a second target zone. At least the first surface has a contour that provides a three-dimensional animal-simulating target. The method also includes closing the mold cavity to form a foam body and removing the foam body from the mold cavity. | 04-05-2012 |
20120200041 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ARCHERY TARGET - A method of manufacturing an archery target comprises the steps of providing a plurality of sheets of polyethylene foam, laminating the plurality of sheets of foam together by passing adjacent ones of the sheets past a heat source and then compressing the sheets together to form a polyethylene foam plank, and cutting a section out of the polyethylene foam plank. | 08-09-2012 |
20120200042 | DARTBOARD ASSEMBLY INCORPORATING INTERCHANGEABLE GAME SHEETS DEPICTING A VARIETY OF SPORT AND RECREATIONAL THEMES - The present invention is an assembleable game board assembly including a structurally supporting frame including a planar shaped and dart tip absorbing backing for receiving at least one insert sheet representative of a game play variant. A pair of upper and lower edge extending members are positioned in retaining fashion over corresponding upper and lower edges of the insert sheet and which receiving threaded compression screws with turn knobs through apertures defined in the ends of the elongate members and which align with threaded apertures associated with upper and lower edge locations of the frame. | 08-09-2012 |
20120299245 | Original dart links golf dart board - A dart board game that simulates the game of golf by using regulation size darts. It is comprised of an eighteen inch regulation dart board with representations of various golf holes related to the score card. The regulation board includes varying marked yardages, water ponds, outside perimeter landing area, three stage putting green that includes a hole-in-one. All in-play areas are marked with one-eighth inch (⅛″) perimeter lines. The game combines the skilled precision and finesse of darts with the low-scoring goal of golf. | 11-29-2012 |
20130249168 | PROJECTILE ABSORBING AND CONTAINMENT APPARATUS - A projectile absorbing and containment method and apparatus for individual and vehicle safety, protection, i.e. armor, and more particularly a reusable projectile target for absorbing and containing the projectile using a mass of self-adhesive polymeric beads. The target of the present invention includes a plurality of layers of different materials making up a composite material for absorbing and containing a projectile which is specifically of importance for safety purposes for high speed projectiles often fired from handguns or other projectile launching devices inside a building or room for example where control and containment of the projectile is important to protect the person using the projectile launching device and others in the vicinity. | 09-26-2013 |
20130270773 | SHOOTING TARGETS WITH REACTIVE ZONES - Embodiments of the invention include printed shooting targets having reactive zones and methods related to the same. In an embodiment, the invention includes a shooting target comprising a substrate. In some embodiments, a first ink layer can be disposed on the substrate. An adhesion modifying layer disposed over the substrate and/or on the first ink layer. The adhesion modifying layer can cover less than the entire surface area of the substrate and/or first ink layer. A second ink layer disposed on the adhesion modifying layer. In an embodiment, a method of making a shooting target comprising applying discrete segments of a material over a substrate to form an adhesion modifying layer, wherein the adhesion modifying layer covers less than the entire surface area of the substrate; and applying a second ink layer over the adhesion modifying layer. Other embodiments are also included herein. | 10-17-2013 |
20130292906 | Dartboard - A dartboard includes a board frame and a plurality of target blocks coupled at the board frame. Each target block includes a block body, a predetermined amount of target materials, and a block panel. The block body has a material compartment and two openings aligning with the material compartment. The target materials are made of sisals and filled within the material compartment. The block panel is affixed to one of the openings of the block body to form a bottom panel of the respective block body so as to retain bottom of the target material within the material compartment of the block body. | 11-07-2013 |
20140042700 | POLYUREA SELF-SEALING TARGET - A polymer material is adapted to coat a weapons training target that has the ability to self-heal and maintain its useful life significantly longer than conventional targets. The polymer material includes a polyurea formed from a mixture of about 1 part isocyanate to about 1 part polyetheramine. Methods for making the targets include coating a target mold with the polyurea polymer coating. | 02-13-2014 |
20140333029 | ARCHERY TARGET WITH COATED LINER - An archery target includes an impact-absorbing core configured to arrest an incoming projectile and a multilayered bag enveloping the impact-absorbing core and defining an outer surface of the target. The multilayered bag includes a flexible fabric layer comprising a plurality of interwoven fibers and a polyurethane coating layer applied to the flexible fabric layer and at least partially overlapping the flexible fabric layer such that the polyurethane coating layer at least partially fills spaces between the plurality of interwoven fibers. The fabric layer may be a woven polyester fabric having a denier rating of at least one thousand. The archery target may further include a marking defining a target area. The marking may be applied to the multilayered bag using a dye sublimation process. | 11-13-2014 |
20180021669 | GAME OF DARTS | 01-25-2018 |