Packing box of playing cards

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2019105553-A1
Application number	US-201816162891-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Oct 17, 2018
Priority date	Aug 5, 2012
Publication date	Apr 11, 2019
Grant date	—

Abstract

A packing box for packaging of playing cards has, in an assembled state, a shape of a rectangular parallelepiped with six faces including front and rear faces, right and left side faces, and top and bottom faces. The packing box includes cut lines in two locations at a predetermined interval in parallel with a longitudinal direction of the rectangular parallelepiped, and a central band in a portion defined by the cut lines provided in the two locations. The right and left side faces of the packing box can be removed along the cut lines such that side edges of the playing cards within the packing box are exposed.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A package of playing cards, the package having, in an assembled state, a shape of a rectangular parallelepiped with six faces including a front face, a rear face, a right side face, a left side face, a top face, and a bottom face, the package comprising:
at least one cut-off line, each of which is formed by parallel cut lines in a longitudinal direction of the package in the assembled state, the at least one cut-off line configured to enable detachment of at least one of the left side face and the right side face of the package from a remaining portion of package to expose at least a portion of the playing cards contained in the package; and a break line configured to enable the remaining portion of the package to be torn.

2 . The package according to claim 1 , further comprising a mark indicating the top face as a top surface of the package of the playing card.

3 . The package according to claim 1 , further comprising a mark indicating a correct orientation of the playing cards.

4 . The package according to claim 1 , further comprising a plurality of step marks that indicate one or more steps to remove the package from the playing cards.

5 . The package according to claim 1 , further comprising a start marking that indicates a portion the package intended to be detached from the package to enable insertion of a cut card.

6 . The package according to claim 1 , further comprising an ID code being unique to each set of the playing cards.

7 . The package according to claim 6 , further comprising a bar code for indicating the ID code.

8 . The package according to claim 1 , comprising:
a first cut-off line of the at least one cut-off line, the first cut-off line configured to enable detachment of the left side face of the package; and a second cut-off line of the at least one cut-off line, the second cut-off line configured to enable detachment of the right side face of the package.

9 . The package according to claim 1 , wherein:
the playing cards are operable to be set in a card shooter with the remaining portion after detachment of that at least one of the left side face and the right side face of the package, and the remaining portion is operable, after being set in the card shooter with the playing cards, to be removed from the card shooter so that the playing cards are set in the card shooter without the package.

10 . The package according to claim 1 , wherein the playing cards included in the package in the assembled state include one or more decks sealed in the package in a shuffled state.

11 . A method of setting shuffled playing cards in a shooter, wherein the shuffled playing cards comprise one or more decks of playing cards shuffled in a random order and contained in a package, the package has a shape of a rectangular parallelepiped with six faces including a front face, a rear face, a right side face, a left side face, a top face, and a bottom face, and the package includes at least one cut-off line, each of which is formed by parallel cut lines in a longitudinal direction of the rectangular parallelepiped and a break line, the method comprising:
detaching at least one of the left side face or the right side face of the package from a remaining portion of the package along each of the at least one cut-off line so as to expose at least a portion of the playing cards; inserting a cut card into the shuffled playing cards in the package via the portion of the playing cards exposed by detachment of at least one of the left side face or the right side face of the package; handling the playing cards using the remaining portion; and tearing the break line at the remaining portion of the package in the shooter so as to remove the remaining portion holding the playing cards so that the playing cards are set in the card shooter without the package.

12 . The method of claim 11 , further comprising, prior to detaching at least one of the left side face or the right side face of the package, orienting the package containing the playing cards so that an index surface of each playing card of the playing cards, on which an index is printed, is not in an upward direction of the portion of the exposed portion of the playing cards while the left side face or the right side face of the package is detached for inserting the cut card.

13 . The method of claim 11 , wherein the package has a marking showing instructions for detaching at least one of the left side face or the right side face of the package.

Assignees

• Angel Playing Cards Co Ltd

Inventors

• Shigeta Yasushi

Classifications

• A63F1/062 Primary

  Boxes or cases for cards · CPC title

• B65D75/5827

  Tear-lines provided in a wall portion (B65D75/5805, B65D75/5816 take precedence) · CPC title

• B65D5/54

  Lines of weakness to facilitate opening of container or dividing it into separate parts by cutting or tearing ({B65D5/06, B65D5/5233, B65D5/5253 take precedence } ; break-in flaps, or members adapted to be torn-off, to provide pouring openings B65D5/70) · CPC title

• A63F2250/58

  Antifraud or preventing misuse · CPC title

• A63F1/12

  Card shufflers · CPC title