Packing box for shuffled playing cards

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9555318-B2
Application number	US-201214419612-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 17, 2012
Priority date	Aug 5, 2012
Publication date	Jan 31, 2017
Grant date	Jan 31, 2017

Abstract

A packing box of shuffled playing cards has, in an assembled state, a shape of a rectangular parallelepiped with six faces, namely, a front face, a rear face, a left side face, a right side face, a top face and a bottom face so as to encase the shuffled playing cards. The packing box includes zippers provided in locations at a predetermined interval, each of which includes zipper-shaped cut lines arranged in parallel with a longitudinal direction of the rectangular parallelepiped shape, and has a central band in the central portion defined by the zippers provided in the two locations. A configuration is achieved in which by removing the two zippers along the cut lines formed by zipper lines or a straight slit, the left and right side faces of the packing box are removed such that the side faces of the shuffled playing cards 1 would be exposed.

First claim

The invention 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 front and rear faces, right and left side faces, and top and bottom faces, the package comprising:
a cut line, which is formed in a longitudinal direction of the rectangular parallelepiped package, allowing to detach at least one of the left side face and the right side face of the package so as to partially expose the playing cards for inserting a cut card in the playing cards in the package; and
a break line, along which allows to be torn a remaining portion, which is a remaining part of the package, when the package is set in a card shooter; and
a direction marking indicating the top surface of the package or a correct orientation of the playing cards so that an index surface of the each playing card, on which as index is printed, is not in an upward direction of exposed part while the side face of the package is detached for inserting the cut card.

2. The package according to claim 1 , the package further comprising:
a start marking showing a first portion, which is a part of the package should be detached first, for inserting the cut card.

3. The package according to claim 1 ,
wherein only the playing cards are left in the card shooter in such a manner that the remaining portion is torn with the break line and the remaining portion is removed from the card shooter.

4. The package according to claim 1 , further comprising a pair of the cut lines,
wherein one of the cut lines allows to detach the left side face of the package,
wherein another of the cut lines allows to detach the right side face of the package.

5. The package according to claim 1 , further comprising a set of shuffled playing cards that are contained in the package in a shuffled state and sealed, the set of shuffled playing cards including one or more decks.

6. The package according to claim 5 ,
wherein the remaining portion of the package has a printed character or a bar code that indicates a different ID for each set of shuffled playing cards.

7. 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 front and rear faces, right and left side faces, and top and bottom faces, and the package includes a cut line, which is formed 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 faces of the package along the cut line so as to partially expose the playing cards;
inserting a cut card into the shuffled playing cards in the package from the exposed side of the package;
handling the playing cards using a remaining portion, which is a remaining part of the package, to set the playing cards in the shooter; 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 only the playing cards are set in the card shooter.

8. The method of claim 7 , prior to the detaching step, further comprising,
orienting the package containing the playing cards so that an index surface of the each playing card, on which an index is printed, is not in an upward direction of exposed part while the side face of the package is detached for inserting the cut card.

9. The method of claim 7 wherein the package has a marking showing instructions steps of detaching the package.

Assignees

• Angel Playing Cards Co Ltd
• Angel Playing Cards Co Ltd

Inventors

• Shigeta Yasushi

Classifications

• B65D75/54

  Cards, coupons or other inserts or accessories · CPC title

• A63F2009/242

  Bar codes · CPC title

• B65D75/5805

  for tearing a side strip parallel and next to the edge, e.g. by means of a line of weakness · CPC title

• A63F1/062 Primary

  Boxes or cases for cards · CPC title

• A63F2009/2489

  by radio transmitters, e.g. using RFID · CPC title