Ronald James Roberts

US Patent:

6378871, Apr 30, 2002

Filed:

Jan 24, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/768429

Inventors:

Ronald J. Roberts - Eagleville PA 19403

International Classification:

A63F 924

US Classification:

273444, 434237, 273441, 273445, 273459

Abstract:

A management training game is played with vehicles that are moved around a playing area. The playing area is a large rectangle having a plurality of labeled blocks. Each team includes a leader, who rides on the vehicle, and rope controllers, who manipulate ropes connected to the vehicle, from outside of the playing area. Each team leader receives an assigned route, namely a list of blocks to which the vehicle must travel. Each team then attempts to move its vehicle along its assigned route, in a limited time, and without encountering paralysis due to interference with other vehicles or ropes. The game provides the players with an object lesson in the value of communication, creative thinking, leadership, teamwork, and cooperation, in solving difficult problems.

US Patent:

6599128, Jul 29, 2003

Filed:

Aug 21, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/934897

Inventors:

Ronald J. Roberts - Eagleville PA 19403

International Classification:

G09B 1922

US Classification:

434128, 273276

Abstract:

A game for training of managers includes a playing area having an annular path with color-coded spaces, a material storage area, a set of home bases, and a plurality of small islands. The players are told that the object of the game is to accumulate bridge-building elements from the storage area, and to build bridges to the small islands so as to retrieve and solve a puzzle found on each island. The game is designed to teach the players, in a humorous and non-threatening way, the importance of strategic planning and cooperation among departments of an organization. A portable version of the game is played on a game board which has most of the elements as the large game, in miniature. The portable version does not include the puzzle, but does allow its players to develop strategy and to learn the value of teamwork.

US Patent:

20030075867, Apr 24, 2003

Filed:

Oct 23, 2001

Appl. No.:

10/000728

Inventors:

Ronald Roberts - Eagleville PA, US

International Classification:

A63F003/00

US Classification:

273/248000, 273/243000, 273/283000

Abstract:

A board game can be played by persons of all ages, with minimal training. The board includes a path having a repeating sequence of coded spaces, a material storage area, and a set of home bases, each home base having indicia which correspond to the various coded spaces. Each home base is associated with a different player or team. The players or teams accumulate or lose game pieces, based on instructions received according to operation of a spinner. The first player or team to place game pieces on all of the spaces, belonging to that player or team, wins the game. The game allows players to develop intricate strategies for allocating and positioning game pieces. Also, players or teams may agree to become allies, enabling the game strategy to become as complex as desired.

US Patent:

20030146573, Aug 7, 2003

Filed:

Feb 6, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/072153

Inventors:

Ronald Roberts - Eagleville PA, US

International Classification:

A63F003/00

US Classification:

273/248000

Abstract:

A board game can be played by persons of all ages, with minimal training. The board includes a set of coded spaces, and a set of home bases, each home base having indicia which correspond to the various coded spaces. Each home base is associated with a different player or team. The players or teams accumulate or lose game pieces, based on instructions received according to operation of a spinner. The first player or team to place game pieces on all of the spaces, belonging to that player or team, wins the game. The game allows players to develop intricate strategies for allocating and positioning game pieces. Also, players or teams may agree to become allies, enabling the game strategy to become as complex as desired.

US Patent:

20040075214, Apr 22, 2004

Filed:

Oct 22, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/277436

Inventors:

Ronald Roberts - Eagleville PA, US

International Classification:

A63F001/00

US Classification:

273/292000

Abstract:

A card game can be played by persons of all ages, with minimal training. The game uses cards that bear numbers and other indicia such as colors. The object of the game is to assemble “successions”, which are sequences of cards, all having the same indicia, and arranged in a numerical sequence which includes all the numbers available on the cards. The first player to assemble such a succession is the winner. A plurality of wild cards can be substituted for cards that are being used to assemble successions, and the use of wild cards therefore greatly enhances the entertainment value of the game. The game allows players to develop intricate strategies for acquiring and placing cards to assemble successions. Also, the game may be played with teams of players, or teams may agree to become allies, enabling the game strategy to become as complex as desired.

US Patent:

20110272447, Nov 10, 2011

Filed:

May 3, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/099542

Inventors:

Ronald Roberts - Eagleville PA, US

International Classification:

A45F 5/00

US Classification:

224576

Abstract:

The instant invention is an innovative device designed to reduce the stress and strain on an individual's back that are associated with the shoveling process. The device is comprised of a shovel receptacle holder, a base plate, a base pad with a hard outer shell that contours to an individual's leg, and straps that hold the assembled device to the leg. The device is practiced by attaching the assembled device to an individual's leg; placing a shovel handle in the shovel receptacle holder; and then engaging in the normal shoveling process. However, instead of using the back to lift the shovel, the device allows the individual to use the fulcrum property to facilitate the shoveling process. This is accomplished by the individual pushing down primarily on the rear part of the shovel handle while lightly lifting the front of the handle thereby lifting the front end of the shovel. In so doing, the lifting is accomplished primarily by the downward motion of the arm, the upper leg, and the fulcrum property of the instant invention and not by an individual's back. A lightweight version of the device is also disclosed wherein the shovel receptacle and shovel receptacle holder are combined into one integrated piece.

US Patent:

42381800, Dec 9, 1980

Filed:

Jan 8, 1979

Appl. No.:

6/001956

Inventors:

John H. Gordon - Downingtown PA
Ronald L. Roberts - Downingtown PA
Winfield S. Frybarger - West Chester PA

International Classification:

B29C 1700
B29D 2300

US Classification:

425403

Abstract:

A mandrel for forming an annular groove in the bell of a plastic pipe which comprises a plurality of identically formed segments. The segments are radially urged identically from an initial position which is inwardly of the bell to an expanded position wherein the segments cooperate and interact to form an expanded ring of diameter greater than the pipe bell to thereby impress a circular groove therein. An actuating shaft rotatively reciprocates in unison a pair of cam plates, which cam plates are characterized by a plurality of arcuately curved guide slots formed therein. The segments include follower pairs which respectively ride within the guide slots to urge the segments from their initial positions to their expanded positions and back upon rotative reciprocation of the cam plates.