Patent ID: 6241631
Filing Date: 2001-06-05
Classification: A44B,A63B

Abstract:
A belt for use in a flag-tag game in which at least one flag is detachably connected to the belt, said belt comprising:a length of flexible material in the form of a web sufficiently long to encircle the waist of a player of the game and having at least one removable flag thereon, the belt having a first end and a second end;a first buckle having a first end, a second end a middle portion, the middle portion having the second end of the belt attached thereto;a plurality of slots in the first buckle between the fist end and the middle portion and between the second end and the middle portion whereby the first end of the belt is attached to the first buckle by being passed through the slots selectively and looped over itself on the first buckle to accumulate a selected portion of its length on the first buckle;at least one support on the web for detachably supporting a flag thereon, the at least one support including a suction coupling having a first suction coupling portion integral with the support on the web and a second suction coupling portion integral with a second flag attachment buckle for holding the flag,the support on the web including a closed slot with the web extending therethrough and the first suction coupling portion including a flexible first cup having a cylindrical side wall offset at an oblique angle with respect to the closed slot and the second suction coupling portion including a flexible second cup having a cylindrical side wall nesting within the cylindrical side wall of said first cup,said second flag attachment buckle being offset by an oblique angle with respect to the second cup so that the flag attachment buckle is offset by both of said oblique angles with respect to the support and the flag extends at a double oblique angle with respect to the belt resulting in increased friction between the sidewall of the first cup and the side wall of the second cup requiring increasing force when the flag is yanked and therefore increased loudness of a pop created when the first cup and the second cup are separated as caused by twisting and bending forces on the suction coupling between the sidewalls of the first and second cups.