Tire Ring Game and Method of Use

Abstract

A ring toss game such as played on a lawn or at the beach which can be easily moved or carried to a new location, is disclosed. The rings used in the ring game are made from recycled material, such as used tire sidewall segments produced through a removal and an inversion process to provide the needed physical characteristics, such as rigidity and aeronautic stability, whereby the tire ring segments can be adequately tossed across a playing field in attempts to score points by landing the inverted tire segments around a scoring post. The ring toss game also includes additional novel characteristics, such as game rules and scoring posts made from recycled material, and may additionally be provided in a carrying container which collectively move all the parts of the game in a packaged fashion to store or relocate the game.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A ring toss game, comprising:
 at least one inverted tire ring segment apparatus made from a portion of a vehicle tire whereby said tire ring segment apparatus is produced by first cutting an undeveloped tire ring segment from said vehicle tire on at least one of a cutting line and cutting plane that is at least one of a parallel and generally parallel to the sidewall of said vehicle tire, and by the inversion of said undeveloped tire ring segment whereby said inversion of said undeveloped tire ring segment is performed through forcible inversion of the internal concave and external convex portions of the undeveloped tire segment to develop said inverted tire ring segment apparatus with inverted concave and convex portions;   at least one playing field; and   at least one upward post, said post releasably attached to the ground at the opposite end of the playing field;   whereby at least one player of said ring toss game tosses said inverted tire ring segment apparatus in an attempt to place the at least one inverted tire ring segment apparatus onto said post by tossing the at least one inverted tire ring segment apparatus across said playing field at least one of thereunto and thereon said post to score one point.   
     
     
         2 . The ring toss game according to  claim 1  whereby said at least one tire ring segment apparatus is a portion of a sidewall of said vehicle tire and where said ring toss game has at least one endzone at each end of said playing field where the at least one player must remain located while tossing the at least one inverted tire ring segment apparatus across said playing field in an attempt to place said inverted tire ring segment apparatus at least one of thereunto and thereon the at least one post located in the endzone at the opposite end of said playing field. 
     
     
         3 . The ring toss game of according to  claim 1  whereby at least one of the undeveloped tire ring segment and the inverted tire ring segment apparatus has at least one coating applied to at least one convex and concave portion of said inverted tire ring segment. 
     
     
         4 . The ring toss game of according to  claim 2  whereby at least one of the undeveloped tire ring segment and the inverted tire ring segment apparatus has at least one coating applied to at least one convex and concave portion of said inverted tire ring segment. 
     
     
         5 . The ring toss game according to  claim 3  whereby said coating increases at least one of a rigidity and aeronautic property of the inverted tire ring segment and at least one of rigidly and releasably fixes said inverted tire ring segment apparatus in the inverted tire ring segment apparatus orientation. 
     
     
         6 . The ring toss game according to  claim 4  whereby said coating increases at least one of a rigidity and aeronotic of the inverted tire ring segment and fixes said tire ring segment at least one of releasably and rigidly in the inverted tire ring segment orientation. 
     
     
         7 . The ring toss game according to  claim 2  whereby at least one of two players and two teams are playing said ring toss game and whereby any at least one player and one team scoring 11 straight points wins the game by a shutout win. 
     
     
         8 . The ring toss game according to  claim 7  whereby at least one player of said ring toss game wins by scoring 21 points. 
     
     
         9 . The ring toss game according to  claim 8  whereby at least one said upward post is between 40 inches to 60 inches in length including an approximate length of said post which is placed into said ground in the range of 8 inches to 12 twelve inches by at least one of placing, burying, forcing, inserting, digging, screwing, into said ground of said endzone. 
     
     
         10 . The ring toss game according to  claim 9  whereby said upward post is comprised of at least two separate posts whereby said posts are releasably attached together to develop said length. 
     
     
         11 . The ring toss game according to  claim 10  whereby at least one of said two separate posts possess at least one of a pointed tip and a screw-in tip and a corkscrew tip to aid in inserting portion of the at least one post into said ground. 
     
     
         12 . The ring toss game according to  claim 9  whereby said ring toss game has a hammer game rule, whereby any first team which did not score any points on their previous round of tire ring segment apparatus tossing will possess said hammer, provided any opposing team did score points during said previous round of tire ring segment ring tossing;
 whereby said hammer possession provides said first team the ability to score enough points on the current tossing round to win said ring toss game. 
 
     
     
         13 . A game comprising:
 at least one inverted sidewall tire ring segment apparatus made from a sidewall portion of a vehicle tire whereby said tire sidewall ring segment apparatus is produced by first cutting an undeveloped tire ring segment from said vehicle tire on a cutting plane that is at least one of a parallel and generally parallel to the sidewall of said vehicle tire, and by the inversion of said undeveloped tire ring segment whereby said inversion of said undeveloped tire ring segment is performed through forcible inversion of the internal concave and external convex portions of the undeveloped tire ring segment to develop the inverted tire ring segment apparatus with the inverted concave and convex portions;   at least one playing field; and   at least one endzone located at opposite ends of said playing field at least one post in each endzone, said post located one of on and in the ground in each endzone;   whereby at least one player of said ring toss game tosses said inverted tire ring segment apparatus in an attempt to place the at least one inverted tire ring segment apparatus onto said post by tossing the at least one inverted tire ring segment apparatus across said playing field at least one of thereunto and thereon said post to score a point.   
     
     
         14 . The ring toss game according to  claim 13  whereby at least one of the undeveloped tire ring segment and the inverted tire ring segment apparatus has at least one coating applied to at least one convex and concave portion. 
     
     
         15 . The ring toss game according to  claim 14  whereby any team scoring 11 straight points whereby the other team has no points wins the game via shutout. 
     
     
         16 . The ring toss game according to  claim 14  whereby any team wins said ring toss game by acquiring 21 points. 
     
     
         17 . A method of playing a game comprising the steps of:
 providing at least one inverted tire sidewall ring segment and scoring post;   whereby said scoring post is comprised of at least two releasably connected posts; and said scoring post is releasably placed upright and into the ground in at least one endzone at the end of a playing field;   at least one of two players and a two teams playing said game;   whereby any ring toss game player tosses said inverted tire ring segment across said playing field in an attempt to land said inverted tire ring segment on said scoring post to score a point;   whereby any at least one player and team accumulating 11 straight points whilst any opposing at least one player and team has scored no points wins the game by shutout;   and any at least one player and team scoring 21 points before any opposing player wins the game;   and whereby said ring toss game contains a hammer game rule, whereby any at least one first player and one first team which did not score any points on their previous round of tire ring segment tossing will possess said hammer, provided any opposing team did score points during said previous round of tire ring segment ring tossing;   whereby said hammer possession provides said at least one first player and first team the ability to score enough points on the current tossing round to win said ring toss game.