Patents Assigned to Nicholas B. Paffett
  • Decorative baseball and method of making same
    Patent number: 5885177
    Abstract: A decorative baseball and method for making the same provides a conventional baseball having a covering over a core that includes seams and laces. The covering has a decorative pattern applied thereto that extends through the seams in substantial alignment and covers substantially an entire surface of the ball. The decorative pattern is formed by applying a pattern, initially, to a conventional ball, cutting the laces of the ball to separate the two sections of covering, reproducing the pattern from the sections and forming new sections with the pattern for application to ball cores using conventional laces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1999
    Assignees: Dana S. Teifert, Nicholas B. Paffett, Edward D. Krent
    Inventors: Dana S. Teifert, Nicholas B. Paffett
  • Decorative baseball and method of making the same
    Patent number: 5688198
    Abstract: A decorative baseball and method for making the same provides a conventional baseball having a covering over a core that includes seams and laces. The covering has a decorative pattern applied thereto that extends through the seams in substantial alignment and covers substantially an entire surface of the ball. The decorative pattern is formed by applying a pattern, initially, to a conventional ball, cutting the laces of the ball to separate the two sections of covering, reproducing the pattern from the sections and forming new sections with the pattern for application to ball cores using conventional laces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 18, 1997
    Assignees: Dana S. Teifert, Nicholas B. Paffett, Edward D. Krent
    Inventors: Dana S. Teifert, Nicholas B. Paffett