Patents by Inventor Frank W. Steere, Jr.

Frank W. Steere, Jr. has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5263262
    Abstract: Markers particularly adapted for golf courses have a base with numerical indicia formed thereon. The indicia are preferably raised above the base and have a color that contrasts with the color of the base. In one embodiment the base and the numerical indicia both have upstanding fibril members which resemble the grass surface surrounding the yardage marker. The markers are formed in a mold wherein a fusible material, which may be a vinyl plastisol, having the color desired for the numerical indicia is introduced into the indicia-forming cavities in the mold and gelled. The fusible material having the color desired for the base is then poured into the base-forming cavity. An anchoring fitting is inserted into the base-forming cavity so that a portion thereof will be encapsulated in the material forming the base. After all the components of the marker are received within the mold, it is heated to fuse the fusible material within the mold into an integral whole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1993
    Inventor: Frank W. Steere, Jr.