Patents by Inventor James A. Lehman

James A. Lehman 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: 4135325
    Abstract: The invention pertains to a hand tossed flying saucer toy being inflatable from a central valve member. The peripheral of the depending lip is substantially circular in cross-section and formed so as to have a memory when the saucer is inflated. The material of construction is such that the inflated saucer is safe for indoor use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1979
    Assignee: Warner-Lehman Corporation
    Inventor: James A. Lehman
  • Patent number: 4134229
    Abstract: The invention is a flying saucer toy of the hand-tossed variety utilizing an illumination plant mounted beneath the central portion of the saucer body and having a light transmitting dome covering the light element beneath the saucer body so that the saucer is visible from beneath, the illumination plant preferably extending beneath the peripheral lip of the saucer for purposes of stability, and in some cases increased visibility, and to cause the saucer to rest asymmetrically on the ground to permit easy retrieval by a dog or a person between tosses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1976
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1979
    Assignee: Warner-Lehman Corporation
    Inventor: James A. Lehman
  • Patent number: 4132030
    Abstract: The invention pertains to a hand tossed flying saucer toy having at least one combination selectively positionable peripheral finger grip/leg to provide greater control and enable the user to impact a greater spin to the toy and to support the saucer while at rest on a flat surface for ease of picking up for use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 2, 1979
    Inventor: James A. Lehman
  • Patent number: 4059089
    Abstract: The invention is a pistol designed to fire inverted concave disks which are smaller in size but similar in principle to the flying saucers popularized under the trademark, Frisbee. The pistol is characterized by a generally rectangular firing chamber into which the disks are individually loaded, there being a spring loaded plunger which is trigger operated to strike the disks off center to impart a spinning as well as translational movement to them, and a rib at the exit end of the firing chamber retards one side of the existing disk to accelerate the spin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1976
    Date of Patent: November 22, 1977
    Assignee: Warner-Lehman Corporation
    Inventor: James A. Lehman
  • Patent number: 4016854
    Abstract: A pistol to propel and spin ring-like projectiles such as bottle caps. An impeller is released by a trigger and an off-center mounted hammer strikes and propels the bottle caps with a spin. As the bottle cap exits from the barrel of the gun, a wall mounted rib imparts an additional spinning force to the bottle cap. The trigger of the pistol has a portion for engaging and holding an inside surface of the peripheral wall of the projectile in the firing chamber. When the trigger is actuated the portion engaging the projectile will pivot away and permit the spring biased plunger to engage and propel the projectile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1975
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1977
    Inventor: James A. Lehman