Patents by Inventor James R. Livesey

James R. Livesey 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: 5913709
    Abstract: A golf club is provided with an elongate shaft portion and a club head coupled to the shaft portion. The club head holds an impact surface designed to strike a ball when the club is swung at the ball. The impact surface, club head and shaft all cooperate to produce a drum-like tone when the ball is struck. The club head includes front face with a platform and a clamp that mate and hold the impact surface therebetween. The platform is provided with a raised ridge or brace that is surrounded by the clamp. When the platform and clamp are assembled together, the impact surface is tensioned by the brace to make the impact surface an audibly vibratory member. The club head is hollow within to augment the sound produced by the impact surface and has a plurality of ports to an interior cavity to further augment the sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1999
    Assignee: OddzOn, Inc.
    Inventors: Terry J. Cyr, Terry J. Sanchez, James R. Livesey
  • Patent number: 4604073
    Abstract: A toy including a base portion having a spherically contoured lower surface with a generally flattened portion at the center thereof and an upper surface with a centrally positioned post, and a plurality of other members, each of like configuration, but of different sizes, each being provided on the undersurface thereof with a centrally positioned cup-shaped socket portion configured for generally interlocking with the post, and on the upper surface thereof with a generally centrally positioned post. A figure member is provided with a cup-shaped socket portion in the bottom thereof for engagement with the post of the uppermost other member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1984
    Date of Patent: August 5, 1986
    Assignee: Mattel, Inc.
    Inventors: James R. Livesey, William Hart, Harold A. Hartleben
  • Patent number: D258748
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 1979
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1981
    Assignee: Mattel, Inc.
    Inventor: James R. Livesey
  • Patent number: D261671
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1979
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1981
    Assignee: Mattel, Inc.
    Inventor: James R. Livesey
  • Patent number: D284679
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1986
    Assignee: Mattel, Inc.
    Inventors: James R. Livesey, Robert A. Tamura, Robert L. Cowell