Patents by Inventor Mick B. Saunders

Mick B. Saunders 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: 9468202
    Abstract: A holder attachment for rigging used in fishing. The holder includes an elongate unitary body made of an elastic material and has four laterally facing surfaces and two end surfaces. The two end surfaces each have an outwardly opening cavity therein that also opens outwardly at laterally opposite sides. One of the side surfaces has a pair of longitudinally extending and outwardly protruding ribs defining a slot therebetween that opens axially at the oppositely facing end surfaces. The ribs each have a longitudinally extending cavity to define together an elongate channel. The ribs are configured to be forcibly elastically spread apart to facilitate the reception of a fishing rod or pole therebetween and into the channel, a release of the force spreading the ribs apart enabling the elasticity of the material to return to its original shape to hold the rod in the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Inventor: Mick B. Saunders
  • Publication number: 20160135442
    Abstract: A holder attachment for rigging used in fishing. The holder includes an elongate unitary body made of an elastic material and has four laterally facing surfaces and two end surfaces. The two end surfaces each have an outwardly opening cavity therein that also opens outwardly at laterally opposite sides. One of the side surfaces has a pair of longitudinally extending and outwardly protruding ribs defining a slot therebetween that opens axially at the oppositely facing end surfaces. The ribs each have a longitudinally extending cavity to define together an elongate channel. The ribs are configured to be forcibly elastically spread apart to facilitate the reception of a fishing rod or pole therebetween and into the channel, a release of the force spreading the ribs apart enabling the elasticity of the material to return to its original shape to hold the rod in the channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventor: Mick B. SAUNDERS
  • Publication number: 20150158171
    Abstract: An elongate hollow sleeve-like grip having a bore with a plurality of protuberances provided on the interior thereof, each protuberance having a circumference and a tapering outer surface extending from a location adjacent the wall surface of the bore toward a distal end thereof whereat the distal end is a smoothly shaped dome-like surface structure. Each protuberance is configured to engage the outwardly facing surface of an object handle having an outwardly facing surface that is larger in diameter than a radial spacing between mutually adjacent axially and circumferentially spaced dome-like surface structures to cause a flexing of the material of the grip to facilitate the dome-like surface structures and the tapering circumferential surfaces thereof to engage the outwardly facing outer surface of the handle to allow a position of the body on the handle to be moved at least one of lengthwise and rotated relative to the handle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Inventor: Mick B. SAUNDERS
  • Patent number: 8453374
    Abstract: An elastic cushion for enveloping the butt-end of a fishing rod. The cushion includes a unitary body having a cylindrical section at one end and a bulbous section at the opposite end. A central bore extends through the cushion. The central bore tapers from a large adjacent the one end to a second diameter located within the bulbous section to removably retain the rod in the central bore. An exterior surface of the bulbous section has a plurality of separate flutes for enhancing a frictional gripping of the bulbous section of the cushion body with the fisher-person's body and at least one of the flutes transitioning onto an exterior surface of the cylindrical section to enhance the frictional gripping of at least one hand of the fisher-person with the exterior surface of the cylindrical section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Inventor: Mick B. Saunders
  • Publication number: 20120180374
    Abstract: An elastic cushion for enveloping the butt-end of a fishing rod. The cushion includes a unitary body having a cylindrical section at one end and a bulbous section at the opposite end. A central bore extends through the cushion. The central bore tapers from a large adjacent the one end to a second diameter located within the bulbous section to removably retain the rod in the central bore. An exterior surface of the bulbous section has a plurality of separate flutes for enhancing a frictional gripping of the bulbous section of the cushion body with the fisher-person's body and at least one of the flutes transitioning onto an exterior surface of the cylindrical section to enhance the frictional gripping of at least one hand of the fisher-person with the exterior surface of the cylindrical section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2011
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Inventor: Mick B. Saunders
  • Patent number: D649218
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Inventor: Mick B. Saunders
  • Patent number: D750732
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Inventor: Mick B. Saunders