Patents by Inventor Ronald D. Walton

Ronald D. Walton 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).

  • Publication number: 20090179056
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to golf glove accessories and, more particularly, to an accessory for a golf glove which includes generally flexible, planar sheet of material which includes opposite ends having hook and/or loop fasteners affixed thereto and a center section which includes at least one elastic fabric loop projecting upwards from the planar material sheet, the ends of the planar material sheet operative to be wrapped around and affixed to the complementary hook and/or loop fastening material found on a golf glove with the center section of the planar material sheet positioned atop the golf glove in an easily accessible position for the insertion, storage, and removal of golf tees within the elastic fabric loops positioned on the golf tee holder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2009
    Publication date: July 16, 2009
    Inventors: Ronald D. Walton, Kathleen I. Walton
  • Patent number: 7163488
    Abstract: A free weight assistance and training device includes a base and a generally upright weight support structure mounted on and extending upwards from and over the base. A free weight support bar is connected to a computer-controlled weight tensioning device which is mounted on the base generally adjacent the upright weight support structure, the connection between the free weight support bar and the computer-controlled weight tensioning device consisting of at least two cables movably mounted on the upright weight support structure. The computer-controlled weight tensioning device, the at least two cables and the free weight support bar operatively cooperate with each other such that tensioning force applied by the computer-controlled weight tensioning device via the at least two cables to the free weight support bar controllably decreases the amount of downwards force exerted by the free weight support bar and weights thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2007
    Inventors: Douglas H. Anders, Ronald D. Walton
  • Patent number: 4998721
    Abstract: For enabling weightlifting athletes to rapidly and efficiently improve concentric-type muscular development, exercising apparatus having two shafts provided with motor-driven barbell-tethered cables is adapted to supplement the athlete's total physiological energy with motor-assist poundage. The motor-assists are of the unidirectional type to rapidly and efficiently improve eccentric-type muscular development. Shafts-mounted braking system protect a weary athlete from the contingency of a rapidly descending barbell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 12, 1991
    Inventors: Douglas H. Anders, Ronald D. Walton
  • Patent number: 4159578
    Abstract: A drying oven for drying materials which give off noxious fumes is disclosed. The drying oven comprises a drying chamber having a circular top wall and a downwardly depending sidewall which is closed off at its bottom by a bottom wall. The circular top wall has an exhaust port which is eccentric therewith. The sidewall has means for introducing dry gas into the drying chamber through an intake port which is located directly beneath the exhaust port. A doorway is also provided for allowing the introduction of the material to be dried into the exhaust chamber. There is no requirement that the doorway have elaborate pressure seals as the pressures within the chamber do not rise appreciably above ambient pressures due to the unique location of the exhaust port with reference to the location of the introduction of the dry air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1977
    Date of Patent: July 3, 1979
    Inventor: Ronald D. Walton