Patents Assigned to Pratt-Read Corporation
  • Patent number: 6868760
    Abstract: A tool instrument which has a plurality of elongated tools mounted within a housing. Each tool is separately movable relative to the housing between a retracted position located within the housing and an extended position projecting outwardly from the housing. The normal at-rest position for each of the tools is in a locked position relative to the housing. Manually pushing onto a button will cause a shaft to be moved to disengage the tools and permit the tools to be moved relative to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2005
    Assignee: Pratt-Read Corporation
    Inventor: Robyn Marie Johnson
  • Patent number: 4500756
    Abstract: A keyboard for a musical instrument having a plurality of elongated keys with each key having a rearwardly extending actuating arm. The arm has an upper and a lower nonresilient switch actuator for actuating a respective first and second keyboard switch with each switch having a substrate with at least one fixed contact. A deformable membrane has coupled thereto a movable contact which is adapted for movement into and out of electrical connection with the fixed contact. The first and second switches are positioned so that the lower actuator normally maintains closed the first switch and when the key is actuated the first switch opens and the upper actuator closes the second switch. The deformable membrane is formed of Poron cellular urethane which distributes and absorbs the actuation force and springs back to its undeformed shape when not actuated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1982
    Date of Patent: February 19, 1985
    Assignee: Pratt-Read Corporation
    Inventors: Frederick C. Feagans, Albert W. Nordquist
  • Patent number: 4418605
    Abstract: A keyboard for a musical instrument having a frame structure and a plurality of elongated keys. Flat pivot springs are provided for each key and are rigidly held in a vertical position in the frame structure. Each key has a chamber with a lower opening in a rear section for receiving the upper section of an associated pivot spring so that the pivot spring forms the sole pivot about which the key may rotate in a single plane only. The pivot spring is rigidly held in the key chamber in a force fit without the use of a separate fastening device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1983
    Assignee: Pratt-Read Corporation
    Inventors: Kjell T. Tollefsen, Albert W. Nordquist
  • Patent number: 4128242
    Abstract: A correlated set of golf clubs in which each of the clubs in the set are dynamically correlated so that each club is matched in accordance with at least one dynamic criteria. Further, each club of the set is statically correlated as a function of the correlated dynamic criteria so that each of the clubs in the set is also matched in accordance with at least one static criteria. In this way, each club exhibits substantially the same static and dynamic force characteristics throughout an entire golf swing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 1975
    Date of Patent: December 5, 1978
    Assignee: Pratt-Read Corporation
    Inventor: Vance V. Elkins, Jr.
  • Patent number: D244558
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 1975
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1977
    Assignee: Pratt-Read Corporation
    Inventor: Vance V. Elkins, Jr.