Patents Assigned to Taylor Nathan Co., Inc.
  • Patent number: 5820522
    Abstract: An orthopedic gripping device permits therapeutic treatment of the user's hand. The device comprises a generally oblong body having a circular transverse section, the body having a first end and a second end and extending continuously in a smooth curve between the two ends. A plurality of flat extensions are integrally formed on and extend outwardly from the body, spacedly from and parallel in relation to each other. The device is placed in the user's hand with the plurality of extensions protruding outwardly between the user's fingers and the body portion of the device is held cradle in the palm of the user's hand and a preselected portion of the user's hand is moved in relation to the device in order to therapeutically treat a particular predetermined finger or other portion of the hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1998
    Assignee: Taylor-Nathan Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Paul A. Smallwood, Michael G. Eckman
  • Patent number: 5588918
    Abstract: A golf putting practice device includes a base portion having a surface and a perimeter. The device includes substantially flat ramp structures, connected side-by-side around and substantially adjacent to the perimeter of the base portion. Each ramp structure has a first end and a second end and extends continuously therebetween. The first ends of the ramp structures are disposed radially outward from a center of the base portion so as to define a central cup area, with the portion of the at least one surface of the base portion between the first ends of the ramp structures forming the floor of such central cup area. The device also includes pivotal connection structures mounted to the surface, each of the ramp structures is loosely, pivotally connected at the first end thereof by one of the pivotal connection structures to the surface of the base portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1996
    Assignee: Taylor Nathan Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Michael G. Eckman, Paul A. Smallwood
  • Patent number: D387826
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1997
    Assignee: Taylor Nathan Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Paul A. Smallwood, Michael G. Eckman
  • Patent number: D389547
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 20, 1998
    Assignee: Taylor Nathan Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Paul A. Smallwood, Michael G. Eckman