Patents Assigned to Treco Products Inc.
  • Patent number: 4653582
    Abstract: An indicator which is carried by a participant capable of delivering an offensive blow in a combat sport. The indicator in a preferred embodiment utilizes a hook and loop fastener to maintain its position on the glove or foot of the participant until contact has been made with an opponent. The opponent has a portion of a hook and pile fastening system located on his person which is compatible with the external portion of the indicator when mounted on the participant's equipment. When a blow is struck, a greater amount of retaining force is developed between the indicator and the opponent's hook and loop fastening system then is present between the indicator and the participant's hook and loop fastening system, causing the indicator to be transferred to the opponent at the point of contact. In one embodiment, a small streamer can be attached to the indicator and sandwiched between the indicator substrate and the participant's equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1987
    Assignee: Treco Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Ted R. Ehrenfried
  • Patent number: 4647040
    Abstract: Disclosed are two separate leg supporting members which are independently and pivotally connected to a base assembly. At their pivotal connection with the base assembly, they are further provided with a torque disk assembly having cables attached thereto. In a preferred embodiment, the cables are merely segments of a single cable which travels from one torque disk assembly through a guide around a pulley back through the guide to the other torque disk assembly. As the pulley is moved away from the guide, the cable causes the torque disk assemblies to rotate, forcing the two leg supporting members apart, stretching the legs of the user into a "split" position. The fact that the cable is free to move around the pulley permits the leg supporting members while maintaining the angle therebetween substantially constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1983
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1987
    Assignee: Treco Products Inc.
    Inventor: Ted R. Ehrenfried