Patents by Inventor Allan McCarty

Allan McCarty 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: 20180123096
    Abstract: Lithium batteries of this capacity are typically built of cells that are connected with spot welding. Should one cell fail an entire battery must be discarded. The design of these “Blocs” allows cells to be replaced. The individually replaceable cells allow the battery to be repaired, rebuilt and upgraded unlike spot welded batteries. The unique open top case design allows the Blocs can be assembled in any configuration. Connections between Blocs are made with conductive plates which can be dissasembled and provide structural support. The magnets used form button tops for the cells and allow the Blocs to be “snapped” together, The non-conductive bolts provice compressive force making good electrical connection between the cell, magnets, and rigid parallel plates. The plastic magnet holders keep the magnets from drifting and isolate the negative charged case from the positive terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Inventor: Shawn Allan McCarty
  • Patent number: 7431655
    Abstract: A billiard cue includes a shaft having a hollow bore extending for a predetermined distance from a first end of the shaft to reduce the tip end weight of the shaft. In one aspect, where the shaft is formed of a composite material consisting of fibers in a binder, such as carbon fibers in an epoxy resin, the bore forms an outer wall in the tip end of the shaft having a thickness between about 0.005 and about 0.05 inches The shaft material has a modulus of elasticity of at least 4.3×106 psi. The bore extending from the first end of the shaft, the thin wall thickness of the tip end of the shaft and the material forming the shaft combine to decrease the mass of the tip end of the shaft while maintaining substantially all of the stiffness of a conventional solid wood shaft formed of a hard maple to minimize buckling of the tip end of the shaft and thereby substantially decrease deflection of the cue ball from its intended path of movement along a path parallel to the stroke axis of the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2008
    Assignee: Clawson Custom Cues, Inc.
    Inventors: Allan McCarty, Stephen Titus
  • Publication number: 20080026860
    Abstract: Cue sticks, shaft sections of cue sticks, and methods of using such devices are disclosed, where the devices are configured to reduce the phenomenon of cue ball deflection. In particular, limits upon the mass of the cue stick in a section extending from the tip to a predetermined distance toward the butt end are revealed to improve cue ball deflection characteristics. Other embodiments of the invention place a lower limit on the bending stiffness of the tip end of a cue stick or shaft to reduce accentuation of cue ball deflection under high offset/high velocity conditions. As well, an upper limit on specific section modulus is described for deterring the phenomenon of double strike in off center ball strikes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2006
    Publication date: January 31, 2008
    Applicant: Clawson Custom Cues, Inc. d/b/a Predator Products
    Inventors: Stephen Titus, Thomas Black, Allan McCarty, Paul Costain
  • Publication number: 20040009822
    Abstract: A billiard cue includes a shaft having a hollow bore extending for a predetermined distance from a first end of the shaft to reduce the tip end weight of the shaft. In one aspect, where the shaft is formed of a composite material consisting of fibers in a binder, such as carbon fibers in an epoxy resin, the bore forms an outer wall in the tip end of the shaft having a thickness between about 0.005 and about 0.05 inches The shaft material has a modulus of elasticity of at least 4.3×106 psi. The bore extending from the first end of the shaft, the thin wall thickness of the tip end of the shaft and the material forming the shaft combine to decrease the mass of the tip end of the shaft while maintaining substantially all of the stiffness of a conventional solid wood shaft formed of a hard maple to minimize buckling of the tip end of the shaft and thereby substantially decrease deflection of the cue ball from its intended path of movement along a path parallel to the stroke axis of the shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2003
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Inventor: Allan McCarty
  • Patent number: 6162128
    Abstract: A ferrule mounted on one end of a billiard/pool cue shaft has greater compressibility than the compressibility of the shaft to compress on impact of a tip mounted on the ferrule with a ball to absorb a portion of impact forces and to provide easy outward flexure with minimal buckling of the end of the shaft during impact. A bore extends a predetermined distance from the one end of the shaft toward a butt end of the shaft. The bore in the shaft communicates with a bore in the ferrule when the ferrule is mounted on the shaft. The ferrule is mounted on the shaft by means of a tenon formed on one end of the shaft or on the ferrule, which tenon tightly engages the other of the ferrule or shaft. The tip has a smaller than conventional radius to centralize impact forces toward the line of stroke extending along the longitudinal axis of the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2000
    Assignee: The Lorraine C. McCarty Trust
    Inventors: Allan McCarty, Steve Titus
  • Patent number: 6110051
    Abstract: A billiard cue includes a shaft having a hollow bore extending from at least a predetermined distance from a first end toward a second end. The bore forms an outer wall in the shaft having a thickness between about 0.03 and 0.05 inches. The shaft is preferably formed of a composite material consisting of fibers in a binder, such as carbon fibers in an epoxy resin. The shaft material has a modulus of elasticity of at least 4.3.times.10.sup.6 psi. The bore extending from the first end of the shaft, the thin wall thickness of the shaft adjacent to the first end and the material forming the shaft combine to decrease the mass of the tip end of the shaft while maintaining substantially all of the stiffness of a conventional shaft formed of a hard maple to minimize buckling of the tip end of the shaft and thereby substantially decrease deflection of the cue ball from its intended path of movement along a path parallel to the stroke axis of the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2000
    Assignee: Lorraine C. McCarty Trust
    Inventors: Allan McCarty, Steve Titus
  • Patent number: 5725437
    Abstract: A ferrule mounted on one end of a billiard/pool cue shaft has greater compressibility than the compressibility of the shaft to compress on impact of a tip mounted on the ferrule with a ball to absorb a portion of impact forces and to provide easy outward flexure with minimal buckling of the end of the shaft during impact. A bore extends a predetermined distance from the one end of the shaft toward a butt end of the shaft. The bore in the shaft communicates with a bore in the ferrule when the ferrule is mounted on the shaft. The ferrule is mounted on the shaft by means of a tenon formed on one end of the shaft or on the ferrule, which tenon tightly engages the other of the ferrule or shaft. The tip has a smaller than conventional radius to centralize impact forces toward the line of stroke extending along the longitudinal axis of the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1998
    Assignee: Lorraine C. McCarty
    Inventors: Allan McCarty, Steve Titus
  • Patent number: 4946125
    Abstract: A holder for supporting an article, such as a pair of eyeglasses, on a support surface. The holder includes a housing having spaced top and bottom walls innerconnected by a back wall and an open end opposed from the back wall. Resilient article support members are mounted on the top and bottom walls of the housing with opposed facing surfaces disposed in substantial registry to define a resiliently openable cavity between such opposed surfaces of the resilient article support members for slidably and releasably supporting an article therebetween. The holder is removably mountable on a support surface via a planar fastener having spaced first and second legs slidably penetrable with the support surface and a central clip portion disposed between and connected to the first and second legs which slidably receives a complimentary shaped exterior peripheral recess formed in the top wall of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 7, 1990
    Inventor: Allan McCarty
  • Patent number: 4723748
    Abstract: An article holder for mounting articles on interior surfaces of a vehicle. The article holder includes a support member shaped to conform in a releasable manner to the article. The article holder includes a mounting means which is removably insertable into a fastening member mountable in an interior fabric surface of the vehicle. The fastening member is removably insertable through the fabric on the door, headliner or carpeting or floor of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1986
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1988
    Inventor: Allan McCarty