Patents by Inventor Daniel J. Cooney

Daniel J. Cooney 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).

  • Patent number: 4906215
    Abstract: The toy combination includes a toy vehicle having one or more pairs of spaced apart shoulders on exterior sides of the vehicle body and one or more toy attachments releasably secured on the pairs of shoulders by snap-fitting a respective pair of rails on the toy attachment against a respective pair of shoulders. The toy attachment includes resilient extensions on which the rails are carried. The extensions are flexed to snap-fit the rails on the shoulders. The toy attachment can include first and second pairs of extensions adjacent opposite ends with a receptacle intermediate the extensions for releasably receiving a toy figure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 6, 1990
    Assignee: Lionel Trains, Inc.
    Inventors: Victor G. Reiling, Jr., Brian L. Dean, D. Michael Ledyard, Daniel J. Cooney, John W. Brady
  • Patent number: 4879811
    Abstract: The safety razor includes a first handle for gripping by the hand of the person shaving and a second handle carrying a blade head. The handles are hingedly connected by a hinge pin at nested handle ends and a coil or other spring around the hinge pin at the hinge joint biases the second handle in a direction toward the skin of the person shaving. The nested first and second handles are configured adjacent the hinge joint to give the impression of a single handle. Biasing of the second handle adjacent the hinge joint allows erratic or uneven application of the blade head on the face to be accommodated and provides improved control of shaving pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 14, 1989
    Inventor: Daniel J. Cooney
  • Patent number: 4869700
    Abstract: The toy combination includes a self-powered toy vehicle with driven wheels adjacent the front thereof and a toy trailer with non-driven wheels and with a receptacle on the trailer in front of its wheels releasably receiving the rear of the toy vehicle. The toy vehicle and trailer include cooperative details for locating and interlocking them together when the rear of the vehicle is received in the receptacle. The toy vehicle and trailer are configured such that the toy combination formed thereby resembles a tractor-trailer type truck whose front wheels comprise the driven wheels of the toy vehicle and whose rear wheels comprise the wheels of the trailer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1989
    Assignee: Lionel Trains, Inc.
    Inventors: Victor G. Reiling, Jr., Brian L. Dean, Daniel J. Cooney
  • Patent number: 4771943
    Abstract: A train track bed includes an elongated slot therein and a track rail includes a bottom flange that is supported by the track bed. A bendable locking tab is formed on the bottom flange of the rail. The locking tab is bent into the slot in the bed to restrain longitudinal movement of the rail on the bed while the bottom flange of the rail is received between opposing rail-holding flanges on the bed that restrain other movement of the track. Preferably, the track includes oppositely extending bottom flanges formed of sheet metal folded back upon itself with each flange having a depending side wall at the outermost lateral extremity of the flange to form a recess between the side walls. A pair of raised support ribs extends from the track bed into the recess to engage the underside of the flanges to support the rail on the track bed. The side walls hide the raised support ribs from view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1988
    Assignee: Lionel Trains, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel J. Cooney, D. Michael Ledyard
  • Patent number: D277492
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1982
    Date of Patent: February 5, 1985
    Assignee: CPG Products Corp.
    Inventors: Pamela J. Lockhart, Daniel J. Cooney