Patents by Inventor David Kapell

David Kapell 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).

  • Bobble head shaker
    Patent number: 7048605
    Abstract: A bobble head doll shaker includes a base and housing and a supporting platform that is hingedly mounted to the housing. A motor drives an agitator that lifts and releases the supporting platform, thereby imparting an oscillating motion to a bobble head doll supported on the platform. The agitator includes engagement portions that lift the supporting platform. The motor has variable speed and agitator elements having different profiles that may be interchanged to achieve a greater variability of the oscillating motion. Moreover, with the hinge attachment, the bobble head doll's position and corresponding movement may be varied by changing its location on the supporting platform. A riser element may also be placed under the doll to increase the instability of the doll and provide for further varying the bobble head doll motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2006
    Inventors: Grant Hawthorne, David Kapell, Andrew Comfort, Thomas Cheung, Gan Wei Xiong, Liao Wang Xian, Lowell Fritzke
  • Bobble head shaker
    Publication number: 20050112984
    Abstract: A bobble head doll shaker includes a base and housing and a supporting platform that is hingedly mounted to the housing. A motor drives an agitator that lifts and releases the supporting platform, thereby imparting an oscillating motion to a bobble head doll supported on the platform. The agitator includes engagement portions that lift the supporting platform. The motor has variable speed and agitator elements having different profiles that may be interchanged to achieve a greater variability of the oscillating motion. Moreover, with the hinge attachment, the bobble head doll's position and corresponding movement may be varied by changing its location on the supporting platform. A riser element may also be placed under the doll to increase the instability of the doll and provide for further varying the bobble head doll motion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2003
    Publication date: May 26, 2005
    Inventors: Grant Hawthorne, David Kapell, Andrew Comfort, Thomas Cheung, Gan Xiong, Liao Xian, Lowell Fritzke
  • Multi-sided word kit
    Patent number: 5993218
    Abstract: A word kit includes an assemblage of objects, each object presenting a plurality of surfaces. The assemblage includes a first set of objects having a first surface of the plurality surfaces. A word selected from an interchangeable part of speech is depicted on the first surface and each additional surface of the plurality surfaces depicts another word selected from the interchangeable part of speech. A second set of objects has each of the plurality of surfaces thereof depicting a noninterchangeable series of letters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1999
    Assignee: Magnetic Poetry, Inc.
    Inventor: David Kapell