Patents by Inventor Davis E. Kennedy

Davis E. Kennedy 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).

  • Two-in-one banjo tone ring
    Patent number: 4852446
    Abstract: The two-in-one banjo tone ring is an improved banjo rim assembly, offering the banjo buyer a choice of a raised head or flat head tone with absoultely no additional investment, a development heretofore unknown in the area of banjo manufacturing. Merely by disassembling the rim assembly, flipping the tone ring one hundred eighty degrees (180.degree.), then reassembling, the banjo is converted from flat head to raised head or vice versa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 1, 1989
    Inventor: Davis E. Kennedy