Patents by Inventor Dennis K. DePriest

Dennis K. DePriest 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: 5897914
    Abstract: A paint stripe and a process of applying the paint stripe upon a substantially horizontal surface is provided. Reflective particles are applied in at least two streams upon the substantially fluidic upper surface of the paint stripe. The first stream of particles of greatest size is applied to the paint stripe before subsequent streams, each particle of each of the streams becoming embedded into the fluidic upper surface approximately fifty percent of the maximum dimension of the particles. Capillation of the paint carries the reflective particles of the subsequent streams in an upward manner along the outer surface of the reflective particles of the first stream. The reflective particles of the subsequent streams are then embedded in the fluidic upper surface of the paint stripe at an angle approaching the perpendicular to the horizontal surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1999
    Inventor: Dennis K. DePriest
  • Patent number: 5782706
    Abstract: A golf putter having a shaft with a grip at one end and a head at the opposite end, the head having a heel end, a toe end spaced longitudinally from the heel end, a top surface, a rear surface, a bottom surface and a substantially planar front face, the head comprising an open molded compounded thermosetting polymeric resin composite enclosing a weighted mass. The weighted mass has an aperture in the mass extending from the heel end to a central portion with a portion lying parallel to and spaced from a front edge of the mass for receiving the terminal end of the putter shaft. The weighted mass has needle like projections on its bottom surface suspending the mass above the bottom surface of the head. The mass may be "g" shaped with the tail of the "g" lying in the toe end of the head and the leg lying parallel to the planar front face. The shaft is glued to head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1998
    Inventor: Dennis K. DePriest