Patents by Inventor Dennis Meggs

Dennis Meggs 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: 4690403
    Abstract: A baseball base incorporates an anchor defining a top surface and post or the like for inserting into the ground to secure the anchor in place, and a baseball base which has a ferromagnetic plate secured to the underside. The anchor incorporates a plurality of parallel, spaced elongate bands which constitute alternating north and south magnetic poles, so that the plate and baseball base can be secured and retained in place on the poles. By changing the size of the plate, the force required to separate the base from the anchor can be altered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1987
    Inventor: Dennis Meggs
  • Patent number: 4619456
    Abstract: A cylindrical canister is used within the bottom of a hockey goal post to retain the post in place against a keeper. A magnetic arrangement in the canister, possibly involving the post itself, draws the post downwardly against a keeper, and the keeper has a frusto-conical central portion which requires the post to ride up and over it in order to be dislodged by a lateral force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 28, 1986
    Assignee: Dennis Meggs Enterprises Limited
    Inventor: Dennis Meggs
  • Patent number: 4579344
    Abstract: An impact-absorption pad for hockey goals or the like includes a tough, flexible sheath defining an elongated inner compartment substantially filled with a quantity of dry particulate material capable of shifting upon impact against the sheath to frictionally and inertially absorb at least part of the energy of impact. The sheath has at least one longitudinal flange with grommets or the like by which it can be secured to a post or bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1984
    Date of Patent: April 1, 1986
    Inventor: Dennis Meggs