Patents by Inventor Domenico DiFranco

Domenico DiFranco 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).

  • Method for making a novelty item and the novelty item therefrom
    Patent number: 5374805
    Abstract: A novelty item is disclosed comprising a solid block of material having an slug having a first and second finger. The slug is surrounded by the block and adapted to be retained by the block. The first finger has divergent walls cut at a first angle to the top surface of the block. The second finger has convergent walls cut at a second angle to the top surface of the block and the remainder of the slug has walls cut at substantially right angles to the top surface freeing the slug from the block, whereby the thickness of the cut is less than the ratio of the thickness of the block to the tangent of the greater of the first and second angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1994
    Inventor: Domenico DiFranco
  • Method for making a novelty item and the novelty item therefrom
    Patent number: 5327666
    Abstract: A novelty item is disclosed comprising a solid block of material having an slug having a first and second finger. The slug is surrounded by the block and adapted to be retained by the block. The first finger has divergent walls cut at a first angle to the top surface of the block. The second finger has convergent walls cut at a second angle to the top surface of the block and the remainder of the slug has walls cut at substantially right angles to the top surface freeing the slug from the block, whereby the thickness of the cut is less than the ratio of the thickness of the block to the tangent of the greater of the first and second angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 12, 1994
    Inventor: Domenico DiFranco