Patents by Inventor Frank Kohner

Frank Kohner 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).

  • Publication number: 20090105625
    Abstract: A toe and finger guard includes a protective member bendable from an initial, generally planar shape to a curved shape when mounted on a digit to be protected. A foam member is secured to the protective member. An adhesive tape overlies the protective member and the foam member and secures them on the digit. Advantageously, the protective member is a plastic square that is initially rigid and generally planar. The square is deeply grooved to acquire the capacity to be bent from its initial planar, generally rigid shape to a curved, flexible shape when mounted on the digit to be protected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2008
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Inventors: Frank Kohner, Albert Stubbmann
  • Patent number: 4383689
    Abstract: A game whose object is the formation of words or groupings of symbols utilizing a plurality of multi-faceted playing pieces, such as cubes, each of whose faces bears a single symbol such as a letter. The playing pieces are positioned in a receptacle which is mounted for spring-loaded pivotal movement on a support structure. The receptacle is engaged in cocked position by a latching mechanism attached to the support, and when the latching mechanism is disengaged, the receptacle is rapidly rotated about a horizontal axis, causing the receptacle to forcefully strike an abutment mounted on the support, thus scrambling the pieces. The receptacle then is restored to the cocked position in which the playing pieces are so supported that a single upper symbol is displayed on each piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1981
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1983
    Assignee: Michael Kohner Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Kohner, Frank Kohner, Albert Stubbmann
  • Patent number: 4332096
    Abstract: A gravity flow display device which is usable for selectively and alternatingly exhibiting two different but conceptually related displays. The device has two thin transparent walled half-hourglass compartments through which displays at their rears are visible. The device further contains non-transparent particulate matter which is capable of flowing from compartment to compartment in response to gravitational force and which is of a sufficient quantity to almost completely fill only whichever of said compartments contains it. When said non-transparent particulate matter is contained within one of the two transparent compartments, the display attached to said compartment is blocked from view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1981
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1982
    Assignee: The Michael Kohner Corp.
    Inventors: Michael Kohner, Frank Kohner
  • Patent number: 4136875
    Abstract: A multi-game toy has a plurality of pinball-type games on a turnable disc which is mounted for turning movement on a housing. Each game has a set of balls, a playing field with designated scoring areas, and a movable firing pin on which the balls are respectively loaded. One of the games is selected and arrested in position at a predetermined game-playing location on the housing. A spring-actuated actuator is operative for propelling the firing pin to thereby launch the respectively loaded ball towards one of the scoring areas in order to play the selected game. A player looks through a magnifying lens which overlies the predetermined game-playing location in order to enlarge the view of the playing field of the selected game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1979
    Assignee: Wecolite Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Frank Kohner, Ralph Stern, Albert Stubbmann