Patents by Inventor Horace Greely Thornhill

Horace Greely Thornhill 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: 7754951
    Abstract: A string musical instrument, such as but not limited to a guitar, whose sides are angled; and without relief holes in the instrument's soundboard, or top; with the absence of a hole on the instrument's top that allows more sound to be produced by the remaining material in the top, where the sound hole might have been; whose relief holes are located on the “inner back” which is attached to the angled sides; that embodies a second, or “outer back,” identically contoured or shaped like the inner back but whose outer dimensions are equal to the outer dimensions of the instrument's top, with a sound chamber created by the proximity of the inner back with the outer back, whose outer back embodies a shaped flange designed to direct the instrument's sound forward, and embodies a series of springs attached to both the bridge plate and inner back of the instrument, designed to create a reverb effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Inventor: Horace Greely Thornhill
  • Publication number: 20080250910
    Abstract: A stringed musical instrument, such as but not limited to a guitar, whose sides are angled to produce a speaker cone effect; and without standard relief holes in the instrument's top; with the absence of a standard hole on the instrument's top that allows more sound to be produced by the remaining material in the top; whose relief holes are located on the “inner back” that is attached to the angled sides; that embodies a second, or “outer back,” identically contoured or shaped like the inner back but whose outer dimensions are equal to the outer dimensions of the instrument's top, with a sound chamber created by the proximity of the inner back with the outer back, whose outer back embodies a shaped flange designed to direct the instrument's sound forward, and embodies a series of springs attached to both the bridge plate and inner back of the instrument, designed to create a reverb effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2008
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Inventor: Horace Greely Thornhill