Patents by Inventor Joseph Cernansky
Joseph Cernansky 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).
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Publication number: 20110195382Abstract: An activity assembly that is used to transfer an artistic design onto an object. The assembly includes at least one template that can be loaded into a housing. A colorant can be dispensed into the housing. The housing rotates the template and causes the colorant to move about the template to form a design. The template can then be removed from the housing and pressed onto an object such as a shirt. The template transfers the colorant onto the object, so that an artistic design is formed onto the object.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2011Publication date: August 11, 2011Inventors: Elliot Rudell, George T. Foster, Joseph Cernansky
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Publication number: 20100109247Abstract: A game set that includes a plurality of tiles. Each tile has at least one indicia and at least one attachment feature that allows the tiles to be attached to each other in a three-dimensional manner. The tiles can be attached to create at least one visual image. For example, the indicia may be letters and the tiles can be attached in either horizontal or vertical directions to create words. A player may be provided a score that corresponds to the number of tiles attached by that player. The attachment of tiles allows the three-dimensional game to be played without a game board.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2009Publication date: May 6, 2010Inventors: Joseph Cernansky, Ian Osborne, Elliot Rudell, Julio Sandoval, George Foster
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Patent number: 7018264Abstract: A remote controlled toy. The toy includes a powered projectile that can be launched from a remote controlled vehicle. The powered projectile and remote controlled vehicle may each have a motor controlled by a radio frequency (“RF”) transmitter. The projectile can be shaped as an airplane that is loaded into a launch platform of the remote controlled vehicle. The user can control movement of the vehicle with the RF transmitter. The transmitter may have a launch button that is depressed by the user to launch the airplane. While in flight the user can control the airplane through the RF transmitter. The motor of the vehicle may turn off when the airplane is launched.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2003Date of Patent: March 28, 2006Inventors: George T. Foster, Joseph Cernansky, Ian B. Osborne, Steve Conrad
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Publication number: 20050191930Abstract: A toy plane with an inflatable fuselage. The toy plane also has a pair of wings that are coupled to the inflatable fuselage. The toy plane can be powered by a pressurized fluid and/or a motor(s). The motor may be controlled by a wireless radio controlled transmitter. The inflatable fuselage can be 3 to 20 feet long to more accurately simulate the size of an actual airplane. Utilizing a fuselage that is inflatable allows for a large fuselage that can be deflated and stored in a marketable package.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2004Publication date: September 1, 2005Inventors: George Foster, Joseph Cernansky, Ian Osborne
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Publication number: 20050020413Abstract: An apparatus that moves a jumping element. The apparatus includes a motorized hub that is attached to a housing. The hub can rotate a jumping element, such as a jump rope, about a horizontal axis and/or a vertical axis. The hub is connected to a motor that is controlled by a timer. A player can select a time interval that establishes the activation time of the motor. The apparatus includes an indicator that may provide an indication of the time interval. The indicator may be an LED that indicates the numerical value of the time interval. The apparatus may also have an indicator that provides an indication of when the motor is to be activated, so that the player can be in position when the hub begins to rotate the rope.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2003Publication date: January 27, 2005Inventors: Elliot Rudell, George Foster, Joseph Cernansky
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Publication number: 20050020414Abstract: An apparatus that moves a jumping element. The apparatus includes a motorized hub that is attached to a housing. The hub can rotate a jumping element, such as a jump rope, about a horizontal axis and/or a vertical axis. The hub is connected to a motor. The speed of the motor is controlled by a variable speed regulator. A player can select a motor speed through activation of a button on the apparatus. The apparatus includes one or more indicators that provide an indication of the selected motor speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2003Publication date: January 27, 2005Inventors: Elliot Rudell, George Foster, Joseph Cernansky
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Publication number: 20050009440Abstract: A toy rocket with an inflatable fuselage that may have a height between 3 to 20 feet. The inflatable fuselage if propelled from a stand by fluid pressure. The fluid pressure is preferably created through both hydraulic and pneumatic pressure to create a relatively high pressure level. The high fluid pressure can lift the relatively large fuselage a considerable distance into the air. Utilizing a fuselage that is inflatable allows for a large fuselage that can be deflated and stored in a marketable package. The liquid/air pressure creates a pressure source that is both safe and sufficient to propel the large fuselage into the air.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2004Publication date: January 13, 2005Inventors: George Foster, Joseph Cernansky, Ian Osborne
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Publication number: 20040116044Abstract: A remote controlled toy. The toy includes a powered projectile that can be launched from a remote controlled vehicle. The powered projectile and remote controlled vehicle may each have a motor controlled by a radio frequency (“RF”) transmitter. The projectile can be shaped as an airplane that is loaded into a launch platform of the remote controlled vehicle. The user can control movement of the vehicle with the RF transmitter. The transmitter may have a launch button that is depressed by the user to launch the airplane. While in flight the user can control the airplane through the RF transmitter. The motor of the vehicle may turn off when the airplane is launched.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2003Publication date: June 17, 2004Inventors: George T. Foster, Joseph Cernansky, Ian B. Osborne, Steve Conrad
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Patent number: 5992853Abstract: A game wherein a player is sprayed with water if the player does not correctly answer a question within a time interval. The game may include a spray unit and an electronic visual display that are attached to a housing. The spray unit and visual display are connected to a controller circuit. The controller circuit may generate a question that is displayed by the visual display. The question can be provided to a player of the game. Alternatively, the game may have a speaker so that the question is provided to the player in an audible form. The game may initiate a timer when the question is displayed. The controller circuit can actuate the spray unit to spray a fluid onto the player if the player does not correctly answer the question within a time interval. The game may also have a reset switch which can reset the timer if a correct answer is provided within the time interval. If a correct answer is provided by the first player the same question can be provided to a second player and so forth and so on.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 1998Date of Patent: November 30, 1999Assignee: Elliot A. RudellInventors: Elliot Rudell, Joseph Cernansky
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Patent number: 5842899Abstract: A toy device that leaves a liquid footprint as the device is moved along a surface. The device includes a housing that resembles a duck. Attached to the bottom of the duck is a roller that can rotate relative to the housing, so that the toy can be pushed or pulled along a sidewalk or other similar surface. The housing is connected to a handle that allows the user, such as a small child, to move the toy along the surface. Attached to the roller are a pair of sponge pads that are constructed to resemble the feet of a duck. The sponge pads are soaked with water and leave a liquid pattern when pressed into contact with a surface. The sponge pads are located on the roller, such that a duck foot shaped pattern is left on the surface each time the user moves the duck and rotates the roller.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 1994Date of Patent: December 1, 1998Assignee: Elliot A. RudellInventors: Joseph Cernansky, George T. Foster, Elliot Rudell
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Patent number: 5839981Abstract: A toy that releases a fluid onto a player when another player successfully projects a projectile onto a target. The toy may include a basketball hoop and a container that is filled with a fluid. The hoop is coupled to the container by a release mechanism and a trigger. The container may be elevated above a player by a post. The release mechanism is switched to a released state so that the fluid is released onto the player when the projectile is thrown through the basketball hoop and engages the trigger a predetermined number of times.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 1997Date of Patent: November 24, 1998Assignee: Elliot A. RudellInventors: Elliot Rudell, Joseph Cernansky, George Foster
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Patent number: 5839964Abstract: A water game that periodically releases a volume of water. The game includes a trough that is pivotally connected to a stand. The trough is in fluid communication with a source of water such as a garden hose that is attached to the stand. The hose provides water that fills the trough. The water trough has a cavity that is offset from the stand so that the trough pivots about the stand and releases a volume of water when the water reaches a certain level. The trough rotates back into an upright position and again becomes filled with water, wherein the process is repeated. The stand can support the trough above a mat. A game participant can slide across the mat as the trough releases water to simulate a "riding of a wave".Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 1997Date of Patent: November 24, 1998Assignee: Elliot A. RudellInventors: Elliot Rudell, George Foster, Joseph Cernansky
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Patent number: 5746636Abstract: A toy device that leaves a liquid footprint as the device is moved along a surface. The device includes a housing that resembles a duck. Attached to the bottom of the duck is a roller that can rotate relative to the housing, so that the toy can be pushed or pulled along a sidewalk or other similar surface. The housing is connected to a handle that allows the user, such as a small child, to move the toy along the surface. Attached to the roller are a pair of sponge pads that are constructed to resemble the feet of a duck. The sponge pads are soaked with water and leave a liquid pattern when pressed into contact with a surface. The sponge pads are located on the roller, such that a duck foot shaped pattern is left on the surface each time the user moves the duck and rotates the roller. The duck toy also includes mechanism for allowing the user to generate sound and move the duck's head up and down to further generate bubbles.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 1997Date of Patent: May 5, 1998Assignee: Elliot A. RudellInventors: Joseph Cernansky, George T. Foster, Elliot Rudell
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Patent number: 5722660Abstract: A game wherein a player is squirted with water if the player does not correctly answer a question within a time interval. The game includes a plurality of cards that each have at least one question and a spray unit which has a manually activated resettable timer assembly. The timer assembly releases a fluid from the spray unit if not reset within a time interval. To play the game, the timer assembly is activated and a player is asked a question provided by a card. If the player answers the question correctly the timer is reset and the question is provided to another player. If the player does not answer the question correctly within the time interval the spray device squirts fluid onto the player. The player must then take the card, select a new card and repeat the process of setting the timer and asking other players a question from the newly selected card. This process is repeated until the players hold all of the cards. The player with the least amount of cards wins the game.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 1997Date of Patent: March 3, 1998Assignee: Elliot A. RudellInventors: Elliot Rudell, Joseph Cernansky
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Patent number: 5672123Abstract: A water game that has a mat and a wall which define a reservoir that holds a volume of water. The reservoir may be separated into a plurality of individual compartments. The wall has a height that allows children to hop in and out of the reservoir. The base mat has a plurality of indicia located in separate blocked areas of the mat. The indicia are arranged so that the participants can jump about the mat in accordance with the rules of the game hopscotch. The wall may be inflated with water and contain apertures that continuously emit streams of water onto the mat area of the game to fill and replenish the reservoir.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 1995Date of Patent: September 30, 1997Assignee: Elliot A. RudellInventors: Elliot Rudell, Joseph Cernansky
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Patent number: 5360362Abstract: A toy device that leaves a liquid footprint as the device is moved along a surface. The device includes a housing that resembles a duck. Attached to the bottom of the duck is a roller that can rotate relative to the housing, so that the toy can be pushed or pulled along a sidewalk or other similar surface. The housing is connected to a handle that allows the user, such as a small child, to move the toy along the surface. Attached to the roller are a pair of sponge pads that are constructed to resemble the feet of a duck. The sponge pads are soaked with water and leave a liquid pattern when pressed into contact with a surface. The sponge pads are located on the roller, such that a duck foot shaped pattern is left on the surface each time the user moves the duck and rotates the roller.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 1992Date of Patent: November 1, 1994Assignee: Elliot A. RudellInventors: Joseph Cernansky, George T. Foster, Elliot Rudell
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Patent number: 4991847Abstract: There is disclosed a ball having a foraminous outer shell with an inner membrane which forms an interior closure within the outer shell and with a timer and a release mechanism operative to open the inner membrane and release its contents after the time on the timer expires. The contents spill through the foraminous outer shell, wetting the player who is handling or catching the ball at the moment of release. The timer is activated and the ball is used in a game in which it is tossed between participants who seek to avoid becoming wet when the timer releases the water from the interior closure of the ball.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 1989Date of Patent: February 12, 1991Inventors: Elliot Rudell, George Foster, Joseph Cernansky
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Patent number: 4890838Abstract: There is disclosed a ball having a foraminous outer shell with an inner membrane which forms an interior closure within the outer shell and with a timer and a release mechanism operative to open the inner membrane and release its contents after the time on the timer expires. The contents spill through the foraminous outer shell, wetting the player who is handling or catching the ball at the moment of release. The timer is activated and the ball is used in a game in which it is tossed between participants who seek to avoid becoming wet when the timer releases the water from the interior closure of the ball.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 1989Date of Patent: January 2, 1990Assignee: Elliot RudellInventors: Elliot Rudell, George Foster, Joseph Cernansky
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Patent number: 4390178Abstract: A pivotal jumping stick with the handlebars and footrest connected together and pivoted at their centers to permit the user to maintain his balance on uneven terrain. While in motion, a pin slides vertically in a slot formed in the impacting rod, counteracting the inherent twisting force of the spring mechanism, and allowing the user to accurately steer the device.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 1982Date of Patent: June 28, 1983Assignee: Elliot RudellInventors: Elliot Rudell, Joseph Cernansky, Harold Garner
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Patent number: D263485Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 1979Date of Patent: March 23, 1982Assignee: Elliot RudellInventors: Elliot Rudell, Joseph Cernansky, Harold Garner