Patents by Inventor Kathryn Kelsey Anne Stillinger
Kathryn Kelsey Anne Stillinger 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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Patent number: 10391365Abstract: Tossing balls having a resilient skeletal body formed from a plurality of interconnected resilient ribs and defining an open internal volume and a plurality of passages between adjacent resilient ribs. The passages extend from an outwardly facing body portion of the body to the internal volume. The tossing balls may include an array of force-absorbing resilient fingers extending from the plurality of interconnected resilient ribs. The resilient fingers extend at least one of away from and toward the open internal volume. The tossing balls may have a nominal configuration in which the array of force-absorbing resilient fingers extends away from the open internal volume and is configured to cushion impact between the tossing ball and an external object. The tossing balls may include an everted configuration in which the resilient fingers that extended away from the open internal volume in the nominal configuration extend into the open internal volume.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2018Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Acorn Products, LLCInventors: Scott H. Stillinger, Kathryn Kelsey Anne Stillinger, Diane B. Stillinger
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Publication number: 20190247722Abstract: Tossing balls having a resilient skeletal body formed from a plurality of interconnected resilient ribs and defining an open internal volume and a plurality of passages between adjacent resilient ribs. The passages extend from an outwardly facing body portion of the body to the internal volume. The tossing balls may include an array of force-absorbing resilient fingers extending from the plurality of interconnected resilient ribs. The resilient fingers extend at least one of away from and toward the open internal volume. The tossing balls may have a nominal configuration in which the array of force-absorbing resilient fingers extends away from the open internal volume and is configured to cushion impact between the tossing ball and an external object. The tossing balls may include an everted configuration in which the resilient fingers that extended away from the open internal volume in the nominal configuration extend into the open internal volume.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2018Publication date: August 15, 2019Inventors: Scott H. Stillinger, Kathryn Kelsey Anne Stillinger, Diane B. Stillinger
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Patent number: 9738342Abstract: Multi-wheeled vehicles, such as scooters, may include a body, a rear wheel, and a steering assembly. The steering assembly may include a steering shaft, a wheel support chassis, a first front wheel, and a second front wheel. The wheel support chassis is pivotally coupled to the steering shaft for rotation about a chassis pivot axis. The first and second front wheels are rotatingly coupled to the wheel support chassis about respective rotational axes. The second front wheel is at least substantially inline with the first front wheel and located closer to the rear wheel than the first front wheel when the steering shaft is in a forward straight orientation.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2015Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: Acorn Products, LLCInventors: Scott H. Stillinger, Kathryn Kelsey Anne Stillinger
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Patent number: 9669971Abstract: A valve system includes a fitment or a fluid container having a threaded spout, a valve assembly, and a cap. The threaded spout has external threads. The valve assembly includes a sleeve forming a barrel. The barrel includes internal threads and external threads. The internal threads accommodate the external threads of the spout at a first end of the barrel. The valve assembly further includes a valve located at a second end of the barrel. The valve is operable to open and close an internal fluid pathway of the valve assembly. The cap defines an interior region that includes internal threads that accommodate the external threads of the barrel. The cap accommodates the valve within the interior region when the internal threads of the cap are fully threaded onto the external threads of the barrel. The cap may contact the valve to provide an additional seal.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2016Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: Acorn BayInventors: Donald J Panec, Kathryn Kelsey Anne Stillinger, Scott H Stillinger
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Patent number: 9609969Abstract: An elastomeric valve includes a barrel having one or more walls defining an interior fluid pathway. The barrel is deformable between a non-deformed state and a deformed state. The elastomeric valve further includes a gate assembly of two or more gate elements forming a tapering volume projecting into the fluid pathway from the one or more walls of the barrel. In at least some examples, each gate element joins the barrel at a reduced cross-section that forms a hinge of that gate element. The two or more gate elements interface with each other along one or more gate boundaries to collectively block the fluid pathway in the non-deformed state and separate from each other along the one or more gate boundaries in the deformed state to permit fluid flow through the gate assembly.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2015Date of Patent: April 4, 2017Assignee: ACORN BAYInventors: Donald J. Panec, Kathryn Kelsey Anne Stillinger, Scott H. Stillinger
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Publication number: 20170066571Abstract: A valve system includes a fitment or a fluid container having a threaded spout, a valve assembly, and a cap. The threaded spout has external threads. The valve assembly includes a sleeve forming a barrel. The barrel includes internal threads and external threads. The internal threads accommodate the external threads of the spout at a first end of the barrel. The valve assembly further includes a valve located at a second end of the barrel. The valve is operable to open and close an internal fluid pathway of the valve assembly. The cap defines an interior region that includes internal threads that accommodate the external threads of the barrel. The cap accommodates the valve within the interior region when the internal threads of the cap are fully threaded onto the external threads of the barrel. The cap may contact the valve to provide an additional seal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2016Publication date: March 9, 2017Applicant: ACORN BAYInventors: DONALD J PANEC, KATHRYN KELSEY ANNE STILLINGER, SCOTT H STILLINGER
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Publication number: 20160137250Abstract: Multi-wheeled vehicles, such as scooters, may include a body, a rear wheel, and a steering assembly. The steering assembly may include a steering shaft, a wheel support chassis, a first front wheel, and a second front wheel. The wheel support chassis is pivotally coupled to the steering shaft for rotation about a chassis pivot axis. The first and second front wheels are rotatingly coupled to the wheel support chassis about respective rotational axes. The second front wheel is at least substantially inline with the first front wheel and located closer to the rear wheel than the first front wheel when the steering shaft is in a forward straight orientation.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2015Publication date: May 19, 2016Inventors: Scott H. Stillinger, Kathryn Kelsey Anne Stillinger
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Patent number: 8939454Abstract: Scooters including a body having a rider platform, a rear wheel, and a front wheel pivotally supported by the body about a steering axis. In some scooters, the axle of the front wheel is positioned rearward of the steering axis, and in some scooters the steering axis extends upwardly and divergently away from the rider platform. Some scooters include a steering stabilizer configured to bias the front wheel toward a neutral, or straight, steering configuration. Some scooters include a steering stabilizer that is configured to dampening the pivoting of the front wheel and/or limit an angle of pivot of the front wheel. Some scooters include a rear truck. Some scooters include a rider platform that extends beneath, or closer to a ground surface, than the tops of the scooters' front and/or rear wheels.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2012Date of Patent: January 27, 2015Assignee: Acorn Products, LLCInventors: Scott H. Stillinger, Kathryn Kelsey Anne Stillinger
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Patent number: 8562004Abstract: Knee boards for riding in a kneeling position on a ground surface and methods of riding the same. Knee boards include a body with a knee support region, front and rear wheel assemblies, and a gripping member. The body defines an open kick region laterally adjacent to the knee support region. The open kick region permits a user to extend his/her foot to contact and kick the ground surface to propel the knee board and the user along the ground. Some knee boards include a left knee support region and a right knee support region laterally spaced from the left knee support region, and which collectively define the open kick region therebetween. Some knee boards include a central knee support region and a body that defines a left kick region and a right kick region to the left and right of the knee support region, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2009Date of Patent: October 22, 2013Assignee: Acorn Products, LLCInventors: Scott H. Stillinger, Kathryn Kelsey Anne Stillinger
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Publication number: 20130001909Abstract: Scooters including a body having a rider platform, a rear wheel, and a front wheel pivotally supported by the body about a steering axis. In some scooters, the axle of the front wheel is positioned rearward of the steering axis, and in some scooters the steering axis extends upwardly and divergently away from the rider platform. Some scooters include a steering stabilizer configured to bias the front wheel toward a neutral, or straight, steering configuration. Some scooters include a steering stabilizer that is configured to dampening the pivoting of the front wheel and/or limit an angle of pivot of the front wheel. Some scooters include a rear truck. Some scooters include a rider platform that extends beneath, or closer to a ground surface, than the tops of the scooters' front and/or rear wheels.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2012Publication date: January 3, 2013Applicant: Acorn Products, LLCInventors: Scott H. Stillinger, Kathryn Kelsey Anne Stillinger
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Publication number: 20100096823Abstract: Knee boards for riding in a kneeling position on a ground surface and methods of riding the same. Knee boards include a body with a knee support region, front and rear wheel assemblies, and a gripping member. The body defines an open kick region laterally adjacent to the knee support region. The open kick region permits a user to extend his/her foot to contact and kick the ground surface to propel the knee board and the user along the ground. Some knee boards include a left knee support region and a right knee support region laterally spaced from the left knee support region, and which collectively define the open kick region therebetween. Some knee boards include a central knee support region and a body that defines a left kick region and a right kick region to the left and right of the knee support region, respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2009Publication date: April 22, 2010Applicant: Acorn Products, LLCInventors: Scott H. Stillinger, Kathryn Kelsey Anne Stillinger
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Patent number: D849861Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2018Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: Acorn Products, LLCInventors: Scott H. Stillinger, Kathryn Kelsey Anne Stillinger, Diane B. Stillinger