Patents by Inventor Lawrence J. Goffney, Jr.

Lawrence J. Goffney, Jr. 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: 4893877
    Abstract: A lighted hubcap includes a cap body that has an outboard side and an opposing inboard side. When the cap body is secured to the wheel of a passenger vehicle, the outboard side faces away from the vehicle. At least one light emitter is incorporated in the cap body so that it emits light from the outboard side of the cap body when energized. A permanent magnet assembly is pivotally secured to the cap body and weighted so that the permanent magnet assembly is in a generally fixed orientation with respect to the passenger vehicle. Electrically conducting windings are secured to the inboard side concentrically about the permanent magnet assembly and are connected to the light emitters. The windings are in magnetic flux coupling relationship with the permanent magnet assembly so that upon rotation of the wheel and, concomitantly, the windings about the generally fixedly oriented permanent magnet assembly, alternating current is generated in the winding for energizing the light emitters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1990
    Assignee: Manual Powell
    Inventors: Manual Powell, Lawrence J. Goffney, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4308860
    Abstract: A scalp massaging implement includes a plurality of flexible tines with free ends radiating from the outer surface of a fingertip covering. In one embodiment the tines are cupped at their free ends. The fingertip covering has an inner surface over which cupped projections are distributed. A fingernail receptacle is provided in the inner surface. The tines, the fingertip covering, and the cupped projections are preferably constructed of a resilient material so that the tines can flex and return to their original shape and the fingertip covering, with cupped projections, can stretchably receive a human finger, with fingernail, for suctional adherence thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1979
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1982
    Inventors: Estelle W. Sanders, Lawrence J. Goffney, Jr.