Patents by Inventor Lowell T. Wilson

Lowell T. Wilson 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: 5333387
    Abstract: Disclosure concerns a portable drawing toy comprising an openable rectangular box having manual rotatable knobs in the two lower opposite corners, which knobs move by strings and pulleys a horizontal and a vertical bar orthogonally with respect to each other. At the intersection of these bars is a socket for one of a plurality of different colored marking pens. A cover for the box comprises a framed window with flanges for holding a translucent paper on the underside of the window so that when the cover is closed the marker pen contacts the paper and rotation of the knobs causes the pen to draw lines on the paper, which lines can be viewed through the window. The translucent paper can be changed for retaining the drawing made thereon, and a magazine for different colored pens is provided in the base of the box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 2, 1994
    Assignee: The Ohio Art Company
    Inventors: James B. Ankenbruck, Jose V. Antolin, Horst D. Herbstler, Bruce D. Lund, Anne K. Vahcic, Lowell T. Wilson
  • Patent number: 4145044
    Abstract: A preschool knock-down portable indoor basketball set comprising a sponge-rubber ball and a weighted vertically adjustable stand for a basket with a removable bounce-board.The weighted base of the stand has an annular socket for one end of a pair of telescopic tubes, adjustable in length by a pin through diametric holes in the tubes. The upper end of the inner telescopic tube has a cap and net ring member, which cap has an annular reinforced socket for the upper tube end, which ring has hidden hooks for suspending a frusto-conical string basket, and intermediate of the cap and ring, has a wedging slot in a vertical plane into which a trapezoidal notch on the lower edge of a bounce-board removably fits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 1977
    Date of Patent: March 20, 1979
    Assignee: The Ohio Art Company
    Inventors: Lowell T. Wilson, Herbert A. Plassmann