Patents by Inventor Pasquale Bafunno

Pasquale Bafunno 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: 7718872
    Abstract: An improved device for providing the magic touch effect during a double repetition in an upright piano wherein the device comprises a plurality of keys swingably mounted on a keyboard frame and supporting a suitably inclined slanted drive element, which can be screw adjusted and is intercoupled to a slanted swinging arm that operates as a control lever that is pivoted to an abruptly clockwise downstream slanted main bridge having an escapement lever coupled to a butt roller of a hammer, pivoted to a first pillar element, that supports adjusting buttons for adjusting a first and second escapements. The main bridge assembly is coupled to a second pillar element, that is pivoted to the lever of the second escapement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Inventor: Pasquale Bafunno
  • Publication number: 20090114074
    Abstract: An improved device for providing the so-called magic touch effect during a double repetition, in an upright piano, is characterized in that said device comprises a plurality of keys said keys being swingably mounted on a keyboard frame and supporting, each, a suitably inclined slanted drive element, which can be screw adjusted and is intercoupled to a slanted swinging arm, operating as control angular variation continuous escapement energy lever in turn pivoted to an abruptely clockwise downstream slanted main bridge operatively swinging with the escapement lever which is coupled to a butt roller of a hammer, pivoted to a first pillar element, in turn supporting a plurality of adjusting buttons for adjusting a first and second escapements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2005
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Inventor: Pasquale BAFUNNO