Patents by Inventor Richard A. Spencer

Richard A. Spencer 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: 8678953
    Abstract: A golf tee system comprising a card stock having a thickness, a width, a length with bend lines and break lines formed on the card stock, a tee element formed within the card stock, wherein the card stock is approximately flat and configured to allow at least one tee element to be removed from the card stock and assembled into a structural tee device for holding a golf ball, a top portion, a bottom portion, a body portion connected to and extending upward from the bottom portion, having a first side wall and a second side wall, wherein the first side wall and a second side wall when folded toward each other at least partially bound and define an inner cavity within the body portion, wherein a folded upper crown of the top portion defines a ball receipt surface configured to receive and hold the golf ball off of a ground surface and wherein the reconfigurable golf tee is detached from scored card stock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Mytee Golf Products, LLC
    Inventors: Richard A. Spencer, Jr., Andrew R. Spriegel
  • Patent number: 8141458
    Abstract: A hammer head includes a centrally located traction surface surrounded by a peripheral striking face. The portion of the hammer head forming the traction surface is comprised of a harder material than the surrounding portion of the hammer head, such that wear to the traction surface is inhibited. The centrally located region may be formed as a separate disk with a knurled outer surface that is press fit into a cavity formed in the hammer head main body. The traction surface is preferably recessed relative to the surrounding portion of the hammer head but may also extend flush therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Inventors: Stephen M. Spencer, Richard A. Spencer
  • Publication number: 20110065532
    Abstract: A golf tee system comprising a card stock having a thickness, a width, a length with bend lines and break lines formed on the card stock, a tee element formed within the card stock, wherein the card stock is approximately flat and configured to allow at least one tee element to be removed from the card stock and assembled into a structural tee device for holding a golf ball, a top portion, a bottom portion, a body portion connected to and extending upward from the bottom portion, having a first side wall and a second side wall, wherein the first side wall and a second side wall when folded toward each other at least partially bound and define an inner cavity within the body portion, wherein a folded upper crown of the top portion defines a ball receipt surface configured to receive and hold the golf ball off of a ground surface and wherein the reconfigurable golf tee is detached from scored card stock.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2010
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Inventors: Richard A. Spencer, JR., Andrew R. Spriegel
  • Patent number: D355270
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 7, 1995
    Assignee: Titan-S-Mfg., Inc.
    Inventor: Richard A. Spencer