Patents by Inventor Robert G. Slick

Robert G. Slick 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: 8232466
    Abstract: A sound generating device for being removably securable to or directly about a person's hand or finger for producing sound when the hand is reciprocally moved. The device includes a sound generating portion secured or securable to an attachment portion, where the attachment portion is securable to or directly about the hand or finger. Preferably, the sound is percussive caused by components of the device striking each other upon rapid and repeated reciprocal hand movement. The device is light in weight, does not require striking the hand or finger or other portion of the body, and is shaped and contoured to conform to hand shape, and preferably includes an adjustable attachment portion to adapt to differing sizes and shapes of hands and fingers; the device also may be modular, wherein the attachment portion may comprise a plurality of differing sizes of mounting structures for the same sound generating portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Inventors: George H. Slick, Gertrude M. Slick, Geoffrey W. Slick, Robert G. Slick
  • Publication number: 20110061512
    Abstract: A sound generating device for being removably securable to or directly about a person's hand or finger for producing sound when the hand is reciprocally moved. The device includes a sound generating portion secured or securable to an attachment portion, where the attachment portion is securable to or directly about the hand or finger. Preferably, the sound is percussive caused by components of the device striking each other upon rapid and repeated reciprocal hand movement. The device is light in weight, does not require striking the hand or finger or other portion of the body, and is shaped and contoured to conform to hand shape, and preferably includes an adjustable attachment portion to adapt to differing sizes and shapes of hands and fingers; the device also may be modular, wherein the attachment portion may comprise a plurality of differing sizes of mounting structures for the same sound generating portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2010
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Inventors: George H. Slick, Gertrude M. Slick, Geoffrey W. Slick, Robert G. Slick