Patents by Inventor Thomas P. Osborne

Thomas P. Osborne 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).

  • Apparatus for drawing boundary lines on a play surface
    Patent number: 6405444
    Abstract: A hollow handle portion and a hollow barrel portion communicate with each other in a hollow housing. A first detent in the barrel portion has a first relationship for retaining a chalk in the barrel portion and a second relationship for releasing the chalk from the barrel portion. The detent is operable to the first and second relationships by a control member externally disposed on the barrel portion. A rotatable reel and a second detent are disposed in the handle portion. The second detent has a first relationship for preventing the reel from rotating and a second relationship for providing for the reel rotation. The second detent is operable to the first and second relationships by a second control member externally disposed on the handle portion. A string wound on the reel extends at a free end through an opening in the handle portion to a position external of the handle portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2002
    Assignee: Sport Fun, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas P. Osborne
  • Animal push toy
    Patent number: D265842
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1979
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1982
    Assignee: CPG Products Corp.
    Inventors: Michael Conners, Thomas P. Osborne
  • Electronic road racing toy
    Patent number: D270460
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1981
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1983
    Assignee: CPG Products Corp.
    Inventors: William K. Burtoft, Dale I. Goldberg, Thomas P. Osborne
  • Toy butterfly
    Patent number: D271406
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1981
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1983
    Assignee: CPG Products Corp.
    Inventor: Thomas P. Osborne
  • Toy house
    Patent number: D275120
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1982
    Date of Patent: August 14, 1984
    Assignee: American Greetings Corporation
    Inventor: Thomas P. Osborne
  • Toy house
    Patent number: D275121
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1982
    Date of Patent: August 14, 1984
    Assignee: American Greetings Corporation
    Inventor: Thomas P. Osborne
  • Toy cruise ship
    Patent number: D277881
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1982
    Date of Patent: March 5, 1985
    Assignee: CPG Products Corp.
    Inventors: Timothy A. Effler, Dale I. Goldberg, Thomas P. Osborne
  • Toy oven
    Patent number: D288702
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1987
    Assignee: American Greetings Corporation
    Inventors: Rickie T. Bedell, Michael A. Katauskas, Thomas P. Osborne