Patents by Inventor V. John Tilby

V. John Tilby 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: 7063737
    Abstract: A soft case for holding weapons as they are transported or stored that has a clam-shell type body with an upper half body and a lower half body interconnected by a hinge and with the upper and lower half bodies and hinge made from a foam plastic that is soft enough to protect a weapon surrounded by body and capable of being permanently shaped under heat and pressure to have one-half of a weapon molded as a recess in the upper half body and an opposite side one-half of the weapon molded as a recess in the lower half body whereby when the upper and lower body halves are pivoted about the hinge and into face to face relationship, with a weapon positioned in the recesses formed in the half bodies and including a zipper for securing the body halves together and a handle for carrying the gun case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2006
    Inventors: V. John Tilby, Daniel M. Tilby
  • Publication number: 20040226793
    Abstract: A soft case for holding weapons as they are transported or stored that has a clam-shell type body with an upper half body and a lower half body interconnected by a hinge and with the upper and lower half bodies and hinge made from a foam material that is soft enough to protect a weapon surrounded by said body and capable of being permanently shaped under heat and pressure to have one-half of a weapon molded as a recess in the upper half body and an opposite side one-half of the weapon molded as a recess in the lower half body whereby when the upper and lower body halves are pivoted about the hinge and into face to face relationship, with a weapon positioned in the recesses formed in the half bodies and including a zipper for securing the3 body halves together and a handle for carrying the gun case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2003
    Publication date: November 18, 2004
    Inventors: V. John Tilby, Daniel M. Tilby
  • Patent number: 5016604
    Abstract: A string silencer for an archery bow is fashioned from double-faced fleece polyester fabric. It is formed as a rectangular sheet with matched sets of legs extending oppositely from a body portion. The body portion is inserted on a parting plane between equal portions of a bowstring. Individual pairs of legs are tied in alternating fashion to the respective bowstring portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1991
    Assignee: Sportsmen's Outdoor Products
    Inventor: V. John Tilby
  • Patent number: D489182
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Inventors: V. John Tilby, Daniel M. Tilby
  • Patent number: D627161
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Inventor: V. John Tilby