Patents by Inventor Ward Payn

Ward Payn 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: 5005839
    Abstract: A game apparatus for playing a game in which the players simulate being waitpersons in a restaurant and in which the players take and remember lists of food dishes for later recitation and confirmation as to accuracy includes a board having a playing surface divided into segments, each segment assigned to a different player, each segment having table spaces marked thereon corresponding to tables in a restaurant. A set of table cards corresponding to each of the table spaces is provided and a plurality of order sheets for marking down food dishes being ordered is also provided. The order sheets are of a size smaller than the table cards so that they can be covered from view by the table cards during play of the game. A plurality of markers is provided, one marker associated with each player. The markers are moved around the playing surface to predetermined spaces marked on the playing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 9, 1991
    Assignee: Turning the Tables, Inc.
    Inventors: Kyle A. Ryan, Michael Ackerman, Bruce Hale, Ward Payne
  • Patent number: 4897530
    Abstract: A meter base drive assembly (4) is a part of a postage meter base (2), to which a postage meter is mounted. The assembly includes envelope drive (62), a tape dispenser (86) and a print head drive (84) mounted to a base frame (12). The drive assembly includes a motor drive (6), pivotally mounted (10, 14) to the frame, which drive a pulley (8) in a first rotary direction. First, second and third driven pulleys (16, 18, 56) are operably coupled to the envelope drive, print head drive tape dispenser respectively. A dual pulley (20), including first and second ppulley element (28, 53), is pivotally mounted (34, 36; 102, 104) to the frame. One side (30) of a first drive belt (26) engages the drive pulley and the second driven pulley. The second side (32) of the first drive belt engages the first pulley element. A second drive belt (52) engages the second pulley element and the second driven pulley so that the first and second driven pulleys are rotated in opposite rotary directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1990
    Assignee: f.m.e. Corporation
    Inventors: Richard J. Hendrickson, Ward Payn
  • Patent number: D327906
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1992
    Assignee: F.M.E. Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy D. Pike, Ward Payn, Richard J. Henrickson