Piercing Patents (Class 116/326)
  • Patent number: 5573405
    Abstract: A behavoir training and modification device includes a board having a plurality of pegs extending from its front face. The pegs are arranged in a predetermined pattern such as a grid of rows and columns. Indicator plates can be marked with visual indicia representing individuals, task, behaviors. The indicator plates include apertures to permit so they can be slid onto the pegs. The plates are positioned on the board to assign tasks to specific individuals and to indicate behavior traits to be modified. Status indicator plates are used to acknowledge the completion of tasks, and the manifestation of desirable and undesirable behavior. Transparent plates are provided so that when multiple plates are stacked on a single peg the plates lower in the stack are visible through the upper plates in the stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1996
    Inventor: Suzanne Evans
  • Patent number: 4941688
    Abstract: A period event recorder comprising a label, indicia on the label corresponding to a desired time or frequency interval; a porous substrate attached to the underside of the label; means for attaching the porous substrate to an object associated with, related to, or nearby the site for performance of a desired task or event; and a stylus adapted to puncture that portion of the label bearing indicia corresponding to that particular performance of the desired task or event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 17, 1990
    Inventor: Truman Jones
  • Patent number: 4745875
    Abstract: A golfing scores recorder consists of a generally rectangular case having a plurality of openings formed in a predetermined pattern provided in its front panel and a plurality of depressions of the same pattern formed in the inner surface of its rear panel. A perforable score card is insertable into the case. The score card has a score recording pattern printed thereon which has a plurality of score recording areas in register with the pattern of openings in the front panel of the case. The dimension of the openings in the front panel is sized to permit a golf tee to be inserted therethrough to pierce a mark in the score card to provide a permanent recording of the number of strokes played in each hole of the golf game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1988
    Inventor: Robert C. Timleck