Joseph W Arnett

US Patent:

47533854, Jun 28, 1988

Filed:

Feb 18, 1986

Appl. No.:

6/829899

Inventors:

Colin S. Phipps - Tallahassee FL
Joseph W. Arnett - Tallahassee FL
William P. Thompson - Tallahassee FL
Charles E. Benedict - Tallahassee FL

Assignee:

Benedict Engineering Company, Inc. - Tallahassee FL

International Classification:

B65P 9100

US Classification:

232 17

Abstract:

Extendable trays for use in conventional rural route mailboxes for facilitating the placement and removal of mail with respect thereto wherein the trays are constructed utilizing scored or integrally hinged sheet material which is selectively folded into a generally flat or planar configuration or package for shipping or distribution and which is assembled by a postal customer so as to be of a size and configuration to be cooperatively and slidingly received within a particular mailbox. In one form of the invention, the sheet material may be selectively folded into a number of sizes so that trays of varying dimensions may be formed from the same sheet of material.

US Patent:

45452822, Oct 8, 1985

Filed:

Nov 14, 1983

Appl. No.:

6/551114

Inventors:

Joseph Arnett - Tallahassee FL
Jo A. Arnett - Tallahassee FL

International Classification:

G10D 300

US Classification:

84317

Abstract:

A button actuated chord selector and playing device for simultaneously pressing a plurality of selected strings of a stringed musical instrument, such as a guitar, against the spaced frets of the instrument to shorten the vibrational length of the strings, to increase the pitches of the instrument, and, thereby, to produce selected harmonizing chord sounds. Each button operates its related actuating bar extending parallel with the neck of the instrument, and each of those actuating bars is operably connected to actuate a plurality of transversely extending selector bars positioned at different positions longitudinally on the neck of the instrument to engage and press selected strings against the spaced frets to produce the selected chord. Laterally spaced guide pins are provided at opposite ends of the actuating and selector bars to limit movement of the bars and to keep opposite ends of the bars moving in unison. Springs positioned at opposite ends of the bars are provided to lift the actuating and selector bars when the buttons are released.