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US3946316A Expired / Lapsed US ⏱️ 0.0 years remaining

Radio-pillow device

Assignee: Individual
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Filing: 1974-11-14
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Granted: 1976-03-23
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Expires: 1994-11-14
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Abstract

Abstract In a preferred embodiment, a pillow including a tubular flexible material having a space defined within the tube divided into a sealed central space portion having pillow stuffing therein, and adjacent the central sealed portion there being at opposite ends thereof open-ended space-defining portions respectively each invertible over and around the sealed central space portion and one over and around the other when both are in an inverted state, with one end portion having adjacent an end thereof nearest the sealed central space portion two apertures extending through the tubular flexible material and with the other end portion having adjacent an end thereof most distant from the sealed central space portion two apertures located to become aligned with the apertures of the other end portion when both are inverted around and over the sealed central space portion of the tubular flexible material, and a radio receiver and speaker combination of miniature size and of substantially flattened shape located between the outer face of the sealed central space and an inner face of a first-inverted one of said end portions with each of volume and tuning shafts extending through aligned ones respectively of the two apertures in the respective ones of the inverted end portions with detachable knobs locked on distal ends of the inserted volume and tuning shafts, the inner face of the tubular flexible material before inversion of the end portions thereof being an aesthetically finished face such that upon the inversion to the inverted state of the end portions the aesthetically finished face is outwardly directed for each of the end portion's tubular flexible material, locked in the inverted state by the volume and tuning shafts having knobs locked thereon.

Inventors

  • 👤 William T. Hough

Bibliographic Details

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Jurisdiction US
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Last Synchronized 2026-10-27 08:30
CPC Classifications
H; H04; H04R; H04R5/00; H04R5/02; H04R5/023; A; A47; A47G; A47G9/00; A47G9/10; A47G9/1045; H04B; H04B1/00; H04B1/06; H04B1/08; H04R1/00; H04R1/06; A47G2009/006; Y; Y10; Y10S; Y10S5/00; Y10S5/904

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 12
Claim 1
Independent Claim 187 words
A radio-pillow device comprising in combination: a tubular flexible material divided into at least two segregated portions one from the other, with each portion defining therein a space, a first one of said portions having an open tubular end and at least a first aperture, and an adjacent second one of said portions having its respective defined space thereof substantially totally enclosed such that pillow stuffing is retainable therein, the second portion being closed at each of opposite ends of its space thereof, a portion of the tubular flexible material defining said first portion being invertible and thereby enclosable of and around said second portion; a radio means for receiving radio waves and converting the radio waves to sound waves, the radio means being of a predetermined miniature size and substantially flattened in shape such that it is positionable adjacent an outer surface of said second portion and within an enclosure of the first portion when said first portion is in an inverted state enclosing the second portion, said radio means including at least volume and tuning shaft elements extending outwardly for extending through said first aperture.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim 187 words
A radio-pillow device comprising in combination: a tubular flexible material divided into at least two segregated portions one from the other, with each portion defining therein a space, a first one of said portions having an open tubular end and at least a first aperture, and an adjacent second one of said portions having its respective defined space thereof substantially totally enclosed such that pillow stuffing is retainable therein, the second portion being closed at each of opposite ends of its space thereof, a portion of the tubular flexible material defining said first portion being invertible and thereby enclosable of and around said second portion; a radio means for receiving radio waves and converting the radio waves to sound waves, the radio means being of a predetermined miniature size and substantially flattened in shape such that it is positionable adjacent an outer surface of said second portion and within an enclosure of the first portion when said first portion is in an inverted state enclosing the second portion, said radio means including at least volume and tuning shaft elements extending outwardly for extending through said first aperture.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim 24 words
A radio-pillow device of claim 1, in which said first portion includes said first aperture located adjacent a closed end of said first portion.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim 60 words
A radio-pillow device of claim 2, in which said portions include a third portion having an open tubular end at one end thereof and having a closed end adjacent said second portion, said third portion defining space therein and being invertible and thereby enclosable of each of said second portion and of said first portion when in an inverted state.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim 37 words
A radio-pillow device of claim 3, in which said third portion includes at least a second aperture located adjacent an open end thereof of a size receivable therethrough at least on of said volume and tuning shafts.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim 67 words
A radio-pillow device of claim 4, in which said first portion and said third portion are each in inverted states and one thereof encloses said second portion, and in which one of the first portion and said third portion encloses the other of the first and third portions, with at least one of said volume and tuning shafts extending through said first aperture and said second aperture.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim 45 words
A radio-pillow device of claim 5, in which said radio means further includes a detachably lockable knob element for respective ones of said volume and tuning shafts, mounted on distal ends of the volume and tuning shafts when extending through the first and second apertures.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim 104 words
A radio-pillow device of claim 6, including each of third and fourth apertures defined in said tubular flexible material, said third aperture in said first portion and said fourth aperture in said third portion, with one of the volume and tuning shafts extending through the first and second apertures and the other of the volume and tuning shafts extending through the third and fourth apertures, respectively, adapted such that the first portion and the third portion each in the inverted state are each locked in the inverted state by the volume and tuning shafts having the respective knobs mounted on the distal ends thereof.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim 17 words
A radio-pillow device of claim 7, including pillow-stuffing composition within the space defined within the second portion.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim 38 words
A radio-pillow device of claim 8, in which said first portion and said third portion, before inversion, have an aesthetically finished face of said tubular flexible material on the inwardly facing surface of the first and third portions.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim 50 words
A radio-pillow device of claim 3, including pillow-stuffing composition within the space defined within the second portion, and in which said first portion and said third portion, before inversion, have an aesthetically finished face of said tubular flexible material on the inwardly facing surface of the first and third portions.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim 32 words
A radio-pillow device of claim 1, in which said first portion, before inversion, has an aesthetically finished face of said tubular flexible material on the inwardly facing surface of the first portion.

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USPTO Annuity & Maintenance Windows

Annuity Stage Window Opens Payment Deadline Surcharge Period Until Estimated Fee Status
3.5 Years (Year 4) 1979-03-23 1979-09-22 1980-03-23 $2000.00 Window Closed / Lapsed
7.5 Years (Year 8) 1983-03-23 1983-09-22 1984-03-23 $3760.00 Window Closed / Lapsed
11.5 Years (Year 12) 1987-03-23 1987-09-22 1988-03-23 $7700.00 Window Closed / Lapsed

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