WILLIAM GHOLSON HONES
Pilots at Marine Vw Dr, Seattle, WA

5158462, Oct 27, 1992

Jun 11, 1991

7/713261

Edward W. Hones - Los Alamos NM
Stirling A. Colgate - Los Alamos NM
William G. Hones - Seattle WA

G09B 2308

434302

A device comprising several highly elastic objects (for example, steel balls (14)) hanging from a support structure (12) is presented whose purpose is to demonstrate an unobvious consequence of fundamental laws of physics - the acceleration of an object to high speed by multiple collisions among a series of heavier objects moving at slower speed. The objects, each of different mass, are arrayed in close proximity in order of decreasing mass with their centers lying along a horizontal straight line. When the heaviest object, hanging at one end of the line, is pulled back a small distance, rising to some small height above its rest position, and released the resulting impact leads to a transfer of energy through the line of objects to the lightest one, at the other end of the line, which is accelerated to high velocity. When appropriately directed, this high velocity can cause the lightest object to rise to a much greater height than that from which the heaviest object was released. The preferred embodiment does not permit the lightest object to rise to its full possible height and instead uses a wind-up bar (18) to intercept its rise and cause it to return to its rest position.

5883454, Mar 16, 1999

Feb 19, 1997

8/803027

Edward W. Hones - Los Alamos NM
William G. Hones - Seattle WA

Creative Gifts, Inc. - Seattle WA

H02K 709, H01F 702

310 905

An electromagnetic drive apparatus and method are operative to rotate a magnetically levitated object for an indefinite period of time. The object, such as a spinning magnetic top with a spindle, is levitated over a base magnet and a horizontal component of a pulsed magnetic field is applied at the region of the spinning magnetic top to maintain the top spinning and levitating indefinitely. The pulsed magnetic field is generated by applying a pulsed dc voltage or an ac current to a coil situated in proximity to the top. The coil may have a cylindrical or oblong shape and a core may be provided in the coil. Levitation stability and duration are improved by positioning a loosely fitting washer on the spindle of the spinning magnet so as to permit relative rotation therebetween during application of the pulsed magnetic field.

6152381, Nov 28, 2000

Jul 2, 1999

9/346310

William G. Hones - Seattle WA

B05B 1708

239 17

A decorative and educational waterfall device has a substantially continuous film of a liquid, such as water, low viscosity oil or an aqueous solution, extending between two vertically upstanding guides. The waterfall comprises a base reservoir in which is mounted an electrical pump. A tower containing a liquid flow passage is mounted to the base and a trough having two side walls and a bottom wall which terminates in a lip portion at the front edge of the trough is mounted to the tower so that liquid from the tower flows over the bottom wall and lip portion of the trough to form the waterfall between the two upstanding guides. The bottom wall of the trough is configured to cause the flow of water to be directed outwardly toward the guides to improve the adherence of the liquid film to the guides. One or more flow restrictors are mounted transversely across the trough, substantially parallel to the lip portion to decrease the turbulence of the flowing liquid and improve the capability of the liquid to form a continuous film.

5256071, Oct 26, 1993

Aug 22, 1991

7/748804

Edward W. Hones - Los Alamos NM
William G. Hones - Seattle WA
Stirling A. Colgate - Los Alamos NM

G09B 2308

434302

A device comprising several highly elastic objects is presented whose purpose is to demonstrate an unobvious consequence of fundamental laws of physics--the acceleration of an object to high speed by multiple collisions among a series of heavier objects moving at slower speed. The objects, each of different mass, are arrayed in close proximity in order of decreasing mass with their centers lying along a straight line. This arrangement of the assembly of objects is maintained by a constraining element which permits the assembly axis to be oriented in any desired direction and permits the assembly to be moved or manipulated as a unit in any desired way without destroying the arrangement of objects. In the preferred embodiment the elastic objects are polybutadiene balls (12), the constraining element is an interior guide-pin (10) fastened in the largest ball and extending radially therefrom, on which the remaining balls can slide freely because of diametrical holes formed in them. In use this multiple-collision accelerator assembly is suspended in vertical orientation, with the largest ball downward, by holding the tip-end of the guide-pin which extends beyond the littlest ball.

2006023, Oct 26, 2006

Jul 27, 2005

11/191373

William Hones - Seattle WA, US

F21V 33/00, A47B 97/00

362127000

A light fitting accessory for a transparent walled formicarium filled with clear, ant-nutritious tunneling gel. The formicarium has a basal cavity formed by a base wall raised within the sidewalls and the accessory housing is received as a manual push fit in the cavity enabling easy, modification free, retrofit of the accessory to form a single unit with the formicarium. Walls of the housing incline together towards a top providing a wedge shape and have external surfaces formed with vertically extending friction ribs which frictionally engage cavity walls of the formicarium. The housing mounts narrow beam LEDs shining upwardly into the formicarium and concealed below a front, opaque wall of the housing.

2007016, Jul 19, 2007

Jan 11, 2007

11/622307

Harold G. Middleton - Seattle WA, US
William G. Hones - Seattle WA, US

F04D 29/00, E21B 47/06

415118, 374210

An electric fan assembly has a rotating fan blade mounted with an array of light emitting devices; a thermistor mounted on the fan blade and providing an analog signal corresponding to a sensed temperature, a fan blade position synchronizing switch and a microcontroller and display driver having an analog to digital converter. The microcontroller and display driver is connected to receive the signals from the thermistor and synchronizing switch and programmed to selectively power the light emitting devices when the fan blade is in a synchronized position to provide an alpha numeric display of the ambient temperature by a persistence-of-vision effect.

5404062, Apr 4, 1995

Feb 17, 1994

8/197845

Edward W. Hones - Los Alamos NM
William G. Hones - Seattle WA

Creative Gifts, Inc. - Seattle WA

H02K 709

310 905

A magnetic levitation device and method of levitating a magnet without mechanical restraining elements are disclosed. The levitation device comprises a first magnet with a polygonal, preferably square, periphery and a substantially planar upper surface magnetized normal thereto and a second magnet with an apparatus to rotate or spin the same. The second magnet is rotated or spun on a lifter plate disposed on the upper surface of the first magnet with like polar orientations of the magnets in confronting relation. When the lifter plate is raised above the first magnet the spinning second magnet levitates above the first magnet and the lifter plate and the lifter plate is removed from between the first and second magnets. The weight of the second magnet may be varied to change the height above the first magnet at which the second magnet levitates.

D592699, May 19, 2009

Nov 2, 2007

29/292948

William G. Hones - SeaTac WA, US

Fascinations Toys & Gifts, Inc. - SeaTac WA

1902

D19 61

6149070, Nov 21, 2000

Jan 29, 1999

9/239670

William G. Hones - Seattle WA

B05B 1708

239 17

A decorative and educational waterfall device has a substantially continuous film of a liquid, such as water, low viscosity oil or an aqueous solution, extending between two vertically upstanding guides. The waterfall comprises a base reservoir in which is mounted an electrical pump. A tower containing a liquid flow passage is mounted to the base and a trough having two side walls and a bottom wall which terminates in a lip portion at the front edge of the trough is mounted to the tower so that liquid from the tower flows over the bottom wall and lip portion of the trough to form the waterfall between the two upstanding guides. One or more flow restrictors are mounted transversely across the trough, substantially parallel to the lip portion to decrease the turbulence of the flowing liquid and improve the capability of the liquid to form a continuous film.

7267076, Sep 11, 2007

Oct 17, 2005

11/252178

William G. Hones - Seattle WA, US

B44F 7/00

119 65, 428 15

An ant sculpture is formed by removing a block of nutritious gel having with a network of ant tunnels from a formicarium container; placing the block in an p. v. c bag that serves as a release liner; and stuffing the bag containing the gel block back into the container. The tunnel network is then filled with a transparent epoxy resin which is permitted to harden in the tunnel network; the bag containing the gel body with set epoxy removed from the container and, the gel is then separated so that the hardened epoxy forms an ant sculpture replicating the network of ant tunnels. The epoxy resin is Bisphenol A epoxy resin.