Music – Instruments – Stringed
Reexamination Certificate
2001-04-06
2001-12-11
Nappi, Robert E. (Department: 2837)
Music
Instruments
Stringed
C084S267000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06329581
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to stringed instruments and more particularly pertains to a new guitar neck having finger slots for facilitating fingering chords when playing a guitar.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The use of stringed instruments is known in the prior art. More specifically, stringed instruments heretofore devised and utilized are known to consist basically of familiar, expected and obvious structural configurations, notwithstanding the myriad of designs encompassed by the crowded prior art which have been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements.
Known prior art includes U.S. Pat. No. 4,291,606; U.S. Pat. No. 4,785,705; U.S. Pat. No. Des. 279,195; U.S. Pat. No. 4,200,023; U.S. Pat. No. 4,616,550; and U.S. Pat. No. 2,087,631.
While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not disclose a new stringed instrument neck having finger slots. The inventive device includes a stringed instrument for facilitating fingering of musical chords. The stringed instrument includes a main body portion, which includes a bridge. A neck extends from the main body portion and includes a front face, a first end, a head portion and a medial portion extending between the first end and the head portion. The first end is coupled to the main body portion. A plurality of strings are coupled between the bridge and the head portion. The strings are positioned to extend substantially parallel to each other along the neck. The neck includes a plurality of finger slots extending substantially parallel to the strings. Each of the finger slots is positioned between an associated adjacent pair of the strings such that the neck is designed for permitting insertion of fingers of a user through the finger slots for facilitating selective clamping of the strings against the neck by the fingers of the user.
In these respects, the stringed instrument neck having finger slots according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in so doing provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of facilitating fingering chords when playing a guitar.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of guitars now present in the prior art, the present invention provides a new stringed instrument neck having finger slots construction wherein the same can be utilized for facilitating fingering chords when playing a guitar.
The general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new stringed instrument neck having finger slots apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the guitars mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new stringed instrument neck having finger slots which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art guitars, either alone or in any combination thereof.
To attain this, the present invention generally comprises a stringed instrument for facilitating fingering of musical chords. The stringed instrument includes a main body portion, which includes a bridge. A neck extends from the main body portion and includes a front face, a first end, a head portion and a medial portion extending between the first end and the head portion. The first end is coupled to the main body portion. A plurality of strings are coupled between the bridge and the head portion. The strings are positioned to extend substantially parallel to each other along the neck. The neck includes a plurality of finger slots extending substantially parallel to the strings. Each of the finger slots is positioned between an associated adjacent pair of the strings such that the neck is designed for permitting insertion of fingers of a user through the finger slots for facilitating selective clamping of the strings against the neck by the fingers of the user.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the invention in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the invention that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.
As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception, upon which this disclosure is based, may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
Further, the purpose of the foregoing abstract is to enable the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally, and especially the scientists, engineers and practitioners in the art who are not familiar with patent or legal terms or phraseology, to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and essence of the technical disclosure of the application. The abstract is neither intended to define the invention of the application, which is measured by the claims, nor is it intended to be limiting as to the scope of the invention in any way.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a new stringed instrument neck having finger slots apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the guitars mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new stringed instrument neck having finger slots which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art guitars, either alone or in any combination thereof.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new stringed instrument neck having finger slots, which may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a new stringed instrument neck having finger slots which is of a durable and reliable construction.
An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new stringed instrument neck having finger slots which is susceptible of a low cost of manufacture with regard to both materials and labor, and which accordingly is then susceptible of low prices of sale to the consuming public, thereby making such stringed instrument neck having finger slots economically available to the buying public.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new stringed instrument neck having finger slots which provides in the apparatuses and methods of the prior art some of the advantages thereof, while simultaneously overcoming some of the disadvantages normally associated therewith.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a new stringed instrument neck having finger slots for facilitating fingering chords when playing a guitar.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new stringed instrument neck having finger slots which includes a main body portion having a bridge. A neck extends from the main body portion and includes a front face, a first end, a head portion and a medial portion extending between the first end and the head portion. The first end is coupled to the main body portion. A plurality of strings are coupled between t
Lockett Kim
Nappi Robert E.
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