Patents Represented by Attorney Barry E. Deutsch
  • Patent number: 5653161
    Abstract: A food steamer having a base, a combined support and collector, and a cooking bowl. The base has a heater and a reservoir for holding water to be heated into steam. The cooking bowl is mounted on top of the base and has a bottom with holes. The combined support and collector has a frame and a screen. The frame is mounted to the base between the heater and the cooking bowl. The frame has a center aperture with the screen located therein for supporting flavoring items thereon. The frame has raised walls to form a condensed steam holding area for holding all condensed steam that has traveled into and then back out of the holes in the cooking bowl. The frame also has a side wall with inwardly recessed grooves and holes through the frame at the tops of the grooves. These form pressure release vents at the sides of the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 5, 1997
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Esko Nopanen, Craig A. DuBois, Robert C. Kass
  • Patent number: 5647091
    Abstract: A vacuum apparatus having a housing, a vacuum generating system, and a hose. The housing has a small height and a general circular disk shape. A side perimeter of the housing has a hose receiving area that extends around a majority of the housing. The hose is located in the hose receiving area to both house the hose and use the hose as a bumper for the apparatus. The apparatus is configured to provide a maximum vacuuming pressure of only about 10 to 12 inches of water such that animals can be groomed without harming the animals. The vacuum generating system has a variable speed motor such that the motor speed can be adjusted by a user dependent upon the size or type of animal being groomed. The vacuum apparatus also has a noise reduction system including a muffler, an impeller with long fan blades, and multiple air flow path redirections of air traveling through the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1997
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Bryan P. deBlois, Bernard L. Bensussen
  • Patent number: 5628131
    Abstract: An electric steam iron with a soleplate, a water reservoir, a primary steam generating system and a surge steam generating system. The soleplate has a first primary steam generating area and a separate second surge steam generating area. The second surge steam generating area is located above and along the heating element in the soleplate. The second surge steam generating area substantially surrounds the first primary steam generating area and both areas have exits into a rear chamber. The rear chamber is connected to a steam distribution chamber for allowing the steam to exit the bottom of the soleplate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 13, 1997
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventor: James E. Chasen
  • Patent number: D379541
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 27, 1997
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventor: David W. Kaiser
  • Patent number: D379690
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 3, 1997
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Nigel Howell, Kieren M. Phelan, Mark Stratford
  • Patent number: D380338
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 1, 1997
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Richard J. Carbone, Anthony Brooks Rorke
  • Patent number: D380341
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 1, 1997
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Stuart Naft, Michael E. Laude
  • Patent number: D380844
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1997
    Assignee: Black & Decker, Inc.
    Inventor: David W. Kaiser
  • Patent number: D380929
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1997
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventor: David K. Wheeler
  • Patent number: D380930
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1997
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventor: David K. Wheeler
  • Patent number: D381101
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1997
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Haberstich, Robert Marvin, David W. Kaiser
  • Patent number: D381102
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1997
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: David W. Kaiser, Patrick B. Nolan
  • Patent number: D381153
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1997
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventor: Michael J. Loomis
  • Patent number: D381154
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1997
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventor: Michael J. Loomis
  • Patent number: D381446
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 22, 1997
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventor: David W. Kaiser
  • Patent number: D381447
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 22, 1997
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Haberstich, Robert Marvin, David W. Kaiser
  • Patent number: D381476
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 22, 1997
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventor: Gregory K. Hoffman
  • Patent number: D381861
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 5, 1997
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Brooks Rorke, Michael E. Laude
  • Patent number: D382075
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 5, 1997
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas Swyst
  • Patent number: D382359
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 12, 1997
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Brooks Rorke, Alan Ball, Thomas Swyst