Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Breiner & Breiner
  • Patent number: 8341847
    Abstract: A rotary cutter for a mower for mowing grass and the like with a cord of a desired length extending in a radial direction of a cutting head from the cutting head driven for rotation through a drive shaft is described. The rotary cutter includes at least one fastening element for fixing one end of the cord to a cutting head main body. An inner end portion of the cord inserted from a sidewall of the head main body is fastened by the fastening element. The cord is removed and replaced with a new cord when the cord is worn out. The cord fastening element is disposed near a drive shaft coupling shaft tube portion in the cutting head main body. A cord outlet for removing the cord is provided to the drive shaft coupling shaft tube portion side. The inner end portion of the cord extends outside from the cord outlet and along a sidewall of the drive shaft coupling shaft tube portion of the cutting head main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Starting Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroki Kato
  • Patent number: 8309160
    Abstract: A method for modifying the flavor profile of a plant protein preparation, especially a protein preparation from a leguminous plant. The protein preparation is brought into contact with water-soluble carbohydrates in an aqueous solution before being added to a food product, the contact advantageously influencing the flavor profile of protein preparations from leguminous plant, so that the preparations can be used in foodstuffs without essentially changing the flavor thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Klaus Müller, Peter Eisner, Michael Schott, Jürgen Bez, Stefanie Bader, Katrin Hasenkopf, Michael Frankl
  • Patent number: 8267344
    Abstract: The rewinding machine includes: a winding unit; a feed path of the web material; an insertion path of the winding cores; a separator device to sever the web material upon completion of winding each log. The separator device is disposed and produced to be activated by passage of a winding core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Fabio Perini S.p.A.
    Inventors: Romano Maddaleni, Angelo Benvenuti, Roberto Morelli
  • Patent number: 8257772
    Abstract: A method for obtaining a vegetable protein fraction, in particular for producing vegetable ice cream, is described wherein vegetable parts are added to water or to an aqueous solvent in order to dissolve and/or disperse vegetable proteins from the vegetable parts, and wherein one or more vegetable protein fractions are separated from the aqueous mixture thus obtained by the separation. According to the method, one or more substances having lipophilic or amphiphilic boundary surfaces are added to the aqueous mixture in order to separate one or more vegetable protein fractions, to which dissolved and/or dispersed proteins having lipophilic or amphiphilic groups in the mixture attach. The substances including the attached proteins are separated from the mixture. A vegetable protein fraction having particularly good emulsifying characteristics is obtained by the method, the protein fraction being advantageous as an emulsifier in the production of vegetable ice cream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Föderung der Angewandten Forschung E.V.
    Inventors: Peter Eisner, Klaus Müller, Claudia Pickardt, Andreas Malberg
  • Patent number: 8245445
    Abstract: The invention relates to an improved sash window including a window frame (1) containing two sashes (2 and 3) which are disposed in the same first vertical plane in the closed window position. The lower sash (3) is connected to a counterweight mechanism (8) enabling same to move vertically in the window frame (1). The window also includes scissor mechanisms (9) which are guided between the jambs (4) of the window frame (1) in order to move the lower sash (3) horizontally forward from the first vertical plane in which the window is closed to a second vertical plane in which the window is open or vice versa. The lower sash is maintained in the open position by means of blocking elements (24, 25) and is moved vertically with the aid of the counterweight mechanism (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Inventor: Enrique Lago Palacios
  • Patent number: 8242200
    Abstract: A process is described in which, through the combination of certain components, a thermal insulated coating paint is obtained having the properties of flexibility and lightness (low density) in a film of low thickness. This coating paint offers better thermal insulation properties with a low thickness film than other insulators having greater thickness, without requiring any additional protection. These properties are provided due to the internal structure of the coating paint wherein internal caverns are formed by the reaction of ramified chain polymers and additional materials. These characteristics are not present in traditional coating paints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Inventor: Ulises Eladio Perez-Hinojosa
  • Patent number: 8215086
    Abstract: A rewinder machine for the production of rolls of web material is described, comprising: a winder unit (3, 5, 7); a path for delivering the web material (N) to said winder unit; a system for continuously feeding said web material into said winder unit; a distributor (31) of a sheet material (F) for wrapping the rolls formed by said winder unit, installed and operated so as to deliver a length of sheet material to said winder unit on completion of the winding of each roll without stopping the forward feed of the web material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Fabio Perini S.p.A.
    Inventors: Romano Maddaleni, Mauro Gelli
  • Patent number: 8186612
    Abstract: A rewinding machine for producing logs of web material is described which includes a winding unit; a feed path of the web material towards the winding unit; a severing device to sever the web material upon completion of winding each log; and a glue dispenser to apply a glue to the web material. The machine also includes a diverter member disposed and controlled to temporarily divert the web material towards the glue dispenser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Fabio Perini, S.p.A.
    Inventors: Mauro Gelli, Romano Maddaleni, Graziano Mazzaccherini
  • Patent number: 8177454
    Abstract: A quick coupler for attaching implements, such as buckets or other tools, to heavy equipment, such as backhoes and excavators, which includes two recesses or channels for receiving a pair of machine pins of an implement. A hydraulic piston actuates a first locking lever to enclose one of the pair of machine pins in one recess and a second locking lever to enclose the other one of the pair of machine pins in the other recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: CQMS Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Kenneth M. Steig, Jr., Richard A. Thompson, Robert K. Hawkins, Wilson A. Jones
  • Patent number: 8151971
    Abstract: An apparatus or device is described for forming a continuous and cadenced flow of groups of rolls of paper or other products, coming from the production line or from pre-packaging lines, and rotated by a carousel with horizontal shaft of rotation. The carousel is provided with the blades of L-shaped stalls which pass cyclically and in the right phase between and underneath pairs of supports, to raise the products positioned thereon and set them on a horizontal conveyor. The stalls are controlled to rotate with respect to the carousel in a direction opposite the direction of rotation of the carousel to avoid interference with the products once the products are placed on the horizontal conveyor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: KPL Packaging S.p.A.
    Inventors: Nicola Baldanza, Giordano Gorrieri, Nicola Giuliani
  • Patent number: 8153230
    Abstract: A multilayer paper tape including two or more paper sheets which are bonded by adhesive layers is described. Each of the top layer and the bottom layer of this stack of paper sheets and adhesive layers is an adhesive layer, around which, as a casing, is formed a folded paper sheet enclosing the stack of paper sheets and adhesive layers. This folded paper sheet is completely surrounded by an adhesive layer. A process for producing the same is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: GarnTec GmbH
    Inventors: Karl-Heinz Eispert, Thomas Schönung
  • Patent number: 8137018
    Abstract: A bath sponge with integrated soap and a method of making the bath sponge. The method of making the bath sponge includes providing an assembly device formed with a base and two vertical posts. A polyethylene net is inserted over the top of the vertical posts and then the net is cut to a desired size. Folds are made in the net. Soap granules are poured into the net and are held within the folds, thereby remaining in the interior of the net. A rope is then tied around the net between the two posts, thereby stretching the rope so that the center of the net is joined thereby. The net is stretched making the folds alternate inside and outside of the net. The bath sponge is used for personal cleaning and bathing and allows the user to wash without the need for a separate soap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Inventor: Julia Galván-Nañez
  • Patent number: 8133394
    Abstract: Wastewater can be purified in a device, which includes a cup-shaped vessel, having a wastewater inlet tube for the water at a certain level and an outlet tube at a lower level than the inlet tube, and a horizontal distribution disc, which vertically divides the vessel, has at least one opening and is provided with a substantially vertical distribution tube for receiving the water from the inlet tube. Water above the distribution disc is pumped through a filter head with a filter. Filtered water is let out through the outlet tube, whereas unfiltered water is transferred back to the distribution tube. Flocculation agent is added to the unfiltered water before reaching the distribution tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: B G Consulting HB
    Inventor: Bert Gustafsson
  • Patent number: 8104580
    Abstract: A locking mechanism for a collapsible ladder (1) comprising several ladder sections (5), each ladder section comprising two ladder bars (2, 3) arranged parallel to each other and interconnected at one end by a rung to form a U-shaped ladder section, and where each ladder section (5) is telescopically inserted into a lower ladder section to form a collapsible ladder (1), and where dampers (23) are provided at the lower end of the ladder bars (2, 3, and where the locking mechanism comprises retaining mechanisms (20, 41) provided on each ladder bar (2, 3), where a single pair of actuators of the locking mechanism can be arranged on any of the ladder sections (5) and still be able to collapse the entire ladder (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Telesteps AB
    Inventor: Per-Olof Eriksson
  • Patent number: 8093996
    Abstract: The present invention associates on one and the same label a UHF antenna and an RFID integrated circuit with an EAS antenna operating in RF mode, thus avoiding the addition of a second label on a product to be protected and/or traced. An aspect of the invention consists in using a loop antenna to which an integrated circuit which can operate by capacitive induction with the UHF antenna will be connected. The invention also relates to a method of manufacturing such a label, and to a method of using the label.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: All-Tag Security S.A.
    Inventor: Eric Heurtier
  • Patent number: D651884
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: TJ Utveckling AB
    Inventors: Torgny Jansson, Margareta Norin Jansson, legal representative
  • Patent number: PP22697
    Abstract: A new and distinct variety of Lagerstroemia (indica×fauriei) plant named ‘JD818’, characterized by its unique blooming time, dense, broad and spreading to weeping growth habit, fast growth rate and attractive lavender flowers is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Plant Development Services, Inc.
    Inventor: John McNair Davy
  • Patent number: PP22698
    Abstract: A new and distinct variety of Lagerstroemia (indica×fauriei) plant named ‘JD900’, characterized by its unique blooming time, dense, broad and spreading to weeping growth habit, fast growth rate and attractive light pink flowers which quickly change to white is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Plant Development Services, Inc.
    Inventor: John McNair Davy
  • Patent number: PP22718
    Abstract: A new and distinct variety of Lagerstroemia (indica×fauriei) plant named ‘JD827’, characterized by its unique blooming time, dense, upright, broad, spreading to globose growth habit, fast growth rate and attractive Purple flowers is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Plant Development Services, Inc.
    Inventor: John McNair Davy
  • Patent number: PP22762
    Abstract: A new and distinct variety of Azalea plant named ‘Robles’, characterized by its unique blooming time, dense and globose growth habit, and single, large, attractive purple flowers is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Plant Development Sevices, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Edward Lee