Patents Represented by Attorney Michael P. Mazza, LLC
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Patent number: 8348586Abstract: A carrier having a platform or deck mounted on a subframe tiltable relative to the vehicle chassis. The platform is preferably slidable relative to the subframe. Sufficient clearance is provided such that the subframe is preferably located between the vehicle chassis frame and the rear wheels, and below the top of the chassis frame. The resulting carrier has a platform with a height substantially lower than that of previous carriers, providing it with a lower center of gravity, enabling a reduction in load angle, an increase in payload height, and enhanced dynamic road stability.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2009Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Miller Industries Towing Equipment IncInventors: David Jaeger, Ronald B Nespor
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Patent number: 8344296Abstract: An apparatus, system and method for warming food by controlled heating of heat retention objects such as cookware items or pellets located on a trivet positioned on a countertop, using heating control units, such as induction heating units, remotely located beneath the countertop. The preferred trivet insulates the countertop against damages, and also includes circuitry enabling the indication or display of its proper positioning on the countertop, and also indicating whether the heating unit is heating the heat retention object.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2007Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: CookTek Induction Systems, LLCInventors: Reinhard Metz, Warren Graber
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Patent number: 8281821Abstract: A water cooler assembly and/or liquid dispensing apparatus and method for using same, having various, alternative features including: a bottom load water cooler, including such a cooler with a door stop mechanism; an adjustable drip tray assembly; a leak stop mechanism; an adjustable bottle interface accommodating dimensional variations in water bottles; an instaboil feature; and programmable dispensing and visual display modes.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2008Date of Patent: October 9, 2012Assignee: MTN Products, IncInventors: Gregory N Spear, Terry Havener, Chun Yen Wang, Hung Hsiang Chen, Lowell Burnham, Siak Jenn Chuan
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Patent number: 8257014Abstract: An auto-latch mechanism enabling a towing vehicle to hook-up and tow-away a disabled vehicle without the need for either operator of the vehicles to exit their interior. In a preferred embodiment, the auto-latch mechanism includes opposing guide plates and a plunger pin with a distal portion movable to a location between the plates. When a connecting portion of the disabled vehicle is positioned between the opposing plates, the plunger pin may be engaged to the connecting portion, to thereby accomplish hook-up of the disabled vehicle to the towing vehicle. A method for using the auto-latch mechanism is also disclosed and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2009Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: Miller Industries Towing Equipment IncInventor: John M. Cullum
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Patent number: 8192135Abstract: A side puller accessory frame for a tow truck having a cab and a truck frame mounts to the truck frame behind the cab. The accessory frame preferably includes two stiff legs, a wire rope winch mounted transverse to the longitudinal axis of the truck that provides pulling force via a removable pivotable center sheave that directs the pulling force to sides or the rear of the truck as desired. The accessory frame may include a removable pivotable side sheave that may mount in a side sheave mounting tube. The side puller accessory frame makes a conventional car carrier with a roll back bed a recovery truck.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2011Date of Patent: June 5, 2012Assignee: Rimco, Inc.Inventors: Charles J Ceccarelli, Steven Delaplain, Aaron Martin
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Patent number: 8109738Abstract: A gas pressure booster and a method for using it, which recovers fugitive gas emissions such as at atmospheric pressure, boosts them such as to the pressure level of the low pressure gas sink, and returns them to, e.g., the low pressure gas sink, in a single stage of compression. No electricity or cooling water is required. All gas used to drive the vapor recovery booster may be recovered and vented to the low pressure gas sink. In one preferred embodiment, the gas pressure booster includes a drive cylinder and a boost cylinder interconnected by reciprocating drive and boost pistons. The drive piston supplies force powered by a first gas stream within the drive cylinder which exhausts to a second gas stream at a lower pressure. Fugitive gas emissions may be captured and transported to the lower pressure second gas stream to eliminate gas discharged to atmosphere.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2008Date of Patent: February 7, 2012Assignee: Midwest Pressure Systems, Inc.Inventor: Robert A. Vogt
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Patent number: 8070411Abstract: A carrier having a platform or deck mounted on a subframe tiltable relative to the vehicle chassis. The platform is preferably slidable relative to the subframe. Using Super Single rear wheels and an airbag suspension, for example, sufficient clearance is provided such that the subframe is preferably located between the vehicle chassis frame and the rear wheels. The resulting carrier has a platform with a height lower than that of previous carriers, providing it with a lower center of gravity, enabling a reduction in load angle and an increase in payload height.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2008Date of Patent: December 6, 2011Assignee: Miller Industries Towing Equipment IncInventors: David Jaeger, Ronald B Nespor
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Patent number: 8020239Abstract: A tire and wheel washing apparatus for cleaning exterior surfaces of tire and wheel combinations of a vehicle as the vehicle is conveyed past the apparatus. The tire washing apparatus preferably includes a longitudinally-extending cleaning element rotating about a shaft having a longitudinal axis extending generally parallel to the conveyed direction of the vehicle. The cleaning element is adapted to clean the exterior surfaces of tire and wheel combinations of the vehicle, and preferably has an undulating cleaning surface with a repeating pattern of a peak portion followed by a valley portion. Preferably, an intermediate portion located between the peak and valley portions has a substantially curvilinear edge surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2009Date of Patent: September 20, 2011Assignee: Erie Brush & Manufacturing Corp.Inventor: Daniel Pecora
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Patent number: 7950892Abstract: A side puller accessory frame for a tow truck having a cab and a truck frame mounts to the truck frame behind the cab. The accessory frame preferably includes two stiff legs, a wire rope winch mounted transverse to the longitudinal axis of the truck that provides pulling force via a removable pivotable center sheave that directs the pulling force to sides or the rear of the truck as desired. The accessory frame may include a removable pivotable side sheave that may mount in a side sheave mounting tube. The side puller accessory frame makes a conventional car carrier with a roll back bed a recovery truck.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2004Date of Patent: May 31, 2011Assignee: Rimco, Inc.Inventors: Charles Ceccarelli, Steven Delaplain, Aaron Martin
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Patent number: D637867Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2010Date of Patent: May 17, 2011Assignee: MTN Products, Inc.Inventor: Chun Yen Wang
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Patent number: D642849Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2010Date of Patent: August 9, 2011Assignee: MTN Products, IncInventor: Chun Yen Wang
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Patent number: D643239Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2010Date of Patent: August 16, 2011Assignee: MTN Products, IncInventor: Chun Yen Wang
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Patent number: D647354Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2011Date of Patent: October 25, 2011Assignee: MTN Products, IncInventor: Chun Yen Wang
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Patent number: D651842Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2010Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignee: MTN Products, Inc.Inventors: Gregory N. Spear, Chun Yen Wang, Hung-Hsiang Chen
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Patent number: D652242Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2011Date of Patent: January 17, 2012Assignee: MTN Products, Inc.Inventor: Chun Yen Wang
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Patent number: D652668Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2011Date of Patent: January 24, 2012Assignee: MTN Products, Inc.Inventor: Chun Yen Wang
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Patent number: D655561Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2010Date of Patent: March 13, 2012Assignee: MTN Products, Inc.Inventor: Chun Yen Wang
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Patent number: D660636Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2011Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: MTN Products, IncInventor: Chun Yen Wang
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Patent number: D663154Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2011Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignee: MTN Products, IncInventor: Chun Yen Wang
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Patent number: D666777Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2010Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: Collegiate My Domz, Ltd.Inventor: Jasjit S Dhillon