Patents Assigned to Lifetime Products, Inc.
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Patent number: 9747820Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for displaying illuminated images. In some embodiments a light box is capable of receiving a wide variety of images, which may be changed as desired by a user. The light box may be framed independently for wall hanging or display on a stand, or incorporated within or attached to pieces of furniture, including but not limited to beds, dressers, changing tables, book shelves, chests of drawers, toy chests, and the like. In various embodiments, the light box may include a dimmer, a timed dimmer, a motion sensor, and/or equipment for playing music or generating white noise. In certain embodiments, a single light box may be used, while in other embodiments a plurality of light boxes and/or digital picture frames may be used.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2010Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: Lifetime Products, Inc.Inventor: Gerald R. Sanders
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Patent number: 9730514Abstract: A table may be sized and configured to nest with an adjacent table to reduce a height of a plurality of stacked tables in a nested configuration. The tabletop may include an upper surface, a sidewall and a receiving portion at least partially disposed in the upper surface and the sidewall. The receiving portion may be sized and configured to receive an engaging portion of an adjacent table when the tables are disposed in a nested configuration. The tabletop may also include a plurality of strengthen members disposed in the lower portion of the tabletop that are sized and configured to support the receiving portion. For example, the strengthening members may include an inner surface sized and configured to support an inner surface of the receiving portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2015Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: Lifetime Products, Inc.Inventor: Wendell Peery
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Patent number: 9676458Abstract: A watercraft includes a molded hull in the form of a single-piece hollow plastic structure, and the hull defines a recess having an interior. An insert is also provided that defines an opening and is attached to the hull. The insert is positioned with respect to the recess such that the opening in the insert communicates with the interior of the recess, and the insert cooperates with the recess to define an undercut that accommodates a portion of a hand of a user.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2014Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: LIFETIME PRODUCTS, INC.Inventor: Edward VanNimwegen
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Patent number: 9675859Abstract: In one example, a basketball system a goal attached to a backboard assembly. A connecting structure connects the backboard assembly to a support structure. A height adjustment mechanism includes a handle assembly that is directly connected to the support structure, and the handle assembly is operable to change a height of the goal and backboard assembly. As well, a shock absorbing element is provided that includes a first portion directly connected to the handle assembly, and the shock absorbing element has a second portion directly connected to the support structure of the basketball system, and the shock absorbing element enables temporary displacement of the goal and the backboard in response to imposition of a load or force on the goal. Finally, a structure is provided that is directly connected to the handle assembly and directly connected to the connecting structure.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2015Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: LIFETIME PRODUCTS, INC.Inventors: Danny Green, S. Curtis Nye
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Patent number: 9661916Abstract: A table may be sized and configured to nest with another table to reduce a height of a plurality of stacked tables in a nested configuration. The table may include a table top with a receiving portion disposed at least proximate an intersection of an upper surface and a sidewall. The table top may also include a lip and a lower portion of the lip may include a contact surface that is sized and configured to contact an upper surface of an adjacent, nested table. The lower portion of the lip may also include an engaging portion that is sized and configured to be disposed in a receiving portion of an adjacent, nested table. The contact surface and the engaging portion may be directly adjacent to each other in the lower portion of the lip.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2016Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: Lifetime Products, Inc.Inventors: Wendell Peery, David C. Winter, Mitch Johnson
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Patent number: 9642459Abstract: A table may be sized and configured to nest with one or more adjacent tables to reduce a height of the table in a nested configuration. The table may include a table top constructed from molded plastic and the table top may include a receiving portion sized and configured to receive an engaging portion of a frame of an adjacent table in the nested configuration. The table may also include a metal frame connected to the table top and the frame may include an engaging portion sized and configured to be disposed in a receiving portion of an adjacent table in the nested configuration. If desired, an outer surface of the engaging portion may be visible and exposed in the recess in the lip.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2016Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Lifetime Products, Inc.Inventors: Wendell Peery, David C. Winter, Mitch Johnson
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Patent number: 9630689Abstract: In one example, a board includes a body having a single piece structure, the body including an upper surface that defines a deck, and a lower surface. The board also includes first and second retractable fins, where the first retractable fin is rotatably connected directly to the body at a first fixed location on the body such that the first retractable fin is rotatable about the first fixed location between an extended position and a retracted position, and the first retractable fin including an engagement portion that is engageable with a first portion of the body and with a second portion of the body. The first retractable fin assumes the extended position when the engagement portion is releasably retained by the first portion of the body, and the first retractable fin assumes the retracted position when the engagement portion is releasably retained by the second portion of the body.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2015Date of Patent: April 25, 2017Assignee: LIFETIME PRODUCTS, INC.Inventors: Danny Green, Edward G. Van Nimwegen, Tim Niemier, Joel Bennett, John Bennett, Robert Astle, Brent Steed, Eric Olsen, Mike Todd
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Patent number: 9591918Abstract: A table may be sized and configured to nest with an adjacent table to reduce a height of a plurality of stacked tables in a nested configuration. The table may include a table top with a round or circular configuration and the table top may have a receiving portion, a downwardly extending lip, a contact surface and an engaging portion. The contact surface may have a ring-shaped configuration and be sized and configured to contact an upper surface of a table top of an adjacent table when the table is nested with the adjacent table. The engaging portion may also have a ring-shaped configuration and may be sized and configured to be disposed in a receiving portion of a table top of the adjacent table when the table is nested with the adjacent table.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2015Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: Lifetime Products, Inc.Inventors: S. Curtis Nye, Mitch Johnson, Wendell Peery
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Patent number: 9549612Abstract: A table may be sized and configured to nest with another table to reduce a height of a plurality of stacked tables in a nested configuration. The table may include a nesting portion formed in an upper surface and sidewall of the table top. The table may also include a frame with one or more engaging portions sized and configured to be disposed in the nesting portion of an adjacent table when the tables are nested together. In addition, the table top may include a compression edge sized and configured to be disposed in a nesting portion of an adjacent table when the tables are nested together. The compression edge and engaging portions may be sized and configured to be simultaneously disposed in the nesting portion of the adjacent table when the table is nested with the adjacent table.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2015Date of Patent: January 24, 2017Assignee: Lifetime Products, Inc.Inventors: Wendell Peery, David C. Winter, Mitch Johnson
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Patent number: 9532644Abstract: A table may be sized and configured to nest with an adjacent table to reduce a height of a plurality of stacked tables in a nested configuration. The table may include a table top with a round or circular configuration and the table top may have a receiving portion, a downwardly extending lip, a contact surface and an engaging portion. The contact surface may have a ring-shaped configuration and be sized and configured to contact an upper surface of a table top of an adjacent table when the table is nested with the adjacent table. The engaging portion may also have a ring-shaped configuration and may be sized and configured to be disposed in a receiving portion of a table top of the adjacent table when the table is nested with the adjacent table.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2013Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: LIFETIME PRODUCTS, INC.Inventors: S. Curtis Nye, Mitch Johnson, Wendell Peery
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Patent number: 9517814Abstract: In one example, a watercraft is provided that includes a hull, and a cockpit connected to the hull. Disposed within the cockpit are first and second adjustable foot braces that are connected to the hull. Each of the adjustable foot braces is operable to define a variety of different foot positions. As well, the adjustable foot braces are each operable with a respective adjustment rod, and a structural configuration of each of the adjustable foot braces is the same regardless of whether the respective adjustment rod is present or not.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2014Date of Patent: December 13, 2016Assignee: LIFETIME PRODUCTS, INC.Inventors: Sam Robbins, Edward VanNimwegen
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Patent number: 9486076Abstract: A table may be sized and configured to nest with another table to reduce a height of a plurality of stacked tables in a nested configuration. The table may include a table top with a receiving portion disposed at least proximate an intersection of an upper surface and a sidewall. The table top may also include a lip and a lower portion of the lip may include a contact surface that is sized and configured to contact an upper surface of an adjacent, nested table. The lower portion of the lip may also include an engaging portion that is sized and configured to be disposed in a receiving portion of an adjacent, nested table. The contact surface and the engaging portion may be directly adjacent to each other in the lower portion of the lip.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2015Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: LIFETIME PRODUCTS, INC.Inventors: Wendell Peery, David C. Winter, Mitch Johnson
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Patent number: 9468834Abstract: In one example, an apparatus, such as a support pole of a basketball system for example, is provided that includes an elongate member with an unswaged portion that has a perimeter length, and also includes a swaged portion that is attached to the unswaged portion and has a perimeter whose effective length is shorter than the perimeter length of the unswaged portion. The swaged portion includes walls that cooperate to define part of the perimeter of the swaged portion, where two of the walls are straight and terminate at a common point, and the swaged portion further includes a local deformation defined in one of the walls. As well, a tapered portion is provided that is configured to receive the swaged portion such that when the swaged portion is received in the tapered portion, the wall of the swaged portion that includes the local deformation substantially contacts the tapered portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2014Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: LIFETIME PRODUCTS, INC.Inventor: Daniel G. Maisey
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Patent number: 9427670Abstract: In one example, a playground slide includes first and second side rails each having respective first complementary structures. As well, a slide bed is provided that includes second complementary structures configured to releasably engage the respective first complementary structures of the first and second side rails. The slide bed and side rails are configured to releasably lock together with nothing more than the first and second complementary structures.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2014Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: LIFETIME PRODUCTS, INC.Inventors: Lynn VanDyke, Jacob Kearl
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Patent number: 9351563Abstract: A table may include a table top and a leg assembly. The leg assembly may be moved between use and storage positions, and the movement of the leg assembly may move a cross member between a first position in which the cross member resists folding of the table top and a second position in which the cross member facilitates folding and unfolding of the table top. The table top may include first and second sections with portions that overlap and/or interlock when the table top is unfolded. When the table top is in the unfolded position, movement of the leg assembly towards the use position may move the cross member towards the overlapping and/or interlocking portions, which may move the overlapping and/or interlocking portions towards each other. When moved towards each other, the overlapping and/or interlocking portions may be securely connected.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2015Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignee: LIFETIME PRODUCTS, INC.Inventors: Joel Bennett, Kent Ashby
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Patent number: 9307831Abstract: A table may be sized and configured to nest with one or more adjacent tables to reduce a height of the table in a nested configuration. The table may include a table top constructed from molded plastic and the table top may include a receiving portion sized and configured to receive an engaging portion of a frame of an adjacent table in the nested configuration. The table may also include a metal frame connected to the table top and the frame may include an engaging portion sized and configured to be disposed in a receiving portion of an adjacent table in the nested configuration. If desired, an outer surface of the engaging portion may be visible and exposed in the recess in the lip.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2014Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: LIFETIME PRODUCTS, INC.Inventors: Wendell Peery, David C. Winter, Mitch Johnson
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Patent number: D751329Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2015Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignee: LIFETIME PRODUCTS, INC.Inventors: Mitch Johnson, Jay Calkin, Frank Clegg, Wendell Peery
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Patent number: D753945Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2015Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: LIFETIME PRODUCTS, INC.Inventors: Mitch Johnson, Jay Calkin, Frank Clegg, Wendell Peery
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Patent number: D756694Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2015Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignee: LIFETIME PRODUCTS, INC.Inventors: Mitch Johnson, Frank Clegg, Wendell Peery
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Patent number: D759411Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2015Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: LIFETIME PRODUCTS, INC.Inventors: Mitch Johnson, Frank Clegg, Wendell Peery