Patents Assigned to Sears, Roebuck and Company
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Patent number: 6557285Abstract: A hanging sign support has at least one housing supported by a mounting surface. The housing has an interior portion and a cord opening into the interior portion. A recoil mechanism is arranged to cooperate with the interior portion of each of the housings. A cord is associated with each recoil mechanism and has a distal end that is extendible through the cord opening and away from the respective housing. The distal end is retractable and biased by the recoil mechanism toward the interior of the respective housing. A connecting device is carried on the distal end of each cord for removably coupling the cord to a portion of a sign. Each cord, the distal end of each cord, and each connecting device can be constructed to retract into a portion of the respective housing when not supporting a sign. A spacer can be received over each cord and coupled between the respective housing and a sign supported by the cord to place the sign at a desired distance from the respective housing or the mounting surface.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2000Date of Patent: May 6, 2003Assignee: Sears, Roebuck & CompanyInventor: John T. Walsh, Jr.
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Patent number: 6543601Abstract: A mobile unloading apparatus for unloading items from a variety of heights is disclosed wherein the apparatus has a frame supporting a ramp for movement between a first position spaced above a conveyor for permitting items to be placed directly on the conveyor and a second, downwardly sloping ramp position for moving items down the ramp to the conveyor. The apparatus includes a first walkway section supported by the frame on a first conveyor side above a supporting surface, a second walkway section supported by the frame on a second conveyor side above the supporting surface and a third walkway section. The third walkway section can be moved from a first, use position bridging the first and second walkway sections to a second, storage position.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2001Date of Patent: April 8, 2003Assignee: Sears Roebuck & CompanyInventor: Ruben Luevano
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Patent number: 4815224Abstract: A handle for an appliance adapted to be held by a hand and moved by a forearm when the appliance is being used. The handle includes a gripping portion adapted to be gripped by the hand of a user and adapted to be connected to a body portion of the appliance disaposed generally below the gripping portion in spaced relation thereto with the appliance being of the type where the body portion is adapted for movement in a generally horizontal plane when the gripping portion is moved by the forearm of the user. With this arrangement, the gripping portion is disposed at an angle of between approximately 25.degree. and 45.degree. to the generally horizontal plane of movement.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 1987Date of Patent: March 28, 1989Assignee: Sears, Roebuck & CompanyInventor: Henry O. Miller
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Patent number: 4346749Abstract: A motor and roller support includes a reversible lock clutch mechanism having a housing including an annular portion having a plurality of alternately deep and shallow recesses and a spindle axially received in the housing and having at least one flexible pawl positioned to cooperate with the plurality of recesses of the housing, with the pawl being unflexed when radially aligned with any of the deep recesses of the housing, and being angularly flexed upon being positioned in any of the shallow recesses of the housing. Upon alignment of the pawl with any of the deep recesses of the housing, relative rotation between the housing and the spindle can be initiated in either direction. However, upon the pawl being positioned with its end residing in a shallow recess of the housing and abutting the recess surface, relative rotation between the housing and the spindle can be initiated in only one direction therefrom.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 1980Date of Patent: August 31, 1982Assignee: Sears, Roebuck and CompanyInventors: Buckley A. Singletary, John C. Gall
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Patent number: D252772Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 1978Date of Patent: August 28, 1979Assignees: National Service Industries, Inc., Sears Roebuck & CompanyInventors: Bruce P. Dunckel, Charles A. Harrison
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Patent number: D297902Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 1986Date of Patent: October 4, 1988Assignee: Sears, Roebuck & CompanyInventor: Philip E. Ryan
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Patent number: D300352Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 1986Date of Patent: March 21, 1989Assignee: Sears, Roebuck & CompanyInventor: John P. Ronvik