Patents Assigned to TBS, Inc.
  • Patent number: 4371015
    Abstract: System for loading toner into a laser copier or other machine. The toner is packaged in a cartridge having a discharge opening closed by a displaceable diaphragm. A filler neck is mounted on the machine in fluid communication with the toner hopper for receiving the cartridge, and a pin within the filler neck engages the diaphragm to dislodge the same from the discharge opening when the cartridge is inserted into the neck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 1980
    Date of Patent: February 1, 1983
    Assignee: TBS, Inc.
    Inventor: Peter B. Simons
  • Patent number: 4274455
    Abstract: The device comprises a flexible, expandable hose which has a coupling at one end for mating with the toner hopper of either of a photocopy machine or a computer print-out machine, the other end of the hose having a coupling for mating with the neck of the toner canister so that toner may be loaded from the canister into the hose from outside of the machine which uses the toner, the toner canister is then removed from attachment to the hose, the hose is capped and the hose is compressed, whereby the toner is loaded into the machine with minimal spillage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1981
    Assignee: TBS, Inc.
    Inventor: Peter B. Simons
  • Patent number: D563968
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2008
    Assignee: Turner Broadcasting Systems, Inc. (TBS, Inc.)
    Inventors: Blake Lewin, Diana Swift Hughes, Amy Elizabeth Whigham, David Samuel Stone, Gregory Matthew Vagen, Dale Alan Herigstad, Kevin John Hosmann
  • Patent number: D586351
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2009
    Assignee: Turner Broadcasting Systems, Inc. (TBS, Inc.)
    Inventors: Mitchell B. Gelman, Sandra Gail Malcolm, Andrew Robert Michell, Richard Montgomery Mullig, David Anderson Payne, Anwer Sultan, Aaron Christopher Tighe, Eric A. Breitbard, Melanie McKinley McLaughlin