Patents Examined by Allana Lewin Bidder
-
Patent number: 9901166Abstract: A hand pump cleaning brush is provided. In an implementation, a cleaning brush converts liquid cleaner in a reservoir to a lather of cleaning foam through mechanical action provided by the user. An example cleaning brush may include a handle connected to a removable bristle block. A liquid reservoir is contained within the handle and stores the liquid cleaner. The reservoir is connected to a piston driven pump and/or valve that produces foam, for example, by aeration with ambient air through a mesh. A finger trigger provides pumping force. In an implementation, the foaming pump or valve draws air and liquid cleaner into a chamber and dispenses these to the brush head through a fine mesh screen, which aerate the liquid cleaner into a foam at the brush head. A rotary locking device with a push button can allow the head to swivel on the handle.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2015Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Inventor: Joshua Cowan Fifield
-
Patent number: 9889464Abstract: A drywall finishing apparatus includes a water reservoir connected to a water distribution element. The water distribution element applies water to a finishing pad. The finishing pad is designed to allow water to flow through and reconstitute already applied drywall mud. The reconstituted drywall mud can then be smoothed out with the finishing pad. The finishing pad creates a hydroplaning effect to glide over the drywall mud.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2012Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Inventor: Clark T. Winne
-
Patent number: 9877564Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid content container comprising a tension member, comprising: a container body (10) for accommodating content; an adaptor (40) provided at the upper end of the container body (10); a shoulder member (50) coupled to the upper end of the container body (10); the tension member (60) provided at the shoulder member (50); a distributing member (70) coupled to the shoulder member (50); and the discharge member (80) coupled to the distributing member (70).Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2014Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: AMOREPACIFIC CORPORATIONInventors: Joonyoung Kim, Jeongin Lee, Juho Kim
-
Patent number: 9867506Abstract: A cover for the surrounding surface adjacent a sink is provided having a body formed of flexible material. The body is configured with an aperture sized to surround the sink and shield a user from contact with the surrounding surface and the surrounding surface from a communication of liquid from use of the sink. The cover may be modular and formed of multiple components or may be configured of a sheet of material which has removable portions to allow customization for positioning to an as used position surrounding the sink.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2014Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Inventor: Geoff Phillips
-
Patent number: 9869081Abstract: A toilet flange cover system for temporarily covering a toilet flange and opening during periods of construction and remodeling when the toilet is not installed. A cover is fabricated of a rigid plastic material and formed with a generally circular shape. Diametrically opposed locking posts are integrated into the bottom of the cover having enlarged heads and can be removably received in the bolt slots for coupling the cover to a toilet flange when covering the opening and uncoupling from the toilet flange to facilitate accessing the opening. A handle aids in the coupling and uncoupling of the cover and a gasket is placed between the cover and flange to seal the opening when the cover is coupled to the toilet flange.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2016Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Inventor: John Pardo, Jr.
-
Patent number: 9856635Abstract: A faucet structure and method for assembling same is disclosed. The structure includes an outer tube, flow guiding part and cap. The outer tube is provided with an assembling gap. The flow guiding part is provided within the outer tube, and with half shells. The first half shell is provided with supplying manifold passage(s) corresponded to the assembling gap, and a first assembling ramp facing the second half shell. The second half shell is provided with a second assembling ramp facing the first half shell and inclined oppositely to the first assembling ramp, and a first threaded connection portion facing one end opening of outer tube. The cap is in correspondence with the end opening, and provided with a second threaded connection portion corresponded to the first threaded connection portion. These threaded connection portions are engaged by threaded connection, while those half shells are pressed against a tube wall.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2016Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: Hokwang Industries Co., Ltd.Inventor: Shen-Chen Liu
-
Patent number: 9848741Abstract: A shower enclosure comprises a plurality of prefabricated panels that are arranged to at least partially surround a space for bathing. At least one of the panels is a layered structure having a first layer, a second layer, and a third layer. The first layer forms an interior surface of the shower enclosure exposed to the space for bathing. The third layer is arranged between the first layer and the second layer, and is coupled to the first layer and the second layer. The layered structure is a sandwich structured composite comprising the first layer, second layer, and third layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2014Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: KOHLER CO.Inventors: Erich D. Slothower, Mary J. Reid, Clayton C. Garrels
-
Patent number: 9826823Abstract: A heated shaving brush having a housing with an interior space that houses a shaft that acts as a tube to allow shaving cream or similar lubricating agent to pass through to a bristle assembly that a user applies to their body. The shaft is adjacent to a heating element that is powered by alternating or direct current, thereby heating the shaving cream as it passes through the hollowed shaft. A graduated knob can modulate the speed at which the shaving cream passes through the shaft, thereby increasing or decreasing the temperature of the shaving cream before it is applied to a user's face.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2015Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Inventors: Francisco A. Velazquez, Hector Roig
-
Patent number: 9802439Abstract: A fluid application device including a reservoir intended to contain a free fluid and a fluid delivery device, wherein the reservoir is sealed by a valve having a self-healing material. The fluid application device includes a tubular means for piercing the valve and for simultaneously placing fluid from the reservoir in communication with the fluid delivery device.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2013Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: SOCIÉTÉ BICInventors: Olivier Albenge, Anne-Lise Damiano
-
Patent number: 9796207Abstract: A writing instrument 2 includes a pen tip mechanism 20, an ink tank 40, an ink induction mechanism 50, and a regulator mechanism 60. The ink tank 40 includes first and second ink tanks 40A and 40B. The pen tip mechanism 20 includes first and second pen tips 20A and 20B. The ink induction mechanism 50 includes first and second induction cores 50A and 50B. A regulator flow path set around the first induction core 50A and the second induction core 50B is partitioned into first and second regulator flow paths by the regulator mechanism 60. The first and second regulator flow paths are temporary accommodation spaces of inks and circulation spaces for sending air from the induction cores 50A and 50B to the ink tanks 40A and 40B.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2013Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: V SPARK CO., LTD.Inventor: Masayuki Kawasaki
-
Patent number: 9783967Abstract: An accessory system for a sink basin includes a support structure and an accessory. The support structure includes two or more spaced-apart elongated supports. The elongated supports are configured to support the accessory within the basin at different heights above a bottom of the basin.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2013Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: KOHLER CO.Inventors: Anushree Jain, Terrence Mahon, Sarah O'Brien
-
Patent number: 9775470Abstract: A sink accessory comprising a wire-form attachment structure and a supporting structure. The wire-form attachment structure is configured to be secured to a section of a divider of the sink to support the sink accessory. The attachment structure includes a base, a first leg, and a second leg spaced apart from the first leg. The supporting structure is coupled to and extends from one of the first and second legs. The supporting structure is also configured to extend offset from and adjacent to the divider.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2013Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: KOHLER CO.Inventors: Niels J. Eilmus, Jason R. Miller
-
Patent number: 9763547Abstract: A personal care article is disclosed having a compliant personal care product and a first water penetrable substrate adjacent to the compliant personal care product. The compliant personal care product includes two or more compliant personal care compositions, such that each of the compliant personal care compositions defines one or more zones and each compliant personal care composition physically contacts at least one of the other compliant personal care compositions.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2012Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Edward Dewey Smith, III, Shawn David McConaughy
-
Patent number: 9758951Abstract: The present invention provides an electronic plumbing fixture fitting, such as an electronic faucet. The electronic plumbing fixture fitting includes a wand hose and a hose bracket. The hose bracket is operable to connect to a mounting shank and to the wand hose. The hose bracket is operable to position the wand hose between a mixed water outlet of a flow module and an inlet of the mounting shank such that a portion of the wand hose extends in a loop between the hose bracket and the inlet of the mounting shank. When installed, the hose bracket is in direct contact with the wand hose between the mixed water outlet of the flow module and the inlet of the mounting shank.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2013Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: Moen IncorporatedInventors: Kenneth E. Evans, Terrence A. Pagano, Harshil Parikh, Inho Song, Eric M. Weber
-
Patent number: 9744796Abstract: A retractable writing instrument has a marking component for marking a writable surface. A barrel houses at a portion of the marking component, as well as an extension/retraction mechanism. The barrel has a slider portion. An internal magnet is adapted to operate the extension/retraction mechanism and positioned for operating movement along a length of the slider portion for extending and retracting a portion of the marking component. A slidable magnetic ring has an inner diameter for receiving the slider portion and is adapted to magnetically cooperate with the internal magnet.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2017Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Inventors: Kent David Lyon, Jym Daniel
-
Patent number: 9725237Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to apparatuses, systems, and methods for constructing, installing, and using an inflatable hatch sealing device in environmentally sealing a manhole. In particular, the inflatable hatch sealing device has a sealing assembly with a directed inflatable air bladder, and the sealing assembly is rotatable relative to a contact disc.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2013Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: OPW-Engineered Systems, Inc.Inventors: Don Johnson, Jeff Cousineau, Ted Shreve, Mike Crum
-
Patent number: 9725236Abstract: A tank assembly for receiving liquids comprises a tank body. The tank body includes a tank wall defining an enclosed tank cavity. The tank body also includes a manhole lid attached to the tank wall and movable from a closed position covering a manhole in the tank body to an open position uncovering the manhole. A liner includes a flexible liner wall defining an enclosed liner cavity. An opening is formed in the liner wall to permit liquid to be introduced into the liner cavity. The liner also includes a fitting secured to the liner wall at the opening in the liner wall. A first end of a hose is attached to the fitting for conducting fluid to the liner cavity. A valve is attached to a second end of the hose. The valve and the second end of the hose are releasably attached to the manhole lid.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: Tankbag Properties LLCInventors: Thomas J. Starck, Waldemar Frans Finke
-
Patent number: 9718347Abstract: A fueling device comprises a passage-forming member, an opening-forming member configured to form an opening, a filler port open-close mechanism that includes an open-close member configured to open and close the opening, a screwing mechanism that includes an outer circumferential threaded section and an inner circumferential threaded section and a gasket placed between the opening-forming member and the passage-forming member to seal between the opening-forming member and the passage-forming member, wherein the outer circumferential threaded section is provided on outer periphery of the passage-forming member, the inner circumferential threaded section is provided on the opening-forming member and screwed to the outer circumferential threaded section, the opening-forming member is attached to the passage-forming member by screwing the outer circumferential threaded section to the inner circumferential threaded section.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2014Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroaki Kito, Yoshinari Hiramatsu
-
Patent number: 9702483Abstract: An apparatus including at least one concealable sanitary fixture, such as a toilet bowl (2), moveable between a concealed position and an extended/exposed position. A hinged conduit (4) provides a fluid tight connection between the toilet bowl (2) and a waste outlet (5). Hinges (6, 7) allow the conduit (4) to adjust with the movement of the toilet bowl (2).Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2012Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: UUBEE PTY LTDInventors: Malcolm James Carver, Steve Ronald Paul, Luke Ralph de Gioia
-
Patent number: 9694452Abstract: A zone-control unit for use in a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system, the zone-control unit includes a heat exchanger, an inlet piping assembly coupled with the heat exchanger for supplying fluid to the heat exchanger, an outlet piping assembly coupled with the heat exchanger for receiving fluid from the heat exchanger, a bracket that maintains the inlet piping assembly and the outlet piping assembly in positional relationship, and an ancillary component coupled with the heat exchanger.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2014Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Inventor: John Chris Karamanos