Patents Examined by Devin K Barnett
  • Patent number: 11612245
    Abstract: A press locked grating, in particular for use as a shelf for plate or heavy-duty shelves, has two longitudinal sides and cross members and longitudinal members having an I-shaped profile arranged between the longitudinal sides and at right angles to each other. The longitudinal members are inserted or pressed into punched holes of the cross members open towards the grating upper side. The longitudinal sides are formed in cross-section as a profile that includes at least first and second orthogonal legs. Each cross member has a punched hole at each end, in which the first leg is arranged and firmly connected thereto by a connecting method. The first leg is inserted or pressed into the punched hole, thereby achieving a first connection of the profile to the cross member, and has at least one deformation, thereby fixing the insertion or press connection of the cross member to the profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Gebrueder Meiser GmbH
    Inventor: Wolfgang Meiser
  • Patent number: 11607037
    Abstract: A shelving system formed by a plurality of vertical posts and horizontal traverses held together through frictional engagement. Disposed between each lateral pair of posts is at least one traverse which includes a male frictional engagement member configured to engage with a removable female frictional engagement member disposed on each post. The post and traverse engage with each other so as to create a proportional or supportive reaction force in response to any shear force applied to the shelving system. Each of the female frictional engagement members has a tapered edge which forms a closely fitted coupling between the post and each traverse. Each of the female frictional engagement members may be selectively disposed in one of a plurality of positions along the height of each vertical post. The shelving system further includes top and bottom connectors, both of which also frictionally engage with the vertical posts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Cambro Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: Jorge Baez
  • Patent number: 11602220
    Abstract: A hook hanger supports hooks in either a vertical orientation, a horizontal orientation, or both. The hook hanger uses an elongate, relatively thin base strip is flexible so that it attaches to a surface, which surface may be flat, curved, 90-degree cornered, or a combination thereof. A mount strip, which is also flexible, overlays and is attached to an outer surface of the base strip. The mount strip has one or more openings along its length. A hook has a rearward and downward positioned bayonet so that the bayonet is inserted between the base strip and the mount strip either at an edge of the mount strip or through an opening on the mount strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Inventor: Francis A. Sagorski
  • Patent number: 11602221
    Abstract: The technology described herein includes a four-column shelving unit. One or more improved tie bars run between the front and rear shelf-support beams. The one or more tie bars are installed perpendicular to the shelf-support beams. The improved tie bar may take the overall form of a V-channel with a novel tri-notch connection on either end. The tri-notch connection allows the tie bar to connect with a front shelf-support beam on one end and a back shelf-support beam on the other end. The tri-notch connection includes two bottom notches and a top notch. The top notch may form a gap in the V-channel that allows the end of the tie bar to slip under a shelf-support flange on a shelf-support beam during installation. The two bottom notches are sized and shaped to receive an upward facing retention flange located on the bottom flange of the shelf-support beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: LL&T INTERNATIONAL, LLC
    Inventors: Todd Beck, Tracy Lee
  • Patent number: 11596227
    Abstract: Stacking storage arrangement for containers and method of forming stacking storage arrangement. The stacking storage arrangement includes at least one transverse connector; multiple uprights that are connected to one another by the at least one transverse connector; and connection elements configured to connect the at least one transverse connector to multiple uprights. Each connection element is arranged to bear against a contact surface of an upright and the contact surface includes a slot into which at least one screw protruding through the connection element is screwed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: JUNGHEINRICH AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Jörg Cavelius, Michael Becker, Markus Liebhaber, Adrian Nowack
  • Patent number: 11589689
    Abstract: A divided shelf for a display rack and related methods are provided. The divided shelf transforms from a knockdown configuration to an erected configuration. The divided shelf includes divider panels to divide the shelf into more than one separate compartments. The divided shelf is affixed to a display rack base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: VANGUARD PACKAGING, LLC
    Inventor: Apryl McGill
  • Patent number: 11590401
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a drying rack for wet equipment constructed to support wet equipment having absorbent and non-absorbent sides. The drying rack supports the equipment such that absorbent sides of the wet equipment are generally oriented in a single windward direction relative to an external airflow source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Inventor: Ryan Teasdale
  • Patent number: 11583107
    Abstract: A retail merchandise tray assembly is provided. The tray assembly has a frame to which a front stop hinge is mounted. In a first angular position, the front stop hinge can be mounted or removed from the frame. In a second angular position, the front stop hinge is prevented from being removed from the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Fasteners for Retail, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas O. Nagel, Kelly Ann Pickett, Francesc Xavier Badia Rotger
  • Patent number: 11583106
    Abstract: A retail merchandise tray assembly is provided. The tray assembly may have an adjustable divider. The tray assembly may have a sign adaptor for mounting a sign to the divider. The tray assembly may have an accessory clip. The tray assembly may have a pivotable front stop. The tray assembly may have sign holders mounted to a front stop. The tray assembly may include signs mounted within a sign holder that is mounted to the front stop. The divider may be powder coated while the divider mounts may be free of painting. Methods are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Fasteners for Retail, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas O. Nagel, Kelly Ann Pickett, Francesc Xavier Badia Rotger
  • Patent number: 11583080
    Abstract: A combined storage shelf is provided, including double-bracing side racks, connection and combination fasteners, storage layers, and beam structures. Each of the double-bracing side racks includes a first upright rod, a second upright rod, and horizontal rods. Each of the connection and combination fasteners includes a body portion, two side portions, fitting grooves, and fastening structures. The storage layers are disposed in the beam structures. Each of the beam structures includes a beam member and beam connection and combination fasteners. Each of the beam connection and combination fasteners includes beam fastening structures. Each of the beam fastening structures is snapped into a fastening structure, so that the beam structures are connected to the connection and combination fasteners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: PROTREND CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shun-Yi Chen
  • Patent number: 11583110
    Abstract: Shelve brackets and shelf arrangements are provided. First and second brackets are provided. Each bracket has a support section, a mounting section and a transition section. The mounting section is laterally offset from the support section. The support section includes a vertical, top and bottom flange portions. The top and bottom flange portions are vertically spaced and extend from a first side of vertical flange portion in a direction the support section is offset from the mounting section. The transition section of the first bracket offsets the support section of the first bracket towards the second bracket and the transition section of the second bracket offsetting the support section of the second bracket towards the first bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Fasteners for Retail, Inc.
    Inventors: Jamie A. Smedley, William J. Mertz
  • Patent number: 11571064
    Abstract: A system includes a rail having a rail body that includes a perimeter edge and first and second channels. The first and second channels each include a seat, brace and passageway extending from the perimeter edge of the rail body to the seat. Each seat has an arc greater than 90 degrees. An upwardly directed surface of a first brace may be substantially colinear with the second upwardly directed surface of a second brace, and the first and second channels are separated by a working area that may be used to secure hook, pegs and the like. The first and second elongate rigid bars are configured to be positioned between a closet shelf and rod. Each rigid bar includes a distal section with an upward facing surface for engaging the closet shelf, a downward facing surface for engaging the closet rod, and an intermediate section having a semicircular cross-section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Closet Toolz Corporation
    Inventor: Jeffrey Lowell Streets
  • Patent number: 11571067
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided for ensuring the proper orientation of an electronic device within a rack slot. A constraint is added to one of a pair of rail assemblies and a corresponding constraint is added to the rack, the pair of constraints cooperating to allow the pair of rail assemblies to be installed only in the proper sides of the rack. Mounting holes are provided on the device and inner rails of the rail assemblies that allow the inner rail assemblies to be installed only on the proper sides of the device. A key and key slot combination is then provided in an inner rail and a middle rail of one rail assembly with the combination preventing the inner rail from being fully inserted into the incorrect middle rail. Thus, the correct orientation of the device is ensured by the pair of rail assemblies, the spacing of mounting holes in the device, and the rack constraint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: ZT Group Int'l, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Signer, Kapil Rao Ganta Papa Rao Bala, Rey Reyes
  • Patent number: 11564507
    Abstract: A retail merchandise tray is provided. The retail merchandise tray includes a frame, a pusher that slides along the frame, at least one divider, and at least one baffle plate extension slidable relative to the divider and the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Fasteners for Retail, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas O. Nagel
  • Patent number: 11564489
    Abstract: A furniture system with mounting rails fastened to a wall or rear wall and which have openings, and suspension portions connected to stockage elements that can be suspended in said openings. The furniture system further has a rear wall which extends, with two longitudinal narrow sides, substantially in the vertical direction and which rests on or is fastened to the mounting rails, wherein a strip-like rear wall side part is arranged in parallel with one longitudinal narrow side, in parallel with both longitudinal narrow sides of the rear wall, and which rests on or is fastened to the mounting rail. A recess or gap is formed in a transition region from the rear wall to the rear wall side part, between the longitudinal narrow side of the rear wall and the longitudinal narrow side of the rear wall side part, allowing access to openings of a mounting rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Siematic Möbelwerke GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Ulrich Wilhelm Siekmann
  • Patent number: 11564509
    Abstract: A display system for supporting a plurality of elongate utensils includes a base defining a flat base surface and a longitudinal axis normal to the base surface. An outer shell includes an outer body coupled to the base and extends longitudinally therefrom. The outer body defines a plurality of outer openings extending therethrough, each sized to slidably receive therethrough an elongate utensil. An inner shell includes an inner body coupled to the base, the inner body spaced apart from and at least partially contained within the outer shell. The inner body defines a plurality of inner openings each aligned with a corresponding one of the outer openings along a respective insertion axis of a plurality of insertion axes and sized to slidably receive the elongate utensil. The plurality of insertion axes are oriented at a plurality of different angles relative to the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Inventor: Shirley Ann Washington
  • Patent number: 11564476
    Abstract: A storage assembly for corded salon tools, particularly a storage assembly adapted for the storage of one or more corded hair styling tools in a compact configuration with easy access and a reduced risk of cord entanglement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Inventor: Mark McGuire
  • Patent number: 11559173
    Abstract: Devices, apparatus and systems for preventing towels from slipping off a towel holder are disclosed. The apparatus, devices and systems may include a surface that provides a frictional interface between the towel and towel holder. Two opposing edges of such a device may each include at least one raised or enlarged attachment formation which, when the device is moved from an unraveled condition to an engaged condition, may be aligned and connected to effectively connect the edges to each other. Such a device may further include a plurality of friction formations configured to face and contact a towel and a plurality of ridges configured to face and contact a towel holder when the device is in an engaged condition, surrounding a towel holder and supporting a towel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Simply Innovative LLC
    Inventors: Teresa Manko, Mark Manko, Jordan Robert Long
  • Patent number: 11547232
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wall-mounted vertically oriented shoe organizer, the shoe organizer formed from: a backboard, the backboard having a planar shape and the backboard being mounted to the wall and extending in a plane parallel to the wall; a frame, the frame covering the perimeter of the backboard and extended outward therefrom in a direction perpendicular to the plane of the backboard; a plurality of cylinders secured to the backboard, each cylinder extending in a direction perpendicular to the plane of the blackboard and each cylinder defining a recess therein suitable of insertion of a shoe heel; and one or more ledges secured to the backboard, each ledge extending perpendicular from the plane of the backboard and oriented such that each ledge is parallel to the ground when the backboard is mounted to the wall, wherein the shoe organizer stores one or more pairs of shoes, with each shoe in each pair of shoes being supported on the shoe organizer via one of: inserting the shoe heel of the ea
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Inventor: Ernest Otabil
  • Patent number: 11547230
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an adjustable cup holder for holding a beverage container. The adjustable cup holder includes a body, a base configured to support the weight of a beverage container, an adjustable diameter ratchet strap configured to accommodate a diameter of the beverage container, and a connector. The holding portion of the cup holder may be connected to the body via a first hinge configured such that the beverage container holding portion is rotatable relative to the body about an axis to allow beverage container holding portion to hold the beverage container relatively level. The holding portion of the cup holder may be connected to the body via a hinge configured such that the beverage container holding portion is pivotable relative to the body about an axis from a use position to a stowed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Sunflow, Inc.
    Inventors: Leslie Hsu Besner, Jeffrey Servaites