Patents Examined by Joseph Falk
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Patent number: 5152592Abstract: A shelf arrangement is disclosed for a corner cabinet, particularly for a built-in cabinet such as is commonly used in kitchens. The shelf is shaped as a closed curve of constant width, preferably triangular. The shelf turns in the confines of a square-shaped corner cabinet space; a corner of the shelf will protrude through a 45.degree. or 90.degree. corner door for accessibility and is recessed when the door is closed. The shelf may rest on a track forming a kinematic path for the rotation of the shelf such as around the inside periphery of the cabinet or may be mounted on a central post or other support means with a gear or rotor system of special design to facilitate turning.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 1986Date of Patent: October 6, 1992Inventor: William L. Krayer
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Patent number: 5150953Abstract: An improved videotape storage device comprising a frame with a plurality of videotape containers supported on the frame and with each of the videotape containers carrying respective indicia, such as bright colors, to facilitate identification of a desired one of the containers.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 1991Date of Patent: September 29, 1992Assignees: Edgar R. Benveniste, Gloria BenvenisteInventors: Edgar R. Benveniste, Kenneth A. Tarlow, Harold Goodman, Gloria H. Benveniste
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Patent number: 5149179Abstract: A container (10) having a cover (42) mounted on a container body (32) that in turn is mounted to the interior surface (30) of a cabinet door (28) that uses an elastic, flexible filament (56) to automatically open and close the container cover (42) as the cabinet door (28) is opened and closed. The elastic, flexible filament (56) may be mounted to not only urge the cover (42) to move to an open position as the cabinet door (28) is opened, but also urge the cover (42) to move to a closed position when the door (28) is closed and hold the cover (42) in the closed position. With the device of the present invention, existing door-mounted containers can be quickly and easily installed or converted to use the present invention without requiring alteration of the cabinet structure. Furthermore, with the present invention, manual opening and closing of the container cover (42) is eliminated and the container cover (42) is held in the closed position.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 1991Date of Patent: September 22, 1992Inventor: Terrance E. Nash
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Patent number: 5147121Abstract: An improved device for providing EMI/RFI shielding for a joint is disclosed comprising a compressible, resilient sealing element and a conductive shielding element bonded to the sealing element and positioned such that the shielding element provides a direct electrical contact across the joint. The disclosed invention further provides a cabinet which effectively utilizes such a device. The disclosed invention also includes an improved cabinet construction which minimizes the paths by which moisture and debris may enter the cabinet interior, while providing a cabinet which is transportable without violating the integrity of the cabinet structure.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 1991Date of Patent: September 15, 1992Assignee: Gichner Systems Group, Inc.Inventor: George McIlwraith
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Patent number: 5147122Abstract: An article of furniture includes provisions for the storage of tapes and the like. The article can be an entertainment center having a storage unit at one end or both ends, or it can be a free-standing, combined storage unit. The unit includes a stationary section having a back wall with a first, rear side wall and a second, front side wall extending outwardly from side edge portions of the back wall. A plurality of shelves extend between the side walls and outwardly from the back wall. The unit further includes a hinged, movable section having a movable back wall with a third, front side wall and a fourth side wall extending outwardly from side edge portions thereof. A plurality of additional shelves extend between the third and fourth side walls and outwardly from the movable back wall. Hinges connect an edge portion of the movable back wall and an outer edge of the rear side wall.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 1991Date of Patent: September 15, 1992Assignee: Sauder Woodworking Co.Inventor: Michael K. Short
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Patent number: 5147120Abstract: Modular units (1, 11, 21, 24, 37 and 45) are stackable to form various types of multiple-unit bureaus, dressing tables, office desks and other types of drawer, shelf and rack furniture for rooms or closets. The modular units are single or multiple drawer, shelf or rack sections of furniture. Brace-legs (1) at corners (3-6) can be positioned sequentially, end-to-end vertically to position the bureau units firmly in a stack and to bear the load-weight of the drawers, shelves and cabinets together with contents on each with-out transmitting the load-weight to walls (7-9) of the bureau units.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 1990Date of Patent: September 15, 1992Inventor: Frank J. Ray
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Patent number: 5147124Abstract: A front panel with adjustment device, particularly for drawers of kitchen furniture with a frame with side frame rails with rollers and further with a rail arranged on the side of the frame and connected with the back side and front panel provides for adjustment of the incline of the front panel with an adjustment device arranged between the rail and the front panel. Provided for this purpose is a gear housing attached to the forward end of the rail, an eccentric bolt of a pinion engaging a receiving slot of the rail, and a worm with slots meshing with the pinion through a tooth system.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 1990Date of Patent: September 15, 1992Assignee: Grass AGInventors: Alfred Grass, Ingo Gasser
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Patent number: 5147123Abstract: The present invention relates to a metal panel for drawer walls. The invention provides for a single thickness wall plate stamped and shaped from sheet metal and a separately manufactured drawer-bottom holding shaped structure formed of metal. The wall plate has a lower marginal area which the drawer bottom holding shaped structure is fastened to.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 1991Date of Patent: September 15, 1992Assignee: Karl Lautenschlager GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Horst Berger
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Patent number: 5145245Abstract: A video cassette storage cabinet has both rotating and slidable storage units to provide access to interior storage pockets in the internal cabinet shelving. The doors of the cabinet can be only partially opened to provide access to the interior.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 1989Date of Patent: September 8, 1992Inventor: Frederick Fierthaler
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Patent number: 5145243Abstract: An upstanding mother board structure comprises a rectangular pan-like mother board mounting plate on which a slidable U-shaped fastener is attached to secure the mother board mounting plate to the support bracket of a computer. The U-shaped fastener comprises a horizontal section and two vertical sections of which each of the vertical sections is guided by a pair of guiding members and each has a pair of protruding lugs formed in the end thereof to be biased by extension springs to secure the mother board mounting plate. A least one combination of gripper and positioning block is provided on the bottom plate of the base frame of the computer to guide the installation of the mother board mounting plate and to further securely fix the mother board mounting plate.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 1991Date of Patent: September 8, 1992Assignee: Enlight CorporationInventor: Morgan C. Liu
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Patent number: 5145244Abstract: Furniture which can readily be disassembled has spaced upright side walls, a rear wall connected to the side walls, transverse mounting elements connected to the side walls, and a safeguard holder mounted on the transverse mounting elements and bearing upon the rear wall.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 1991Date of Patent: September 8, 1992Assignee: wellcarton R. Kersting GmbH und Co.Inventors: Rudiger Kersting, Rolf Heidemeier
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Patent number: 5143432Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided an ingenuously contrived mechanism for controlling the travel of a movable structural member along rails comprising a pair of traveler devices removably engaged with the respective rails and a pair of travel controller that dampen the force pulling the movable member back into the fixed member. With such devices, the movable member can be easily separated from and returned to the fixed member that houses it without requiring any particular operation. Such a mechanism is particularly suited for a cabinet drawer.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 1991Date of Patent: September 1, 1992Assignee: Sugatsune Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuyoshi Ohshima, Seiichiro Tamura
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Patent number: 5143430Abstract: A latching mechanism is disclosed for application in vending machines, or the like. In a preferred embodiment the latching mechanism is of one-piece construction. The latching mechanism comprises a ramp mounted to an outer door of the vending machine and configured such that an inner door of the vending machine remains latched to the outer door when it is pulled away from a dispenser housing to access the refrigerated compartment therein. The ramp preferably comprises a ridge on a horizontal surface thereof. When the inner door is urged against the outer door, it passes over the ridge and comes to rest on the ramp. The ridge deters the inner door from sliding off the ramp and becoming detached from the outer door. An appropriate amount of force applied to separate the two doors causes the inner door to roll over the ridge and swing away from the outer door.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 1990Date of Patent: September 1, 1992Assignee: The Vendo CompanyInventors: Christopher R. Craven, Richard A. Pollock
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Patent number: 5139318Abstract: An arrangement for transferring items to or from e.g. a glovebox, in a closed moveable container, the glovebox port has a door having a non-rotatable outer portion (12) and a rotatable inner portion (13). The container (2) has a lid having a non-rotatable outer portion (3) and a rotatable inner portion (4), the outer portion (3) having a thin lip (10). The port has a thin lip (19) which can be aligned with the lip (10) of the lid. The outer portion (12) of the door retains a peripheral sealing ring (17) and the rim of the container retains a similar ring (8) which can sandwich and bridge the two lips. The container (2) is attached to the port by a rotatable locking ring (27).Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 1991Date of Patent: August 18, 1992Assignee: The Secretary of State for Defence in Her Britannic Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandInventor: Kenneth H. Broxup
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Patent number: 5139319Abstract: A plurality of facing members are removably attached to respective surface segments formed on the outer surface of a cabinet and identical in shape, interchangeably with respect to the position of attachment. Each of the surface segments extends over a plurality of cabinet faces forming corners of the cabinet. Each of the facing members comprises a plurality of panel portions in conformity with the shape of the surface segment.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 1991Date of Patent: August 18, 1992Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Miyai, Mutsuo Yamaguchi, Kazutoshi Zushi, Tetsushiro Sueyoshi
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Patent number: 5139320Abstract: A storage compartment device and system for releasably storing a plurality of tape cartridges therein. The device basically comprises storage compartment means, at least one partitioning means, tape cartridge positioning means and tape cartridge securing means. The storage compartment means comprises a storage compartment having an opening and an interior for removably securing a plurality of tape cartridges therein. The partitioning means of the device partitions the interior of the storage compartment into sections and guides each of the tape cartridges into and out of its respective section. The tape cartridge positioning means is adjacent each of the sections for movably positioning the tape cartridge and to permit independent insertion and retrieval of each of the tape cartridges. In addition, the tape cartridge securing means is located adjacent each of the sections and releasably secures each of the tape cartridges therein.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 1991Date of Patent: August 18, 1992Assignee: Ner Holdings, Inc.Inventor: Harold J. Banker
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Patent number: 5137340Abstract: A merchandising display and locator system for enhancing the visual access of a purchaser to fastener product information. A box-shaped housing having a truncated frontal surface contains a plurality of tray members which have an angularly projecting frontal flange to permit enhanced visual access by a purchaser. An information card is provided with the display which contains graphical representations of fastener indicia such as thread styles, head styles, drive styles, nuts and washers. In association with the graphical representations are the trade names of these indicia. A product listing of trade names appears on the information card and an alphabetical code symbol is associated with each trade name. The appropriate code symbol appears on the frontal flange of the tray member carrying the particular fastener product having that trade name identification.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 1991Date of Patent: August 11, 1992Assignee: Vsi Fasteners, Inc.Inventors: Derwyn Cugley, Thomas L. Evans
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Patent number: 5135294Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided an ingenuously contrived mechanism for controlling the travel of a movable structural member along rails comprising a pair of traveler devices removably engaged with the respective rails. With such devices, the movable member can be easily separated from the fixed member that houses it. Such a mechanism is particularly suited for a cabinet drawer.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 1991Date of Patent: August 4, 1992Assignee: Sugatsune Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuyoshi Ohshima, Seiichiro Tamura
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Patent number: 5131733Abstract: Mounting bracket (10) for the rearward end of the runner (18) of a drawer guide (20), in which the guide rail (22) to be fastened to the cabinet wall reaches from underneath into the corresponding runner (18) which is formed of a hollow structural shape open at the bottom and is to be fastened removably underneath the drawer bottom (16); a front mounting piece which can be mounted under the drawer bottom (16) in the area of the drawer front is associated with the front end of the runner (18), on which the outer end of the runner is releasably held.The mounting bracket (10) to be fastened in the rear corner area of the drawer has two clip arms (36) projecting downward below the underside of the drawer bottom (16), at least one of which clasps the runner (18), and between which the runner can be passed.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 1991Date of Patent: July 21, 1992Assignee: Karl Lautenschlager GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Horst Lautenschlager, Horst Berger
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Patent number: 5131732Abstract: A system for filing and storing documents is provided. The system comprises a file cabinet consisting of at least one compartment having a plurality of individually slidable storage units. Each storage unit consists of a pocket for retaining a series of documents. When the storage unit is pulled outwardly from the housing of the file cabinet, the documents retained in the pocket remain neatly organized and readily accessible. Further, easy identification of the documents retained in the pockets of the storage units is achieved. Each storage unit includes a slanted wall on which the documents stored therein are supported, a retaining arm for maintaining the documents fixed in the pocket and an assembly which allows movement of the unit, all of which are designed to enhance and facilitate the filing of documents.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 1990Date of Patent: July 21, 1992Assignee: Lanescape Inc.Inventors: Tara Lane, Edward C. H. Lai