Patents by Inventor Thomas J. DeBlasis

Thomas J. DeBlasis has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7143677
    Abstract: A food slicer includes a frame with a food-receiving platform having an aperture therein. A reversible cutting blade has first and second cutting edges and is selectively removably mountable on the frame in first and second positions for respectively disposing the first and second cutting edges in the aperture for engagement with food being moved along the platform. Support legs are rotatably carried by the frame for movement between a stowed position disposed against the frame entirely between inner surfaces of side walls thereof and a use position extending from the frame and laterally outwardly of the inner surfaces of the side walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2006
    Assignee: Helen of Troy Limited
    Inventors: Roland Zeder, Thomas J. DeBlasis, Conor P. McNamara, Dean DiPietro
  • Patent number: 7066071
    Abstract: A food slicer includes a frame with a food-receiving platform having an aperture therein. A reversible cutting blade has first and second cutting edges and is selectively removably mountable on the frame in first and second positions for respectively disposing the first and second cutting edges in the aperture for engagement with food being moved along the platform. Support legs are rotatably carried by the frame for movement between a stowed position disposed against the frame entirely between inner surfaces of side walls thereof and a use position extending from the frame and laterally outwardly of the inner surfaces of the side walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Assignee: Helen of Troy Limited
    Inventors: Roland Zeder, Thomas J. DeBlasis, Conor P. McNamara, Dean DiPietro
  • Publication number: 20040216579
    Abstract: A food slicer includes a frame with a food-receiving platform having an aperture therein. A reversible cutting blade has first and second cutting edges and is selectively removably mountable on the frame in first and second positions for respectively disposing the first and second cutting edges in the aperture for engagement with food being moved along the platform. Support legs are rotatably carried by the frame for movement between a stowed position disposed against the frame entirely between inner surfaces of side walls thereof and a use position extending from the frame and laterally outwardly of the inner surfaces of the side walls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2003
    Publication date: November 4, 2004
    Inventors: Roland Zeder, Thomas J. DeBlasis, Conor P. McNamara, Dean DiPietro
  • Patent number: 6175988
    Abstract: An electric motor driven bypass type vacuum cleaner apparatus, particularly adapted for wet/dry debris collection includes an open top debris collection tank having opposed integrally formed cup-shaped feet for supporting said apparatus in a stable position on a support surface. The tank includes a recess in a sidewall and a bottom wall for receiving a conduit member which may be interchangeably used as a connector for connecting a flexible vacuum hose to the tank and as a blower discharge nozzle. A flexible vacuum pickup hose is connected to the conduit member generally at the bottom side of the debris collection tank and, in a stored position on the apparatus, is trained through a recess in the bottom wall of the tank and over the top of a motor housing and shroud assembly to a connection point in one of the support feet adjacent the conduit member. The vacuum hose, when stored, is retained in a recess in the shroud which also serves as a carrying handle for the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2001
    Assignee: Overhead Door Corporation
    Inventors: James A. White, Aaron J. Potts, Thomas J. DeBlasis, Dino A. Mariano
  • Patent number: D481053
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2003
    Assignee: Mine Safety Appliances Company
    Inventors: Eric R. Colburn, Thomas J. DeBlasis, Vincent M. Colaizzi, Thomas M. Salapow
  • Patent number: D435322
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2000
    Assignee: Overhead Door Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas J. DeBlasis, Dino A. Mariano