Filling Means Or Support Provides Handle For Receiver Patents (Class 141/328)
  • Patent number: 11040862
    Abstract: What is disclosed is a funnel assembly comprising a funnel body having a curved rim formed at a first portion of the funnel body, the rim being contoured to hold an external object. An upper end of the funnel body is provided with an opening. A second portion of the funnel body is formed with a lower end terminating in an aperture. A third portion of the funnel body is supported by at least one assembly that securely holds the funnel upright to allow food or food supplement to flow from the external object and into the funnel and then into a division board feeder of a beehive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Inventor: Daniel C. Brantner
  • Patent number: 9573413
    Abstract: A paint caddy includes a base having at least two walls and a pole coupled to and extending upwardly from the base. The base has at least one base support extending between the walls for capturing and supporting a paint tray therebetween. The pole has at least a substantially vertical portion and a substantially horizontal portion, with the substantially horizontal portion serving as a handle for carrying a paint tray. A hook extends from the pole and is positioned below and spaced from the handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: GJP ENTERPRISES, LLC
    Inventor: Greg Krusoe
  • Patent number: 9327955
    Abstract: A funnel for facilitating emptying of a liquid-filled container includes a receptacle. The receptacle is configured to support the liquid-filled container in a declined position with an opening of the container at or near a lowermost point of the container. The receptacle has an outlet for liquid. The funnel also includes a container shelf, adjacent to the receptacle, configured to support the liquid-filled container in an inclined position in which the container is inclined towards the receptacle. A tipping edge between the receptacle and a top of the container shelf is adapted to act as a fulcrum for tipping the container from the inclined position to the declined position. The receptacle may be formed within an insert that is removable from a base section of the funnel. A piercing element for piercing a protective seal on the opening may protrude inwardly into the receptacle on an angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: RYKO SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventor: David Simpson
  • Publication number: 20110030845
    Abstract: A transfer guard may provide a fluid path from a vial to a reservoir containing a plunger head connected to a plunger arm operatively engagable with a handle that at least partially covers a casing configured to allow the handle to operatively engage the plunger arm to move the plunger head to transfer fluidic media from the vial to the reservoir. A support structure may have a chamber, a first adapter for mating with a vial containing fluidic media, and a second adapter for mating with a reservoir containing a plunger head moveable within the reservoir. A first needle may provide a fluid path from the vial to the reservoir and a second needle may connect the vial and the chamber containing an air flow control mechanism for allowing air to flow in one direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2009
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Inventors: Colin A. Chong, Julian D. Kavazov, Rafael Bikovsky, Arsen Ibranyan, Eric M. Lorenzen, Chad Srisathapat
  • Publication number: 20100154929
    Abstract: A lighted funnel, particularly a lighted funnel used to fill the fuel reservoir of an automobile, comprises (a) a funnel, (b) a handle, and (c) a means of automatically illuminating the funnel, such as a micro switch that is closed by the gravitational force on a weight. When the funnel is oriented in the upright position, the illumination means automatically lights the funnel and indicates to the user that the funnel is in a substantially level position. When the funnel is oriented in the downward position, the illumination means is automatically switched off.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Inventors: Martin Makowiec, Emil Stola
  • Patent number: 7604143
    Abstract: A holder for a bag. The holder comprises a stand or trash can and chute elements rotatably engaged to the stand or trash can. The chute elements are for opening the bag when frictionally engaging interior surfaces of the bag. The chute elements comprise a first pair and a second pair of chute elements. Each of the first pair of chute elements have stop elements for limiting rotation on the stand or trash can of each of the second pair of chute elements, when each of the first pair of chute elements has engaged sides of the bag in the holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Inventor: John L. Kerekes, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20080302443
    Abstract: A system (10) and method for substantially automatically aseptically or non-aseptically filling a container with a fluid. The transfer of fluid occurs via a movable nozzle mechanism (20) substantially automatically inserted into a side opening (32) in a connector (12) attached to the container. More specifically, the side opening (32) in the connector (12) is exposed, the nozzle mechanism (20) is moved into the side opening (32), the fluid is transferred into the container via the nozzle mechanism (20) and the connector (12), the nozzle mechanism (20) is removed from the side opening (32) in the connector (12), and the side opening (32) in the connector (12) is closed. The aseptic transfer of fluid includes a substantially automatic sterilization procedure accomplished by both spray and contact components (54,56).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2008
    Publication date: December 11, 2008
    Inventor: Carl Martin
  • Patent number: 5865227
    Abstract: A hypodermic syringe and method of filling the syringe with an injection fluid. The syringe includes a fluid chamber for retaining an injection fluid and a plunger assembly for expelling fluid from the chamber. The plunger assembly includes a plunger slidably disposed in the fluid chamber for creating positive pressures to cause ejection of a fluid from the chamber and an actuator coupled to the plunger for movement of the actuator between a first position with the actuator released for movement of the actuator through the fluid chamber relative to the plunger and a second position with the actuator in cooperative engagement with the plunger for driving the plunger to create the positive pressures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1999
    Assignee: Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventor: Brian D. Carilli