Tray-like Mold Including Grid Patents (Class 249/69)
  • Patent number: 8431059
    Abstract: A mosaic-style art kit is provided. The art kit includes a frame, modeling material, and a guide sheet. The frame includes a peripheral surface operably configured to overlie the guide sheet, and a mosaic-style internal structure having partitions forming cavities for receiving and retaining the modeling material. A front side of the frame is placed on the guide sheet such that the mosaic-style internal structure is aligned with a design on the guide sheet. The design thereby instructs a color of modeling material to be inserted into each cavity of the internal structure. The modeling material is inserted accordingly, and the frame and guide sheet are separated to produce a mosaic-style art product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Crayola LLC
    Inventors: Steve Menow, Anthony Wyzen
  • Patent number: 8087634
    Abstract: The one handed ice cube tray is an ice cube tray with a large opening that works like a hand that holds the front edge of a kitchen counter top to secure that end of the ice cube tray to allow one hand to twist or flex the ice cube tray and hold it flexed to ensure the ice cubes remain elevated to allow the other free hand to take out the desired amount of ice cubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Inventor: Gilbert Robert Taylor
  • Patent number: 7931248
    Abstract: A mold for manufacturing a corner-shaped simulated stone product has a mold cavity configured to imprint a stone texture on at least a first side face and a front face of the corner-shaped product. The mold also provides a back face with a desirable molded interior angle. The mold cavity can have a flexible edge around a perimeter of the mold cavity to impart a textured surface to a second side face of the corner-shaped product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Boral Stone Products LLC
    Inventors: Michelle L. Korwin-Edson, Douglas H. Walden, Robert E. Embrey, Larry E. Targett
  • Patent number: 7918105
    Abstract: An ice making device that is capable of more easily and conveniently separating ice from ice trays through a simple manipulation and a refrigerator having the same are disclosed. The ice making device includes a support frame for rotatably supporting at least one ice tray, at least one manipulation button mounted to the support frame such that the manipulation button can be moved forward and backward, and an interlocking unit for rotating the ice tray with respect to the support frame according to the movement of the manipulation button.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Moon-Won Kim
  • Patent number: 7891966
    Abstract: Depanning devices and methods of using the depanning devices are provided. In an embodiment, the present disclosure provides a device comprising a rotatable support and a grid attached to the support. The grid comprises one or more movable gates and defines one or more passages. The device can further comprise a tray defining one or more recessed portions. The tray is removably attachable to the rotatable support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventors: Richard P. Egnor, Kent Kleinholz
  • Patent number: 7832228
    Abstract: An ice making device that is capable of more easily and conveniently separating ice from ice trays through a simple manipulation and a refrigerator having the same are disclosed. The ice making device includes a support frame for rotatably supporting at least one ice tray, at least one manipulation button mounted to the support frame such that the manipulation button can be moved forward and backward, and an interlocking unit for rotating the ice tray with respect to the support frame according to the movement of the manipulation button.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Moon-Won Kim
  • Publication number: 20020179809
    Abstract: A freezer tray unit that houses removable inserts with various cavity shapes. This unit can be used to make ice in an unlimited number of shapes, by simply changing the inserts. This unit is made up of several kit contents. The quantities required for one kit are the body (1), slotted rod (1), bottom tray (1), releasers (8), and inserts (8). The unit utilizes two mechanisms for ice removal. One mechanism removes ice from individual inserts. Features responsible for this mechanism are the insert guard, slotted rod, releaser, and bottom tray. Another mechanism removes ice from all the inserts simultaneously. The ice removal features utilized in this mechanism are the insert guard, ice guard, slotted rod, and releaser. The inserts can be utilized independently in refrigerators for effective space management. Also, the inserts may be utilized for making baked products in ovens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2001
    Publication date: December 5, 2002
    Inventor: Oluwafemi Ajibola Afolabi
  • Patent number: 5044600
    Abstract: A device is provided to facilitate the dispensing of ice cubes from a flexible plastic ice cube tray having long edge lips. The device, of monolithic construction, has a small chamber for receiving and dispensing ice cubes from separate rows of the ice cube tray, and an adjacent large chamber for receiving and dispensing ice cubes from the entire ice cube tray. The device is provided with engagement rails that slideably engage the large edge lips of the ice cube tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1991
    Inventor: Steven L. Shannon
  • Patent number: 4362497
    Abstract: Food products are processed prior to consumption in a press form having multiple, separate, pre-selected planar food product molds, each having tapered walls, providing easy food product removal. The food products can have pastry dough exteriors and can be filled with selected food fillings held in position and shaped by dough crust exteriors. Multiple press form food product molds have regular planar shapes disposed multiple in a tray. One face of each product mold has a cutting-edge knife disposed thereon, conforming to the mold interior shape. The cutting-edge knife can be disposed at either mold wall taper terminus. A cooperatively shaped, one-piece negative pusher plug mold, sized to intercept each one of the multiple food product molds disposed in the tray, is used to cooperatively push each food product out of the molds in the tray simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1981
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1982
    Inventor: Igor Lifshitz
  • Patent number: 3930376
    Abstract: A pair of diametrically opposed protuberances, comprising inwardly projecting bumps, extend from the otherwise smooth surface of opposite corners of adjoining side walls of the generally cubical pockets in an ice cube tray. These protruberances, define stress concentration areas at the corners of the frozen cubes which, when the plastic tray is twisted to release the cubes therefrom, cause the cubes to fracture and alter their configuration to the extent that they are prevented, either because of their enlarged outward dimensions or because of ice particles that have flaked therefrom and are in an interferring position, from being reseated in the tray in the as-molded position. Thus, each cube remains elevated from its original position with the side walls of each cube spaced somewhat from the side walls of the mold for relatively easy individual removal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1975
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1976
    Assignee: White-Westinghouse Corporation
    Inventor: Anton J. Schwartz