Hinge Element Cooperating With Base Patents (Class 40/394)
  • Patent number: 6357843
    Abstract: A hidden photograph storage and display device including an open front boxlike formation providing for display of a very large number of photographs mounted on multiple photographic panel or sheets. A cover is hingedly mounted on the boxlike formation for closing off the front of the boxlike formation and concealing the hundreds of photographs mounted on the photographic panels or sheets. The photographic panels are mounted in a unique parallel manner to provide for storage of such a large number of photographs. When the cover is closed, the device appears to be a picture, photograph, wall unit, cabinet, or other surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2002
    Inventor: William Keller
  • Patent number: 6068357
    Abstract: A hidden photograph storage and display device including an open front boxlike formation providing for display of a very large number of photographs mounted on multiple photographic panel or sheets. A cover is hingedly mounted on the boxlike formation for closing off the front of the boxlike formation and concealing the hundreds of photographs mounted on the photographic panels or sheets. The photographic panels are mounted in a unique parallel manner to provide for storage of such a large number of photographs. When the cover is closed, the device appears to be a picture, photograph, wall unit, cabinet, or other surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2000
    Inventors: William Keller, Charles Bergeron
  • Patent number: 5690404
    Abstract: A hidden photograph storage and display device including an open front boxlike formation providing for display of a very large number of photographs mounted on multiple photographic sheets. A cover is hingedly mounted on the boxlike formation for closing off the front of the boxlike formation and concealing the hundreds of photographs mounted on the photographic sheets. The photographic sheets are mounted in a unique parallel manner to provide for storage of such a large number of photographs. When the cover is closed, the device appears to be a picture, photograph, wall unit, cabinet, or other surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 25, 1997
    Inventor: William Keller
  • Patent number: 5215364
    Abstract: A recipe file which mounts on the undersurface of an overhead wall mount kitchen cabinet. The recipe file includes a housing frame which can being used singly or may be adapted to accommodate a plurality of pivotally mounted file drawers. Each file drawer contains a plurality of pivotally attached cascading transparent jackets, each having an opening whereby a recipe card may be slidably inserted. The recipe card is imprinted with indicia detailing the recipe. The face of the file drawer is configured to accept a display plate imprinted with indicia describing the content of the file drawer. The file drawers each have an angular bend along the horizontal axis located near the rear of the file drawer together with pivots slidable in tracks to permit the file drawer to assume an inclined position when the drawer is pulled out of the housing frame to provide a cantilever formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1993
    Inventor: Harold G. Moore
  • Patent number: 4400899
    Abstract: The album has an imperforate backing member. Attached to the backing member are a plurality of transverse, parallel rectilinear strips each coated at its underside with adhesive. The strips are each adhered to the top face of the backing member, each strip having a section inclined away from and free of the top face of the backing member. Adhered to each of the inclined sections of the strips is a bent-back section of a transverse release ribbon. The ribbons have extending tab portions which may be grasped by fingers of a user to pull the release ribbon off and away from the strip to uncover the adhesive-coated inclined section or portion of the strip. The ribbons and inclined portions of the strip form adhesive-free wedge shaped spaces into which photographic snapshots may be inserted in predetermined overlapping relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1980
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1983
    Assignee: Robert H. Reibel
    Inventor: Eugene E. Martinez