Receptacle Closure Includes Frame Patents (Class 40/724)
  • Patent number: 11617458
    Abstract: A frame assembly for supporting a flat article. In one aspect, the frame assembly may include a stack including a transparent window panel and a frame. The frame may include a floor structure for supporting the stack and an outer annular wall coupled to and surrounding the floor structure, the outer annular wall including a plurality of corners, an outer surface defining a periphery of the frame, an inner surface defining a display cavity, and a front edge that defines a display opening configured to allow the stack to pass therethrough into the display cavity. The inner surface of the outer annular wall may include a plurality of recessed regions, each of the recessed regions encompassing one of the corners of the outer annular wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Inventors: Robert Terry Coyle, Jr., Matthew Scott Kressin
  • Patent number: 8881441
    Abstract: A display case housing a display board for displaying a variety of differently sized medal articles and their ribbon widths, where the display board is constructed of a plurality of rectangular chip-board or other like material slats, horizontally arranged, where each is over-lapped in stepped fashion, the lower edge of the first slat extending in front of the top edge of the second slat; where the outer edges of the overlapped slats are fixed in place; where the medallions are inserted through a vertical slot from the backside of the display-mounting board, positioned as preferred, and are displayed on the front side of the display board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Inventor: Terry G. Thornton
  • Patent number: 8813404
    Abstract: The invention concerns a window unit for display, protection and preventive conservation of an object of limited thickness, in particular a work of art such as a painting, a bas-relief, a tapestry or similar. It comprises a case with a back (32) and a front door (31) coupled together so as to be able to have the case (30) take up an open state, in which the object (D) is not protected and can be inserted into or removed from the case (30), and a closed state, in which the object (D) is protected and can neither be inserted into nor removed from the case (30), in which the front door (31) is provided with a transparent front panel (48) through which the object (D) is visibilé from the front in the state with the case (30) closed. The window unit is characterized in that the back (32) is provided with a transparent rear panel (50) through which the object (D) is visibile from the rear in the state with the ease (30) closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Goppion S.p.A.
    Inventor: Alessandro Goppion
  • Patent number: 8365448
    Abstract: The memorial display is a retainer and display for funereal and memorial related items, such as obituary pages, sympathy cards, funeral flowers and the like. The memorial display includes a page retainer for receiving a display page, such as an obituary page. A transparent holder is provided for receiving the page retainer and securing the display page therein. A face plate, such as a memorial placard, is secured to a front face of the transparent holder. A framing mat, having opposed front and rear faces and a central cutout portion formed therethrough, is positioned against the transparent front face of the transparent holder for bordering the face plate. A frame member receives the page retainer, the transparent holder, the face plate and the framing mat such that the face plate is displayed through the front end of the frame member and the display page is displayed through the rear end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Inventor: James H. Gorham, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20110000116
    Abstract: A decorative display box having a picture frame lid fitting flush with its storage box base, hinges between the picture frame lid box base being of a type that is hidden when the lid is closed over the box base. A magnetic securing mechanism secures the lid in the closed position with the box base. The picture frame lid having a an inner peripheral picture slot with an edge slot opening thereinto for installing and removing the a picture stack from the frame. A door slide portion of the picture frame lid fits over picture slot adjacent one end of the picture frame and is secured in a closed position therewith by another magnetic securing mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2009
    Publication date: January 6, 2011
    Inventor: Michele Trevison Rain
  • Patent number: 7690143
    Abstract: An air conditioner is provided. In the air conditioner, a front frame is coupled to a front portion of a main body; a panel member is coupled to a front portion of the front frame; and an art panel detachably inserted into the panel member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Ji Hoon Kim, Joong Gil Yoo, Ki Jung Yoo, Hee Jae Kwon, Kam Gye Lee, In Hee Park
  • Patent number: 7650709
    Abstract: An air conditioner is provided. In the air conditioner, a base is provided, a front frame is coupled to a front of the base and it includes a filter insertion slot in a predetermined portion, a panel member is installed to the front frame and it includes a picture or a photograph detachably attached thereto, a heat exchanger is accommodated in the base to change heat with sucked air, and a blower fan is installed behind the heat exchanger to suck indoor air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Ji Hoon Kim, Joong Gil Yoo, Ki Jong Yoo, Hee Jae Kwon
  • Publication number: 20100011645
    Abstract: Disclosed is a decorative wall mounted container system. The system includes a container with an opened front and a pivotal forward cover. The cover has both a closed orientation, overlying the opened front of the container and an opened orientation. The front face of the cover can take the form of a decorative picture, which is displayed when the cover is in the closed orientation. In the opened configuration, the cover is retained at a 90-degree angle relative to the container, such that the rearward face of the cover can be used as a work surface and the contents of the container can be accessed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2009
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Inventor: Samantha Milburn-Hall
  • Patent number: 7607251
    Abstract: There is provided an air conditioner. In the air conditioner, a front panel is installed to a front of a main body, a front cover is disposed at a front of the front panel and detachably coupled to the main body, and an art panel is interchangeably inserted in the front cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Ji Hoon Kim, Joong Gil Yoo, Ki Jung Yoo, Hee Jae Kwon, Kam Gyu Lee, In Hee Park
  • Patent number: 7481014
    Abstract: Disclosed is a decorative wall mounted container system. The system includes a container with an opened front and a pivotal forward cover. The cover has both a closed orientation, overlying the opened front of the container and an opened orientation. The front face of the cover can take the form of a decorative picture, which is displayed when the cover is in the closed orientation. In the opened configuration, the cover is retained at a 90-degree angle relative to the container, such that the rearward face of the cover can be used as a work surface and the contents of the container can be accessed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2009
    Inventor: Samatha Milburn
  • Patent number: 6735831
    Abstract: A cremation remains container comprises a receptacle adapted to receive therein cremation remains, and a memorial plaque, adapted to be inscribed with an inscription of memorialization, movably mounted to the receptacle for movement to and between a display position exposing the plaque in view and a storage position concealing the plaque from view. The cover includes a transparent pane. A removable tray adapted to receive mementos of memorialization therein is included in the cremation remains container, is positioned adjacent the wall, is accessible via the cover and the mementos therein are visible through the pane. Optionally or alternatively the container may include a picture frame mounted to the cover whereby a picture placed in the frame is visible through the pane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2004
    Assignee: Batesville Services, Inc.
    Inventors: John Greiwe, Rodger Jones, Chris Lowery, Daniel J. Parker, Mark Thesken
  • Publication number: 20040010954
    Abstract: A display box that includes: a) a base having a bottom and at least one wall that terminates in an upper perimeter, b) a product display holder positioned in the base, and c) a cover for the base. The cover comprises a clear window and a frame that contains the window. The frame irreversibly engages the upper perimeter of the base wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2002
    Publication date: January 22, 2004
    Inventors: Patrick O'Brien, Gary Drach
  • Patent number: 6478336
    Abstract: A shallow box binder cover is provided for a binder containing a plurality of pages. The cover has a stiff, opaque core through which a plurality of display openings are defined. These display openings are surrounded by the structure of the cover core. A separate transparent plastic blister or box is located in each of the display openings. Each transparent box has a raised interior bubble surrounded by a base having mounting flanges projecting laterally from opposite sides of the periphery of the base. These mounting flanges are held against the inside surface of the front cover core so that the raised interior bubbles project into the display openings and into close proximity to the outer surface of the cover core. A front cover liner is disposed across the bases of the boxes to define separate, hollow enclosed cavities within the interior portions of each of the bubbles. Selected three-dimensional objects are placed within the bubbles before the front cover liner is disposed across the bases of the boxes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2002
    Inventor: Lam H. Tran
  • Patent number: 6349494
    Abstract: A display apparatus for a display has first member with four sides. The display apparatus includes a transparent restraining member mounted centrally within the four sides of the first member. A second member having four sides and a back is rotatably interconnected with the first member such that the first member can articulate between a first position and a second position. The display apparatus includes holding devices for holding the display as the first member moves from the first to the second position and back to the first position. At least one biasing device exerts an urging pressure for urging the display against the transparent restraining member when the first member is in the first position. The biasing device is preferably a compressible material with memory. The material lies adjacent to the display, distributing the urging pressure along a continuous portion of the display, substantially from one edge to an opposing edge, while the first member is in the closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2002
    Inventor: Donna J. Haggarty-Robbins
  • Patent number: 6012789
    Abstract: A vanity or jewel case is provided with a mirror base, which is fastened pivotally at one side thereof with an upper edge of one side of a body of the vanity or jewel case. The mirror base is composed of a cover plate and two mirror doors. The cover plate is provided in one side thereof with a mirror, whereas the mirror doors are fastened pivotally with the cover plate and provided with a mirror opposite to the mirror of the cover plate. The mirror doors are provided with a picture slot for holding a picture, which is further secured by a press plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2000
    Assignee: Tong Tsun Woodenware Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kuo-Tsun Lai