Patents Represented by Attorney Taylor IP
  • Patent number: 8006523
    Abstract: A vacuum break assembly including a housing, at least one valve assembly and at least one biased latch. The housing has at least one opening therein. The at least one valve assembly is coupled to the at least one opening in a sliding manner. The at least one biased latch couples the valve assembly to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Group Dekko, Inc.
    Inventor: Terry Hygema
  • Patent number: 7981820
    Abstract: A press fabric for a machine for the production of web material, especially paper or cardboard, includes a carrying structure and at least one layer of fibrous material on one web material contact side of the carrying structure, whereby at least some of the fibers of the at least one layer of fibrous material are coated at least partially with a film of a first polymeric material and whereby a permeable composite structure is formed by a second polymeric material in the at least one fibrous layer, in that the hollow spaces which are formed between fibers of the at least one fibrous layer are filled partially with the second polymeric material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Arved Westerkamp, Robert Crook, Robert Eberhardt
  • Patent number: 7976683
    Abstract: A machine for producing a fibrous web, in particular a paper web, paperboard web or tissue web, includes a former on which the fibrous web is formed on a structured belt and is dewatered between said structured belt and a forming belt, and a drying apparatus for the further dewatering of the fibrous web, through which the fibrous web is guided together with the structured belt and in which hot air flows through the permeable structured belt and the fibrous web. The forming fabric is formed by a printed forming fabric or a DSP fabric with zonally different permeability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Scherb
  • Patent number: 7965926
    Abstract: A chemical heating assembly includes a face plate, a chemical packet, a housing, a pair of electrical prongs carried by the housing, and a light assembly. The housing includes a first sliding arrangement and a first snap-fit arrangement, is connected to the face plate, and at least partially defines a pocket for the chemical packet. The light assembly includes a lamp, a second sliding arrangement engaged with the first sliding arrangement, and a second snap-fit arrangement coupled with the first snap-fit arrangement. The light assembly is mechanically connected to the housing and electrically connected with the pair of electrical prongs using the first and second sliding arrangements and the first and second snap-fit arrangements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Assignee: Group Dekko, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeff Pohl, Robert G. Cox
  • Patent number: 7954696
    Abstract: A mailbox mount including a platform, a first angled element and a second angled element. A mailbox is attachable to the platform, which has a surface. The first angled element has an end connected substantially perpendicularly to the surface of the platform. The first angled element has an other end with an angled surface. The second angled element has an angled surface in contact with the angled surface of the first angled element. The first angled element being rotatable relative to the second angled element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Wingard's Sales LLC
    Inventor: Sam Wingard
  • Patent number: 7946368
    Abstract: A fan unit for an agricultural machine includes a fan housing configured to define a plurality of fan chambers. Each fan chamber of the plurality of fan chambers has a respective air inlet port and a respective air outlet port. A shaft is rotatably mounted to the fan housing. The shaft has an axis of rotation that intersects the plurality of fan chambers. A plurality of fans is attached to the shaft for rotation with the shaft. Each fan of the plurality of fans is located in a separate respective fan chamber of the plurality of fan chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Nathan R. Vandike, Alan D. Sheidler
  • Patent number: 7947123
    Abstract: An impact filter suitable for a kitchen exhaust hood is provided with a grease trap to capture grease particles and channel the particles away. The trap can be of different configurations. The filter can be used in various system layouts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Kui-Chiu Kwok, Russell Robison
  • Patent number: 7942184
    Abstract: A vertical cellular blind includes a headrail having first and second tracks; a fabric carriage including a trolley translatable along one of the tracks and a fabric stem releasable connected to the trolley; a cellular fabric panel connected to the fabric stem; a vertical rail bracket translatable along the other of the tracks in the headrail and including a component angularly adjustable relative to the headrail; a vertical rail attached to the panel and connected to the vertical rail bracket; a cord having ends secured in the headrail and extending through the panel and the vertical rail; and a locking handle in the vertical rail having the cord extended therethrough and releasable pinching means in the handle for engaging the cord.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Springs Window Fashions, LLC
    Inventors: Michael John Cech, Toralf H. Strand, Dag Hammarskjold Cecchetti, Nicholas James Schultz
  • Patent number: 7927199
    Abstract: A harvesting machine including a chassis and a cleaning shoe. The cleaning shoe is supported by the chassis. The cleaning shoe includes a frame and at least one grain cleaning element. The frame is moveable in a first plane relative to the chassis. The at least one grain cleaning element is supported by the frame. The at least one grain cleaning element is movable in a second plane different from the first plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: James K. Adamson, Wesley Brands, Francisco Mezzomo
  • Patent number: 7922508
    Abstract: An electrical distribution system for electrifying a plurality of wall panels includes a jumper assembly including a telescoping slider which includes a plurality of conductors housed therein which slide relative to one another, the jumper assembly being configured for connecting to a first electrical distribution device connected to a first wall panel of the plurality of wall panels and for connecting to a second electrical distribution device connected to a second wall panel of the plurality of wall panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Group Dekko, Inc.
    Inventor: Shawn J. Kondas
  • Patent number: 7920044
    Abstract: An appliance assembly includes an appliance and a thermal assembly. The thermal assembly includes a housing attached to the appliance, a temperature sensing device carried by the housing and electrically coupled with the appliance, and a thermal fuse carried by the housing and electrically coupled with the appliance, the thermal assembly being a modular assembly and thereby configured for being, as a single unit, attached to and detached from the appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Group Dekko, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph J. Scheiber, Michael S. Coverstone
  • Patent number: 7918970
    Abstract: A band for a machine for producing web material, in particular paper, board or tissue, includes at least one fabric layer having longitudinal filaments running substantially in a band longitudinal direction and transverse filaments running substantially in a band transverse direction, end regions of the longitudinal filaments being woven with transverse connecting filaments in order to provide an endless configuration of the band, cross-sectional widenings being provided at the filament ends of at least some of the longitudinal filaments woven with transverse connecting filaments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Frank Bez
  • Patent number: 7905115
    Abstract: The invention relates to glass powder, especially a biologically active glass powder, which includes a plurality of glass particles and which is characterized by the following features: the glass particles are made up by >90% of non-spherical particles; the geometry of the individual non-spherical particle is characterized by a ratio of length to diameter of 1.1 to 105.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Guido Räke, Hildegard Römer, Peter Schreckenberg, Josè Zimmer, Frank Büllesfeld, Jörg Fechner, Cevin Czisch, Udo Fritsching
  • Patent number: 7905078
    Abstract: A machine for the harvest of stalk-like plants with a cutting arrangement for cutting plant stalks that extends in a plane terminating in a cutting edge and a conveying arrangement for taking up and conveying away the cut plant stalks. The plane of the cutting arrangement is inclined upward in the forward operating direction (V) of the machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Clemens Rickert, Jens Grobmeier, Martin Hüning, Leo Schulze Hockenbeck, Clemens Weitenberg
  • Patent number: 7905989
    Abstract: An apparatus for producing a fibrous web includes: a circulating permeable structured belt defining a sheet forming zone in which the fibrous web is formed; a circulating unstructured permeable supporting belt; a pressing section through which the fibrous web is led lying between the circulating permeable structured belt and the circulating unstructured permeable supporting belt; a Yankee cylinder having a surface and defining a press nip and a press nip region, wherein the fibrous web is led together with the structured belt through said press nip, the fibrous web in the region of the press nip being transferred from the structured belt to the surface of the Yankee cylinder; at least one doctor which doctors off the surface of the Yankee cylinder continuously; and a coating device which recoats the surface of the Yankee cylinder so that a renewed coating material is always present in the press nip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Scherb, Luiz Carlos Silva, Danilo Oyakawa, Rogerio Berardi
  • Patent number: 7901530
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a fabric seam in a fabric for use as papermachine clothing, the fabric having loops at each of the fabric's transverse ends adapted for interconnection by way of a pintle to make the fabric endless, including the steps of bringing the ends into end-to-end disposition in order to interdigitate the loops, inserting a pintle in the interdigitated loops, heat setting to fix base yarns and the loops of the fabric in place, inserting at least one stuffer yarn, at least a part of which includes a low melt component, into selected void areas in the loops adjacent the pintle, adhering at least one batt layer to the seam by needling, and further heat setting to at least partially melt the stuffer yarn such that it deforms to substantially take on the shape of the void areas at the pintle joint, to bind fibers of the batt needled into the void areas and to bind adjacent yarns of the fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: Voith Fabrics Patent GmbH
    Inventor: William D. Aldrich
  • Patent number: 7892401
    Abstract: A fabric for use in a papermaking machine, the fabric including a first end portion of the fabric having a first flexibility, and a second end portion of the fabric having a second flexibility. At least one of the first end portion and the second end portion is treated with an agent to reduce the flexibility associated therewith. The first end portion and the second end portion are coupled together. The agent is substantially removed from the first end portion and the second end portion. The reduced flexibility of the first end portion and/or the said second end portion define a stiffness that is substantially unaffected by a humid environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Robert Crook
  • Patent number: 7891182
    Abstract: A method for controlling an engine in a work machine includes determining a base engine operating limit; determining a hydraulic system load on the engine; calculating a modification value for the base engine operating limit; generating a modified engine operating limit based on the modification value and the base engine operating limit; generating an engine control signal based on the modified engine operating limit; and transmitting the engine control signal to operate the engine at the modified engine operating limit to thereby supply additional power from the engine to the drive train to at least partially compensate for the hydraulic system load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Andrew W. Kelly, Andrew J. Hageman
  • Patent number: 7891185
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine incorporating a turbo-generator and one or more variably activated exhaust valves. The exhaust valves are adapted to variably release exhaust gases from a combustion cylinder during a combustion cycle to an exhaust system. The turbo-generator is adapted to receive exhaust gases from the exhaust system and rotationally harness energy therefrom to produce electrical power. A controller is adapted to command the exhaust valve to variably open in response to a desired output for the turbo-generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventor: Carl T. Vuk
  • Patent number: 7886530
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes a turbocharger having a turbine, a first set of combustion cylinders, and a second set of combustion cylinders. A first particulate trap is in fluid communication between the first set of combustion cylinders and the turbine. A second particulate trap is in fluid communication between the second set of combustion cylinders and the turbine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Richard Edward Winsor, Kirby Jon Baumgard