Patents Assigned to Allen Field Company, Inc.
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Patent number: 10807412Abstract: The mount includes a base formed of a substantially planar side wall and a substantially planar bottom wall. The interior surfaces of the walls intersect at a right angle. Each of the walls has an opening. The wall openings together form a recess adapted to receive the wheel. A first notched protrusion extends from the side wall interior surface and is intended to be received in a slot adjacent a cut-out on the side wall of a container on which the mount is installed. A second protrusion, having two portions situated as an angle extends from the bottom wall interior surface of the mount and is intended to be received in a slot adjacent a cut-out on the bottom of the container.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2019Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: ALLEN FIELD COMPANY, INC.Inventors: Robert Ahearn, Eric Seger, Andrew Franzone, Jr.
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Patent number: 10413091Abstract: The device is designed for use with a package having a header. The device includes a body having top and bottom surfaces, and front and rear edges. A hook extends from the top surface of the body and is adapted to engage the display. A front member extends downwardly from the front edge of the body. At least one rear member extends downwardly from the rear edge of the body. The front and rear members and the bottom surface of the body form a recess which is adapted to receive the header. A part engages the header between the front and rear members. The part extends from one member toward the header and includes an upwardly and inwardly inclined wall.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: ALLEN FIELD COMPANY, INC.Inventors: Robert Ahearn, Andrew Franzone, Jr.
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Patent number: 10377175Abstract: In order to form a mobile wheel base, a stem caster adapter or a wheel assembly are attached to the bottom of a platform support or a container such as a cardboard carton are provided. The adapter has a body with a cylindrical recess open at the bottom surface adapted to receive and engage the stem of the caster. In the wheel assembly, a wheel or roller is rotatably attached to the bottom of the body. Both the adapter and wheel assembly have a cylindrical member extending from the top surface of the body with oppositely extending protrusions forming a bayonet-type mount. The mount is received within an opening in the bottom of the platform support or container and then rotated to attach the adapter or wheel assembly to the platform support or container.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2017Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: ALLEN FIELD COMPANY, INC.Inventors: Andrew Franzone, Jr., Robert Ahearn, Eric Seger
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Patent number: 9993094Abstract: A hook is provided for a merchandise display including a support wall having an opening. The hook includes a base. The base includes a first wall and a second wall. The base walls are substantially parallel to each other and spaced from each other by a distance at least as great as the thickness of the support wall. The hook extends from the first wall and is adapted to retain one or more merchandise items. The first wall has a central portion and oppositely directed, substantially coplanar sections extending from the central portion. The first wall is adapted to be inserted through the support wall opening from behind the support wall such that the support wall is situated between the first wall and the second wall. The hook is then rotated relative to the support wall to secure the base of the hook to the support wall.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2017Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: ALLEN FIELD COMPANY, INC.Inventors: Andrew Franzone, Jr., Robert Ahearn, Eric Seger
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Patent number: 9839303Abstract: The device is designed to be suspended from a rack to display multiple packaged products. It includes an elongated flexible plastic body with multiple, uniformly spaced truncated elongated pyramid-like raised portions. The raised portions have top surfaces. An opening in each top surface is defined in part by an edge. A member with an unattached end portion extends from the edge, in alignment with the opening. The unattached edge portion of the member is spaced from the top surface. The member end is adapted to be received within an opening in a product package such that the package is supported by the device in a manner which provides easy loading of the device at the factory, efficient shipping of the loaded device to a retail establishment, easy removal of one or more packages from the device and in which at least a portion of each displayed package is visible.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2016Date of Patent: December 12, 2017Assignee: ALLEN FIELD COMPANY, INC.Inventor: Andrew Franzone, Jr.
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Publication number: 20130277381Abstract: The handle end portions are attached to the tray by separate connectors. The tray has spaced openings to receive the connectors. Each connector has an anchor-shaped section which is received in a tray opening and a section which engages a handle end portion. The anchor-shaped section has arms which flex to permit the connector to be received in the tray opening and thereafter return to their extended position to cooperate with the tray to securely attach the connector to the tray and prevent free rotation of the connector. The handle engaging section includes a hook-shaped member which is received an opening in the handle end portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2012Publication date: October 24, 2013Applicants: Allen Field Company, Inc., Texpak, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Franzone, JR., John Sperling
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Patent number: 7922219Abstract: A connecting clip for connecting two members to each other at apertures through the two members. The connecting clip includes a first section connected to a second section by a living hinge. The first section includes a general ring shaped portion forming a hole, a first stationary projection extending away from the general ring shaped portion at a rear side of the general ring shaped portion, and a movably second projection connected to the general ring shaped portion by another living hinge. The second projection is movable to a deployed position extending out of the hole with an end of the second projection extending in a direction different from the first projection. The second section includes a pushing portion adapted to push against the second projection when the second section is moved from an open position to a closed position to thereby move the second projection to the deployed position.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2006Date of Patent: April 12, 2011Assignee: Allen Field Company, Inc.Inventor: Andrew Lawrence Franzone, Jr.
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Patent number: 7458548Abstract: Disclosed herein is a shelf locking system. The shelf locking system includes a shelf support and a shelf lock. The shelf support is configured to contact a first side of a shelf. The shelf lock is removably engageable with the shelf support. The shelf lock includes a body section and a first contact member. The first contact member extends from the body section. The shelf lock is installed in one of two positions. The first contact member is configured to contact a second side of the shelf when the shelf lock is in the first position. The first contact member is configured to contact a third side of the shelf when the shelf lock is in the second position.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2007Date of Patent: December 2, 2008Assignee: Allen Field Company, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Lawrence Franzone, Jr., Robert Ahearn
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Patent number: 6014850Abstract: A molded one-piece flexible plastic strip handle includes a first wall at one end of the strip that extends from the mid-portion of the strip, a second wall attached by one end to the first wall forming a U with the first wall having its apex below the plane of the mid-portion, and a tongue that extends from the apex toward the second end of the strip and makes an acute angle with the first wall. An opening in the first wall is configured to receive the tongue when it is bent toward the opening by inserting the second wall and first wall in a predetermined opening in a container wall.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 1998Date of Patent: January 18, 2000Assignee: Allen Field Company, Inc.Inventor: Paul LeMire
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Patent number: 5732921Abstract: A serrated thrust element inserted between serrated portions of handles of a clip, forces the jaws of the clip closed by a single unidirectional movement toward the pivot of the clip between the handles and the jaws. The clip may be hung by the thrust element without affecting the jaw spacing.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 1996Date of Patent: March 31, 1998Assignee: Allen Field Company, Inc.Inventor: Paul Lemire
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Patent number: D507417Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2003Date of Patent: July 19, 2005Assignee: Allen Field Company, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Franzone, Jr., Robert Ahearn
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Patent number: D583664Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2006Date of Patent: December 30, 2008Assignee: Allen Field Company, Inc.Inventor: Andrew Lawrence Franzone, Jr.
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Patent number: D856144Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2017Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: ALLEN FIELD COMPANY, INC.Inventors: Robert Ahearn, Andrew Franzone, Jr.
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Patent number: D885909Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2019Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: ALLEN FIELD COMPANY, INC.Inventors: Andrew Franzone, Jr., Robert Ahearn, Eric Seger