Patents Assigned to Carter Hoffmann LLC
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Patent number: 10485381Abstract: A food storage container is provided. The container includes a housing with a bottom, a first side wall, and a second side wall fixed to the first side wall that defines a food storage volume therewithin. The first side wall extends from a first end portion that includes a first peg that extends therefrom in a direction parallel with a plane through the first side wall. A third side wall is removably mounted to the first peg, wherein when mounted to the first peg, the third side wall establishes a barrier of the food storage volume different than barriers of the food storage volume provided by the bottom, the first side wall, and the second side wall. When the third side wall is removed from the first peg, the food storage volume may be accessed through a void left by the removal of the third side wall.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2016Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: Carter-Hoffmann LLCInventors: Robert C. Fortmann, Frank G. Marolda
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Patent number: 10408885Abstract: A method of displaying a battery life for a warming cart battery is provided. The method includes the steps of detecting with a processor that a warming cart battery voltage is out of range of a predetermined threshold, determining with a processor an operation state of each of a plurality of periphery warming cart devices, and automatically setting a battery scale of a warming cart battery based on which of the plurality of periphery warming cart devices are in an active operation state.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2017Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: Carter-Hoffmann LLCInventors: Robert Cooper Bohn, Richard Joseph Paddock, Jr., Jeffrey S. Erber, Robert C. Fortmann
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Patent number: 10258197Abstract: A modular holding cabinet is provided. The cabinet includes a housing defining an internal volume and an open front providing access into the internal volume. The housing supports at least one plate therewithin. The housing supports one or more end walls that are each aligned spaced outboard from an end face of a plate such that an air gap is established therebetween. The internal volume defines a plurality of discrete heating zones located above each of the one or more plates, each discrete heating zone receives heat from a first heater disposed within the respective plate and a plurality of second heaters disposed above the respective plate. The housing includes a plurality of displays and a plurality of inputs, with one of the plurality of displays and one of the plurality of inputs associated with each discrete heating zone.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2016Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: Carter-Hoffmann LLCInventors: Robert C. Fortmann, Frank G. Marolda
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Publication number: 20180224191Abstract: A refrigerator operates in a single mode and a dual mode. A plurality of sides defines a storage compartment. At least one door provides access to the storage compartment via an opening in at least one of the sides. At least one outlet vent expels air across the at least one opening towards at least one inlet vent configured to receive at least a portion of the expelled air. A first cooling circuit is fluidly coupled to at least the storage compartment. A second cooling circuit is fluidly coupled to at least one of the outlet vent, the inlet vent, and at least one air screen inlet vent. The refrigerator operates in the single mode when the door is closed during which the first cooling circuit operates. The refrigerator operates in the dual mode when the door is open during which the first cooling circuit and the second cooling circuit operate.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2017Publication date: August 9, 2018Applicant: Carter Hoffmann, LLCInventor: Frank G. Marolda
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Publication number: 20170328958Abstract: A method of displaying a battery life for a warming cart battery is provided. The method includes the steps of detecting with a processor that a warming cart battery voltage is out of range of a predetermined threshold, determining with a processor an operation state of each of a plurality of periphery warming cart devices, and automatically setting a battery scale of a warming cart battery based on which of the plurality of periphery warming cart devices are in an active operation state.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2017Publication date: November 16, 2017Applicant: Carter-Hoffmann LLCInventors: Robert Cooper Bohn, Richard Joseph Paddock, JR., Jeffrey S. Erber, Robert C. Fortmann
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Publication number: 20170079476Abstract: A food storage container is provided. The container includes a housing with a bottom, a first side wall, and a second side wall fixed to the first side wall that defines a food storage volume therewithin. The first side wall extends from a first end portion that includes a first peg that extends therefrom in a direction parallel with a plane through the first side wall. A third side wall is removably mounted to the first peg, wherein when mounted to the first peg, the third side wall establishes a barrier of the food storage volume different than barriers of the food storage volume provided by the bottom, the first side wall, and the second side wall. When the third side wall is removed from the first peg, the food storage volume may be accessed through a void left by the removal of the third side wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2016Publication date: March 23, 2017Applicant: Carter-Hoffmann LLCInventors: Robert C. Fortmann, Frank G. Marolda
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Publication number: 20160249770Abstract: A food storage container is provided. The container includes a housing with a bottom, a first side wall, and a second side wall fixed to the first side wall that defines a food storage volume therewithin. The first side wall extends from a first end portion that includes a first peg that extends therefrom in a direction parallel with a plane through the first side wall. A third side wall is removably mounted to the first peg, wherein when mounted to the first peg, the third side wall establishes a barrier of the food storage volume different than barriers of the food storage volume provided by the bottom, the first side wall, and the second side wall. When the third side wall is removed from the first peg, the food storage volume may be accessed through a void left by the removal of the third side wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2016Publication date: September 1, 2016Applicant: Carter Hoffmann LLCInventors: Robert C. Fortmann, Frank G. Marolda
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Patent number: D829471Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2017Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: Carter-Hoffmann LLCInventors: Robert C. Fortmann, Frank G. Marolda
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Patent number: D861384Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2018Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: Carter-Hoffmann LLCInventors: Michael Clay Crutcher, Richard Paddock, Edward Thomas Lucic, III