Patents Assigned to Darling & Company
  • Patent number: 8613365
    Abstract: An upright assembly for a shelving system includes a tubular upper upright section having a bottom end portion, a rail assembly and a base assembly having a top end portion and a tubular lower upright section. The base assembly is adapted to stand on a surface and the top end portion of the lower upright section of the base assembly is connected to the bottom end portion of the upper upright section. An insert blade assembly connector including a blade and an alignment plate is positioned within the tubular upper and lower upright sections. The rail assembly is connected to the upper upright section and the lower upright section of the base assembly to strengthen the connection between the upper upright section and the base assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: L.A. Darling Company, LLC
    Inventors: Taft O'Quinn, Michael Martin, Val-Jean Duchene
  • Patent number: 6220461
    Abstract: A slant shelf system features a slatwall with slats separated by grooves. Each groove contains two or more channels. An adapter clip features two or more slits and a lip sized to engage the channels. A shelf features side, front and rear walls. The rear wall includes a flange attached to its upper end. Tabs extend down from the flange and are sized to engage the slits of the adapter clips. By selectively positioning the lip of the adapter clips in the channels of the slatwall and the tabs of the shelf into the slits of the adapter clip, the shelf may be mounted at various tilt angles with respect to the slatwall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2001
    Assignee: L.A. Darling Company
    Inventor: Robert P. Dickinson
  • Patent number: 6216884
    Abstract: A portable fabric bolt hanger in the form of a substantially planar frame includes an upper portion, a body portion, and a base. The upper and body portions fit inside the hollow core tube of a fabric bolt, so that the fabric bolt is supported by the base. A handhold and a hanging hook are formed in the upper portion so that the fabric bolt hanger supporting a fabric bolt may be easily handled and may be hung from conventional display racks. Hinges are provided in the hanger allowing the hanger to be folded and its length thereby adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2001
    Assignee: L.A. Darling Company
    Inventors: Larry K. Terry, D. Deane Allinson, Robert S. Old
  • Patent number: 4232425
    Abstract: A continuous process of preparing low fat stabilized bone particularly suited for producing high quality gelatin from trimmed raw bone which is preferably crushed in a pre-hogger and fed continuously to preferably a screw type press mounted within a cage having a choke and perforations in the wall of the cage through which soft non-bone material is extruded. The pressed bone which is recovered separately from the soft non-bone material has a substantially reduced content of fat and meat tissue without heating while in contact with liquid fat. The pressed bone is heated in an oven dryer to a temperature up to 250.degree. F. (121.degree. C.) which crisps the fat and meat tissue adhering to the pieces of bone so that the crisp fat and meat tissue is readily separated from the bone during the heating, tumbling and screening thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1980
    Date of Patent: November 11, 1980
    Assignee: Darling & Company
    Inventor: Herbert W. Wojcik
  • Patent number: D681981
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: L.A. Darling Company LLC
    Inventors: Charles J. Sharpe, Gregory O C Ota
  • Patent number: D682410
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: L.A. Darling Company LLC
    Inventor: James Hester
  • Patent number: D683160
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: L.A. Darling Company LLC
    Inventors: Eric V. Williams, Gregory O. C. Ota
  • Patent number: D701405
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: L.A Darling Company LLC
    Inventors: Gregory R. Pace, Lance A. Engebretson
  • Patent number: D706064
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: L.A. Darling Company
    Inventors: Gregory O. C. Ota, Kyle Basarich, John Dealy
  • Patent number: D707067
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: L.A. Darling Company
    Inventors: Kyle Basarich, Gregory O. C. Ota, John Dealy
  • Patent number: D713955
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: L.A. Darling Company
    Inventors: James Hester, Randy R. Guthrie