Patents Assigned to Idea, Inc.
  • Patent number: 5450971
    Abstract: An adjustable shelf support structure adaptable for use in combination with existing refrigerated display coolers and other types of product merchandising display equipment including first and second members which are telescopingly engageable with each other such that the first and second members can be moved relative to each other to change the overall width of the support structure, the first and second members further including a mechanism for varying the effective length of the opposed side portions of the support structure so as to change the overall depth thereof, the first and second members when engaged with each other being capable of both width and depth adjustment to accommodate the varying width and depth dimensions associated with existing product merchandising display equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 19, 1995
    Assignee: Paul Flum Ideas, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew J. Boron, Donald J. Miller, Jr., Keith Harbour
  • Patent number: 5448844
    Abstract: An improved construction for mounting one or more changeable display panels in overlaying relationship to the outer surface of a product merchandising display unit or other supporting structure, the mounting construction including spaced opposed channel members and spaced opposed guide members positioned at predetermined locations on the outer surface of the display unit so as to cooperatively engage at least a portion of the respective top, bottom, and side edge portions of the display panel for holding the same in proper orientation on the display unit, the opposed channel members being constructed and dimensioned to provide additional maneuvering space therewithin so as to enable the opposed top and bottom edge portions of the display panel to be aligned and positioned for insertion therewithin, and at least one of the channel members including a step formed therein to facilitate the maneuvering of the display panel within the channel member preparatory to engaging and capturing both the top and bottom edg
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1995
    Assignee: Paul Flum Ideas, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald J. Miller, Jr., Keith Harbour
  • Patent number: 5432882
    Abstract: An automatic motor vehicle deodorizer device, adapted for insertion into a motor vehicle cigarette lighter socket having two terminals to provide electrical energy. The device is adapted to receive a vaporizable deodorizing agent. The device contains a power controller which automatically controls power to an internal heating element. The heating element is activated so long as the vaporizable deodorizing agent is above a precalibrated minimum size. The device contains an optional timer for activating the power controller. An optional override switch allows manual control of the heating element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1995
    Assignee: Ideal Ideas, Inc.
    Inventor: Johanne M. Glynn
  • Patent number: 5431078
    Abstract: A bagel slicer comprising a food holder having a receptacle for holding a bagel, and a blade holder with a blade, a handle and a pair of blade guarding walls. The food holder has a base and a pair of spaced vertical receptacle walls extending upwardly from the base forming a pair of opposed vertical slots. The blade holder has a handle, a pair of spaced transparent blade guarding walls surrounding and guided along the vertical walls of the food holder, and a blade having a pair of serrated cutting edges intersecting one another. The blade is arranged and dimensioned to ride in the vertical slots and to traverse the central part of the receptacle when the handle is vertically actuated to slice the food article. The bagel is held by a cradle which has blade protection lips to guard the blade cutting edge at the lower travel limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1995
    Assignee: Good Idea! Inc.
    Inventors: Paul J. Ricard, Robert A. Cann
  • Patent number: 5429255
    Abstract: The present invention is a dispenser closure, having a main closure base for attachment to a container, an outer ring and a push-pull dispenser mechanism attached to the base. The main closure base has a top portion with a circular horizontal track thereon for attachment with an outer ring and the outer ring has a corresponding circular inside wall horizonal track. They are connected so as to be freely horizontally rotatable thereabout, but otherwise permanently connected to one another. The outer ring has a top with an inwardly biased ledge for retaining a push-pull sleeve of the push-pull mechanism, and has a downwardly extended aspect to the ledge to retain the sleeve closed, and at least one cut out on the ledge to permit the sleeve to be pulled up to an open position. The sleeve has a circular bottom for inserting into the outer ring and over a push-pull stem of the push-pull mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 4, 1995
    Assignee: Ideal Ideas, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth P. Glynn
  • Patent number: 5417333
    Abstract: A gravity feed display unit capable of being both vertically and horizontally arranged to achieve a wide variety of modular gravity feed configurations comprising a plurality of shelf members each having opposed side wall portions and a planar floor portion extending therebetween dividing each shelf member into respective upper and lower portions, a plurality of socket cavities integrally formed with the respective upper and lower portions of each of the shelf members, the shelf socket cavities being positioned at spaced locations adjacent the opposed side wall portions of each respective shelf member and each socket cavity including angularly oriented side wall portions, a plurality of elongated support members each having opposed end portions adapted to be insertably receivable within each of the shelf socket cavities so as to connect adjacent shelf members in spaced apart relationship one above the other, the planar floor portion of each shelf member being angularly oriented relative to a horizontal surfac
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 23, 1995
    Assignee: Paul Flum Ideas, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul L. Flum
  • Patent number: 5402900
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a child resistant snap cap container device which includes a container, a collar ring, a snap cap and a spring. The container has a neck with a lower retainer bead and an upper retainer bead thereon and has at least one stop located below the lower retainer bead and at least one derailer lift located above the lower retainer. The collar ring is fitted onto the neck and has undercut ledges located on its inside so as to fit under the lower retainer bead of the neck and in horizontal alignment with the stop(s). The snap cap has a snap lip and has derailers located on its inside wall. It is hinged to the collar ring. The cap is adapted to fit onto the neck with the derailers being located below the upper retainer bead. There is at least one spring located between the ring and the shoulder of the container which biases the ring upwardly such that the container cannot be opened merely by rotation but must be pushed down and rotated to open.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1995
    Assignee: Ideal Ideas, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth P. Glynn
  • Patent number: 5397008
    Abstract: The present invention is a container and closure device, which includes the container, a collar ring and a cap. The container has a neck, an open top and a horizontal retainer track for affixing a collar ring thereto. The collar ring has a circular inside wall with a horizontal track for attachment to the track of the container so as to be horizontally and freely rotatable thereabout. The collar ring also has a top with a ledge thereon for frictionally engaging and retaining a cap, and has at least one cut out on the ledge to permit a cap to be inserted and removed from the collar ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 14, 1995
    Assignee: Ideal Ideas, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth P. Glynn
  • Patent number: D355452
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 14, 1995
    Assignee: Ideal Ideas, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth P. Glynn
  • Patent number: D355569
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1995
    Assignee: Original Ideas, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert A. DeMars
  • Patent number: D355681
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1995
    Assignee: Ideal Ideas, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth P. Glynn
  • Patent number: D355793
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 28, 1995
    Assignee: Paul Flum Ideas, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul L. Flum
  • Patent number: D355940
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 28, 1995
    Assignee: Ideal Ideas, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth P. Glynn
  • Patent number: D356123
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 7, 1995
    Assignee: Ideal Ideas, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth P. Glynn
  • Patent number: D356124
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 7, 1995
    Assignee: Ideal Ideas, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth P. Glynn
  • Patent number: D356348
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 14, 1995
    Assignee: Ideal Ideas, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth P. Glynn
  • Patent number: D356609
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 21, 1995
    Assignee: Ideal Ideas, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth P. Glynn
  • Patent number: D357037
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1995
    Assignee: Ideal Ideas, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth P. Glynn
  • Patent number: D358955
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 6, 1995
    Assignee: Paul Flum Ideas, Inc.
    Inventor: Dewalt W. Fowler
  • Patent number: D361098
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 8, 1995
    Assignee: Ideal Ideas, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth P. Glynn