Patents Assigned to L&P Property Management
  • Method and apparatus for lumbar support with integrated actuator housing
    Patent number: 6676214
    Abstract: A lumbar support for a seat includes an archable pressure surface having an upper region and a lower region and a force actuator such as an electric motor. The force actuator is held in a housing. The actuator housing is fixedly attached to said archable pressure surface in a compact design. A force transmission element such as a cable is connected to at least one of the upper and lower regions of the pressure surface and the force transmission element is also connected to the actuator. When force is applied by the force actuator to the cable, the pressure surface arches from a substantially flat position to an arched position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignee: L & P Property Management Company
    Inventors: Robert McMillen, Edward J. L. Meszaros
  • Bedding or seating foundation having sinuous spring modules
    Publication number: 20040003466
    Abstract: A bedding or seating product comprising a base having a pair of end rails, a pair of side rails and a plurality of intermediate rails. A plurality of resilient sinuous spring modules are secured to the base rails. A nestably stackable wire assembly including a wire grid, support wires and surrounding border wire are supported by the sinuous spring modules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2002
    Publication date: January 8, 2004
    Applicant: L&P Property Management Company
    Inventors: Von W. Brottlund, Kelly M. Knewtson
  • Operator input interface for baling machine
    Publication number: 20040006402
    Abstract: An operator interface for a control system for a bulk material baler includes interface means such as a touch screen or keyboard for an operator to enter process parameters into a control system memory. A display shows process parameter fields into which an operator may enter desired control parameters. The display also displays data feedback from baler process sensors. The baler control system then controls baling parameters as the operator directs including: strap feed position, strap feed speed, strap feed torque, strap release tension, tying cylinder position, tying cylinder speed and tying cylinder torque. The operator may also control carriage movement, alarm limits, shut off limits and monitor on the display baler processing data both currently and historically. Other aspects of automated baling may be optionally monitored or controlled through the operator interface of the present invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2003
    Publication date: January 8, 2004
    Applicant: L & P Property Management Company
    Inventors: Timothy C. Stamps, Steven Phillips, James Dutton, Barton Wade Daniel
  • Bedding or seating foundation having metal spring modules
    Publication number: 20040003465
    Abstract: A bedding or seating product comprising a base having a pair of end rails, a pair of side rails and a plurality of intermediate rails. A plurality of resilient C-shaped metal spring modules are secured to the base rails. A nestably stackable wire assembly including a wire grid and surrounding border wire are supported by the metal spring modules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2002
    Publication date: January 8, 2004
    Applicant: L&P Property Management Company
    Inventors: Thomas J. Wells, Henry Ramsey
  • Apparatus and method for pulley actuator
    Patent number: 6668679
    Abstract: A tensioning cable actuator has a housing with a nut held in the housing. The nut has threads which engage a lead screw that has corresponding threads. A pulley cradle is fixed to the lead screw. The pulley cradle is disposed within the housing to translate axially with the lead screw upon rotation of the nut. A pulley is disposed in the pulley cradle. A Bowden cable wire wraps around the pulley and is anchored to the housing so that the wire moves into or out of the Bowden cable sleeve twice far as the lead screw moves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2003
    Assignee: L & P Property Management Company
    Inventor: Robert McMillen
  • Sofa sleeper with integral air mattress and valve
    Patent number: 6665893
    Abstract: This invention is directed to a mattress assembly for use in a sofa sleeper. The mattress assembly has a first mattress that has an inner-spring construction. Disposed above the first mattress is a second mattress that has an air bladder construction. The air bladder of the second mattress has a valve, which is located adjacent the head end of the mattress. The valve is adapted to selectively allow air into and out of the air bladder. The mattress assembly thus provides the combination of an innerspring mattress with an air mattress. The location of the valve allows the air mattress portion to be deflated properly and allows convenient access to the valve for inflation or air pressure adjustment purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2003
    Assignee: L & P Property Management Company
    Inventor: Larry Frugé
  • Mattress label sewing clamp
    Patent number: 6662737
    Abstract: A clamping system for a sewing machine used to sew first and second materials together. The clamping system has a plurality of clamps mounted adjacent an opening in a frame. Each of the clamps has a stationary member, a movable member and an actuator. The actuator is connected to the movable member and operates to move the movable member in a clamping relationship with the stationary member to clamp the first material in the clamp. The clamp is powered by a cylinder with a linear stroke, and the clamp has a driving member that transfers the linear motion of the cylinder into a pivoting motion of the movable member. Further, the movable and fixed members have forward ends shaped so that they hold the first material but do not interfere with a sewing of the first member to the second member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2003
    Assignee: L&P Property Management Company
    Inventors: Steven Marcangelo, Robert T. Norton
  • Bedding or seating product with spring core topper
    Patent number: 6658682
    Abstract: A bedding or seating product comprising a base and a topper located above the base, the base and topper being surrounded in an upholstered covering. In one embodiment, the topper comprises a plurality of parallel continuous bands of springs, each of said bands being made of one piece of wire. In another embodiment, the topper is posturized with coil spring segments and filler segments. The segments may extend from side to side or be arranged in numerous other configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignee: L&P Property Management Company
    Inventor: Thomas J. Wells
  • Posturized foam ply for use in a bedding or seating product
    Patent number: 6658683
    Abstract: A posturized foam topper pad (12) for use in a bedding or seating product (10) has at least one section (28) which includes latex, and at least one section (26) which is free of latex, thereby providing the foam topper pad (12) with different degrees of firmness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignee: L&P Property Management Company
    Inventor: Eddie L. Parvin
  • Adjustable shelving/display system
    Patent number: 6659295
    Abstract: A shelving display system comprising a conventional gondola made up of a generally horizontal base and at least two upstanding posts to which generally horizontal top and bottom tracks are attached. Support/display members, such as decorative panels, standards for shelf brackets and shelves, and partitions may be attached to the top and bottom tracks to complete the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignee: L&P Property Management Company
    Inventors: Martin L. De Land, D. Mark Pritchard, Steven C. Thompson
  • Unitized back plate and lumbar support
    Patent number: 6652029
    Abstract: A unitized back plate and lumbar support device for a seat including a back plate, a housing with a channel, which housing is fixedly attached to the back plate, and an extending paddle. The extending paddle has a free end with a pressure surface, the surface being a load bearing element proximal to a seat occupant, and the extending paddle has an encapsulated end in extendible communication with the channel in the housing. An actuator mediates travel of the extending paddle between a substantially retracted position and an extended position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2003
    Assignee: L & P Property Management Company
    Inventor: Robert McMillen
  • Apparatus and method for lumbar support with variable apex
    Patent number: 6652028
    Abstract: A lumbar support to be installed in a seat has an apex that varies vertically along a guide rail. The guide rail has an upper stop and a lower stop. A bowing element disposed on the guide rail travels in a substantially vertical plane. A first bowden cable draws an upper of the bowing element downward until a lower portion of the bowing element is in abutment with the lower stop such that a low convexity is formed in the bowing element as the bowden cable continues to draw the upper portion of said bowing element further towards the lower stop. A second bowden cable draws a lower portion of the bowing element upward until the upper portion of the bowing element is in abutment with the upper stop and such that a high convexity is formed in the bowing element as the bowing element continues to draw said lower portion of the bowing element further towards the upper stop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2003
    Assignee: L & P Property Management
    Inventor: Robert McMillen
  • Apparatus and method for securing end turns of coil springs to a border wire
    Publication number: 20030213110
    Abstract: The apparatus has an indexable carriage adapted to move the coil springs and the border wire along a path. A wire cutter disposed adjacent the path has an inner member with an axial hole adapted to receive the wire and a tubular outer member receiving the inner member and movable relative to the inner member. The outer member has a cutting edge. An actuator is operatively connected to one of the inner and outer members to provide a relative rotation between the inner and outer members. That relative rotation results in the wire being sheared by the cutting edge to provide a length of wire. A wire wrapping mechanism disposed adjacent the path receives the length of wire and wraps the length of wire around an end turn of a coil spring and a border wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2002
    Publication date: November 20, 2003
    Applicant: L&P Property Management Company
    Inventor: Kelly M. Knewtson
  • Shelf insert
    Patent number: 6648151
    Abstract: A shelf assembly for organizing and merchandising a plurality of products. The shelf assembly comprises a shelf having a bottom, plurality of dividers extending from front to back, a pair of dividers and the bottom forming a track in which a column of products are arranged. A front member pivotal about a stop, or pivotally engaged with the dividers, prevents the forwardmost product within the column from falling off the front of the shelf. The pivotal front members enable product to be pulled forwardly off the shelf, minimizing the spacing necessary between adjacent shelves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2003
    Assignee: L&P Property Management Company
    Inventors: Joseph M. Battaglia, Rafael T. Bustos
  • Coupled waveband suspension for bedding and seating units
    Patent number: 6647574
    Abstract: A coupled waveband (14, 21) suspension for bed underframes, seating, upholstery, and mattresses consists of several sinusoidal wavebands (14, 21) which run parallel and/or transversely to the longitudinal axis. Support elements (12, 35) are rigidly or moveably fixed to or ride on the crests or maxima of the wavebands (14, 21). The troughs or minima are supported by slide or roll bearing elements (17) affixed to the frame. A strong interactive coupling is achieved between the support elements (12, 35) causing a positive stroke of the less pressure-loaded segments and the appropriate support elements by the simultaneous lowering of the pressure-loaded waveband segments. The wavebands (14, 21) are manufactured out of higher quality, elastically flexible sold plastic or foam material, or of spring steel band or wire, duralumin, or out of formed laminated wood.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2003
    Assignee: L&P Property Management Company
    Inventor: Erhard Weber
  • Fabric goods cutting table with laser alignment
    Patent number: 6644156
    Abstract: A cutting table for cutting pieces of fabric. The table has a fabric supporting surface mounted on a frame. A cutter is manually movable along a linear cutting path that is substantially perpendicular to an edge guide. First and second light emitting devices emit respective first and second lights in a direction substantially parallel to the linear cutting path. A manually powered drive supports the first and second light emitting devices in a spaced apart relationship, and the drive is manually operable to move the light emitting devices through equal displacements in opposite directions substantially perpendicular to the linear cutting path. The light emitting devices are used to quickly align the fabric, so that it can be cut to a desired width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2003
    Assignee: L&P Property Management Company
    Inventor: Richard S. Villacis
  • Apparatus and method for roll packing compressible materials
    Patent number: 6640520
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for roll packing a variety of compressible materials including a radially collapsible mandrel for easy removal of the roll packed material without tearing or telescoping of the material. The apparatus further includes an adjustable compression roller for setting the amount of compression in the rolled material and a roll handling device that facilitates removal of finished rolls from the apparatus. In one embodiment of the invention, a packing material dispenser supplies packing material to the in-fed compressible material as it is wound upon the mandrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2003
    Assignee: L&P Property Management Company
    Inventor: Josip Gecic
  • Apparatus and method for thin profile ratchet actuator
    Patent number: 6637575
    Abstract: A ratchet actuator for an ergonomic device has a thin profile due to the combination of multiple functions into single parts. A ratchet drive gear also has drive fingers for operating a clutch. A clutch stator has high and low steps for engaging and disengaging ratchet pawls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2003
    Assignee: L & P Property Management Company
    Inventors: Jintao Liu, Alfred Stadlbauer
  • Wide aperture wire tracking for baling machine
    Patent number: 6637324
    Abstract: A guide track for a strap with which to bind a bale of bulk material. The guide track includes a convex portion and a restraining portion. Two lateral guide track halves are biased together. On their internal faces the guide track section halves have channels. The baling strap or baling wire is driven through the channels and guided around the material to be baled. The channels widen from a small diameter to a wide aperture at the receiving end of the guide track sections for receiving a lead end of a wire or strap that is propelled across a gap from a preceding guide track section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2003
    Assignee: L & P Property Management Company
    Inventor: Timothy C. Stamps
  • Swivel base for a chair stool
    Patent number: D484718
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignee: L. & P. Property Management Company
    Inventor: James H. Sulzer