Patents Assigned to L&P Property Management
  • Convoluted surface fiber pad
    Patent number: 6500292
    Abstract: A non-woven fiber pad having a convoluted surface formed by cutting a non-woven fiber batt having a plurality of low melt synthetic fibers. The non-woven batt is compressed generally toward a cutting device by a pair of counter-rotating drums having convoluted surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2002
    Assignee: L&P Property Management Company
    Inventors: Niels S. Mossbeck, Steven Eugene Ogle
  • Adjustable bed with vibrators
    Patent number: 6499161
    Abstract: An adjustable bed having an upper frame mounted to translate with respect to a lower frame. A center support is connected to the upper frame and has a head support pivotally connected to one end thereof. A thigh support is pivotally connected to the other end of the center support and a foot support is connected to the other end of the thigh support. The bed includes an improved mounting for a massage motor in which a resonator board is mounted on resilient spacers on an upper surface of a support platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2002
    Assignee: L&P Property Management Company
    Inventor: Robert G. Godette
  • Slidable unit for modular shelving system
    Patent number: 6497185
    Abstract: A slidable unit for use. in modular shelving systems, which comprises a support structure, such as a drawer or platform, a glide frame and a pair of brackets. The glide frame is sized and shaped to receive the support structure. A pair of brackets slidably supports the glide frame, each bracket adapted for removable attachment to the shelving system. The slidable unit further includes a pair of glide members to hold the glide frame therebetween and a rail secured to each bracket, each rail sized and shaped to receive and support said glide members for gliding movement relative to the rail. A plurality of support flanges are disposed on the front and rear of the support structure, each support flange adapted to receive the glide frame, thereby supporting the drawer from the glide frame in a plurality of orientations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2002
    Assignee: L&P Property Management Company
    Inventors: Ricklef E. Barrett, Martin L. De Land
  • Modular gravity feed dispenser unit
    Patent number: 6494328
    Abstract: A modular system is provided for mounting a gravity feed dispenser that allows one or more fixtures to be mounted in front of, and in working relationship with, the dispenser. The gravity feed dispenser is mounted on a support structure in such a way that other fixtures such as shelving, hangers, rods, or other storage and display fixtures can be mounted in front of the dispenser in a number of different configurations. A workstation featuring one or more gravity feed dispensers is provided by mounting a work area and shelves in front of and in working relationship with the dispensers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2002
    Assignee: L&P Property Management Company
    Inventors: Ricklef E. Barrett, Martin L. De Land
  • Pocketed bedding or seating product with cushioning pads inside pockets
    Patent number: 6490744
    Abstract: A bedding or seating product comprising a spring assembly made of a plurality of strings of springs connected to each other. Each string of springs comprises a plurality of individually pocketed coil springs. Within each pocket is a coil spring and at least one cushioning pad secured to the coil spring. In one embodiment, one cushioning pad is secured to the upper end turn of the coil spring. In an alternative embodiment, cushioning pads are secured to the upper and lower end turns of the coil spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2002
    Assignee: L&P Property Management Company
    Inventor: Martin Schulz, Jr.
  • Bedding or seating product with nestable stackable modules
    Patent number: 6484339
    Abstract: A bedding or seating product comprising a base having a generally rectangular frame and a plurality of internal rails, a wire grid spaced above the base and a plurality of plastic modules connecting the wire frame and the base. Each of the plastic modules has four arms extending upwardly from a bottom portion and terminating in end portions. Each end portion has a pair of perpendicular grooves adapted to receive intersecting wires of the wire grid. The modules are nestably stackable to save space during shipping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2002
    Assignee: L & P Property Management Company
    Inventors: Niels S. Mossbeck, Jacob J. Neuenswander, Thomas J. Wells
  • Modular room system and method
    Publication number: 20020170240
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the present invention employ a modular room including a plurality of modular room components (e.g., anchor assemblies, upright assemblies, etc.). These anchor assemblies and upright assemblies can take different forms permitting assembly of a modular room or modular structure in different manners, and in some cases provide for interchangeable interior and exterior wall panels and components. In some embodiments, a bracket assembly is coupled to an substantially vertical elongated upright for improved strength and stability. Preferably, the anchor assembly has a base plate with at least one edge at an angle with respect to the rest of the base plate for additional strength. If desired, the vertical position of the upright with respect to the base plate can be adjusted. In some embodiments, one or more overhead trusses are used to stabilize the walls of a modular room.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2002
    Publication date: November 21, 2002
    Applicant: L & P Property Management Company
    Inventor: Steven C. Thompson
  • Printing and quilting method and apparatus
    Publication number: 20020166467
    Abstract: A quilting machine (10, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600) is provided with a printing station (20, 125, 225, 325, 425, 525, 611, 626, 631) and a quilting station (44, 127, 227, 327, 427, 527, 627, 632). The printing station is located either in line and preferably upstream of the quilting station, with a conveyor (520) extending through each of the stations to convey a web of quilting material through the machine, or is off of the quilting line such that the material with a pre-applied pattern thereon is transferred, preferably in web form, to the line of the second station for the application of a pattern in registration with the first applied pattern. At the quilting station, registration longitudinal and transverse registration is measured and skewing or rotation of the material is determined. Opposite transverse sides of the material are differently adjusted to orient and register the material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2002
    Publication date: November 14, 2002
    Applicant: L&P Property Management Company
    Inventors: Richard N. Codos, M. Burl White
  • Fiber mass with side coil insertion and method
    Publication number: 20020166174
    Abstract: A resilient structure having a fiber batt with coil springs disposed therein and respective coil spring paths. Each of the coil spring paths extending from a respective coil spring and having a profile similar to a cross-sectional profile of the respective coil spring taken in a plane parallel to a length of the coil spring. A method is also provided for heating the coil springs and inserting the coil springs into a side wall of the fiber batt to produce the coil spring paths that have a profile similar to a cross-sectional profile of the respective coil spring taken in a plane parallel to a length of the coil spring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2002
    Publication date: November 14, 2002
    Applicant: L&P Property Management Company
    Inventor: Larry I. Bullard
  • Method and apparatus for ink jet printing on textiles
    Patent number: 6467898
    Abstract: Ink jet printing is provided onto fabric using ultraviolet (UV) light curable ink. The ink is first partially cured with UV light and then is subjected to heating to more completely cure the ink and to remove by evaporation or otherwise, the uncured monomers and producing a printed image of ink having an amount of unpolymerized monomers and polymerization reactants and byproducts that is less than a food industry packaging standard of 100 PPM, and as low as 10 PPM. The printing is provided in a quilting machine having a quilting station and a printing station located upstream of the quilting station. Preferably, at the printing station, only a top layer of fabric is printed with a multi-colored design under the control of a programmed controller. UV curable ink is jetted onto the fabric with a dot volume of about 75 picoliters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2002
    Assignee: L&P Property Management Company
    Inventors: Richard N. Codos, William W. Collan, Robert B. Comerford, Angelo Quattrociocchi, Milan Badovinac
  • Method of packaging spring units
    Patent number: 6467239
    Abstract: A method of packaging spring units in which first and second webs of insulator material are fixedly located against the top and bottom surfaces of the spring units. The webs are folded around outermost coil springs along longitudinal edges of the spring units. The reverse sides of the webs are glued, welded or otherwise permanently secured together. In another embodiment, side portions of the webs are secured together, sandwiching the spring units therebetween. The resultant bedding products are then roll-packed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2002
    Assignee: L&P Property Management Company
    Inventors: Niels S. Mossbeck, Thomas J. Wells
  • Configurable shelving/storage system
    Patent number: 6457595
    Abstract: A system including modular components by which the system may be configured and reconfigured easily and quickly for the shelving or the storage of merchandise for the retail industry and other applications as needed and without the need for tools and conventional removable fastening means. The modular system includes a generally horizontal base and at least one vertical panel that can be easily and quickly releasably secured in one or other positions relative to the base. Preferred embodiments of the system include those having a base having securement apertures structured such that the vertical panel or panels may be releasably secured to the base without the need for conventional removable mechanical fasteners and tools and so that even an unskilled individual can quickly and easily arrange and rearrange the vertical panels relative to the base in a wide variety of possible useful configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2002
    Assignee: L&P Property Management Company
    Inventors: David Mark Pritchard, Antonio Vardaro
  • Wire rack for wine bottles and the like
    Publication number: 20020134744
    Abstract: A number of panels and shelves are formed of wires which are arranged to intersect. These panels and shelves are secured together to form a rack for holding bottles, which rack is supported by four corner posts. The vertical placement of the shelves is adjustable along the height of the corner posts by means of adjustable support collars which fit around each post and are captured by each corner of a shelf. A plurality of A-frames are removably secured to the shelves to form areas or compartments in which the bottles or the like may be stored. The A-frames are positioned next to each other so as to support an inverted pyramid of bottles between them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2002
    Publication date: September 26, 2002
    Applicant: L & P Property Management Company
    Inventors: Steven M. Kessell, Peterjohn R. C. Walters, Jerry W. Thompson
  • Method of making pocketed coil spring unit with combination of scrim sheets and inter-row bonding
    Publication number: 20020124321
    Abstract: A pocketed coil spring unit and associated method of assembly combines top and bottom sheets with bonding of the sidewalls of adjacent rows of pocketed coil springs. With this combination, a posturized spring unit is produced in a commercially efficient manufacturing process. The top and bottom sheets extend perpendicularly to the rows of pocketed coil springs and the adjacent rows of pocketed coil springs are bonded on the sidewalls of the fabric pockets in the absence of the top and bottom sheets. As such, the spring unit can be customized for posturization to provide a firmer supporting foundation at the locations of the top and bottom sheets and a more individualized flexible construction in the regions of the inter-row sidewall bonding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2002
    Publication date: September 12, 2002
    Applicant: L&P Property Management Company
    Inventor: Thomas J. Wells
  • Method of packaging spring units
    Publication number: 20020124531
    Abstract: A method of packaging spring units in which at least one web of insulator material is fixedly located against one of the top and bottom surfaces of the spring units. Each web of insulator material is secured to the outermost coil springs along longitudinal edges of the spring units with securing elements. The resultant bedding products are then roll-packed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2002
    Publication date: September 12, 2002
    Applicant: L&P Property Management Company
    Inventors: Niels S. Mossbeck, Thomas J. Wells
  • Shelf assembly
    Patent number: 6439401
    Abstract: A shelf assembly for organizing and merchandising a plurality of products. The shelf assembly comprises a shelf having a bottom, a plurality of dividers extending from front to back, an adjacent pair of dividers and the bottom forming a track in which a column of products are arranged. A pivotal front member prevents the forwardmost product within a column of products from falling off the front of the shelf. The pivotal front members has projections which are engaged with receptacles formed in the dividers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2002
    Assignee: L&P Property Management Company
    Inventors: Joseph M. Battaglia, Rafael T. Bustos
  • Shelf assembly
    Patent number: 6439400
    Abstract: A shelf assembly for organizing and merchandising a plurality of products. The shelf assembly comprises a shelf having a bottom, a plurality of wire dividers extending from front to back, and a wire stop secured to an adjacent pair of wire dividers. A front member pivotal about the wire stop prevents the forwardmost product within a column of products from falling off the front of the shelf. The pivotal front members enable product to be pulled forwardly off the shelf and minimize the spacing necessary between adjacent shelves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2002
    Assignee: L&P Property Management Company
    Inventors: Joseph M. Battaglia, Rafael T. Bustos
  • Convoluted surface fiber pad
    Publication number: 20020114918
    Abstract: A non-woven fiber pad having a convoluted surface formed by cutting a non-woven fiber batt having a plurality of low melt synthetic fibers. The non-woven batt is compressed generally toward a cutting device by a pair of counter-rotating drums having convoluted surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2002
    Publication date: August 22, 2002
    Applicant: L&P Property Management Company
    Inventors: Niels S. Mossbeck, Steven Eugene Ogle
  • Printing and quilting method and apparatus
    Patent number: 6435117
    Abstract: A quilting machine (10,100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600) is provided with a printing station (20, 125, 225, 325, 425, 525, 611, 626, 631) and a quilting station (44, 127, 227, 327, 427, 527, 627, 632). A master batch controller (90, 135, 235, 335, 435, 535) assures that the proper combinations of printed and quilted patterns are combined to allow small quantities of different quilted products to be produced automatically along a material web. Ticking is preprinted with a plurality of different patterns, organized and communicated by the computer so that a print head can scan the material and print different patterns of different panels (32) across the width of a web. Identifying data (40) for matching the panels of a mattress product can be provided in data files printed on the fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2002
    Assignee: L&P Property Management Company
    Inventors: Richard N. Codos, M. Burl White, Russell E. Bowman
  • Beverage display rack
    Patent number: D462200
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2002
    Assignee: L & P Property Management Company
    Inventors: David Pollard, Javier Castillo