Abstract: A shower door assembly includes a door panel having an inner surface to face a bathing enclosure, and a base member having an upper surface positioned between an inner side and an outer side. The base member inner side is positioned between the door panel inner surface and the base member outer side. The inner side at least partially defines a recess and is shaped to receive liquid from and divert liquid back to the bathing enclosure. A base for a moveable door has a substrate defining upper and lower surfaces extending between first and second edge regions, and a first leg section extending from the substrate lower surface and offset from the first edge region. The first leg section and the first edge region of the substrate cooperate to define a liquid diverter extending longitudinally to redirect flow away from the substrate upper surface.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 17, 2016
Date of Patent:
May 29, 2018
Assignee:
LIBERTY HARDWARE MFG. CORP.
Inventors:
James Allen Austin, III, Nathaniel Faltin Dutton Schultz
Abstract: A frame package including a back panel, an inside panel tab, a front panel, and an inside panel is provided. The inside panel tab extends from the back panel. The front panel extends from the back panel and defines a region to rest upon a corner portion of a frame. The inside panel extends from the front panel and includes an inside panel tab slot. The back panel, the front panel, and the inside panel are arranged with one another to fold about the corner portion of the frame and for the inside panel to extend through a frame opening such that the corner portion of the frame is covered by at least one of the back panel and the front panel. The inside panel tab is received within the inside panel tab slot to secure the back panel to the inside panel without an additional fastener.
Abstract: A back plate assembly for home hardware is provided with a base and an attachment. The base includes at least one mount aperture and is adapted to be mounted to a support surface. The base defines a receptacle, a through-hole, a pair of grooves disposed at an outer edge of the through-hole, and a pair of ledges offset from an inner edge of the through-hole. The attachment includes a lock member with a pair of lock features and a connector member sized for insertion between the pair of ledges when the attachment is oriented in a first radial position. Each of the pair of lock features is positioned on the attachment for insertion within one of the grooves and the connector member is sized to rest upon the ledges when the connector member extends through the through-hole and the attachment is rotated to a second radial position.
Type:
Application
Filed:
December 8, 2017
Publication date:
April 12, 2018
Applicant:
LIBERTY HARDWARE MFG. CORP.
Inventors:
Earl David FORREST, Neil Thomas EDWARDS, James Leroy DANIELS
Abstract: A retail display system is provided with a point-of-sale display unit sized to be received in a retail store aisle. A plurality of planar display panes with varying sizes and varying styles are oriented within the display unit. Mounting hardware kits are common for the plurality of planar display panes, and are oriented within the display unit, to mount the plurality of planar display planes at varying distances from an upright support surface. A plurality of frames with varying sizes and varying styles, are sized to mount about one of the plurality of planar display panes, and are oriented within the display unit. Instructional indicia are provided on the display unit to inform a customer to select at least one planar display pane and at least one frame.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 5, 2016
Date of Patent:
March 27, 2018
Assignee:
LIBERTY HARDWARE MFG. CORP.
Inventors:
Earl David Forrest, Norman Dax Allen, Lauren Brenzy, Jeffrey John Mathison, Kurt Weaver
Abstract: An article divider assembly is provided with a support bracket adapted to be mounted to a retail display. A divider member extends from the support bracket and is sized to extend between a pair of articles at an upper region of the pair of articles to divide the articles without blocking an outward face of the articles. The divider member comprises a proximal end mounted to the support bracket and a distal end extending away from the support bracket. A display bracket is mounted to the distal end of the divider member.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 13, 2015
Date of Patent:
March 6, 2018
Assignee:
LIBERTY HARDWARE MFG. CORP.
Inventors:
Patrick William Boehnen, Matthew James Klein
Abstract: A back plate assembly for home hardware is provided with a base and an attachment. The base includes at least one mount aperture and is adapted to be mounted to a support surface. The base defines a receptacle, a through-hole, a pair of grooves disposed at an outer edge of the through-hole, and a pair of ledges offset from an inner edge of the through-hole. The attachment includes a lock member with a pair of lock features and a connector member sized for insertion between the pair of ledges when the attachment is oriented in a first radial position. Each of the pair of lock features is positioned on the attachment for insertion within one of the grooves and the connector member is sized to rest upon the ledges when the connector member extends through the through-hole and the attachment is rotated to a second radial position.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 30, 2016
Date of Patent:
January 16, 2018
Assignee:
Liberty Hardware Mfg. Corp.
Inventors:
Earl David Forrest, Neil Thomas Edwards, James Leroy Daniels
Abstract: A hardware mounting bracket is provided with a bracket body adapted to be mounted to a support surface. A rigid retainer is provided on one end of the bracket body to receive hardware supported thereon. At least one elongate biasing retainer is provided on another end of the bracket body spaced apart from the rigid retainer, to engage hardware supported thereon and to provide a loaded surface contact with hardware supported thereon. A hardware mounting assembly, hardware for mounting to a support surface, and method for mounting hardware are also provided.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 15, 2013
Date of Patent:
December 12, 2017
Assignee:
LIBERTY HARDWARE MFG. CORP.
Inventors:
James Allen Austin, III, William Homer Spencer, Song Jian Lin, Liao Chun Lei
Abstract: A planar display assembly is provided with a planar display pane. A frame is provided with a dado sized to receive the planar display pane. A plurality of retainers mounts to the frame about an inner periphery of the frame to retain the planar display pane within the frame. At least one of the plurality of retainers is elastically deformable to deform during installation of the planar display into the frame, and to expand to retain the planar display pane within the frame. A plurality of apertures or a channel may be formed in the frame about the dado. The plurality of retainers may mount to the frame within the plurality of apertures or the channel of the frame to retain the planar display pane within the frame.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 5, 2016
Date of Patent:
December 5, 2017
Assignee:
LIBERTY HARDWARE MFG. CORP.
Inventors:
Earl David Forrest, Norman Dax Allen, Jeffrey John Mathison
Abstract: A shower door guide assembly is provided with a pair of spaced apart brackets. Each bracket has a receptacle formed therein. A crossbeam is provided with a guide formed therein for cooperation with a roller assembly of a door. The crossbeam has a cross-section sized so that terminal ends of the crossbeam are each received in one the receptacles of the pair of brackets for pivoting about a lengthwise axis of crossbeam and translation in the receptacle during installation of the crossbeam terminal ends into receptacles of the pair of brackets. The receptacles and the crossbeam are sized so that each terminal end of the crossbeam can be received in only one receptacle at only one orientation of the installed crossbeam to prevent improper installation. An alignment configuration extends from each bracket to engage a pair of wall jambs for alignment of the brackets to the wall jambs.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 31, 2015
Date of Patent:
August 29, 2017
Assignee:
LIBERTY HARDWARE MFG. CORP.
Inventors:
Nathaniel Faltin Dutton Schultz, James Allen Austin, III, Patrick Boehnen
Abstract: A personal care accessory support system is provided with a rail with at least one fastener configuration to fasten the rail to an upright support surface. A plurality of receptacles is formed in the rail. At least two accessory holders are provided. Each of the at least two accessory holders is provided with a base to receive and support an accessory. A retainer is sized to extend over the rail in a horizontal orientation of the rail to mount and support the accessory holder on the rail. The retainer is also sized to extend into one of the plurality of receptacles in a vertical orientation of the rail to mount and support the accessory holder on the rail.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 20, 2015
Date of Patent:
June 20, 2017
Assignee:
LIBERTY HARDWARE MFG. CORP.
Inventors:
Christina Hurley, Adam Callif, Nathaniel Faltin Dutton Schultz, Earl David Forrest
Abstract: A packaging assembly is provided with a base that is sized to receive at least one shower door glass pane. At least one shower door glass pane is received within the base. A handle is mounted to the base. A plurality of projections extends from a bottom surface of the base to rest upon an underlying support surface and to reduce friction between the packaging assembly and the underlying support surface. The base includes a box with an opening formed in opposed surfaces of the box to expose a portion of the at least one shower door glass pane.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 29, 2014
Date of Patent:
June 13, 2017
Assignee:
LIBERTY HARDWARE MFG. CORP.
Inventors:
Christine Lemnios, Yinghong Zhang, Jeanie Matherly, Matthew Klein, Patrick Boehnen, Laura Hawkins, James Allen Austin, III, Earl David Forrest, Nathaniel Faltin Dutton Schultz, Justin Terrell Torrence
Abstract: A grab bar includes a front facing side and a wall facing side that is opposite from the front facing side. The grab bar is attached to a wall structure with at least one mounting assembly at the wall facing side. A removable decorative insert is supported by the front facing side. The removable decorative insert is easily removed and replaced by other decorative inserts as needed without having to remove the grab bar from the wall structure.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 21, 2008
Date of Patent:
May 23, 2017
Assignee:
Liberty Hardware Mfg. Corp.
Inventors:
Earl David Forrest, Andrew James Graff, Jeffrey Allen DeBoer