Patents Assigned to Pinnacle Brands, Inc.
  • Patent number: 5810550
    Abstract: Manufactured products, for example those produced by a die press, may be cleaned, separated, randomized and stacked with the apparatus of the present invention. A first conveyor system removes contaminants from the products. A second conveyor system separates and randomizes the products, for example, by allowing the products to cascade down an inclined conveyor belt. The conveyor is segmented to capture a portion of the products as they are pulled downward by gravitational forces. The products are aligned on a shaker table with any of several operator stations. In one embodiment the products pass through a funneling array, a slot and into a stacking tube from which operators may remove stacks of the product in preparation for shipping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1998
    Assignee: Pinnacle Brands, Inc.
    Inventor: Randall M. Reaves
  • Patent number: 5628666
    Abstract: The invention includes a chip of resilient material that is capable of being secured to one or more chips of similar design, as desired to build a structure, sculpture or other shape. The chip has one or more slots extending inwardly from its perimeter for engaging another chip of similar design. The slot may be used to engage a similar slot fashioned in another similar chip or to engage only the perimeter of another chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 13, 1997
    Assignee: Pinnacle Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: John Tomczyk, Russell LaCoste, Mark A. Celeste
  • Patent number: 5600388
    Abstract: A cylindrical three dimensional picture capable of being viewed through an angle of 360.degree. includes a cylinder surrounded by a photograph, in turn surrounded by a lenticular lens or parallax barrier strip. The photograph is made from a photo emulsion that is exposed and subsequently developed for viewing. The photo emulsion is exposed to the subject, or images of the subject, through the lenticular lens or parallax barrier strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 4, 1997
    Assignee: Pinnacle Brands, Inc.
    Inventor: Victor G. Anderson
  • Patent number: 5365294
    Abstract: A cylindrical three dimensional picture capable of being viewed through an angle of 360.degree. includes a cylinder surrounded by a 3D photograph, in turn surrounded by a flexible lenticular lens through which a film strip, subsequently developed into the photograph, is exposed and the subsequent photograph viewed, resulting in an image of a subject which appears to have been shrunken and enclosed within the cylinder. The film strip is exposed to sequential multiple images taken of a subject by a multiple imaging camera as the subject rotates 360.degree.. The film strip is exposed to the multiple images through a lenticular lens as the lens and film are rotated 360.degree. in a first embodiment, and is exposed to the multiple images linearly through a flat lenticular lens as the lens moves linearly across the projection beam of the multiple images in a third embodiment of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1994
    Assignee: Pinnacle Brands, Inc.
    Inventor: Victor G. Anderson