Patents Assigned to Stein Industrie
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Patent number: 10441093Abstract: This document provides product display systems for displaying merchandise. Exemplary product display systems disclosed herein include a base, a first side wall and a second side wall each slidably coupled to the base, a first support plate and a second support plate, a pusher mechanism, a front plate positioned at the front of the base, a first hanger bracket and a second hanger bracket each slidably coupled to the base, and a front bracket unit connected to the first and second hanger brackets. Some embodiments of product display systems disclosed herein include a lighting unit, e.g., having a LED lighting source. This document also provides selectively detachable lighting housings that can be attached to product display systems.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2017Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Stein Industries, Inc.Inventors: Mark Chenoweth, Dan Duellman
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Patent number: 9986852Abstract: This document provides product display systems for displaying merchandise. Exemplary product display systems disclosed herein include a base, a first side wall and a second side wall each slidably coupled to the base, a first support plate and a second support plate, a pusher mechanism, a front plate positioned at the front of the base, a first hanger bracket and a second hanger bracket each slidably coupled to the base, and a front bracket unit connected to the first and second hanger brackets. Some embodiments of product display systems disclosed herein include a lighting unit, e.g., having a LED lighting source. This document also provides selectively detachable lighting housings that can be attached to product display systems.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2017Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: Stein Industries, Inc.Inventors: Mark Chenoweth, Dan Duellman
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Patent number: 6379415Abstract: The invention relates to a method for feeding solids into metal or steel melts whereby granular solids required during the analysis adjustment are fed in a predetermined quantity into the turbulent regions of the metal melt in a dense flow process by means of a pneumatic conveying device in order to achieve a high output while avoiding expensive and complex measures associated with lances and capital-intensive investments for injection devices and lance-moving devices.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 1999Date of Patent: April 30, 2002Assignee: Stein - Industrie-Anlagen Inh. Christel SteinInventors: Lutz Garten, Klaus Keller, Wilfried Stein, Karl Stein
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Publication number: 20010035385Abstract: A display rack incorporates an interlocking divider system that facilitates convenient installation and flexible adjustment of dividers to separate and organize displayed items such as produce, meat products, and the like. Also, a display rack may incorporate a divider array system, alone or in combination with interlocking dividers, having two or more horizontal divider mounting sections for convenient installation and flexible adjustment of dividers to provide an increased number of display options. The interlocking divider system allows easy installation of vertical dividers at different lateral positions along the display rack. Each vertical divider is configured for interlocking engagement with one or more horizontal dividers. In particular, each horizontal divider and vertical divider defines one or more mounting slots that interlock with one another to provide selective mounting of the vertical divider.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2001Publication date: November 1, 2001Applicant: Stein Industries, Inc. a Wisconsin corporationInventor: Peter F. Sosso
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Patent number: 6290077Abstract: A display rack incorporates an interlocking divider system that facilitates convenient installation and flexible adjustment of dividers to separate and organize displayed items such as produce, meat products, and the like. Also, a display rack may incorporate a divider array system, alone or in combination with interlocking dividers, having two or more horizontal divider mounting sections for convenient installation and flexible adjustment of dividers to provide an increased number of display options. The interlocking divider system allows easy installation of vertical dividers at different lateral positions along the display rack. Each vertical divider is configured for interlocking engagement with one or more horizontal dividers. In particular, each horizontal divider and vertical divider defines one or more mounting slots that interlock with one another to provide selective mounting of the vertical divider.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 1999Date of Patent: September 18, 2001Assignee: Stein Industries, Inc.Inventor: Peter F. Sosso
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Patent number: 6206088Abstract: A heat exchanger system includes a first heat exchanger followed by a second heat exchanger disposed in a dense fluidized bed, the second heat exchanger being made up of a plurality of nests of tubes disposed along the path of the particles in suspension in the dense fluidized bed. The second heat exchanger is provided with at least two feeds situated on either side of its center, each of the feeds receives a distinct mixture of the input fluid and of the output fluid of the first heat exchanger, so that the temperature of the fluid fed into each of the nests is an increasing function of the distance between it and the inlet via which the particles are fed into the dense fluidized bed.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 1998Date of Patent: March 27, 2001Assignee: GEC Alsthom Stein IndustrieInventors: Jean-Claude Semedard, Pierre Gauville, Christian Enault
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Patent number: 6189707Abstract: A shelving unit with adjustable brackets for enhanced mounting flexibility in a wide variety of refrigerated display cases. Bracket supports are carried longitudinally by a shelf having opposing ends. The bracket supports have opposing channels positioned at least at the opposing ends of the shelf. A shelf support bracket is provided for slidably engaging the opposing channels of the bracket support and being positioned longitudinally along the shelf corresponding to the spacing of vertical standards affixed within a refrigeration case.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 1997Date of Patent: February 20, 2001Assignee: Stein Industries, Inc.Inventors: Thomas A. Meyers, Peter F. Sosso
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Patent number: 6065409Abstract: The method consists in causing the flue gases to pass through a filter placed inside the recovery boiler so that the fly ash contained in said flue gases can be hot filtered out. An additional flow (B) of a material is superposed on the flow of fly ash to be filtered, which material has characteristics such that it increases the melting point of the fly ash by forming high melting point eutectics so as to facilitate unclogging by preventing viscous bridges from forming between the particles of fly ash. Application to hot scrubbing of flue gases generated by burning household refuse.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 1997Date of Patent: May 23, 2000Assignee: GEC Alsthom Stein IndustrieInventor: Jean-Xavier Morin
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Patent number: 6044989Abstract: A display rack incorporates an interlocking divider system that facilitates convenient installation and flexible adjustment of dividers to separate and organize displayed items such as produce, meat products, and the like. Also, a display rack may incorporate a divider array system, alone or in combination with interlocking dividers, having two or more horizontal divider mounting sections for convenient installation and flexible adjustment of dividers to provide an increased number of display options. The interlocking divider system allows easy installation of vertical dividers at different lateral positions along the display rack. Each vertical divider is configured for interlocking engagement with one or more horizontal dividers. In particular, each horizontal divider and vertical divider defines one or more mounting slots that interlock with one another to provide selective mounting of the vertical divider.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 1998Date of Patent: April 4, 2000Assignee: Stein Industries, Inc.Inventor: Peter F. Sosso
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Patent number: 6032591Abstract: A refuse recycling system which recycles municipal waste as energy, includes a shredder for shredding the waste and removing rejects via a feed pipe to a circulating fluidized bed reactor, the reactor producing flue gases. The reactor includes a side dense fluidized bed situated on the wall of the reactor which is provided with the feed pipe, the side dense fluidized bed extracting non-fluidizable heavy elements and transporting them to a coarse-particle sorter apparatus via an extraction duct disposed at a base of the side dense fluidized bed. At least a portion of the rejects from the shredder is fed into the coarse-particle sorter apparatus. The coarse-particle sorter apparatus cools the elements and extracts non-fluidizable inert matter from the elements, the remaining matter being fed back into the reactor. A module for recovering energy and for treating the flue gases output by said reactor is connected downstream from the reactor.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 1998Date of Patent: March 7, 2000Assignee: Gec Alsthom Stein IndustrieInventors: Jean-Xavier Morin, Jean-Pierre Peyrelongue
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Patent number: 6012400Abstract: A removable support pin which provides enhanced mounting flexibility in the attachment of new and replacement shelving/rack display units within a wide variety of refrigerated display cases. The support pin has two ends: a first end designed to engage a shelving display unit to be placed within the refrigerated case and a second end designed to engage a U-shaped mounting rail positioned within the refrigerated case.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 1998Date of Patent: January 11, 2000Assignee: Stein Industries, Inc.Inventor: Peter F. Sosso
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Patent number: 6003476Abstract: A boiler comprising a circulating fluidized bed hearth, a separator member for separating flue gas and solids extracted from the hearth, an external dense fluidized bed between the solids outlet of the separator member and the base of the hearth, the external bed containing a first heat exchanger in which a coolant fluid to be evaporated circulates. The outlet of the first heat exchanger is connected to a second heat exchanger placed in the hearth.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 1998Date of Patent: December 21, 1999Assignee: Gec Alsthom Stein IndustrieInventors: Jean-Claude Semedard, Pierre Gauville, Christian Enault
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Patent number: 5996512Abstract: An apparatus for recycling municipal waste as energy includes a shredder for shredding the waste, and removing rejects, the rejects from the shredder being sorted into a first stream of inert matter that is substantially unpolluted with organic matter and into a second stream of inert matter that is substantially polluted with either organic matter or with combustible heavy elements; a first outlet for removing the second stream of inert matter; a circulating fluidized bed reactor for receiving the shredded waste and producing gases with solid particles therein; a cyclone for separating out the solid particles and receiving the gases output by the reactor; a recuperator boiler into which the gases output by the cyclone are discharged and which is provided with a first set of heat exchangers, the boiler including a dust-filtering hopper; a second outlet for removing the solid particles from the dust-filtering hopper; a second set of heat exchangers disposed in a chamber into which the gases are fed after transType: GrantFiled: January 29, 1998Date of Patent: December 7, 1999Assignee: GEC Alsthom Stein IndustrieInventors: Jean-Xavier Morin, Jean-Pierre Peyrelongue
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Patent number: 5987966Abstract: A device for continuously measuring the quantity of coal inside a ball grinder including an ultrasound wave or electromagnetic wave emitter and a wave receiver. The emitter and the receiver are disposed so that the wave passes through at least part of the interior of the grinder. The receiver is associated with an electronic circuit for deducing the quantity of coal by comparing the signal received with data obtained from previous calibration measurements.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 1995Date of Patent: November 23, 1999Assignee: GEC Alsthom Stein IndustrieInventors: Daniel Fontanille, Jacques Barbot
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Patent number: 5979367Abstract: A dense fluidized bed exchanger includes a casing the vertical longitudinal walls of which consist of tubes conveying a heat-conducting fluid, the casing being divided lengthwise into chambers separated from each other by a baffle consisting of a wall consisting of tubes conveying a heat-conducting fluid. The vertical longitudinal walls consist of horizontal tubes and the baffle extends from the bottom wall of the casing to a height less than that of the latter and consists of superposed hairpin-shape transverse extensions of tubes of each of the vertical longitudinal walls disposed perpendicular to the tubes and extending to the opposite vertical longitudinal wall.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 1998Date of Patent: November 9, 1999Assignee: GEC Alsthom Stein IndustrieInventors: Jean Aubry, Djamel Daoud, Alain Quaranta
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Patent number: 5954001Abstract: A fluidized bed reactor includes an axial recirculating fluidized bed and at least first and second lateral dense fluidized beds, respectively disposed along a first and a second wall of the jacket of the reactor. Waste is fed via at least one point on the first wall of the jacket of the reactor, above the first lateral dense fluidized bed. The reactor includes at least one duct for extracting non-fluidizable heavy elements at the base of the first lateral dense fluidized bed.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 1997Date of Patent: September 21, 1999Assignee: GEC Alsthom Stein IndustrieInventor: Jean-Xavier Morin
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Patent number: 5924743Abstract: The invention concerns a device adapted to be fixed and sealed to at least one cylindrical member (1, 1'), characterized in that it includes:a first sleeve (2),a second sleeve (3) coaxial with the first sleeve (2) having a greater capacity for deformation than the first sleeve (2) and fixed and sealed to the first sleeve (2) at both ends,at least two cylindrical rings (4, 5) coaxial with the second sleeve (3), pressed against the latter and each fixed by one edge to one end of the second sleeve (3), andmeans (6, 6') for injecting a pressurized fluid between the first sleeve (2) and the second sleeve (3).Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 1997Date of Patent: July 20, 1999Assignees: Gec Alsthom Stein Industrie, Central Nuclearie Europeene, Electricite De FranceInventors: Michel Bonmartin, Bruno Veyrat, Yann Wolff, Christian Bonnand
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Patent number: 5873532Abstract: The present invention relates to a ball mill having a substantially horizontal axis of rotation and including a drum supported by two trunions having the same axis of rotation and situated at respective ends of the drum, raw coal being conveyed by substantially vertical pipework to the vicinity of a cylinder having the same axis of rotation and disposed within each trunion so as to open out into the drum, with the space lying between each trunion and its cylinder being connected to a pulverized coal outlet duct via a separator. A raw coal guide member is disposed beneath the pipework, conveying coal under gravity into the inside of the cylinder which includes a rigid Archimedes' screw on its inside surface, a main air feed being provided on said pipework upstream from the separator, all of said air being channeled towards the inside of the cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 1997Date of Patent: February 23, 1999Assignee: GEC ALSTHOM Stein IndustrieInventor: Daniel Fontanille
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Patent number: 5870903Abstract: An air flow circulation device for use in refrigerated display cases. The device is used to provide substantially vertical cooling air flow within refrigerated cases, particularly cases having shelves. The device distributes refrigerated air through the case and particularly to upper and middle shelves.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 1996Date of Patent: February 16, 1999Assignee: Stein Industries, Inc.Inventors: Thomas A. Meyers, Fredric R. Aske
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Patent number: 5855241Abstract: The heat exchanger comprises at least one first sheet tubes and at least one second sheet of tubes, the sheets being suspended in a case. The two sheets are juxtaposed in a vertical plane, the first sheet of tubes connecting a first inlet fluid manifold disposed at the bottom and on one side of a case to an outlet manifold disposed in a central top portion of the case, and the second sheet of tubes connecting a second inlet fluid manifold disposed at the bottom and on one side of the case to the outlet manifold. Each sheet comprises first tubes which extend horizontally in the bottom portion of the case, second tubes which are connected to the first tubes and which extend vertically between the bottom portion of the case and the middle portion of the case, and bent third tubes which are connected to the second tubes and which extend between the middle portion of the case and the top portion of the case. This configuration makes it possible to obtain a large heat exchange area with a compact heat exchanger.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 1998Date of Patent: January 5, 1999Assignee: GEC Alsthom Stein IndustrieInventor: Jean Aubry