Patents Assigned to The Patent Store LLC
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Patent number: 8637774Abstract: A ready to use tracer wire connector kit comprising a pod and cover that can be mated together around a tracer wire connector that can be retained in the pod or removed from the pod as the tracer wires are joined therein with the pod and cover encapsulating and protecting the junction of tracer wires in the tracer wire connector and a method and system wherein underground difficult to detect devices and systems can be indirectly located.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2011Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: The Patent Store LLCInventors: William Hiner, Lloyd Herbert King, Jr., James C. Keeven
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Patent number: 8608179Abstract: A sealing ring and a method of preventing or stopping a joint leak between a pipe and a pipe fitting to minimize property damage as well as clean up costs occurring from property damage due to joint leaks by securing a sealing ring to the pipe and the pipe fitting to form a secondary joint that inhibits or prevent leakage between the primary joint between the pipe and the pipe fitting.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2012Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: The Patent Store LLCInventors: Lloyd Herbert King, David C. Kreutz, Mathew Walters, Steven Rhea, James C. Keeven
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Patent number: 8579296Abstract: A sealing member and a preemptive system and a preemptive method of preventing or stopping a primary joint leak between a pipe and a pipe fitting by securing a sealing ring to the pipe and the pipe fitting to form a secondary joint that inhibits or prevent leakage between the primary joint between the pipe and the pipe fitting without knowing if the primary joint is faulty.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2009Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: The Patent Store LLCInventors: Lloyd Herbert King, Jr., James C. Keeven, Steven Rhea, David Kreutz, Mathew Walters
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Patent number: 8525026Abstract: An epidermal friendly twist-on wire connector and a method of applying an epidermal twist-on wire connector having a resilient gripping region including a set of low profile, resilient ribs that are circumferentially spaced so that a users thumb and fingers can compressively and sequentially engage and compress at least a portion of a plurality of ribs as well as the valley between the ribs during application of a wire securement torque to the twist-on wire connector while at the same time inhibiting or preventing epidermal trauma in a users thumb and fingers.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2010Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: The Patent Store LLCInventors: Steven Rhea, James Keeven, Frank Vlasaty, William Hiner, L. Herbert King, Jr.
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Patent number: 8431824Abstract: A direct bury kit having an elongated housing having a chamber for inserting a wire connector therein with the housing and the cover each having at least one jaw to clamp a portion of a wire against the jaws to thereby inhibit or prevent disruption of an electrical connection while maintaining the electrical connection in a waterproof condition.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2010Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Assignee: The Patent Store LLCInventors: L. Herbert King, Jr., William Hiner, James Keeven
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Patent number: 8371622Abstract: A sealing ring and a method of preventing or stopping a joint leak between a pipe and a pipe fitting to minimize property damage as well as clean up costs occurring from property damage due to joint leaks by securing a sealing ring to the pipe and the pipe fitting to form a secondary joint that inhibits or prevent leakage between the primary joint between the pipe and the pipe fitting.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2008Date of Patent: February 12, 2013Assignee: The Patent Store LLCInventors: Lloyd Herbert King, Jr., David Kreutz, Mathew Walters, Steven Rhea, James C. Keeven
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Patent number: 8331648Abstract: A system and a method of identifying, accepting or rejecting faulty sealant containing twist-on wire connectors wherein an image sensor generates an output image signal of a partly assembled twist-on wire connector or an assembled twist-on wire connector and compares the output image signal to a reference image signal to identify or reject a twist-on wire connector if the output image signal of the twist-on wire connector is outside an acceptable range and accept the twist-on wire connector if the output image signal is within the acceptable range.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2008Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Patent Store LLCInventors: James C. Keeven, Lloyd Herbert King, Jr.
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Patent number: 8257109Abstract: A lever push-in wire connector having a sealant therein to enable formation of a waterproof electrical connection by axial insertion of a wire into a chamber contained a resilient conductor protected by the sealant with the resilient conductor displaceable into a waterproof electrical contact with the wire while both the resilient conductor and the wire remain in the presence of the sealant.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2009Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: The Patent Store LLCInventors: Lloyd Herbert King, Jr., James C. Keeven
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Patent number: 8212147Abstract: A finger friendly twist-on wire connector having a spiral coil and an open end rigid shell secured to the spiral coil with the rigid shell having an outer surface with a circumferential band and a closed end supporting a finger cushion material integral to at least a portion of the outer surface of the rigid shell with the finger cushion material including a plurality of circumferentially spaced elongated ribs resiliently deformable in response to radially and tangential finger forces thereon as rotational finger forces are transmitted to the rigid shell through the finger cushion material to thereby inhibit finger fatigue and finger injury while allowing the user to maintain a feel of the wire engagement within the wire connector.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2009Date of Patent: July 3, 2012Assignee: The Patent Store LLCInventors: Steven Rhea, L. Herbert King, Jr., James Keeven
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Patent number: 8151983Abstract: A touch-and-feel product display container for holding a plurality of products within the container and at least one product external to the container wherein the product external to the container is retained on the outside of the container in a position where a perspective purchaser can touch-and-feel the product without having to remove either the product from an external product holder or one of the products from the compartment within the container.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2010Date of Patent: April 10, 2012Assignee: The Patent Store LLCInventors: L. Herbert King, Jr., Steven Rhea
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Patent number: 8067692Abstract: A twist-on wire connector having a finger friendly cushion cover that covers not only the normal hand gripping region but at least part or all of the normal non-hand gripping region of the twist-on wire connector so that regardless of the way the twist-on wire connector is grasped the user fingers engage the cushion cover to inhibit finger and hand injury and fatigue from repeated securement of twist-on wire connectors as well as twist-on wire connector with enhanced gripping.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2009Date of Patent: November 29, 2011Assignee: The Patent Store LLCInventors: William Hiner, Lloyd Herbert King, Jr., James Keevan, Frank Vlasaty, Steven Rhea
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Patent number: 8052462Abstract: A push-in wire connector having at least two resilient members for generating a wire contacting force with one of the two resilient members exerting a greater contact force than the other to permit forming electrical connections to different size or types of wires by axially inserting wires into a sealant and into electrical contact engagement in the push-in wire connector to form a waterproof electrical connection in the presence of the sealant.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2009Date of Patent: November 8, 2011Assignee: The Patent Store LLCInventors: L. Herbert King, Jr., William Hiner
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Patent number: 7988503Abstract: An open-face electrical wire connector for forming an electrical connection to a wire connector lug wherein the wire connector lug, which is free of any sealant can be brought into engagement with another portion of a housing, which carries a sealant, to cause the sealant to flow around the wire connector lug and the electrical connection therein for on-the-go formation of a sealant covered electrical connection.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2010Date of Patent: August 2, 2011Assignee: The Patent Store LLCInventors: Lloyd Herbert King, Jr., Michael Belgeri, James Keeven, William Hiner
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Patent number: 7972166Abstract: A push-in wire connector having a sealant therein to enable formation of a waterproof electrical connection by axial insertion of a wire into a chamber contained an electrical conductor protected by the sealant with the electrical conductor displaceable into a waterproof electrical contact with the wire while both the conductor and the wire remain in the presence of the sealant.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2008Date of Patent: July 5, 2011Assignee: The Patent Store, LLCInventors: William Hiner, Lloyd Herbert King, Jr.
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Patent number: 7950956Abstract: A ready to use tracer wire connector kit comprising a pod and cover that can be mated together around a tracer wire connector that can be retained in the pod or removed from the pod as the tracer wires are joined therein with the pod and cover encapsulating and protecting the junction of tracer wires in the tracer wire connector and a method and system wherein underground difficult to detect devices and systems can be indirectly located.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2008Date of Patent: May 31, 2011Assignee: The Patent Store LLCInventors: William Hiner, James C. Keeven, Lloyd Herbert King, Jr.
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Patent number: 7913383Abstract: A method of manufacturing gel containing wire connectors with a silicone gel that remains in an unseparated state wherein the temperature of the gel precursors are elevated before being mixed and dispensed into the cavity of a wire connector where the mixed gel precursors are allowed to cool and cure without the necessity of additional heating of either the mixed gel precursors or the wire connector.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2008Date of Patent: March 29, 2011Assignee: The Patent Store LLCInventors: James C. Keeven, Lloyd Herbert King, Jr.
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Patent number: 7883608Abstract: A cathodic protection system wherein a metal structure is electrically connected to a sacrificial anode through a self encapsulating wire connector that can be assembled by unskilled persons and can be maintained in a protective condition around an electrical junction to enable the electrical junction to protected from an underground environment.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2007Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: The Patent Store LLCInventors: William Hiner, Lloyd Herbert King, Jr., James C. Keeven
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Patent number: 7431611Abstract: A see-through electrical connector comprises a first housing having a chamber therein, a second housing having chamber therein with the second housing including an open end mateable with an open end of the first housing to form an enclosure for supporting an electrical wire connection therein, a window located on either the first housing or the second housing for viewing the electrical wire connection in the enclosure, and an electrical wire securing and supporting member located in the enclosure.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2007Date of Patent: October 7, 2008Assignee: The Patent Store, LLCInventors: Lloyd Herbert King, Jr., William Hiner, James C. Keeven, Bradley L. Driskell
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Patent number: D577685Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2006Date of Patent: September 30, 2008Assignee: The Patent Store, LLCInventors: Lloyd Herbert King, Jr., James C. Keeven, William Hiner, Frank Vlasaty
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Patent number: D578078Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2007Date of Patent: October 7, 2008Assignee: The Patent Store, LLCInventors: James C. Keeven, Steve Rhea, Lloyd Herbert King, Jr.