Patents Assigned to The Scott & Fetzer Company
  • Nailer with integrated stud finder
    Patent number: 8174274
    Abstract: A nailer incorporates an integrated stud finder for sensing when a stud is present. The nailer has a work contact element and a magazine for storing nails. The stud finder includes a sensor plate coupled to the work contact element of a nailer and a stud sensing circuit coupled to the sensor plate. The stud sensing circuit is provided for reading a capacitance level and for determining whether the sensor plate is positioned adjacent a stud based upon the capacitance level that is read. The stud finder also includes at least one signaling device coupled to the sensor plate for signaling to a user when a stud is present. The sensor plate is coupled to a no mar tip that is tethered to the nailer. A storage post for storing the no mar tip is positioned on the magazine for storing the no mar tip when not in use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Campbell Hausfeld/Scott Fetzer Company
    Inventors: Bobby Lynn Lawrence, Gregory A. Kramer
  • Motor control for a vacuum cleaner
    Patent number: 8099825
    Abstract: A vacuum cleaner includes a nozzle, an air-filtering dirt receptacle, and a motor. A fan of the vacuum cleaner is configured to be driven by the motor to drive a flow of air that carries dirt from a surface through the nozzle and into the receptacle to clean the surface. A controller of the vacuum cleaner provides a notification to a user of the vacuum cleaner indicative of an excessive amount of dirt in the receptacle when current drawn by the motor drops below a threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: The Scott Fetzer Company
    Inventors: Terry L. Zahuranec, John A. Lambert
  • Modulated power burner system and method
    Patent number: 8075304
    Abstract: A power burner system for use with a heating appliance includes a burner tube, a gas valve for providing gas to the burner tube, and a variable speed combustion air blower for mixing air with the gas provided to the burner tube. The burner system further includes a control in communication with the gas valve and the combustion air blower. The control may also be in communication with various other devices of an appliance, such as a variable speed air-circulating fan, a variable speed exhaust fan, or various sensors associated with the heating appliance. The control modulates the gas valve and the combustion air blower to maintain substantially stoichiometric conditions of the gas and air provided to the burner tube and as a function of signals from at least one of the devices. In one embodiment, the burner system may be used in a conveyor oven.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Wayne/Scott Fetzer Company
    Inventors: Donald W. Cox, Syed Mohammad Shiblee Noman
  • Pressure-siphon switch for pneumatic spray gun
    Patent number: 8066205
    Abstract: An apparatus for use with a paint container includes a nozzle and a housing. The nozzle receives paint from the container. The housing has a handle, an air inlet, and an air flow path configured to direct air from the inlet into the container. A valve body opens and closes the air flow path into the container upon moving back and forth between open and closed positions. The valve body moves between those positions by rotating about an axis without moving along the axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Campbell Hausfeld/Scott Fetzer Company
    Inventors: Gary S. Bass, Ronald J. Mulford
  • Mode switch for fastener driving tool
    Patent number: 8061573
    Abstract: An fastener driving apparatus has an actuator linked to a work contact element so as to move a trigger plate when the work contact element retracts. A button is movable back and forth along a transverse axis when depressed from its opposite ends. The actuator has a bump mode surface and a sequential mode surface at different locations along the axis, and is moveable transversely back and forth between a bump mode arrangement in which the bump mode surface can move the trigger plate and a sequential mode arrangement in which the sequential mode surface can move the trigger plate. The button is linked to the actuator so as to move the actuator to the bump mode arrangement when depressed from one end, and to move the actuator to the sequential mode arrangement when depressed from the opposite end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignees: Campbell Hausfeld, Scott Fetzer Company
    Inventor: Gregory A. Kramer
  • Icemaker control module
    Patent number: 8051667
    Abstract: An icemaker control module for controlling an icemaker making ice bodies in a freezer has a base with snap fit components including an insert molded circuit board, a motor assembly, an ice level sensing system using a bail arm or a paddle, and a water fill system. Lance features in the circuit board connect switch and motor leads. The thermostat, ground wire, and heater of the icemaker electrically couple to the insert molded circuit board when the ice maker control module is joined to the ice maker. Energy may be conserved by pausing rotation and turning off the heater. There is a method for manufacturing the insert molded circuit board in a cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: France/Scott Fetzer Company
    Inventors: Daniel K. Amonett, Kevin Mumpower
  • Tool for cleaning tile and grout
    Patent number: 8028366
    Abstract: A tile and grout cleaning tool that can be turned over to place either a first series of bristle bundles projecting from the head of the tool in position to clean tile surfaces or a second series of bristle bundles spaced from the first series in position to clean the grout between tiles, the second series of bristle bundles comprising bristles that can be pressed into the grout channels and have ends of different lengths that form rough cleaning surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: The Scott Fetzer Company
    Inventor: Brian Grabowski
  • Valve for a pneumatic hand tool
    Patent number: 8015997
    Abstract: A valve body has a channel extending along an axis and an inlet port open to the channel. A sleeve, received about the valve body, overlies the inlet port and is rotatable about the axis relative the body. A nozzle projects radially outward from the sleeve. The nozzle is rotatable with the sleeve into a range of positions in which the nozzle communicates with the inlet port through the sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Campbell Hausfeld/Scott Fetzer Company
    Inventors: Gary S. Bass, Ronald J. Mulford
  • Pipe and conduit clamp for strut
    Patent number: 7992829
    Abstract: A clamp apparatus including a first strap and a second strap. The first strap including an attachment end for attachment to an associated structural member, an intermediate portion having a first radius of curvature for contacting an elongate article, and a connection end having a first aperture for receiving a fastener. The second strap including an attachment end for attachment to an associated structural member, an intermediate portion having a second radius of curvature for contacting the elongate article, and a connection end having a second aperture for receiving the fastener. The first radius of curvature is different from the second radius of curvature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Halex Co./a Scott-Fetzer Company
    Inventors: Glenn A. Baker, Michael J. Gardner
  • PORTABLE FASTENER DRIVING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20110180580
    Abstract: The present invention includes various embodiments directed to apparatus and methods surrounding a fastener device. In particular embodiments, the fastener device is a quick charging and discharging device that includes a solenoid, a fastener striker, a flash capacitor, and a control circuit. Other novel features of the fastener device exist. In particular embodiments, the present invention also includes apparatus and methods related to deforming staples for securing conduit and the like, and staple insulation and insulated staples that may be discharged by the fastener device. The insulation may be provided in an ordinary staple strip for use in the fastener device. Each insulation form may include deformation voids to assist the adaptation of the insulation about a target object that is being secured by the insulated staple.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2011
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Applicant: HALEX/SCOTT FETZER COMPANY
    Inventors: Michael GARDNER, Glenn A. Baker, Mirko Champa, James Bias, Jeff Sutherland
  • Portable fastener driving device
    Patent number: 7918374
    Abstract: The present invention includes various embodiments directed to apparatus and methods surrounding a fastener device. In particular embodiments, the fastener device is a quick charging and discharging device that includes a solenoid, a fastener striker, a flash capacitor, and a control circuit. Other novel features of the fastener device exist. In particular embodiments, the present invention also includes apparatus and methods related to deforming staples for securing conduit and the like, and staple insulation and insulated staples that may be discharged by the fastener device. The insulation may be provided in an ordinary staple strip for use in the fastener device. Each insulation form may include deformation voids to assist the adaptation of the insulation about a target object that is being secured by the insulated staple.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: HALEX/Scott Fetzer Company
    Inventors: Michael Gardner, Glenn A. Baker, Mirko Champa, Jim Bias, Jeff Sutherland
  • Automatic quick clear nose for nailer
    Patent number: 7913889
    Abstract: A fastener driving apparatus includes a motor with an output shaft. The motor is shiftable between a de-energized condition in which it can not be actuated to move the output shaft, and an energized condition in which it can be actuated to move the output shaft. The apparatus further includes a nose and a control device. The nose is shiftable between differently configured conditions, including a first condition for guiding a fastener driven by the output shaft, and a second condition for releasing a fastener that jams when the nose is in the first condition. The control device maintains the nose in the first condition while the motor remains in the energized condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Campbell Hausfeld/Scott Fetzer Company
    Inventor: Bobby Lynn Lawrence
  • Wire coupling device with a cam actuated by a lever
    Patent number: 7883380
    Abstract: A wire coupling device which may be used joining at least a separate first wire and second wire comprising: a housing having at least a first port and a second port, each port configured to receive a separate wire; a camming member disposed between the at least first and second ports, the camming member rotatable between a first, open position and a second, closed position, where the camming member provides electrical contact between the at least first wire and second wire when in the second, closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: Halex Co./a Scott-Fetzer Company
    Inventors: Michael J. Gardner, Glenn A. Baker
  • Gas discharge lamp power supply
    Patent number: 7876543
    Abstract: A gas discharge lamp power supply having a base, a pair of opposed side walls extending from the base, and opposed first and second end walls extending from the base between the opposed side walls. The first end wall has a sloped wall extending angularly between the side walls, and two input terminals are mounted on the sloped wall. In another embodiment, the power supply has a control with a nonvolatile memory for storing an error code in response to a detected fault condition, thereby permitting the error code to be displayed upon power being removed from and then, subsequently reapplied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: FRANCE/ A Scott Fetzer Company
    Inventors: William T. Hopkins, Anthony W. Banks, Alan M. Smith, Louis B. Pickvet, Robert L. Towe, Charles A. Schlemm
  • Modulated Power Burner System And Method
    Publication number: 20100319551
    Abstract: A power burner system for use with a heating appliance includes a burner tube, a gas valve for providing gas to the burner tube, and a variable speed combustion air blower for mixing air with the gas provided to the burner tube. The burner system further includes a control in communication with the gas valve and the combustion air blower. The control may also be in communication with various other devices of an appliance, such as a variable speed air-circulating fan, a variable speed exhaust fan, or various sensors associated with the heating appliance. The control modulates the gas valve and the combustion air blower to maintain substantially stoichiometric conditions of the gas and air provided to the burner tube and as a function of signals from at least one of the devices. In one embodiment, the burner system may be used in a conveyor oven.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2010
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Applicant: WAYNE/SCOTT FETZER COMPANY
    Inventors: Donald W. Cox, Syed Mohammad Shiblee Noman
  • Vacuum cleaner with removable handle
    Patent number: 7854038
    Abstract: A cleaning apparatus includes a base. A bracket is attached to the base. Wheels are rotatably attached to the base for wheeling the base across a floor. A cleaning attachment is configured to be attached to the base and moved against the floor to clean the floor as the base is wheeled across the floor. The base is manually pushed by a handle to wheel the base across the floor. The handle is configured to be removably attached to the base by being hooked onto the bracket and then pivoted relative to the bracket into an installed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: The Scott Fetzer Company
    Inventors: Terry L. Zahuranec, David Scott Smith, Daniel L. Steele, Diane L. Dodson
  • Compressor
    Patent number: D636409
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Campbell Hausfeld/Scott Fetzer Company
    Inventors: Darrin W. Wilmes, Berlie E. Parks, David O. Shumate, Douglas R. Harper
  • Compressor
    Patent number: D636792
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Campbell Hausfeld/Scott Fetzer Company
    Inventors: Berlie Eugene Parks, Darrin W. Wilmes
  • Compressor
    Patent number: D637211
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: Campbell Hausfeld/Scott Fetzer Company
    Inventors: Berlie Eugene Parks, Darrin W. Wilmes, Dwight Charles Grubbs
  • Knife blade
    Patent number: D658455
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: The Scott Fetzer Company
    Inventors: Mon-Chang Wang, Jimmy W Mahaffey