Patents Assigned to Vessel Inc
  • Patent number: 7275654
    Abstract: A tissue dispenser and method includes a weighted ring or plate or other single or multi-piece member which sits on top of a stack of interleaved tissues. The ring or plate or other member has an aperture, through which the tissues are dispensed. The weight of the ring or plate or other member applies constant pressure to the stack of tissues, causing enough friction between the tissues to pull the next one partially through the aperture into the ready position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2007
    Assignee: Vessel Inc
    Inventor: Scott Christensen
  • Publication number: 20070036037
    Abstract: A time module including a timepiece display is carried by a mechanical spring between its opposing resilient spring arms providing a clip formed between one resilient spring arm and the confronting surface of the casing enabling clip attachment to any flexible thin sheet material and enabling viewing of the timepiece display at the other of the resilient spring arms while clip attached to the flexible material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2005
    Publication date: February 15, 2007
    Applicant: VESSEL, INC.
    Inventors: Stefane Barbeau, Daniel Reilly, Daune Smith
  • Publication number: 20050264261
    Abstract: An autoilluminating rechargeable lamp system includes a set of one or more self-standing rechargeable lighting fixtures (luminaries) removably supported on a recharging and support member. The luminaries each include a light diffusor that may resemble a candle to the from that turn on when removed from the recharging and support member. The luminaries may also turn on when power to the recharging and support member is turned off, turning the luminaries on automatically as-during a power failure. The luminaries may each be inductively coupled to the recharging and support member, which enables to provide an aesthetically pleasing interface free of electrical contacts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2005
    Publication date: December 1, 2005
    Applicant: VESSEL, INC.
    Inventors: Stefane Barbeau, Daniel Reilly, Duane Smith
  • Patent number: 6821054
    Abstract: A method and system for laying and burying pipe a seabed using a pipe trenching plow that is advanced along the seabed to form a continuous trench. The pipe trenching plow cuts a pilot hole in the seabed using a cutting apparatus and widens and forms a trench from the pilot hole using expandable spreading side sections. A pipe guiding sled also is used to support and guide the pipe into the trench and a trench box section retains the trench geometry as the pipe trenching plow is continuously advanced in a forward direction. The pipe trenching plow cutting the trench and burying the pipe with minimal turbidity and seabed disturbance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Assignee: Horizon Vessels, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael L. Ballard
  • Patent number: 6819080
    Abstract: An autoilluminating rechargeable lamp system includes a set of one or more self-standing rechargeable lighting fixtures (luminaries) removably supported on a recharging and support member. The luminaries each include a light diffusor that may resemble a candle that turn on when removed from the recharging and support member. The luminaries may also turn on when power to the recharging and support member is turned off, turning the luminaries on automatically as during a power failure. The luminaries may each be inductively coupled to the recharging and support member, which enables to provide an aesthetically pleasing interface free of electrical contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2004
    Assignee: Vessel Inc.
    Inventors: Stefane E. Barbeau, Duane B. Smith, Donald Drumm
  • Patent number: 6745395
    Abstract: Hats such as baseball-type caps and sun visors which have a brim projecting from the forward part of the hat, or sailor hats or Stetson-type (or cowboy-type or fedora-type) hats that have a brim extending about the periphery of the hat are provided with a device on or forming the brim that presents two or more composite graphic images or sets of images. The hat brim includes at least two interleaved series or sets of sections are arranged in a wave-like manner that each present a composite image or a set of images. The sections of each series of interleaved sections generally face in a common direction so that images or parts of images displayed by the sections of a same series are viewable together, and the sections of different series face in different directions. An observer can view a first image or set of images on the brim from a first direction and second image or set of images on the brim from a second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2004
    Assignee: Noble Tile & Vessel, Inc.
    Inventor: Eileen W. Noble
  • Patent number: 6479965
    Abstract: A rechargeable lamp system includes a set of one or more self-standing rechargeable lighting fixtures (luminaries) removably received on a recharging platter. The luminaries each include a light diffusor resembling a candle that turn on when removed from the charging platter. The luminaries also turn on when power to the charging platter is turned off, which allows the set to be used as a table lamp, and has the added benefit of turning the luminaries on automatically during a power failure. The luminaries are each inductively coupled to the recharging platter, which enables to provide an aesthetically pleasing interface free of electrical contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2002
    Assignee: Vessel Inc.
    Inventors: Stefane E. Barbeau, Duane B. Smith, Donald Drumm
  • Patent number: 5676330
    Abstract: An apparatus for winding steel ribbon around a vessel inner shell having forward and rearward ends to construct a pressure vessel includes a vessel support and rotation mechanism, a vessel elevation adjusting mechanism, tracks for supporting and guiding the vessel support and rotation mechanism, a carriage having rail track engaging mechanism for traveling along the track on at least one side of the vessel inner shell, and a ribbon pulling mechanism mounted on the carriage for delivering the ribbon to the vessel inner shell under ribbon tensile loading to pre-stress the vessel. The apparatus preferably additionally includes a locking mechanism for locking the vessel support and rotation mechanism to the track, after the vessel support and rotation mechanism is positioned at forward and rearward ends of a given vessel inner shell. The vessel support and rotation mechanism preferably includes several vessel support roller sets in the form of annular members rotatably mounted on tracks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 14, 1997
    Assignee: International Pressure Vessel, Inc.
    Inventor: Guo Hui Zhu
  • Patent number: 3947950
    Abstract: The specification discloses an apparatus and process for beading the projecting ends of heat exchange tubes to a header or tube sheet of a water heater. The apparatus comprises an expandable mandrel having outwardly movable jaws supported around the forward end of a spindle. The mandrel is adapted to be inserted into a tube and to be expanded outward to tightly grip the inside of the tube near the header and to expand the tube against the header. An annular beading head having an annular beading groove is supported around the spindle rearward of the jaws and is adapted to be moved forward to engage the groove with the projecting end of the tube to force the end of the tube radially outward and against the side of the header.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1974
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1976
    Assignee: Pressure Vessels, Inc.
    Inventor: Charles L. Adams
  • Patent number: D501271
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2005
    Assignee: Vessel Inc
    Inventors: Stefane E. Barbeau, Duane B. Smith, Andreu Oslka
  • Patent number: D530040
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2006
    Assignee: Vessel, Inc.
    Inventors: Duane Smith, Stéfane Barbeau, Daniel J. Reilly
  • Patent number: D532316
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2006
    Assignee: Vessel, Inc.
    Inventors: Stéfane Barbeau, Duane Smith, Daniel J. Reilly
  • Patent number: D470987
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2003
    Assignee: Noble Tile & Vessel, Inc.
    Inventor: Eileen W. Noble
  • Patent number: D471020
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2003
    Assignee: Noble Tile & Vessel, Inc.
    Inventor: Eileen W. Noble
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    Patent number: D477453
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2003
    Assignee: Noble Tile & Vessel, Inc.
    Inventor: Eileen W. Noble
  • Patent number: D478624
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2003
    Assignee: Noble Tile & Vessel, Inc.
    Inventor: Eileen W. Noble
  • Patent number: D485315
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignee: Noble Tire & Vessel, Inc.
    Inventor: Eileen W. Noble
  • Patent number: D485993
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2004
    Assignee: Noble Tile & Vessel, Inc.
    Inventor: Eileen W. Noble
  • Patent number: D492443
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2004
    Assignee: Vessel, Inc.
    Inventors: Duane B. Smith, Stéfane E. Barbeau
  • Patent number: D498857
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Assignee: Vessel Inc.
    Inventors: Duane B. Smith, Stéfane E. Barbeau