Patents Assigned to Zak Designs, Inc.
  • Patent number: 11697531
    Abstract: A dispensing lid includes a port through the lid, a slider in sliding engagement with the lid, and a detent on the slider. The slider is selectively movable between a closed position that closes the port, an open position that opens the port, and removal from the lid. The detent includes a wall extending from the slider, a lever attached to the slider at a pivot, a pawl extending from the lever, and a catch extending from the pawl. The lever is in an orientation opposing the wall with a gap between the lever and the wall. The catch engages a first stop in the lid when the slider is in the closed position with the lever released, engages a second stop in the lid when the slider is in the open position with the lever released, and does not engage the lid when the slider is removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Zak Designs, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Gillespie, Tyler Noveletsky
  • Patent number: 11649097
    Abstract: A bottle system has a liquid container with a reservoir therein and a lid that releasably engages with the liquid container and, thereby, selectively seals the reservoir when engaged with the liquid container. A slot is in the lid. A storage container inserts through the slot and, thereby, releasably engages the lid when inserted through the slot. The lid forms a barrier that separates the storage container from liquid when liquid is present in the reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Zak Designs, Inc.
    Inventors: Greg Grankowski, Andrew Gillespie
  • Patent number: 11540618
    Abstract: A cleaning brush kit includes a bottle brush and a straw brush. The bottle-cleaning brush and the straw-cleaning brush are designed to be stored together with each other, but separable such that each can be used without the other. The bottle brush includes storage compartment in its handle to store the straw brush. The bottle brush head includes an upper ring and a lower ring of appendages designed to clean hard-to-reach areas of bottles. The straw brush includes a shaft and helical blade wrapped around the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Zak Designs, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Gillespie, Seth Shepard
  • Patent number: 10512347
    Abstract: A dual-dispensing lid includes a pour orifice, a pour spout corresponding with the pour orifice, and a pour cap selectively detachable from direct contact with the pour spout. The pour cap seals the pour spout from fluid exiting the fluid container through the pour spout. The lid also includes a sip orifice and an elongated and resilient sip spout inserted through the sip orifice. A sip cap is selectively releasable from compression against the sip spout and selectively compressible against the sip spout in a manner that seals the sip spout from fluid exiting the fluid container through the sip spout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Zak Designs, Inc.
    Inventors: Seth Shepard, Andrew Gillespie
  • Patent number: 9901199
    Abstract: A liquid dispensing lid is described and which includes a lid body defining a drinking aperture, and an internal cavity, and wherein the lid body cooperates with a drinking vessel for enclosing a source of a liquid to be consumed, and a fluid regulating plate is provided, and which movably cooperates with the lid body, and which further is operable to move along a path of travel from a first position which impedes the movement of the liquid to the drinking aperture, to a second position which allows liquid to move to the drinking aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Zak Designs, Inc.
    Inventors: Wade Maple, Jeff Steininger
  • Patent number: 9883758
    Abstract: A drinking vessel for determining an amount of a liquid which is consumed and which includes a first portion, which has a base portion and a vertically, upwardly extending wall, and wherein the vertically upwardly extending wall defines an internal cavity, and the exterior-facing surface thereof defines a multiplicity of continuous, circumscribing, longitudinally spaced grooves; and a multiplicity of continuous, elastomeric members are individually received in the respective spaced grooves and which can be moved along the exterior-facing surface of the drinking vessel so as to permit a user to readily account for the amount of fluid they have consumed during a given time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Zak Designs, Inc.
    Inventors: Wade Maple, Jeff Steininger
  • Patent number: 9637284
    Abstract: A liquid dispensing lid is described and which includes a lid body which cooperates with a fluid dispensing vessel, and where the lid body defines a drinking aperture; an elongated fluid dispensing member movably cooperates with the upper surface of the lid body so as to selectively occlude the drinking aperture; and an elastomeric biasing member biasingly couples the elongated fluid dispending member to the lid body and further biasingly urges the elongated fluid dispensing member into an orientation where the elongated fluid dispensing member occludes the drinking aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Zak Designs, Inc.
    Inventors: Wade Maple, Jeff Steininger
  • Publication number: 20170081078
    Abstract: A nesting bowl is described and which, when used in combination with other nesting bowls of a similar design, permits a user to remove a smaller nesting bowl from the internal cavity of a larger nesting bowl by exerting a downwardly directed force on the circumscribing flange of the innermost nesting bowl so as to cause the innermost nesting bowl to assume an elevated, and angulated orientation which allows the innermost nesting bowl to be easily removed, by hand, without contaminating the internal cavity of the smaller nesting bowl.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Applicant: ZAK DESIGNS, INC.
    Inventor: Wade Maple
  • Publication number: 20160244217
    Abstract: A liquid dispensing lid is described and which includes a lid body which cooperates with a fluid dispensing vessel, and where the lid body defines a drinking aperture; an elongated fluid dispensing member movably cooperates with the upper surface of the lid body so as to selectively occlude the drinking aperture; and an elastomeric biasing member biasingly couples the elongated fluid dispending member to the lid body and further biasingly urges the elongated fluid dispensing member into an orientation where the elongated fluid dispensing member occludes the drinking aperture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Applicant: Zak Designs, Inc.
    Inventors: Wade Maple, Jeff Steininger
  • Publication number: 20160213178
    Abstract: A liquid dispensing lid is described and which includes a lid body defining a drinking aperture, and an internal cavity, and wherein the lid body cooperates with a drinking vessel for enclosing a source of a liquid to be consumed, and a fluid regulating plate is provided, and which movably cooperates with the lid body, and which further is operable to move along a path of travel from a first position which impedes the movement of the liquid to the drinking aperture, to a second position which allows liquid to move to the drinking aperture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Applicant: Zak Designs, Inc.
    Inventors: Wade Maple, Jeff Steininger
  • Publication number: 20160213177
    Abstract: A drinking vessel for determining an amount of a liquid which is consumed and which includes a first portion, which has a base portion and a vertically, upwardly extending wall, and wherein the vertically upwardly extending wall defines an internal cavity, and the exterior-facing surface thereof defines a multiplicity of continuous, circumscribing, longitudinally spaced grooves; and a multiplicity of continuous, elastomeric members are individually received in the respective spaced grooves and which can be moved along the exterior-facing surface of the drinking vessel so as to permit a user to readily account for the amount of fluid they have consumed during a given time interval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Applicant: ZAK DESIGNS, INC.
    Inventors: Wade Maple, Jeff Steininger
  • Patent number: 9334090
    Abstract: A liquid dispensing lid includes a lid body having an upper lower surface and a peripheral edge, and is sized so as to releasably cooperate with a fluid dispensing vessel having an internal cavity, and the lid body further defines a drinking aperture and a vent aperture; an elongated fluid dispensing member is mounted on the upper surface of the lid body; and an elastomeric valve member is releasably borne by the elongated fluid dispensing member, and which further is operable to move the elongated fluid dispensing member along a predetermined path of travel between a first and a second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: ZAK DESIGNS, INC.
    Inventors: Wade Maple, Jeff Steininger
  • Patent number: D775899
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Zak Designs, Inc.
    Inventor: Wade Maple
  • Patent number: D778676
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Zak Designs, Inc.
    Inventor: Wade Maple
  • Patent number: D808712
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Zak Designs, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeff Steininger, Tai Shing Ng
  • Patent number: D809920
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Zak Designs, Inc.
    Inventor: Wade Maple
  • Patent number: D810500
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Zak Designs, Inc.
    Inventor: Wade Maple
  • Patent number: D889198
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Zak Designs, Inc.
    Inventors: Seth Shepard, Andrew Gillespie
  • Patent number: D889199
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Zak Designs, Inc.
    Inventors: Seth Shepard, Andrew Gillespie
  • Patent number: D934030
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Zak Designs, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Gillespie, Greg Grankowski