Patents Examined by Andrew D Perreault
  • Patent number: 11873150
    Abstract: An exemplary storage and transport container as provided can be easily produced, transported and mounted. The storage and transport containers can be designed and configured in such a way that electrostatic charging of the plastic receptacles that are stored therein is prevented as much as possible. The storage and transport container can also be reusable multiple times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: ALPLA WERKE ALWIN LEHNER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Jürgen Riedmann
  • Patent number: 11858727
    Abstract: A cargo container has a tubular shell, an annular mounting ring mounted thereto, and a nose cone clamped to the annular mounting ring by an annular clamping collar. The mounting ring has a coupling slot and an annular flange. The nose cone has an annular flange. The clamping collar has an inwardly facing annular groove, and a constriction device. The mounting ring is mounted to the tubular shell wherein an annular edge of the tubular shell is rigidly held in the coupling slot. The nose cone and mounting ring annular flanges together form a mounting wedge. The clamping collar clamps the nose cone to the annular mounting ring wherein the mounting wedge is rigidly held in the annular groove by constriction of the clamping collar by the constriction device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Inventors: Michael Kloepfer, James Bult
  • Patent number: 11858686
    Abstract: An apparatus for displaying palleted items includes a generally flat main panel under the palleted items, having flaps with the palleted items positioned along fold lines, and with separable side panels configured to engage the flaps at the fold lines. When folded away from the palleted items and engaged together, the side panels securely hide a stack of multiple pallets under the palleted items, and present printed sides for advertising.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Inventor: John R. Brendlinger
  • Patent number: 11845585
    Abstract: A storage holder for receiving a plurality of condiment bottles includes a base seat defining a receiving space having an upper opening, and a plurality of carrying units removably engaged with the base seat and mounted in the receiving space to partition the receiving space into a plurality of receiving compartments which are arranged in a front-rear direction. Each carrying unit is configured for a plurality of the condiment bottles to be mountable thereon and arranged in a left-right direction so as to conveniently store and get access to the condiment bottles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Freshlink Product Development, LLC
    Inventors: Dean Chapman, Benjamin Broerman
  • Patent number: 11840375
    Abstract: A modular pastry packaging carousel is disclosed which provides the ability to individually store wedge-shaped pastry slices in a respective wedge-shaped pastry module. In a version of the application, the modular pasty packaging carousel generally comprises a bottom plate, a top plate, a spacer positioned between the bottom plate and the top plate providing a radial gab therebetween; and a plurality of wedge-shaped pastry modules, each comprising a sector-shaped removable base. The sector-shaped removable base includes a means for engaging the pastry module with the base tray radial connection channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Inventor: Alicia N. Ivory
  • Patent number: 11841185
    Abstract: A storage box for a refrigerator at an entrance according to an embodiment of the present invention, may comprise: a base; first side walls erected at the top front end and the top rear end of the base, respectively; and second side walls erected at the top left end and the top right end of the base, respectively, wherein the first side wall may include a plurality of first blocks stacked in the vertical direction and arranged in the horizontal direction, and a plurality of connectors movably connecting the adjacent first blocks in the horizontal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seojin Lee, Insun Yeo, Minseok Kim, Eugene Myung, Deukwon Lee, Miyoung Seo, Wonjin Lee, Kyukwan Choi, Minkyu Oh, Yezo Yun
  • Patent number: 11827413
    Abstract: The present application discloses a new method of making, using, and constructing packing boxes that can be used for shipping or storage. In one embodiment, a packing box is constructed from a set of assembly pieces. Each assembly piece comprises a square body with four sides. On each side of the square body, there is either a key or a lock. Two assembly pieces can be connected or locked through insertion of a key of one assembly piece into a lock of another assembly piece. Two locked pieces can be unlocked by pushing on the key via the indentation above the lock of one locked assembly piece that receives the key of another locked pieces. Assembly pieces of different shapes required for constructing a box are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Inventor: Arnaud Z Ajamian
  • Patent number: 11807411
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to a carton for packaging one or more articles, and a blank for forming said carton. The carton comprising a plurality of primary panels 12a, 12b, 14, 16a, 16b at least partially extending around an interior of the carton, the plurality of primary panels comprising a top panel 14 and a pair of side panels 12a, 12b, 16a, 16b hingedly connected to opposed side edges of the top panel respectively, wherein the carrier further comprises an end closure structure 24a, 24b which partially closes an end of the carrier, the end closure structure comprises a top end closure panel 24a, 26a hingedly connected to an end edge of the top panel and at least one anchor panel 20a, 30a hingedly connected to an end edge of at least one of the pair of side panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: WestRock Packaging Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Jean-Michel Garnier, Julien D. Merzeau
  • Patent number: 11800943
    Abstract: Quality modular dinnerware set that expands to multiple configurations for a variety of hosting/serving/dining needs. Basic plates can be used to bake, serve, display, and/or cook for small or large parties. Each plate/unit has a flippable or foldable design so that every piece can be used in more than one way. The plates then can be used on its own, as well as in the microwave, oven, or over a fire, and then paired with any of the wooden accessories to create a personalized tablescape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: CHAPTER CERAMICS
    Inventor: Janet Kwak
  • Patent number: 11801966
    Abstract: A cylindrical cardboard container comprising: a circular bottom wall having an outer bottom wall edge; a cylindrical sidewall extending upwardly from the bottom wall edge, the circular bottom wall and the cylindrical sidewall delimiting a receiving cavity sized and shaped to receive a plurality of items; a plurality of item holders for holding the items relative to each other within the receiving cavity, each item holder being configured for holding at least one of the items, the item holders being stackable to form a plurality of item layers within the receiving cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Inventor: Aymeric De Blay
  • Patent number: 11794944
    Abstract: Visibility packaging for energy storage elements includes a front wall spaced apart from a rear wall and provided with at least one viewing cutout and at least one web having a central apex region fixed to a contact region of the rear wall, wherein the web and the rear wall together form a K-shaped cross section in a closure position and the web closes a removal opening of a receiving space, and the rear wall has at least one perforation that delimits a contact region from a remainder of the rear wall and makes it possible to separate the contact region from the rear wall such that the web can be transferred by a folding operation into a removal position in which the apex region of the web is spaced apart from the rear wall and the web frees the removal opening of the receiving space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignees: VARTA Microbattery GmbH, VARTA Consumer Batteries GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Otto Hessel, Dietmar Köhnlein, Werner Regner
  • Patent number: 11771250
    Abstract: The present embodiments describe an insulated drinking vessel with a multifunction lid. In an embodiment, the drinking vessel can be configured to receive a multifunction lid. The multifunction lid may, in one embodiment, include an opening for receiving a drinking straw. In an embodiment, the multifunction lid may additionally include an opening for drinking or sipping directly through the lid. In an embodiment, the lid may include an operable cover for covering at least one of the openings in a first position and for allowing access to the fluid through the opening in a second position. In a further embodiment, the lid may include a plurality of operable covers. A first operable cover may be configured for covering the drinking straw opening in a first position and allowing insertion of a straw in a second position. The lid may also include an operable cover for covering the sipping spout in a first position and allowing drinking directly through the spout in a second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Base Brands, LLC
    Inventors: Patrick Spivey, Kenneth Kreafle
  • Patent number: 11738938
    Abstract: A louvered sidewall cargo container assembly for reducing crosswind exposure includes a cargo container, which is substantially cuboid shaped and comprises a pair of sidewalls, a front, a back, a bottom, and a roof. Each sidewall comprises a plurality of louvers. An actuator is engaged to the cargo container and is operationally engaged to each of the plurality of louvers. The actuator is positioned to selectively motivate each of the louvers between a first position a second position. In the first position, the louver is substantially perpendicular to the bottom and each of the plurality of louvers is in a closed configuration. In the second position, the louver is transverse or parallel to the bottom, extends into the cargo container, and each of the pluralities of louvers is in an open configuration. In the open configuration, the pluralities of louvers allow passage of a crosswind through the cargo container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Inventor: Eric Ulrich
  • Patent number: 11713159
    Abstract: A foldable storage box, comprising: a bottom panel, a first mounting assembly, a second mounting assembly. The bottom panel with two opposite first edges and two opposite second edges; the first mounting assembly comprises two first side plates rotatably connected to the first edges respectively, and two ends of the first side plate close to the second edge are both provided with a first clamping structure; the second mounting assembly comprises two second side plates rotatably connected to the second edges respectively, and two ends of the second side plates close to the first edge are both provided with a second clamping structure capable of a snap fit to the first clamping structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Inventor: Jianxing Zhan
  • Patent number: 11713168
    Abstract: A container and closure combination, for the containment of fluids and extraction therefrom by way of an extraction tube. The container comprises a closed volume with an opening configured to close the opening of the container; the closure is provided with an aperture such that the closure, upon fitment to the container opening, cannot be removed therefrom. The aperture of the closure comprises a unitary elastic unidirectional valve member that can operate in a first, closed condition, to prevent a flow of fluid from the container; and a second, operational condition, with an extraction tube sealingly engaged with respect to the valve, to permit an extraction of fluid from the container through the tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Inventor: Mark Anthony Bradley
  • Patent number: 11700973
    Abstract: A cookware utensil system having at least one cookware further comprising a cookware body with a perimetric edge and at least one handle extending outwardly from the cookware body, and a utensil having at least one notch that is configured to engage with the at least one handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: LAGOM KITCHEN CO.
    Inventors: Melinda Olsen, Amir Tehrani, Zachary Rosner, Christopher Santone, Hlynur Atlason
  • Patent number: 11696656
    Abstract: A utensil holder is described. The holder includes a base portion and a sidewall portion coupled to a periphery of and extending outward from the base portion. The sidewall portion and the base portion define a utensil receiving portion. An opening of the base portion receives a first magnetic component therein. At least one securement mechanism engaged to the sidewall portion secures the utensil in the utensil receiving portion. A material is affixed at one end to a location on the sidewall portion and is affixed at another end to a second magnetic component. The first and second magnetic component are of opposing polarities such that when the second magnetic component is placed beneath a surface the holder is resting on, the first magnetic component is configured in a magnetic attraction with the second magnetic component to maintain a location of the holder on the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Inventor: Edward Eisenberg
  • Patent number: 11691776
    Abstract: A low depth crate for containers includes a base with a top surface and a bottom surface, and a wall structure extending upwardly around a periphery of the base. A plurality of recesses are defined in the bottom surface and arranged to engage containers loaded in a like crate therebeneath when in a stacked configuration. The plurality of recesses includes primary recesses capable of engaging at least two different sizes of containers, each primary recess having a first support region with a first depth with respect to the bottom surface and a second support region with a second depth with respect to the bottom surface, the first depth greater than the second depth. The wall structure may include four adjoined side walls each having a handle formed in a central portion of the side wall and extending upwardly above an upper rim of the side wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: SPF Groups
    Inventors: Alexander Ross Kastelic, Jordon Drake Hale, Glenn E. Rindfleisch
  • Patent number: 11655941
    Abstract: Suspension system for an inner container mounted for thermal insulation in an outer container. Rod-shaped fixed bearing securing elements of a fixed bearing system engage the outer container and the inner container and can be stressed in tension and compression. Fixed bearing securing elements engage the inner container while being arranged so as to be distributed in an annular installation space between the inner container and outer container, and they engage the outer container while being distributed in the annular installation space. A floating bearing system with a floating bearing ring and annularly distributed floating bearing securing elements can be arranged in the outer container to support the inner container. The floating bearing securing elements can be stressed in tension by tension springs and/or in compression by compression springs and engage the floating bearing ring and the inner container or the outer container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: CRYOSHELTER GMBH
    Inventor: Matthias Rebernik
  • Patent number: 11603244
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a portable cooling multipack for holding and cooling a plurality of beverage containers. The multipack includes a primary container formed from an open top housing, having a bottom surface, and a plurality of sidewalls connected and extended away from the bottom surface to define an inner surface there-between, accessible through a top open surface. The multipack further includes a closing wrap for closing the top open surface of the housing of the primary container. The closing wrap includes a plurality of panels defining a first end panel connected to a second end panel through a bottom panel at one end and extending towards a top panel at another end. The closing wrap is wrapped around a pair of sidewalls of the primary containers in a vertical direction such that the top panel of the closing wrap sealingly covers the open top surface of the primary container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Inventors: Keenan Thompson, Wim Dekocker