Patents Examined by Andrew Roersma
  • Patent number: 9161639
    Abstract: A folding breath guard configured to at least partially cover food in a foodservice area includes a top panel, a first side panel, a first hinge rotatably coupling the first side panel to the top panel, wherein the first side panel is movable between an extended position and a storage position, a second side panel, a second hinge rotatably coupling the second side panel to the top panel, wherein the second side panel is movable between an extended position and a storage position, a first storage position securing device for securing the first side panel in the storage position, and a second storage position securing device for securing the second side panel in the storage position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: The Vollrath Company, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Jill Eileen Hundley, Ralph D. Shillingburg, Vincent J. Tagliarino
  • Patent number: 9149404
    Abstract: An anesthesia workstation includes a sliding track system attached to the front of the anesthesia workstation for the mounting of one or more displays. The displays are horizontally slidable along the front of the anesthesia workstation along the sliding track. In addition, the sliding track system includes pivot points which enable outward pivoting of the displays up to 90 degrees. Sliding and pivoting of the displays is possible both independently and simultaneously. The sliding track system allows the anesthetist to slide and pivot the displays across the front of the workstation along the length of the track to the most preferable viewing position. Additional storage space is positioned within the anesthesia workstation behind the displays and becomes exposed and accessible when the displays are manipulated via the sliding track system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Spacelabs Healthcare LLC
    Inventors: Brian E. Drapes, Zeng Xi, Ronald L. Tobia, Bruce Dammann, Cory Boudreau
  • Patent number: 9144329
    Abstract: A filler bracket assembly for closing gaps in new or existing sneeze guard assemblies is disclosed. The filler bracket assembly includes dual housings which fit together to provide a cylindrical housing central aperture having an internal diameter sized to receive and affix to a sneeze guard elongated support member. A cap portion is sized to fit on top of the slotted cylindrical housing, and together with gaskets and the filler sneeze guard panel, be affixed thereto by at least one fastener. The split cylindrical housing components allow for easy retro-fit adaptation of a filler bracket assembly to existing, installed sneeze guard assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Inventor: Andrew H. McGrath
  • Patent number: 9131774
    Abstract: A drawer assembly has a removable container and a receiving tray. The container has a housing having at least one shaped surface and at least one horizontal alignment element coupled to and projecting from the housing. The receiving tray has a base having a redirection feature and at least one horizontal alignment hole in the base that is configured to accept the horizontal alignment element. The container and receiving tray are configured such that downward motion of the container with the shaped surface of the housing in contact with the redirection feature of the base induces a lateral motion of the container according to the engagement of the shaped surface and the redirection feature that causes the horizontal alignment element to slide into the horizontal alignment hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: CAREFUSION 303, INC.
    Inventor: Frank Dean Weber
  • Patent number: 9131771
    Abstract: A sliding drawer is coupled to a gondola-style shelving unit by providing mounting brackets and telescoping brackets which are used to couple the drawer to the shelf of a gondola-style shelving unit. Alternatively, the shelf may be eliminated by mounting brackets with the hooks typically found at opposite sides of a gondola-style shelf. Whether the shelf is employed or the hooks are provided on the mounting brackets, the hooks mate with slots in the upright vertical posts of the frame of the gondola-style shelving unit to mount the drawer to the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Streater LLC
    Inventor: Thomas G. Lindblom
  • Patent number: 9125490
    Abstract: A device for detachably coupling a drawer to an extendable rail of a pull-out guide including an adjusting device by which a position of a drawer connected to the rail is adjustable relative to the rail in a lateral direction. The adjusting device includes a fastening part that can be fastened to the drawer and a coupling part that can be coupled to the rail. The fastening part is linearly movable by the adjusting device relative to the coupling part, and the adjustment device includes a setting wheel mounted on the coupling part or on the fastening part so as to rotate about an axis. The adjustment device also includes at least two axially spaced transmission devices for converting a rotary movement of the setting wheel into a linear movement of the fastening part relative to the coupling part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: JULIUS BLUM GMBH
    Inventors: Kurt Haemmerle, Andreas Holzer
  • Patent number: 9127880
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to pressure control in a vegetable room of a refrigerator, and particularly, to a vegetable room of a refrigerator in which pressure is controlled according to vegetable, fruit, and mixture modes. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to a vegetable room of a refrigerator in which different pressures are applied according to vegetable, fruit, and mixture modes such that each pressure corresponds to storage conditions of storage items such as vegetable and fruit stored in an airtight state therein, whereby each storage item is maintained with optimal freshness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Ahreum Park, Dullae Min, Moongyo Jung
  • Patent number: 9103577
    Abstract: An ice making system for a refrigerator includes a base member; an icemaker mounted to the base member for making ice pieces; a driving unit mounted to a rear surface of the base member such that a motor shaft thereof is in a horizontal state; an ice bank horizontally inserted into the base member in a detachable manner, for storing the ice pieces made by the icemaker; a detachable mounting unit for detachably mounting the ice bank to the base member; and an ice crusher assembly provided at the ice bank so as to be connected to or separated from the driving unit, for crushing the ice pieces. Since the ice bank has only to be horizontally pushed into the base member for coupling, or horizontally pulled out of the base member for separation, processes for coupling or separating the ice bank to/from the base member are facilitated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Gue-Sec Hwang
  • Patent number: 9101211
    Abstract: A leveling system for panels or drawers within a cabinet comprising a rail; a front section having an intermediate opening, at least one opening and at least a first adjustment mechanism; wherein said rail supports said front section, and wherein said front section, supports at the same time, an inner wall by means of fastening means housed in said front section opening; a second adjustment mechanism disposed over said inner body housed in said front section intermediate opening; an adjusting means; and wherein said first adjustment means and said second adjustment means are linked by means of the adjusting means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: MABE, S.A. DE C.V.
    Inventors: Victor Gerardo Cabal Velarde, Alan Federico Camacho Velazquez, Ignacio Marin Ahumada, Carlos Espinosa de los Monteros Fernéndez
  • Patent number: 9103581
    Abstract: Provided is a storage system and a refrigeration appliance including the storage system for storing food items in a temperature-controlled environment. The storage system includes a bin and a tab attached to the bin. The tab is configured to couple the bin to a track and guide the bin along a continuum of positions on the track. The storage system further includes an actuator attached to the bin that is selectively movable between a first position and a second position. The storage system still further includes a pin slidingly engaged with the bin. The bin is movable into a plurality of positions relative to the track. The pin in an engaged position is configured to prevent movement of the bin at any desired point within the continuum of positions on the track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: ELECTROLUX HOME PRODUCTS, INC.
    Inventors: Tyler Babinski, Cory Dale Simpson, Nilton Carlos Bertolini
  • Patent number: 9101212
    Abstract: Storage volume having a cubical housing with an interior space and walls, whereby at least the front wall is provided with an opening, and whereby at least the side walls are provided with a coupling on their outward facing sides, which are made in such a way that they allow such storage volumes to be coupled, either with both their front walls in the same plane, or with the front wall of one of the storage volumes in the same plane as the rear wall of the other storage volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: THE CHILLAFISH COMPANY NV
    Inventor: Sebastian De Roeck
  • Patent number: 9085925
    Abstract: A synchronization apparatus has at least two actuating apparatuses for moving a movable furniture part, and has a synchronization rod for synchronizing the movement of the at least two actuating apparatuses. A first end region of the synchronization rod can be connected to a first rotary part of the first actuating apparatus, and a second end region of the synchronization rod can be connected to a second rotary part of the second actuating apparatus. At least one rotary part of the actuating apparatuses has a spring-loaded contact-pressure part which bears against the end face of the synchronization rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: JULIUS BLUM GMBH
    Inventor: Markus Steinhauser
  • Patent number: 9078519
    Abstract: A safety guard for a liquid storage cabinet having a substantially flat top surface, comprising a front panel; a pair of side panels, wherein said front panel is joined between said pair of side panels and forms an angle with the horizontal axis in the range of 20-60 degrees; a back panel, wherein said back panel is joined between said pair of side panels; and means for attaching said safety guard to said substantially flat top surface of said liquid storage container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Inventor: Gilbert Ulibarri
  • Patent number: 9078531
    Abstract: A display case for easily moving items on display to a safe. The display case includes a first display portion and a second safe portion. The front and back walls of the second safe portion have first upper panels which pivot to form the top wall of the safe. A lift mechanism is mounted in the second safe portion to move the items from the display position to the stored, safe position inside the second safe portion. A control system controls the first upper panels and the lift mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Inventor: Samuel C. Medawar
  • Patent number: 9078521
    Abstract: A height adjustable resting device including a first plate fixable in use against a wall of an electric household appliance; a the second plate having a resting guide slidingly carried along longitudinal edges vertical to the first; a slider sliding on a first face of the first plate, facing an opposite second face of the second plate, transversally to the longitudinal edges, integrally provided with a pin which overhangingly protrudes from the first face; a channel-shaped track on the second face, slidingly engaged by the pin and having two branches parallel to the longitudinal edges, having on an upper edge a plurality of recesses adapted to engage the pin resting thereon and for each recess, at least one pair of abutting surfaces obtained on a lower edge to guide the pin from a recess to the next as a consequence of a vertical movement of the second plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventor: Alberto Bassi
  • Patent number: 9079596
    Abstract: A cart and drawer assembly (20, 120) comprising a pair of panels (22) each having an inner surface (26) disposed in spaced and parallel relationship with one another with said inner surfaces (26) facing each other. Each of the panels (22) defines a pair of beams (32). At least one shelf (66, 166) is disposed between the panels (22) in perpendicular relationship to the panels (22). A plurality of ribs (122) extend from the beams (32) and are spaced from one another along the beams (32). A pair of ears (124, 224) extend from each of the shelves (66, 166) and engage an adjacent pair of the ribs (122) to maintain the panels (22) in spaced and parallel relationship with one another and perpendicular to the shelf (66, 166). Each of the beams (32) define a plurality of sockets (34) spaced from one another. A pair of plugs (76) extend from each of the mounting sides (67, 167) in one of the sockets (34) connecting the shelves (66, 166) to the panels (22). The ears (124, 224) are disposed between said plugs (76).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: HMS MFG. CO.
    Inventors: Janet M. Sofy, Robert Todd Solomon, Todd Lajewski
  • Patent number: 9074808
    Abstract: A tower pantry includes a guide mechanism mounted on a bottom of an opened space inside a refrigerating room and a basket attached to the guide mechanism and configured to move forward and backward on the first guide mechanism. The tower pantry also includes frames that are fastened to corners of the first basket and that vertically extend from the first basket. The tower pantry further includes a frame cover fastened on the frames and defining a space that accommodates a large-size beverage container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Nami Kim, Taegyeong Kim, Jaeyoul Lee
  • Patent number: 9074807
    Abstract: Reclosable compartment for refrigerators, particularly suitable for incorporation in removable shelves, openable and reclosable by means of a front cover (30) which is rotatable around a first set of pins (70) on the lateral portions (50, 60) of the said container. In the closed configuration at least one portion of this front cover (30) is in a substantially vertical position, while in the open configuration the said portion (30) is in a substantially horizontal position. The said container also has an auxiliary upper cover (40) rotationally coupled to the lateral portions (50, 60), and rotatable around a second set of pins (80) during its opening and/or closing movement, through contact with the said front cover (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Alberto Borgonovo, Fabio Moneta
  • Patent number: 9072163
    Abstract: A housing assembly for a portable electronic device includes a first body, a second body, a first engaging member, a first resilient member and a first housing. The first body has a first space. The second body is installed to the first body and has a first release hole. The first engaging member is movably located in the first space. The first engaging member has at least one first engaging portion. The first resilient member provides a force to the first engaging member to orient the first engaging member toward the first release hole. The first housing is connected to the second body and has at least one first contact portion. When assembling, the first contact portion contacts the first engaging portion. The force of the first resilient member applied to the first engaging member to firmly connect the first housing to the second body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: King Slide Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shun-Ying Li, Shu-Chen Lin, Shan-Yao Chen
  • Patent number: 9066590
    Abstract: In an industrial computer cabinet and a two-way slide rail structure, the industrial computer cabinet includes a cabinet having a receiving space, a first opening, and a second opening; a drawer in the receiving space; and a two-way slide rail assembly including a first slide rail assembly having at least one slide rail, a second slide rail assembly, and at least one roller installed on the second slide rail assembly and rolling along the slide rail. The two openings communicate with the receiving space, at opposite sides thereof. The first slide rail assembly is fixed to one of the cabinet and the drawer; the second slide rail assembly is fixed to the other such that the drawer can be pulled out, sliding relatively to the cabinet through the first or the second opening, enhancing the use convenience of the industrial computer cabinet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: AIC INC.
    Inventor: Wei-Shih Wu