Patents Examined by Basil Katcheves
  • Hip and ridge roofing shingle
    Patent number: 9290943
    Abstract: A shingle blank includes a substrate coated with asphalt. A substantially V-shaped perforated cut line is formed in the substrate, and a substantially straight cut line extends from an apex the V-shaped perforated line toward a leading edge of the shingle blank. The V-shaped perforated cut line and the substantially straight cut line are structured and configured to facilitate separation of the shingle blank into discrete portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Owens Corning Intellectual Capital, LLC
    Inventors: Lawrence J. Grubka, Jennifer L. Frey, Hyun Gun Yu, Hun Song
  • Window frame with jamb extender
    Patent number: 9290987
    Abstract: A window assembly is described for installation in window openings having different thicknesses. A window frame having parallel side jambs, a header and a sill having inner and outer edges, and forming a rectangular opening is provided. C-shaped clamps are attached to the inner faces of the jambs, header and sill. The clamps include inwardly extending inner and outer side arms spaced at a given width, and an inner side. A rectangular extender frame is formed of four rectangular boards having lengths corresponding to the lengths of the frame jambs, header and sill. The extender frame is inserted into the clamps and moved relative to the window frame until the combined thickness of the extender frame and window frame corresponds to the thickness of the opening into which the window frame is to be mounted. Extender trim can be added to hide the clamps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Inventors: Jason Gray Yeomans, Robert Wayne Davis
  • Debris repelling filtering device for roof gutters
    Patent number: 9284735
    Abstract: A gutter filtering device constructed to be mounted on top of a gutter opening and to extend from the front to the rear, and to attach to the front lip of the gutter. The gutter filtering device comprises a main body frame portion supporting a filtering media, a front mounting portion and a rear wing mounting portion. The main body frame portion is comprised of louvers that supports and holds a filtering media. The front mounting portion comprises a bending of the main body frame that folds over and crimps to the front end of the filtering media. The rear mounting portion comprises a separate rear wing folded over and crimpled to rear portion of the main body frame. The filtering media's top surface is shaped with many front to rear raised ridges in an repeating S-shape pattern that are parallel and form a consistent pattern from left to right.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Inventors: Slate E. Bryer, Lawrence B. Dumm, Christopher G. Tatasciore
  • Plug assembly and a method for sealing a hole
    Patent number: 9284738
    Abstract: A dual stage plug assembly 10 which provides a first sealing stage which is cooperatively provided by the insertion members 12, 14 (including the unexpanded portion 24) and a second sealing stage which is provided by selectively expandable member 24. The plug assembly 10 is selectively inserted into a hole, such as hole 80, which is formed in a tangible entity, such as basement wall 82, and the members 12 and 14 cooperates with member 24 to seal the hole 80, thereby preventing water and/or other liquid from entering and passing through the hole 80.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Inventors: Keith Thomas Potts, Sherrill Dean Teaster
  • Self-elevating mast employing draw works
    Patent number: 9279267
    Abstract: A system comprising a support structure having a plurality of vertically extending members arranged to define a mast channel, the support structure attached to a platform having a rig floor and the support structure positioned above an opening in the rig floor; a first mast section that is attached to the support structure; a second mast section that is attached to the support structure and the first mast section; and a third mast section; wherein the system has a first arrangement in which the third mast section is located below the rig floor in a vertical position and is vertically spaced from the second mast; and wherein the system has a second arrangement in which the third mast section is attached to the second mast section and at least a portion of the third mast extends within the opening of the rig floor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: NABORS DRILLING INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Anthony Petrello, Padira Reddy, Ashish Gupta, Sean M. Bailey
  • Canopy system and group suspension system therefore
    Patent number: 9279252
    Abstract: A ceiling system for use in the interior building environment. In one aspect, the invention may be a ceiling system comprising: a plurality of first struts and a plurality of second struts, the second struts intersecting the first struts; a plurality of panels; for each of the plurality of panels, a plurality of hook members attached to the panel; and wherein for each of the plurality of panels, the plurality of hook members comprise a first hook member coupled to one of the first struts and a second hook member coupled to one of the second struts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: AWI Licensing Company
    Inventors: James R. Waters, James P. Rineer, Brian L. Springer, William H. Frantz
  • Method and apparatus for repairing and sealing door and window jambs, frames, and exterior trim
    Patent number: 9273480
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for the repair of door and window jambs or other exterior surface trim of a building and more specifically to the manufacturing of protective covers of a water and environmentally resistant material that are pre-dimensioned to fit all or a portion of standard and non-standard sized door or window jamb, frames or exterior trim using a unique preformed groove. The protective covers may further be included in a kit that provides for a homeowner to easily size the covers to the appropriate dimension and perform a repair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Inventor: Michel R. Larochelle
  • Methods and apparatus for restoring, repairing, reinforcing and/or protecting structures using concrete
    Patent number: 9273479
    Abstract: Methods are provided for repairing an existing structure to cover at least a portion of the existing structure with a repair structure. Such methods comprise mounting one or more standoff retainers to the existing structure; coupling one or more standoffs to the standoff retainers such that the standoffs extend away from the existing structure; coupling one or more cladding panels to the standoffs such that the panels are spaced apart from the structure to provide a space therebetween; and introducing a curable material to the space between the panels and the existing structure, the panels acting as at least a portion of a formwork for containing the curable material until the curable material cures to provide a repair structure cladded, at least in part, by the panels. Corresponding apparatus for effecting such methods are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: CFS Concrete Forming Systems Inc.
    Inventors: George David Richardson, Semion Krivulin, Jorge Ricardo Rosas-Gracida, Zi Li Fang
  • Kit for precast panels and method of assembling panels
    Patent number: 9267283
    Abstract: A kit for connecting precast panels is disclosed herein. The kit includes at least two male member having a plate and a post projecting from the plate. The male member is operable to be embedded within a precast panel. The kit also includes at least two female members having a plate and a slot defined by the plate. Each female members is operable to be embedded within a precast panel. The post is received in the slot when the first precast panel and the second precast panel are slidably engaged with one another. Also disclosed is a precast panel formed using the kit and a method of connecting precast panels formed with the kit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Inventors: Thomas Kentz, Del Grovet, Fred Belt
  • Pre-fabricated threaded bar assemblies
    Patent number: 9267287
    Abstract: A pre-fabricated reinforcement cage is constructed of at least two cage frames spaced apart from each other. The cage frames include preferably axially extending steel plates and axially extending sleeves preferably having an internal threading pattern that is complimentary to the external threading pattern of a plurality of longitudinal reinforcing bars. The cage frames are optionally also provided with lifting bar guide collars to receive a lifting apparatus comprised of one or more lifting bars. The cage frame plates, sleeves and lifting bar guide collars are fastened together. The longitudinal reinforcing bars, having continuous, external thread-like deformations along their length are installed into the internally threaded sleeves or into threads of locking nuts holding the bars within optional smooth sleeves during the fabrication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Inventor: Steven James Bongiorno
  • Formed interlocking roofing panels
    Patent number: 9267289
    Abstract: An interlocking panel system for top-down installation on an underlying structure including a plurality of panels, with an uphill course and a downhill course where each panel is generally rectangular, having an uphill edge and opposing downhill edge. An interlocking member is disposed along the uphill edge, and a receiving member adapted to receive the interlocking member and a joining flange are disposed along the downhill edge. A panel of the uphill course is affixed to an underlying structure via fasteners through the joining flange. The interlocking member of a panel of the downhill course is insertable into the receiving member of the uphill course, and the position of the panel of the downhill course is adjustable within the span of the receiving member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Quality Edge, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul W. Vander Laan, Mike Moerler, Todd Alexander
  • Hollow structure, and preparation method thereof
    Patent number: 9267286
    Abstract: A hollow-core structure including: an inner mold that has a hollow cylindrical shell shape; an outer mold that has a hollow cylindrical shell shape to correspond to the inner mold, and in which the inner mold is disposed to be separated; and a filling member that is filled in a separation space between the inner mold and the outer mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: AJOU UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION
    Inventor: Jang Hoon Kim
  • Building panels
    Patent number: 9260869
    Abstract: Flooring material comprising sheet-shaped floor elements with a mainly square or rectangular shape. The floor elements are provided with edges, a lower side and an upper decorative layer. The floor elements are intended to be joined by means of joining members. The floor elements are provided with male joining members on a first edge while a second edge of the floor elements are provided with a female joining member. The male joining member is provided with a tongue and a lower side groove while the female joining member is provided with a groove and a cheek, the cheek being provided with a lip. The floor elements are provided with a male vertical assembly joining member on a third edge while a fourth, opposite, edge is provided with female vertical assembly joining member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: PERGO (EUROPE) AB
    Inventors: Jorgen Palsson, Ake Sjoberg
  • Fail-safe anchoring systems for cavity walls
    Patent number: 9260857
    Abstract: A fail-safe wall anchor for cavity walls includes a wingnut including receptors for receiving pintles of a veneer tie. Thermally insulative material is provided to inhibit transfer of heat from the veneer tie to the wall anchor. Back up structure is provided in the event the thermally insulative material fails to maintain the structural connection between the wall anchor and the veneer tie.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: Columbia Insurance Company
    Inventor: Ronald P. Hohmann, Jr.
  • Spacer for insulating glazing units
    Patent number: 9260906
    Abstract: A spacer for a multiple-pane insulating glazing unit, at least having a composite composed of a glass-fiber-reinforced, polymeric main body having two pane contact surfaces, which extend parallel to one another, an adhesive surface, a glazing interior surface, and an insulation film on the adhesive surface or the adhesive surface and the connecting surfaces, where the insulation film has at least one polymeric film having a thickness of 10 ?m to 100 ?m, at least one polymeric layer having a thickness of 5 ?m to 80 ?m and also a metal layer having a thickness of 10 nm to 1500 nm or a ceramic layer having a thickness of 10 nm to 1500 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventor: Walter Schreiber
  • Wind turbine tower suspension means
    Patent number: 9261081
    Abstract: A method of mounting elements in a wind turbine tower, whereby the elements are partly or completely attached to the wind turbine tower by means of magnetic attraction forces. Wind turbine suspension units may be attached to the wind turbine tower, preferably completely or partly to the inner wall by means of magnetic attraction forces, which present structure-weakening attachments to the tower or part of the tower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: Vestas Wind Systems A/S
    Inventor: Børge Øllgaard
  • System for creating a tensioned wall composed of individual LED tiles
    Patent number: 9261264
    Abstract: Support wires can be used to hold up light tiles to provide a lightweight display system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: Barco, Inc.
    Inventor: Matthew Ward
  • Building panels
    Patent number: 9255414
    Abstract: Flooring material comprising sheet-shaped floor elements with a mainly square or rectangular shape. The floor elements are provided with edges, a lower side and an upper decorative layer. The floor elements are intended to be joined by means of joining members. The floor elements are provided with male joining members on a first edge while a second edge of the floor elements are provided with a female joining member. The male joining member is provided with a tongue and a lower side groove while the female joining member is provided with a groove and a cheek, the cheek being provided with a lip. The floor elements are provided with a male vertical assembly joining member on a third edge while a fourth, opposite, edge is provided with female vertical assembly joining member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: PERGO (EUROPE) AB
    Inventors: Jorgen Palsson, Ake Sjoberg
  • Truss system
    Patent number: 9255407
    Abstract: A truss system for roofing a building; a truss of said truss system including at least one truss segment; each said truss segment comprising a first elongate element and a second elongate element; said first and second elongate elements interconnected at intervals by a series of fish-plate assemblies; said fish-plate assemblies arranged in sliding engagement with respective extruded fish-plate channels of said first and second elongate elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: DANPAL
    Inventor: Rex Kelvin Burgess
  • Steel support profile for support structures of facades and conservatories
    Patent number: 9249569
    Abstract: A steel support profile for support structures for facades or conservatories, in which a receiving channel for receiving mounting screws for the fixation of retaining profiles is formed by an outward-facing side wall of the steel support profile, and a support structure for facades and conservatories with a steel support profile, on which at least one facade element is fixed by a retaining profile fixed by mounting screws on the steel support profile in a sealed manner via inner and outer seals. An easily producible steel support profile and a support structure that allow greater opportunities for design, by a steel support profile in which the side wall is welded to a base profile, and a support structure with such a steel support profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: RAICO BAUTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventor: Rainer Voegele