Patents Examined by Elizabeth A Plummer
  • Grid framework accessories
    Patent number: 8881481
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to accessories which are attached to the support grid members of a grid framework system. The accessories insulate electrified conductors attached to the support grid members from other conductive items located proximate thereto, a management device for cables and wires, and a retention device for fixedly attaching a component to the grid framework system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Worthington Armstrong Venture
    Inventors: Jere W. Myers, Todd M. Bergman, Brian T. Patterson, Jae A. Eisenhower, Brett Sareyka
  • High-strength ribbon loop anchors and anchoring systems utilizing the same
    Patent number: 8881488
    Abstract: A high-strength ribbon loop anchor and cavity wall anchoring system employing the same is disclosed. The ribbon loop anchor is a wire formative construct that is cold-worked with the resultant body having substantially semicircular edges and flat surfaces therebetween. The edges are aligned to receive compressive forces transmitted from the facing wall. The ribbon loops hereof, when part of the anchoring system, interengage with the veneer tie and are dimensioned to preclude significant movement lateral with or normal to the inner wythe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Mitek Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald P. Hohmann, Jr., Ronald P. Hohmann
  • Protective covering for roof device
    Patent number: 8869470
    Abstract: A protective covering helps to prevent fastener leaks from roof installed fasteners, which are used to mount roofing systems, such as a solar panel installation system, to roofs with a mounting bracket attached to the roof. The protective covering is a portion of flat, malleable waterproof material molded to form a cover, forming a rounded or peaked triangular-shaped structure when viewed from the side. The triangular shaped structure includes a base and a hypotenuse portion where the line of the roof acts as a side which is covered by at least the hypotenuse portion. The hypotenuse portion meets the roof at an angle. The covering is adapted for insertion under portions of a roof shingle, and extends back in a slight rise (downwardly with respect to the root) to cover the fastener and L-shaped bracket, which the fastener fastens to the roof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Inventor: Carlo John Lanza
  • Deployable structural units and systems
    Patent number: 8869460
    Abstract: Deployable units and systems made of deployable units are described. The units have a retractable brace transitioning from a retracted condition to a deployed condition through a gravity driven movement, a latching arrangement contacting the brace and keeping the brace in position when the brace is in the deployed condition, and a guiding arrangement to guide the movement of the brace. The systems comprise plural deployable units to be arranged in a building structure, each unit to be located in a respective bay per story space of the building structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Swaminathan Krishnan, Sergio Pellegrino, Thomas H. Heaton
  • Flexible drywall grid member for framing drywall structures
    Patent number: 8869484
    Abstract: A curvable grid tee for suspending drywall capable of being configured vertically into convex or concave shapes comprising a series of identical web segments joined end-to-end, the segments being formed of sheet metal into a tee shaped cross section, the sheet metal of a segment being folded such that each segment has a vertical double layer stem with the stem layers joined at a common fold at upper edges thereof, the sheet metal at lower edges of each layer of the stem being bent outwardly to form a flange, a junction between adjacent segments permitting such adjacent segments to be angularly displaced relative to one another in a vertical plane such that the flanges are capable of supporting a drywall panel in a curved plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: USG Interiors, LLC
    Inventors: Peder Gulbrandsen, Abraham M. Underkofler, Mark R. Paulsen
  • Electromagnetic clamping system for manufacturing large structures
    Patent number: 8864120
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises a housing, a core located in the housing, a coil unit associated with the core and located in the housing, and a backing plate made of a high-permeability material. The apparatus may be used for generating high clamping forces between materials that are interposed between the core and the backing plate such that manufacturing operations can be carried out. The core has a cross section with an elongate shape. The coil unit is configured to generate magnetic fields and has the elongate shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Arthur C. Day, Samuel Roderick Dobbs, Branko Sarh, John Walter Hall, Kyle Paul Larson
  • Insulation building system for a building structure
    Patent number: 8863463
    Abstract: The present invention concerns an insulation building system comprising an assembly having at least one frame profile, a plurality of joining profiles and insulation panels, wherein the insulation panels are retained between the joining profiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Rockwool International A/S
    Inventors: Henrik Bøgeskov, Peter Hesselholt, Michael A. Thorsted
  • Aircraft comprising a fuselage with a floor extending in the longitudinal plane of the fuselage
    Patent number: 8857766
    Abstract: An aircraft including a fuselage that includes a floor extending in the longitudinal plane of the fuselage and separating a first space from a second space accommodated in the fuselage. The first space includes a fuselage portion having a length essentially equal to the width of the floor along the fuselage cross-section, and the distance between the fuselage portion and the floor is essentially constant along the width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus
    Inventor: Thomas-Mathias Bock
  • System of direct fusible anchoring for a support post of a security barrier or parapet in rigid ground
    Patent number: 8850765
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for the anchoring in rigid ground such as decks or floors made of concrete, asphalt, rock etc., for support posts for safety barriers and parapets, by means of bolts partly embedded in the ground and fixed to same by chemical or mechanical means, whose emergent part successively traverses the anchor plate of the post of the barrier, one or more washers and closure nuts which are what fix the bolt to the anchor plate. The washers present the capacity to behave as fusible elements which, in the event of a vertical load due to traction greater than a defined value, are deformed and traversed by the closure nut which, once released from the washer, traverses the corresponding hole of the anchor plate, which is of a size greater than that of the closure nut, with the union between the plate and bolt thus becoming decoupled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Hierros y aplanaciones, S.A.
    Inventor: Antonio Amengual Pericas
  • Computer room
    Patent number: 8844220
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a computer room which is surrounded by a lower floor, at least one side wall and a roof, with an air-permeating load-bearing floor disposed above the lower floor, on which, in use, computer equipment is disposed. A separation arrangement provides for the separation from each other of a riser channel for hot air above the computer equipment on the one hand and a return channel for air being carried back from the top of the computer room to the space under the load-bearing floor on the other hand. The surface area of the return channel of a cross-section of the computer room amounts to at least 5% of the surface area of the riser channel of the same cross-section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Boersema Installatie-Adviseurs B.V.
    Inventor: Kornelis Hendrik Boersema
  • Mounting device using opposing seam fasteners for hollow rib standing seam panels
    Patent number: 8844234
    Abstract: A building system (38) is disclosed in the form of a standing seam panel assembly (80) and one or more mounting devices (40). The mounting device (40) includes a slot (52) for receiving at least an upper section of a hollow seam rib (86) of the panel assembly (80). At least one opposing pair of seam fasteners (74) engage opposing sides of the seam rib (86). These seam fasteners (74) may be activated to significantly reduce the size of an open space that initially exists between opposing, spaced internal surfaces (92a, 92b) of the seam rib (86).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Inventors: Robert M. M. Haddock, Dustin M. M. Haddock
  • Profile element
    Patent number: 8833040
    Abstract: An elongate profile element has a bottom, sidewalls extending from the bottom substantially at right angles and an upper side opposite the bottom. The upper side comprises flanges which extend from the respective sidewalls towards each other and delimit between them a longitudinal slot extending over the length of the profile element. The flanges are bended inwards such that the free end of the flanges is directed towards the bottom and extends in a direction substantially at right angles with the bottom. The bottom is provided with spaced apart oblong recesses, which have longitudinal side edges which are bended inwards such that the free end of said edges extends towards the upper side in a direction substantially at right angles with the bottom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: J. Van Walraven Holdings B.V.
    Inventors: Jan Van Walraven, Marek Juzak
  • Window system having flexible means for mounting
    Patent number: 8833011
    Abstract: The window system has a substantially rectangular frame structure having four corner sections (1b) and being adapted to be installed in a roof structure and a bracket arrangement comprising a set of bracket units (6b), each bracket unit including a base element (10b) mounted at each corner section of the frame structure. Each bracket unit furthermore comprises at least one supplemental element (20b,40b) adapted to be detachably connected to said base element. One supplemental element comprises a leg element (20b) adapted to be detachably connected to the base element, preferably rotatably and detachably connected with the base element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: VKR Holding A/S
    Inventors: Claes Lindgren, Jacob Christian Lund, Niels Adelholm Larsen
  • Structural glazing spacer
    Patent number: 8826611
    Abstract: A method of preparing a window module includes providing a metal frame having a first major surface, applying a structural glazing tape to the first major surface of the metal frame, and positioning a glass panel overtop the structural glazing tape. The structural glazing tape includes a polymer foam tape having first and second major surfaces, an adhesive layer overlying the first major surface for bonding the structural glazing tape to the structural frame, and a release layer overlying the second major surface. The method further includes filling a channel defined by the glass panel, the metal frame, and the structural glazing tape with a curable sealant, and curing the sealant to bond the glass panel and the metal frame together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas A. Veilleux, James N. Gordon, Stewart B. Dittmeier
  • System for joining a gondola to the concrete tower of an aerogenerator
    Patent number: 8826614
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a system for joining a gondola to the concrete tower of an aerogenerator, wherein the concrete tower is formed by a lower annular section, one or several intermediate annular sections and an upper annular section, including a flat annular support which is inserted between an upper surface of the upper annular section of the tower and the lower surface of a yaw bearing that supports the gondola, the flat annular support comprising orifices wherethrough a plurality of joining means pass, each of which is fixed to the bottom of the upper annular section of the tower and to the bottom of the yaw bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Acciona Windpower, S.A.
    Inventors: Iván García Maestre, Eduardo Azanza Ladrón, José Miguel García Sayés, Miguel Nuñez Polo
  • Alignment method using pallet prongs and package cutouts
    Patent number: 8827256
    Abstract: Systems, methods and packaging for aligning packaged articles of manufacture in pallet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Vistaprint Schweiz GmbH
    Inventors: John C. Marcos, Marcel Gerber, Edwin Sanders, Mark Hodak
  • Insulating gasket construction for head-of-wall joints
    Patent number: 8826599
    Abstract: A head-of-wall joint for insulating the intersection between a wall assembly and the bottom of a floor or roof construction thereabove which utilizes an insulating gasket of a unique shape and construction positioned between the ceiling track and the point of intersection thereof with respect to the upper building floor or roof structure. The configuration of the insulating gasket member includes a main section and two side sections which extend over the outwardly facing surfaces of a conventionally configured ceiling track or runner without being attached to the ceiling track side panel side surfaces. The gasket can included tabs to attach to the lowermost edges of the track side sections. The gasket can be made from acoustically insulating materials or firestopping materials, or both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Specified Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: James P. Stahl, Jr.
  • Building and method of constructing a building
    Patent number: 8793948
    Abstract: A method of constructing a building including erecting a plurality of truss elements to form a framework including one or more walls, a roof structure and a floor structure. Each truss element includes at least two joists and a plurality of braces that maintain the joists in a parallel arrangement, the truss elements being arranged in the framework to provide an inner joist and an outer joist. An inner covering layer and an outer covering layer are attached to the framework, thereby forming an enclosed void between the inner and outer covering layers that extends substantially continuously around the framework. An insulating material is injected into the void to form a substantially continuous insulating layer between the inner and outer layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Beattie Passive Build System Ltd.
    Inventor: Ronald Peter Beattie
  • Means for firestopping a curtain wall construction
    Patent number: 8793946
    Abstract: A blanket or curtain of flexible fire retardant material is collapsed and retained within a retaining housing construction positioned adjacent to a curtain wall assembly for firestop sealing thereover. The housing includes a safing angle member secured to the curtain wall assembly and a cover which releases responsive to sensing fire conditions to allow the firestopping blanket to deploy downwardly to extend between curtain wall framing members and be positioned extending across a curtain wall panel for fire protection thereover. Such curtain wall panels are commonly made of glass which tends to fracture during a hot fire. The cover will release the blanket responsive to controlled failure of fusible links which secure the cover to the safing angle member. After deployment the blanket will deflect fire and heat away from the curtain wall panel to prevent the spread of fire to adjacent floors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Specified Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: James P. Stahl, Jr., Julio Lopes, Christopher DeMarco
  • Apparatus for connecting framing components of a building to a foundation
    Patent number: 8793950
    Abstract: An apparatus for connecting framing components of a building structure to a foundation wall includes a connector having a generally L-shaped cross-section. The connector is configured to be secured to the foundation wall. The connector has a joist shelf configured to support one or more floor joists and a ledge configured to support one or more wall sheathing panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Huber Engineered Woods, LLC
    Inventors: Mikel S. Hill, Brian M. Peek, Joel Franklin Barker, Ken Wilkes Hix, Harri Mikael Salonvaara