Patents Examined by Erica B. Harris
  • Patent number: 6364138
    Abstract: A sectional rack includes a plurality of vertical posts, a plurality of horizontal shelves, and a plurality of connecting members. Each of the vertical posts is a hollow post and has a generally I-shaped cross section with two substantially rectangular and width-expanded side portions and a width-narrowed middle portion extending between the two side portions. The horizontal shelves are connected to the two side portions of the vertical posts so that two adjacent shelves located at two sides of the post are at the same height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2002
    Assignee: Protrend Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Henry Chen
  • Patent number: 6364139
    Abstract: A two-part shelf-holder for supporting shelves on connecting members fixed around vertical posts of a sectional rack. The shelf-holder includes a fixed part fixedly connected at one end to a corner of the shelf and a movable part pivotally connected at one end to the fixed part via a vertical pivotal shaft. The fixed part is formed at another end with a curved case defining a side opening. The movable part is formed at another end with a curved cover adapted to close the side opening of the case. A free end of the case is formed of a dovetail mortise and a free end of the cover is formed of a dovetail tenon for fitly engaging with the dovetail mortise of the case. Two ends of the pivotal shaft are extended through two long holes provided on upper and lower sides of the movable part, so that the movable part could be moved linearly relative to the fixed part to engage or disengage the dovetail tenon with or from the dovetail mortise so as to close or open the two parts of the shelf-holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2002
    Assignee: Pro Trend Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Henry Chen
  • Patent number: 6357609
    Abstract: An adjustable depth shelf mechanism comprises a fixed shelf mountable on a vertical support mechanism, an adjustable shelf mounted on the fixed shelf for inward and outward movement on the fixed shelf to vary the depth of the shelf, and locking means for holding the adjustable shelf in one or more extended positions with respect to the fixed shelf. The shelves comprise wire mat product support surfaces mounted on shelf brackets. The wire mats include longitudinal wires on top of transverse wires. Downwardly extending notches are formed in the transverse wires of the fixed shelf at positions corresponding to the desired extended positions. The longitudinal wires of the adjustable mat fit into the notches when the adjustable mat is at the desired extended positions, such that the adjustable shelf mat lockingly nests in the fixed shelf mat and the shelves present a substantially coplanar upper surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2002
    Assignee: Benmill, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew J. Van Noord, Gary L. White
  • Patent number: 6357611
    Abstract: A sectional rack is constructed from multiple vertical supporting posts, horizontal shelves and connecting members. The supporting posts have a non-round cross section and the shelves have short sleeves provided at every corner thereof. Each supporting post is provided on its outer surface at a portion facing inward toward the rack with a plurality of equally spaced grooves. Each connecting member is adapted to firmly mount on the supporting post by engaging ribs provided on inner surface of the connecting member with the grooves on the supporting post. An outer surface of the connecting member opposite to the ribs is downwardly and outwardly inclined; and an inner surface of the sleeve of the shelf facing the inclined outer surface of the connecting member is correspondingly inclined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2002
    Assignee: Protend Co., LTD
    Inventor: Henry Chen
  • Patent number: 6354447
    Abstract: A display device having pops with fingernail portions. Each pop is the same, and is held by a display portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2002
    Inventor: Shahnaz Mir Brown
  • Patent number: 6340147
    Abstract: A fence post holder for holding fence posts in the ground. The fence post holder includes a support portion that has a closed bottom, an open top and a perimeter side wall extending between the closed bottom and the open top to define an interior space adapted for receiving a base of a fence post inserted through the open top. The insertion portion extends downwardly from the support portion. The insertion portion has a bottom point whereby the insertion portion is adapted for facilitating insertion of the insertion portion into a ground surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2002
    Inventor: Jeff Dymarczyk
  • Patent number: 6336563
    Abstract: A cup-and-saucer hutch has a saucer case (1) with a case door (9) for containing a predetermined size and plurality of saucers (2) securely without falling when being carried from-place-to-place for use. A cup-rack post (5) with cup-handle hangers (6) for holding cup handles (7) of cups (8) is projected uprightly from a top of the saucer case. Optionally, a refreshment container (15) can be positioned above the cup-rack post for containing, sweetener, creamer, tea and coffee. The refreshment container can be positioned on a top of the cup-rack post or on pillars (16) extended uprightly from a case top (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2002
    Inventor: James L. Floyd, Sr.
  • Patent number: 6332546
    Abstract: An apparatus for supporting multimedia packages employs a corrugated support having at least one crowned surface for supporting the multimedia packages from below in a closely spaced side-by-side configuration. A pair of front and rear retainers confine the series of packages therebetween. The crowned surface includes a series of curved projections for defining a series of equally spaced apart notches disposed at intersections between adjacent ones of the projections to receive corner portions of the packages for supporting them in an inclined position and for enabling each of the supported packages to be repositioned to another one of said notches so that the packages can be flipped between forwardly and rearwardly inclined positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2001
    Inventor: Thomas A. Hunt
  • Patent number: 6328172
    Abstract: A shelf stand for goods is proposed which has individually rotatable shelves, which are substantially circular and located one above the other. At the periphery of each shelf there is a driving device adapted to cooperate with driving means on the peripheral part of the shelf for turning or rotating the shelf. The shelves are divided into sections provided with impulse generators cooperating with impulse counters for determining the rotational position of the shelf.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2001
    Assignee: Sintek International AB
    Inventor: Carl-Goran Alneng
  • Patent number: 6318568
    Abstract: The installation comprises, along a vertical frame (1), locations for gas cylinders, these locations being partially defined by a rack that can be used for transporting the cylinders (7), each location comprising, on the frame, a holding device (9, 10) that can be swung between a lockable closed configuration preventing the insertion or extraction of a cylinder, and an open configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2001
    Assignee: L'Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude
    Inventor: Anthony Mc Cord
  • Patent number: 6311856
    Abstract: A display stand assembly comprising a plurality of display stand modules joined together. Each display stand module comprises an upper and lower base or spanner having a plurality of spanner members generally bisecting each other medially. A plurality of vertical uprights extends between the end portions of the spanner members of the upper and lower spanners and are joined to the ends of the upper and lower spanners with a plurality of wedges. A portion of each wedge fits around a clover defined on the vertical uprights and a bracket attached to each spanner member end slides over and attaches to each wedge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2001
    Assignee: L&P Property Management Company
    Inventors: Joseph M. Battaglia, Rafael T. Bustos
  • Patent number: 6308838
    Abstract: A footwear storage rack for supporting and storing footwear such as Wellington boots. The footwear storage rack includes a base, a tubular support member having a lower portion with a slot therein and further having an upper portion with a retractable catch member therein, a footwear support member being essentially a disk and having a plurality of wedge-shaped slots extending in the circumference and spaced thereabout, and a handle removeably attachable to the upper portion of the tubular support member for carrying and moving the footwear storage rack as desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2001
    Inventor: Ronald C. Endean
  • Patent number: 6308843
    Abstract: A foldable clothes-line having a pair of arms together with mounting brackets for fixing to supports. The arms comprise base sections which in use of the clothes-line engage in the brackets and line carriage sections disposed at right angles to the base sections. The arms are pivotal in the brackets in a substantially horizontal plane between a first position at which the line carriage sections extend outwardly to deploy the clothes-line for service and a second folded position whereby the line carriage sections are located closely adjacent to the supports in a space saving configuration. The mounting brackets have a retaining mechanism to releasably hold the line carriage sections in the outwardly extended position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2001
    Inventor: Barry R. De Boer
  • Patent number: 6305557
    Abstract: A funnel-shaped holder for holding an implement and it's method of use. The holder includes a funnel structure having an upper end that flares open upwardly and is relatively wide for receiving an implement, a lower end that opens downwardly and is relatively narrow, and a rear wall with a substantially flat vertical inside surface. Opposite converging side walls define, in conjunction with the rear wall, a funnel-shaped recess. A front wall prevents the implement from falling forward out of the recess, and an opening in the front wall allows the implement to be inserted into the funnel-shaped recess and removably held captive in a stored position. A wall-mounted system for holding implements includes a plurality of funnel-shaped holders mountable on a panel support and at least one horizontal track on the panel support to permit the funnel structure to be slidably moved along the track to a selected horizontal position relative to the panel support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2001
    Assignee: Jeffrey S. Brooks, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey S. Brooks
  • Patent number: 6302284
    Abstract: A modular shelf system comprising a plurality of shelf units mounted to four vertical posts. The shelf units are provided with four hollow corner-pieces configured to fit over cone-shaped collars mounted to the posts. The hollow corner pieces are of an incomplete circumference forming a slot of a width exceeding the outer cross-measure of the posts to enable the lateral withdrawal of any shelf unit from the assembled position thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Assignee: Julius Engineering Ltd.
    Inventor: Igal Zonshin
  • Patent number: 6299001
    Abstract: A wall organizer system for storing items on a wall, includes at least one panel of wire mesh including a plurality of spaced, parallel, vertical rods joined to a plurality of spaced, parallel horizontal rods to define a plurality of quadrilateral mounting points, at least one wall bracket for mounting the at least one panel to the wall, at least one universal mounting plate configured for being secured in one of the mounting points and for accommodating at least one suspending member, and at least one suspending member configured for engagement on at least one of the at least one universal plate and directly to the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2001
    Assignee: Midwest Air Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew E. Frolov, John R. Guskey
  • Patent number: 6298997
    Abstract: A shopping cart storage station for installation in a parking lot or other large area has an end frame and a first elongate side wall assembly connected to the end structure's first side leg, and a second elongate side wall assembly connected to the end structure's second side leg. A plastic bumper panel is mounted on each of the first and second side wall metal frames for minimizing damage caused by impact with a moving object. Upwardly projecting frames are located at the front of the station, coplanar with each bumper. The upwardly projecting frames bear signs at the top, and are joined by an overhead front cross bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2001
    Assignee: McCue Corporation
    Inventors: Blake Jarrett, David S. McCue, Richard Collopy, Jr., Allen Bowen
  • Patent number: 6289910
    Abstract: A collapsible structure has a base panel that includes separate first and second sides, a foldable frame member having a folded and an unfolded orientation, and a fabric material covering portions of the frame member to form the base panel when the frame member is in the unfolded orientation. The structure also includes first and second loops, each loop having a foldable frame member having a folded and an unfolded orientation. The first side of the base panel is coupled to the first loop, and the second side of the base panel is coupled to the second loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2001
    Assignee: Patent Category Corp.
    Inventor: Yu Zheng
  • Patent number: 6286689
    Abstract: The apparatus includes two side members each having a plurality of spaced apart slats formed on its inner side with adjacent slats forming a slot. The side members have upper edges which slant upward and rearward from the upper ends of their front edges. Each rearward of an adjacent slat has its top and bottom edges located at a level above the top and bottom edges respectively of the adjacent slat. The side members are supported such that their slats face each other and are spaced from each other to form a flooring sample receiving space. A floor is coupled between the two side members at the bottom edges of the slats. Each slot of one side member is aligned with a slot of the other side member to form a plurality of pairs of slots with each pair of slots and the floor being adapted to support a flooring sample. Each of the side members and its slats are formed as an integral member molded from plastic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2001
    Assignee: Miramar Designs, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard A. Sherwood, Chris Roberson, Clay Bibb, Tom May
  • Patent number: 6286694
    Abstract: A display stand including a plurality of vertical uprights defining a plurality of holes. Four vertical uprights are joined together and a shelf is attached thereto with a first set of clips fixedly attached to a first end of the shelf and a second set of clips slidably attached to the second end of a shelf. The first set of clips are first engaged with holes defined in the vertical uprights. Next, the second end of the shelf is lowered into position substantially at the same height as the first end of the shelf, whereby the second set of clips is slid from the first position flush with the first end of the shelf to the second position extending into the holes defined in the vertical uprights in order to support the shelf within the vertical uprights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2001
    Assignee: L&P Property Management Company
    Inventors: Joseph M. Battaglia, Rafael T. Bustos