Patents Examined by Ismael Izaguirre
  • Patent number: 11980308
    Abstract: A garment hanger assembly (10) comprising a garment hanger (12) and an information element (14). The information element (14) slidably engages an element-receiving channel (34) of the garment hanger and is retained therein. A tool (16) is provided to apply and/or remove an information element from the hanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: The Janger Limited
    Inventor: Guy Taylor
  • Patent number: 11982045
    Abstract: A steam press system and methods of controlling steam generation and recycling steam therein are provided. The steam press system includes a first steam plate and a second steam plate configured to receive and evacuate steam. The steam press system further includes a first pump configured to draw steam from the first steam plate and the second steam plate, a heat exchanger configured to condense the steam into fresh water and heat the fresh water. The steam press system further includes a third pump to pump the heated water into a storage tank. The steam press system further includes a fourth pump configured to pump the heated water from the storage tank to a steam generator. The steam generator is configured to receive the heated water, boil the heated water to generate steam and to deliver the steam to the first steam plate and the second steam plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University
    Inventor: Fahad G. Al-Amri
  • Patent number: 11976408
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a clothing treatment device. The clothing treatment device comprises a cabinet having an open part provided at the front thereof: a door assembly for opening and closing the open part; a first clothing treatment room, which is provided inside the cabinet so as to provide a space for accommodating clothing therein, and communicates with the outside of the cabinet through the open part; and a machinery room for circulating steam or air in the first clothing treatment room, wherein the door assembly comprises; an assembly housing which opens and closes the opened front surface of the cabinet and which has a space of a second clothing treatment room therein; and an assembly door for opening and closing, at the front of the cabinet, the second clothing treatment room formed in the assembly housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kihyuk Kim, Jaeil Bae, Wookjun Chung, Jaehyung Kim, Semin Jang
  • Patent number: 11969111
    Abstract: A clothing hanger can include a solid body or substantially solid body. A top portion of the hanger can include a first and second curved portions that make up a rod opening and a hook opening. The body of the hanger can be solid or substantially solid and include one or more cutouts for hanging pants, skirts, scarves, or ties. The two curved portions and the solid or substantially solid body can prevent the hooks of the hanger from becoming entangled with other hangers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Inventor: Annie Banaszak
  • Patent number: 11965284
    Abstract: A clothing ironing assembly for removing lint from fabric includes a steam iron that has a lint chamber is integrated into the steam iron. The steam iron has a sole plate and the sole plate has a plurality of steam openings each extending through the sole plate. The steam iron has a plurality of scraping elements each integrated into the sole plate to scrape lint from a fabric when the sole plate is rubbed across the fabric while ironing the fabric. Each of the scraping elements directs the lint into the lint chamber collect the lint. A lint screen is removably insertable into the lint opening to collect the lint directed into the lint chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Inventor: Donte Lewis
  • Patent number: 11959211
    Abstract: An embroidery frame driving device includes: a base plate firmly fixed to an X-Y driving unit of the embroidery frame driving device; a fixation arm provided on the base plate; an attachment/detachment cam; a removing link; a coupling link; and an embroidery frame. The embroidery frame is slid against the base plate to rotate the attachment/detachment cam and the fixation arm through pressing of a pressing part of a fixation part to press and fix one end of the fixation arm to a fixation groove of the fixation part in attachment of the embroidery frame. The removing link is operated to rotate the coupling link and the attachment/detachment cam to rotate the fixation arm and release pressing and fixation of the fixation groove of the fixation part by the one end of the fixation arm in detachment of the embroidery frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: JANOME CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shotaro Matsubara, Takeshi Oie
  • Patent number: 11959223
    Abstract: A handheld pressing and steaming appliance includes: an upper arm; a lower arm attached at one end to an end of the upper arm; a steam generation unit mounted on the upper arm; a water reservoir located in the upper arm and/or the lower arm; a water pump fluidly connected to the water reservoir and to the steam generation unit; a heating plate mounted near a free end of the upper arm and including a plurality of first exhaust holes that are in fluid communication with the steam generation unit; and a bearing plate mounted on the lower arm at a free end thereof, the bearing plate including a plurality of second exhaust holes. The appliance is movable between open and closed positions. In the closed the second exhaust holes are substantially aligned with the first exhaust holes, such that steam exhausted from the first exhaust holes also passes through the second exhaust holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Hamilton Beach Brands, Inc.
    Inventor: Brandon Sung-Hwan Song
  • Patent number: 11959213
    Abstract: In the large-diameter bobbin mode of the bobbin winding device, the switching lever is arranged at the switching position, and the interlocking lever is rotated to the blocking position blocking the lowering of the thread trimming holder at the raised position. Therefore, the small-diameter bobbin is arranged above the regular mounting position if it is mounted on the spool shaft. Thus, the engaging hook of the bobbin stopper does not engage with the upper end portion of the core portion of the small-diameter bobbin, and the engaging hook and the thread trimming holder do not sandwich the small-diameter bobbin vertically. Therefore, when the spool shaft is rotated by the spool motor in this state, the bobbin thread is not wound around the small-diameter bobbin since it idles with respect to the spool shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: JANOME SEWING MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroki Shiratsuchi
  • Patent number: 11957256
    Abstract: A garment handling device is disclosed, comprising at least one elongate garment receiving recess extending between two neighboring elongate members made of rigid material and articulated to one another at one end. The garment handling device is configured with a garment opening at the respective opposite end of the neighboring elongated members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Inventors: Tamar Rachel Heimowitz-Richter, Rafael Richter
  • Patent number: 11946194
    Abstract: A clothing treatment apparatus includes a frame, a hanger body provided to hang clothing or a hanger, and a vibration module generating vibration, and configured to move the hanger body with respect to the frame. The vibration module includes a first eccentric portion rotating about a predetermined first rotation axis, a second eccentric portion rotating about a predetermined second rotation axis that is spaced apart from and parallel to the first rotation axis, and a vibrating body fixed to a predetermined central axis that is fixed to the frame and disposed between the first rotation axis and the second rotation axis. The first eccentric portion and the second eccentric portion rotate in the same direction to rotate the vibrating body about the central axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyungha Kang, Jaehyung Kim, Semin Jang, Joosik Jung
  • Patent number: 11937720
    Abstract: A hat organizer is configured to hold at least one baseball cap and is mounted on a mounting surface of a mounting object. The hat organizer includes a cap body limiting portion. The hat organizer defines a cap body accommodating space. The cap body limiting portion is disposed around the mounting surface of the mounting object to form the cap body accommodating space. The cap body accommodating space is configured to accommodate a cap body of the at least one baseball cap. The cap body limiting portion is configured to limit the cap body. The cap body limiting portion forms an inner surface of the cap body accommodating space. A radian of the inner surface of the cap body accommodating space is matched with a radian of an outer surface of a dome of the cap body to prevent the cap body from deformation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Inventor: Xiaoxi Jiang
  • Patent number: 11937551
    Abstract: A twine knotter for a bale press for forming two sequential knots for holding together a tying agent surrounding a crop bale includes a knotter frame and a knotter hook supported rotatably in the knotter frame and provided for knotting together ends of the tying agent. A holding arrangement has a twine holding disk rotatably supported at the knotter frame and conveying temporarily two tying agent strands of the tying agent. A knotter disk that is rotatingly driven is provided with a first drive element driving the knotter hook and a second drive element driving the twine holding disk. A stripper lever is provided to strip off knots from the knotter hook. A knife blade is provided to cut through tying agent strands. The twine holding disk upon rotation is guided along the knife blade so that the tying agent strands are cut through upon passing the knife blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Bernard Krone GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Lukas van Roje
  • Patent number: 11939720
    Abstract: A laundry folding appliance includes one or more folding panels mechanically coupled to a cabinet and at least partially defining a folding surface for receiving articles of clothing. An actuating assembly selectively pivots the folding panels to fold the articles of clothing and a camera assembly is positioned in view of the folding surface. A controller obtains one or more images using the camera assembly, identifies the laundry articles positioned on the folding surface by analyzing the one or more images using a laundry identification model, determines a folding protocol for folding the laundry article, and operates the actuating assembly to fold the laundry article in accordance with the folding protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Nasib AlHaffar, Abdel Hamad, Juan Manuel Huerta
  • Patent number: 11937721
    Abstract: A stocking application device that facilitates an application of a stocking over a limb of a person. The stocking application device may include a first body portion at a proximate end of the stocking application device. The stocking application device may further include a second body portion attached to the first body portion. The second body portion may include a plurality of U-shaped fingers. Each of the plurality of U-shaped fingers may include a horizontal portion and a pair of vertical portions. Each vertical portion of the pair of vertical portions may include a flared end. The horizontal portions of the plurality of U-shaped fingers may be disposed one over another and attached to the first body portion. Specifically, the horizontal portions may be disposed at a predetermined angle such that vertical portions of the plurality of U-shaped fingers are equally spaced from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Hand Claw LLC
    Inventor: Allison Fiscus Zipser
  • Patent number: 11930950
    Abstract: Multifunction shoehorn comprising at least one base, and at least one central structure, characterized in that the central structure comprises at least one vertical or substantially vertical wall, U-shaped or substantially U-shaped, and with a first upper end and a second end lower, where the lower end is attached to the base; and the upper end comprises at least one groove or guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: IMPROVING MOBILITY DEVELOPMENT SL
    Inventors: Francisco Serrano Parra, Ignacio Manero Lojendio
  • Patent number: 11926944
    Abstract: In thread cutting mechanism portions of a lower thread winding device, two groove portions of an inner threading groove portion and an outer threading groove portion are formed on a holder. In the inner threading groove portion, one end portion is opened to one of an intersecting direction intersecting with a radial direction of the holder at an outer peripheral portion of the holder and another end portion is located at an inner side of a small-diameter bobbin in the radial direction. The outer threading groove portion is located at an outer side of the inner threading groove portion in the radial direction of the holder. In the outer threading groove portion, one end portion is communicated with the inner threading groove portion and located at the outer side of a large-diameter bobbin in the radial direction and another end portion is located at the inner side of the large-diameter bobbin in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: JANOME Corporation
    Inventors: Muneyuki Ishikawa, Hiroki Shiratsuchi
  • Patent number: 11920269
    Abstract: A template clamping apparatus is disclosed for clamping a fabric against a quilt making template. The apparatus includes a base which has an upper surface and a lower surface. A turntable is supported by the base, the turntable defining a working surface which is rotatable relative to the base. An arm is rigidly connected to the base, the arm having a first and a second end. A clamp is connected to the second end of the arm such that when the clamp is disposed in a loading disposition thereof, loading of the fabric between the quilt making template and the turntable is permitted. However, when the clamp is disposed in a clamping disposition thereof, the fabric is clamped between the quilt making template and the turntable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Inventor: Jack Klopfenstein
  • Patent number: 11919672
    Abstract: An apparatus can comprise a first hollow needle and a first ejector pin with a first portion of an outer peripheral surface comprising a stepped recess from the second portion of the outer peripheral surface. In some embodiments, the apparatus may further comprise a second hollow needle. In some embodiments, a first end portion of the cap can be configured for mounting to a nose of the apparatus. The cap can comprise the aperture that may be sized for insertion of the tip of the first hollow needle through the aperture when the cap is removed from the nose. In some embodiments, a nose of the apparatus can comprise a first support surface facing an outer direction and a second support surface facing the outer direction and protruding from the first support surface in the outer direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Avery Dennison Corporation
    Inventors: Robert C. Uschold, Soniya Soniya
  • Patent number: 11910757
    Abstract: A knotter hook for a twine knotter has a stationary clamping wing and a pivotable clamping wing, Stationary clamping wing and pivotable clamping wing have an extension component in a same spatial direction. The pivotable clamping wing has a projection projecting toward the stationary clamping wing. The pivotable clamping wing is pivotable reversibly from a closed state into an open state. A free end of the pivotable clamping wing in the open state is spaced apart farther from the stationary clamping wing than in the closed state. The pivotable clamping wing is laterally displaced relative to the stationary clamping wing at least in sections so that the pivotable clamping wing is arranged adjacent to the stationary clamping wing and below the pivotable clamping wing a free space is formed. The free space extends in the closed state opposite to the spatial direction beyond the projection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Bernard Krone GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Lukas van Roje
  • Patent number: 11905646
    Abstract: A heat press including a body, a heat plate, a handle, a cover, a control compartment and an insulation portion. The body includes a first end and a second end. The heat plate is located proximate the first end of the body and is configured to engage ironable materials. The handle is located proximate the second end of the body and is configured to withstand forces from a user. The cover covers a portion of the body and the handle. The control compartment includes an electrical circuit, controls and a display. The control compartment is spaced away from and is at least indirectly electrically coupled to the heat plate. The insulation portion is positioned between the control compartment and the heat plate. The insulation portion includes a first layer of insulating material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Cricut, Inc.
    Inventors: Grayson Stopp, Thomas Crisp, Lk Lin, Carry Zhu