Patents Examined by Lindsay Maguire
  • Patent number: 7147116
    Abstract: A compact, portable device for hanging clothes and the like in locations where ordinary drying facilities are not conveniently available. Rigid wires hinged inside a hub and radiating around the hub like the ribs of an inverted umbrella assume a horizontal position for hanging clothes and a vertical position for storage and transport. A wire bent in the shape of a hook is rotatably attached to the center of the hub to facilitate hanging the device during the drying operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Inventor: Thomas Harry Cape
  • Patent number: 7080743
    Abstract: A wine bottle rack that includes a first substantially rigid wall with an aperture adapted for accepting the neck of a wine bottle, and a second substantially rigid wall, the second substantially rigid wall having a plurality of apertures adapted for accepting the neck of a wine bottle. The apertures have been adapted for supporting the wine bottles in a cantilevered manner from the rack. The first substantially rigid wall is attached to the second substantially rigid wall, so that the first substantially rigid wall and the second substantially rigid wall are at an obtuse angle to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2006
    Inventor: Gary L. Wolseth
  • Patent number: 7044311
    Abstract: A cask support allows housing two casks (9) therein (1), such that the casks (9) will be arranged in a staggered manner when multiple supports are stacked together. Each support (1) includes two bedplates (2) with a seating for housing a cask (9). A carriage (10) formed by a rectangular platform is mounted to the framework of the support (1) with two brackets (15) with wheels (17) fixed to the carriage (10) which can move along each bedplate (2), and two other brackets (16) with wheels (19) fixed to the support and on which the platform of the carriage (10) slides. The carriage (10) has freedom of movement parallel to the bedplate (2). Each cask (9) rests on four rotating wheels (14) which are disposed on the vertices of the framework of the carriage (10). The cask support is especially applicable in large wine aging cellars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Sagarte, S.A.
    Inventor: Sebastian Flores Flores