Patents Examined by Matthew J Gitlin
  • Patent number: 10612232
    Abstract: A modular self-supporting arched ceiling structure has a plurality of interconnected modules each extending in a first direction over an arc and arranged one after the other in a second direction which is transverse to the first direction, with each of the modules being composed of a plurality of interconnected panels located adjacent to one another in a direction of elongation of each of the modules, and each of the panels has two plates spaced from each other to form therebetween a space which is filled with a cellular material with one of the plates composed of a plurality of strips of a heavy-duty high-modulus material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Inventor: Zinoviy Rokhlin
  • Patent number: 10590648
    Abstract: An outdoor wood decking board for use in construction of an outdoor deck floor, the outdoor decking board including a wood core formed from a first wood species of common grade wood species as a three-dimensional solid rigid body. A facing wood veneer formed from a second wood species of superior grade wood species as a three-dimensional solid rigid wood finishing layer permanently directly seamlessly attached via an adhesive to a first wood face of the wood core thereby the wood core having an appearance of the second wood species. In another embodiment, the facing wood veneer is formed from a third wood species, exotic hardwood species. A two-part emulsion polymer isocyanate adhesive is used to bond the wood core against the facing wood veneer; to bond two wood cores together. In another embodiment, the adhesive is a two-part polyurethane emulsion polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Inventors: Terry Allen Tebb, Travis Mark Tebb
  • Patent number: 10595442
    Abstract: A data processing equipment structure includes a plurality of vertical and horizontal frame components, which, together, define an equipment structure frame, and a plurality of panels disposed relative to the equipment structure frame to define a periphery. At least one of the plurality of vertical and horizontal frame components is an extruded strut having a generally uniform cross-section. The extruded strut includes an outwardly-facing channel extending along each of a pair of opposing sides of the extruded strut, at least one of which includes a set of evenly-spaced ridges, extending along each of two sides of the channel, for accommodating a threaded fastener. The extruded strut further includes one or more ledges, each having a depth sufficient to accommodate a thickness of one of the plurality of panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Chatsworth Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Jared Keith Davis
  • Patent number: 10570658
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fire and blast resistant window assembly, comprising a frame adapted to be built into a window aperture, a glazing system and a front insulating glass unit. The assembly is characterized in that the front insulating glass unit is mounted on the frame such that a thermal break is formed therebetween, the frame contains a metal framework, which delimits a mounting aperture for the glazing system, wherein separator plates are welded to the framework, along the perimeter thereof, with spaces between the separator plates, and the glazing system comprises a first and a second glazing unit. Each of the glazing units comprises a support profile and a glazing sheet, which is inserted in the support profile and clamped thereto from the inside by glazing beads, wherein a thermal break is formed therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Inventors: Timur Akhmedbekovich Mirzeabasov, Dmitriy Olegovich Belov
  • Patent number: 10563450
    Abstract: A barn door kit includes a plurality of pieces disassembled that are packaged in a much smaller footprint than an assembled barn door. The pieces that make up the door include a plurality of frame pieces and a plurality of panels. The frame pieces are connected together to create a frame of the door having a channel along an interior perimeter. The panels are configured to be inserted within the frame with the channel providing support. The panels include tongues on one side and corresponding grooves on the other side for securing adjacent panels together. The frame pieces and the panels are made from polyvinyl chloride (PVC). The kit also includes a track, roller brackets, handle and hardware. The hardware includes brackets mounted to upper edges of a right side frame and a left side frame to enable the roller brackets to be secured thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: LTL Wholesale, Inc.
    Inventor: Malcolm K. Groff
  • Patent number: 10550579
    Abstract: A siding assembly includes a siding panel and an insulating panel securable to a wall using a siding attachment member. The siding attachment member includes openings extending therethrough in equally spaced relationship that align with slots formed in the foam panel. The spacing between centers of the foam panel slots corresponds to the spacing between centers of the openings in the attachment member. The slots in the foam panels are sufficiently wide to allow the foam panel to slide relative to the fasteners securing the foam panel to a wall. The siding attachment member may comprise a bracket with legs projecting rearward from a web and a siding support shoulder formed at a lower end of the web. Lines of weakness in the web and aligned notches in the shoulder facilitate cutting the bracket to a desired length. Reinforcement ribs are formed in the bracket web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Inventor: Jerry D. O'Neal
  • Patent number: 10549867
    Abstract: Devices for protecting aircraft against bad weather. A device for protecting a wing of an aircraft including a load-bearing structure for a protective wall for the wing, the load-bearing structure having a supporting frame having at least two uprights linked by at least one cross member, at least one upright, at the end of the frame having a linking attachment arrangement permitting at least rotation about an axis perpendicular to the surface, the other uprights, each having one foot with an arrangement configured to facilitate the movement of the frame over the surface on which the frame rests. The protection device enables immediate, rapid and easy positioning requiring very few operators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventors: Stéphane Mateo, Romain Hector, Christophe Couet
  • Patent number: 10550578
    Abstract: A siding assembly includes a siding panel and an insulating panel securable to a wall using a siding attachment member. The siding attachment member includes openings extending therethrough in equally spaced relationship that align with slots formed in the foam panel. The spacing between centers of the foam panel slots corresponds to the spacing between centers of the openings in the attachment member. The slots in the foam panels are sufficiently wide to allow the foam panel to slide relative to the fasteners securing the foam panel to a wall. The siding attachment member may comprise a bracket with legs projecting rearward from a web and a siding support shoulder formed at a lower end of the web. Lines of weakness in the web and aligned notches in the shoulder facilitate cutting the bracket to a desired length. Reinforcement ribs are formed in the bracket web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Inventor: Jerry D. O'Neal
  • Patent number: 10550577
    Abstract: A face mounting system for mounting a plurality of panels to a surface of a wall is disclosed. The plurality of panels are attached to the surface of the wall by way of rails having hooks that engage a protrusion of the clips. The rails and the clips may be attached to the wall and the panels respectively or vice versa. Each of the panels may be attached and removed to the wall one at a time and in any order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Inventor: Charbel Tannious Aboukhalil
  • Patent number: 10519647
    Abstract: An expansion insert for converting an ISO shipping container into a housing unit is provided, the insert having a compacted form reversibly convertible to a expanded form. The insert has a frame assembly torsionally hinged to a roof assembly and a floor assembly. Two pivot walls and a sidewall are also built into the insert. The insert may be compacted for shipping, expanded after insertion into an ISO container, and compacted again on the ISO container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: REBOX CONTAINERS INC
    Inventor: Michael J. Crozier
  • Patent number: 10513847
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an insulated structure includes a frame comprising a plurality of wall studs coupled together and a plurality of foam boards attached to the frame to form a continuous insulative wall. A plurality of fasteners attaches the foam boards to the frame. Each fastener includes an elongate shaft and a cap. The elongate shaft is configured to penetrate through a foam board and into a wall stud to couple the components together. The cap is configured to be positioned atop a foam board to distribute a load relatively evenly to the foam board. A sealing tape is applied across seams between adjacent foam boards and over the fasteners' caps to seal the wall. A sealing caulk is applied to secondary fasteners and penetrations to seal the wall. In some embodiments, the structure has a fastener density of about 1 fastener per 243 in2 of foam board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Johns Manville
    Inventors: Kathryn Fink Miks, Ralph Michael Fay, Thomas S Calzavara, Francis John Babineau, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10513848
    Abstract: A building component has first and second parallel and spaced apart edges, a first panel portion and first and second members. The first and second members are located on the same side of the first panel portion. The members extend along the first and second edges. A second panel portion is demountably connected to the first panel portion in a face to face relationship. This creates a plurality of cavities within the building component. A plurality of holes is formed in the component to enable passage of services such as electricity, gas and water through the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Inventor: Philip David Faigen
  • Patent number: 10508005
    Abstract: Provided herein is an assembly for carrying or supporting a load. The assembly comprises a plurality of members connectable in an assembled arrangement for carrying or supporting the load. Each member comprises a first end and a second end, at least one of the first end and the second end has a pair of connecting members comprising two lugs that each has defined therein two holes. The lugs are configured for alignment with a corresponding pair of lugs formed on another member in the assembly. Fasteners extend through the holes formed in the lugs when the holes are aligned. Further provided are members for use in the assembly and connector elements for attaching two or more members in the assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Inventor: John Rene Spronken
  • Patent number: 10485142
    Abstract: A data centre (100) includes at least one rack room (in for example module 140) having a floor and a plurality of rack storage areas on the floor, each rack storage area being arranged to accommodate a plurality of racks (143) in which a plurality of rack-mountable electronic components may be housed, one or more controllable air circulation systems (in for example module 122), one or more cold aisles (144) in the rack room, each cold aisle being adjacent to a rack storage area, and one or more hot aisles (145) in the rack room, each hot aisle being adjacent to a rack storage area. There may be a large air duct, in the form of a personnel corridor (123), for transporting, under the control of the one or more air circulation systems, cooling air, above the floor, to the one or more cold aisles. The air supply corridor/duct (123) may have a height greater than 1.5 m above the floor and a cross-sectional area of at least 2 m2 and a maximum dimension in the plane of the cross-section of less than 3 m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Bripco BVBA
    Inventor: Paul Rogers
  • Patent number: 10458119
    Abstract: A shingle including a substrate having a top surface and a bottom surface, an asphalt layer, a layer of granules, and a spacing layer is provided. The asphalt layer covers at least a portion of the top surface and the layer of granules is adhered to the asphalt layer. The spacing layer is attached beneath at least a portion of the bottom surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Owens Corning Intellectual Capital, LLC
    Inventors: Lawrence J. Grubka, David P. Aschenbeck, Donn R. Vermilion, Edward R. Harrington, William E. Smith
  • Patent number: 10422123
    Abstract: A connection between a first, supporting structural member, such as a post or header, and a second, supported structural member such as a joist or rafter is provided, wherein the connection is made with a connector and fasteners, the use of which can be substantially hidden from view. The connector is designed to be inserted in a slotted opening in the second, structural member and to attach to a surface of the first, supporting structural member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Simpson Strong-Tie Company Inc.
    Inventor: Rachel Marie Holland
  • Patent number: 10415263
    Abstract: A packaged container housing structure includes a container box frame of rectangular configuration defining an interior space and an open top, closed bottom, opposite right and left open sides and opposite open ends, a top roof mounted on the container box frame and movable toward and away from the open top to close and open access of air flow into the interior space, coupling fittings integrated at top cover corners to enable lifting the packaged container housing structure, a plurality of deployable panels including wall panels, ceiling panels and floor panels stored in the interior space of the container box frame, and support feet attachable to the floor panels and container box frame being adjustable in length independent of one another so as to position the container box frame in a level orientation relative upon a mounting site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: NEW HOUSE INTERNATIONAL CORP
    Inventor: Luiz Fernando Lucho Do Valle
  • Patent number: 10414311
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to bearings, guide sleeves and head restraint assemblies for automobiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN PERFORMANCE PLASTICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Timothy J. Hagan, Abe Sanchez, Paul Haines, Heiko Jessler, Brandon S. Murphy, Vincent DiMartino, Chloe Echikson, Mirko Hundertmark
  • Patent number: 10408469
    Abstract: An underlayment system is provided that includes a plurality of protrusions that extend from a common base member. The protrusions and base member can include an opening therethrough that allows for subsequent layers of material, such as adhesive, to interact and bond to each other. The protrusions are arranged in such a way to contain a wire, string, or heating element, within a receiving area. The arrangement of the protrusions allow for routing of the wire, string, or heating element in a variety of angles, bends, and other routing layouts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: PROGRESS PROFILES SPA
    Inventor: David D. Larson
  • Patent number: 10407896
    Abstract: A hybrid truss assembly with a truss bay centrally deployed, and with half-bays deployed on either side. The configuration provides four panels (such as solar panels), with two chords connected by four transverse members. The half-bays are locked in a rigid position using a barrel lock hinge assembly. The half-bays fold compactly beside the folded center bay assembly when retracted. The truss assembly may be pivotally mounted on a mobile cart, and may then be manually or automatically tilted or rotated to a desired angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Inventor: Donald V. Merrifield