Patents Examined by Randall Chin
  • Hair brush with dual shaped head for managing baby and mature hair
    Patent number: 9961988
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hair brush having a dual shaped head for effectively managing baby and mature hair for the purpose of grooming and styling hair. The hair brush includes a dual shaped head having a first section with a first shape and a second section with a second shape. The first section with the first shape includes a cluster of bristles of a first type and the second section with the second shape includes a cluster of bristles of a second type. The cluster of bristles of the first type positioned adjacent to the cluster of bristles of the second type. The dual shaped head further includes a rotatable base that allows the sections to be positioned according to grooming and styling needs. The hair brush further includes a handle with a hollow cavity for storing hair products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Inventor: Felisa Wedlock
  • Electric motorized toothbrush with rotating spindles
    Patent number: 9956063
    Abstract: An electric motorized toothbrush with a pair of bristle units spaced apart from each other by a gap and a third bristle unit bordering the gap by being closer to each of the bristle units of the pair than the bristle units of the pair are to each other. A motorized gear transmission, via associated spindles, rotates the pair of bristle units in opposite directions and either rotates or reciprocates the third bristle unit. The bristle units of the pair include a respective cylinder and bristles that extend radially outward from the respective cylinder and the bristles may be of varying lengths. The bristles rotate in a direction away from the gum line while the teeth are inserted into the gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Inventor: David Hauser
  • Mini-blind cleaner
    Patent number: 9949600
    Abstract: The mini-blind cleaner is an open framework from which a mini-blind to be cleaned may be suspended. Suspending the mini-blind from the mini-bland cleaner allows both sides of the mini-blind to be accessed and allows operation of the mini-blind mechanisms that raise and lower the blind and tilt the slats of the mini-blind. The mini-blind cleaner comprises telescopic upright sides that may be reduced in length. The upright sides are also hinged to the top frame so that the mini-blind cleaner may be folded flat for storage or transportation. Movable blind brackets on the top frame lock into position at spacings corresponding to standard blind lengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Inventor: Margaret Dalrymple
  • BBQ grill scraper and cleaner
    Patent number: 9943885
    Abstract: A barbeque grill scraper that uses a scraping edge with a tooth formed of a wearable material to remove char and debris from the grill grates. The tooth fits between adjoining grill grates to guide the scraping edge and create a plurality of indents in the scraping edge that match the top profile of the grill grates. The grill grates are thus thoroughly cleaned without the health risks associated with wire brush cleaners. Another embodiment further utilizes a protruding cleaning tool to access and clean the lower sides and bottom of the grill grates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Charboss LLC
    Inventor: Jeffrey Rosenberger
  • Robotic pool tile cleaner
    Patent number: 9938743
    Abstract: A robotic swimming pool tile cleaner having a bottom section, an upper section, a fore side, an opposite aft side, a port side and an opposite starboard side, the bottom section having a propeller housing adapted to house a plurality of thrusters being configured to provide forward thrust to the robotic tile cleaner, assist in turning the robotic tile cleaner in a corner of a swimming pool by providing a turning thrust to move the fore side of the robotic tile cleaner away from a swimming pool wall facing the fore side, and to provide side thrust to push the robotic tile cleaner against a swimming pool tile wall facing the port side, and a plurality of cleaning brushes mounted vertically on the port side of the upper section and being configured to touch the swimming pool tile wall and to move during operation of the robotic tile cleaner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Inventors: Brian Rosser Rejniak, John Alan Rejniak
  • Spatula cleaning assembly
    Patent number: 9936855
    Abstract: A spatula cleaning assembly for cleaning a spatula includes a scraper that may be manipulated. The scraper frictionally engages a spatula such that the scraper removes debris from the spatula. A panel is hingedly coupled to the scraper. The panel is manipulated to compress the spatula between the scraper and the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Inventors: Joe Schmidt, Ray Schmidt
  • Hand-held cleaning device for smooth surfaces
    Patent number: 9931004
    Abstract: The hand-held cleaning device, especially the hand-held cleaner for smooth surfaces, comprising a supporting unit, a wiper blade, a guiding device and a capture unit, wherein the wiper blade is fixed to the supporting unit, wherein the wiper blade at least in certain areas has a guiding element, which is designed for guiding fluid present at wiper blade in the direction of the guiding device, and wherein the guiding device is arranged adjacent to the wiper blade and is directly adjoining to the capture unit in order to transport the fluid from the wiper blade across the guiding element and the guiding device to the capture unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Inventor: Karl Göttler
  • Device with removal head and lighting element
    Patent number: 9925961
    Abstract: A device or tool for removing snow and other debris from vehicles, and other surfaces including a handle having a first end and a second end opposite the first end, a scraper portion coupled to the first end, and a head coupled to the second end. One or more light emitting elements are incorporated into the head to provide for ease of use in low light situations. The head may be a laterally extended foam head that is non-abrasive, freeze resistant, and durable. The handle may include a telescopic extension to allow a reach of a user to be increased or decreased allowing the user to clear away snow and other debris from various sizes of vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: SNOW JOE, LLC
    Inventor: Joseph S. Cohen
  • Reversible device for cleaning cosmetic brushes
    Patent number: 9924790
    Abstract: A reversible brush cleaning device having alternate, reversible orientations is disclosed. The device includes first and second brush treatment textures defined in first and second surface regions, respectively. The reversible orientations alternately present the first and second surface regions on the exterior and interior of the flexible body, respectively. The textures are differently configured, in order to provide for alternate brush treatments when each is individually presented on the exterior, in each of the reversible orientations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Sigma Enterprises, LLC
    Inventors: Simone Rodrigues Oliveira Xavier, Rene Xavier Filho
  • Hair brush with movably mounted bristles
    Patent number: 9924788
    Abstract: Hair brush with an array of bristles which are fastened on a flexible pad of bristles which yields during combing so that the position and/or location of the bristles is changed as a result, the bristles being composed of plastic, wherein the pad of bristle and the bristles are composed of a single piece and wherein the pad of bristles has the configuration of a flexible membrane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: GEKA GmbH
    Inventor: Erwin Schuster
  • Lobby pan
    Patent number: 9913566
    Abstract: A lobby pan comprises a receptacle having a substantially flat bottom wall of a generally rectangular shape, a rear wall extending transversely from the bottom wall and having a first height, a front wall extending transversely from the bottom wall in substantially the same direction as the rear wall and having a second height that is less than the first height, and a pair of side walls that extend in the same direction as the rear wall and are connected to the rear wall and the front wall so as to form a continuous edge that defines an aperture into the receptacle. The front wall and rear wall are separated by a suitable distance, as are the side walls. In addition, a wash port is disposed on the exterior of the lobby pan so as to enable the interior of the receptacle to be easily washed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Inventor: Joseph McCormick
  • Push broom head and push broom including same
    Patent number: 9913529
    Abstract: A push broom head includes a body including an upper face, a lower face, a front face, a rear face, and left and right end faces. A plurality of sweeper bristles project outwardly from the lower face. A handle mounting block portion includes a socket adapted to receive an associated broom handle. The handle mounting block portion is located between left and right portions of the body. The body includes a plurality of open pockets defined in the upper face on both the left and right portions of the body. Each of the pockets opens through the upper face of the body and comprises a bottom wall. Each of the pockets defines a depth between the upper face of the body and the respective bottom wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Inventor: Erwin Tomm
  • Squeegee devices with one or more collection features
    Patent number: 9913565
    Abstract: A squeegee device is provided that includes a blade support and a deflector. The blade support has a front support and a rear support, which are configured to secure a squeegee blade therebetween. The deflector has a lower portion and an upper portion, which are configured so that the lower portion of the deflector depends upward from the blade support and a leading edge of the upper portion is forward, with respect to a pushing direction, from the blade support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: UNGER MARKETING INTERNATIONAL, LLC
    Inventors: Robert F. Smith, James M. Buckley, Paul Adams
  • Oscillating fiber optic cleaning tool
    Patent number: 9910227
    Abstract: A fiber optic component cleaning device includes a body, a motor mounted in the body and a power supply mounted in the body and operably connected to the motor. The device has a resilient platen mounted to the body and a cleaning material configured to reside on the platen. An oscillating device is operably mounted to the motor to induce an oscillation in the body and the platen to oscillate the platen with the cleaning material thereon. The tool is configured to clean surfaces of the fiber optic component by oscillating movement of the platen and the cleaning material on the platen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventor: Edward J. Forrest, Jr.
  • Disk clamp and motor hub cleaning with stamping adhesive
    Patent number: 9895725
    Abstract: An assembly configured to clean one or more selected structures of a device may comprise an end effector assembly, a material disposed on a surface of the end effector assembly that, in operation of the device, faces the selected structure(s) of the device. The end effector assembly may be configured to selectively move the material towards and against the selected structure(s) such that the material remains on the facing surface of the end effector assembly and to retain, when the end effector assembly is moved away from the device, at least some particulates previously on the selected structure(s). The device may comprise a data storage assembly and the selected structures may comprise a spindle motor hub and a disk clamp to secure the clamp to the disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jin Yang Chong, Yih Fey Chang, Lie Dhani Hastama
  • Toddler toothbrush assembly and methods
    Patent number: 9894986
    Abstract: Toothbrush assemblies have a structural component and a cushioning component disposed about a portion of the structural component. The structural component has a distal head element, an elongated spacing element extending from the head element, and a body portion connected to the spacing element opposite the head element. The cushioning component causes the structural component to resist movement in the posterior direction to a larger degree than the structural component resists movement in the anterior direction. Accordingly, an axial force applied to the head element in the direction of the spacing element causes the spacing element to move in the anterior direction. Thus, the toothbrush assembly can be safe for toddlers to use as they can be less likely to impale the toddler's throat tissue and/or puncture a vital artery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Live-Right, LLC
    Inventors: Troy Tegeder, Chad Winward, Natalee Dawn Phillips, Sandra Lee Phillips, Charles Reeve Phillips
  • Mat device for cleaning cosmetic brushes
    Patent number: 9888764
    Abstract: A brush cleaning device includes a flexible body having first and second opposed surfaces defining a top and a bottom. A plurality of different brush treatment surfaces are provided on the top of the flexible body, variously configured for washing and rinsing bristles of brushes having different sizes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Sigma Enterprises, LLC
    Inventors: Simone Rodrigues Oliveira Xavier, Rene Xavier Filho
  • Multi-component quick assembly handle and method of making same
    Patent number: 9884419
    Abstract: A multi-component quick assembly handle includes tubular members made of a permanently deformable material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: MONAHAN PARTNERS, INC.
    Inventors: Patrick H. Monahan, Kurt Ni
  • Handle for a scrub brush
    Patent number: 9878436
    Abstract: A handle for a cleaning implement, particularly for a scrub brush includes a resilient handle having a c-shaped bend along its length. The c-shaped bend can be grasped by a user and the handle caused to rotate along an axis defined by the scrubbing end and an upper terminal end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Inventor: Jeff Castro
  • Tube cleaning dart having blades
    Patent number: 9862011
    Abstract: A dart assembly for cleaning tubes including at least one annular disk having a first end, a second end, an outer perimeter and at least one longitudinal groove in the outer perimeter extending from the first end to the second end and at least one cutting wheel. The cutting wheel is positioned within the groove such that a portion of the cutting wheel extends into the groove and a portion extends beyond the outer perimeter of the annular disk. The dart assembly may also include at least one scraper disk and the annular disk and the scraper disk may be positioned at opposite ends of a shaft. Also, a method of cleaning a tube where a dart assembly is inserted into the inner diameter of the tube and forced through the tube using pressurized fluid. The dart assembly may have any or all of the features described above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: National Heat Exchange Cleaning Corporation
    Inventors: Brian D. Antal, Carroll E. Joseph