Patents Examined by Timothy J Teicher
  • Patent number: 10119761
    Abstract: Paint card drying assemblies are provided that can include a substrate configured to support cards and a drying assembly coupled to the substrate. Methods for drying paint cards are provided that can include providing a drying assembly coupled to a substrate, aligning cards below the drying assembly, and providing gas through the drying assembly and along the face of the cards to dry paint applied to the cards. Assemblies can also include a substrate configured to support cards, horizontally opposing handles aligned along lateral edges of the substrate, and a drying assembly coupled to the substrate and aligned between the handles upon one face of the substrate, the drying assembly comprising conduit in fluid communication with a plurality of flat-nosed nozzles evenly distributed along the conduit, each of the plurality configured to direct a gas stream along the face of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Inventors: Randy Scheurer, Shawn Watson
  • Patent number: 9986877
    Abstract: A hand dryer for drying a user's hands by means of an airflow discharged through an air outlet on the hand dryer. The airflow is generated by a motor-driven fan unit. The fan unit is supported by resilient support member in contact with the fan unit, the support member having a vertex, which vertex makes said contact with the fan unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Stuart James Steele, Tim Turrini-Rochford
  • Patent number: 9873974
    Abstract: A machine adapted to carry out at least one laundry drying cycle. Such machine comprises a frame wherein a tub is mounted; a drum wherein laundry is placed, said drum being rotatably mounted within the tub and having at least one load opening; a door movable between a closed position and an open position; a drying system comprising: an intake channel for removing humid air from the tub; a delivery channel for supplying dry air into the drum; a drying apparatus interposed between the intake channel and the delivery channel for separating at least partially the air from the water contained therein obtaining dry air. The delivery channel is at least partially provided on the door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Indesit Company S.p.A.
    Inventors: Antonio Coniguardi, Sandro Duri