Patents by Inventor Donald R. Lamond
Donald R. Lamond has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20240132274Abstract: A method for dispensing a beverage from a bottle that includes communicating a dispensing authorization message from a control unit to at least one of a server interface carried by a beverage server and a pour spout secured to a bottle, wherein the dispensing authorization message at least one of includes or initiates a dispensing command, and wherein the pour spout responds to the dispensing command by opening a spout valve through which a beverage flows from the bottle and out of the pour spout.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Berg Company, LLCInventors: Michael J. Keating, Donald R. Lamond, Ronald F. Faust, Thomas E. Giles, Albert H. Dorsey
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Patent number: 11708211Abstract: A method for dispensing a beverage from a bottle that includes communicating a dispensing authorization message from a control unit to at least one of a server interface carried by a beverage server and a pour spout secured to a bottle, wherein the dispensing authorization message at least one of includes or initiates a dispensing command, and wherein the pour spout responds to the dispensing command by opening a spout valve through which a beverage flows from the bottle and out of the pour spout.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2018Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: Berg Company, LLCInventors: Michael J. Keating, Donald R. Lamond, Ronald F. Faust, Thomas E. Giles, Albert H. Dorsey
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Publication number: 20210147137Abstract: A method for dispensing a beverage from a bottle that includes communicating a dispensing authorization message from a control unit to at least one of a server interface carried by a beverage server and a pour spout secured to a bottle, wherein the dispensing authorization message at least one of includes or initiates a dispensing command, and wherein the pour spout responds to the dispensing command by opening a spout valve through which a beverage flows from the bottle and out of the pour spout.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2018Publication date: May 20, 2021Inventors: Michael J. Keating, Donald R. Lamond, Ronald F. Faust, Thomas E. Giles, Albert H. Dorsey
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Patent number: 10689242Abstract: A pour spout, for attaching to a bottle, has a first wireless transceiver and a valve for selectively controlling flow of a beverage from the bottle. A server interface, adapted to be carried by a person who serves beverages, has a second wireless transceiver. A control unit is provided to wirelessly communicate with the second transceiver. In one mode, the pour spout transmits a spout identifier to the server interface, which responds by transmitting the spout identifier and a server identifier to the control unit. The control unit responds with a reply transmission causing the server interface to command the pour spout to open the valve. In another mode, a person selects a cocktail, that results in the control unit sending designations of a plurality of liquor ingredients to the server interface. The server interface controls dispensing each of the plurality of liquor ingredients.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2018Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: Berg Company, LLCInventors: Michael J. Keating, Donald R. Lamond, Ronald F. Faust, Thomas E. Giles
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Publication number: 20200189837Abstract: A method for dispensing a beverage from a bottle that includes communicating a dispensing authorization message from a control unit to at least one of a server interface carried by a beverage server and a pour spout secured to a bottle, wherein the dispensing authorization message at least one of includes or initiates a dispensing command, and wherein the pour spout responds to the dispensing command by opening a spout valve through which a beverage flows from the bottle and out of the pour spout.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2018Publication date: June 18, 2020Inventors: Michael J. Keating, Donald R. Lamond, Ronald F. Faust, Thomas E. Giles, Albert H. Dorsey
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Patent number: 10155651Abstract: A method for dispensing a beverage from a bottle that includes communicating a dispensing authorization message from a control unit to at least one of a server interface carried by a beverage server and a pour spout secured to a bottle, wherein the dispensing authorization message at least one of includes or initiates a dispensing command, and wherein the pour spout responds to the dispensing command by opening a spout valve through which a beverage flows from the bottle and out of the pour spout.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2014Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: BERG COMPANY, LLCInventors: Michael J. Keating, Donald R. Lamond, Ronald F. Faust, Thomas E. Giles, Albert H. Dorsey
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Publication number: 20180265344Abstract: A pour spout, for attaching to a bottle, has a first wireless transceiver and a valve for selectively controlling flow of a beverage from the bottle. A server interface, adapted to be carried by a person who serves beverages, has a second wireless transceiver. A control unit is provided to wirelessly communicate with the second transceiver. In one mode, the pour spout transmits a spout identifier to the server interface, which responds by transmitting the spout identifier and a server identifier to the control unit. The control unit responds with a reply transmission causing the server interface to command the pour spout to open the valve. In another mode, a person selects a cocktail, that results in the control unit sending designations of a plurality of liquor ingredients to the server interface. The server interface controls dispensing each of the plurality of liquor ingredients.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Michael J. Keating, Donald R. Lamond, Ronald F. Faust, Thomas E. Giles
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Patent number: 9975752Abstract: A pour spout, for attaching to a bottle, has a first wireless transceiver and a valve for selectively controlling flow of a beverage from the bottle. A server interface, adapted to be carried by a person who serves beverages, has a second wireless transceiver. A control unit is provided to wirelessly communicate with the second transceiver. In one mode, the pour spout transmits a spout identifier to the server interface, which responds by transmitting the spout identifier and a server identifier to the control unit. The control unit responds with a reply transmission causing the server interface to command the pour spout to open the valve. In another mode, a person selects a cocktail, that results in the control unit sending designations of a plurality of liquor ingredients to the server interface. The server interface controls dispensing each of the plurality of liquor ingredients.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2015Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: BERG COMPANY, LLCInventors: Michael J. Keating, Donald R. Lamond, Ronald F. Faust, Thomas E. Giles
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Publication number: 20160096717Abstract: A pour spout, for attaching to a bottle, has a first wireless transceiver and a valve for selectively controlling flow of a beverage from the bottle. A server interface, adapted to be carried by a person who serves beverages, has a second wireless transceiver. A control unit is provided to wirelessly communicate with the second transceiver. In one mode, the pour spout transmits a spout identifier to the server interface, which responds by transmitting the spout identifier and a server identifier to the control unit. The control unit responds with a reply transmission causing the server interface to command the pour spout to open the valve. In another mode, a person selects a cocktail, that results in the control unit sending designations of a plurality of liquor ingredients to the server interface. The server interface controls dispensing each of the plurality of liquor ingredients.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2015Publication date: April 7, 2016Applicant: BERG COMPANY, LLCInventors: Michael J. Keating, Donald R. Lamond, Ronald F. Faust, Thomas E. Giles
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Patent number: 9212041Abstract: A pour spout, for attaching to a bottle, has a first wireless transceiver and a valve for selectively controlling flow of a beverage from the bottle. A server interface, adapted to be carried by a person who serves beverages, has a second wireless transceiver. A control unit is provided to wirelessly communicate with the second transceiver. In one mode, the pour spout transmits a spout identifier to the server interface, which responds by transmitting the spout identifier and a server identifier to the control unit. The control unit responds with a reply transmission causing the server interface to command the pour spout to open the valve. In another mode, a person selects a cocktail, that results in the control unit sending designations of a plurality of liquor ingredients to the server interface. The server interface controls dispensing each of the plurality of liquor ingredients.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2013Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: Berg Company, LLCInventors: Michael J. Keating, Donald R. Lamond, Ronald F. Faust, Thomas E. Giles, Albert H. Dorsey
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Patent number: 9022257Abstract: A pour spout has a bottle adapter for insertion into a mouth of a bottle. A housing has a chamber into which a housing inlet and a housing outlet open with the housing inlet connected to the bottle adapter for receiving beverage from the bottle. A valve carriage is movable within the chamber and has a carriage inlet in fluid communication with a carriage outlet. A resilient first tube provides a first beverage passageway between the housing inlet and the carriage inlet. A resilient second tube provides a second beverage passageway between carriage outlet and the housing outlet. The first or second tube has a valve seat that is engaged and disengaged by a plunger on the valve carriage as the valve carriage moves within the chamber. A valve actuator moves the valve carriage in response to signal from a control circuit that receives a wireless command signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2013Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Berg Company, LLCInventors: Michael J. Keating, Donald R. Lamond, Ronald F. Faust, Thomas E. Giles, Albert H. Dorsey
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Patent number: 9004320Abstract: A pour spout for dispensing a beverage from a bottle including a bottle adapter for attaching to a bottle to receive a beverage from the bottle, a housing having a chamber into which a housing inlet and a housing outlet open, the housing inlet connected to the bottle adapter for receiving the beverage, a valve carriage moveably received within the chamber and having a carriage passage, a resilient first tube providing a first passageway for beverage to flow from the housing inlet to the carriage passage, a resilient second tube providing a second passageway for beverage to flow from the carriage passage to the housing outlet, a valve operatively connected to the valve carriage to control flow of the beverage through the housing from the housing inlet to the housing outlet; and a valve actuator for moving the valve carriage within the chamber to operate the valve open or closed.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2014Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Berg Company, LLCInventors: Michael J. Keating, Donald R. Lamond, Ronald F. Faust, Thomas E. Giles, Albert H. Dorsey
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Publication number: 20140263430Abstract: A pour spout for dispensing a beverage from a bottle including a bottle adapter for attaching to a bottle to receive a beverage from the bottle, a housing having a chamber into which a housing inlet and a housing outlet open, the housing inlet connected to the bottle adapter for receiving the beverage, a valve carriage moveably received within the chamber and having a carriage passage, a resilient first tube providing a first passageway for beverage to flow from the housing inlet to the carriage passage, a resilient second tube providing a second passageway for beverage to flow from the carriage passage to the housing outlet, a valve operatively connected to the valve carriage to control flow of the beverage through the housing from the housing inlet to the housing outlet; and a valve actuator for moving the valve carriage within the chamber to operate the valve open or closed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: BERG COMPANY, LLCInventors: Michael J. Keating, Donald R. Lamond, Ronald F. Faust, Thomas E. Giles, Albert H. Dorsey
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Publication number: 20140263399Abstract: A pour spout, for attaching to a bottle, has a first wireless transceiver and a valve for selectively controlling flow of a beverage from the bottle. A server interface, adapted to be carried by a person who serves beverages, has a second wireless transceiver. A control unit is provided to wirelessly communicate with the second transceiver. In one mode, the pour spout transmits a spout identifier to the server interface, which responds by transmitting the spout identifier and a server identifier to the control unit. The control unit responds with a reply transmission causing the server interface to command the pour spout to open the valve. In another mode, a person selects a cocktail, that results in the control unit sending designations of a plurality of liquor ingredients to the server interface. The server interface controls dispensing each of the plurality of liquor ingredients.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Berg Company, LLCInventors: Michael J. Keating, Donald R. Lamond, Ronald F. Faust, Thomas E. Giles
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Publication number: 20140263429Abstract: A pour spout has a bottle adapter for insertion into a mouth of a bottle. A housing has a chamber into which a housing inlet and a housing outlet open with the housing inlet connected to the bottle adapter for receiving beverage from the bottle. A valve carriage is movable within the chamber and has a carriage inlet in fluid communication with a carriage outlet. A resilient first tube provides a first beverage passageway between the housing inlet and the carriage inlet. A resilient second tube provides a second beverage passageway between carriage outlet and the housing outlet. The first or second tube has a valve seat that is engaged and disengaged by a plunger on the valve carriage as the valve carriage moves within the chamber. A valve actuator moves the valve carriage in response to signal from a control circuit that receives a wireless command signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Inventors: Michael J. Keating, Donald R. Lamond, Ronald F. Faust, Thomas E. Giles
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Publication number: 20140263418Abstract: A method for dispensing a beverage from a bottle that includes communicating a dispensing authorization message from a control unit to at least one of a server interface carried by a beverage server and a pour spout secured to a bottle, wherein the dispensing authorization message at least one of includes or initiates a dispensing command, and wherein the pour spout responds to the dispensing command by opening a spout valve through which a beverage flows from the bottle and out of the pour spout.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: BERG COMPANY, LLCInventors: Michael J. Keating, Donald R. Lamond, Ronald F. Faust, Thomas E. Giles, Albert H. Dorsey
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Publication number: 20120028541Abstract: A brassiere generally conformed to the shape of a female upper torso comprising (1) a front portion comprising: a left mesh panel and a right mesh panel; an internal inset pouch; a brassiere insert; a lateral adjustment strap; a first lower panel; a second lower panel; a chest band; a left upper panel wherein the bottom portion of the left upper panel extends from the top portion of the left mesh panel, toward the shoulder of a user; a right upper panel; a left adjustable strap; and a right adjustable strap; (2) side portions comprising: a left adjustable side closure and a right adjustable side closure; and (3) a back portion comprising: a dorsal panel having a octagonal union at the center thereof; a back band; a left upper dorsal strap; a right upper dorsal strap; a left lower dorsal strap; and a right lower dorsal strap.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2010Publication date: February 2, 2012Inventors: Helene Donnelly, Christopher J. Brooks, Donald R. Lamond
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Publication number: 20020095796Abstract: A scissors has pivotally joined metal cutting elements, each having a handle portion including a yoke insert molded in hard plastic inner portions of handle loops. In one of the loops the hard plastic material defines only a part of the loop, terminating in spaced ends which are fixed to a flexible and resilient portion which completes the loop. The other loop has projecting forwardly therefrom a hard plastic finger rest which extends along the handle portion and defines a channel receiving the handle portion of the one loop. Both loops have hard plastic buttons projecting therefrom which abut when the scissors are closed. The flexible and resilient portion of the one loop is formed of a soft, frictional material which also covers outer surfaces of the hard plastic portions of both loops and the finger rest.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2001Publication date: July 25, 2002Inventors: Richard A. Whitehall, Mitra E. Leyde, Donald R. Lamond, David E. Evans
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Patent number: 6418820Abstract: An ergonomic wrench for rotating a member in a torquing plane substantially perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the member is provided, having a head portion for engaging the member and a handle extending therefrom in a first longitudinal direction. The invention further includes a handle which is substantially elliptical, having a major axis and a minor axis when viewed in a cross-sectional plane perpendicular to said first longitudinal direction, the major axis of which is arranged substantially perpendicular to the torquing plane.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2001Date of Patent: July 16, 2002Assignee: WKI Holding Company Inc.Inventors: Donald R. Lamond, Richard Whitehall, David Schiff
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Patent number: D462251Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2002Date of Patent: September 3, 2002Assignee: WKi Holding Company, Inc.Inventors: James T. Collins, Tucker H. Fort, David R. Schiff, Donald R. Lamond