Patents by Inventor Erwin M. Frey

Erwin M. Frey 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).

  • Patent number: 6758455
    Abstract: A picture hanger has a metal base from which is stamped a tougue for receiving a wire of a picture frame hung on a wall. The tongue has a convex shape with respect to a front face of the base and a ledge therefor on which the wire rests bears against a protrusion extending from the base front face. The tongue has bends with progressively increasing angles as it extends away from the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Micasa Systems Corporation
    Inventors: David Weck, Erwin M. Frey
  • Publication number: 20040051022
    Abstract: A picture hanger has a metal base from which is stamped a tongue for receiving a wire of a picture frame hung on a wall. The tongue has a convex shape with respect to a front face of the base and a ledge thereof on which the wire rests bears against a protrusion extending from the base front face. The tongue has bends with progressively increasing angles as it extends away from the base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Applicant: Micasa Trading Corporation d/b/a Impex Systems Group, Inc.
    Inventors: David Weck, Erwin M. Frey
  • Patent number: 6629680
    Abstract: A picture hanger has a metal base from which is stamped a tongue for receiving a wire of a picture frame hung on a wall. The tongue has a convex shape with respect to a front face of the base and a ledge thereof on which the wire rests bears against a protrusion extending from the base front face. The tongue has bends with progressively increasing angles as it extends away from the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2003
    Assignee: Micasa Trading Corporation
    Inventors: David Weck, Erwin M. Frey
  • Publication number: 20030085331
    Abstract: A picture hanger has a metal base from which is stamped a tongue for receiving a wire of a picture frame hung on a wall. The tongue has a convex shape with respect to a front face of the base and a ledge thereof on which the wire rests bears against a protrusion extending from the base front face. The tongue has bends with progressively increasing angles as it extends away from the base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2001
    Publication date: May 8, 2003
    Applicant: MICASA TRADING CORPORATION d/b/a IMPEX SYSTEMS GROUP, INC.
    Inventors: David Weck, Erwin M. Frey
  • Patent number: 6375202
    Abstract: A household cart has a wooden or molded plastic rectangular base for carrying household items. Four caster assemblies on the base are close to the four corners of the base. A U-shaped handle has hooks for carrying household items approximately halfway between side edges of the base, about equidistant from front and back edges of the base. The handle can be positioned either transversely or longitudinally of the base. In the handle transverse position, legs of the handle fit into a first pair of receptacles located between (1) the casters close to the base back edge and (2) the cart transverse center line. In the longitudinal position, the legs fit into a second pair of receptacles located along a longitudinal center line of the base. The receptacles of the first pair are spaced from each other by the same distance as the receptacles of the second pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2002
    Inventors: David Weck, Erwin M. Frey
  • Publication number: 20010015535
    Abstract: A household cart has a wooden or molded plastic rectangular base for carrying household items. Four caster assemblies on the base are close to the four corners of the base. A U-shaped handle has hooks for carrying household items approximately halfway between side edges of the base, about equidistant from front and back edges of the base. The handle can be positioned either transversely or longitudinally of the base. In the handle transverse position, legs of the handle fit into a first pair of receptacles located between (1) the casters close to the base back edge and (2) the cart transverse center line. In the longitudinal position, the legs fit into a second pair of receptacles located along a longitudinal center line of the base. The receptacles of the first pair are spaced from each other by the same distance as the receptacles of the second pair.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2001
    Publication date: August 23, 2001
    Inventors: David Weck, Erwin M. Frey
  • Patent number: 6224072
    Abstract: A household cart has a wooden or molded plastic rectangular base for carrying household items. Four caster assemblies on the base are close to the four corners of the base. A U-shaped handle has hooks for carrying household items approximately halfway between side edges of the base, about equidistant from front and back edges of the base. The handle can be positioned either transversely or longitudinally of the base. In the handle transverse position, legs of the handle fit into a first pair of receptacles located between (1) the casters close to the base back edge and (2) the cart transverse center line. In the longitudinal position, the legs fit into a second pair of receptacles located along a longitudinal center line of the base. The receptacles of the first pair are spaced from each other by the same distance as the receptacles of the second pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2001
    Inventors: David Weck, Erwin M. Frey
  • Patent number: 6059124
    Abstract: A point of purchase system carrying consumer articles that are for sale and displaying information about the articles comprises a vertically extending mounting structure mounting plural point of purchase devices. Each device includes plural elongated elements extending generally parallel to each other. The elements receive and carry plural hanger mechanisms and articles associated therewith. Each element is mounted on the mounting structure so the elements extend generally at right angles from the mounting structure. Adjacent pairs of the elements are connected to each other so the adjacent pairs of the elements are horizontally spaced in approximately the same plane from each other by a distance determined by the spacing of receptacles for the elements on the mounting structure. The adjacent elements together carry a placard spanning the distance between the adjacent elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2000
    Assignee: David Weck
    Inventors: David Weck, Erwin M. Frey
  • Patent number: 5460718
    Abstract: A water treating device for a domestic water handling device such as a toilet water tank, an air conditioning drain pan or a humidifier includes a housing having permanent magnets in a flow path of water flowing through the housing via openings in the housing, to collect free ions in the water. An antimicrobial polymer disinfecting agent is in a mass inserted in a chamber in the housing and/or in a polymer in a housing surface. The housing is configured so an air bubble forms against the housing roof to assure that a base of the housing rests on the floor of the water handling device. Ribs adding structural strength to the cover are aligned and have approximately the same size and shape as slots in the cover roof through which water passes so the ribs obscure the magnets from view from above and to sides of the cover. The magnets are held in place by a spring finger extending upward from the base to exert a force downwardly against the magnet upper pole face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1995
    Assignee: Micasa Trading Corporation
    Inventors: David Weck, Erwin M. Frey, Fred J. Meyer
  • Patent number: D461397
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2002
    Assignee: Micasa Trading Corporation
    Inventors: David Weck, Erwin M. Frey
  • Patent number: D474106
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2003
    Assignee: Micasa Trading Corporation
    Inventors: David Weck, Erwin M. Frey