Patents by Inventor George J. Simons
George J. Simons 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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Patent number: 8474193Abstract: A modular accessory system is supportable on a vertical surface such as a wall, an office divider, or the like and includes a support member or base that supports decorative panels and/or functional panels to provide a desired appearance and/or functions for use in an area. The panels are repositionable, and some may be oriented in two or more different orientations on the support base. Engaging members are provided at spaced intervals along each panel, with additional engaging members provided at spaced intervals along the support base. The engaging members along the support base releasably engage the engaging members on the panels to support them on the support base.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2011Date of Patent: July 2, 2013Assignee: Raspberry Med, Inc.Inventors: Todd A. Sutton, George J. Simons, Jr., Jacob R. Simons, Noel J. Bodkins
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Publication number: 20110283632Abstract: A modular accessory system is supportable on a vertical surface such as a wall, an office divider, or the like and includes a support member or base that supports decorative panels and/or functional panels to provide a desired appearance and/or functions for use in an area. The panels are repositionable, and some may be oriented in two or more different orientations on the support base. Engaging members are provided at spaced intervals along each panel, with additional engaging members provided at spaced intervals along the support base. The engaging members along the support base releasably engage the engaging members on the panels to support them on the support base.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2011Publication date: November 24, 2011Applicant: RASPBERRY MED, INC.Inventors: Todd A. Sutton, George J. Simons, JR., Jacob R. Simons, Noel J. Bodkins
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Patent number: 6536858Abstract: A furniture system includes a low-height partition having a horizontal row of discrete attachment sites, such as slots on each side, and having a top surface. A binder bin has a continuous horizontal attachment feature, such as an “L” groove, along an upper portion of its rear side. A bracket system attaches the binder bin to the partition in a raised position, and includes a bent-rod top bracket and bottom brackets configured to engage the slots on opposite sides of the partition. The binder bin is initially attached at a desired location along the partition by selectively engaging the brackets with the slots and by engaging the bracket with the groove. The angle of the binder bin is adjustable with respect to the top surface of the partition by threadably finely adjusting a nut on the brackets.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2000Date of Patent: March 25, 2003Assignee: Steelcase Development CorporationInventors: Kurt R. Heidmann, Thomas B. Eich, Karl H. Müller, George J. Simons, Jr.
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Patent number: 6516571Abstract: A screen apparatus includes a perimeter frame with a notch and arcuate foot in one of the bottom corners that are adapted to receive a raised floor device, such as a raised power outlet. A covering covers the frame but the notch is not covered. The covering is preferably a light-passing translucent sheet of performance fabric which is adapted to pass light sufficient for a viewer to see a person behind the screen, but which scatters and blocks sufficient light to provide privacy by hiding details of the person's work from the viewer. The screen apparatus also includes bowed frame members extending horizontally between some of the outer frame members.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2000Date of Patent: February 11, 2003Assignee: Steelcase Development CorporationInventors: Thomas Overthun, George J. Simons, Jr., Thomas B. Eich, James N. Ludwig, David M. Gresham
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Patent number: 6499801Abstract: A chair includes a seat with male snap connectors thereon and a back. A cushion assembly has female snap connectors shaped to engage the male snap connectors for securement. The cushion assembly includes a dimensionally-stable fabric that holds the snap connectors in a stable pattern, and the male and female snap connectors engage in a manner that locates and secures the cushion assembly on the seat. The cushion assembly is easily and quickly removed from the seating unit, and can be quickly dry-cleaned, washed, or repaired, and reattached to the chair. A back cushion assembly is provided that can be pulled downwardly onto the back, and stretch-attached along its bottom edge. A removable seet through fabric vest can also be pulled downwardly over the back and releasably attach to a bottom edge of the back. A hanger is provided for supporting extra vests, back cushion assemblies and seat cushion assemblies.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2000Date of Patent: December 31, 2002Assignee: Steelcase Development CorporationInventors: Gordon J. Peterson, George J. Simons, Jr., Thomas Overthun, Ronda Simons
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Patent number: 6447080Abstract: A telescopingly adjustable furniture article is provided for filling an office space where the footprint dimensions of the office space are not known ahead of time or are likely to be periodically changed to different sizes. The furniture article includes a desk having a worksurface with ends, a support for supporting one of the ends, and a foot on the other end. A storage unit or cabinet having a top is provided. The foot adjustably rests on the top, so that the top supports the other end of the worksurface, but so that the furniture unit is horizontally adjustable to different locations partially under the worksurface. A Z-bracket interconnects the worksurface to the top of the cabinet to secure the relationship of the cabinet and the desk. The furniture article can advantageously be used by itself or in combination with a building wall or demountable architectural wall, or in combination with a partition system to define a plurality of non-uniformly dimensioned offices.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 1999Date of Patent: September 10, 2002Assignee: Steelcase Development CorporationInventors: Alan E. Rheault, Mark W. Chamberlin, Samuel J. Ellison, George J. Simons
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Patent number: 6364416Abstract: An article of furniture is disclosed. The article of furniture includes a multi-purpose article of furniture for use by at least one worker in a work environment having a horizontal support surface such as a floor and at least one vertical support surface such as a wall. The article includes a core formed by a first core section coupled to a second core section at an angular displacement and a cover configured to fit around the core. The core can be oriented in a first position for a first purpose and a second position for a second purpose. The article may be stored adjacent another article of furniture in a first arrangement and in use adjacent another article of furniture in a second arrangement. The article may also be a pocket for storing items attached to a covering skin. The covering skin may include a marking identifier.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2000Date of Patent: April 2, 2002Assignee: Steelcase Development CorporationInventors: Alan E. Rheault, Robert M. Scheper, George J. Simons
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Patent number: 6343839Abstract: A component has a support with a stiff section and a flexible section. An incompressible resilient material, such as a gel, is supported on the flexible section. In one form, the component forms an armrest, with the support including upper and lower sections forming a loop. The upper section bridges between ends of the lower section and includes the flexible section, and a section of gel material is positioned on or molded onto the flexible section. In the armrest, the incompressible resilient material is sufficiently thick and resilient to comfortably support a person's forearm on the support yet further is sufficiently flowable and stretchable to at least partially move off a rib on the support and into the non-supporting areas when pressure is applied to the incompressible resilient material.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 1999Date of Patent: February 5, 2002Assignees: Steelcase Development Corporation, TechnoGel GmbH & Co. KGInventors: George J. Simons, Jr., Thomas Overthun, Alan M. Vale, Thomas B. Eich, Jonathan I. Kaplan
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Patent number: 6279762Abstract: The storage system includes a universal frame adapted to support different inserts, such as a hanging folder, a hanging sling, and a hanging box-shaped insert and is adapted to be supported by various supports, such as bent-wire snap-attach legs, a panel bracket, and rigid box support. The storage system is knockdown and reconfigurable by a user, and thus provides flexibility of use, while taking advantage of common parts. Further, the system can be flexibly used in existing offices having shelves.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2000Date of Patent: August 28, 2001Assignee: Steelcase Development CorporationInventors: Mark A. Buchalter, Jim Tappel, George J. Simons, Jr., Lawrence L. Laske
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Patent number: 6267064Abstract: A furniture unit is provided specially adapted for use in laboratories. The furniture unit includes a pair of spaced-apart uprights and vibration-dampening legs extending from the uprights for stably supporting the furniture unit on a floor surface. A belt-high structural beam comprising two opposing C-shaped beams is fixedly attached to the uprights to rigidly interconnect the uprights in a spaced relationship. A plurality of worksurfaces is provided, each having a pair of cantilever brackets configured to rigidly connect to a side of the belt-high structural beam and to extend laterally therefrom. The plurality of worksurfaces is separately adjustably supported on the belt-high structural beam for vertical height adjustment, with at least one of the cantilever brackets engaging the belt-high structural beam at a location between the uprights. Shelves are attached between the uprights above the plurality of worksurfaces.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 1999Date of Patent: July 31, 2001Assignee: Steelcase Development CorporationInventors: Hubert L. Ostertag, Jay D. Bargmann, David R. Appel, George J. Simons, Jr., Mark A. Buchalter, Yasuyuki Hirai, Howard M. Montgomery
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Patent number: 6250019Abstract: A furniture arrangement includes an overhead support defining an elongated overhead utility channel, and one or more lamps attached to the overhead support in recesses formed by the utility channel. A dome-shaped reflector or gull-wing-shaped light-distributing member is attached to the overhead support for distributing light from the lamps downwardly into side areas around the overhead support. The light-distributing members are positioned to both distribute light from the lamp and to visually shield contents of the utility channel from people standing around (or above) the side areas. The utility channel forms light-source recesses for receiving the lamps and lamp ballasts, and wireway recesses for receiving lay-in wiring and utilities, which wiring and utilities are guided by the light-distributing members into the wireway recesses.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 1999Date of Patent: June 26, 2001Assignee: Steelcase Development CorporationInventors: George J. Simons, Jr., Mark A. Buchalter, Howard M. Montgomery, Yasuyuki Hirai, Gregory M. Tanis
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Patent number: D444972Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2000Date of Patent: July 17, 2001Assignee: Steelcase Development Inc.Inventors: George J. Simons, Jr., Thomas Overthun, Thomas B. Eich, Alan M. Vale
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Patent number: D447369Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2000Date of Patent: September 4, 2001Assignee: Steelcase Development CorporationInventors: George J. Simons, Jr., Thomas Overthun, Thomas B. Eich, Alan M. Vale
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Patent number: D447653Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2000Date of Patent: September 11, 2001Assignee: Steelcase Development Inc.Inventors: George J. Simons, Jr., Thomas Overthun, Thomas B. Eich, Alan M. Vale
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Patent number: D450465Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2000Date of Patent: November 20, 2001Assignee: Steelcase Development CorporationInventors: Thomas Overthun, George J. Simons, Jr., David M. Gresham, James N. Ludwig
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Patent number: D450466Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2001Date of Patent: November 20, 2001Assignee: Steelcase Development CorporationInventors: Thomas Overthun, Thomas B. Eich, George J. Simons, Jr., David M. Gresham
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Patent number: D451294Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2001Date of Patent: December 4, 2001Assignee: Steelcase Development CorporationInventors: George J. Simons, Jr., Thomas Overthun, Thomas B. Eich, David M. Gresham
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Patent number: D457736Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2000Date of Patent: May 28, 2002Assignee: Steelcase Development CorporationInventors: George J. Simons, Jr., James N. Ludwig, David M. Gresham, Thomas B. Eich
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Patent number: D560919Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2005Date of Patent: February 5, 2008Assignee: Steelcase Development CorporationInventor: George J. Simons, Jr.
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Patent number: D483968Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 1999Date of Patent: December 23, 2003Assignee: Steelcase Development CorporationInventors: Jonathan J. King, Kurt P. Dammerman, Thomas B. Eich, Frank Freidman, Thomas Overthun, Jochen P. Backs, George J. Simons, Charles A. Seiber