Patents by Inventor Gordon Duffy
Gordon Duffy 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: 20230011649Abstract: An exercise dumbbell that is configured to be manufactured from a sustainable material and further configured to provide alternate weight configurations. The present invention includes a support bar member that is manufactured from bamboo having a hollow passage extending therethrough. An internal support rod is present within the support bar member and extends the length thereof. Opposing ends of the internal support rod are configured to receive fasteners thereof so as to secure a first weight member and a second weight member. The first weight member and the second weight member are manufactured in a preferred embodiment from natural stones. In a preferred embodiment the first weight member and the second weight member have different weights. The first weight member and second weight member include recesses formed on the surface thereof operable to receive a portion of the ends of the support bar member.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2021Publication date: January 12, 2023Inventor: Gordon Duffy
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Patent number: 9963905Abstract: A fencing/railing assembly adapted to be positioned between a pair of posts and mounted thereto includes a plurality of pickets, a plurality of rails extending transverse to the pickets, and one or more pivoting, sliding connectors for connecting a picket to a rail, with the sliding, pivotal connection concealed by the rail. The connector is slidably mounted to the rail and is pivotally connected to the picket. In one embodiment, an elongated connector strip is concealed by the rail and spans multiple pickets. In another embodiment, the assembly includes a plurality of shorter connectors, one for each picket/rail connection.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2016Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: BARRETTE OUTDOOR LIVING, INC.Inventors: Gordon Duffy, Jason Duffy
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Publication number: 20170283574Abstract: Prepare an extruded polystyrene foam that is characterized by being a singular polymer foam that is free of halogenated blowing agents, having a milled primary surface, having a width of 750 millimeters or more, and further characterized by having a ?(CST/CSP) value that is 50 kilograms per cubic meter or less and a milled primary surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2017Publication date: October 5, 2017Inventors: Fabio Oliveira D'Ottaviano, Lawrence S. Hood, Jean-Francois Koenig, John Gordon- Duffy
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Publication number: 20170089095Abstract: A fencing/railing assembly adapted to be positioned between a pair of posts and mounted thereto includes a plurality of pickets, a plurality of rails extending transverse to the pickets, and one or more pivoting, sliding connectors for connecting a picket to a rail, with the sliding, pivotal connection concealed by the rail. The connector is slidably mounted to the rail and is pivotally connected to the picket. In one embodiment, an elongated connector strip is concealed by the rail and spans multiple pickets. In another embodiment, the assembly includes a plurality of shorter connectors, one for each picket/rail connection.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2016Publication date: March 30, 2017Applicant: BARRETTE OUTDOOR LIVING, INC.Inventors: Gordon DUFFY, Jason DUFFY
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Patent number: 9551164Abstract: A fencing/railing assembly adapted to be positioned between a pair of posts and mounted thereto includes a plurality of pickets, a plurality of rails extending transverse to the pickets, and one or more pivoting, sliding connectors for connecting a picket to a rail, with the sliding, pivotal connection concealed by the rail. The connector is slidably mounted to the rail and is pivotally connected to the picket. In one embodiment, an elongated connector strip is concealed by the rail and spans multiple pickets. In another embodiment, the assembly includes a plurality of shorter connectors, one for each picket/rail connection.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2015Date of Patent: January 24, 2017Assignee: BARRETTE OUTDOOR LIVING, INC.Inventors: Gordon Duffy, Jason Duffy
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Patent number: 9493624Abstract: Prepare extruded polymer foam comprising at least 50 weight-percent alkenyl aromatic polymer, a brominated flame retardant providing 0.8 to 1.4 weight percent bromide, 0.05 to 0.5 weight-percent hydrobromic acid scavenger, at least 1.5 weight-percent graphite and less than 0.1 weight-percent C—C and O—O labile organic compounds using a blowing agent composition comprising at least 0.3 weight-parts per 100 weight parts polymer and that consists of blowing agents having an ozone depletion potential of zero and a global warming potential that is less than 1000.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2010Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLCInventors: John Gordon-Duffy, David R. Arrowsmith, Simon P. Lee, Ralph Schmidt
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Publication number: 20160096940Abstract: An article includes an extruded polystyrene foam that is characterized by being a singular polymer foam that is free of halogenated blowing agents, having a milled primary surface, having a width of 750 millimeters or more, and further characterized by having a ?(CST/CSP) value that is 50 kilograms per cubic meter or less and a milled primary surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2014Publication date: April 7, 2016Inventors: Fabio O. D'Ottaviano, Lawrence S. Hood, Jean-Francois Koenig, John Gordon- Duffy
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Patent number: 9228070Abstract: Prepare extruded thermoplastic polymer foam by preparing a foamable polymer mixture containing thermoplastic polymer and blowing agent at a mixing pressure, cooling the foamable polymer mixture and extruding it through a foaming die at a die pressure at least 90 bars lower than the mixing pressure and out through a die opening having cross sectional dimensions of 2.5 millimeter or more and a cross sectional area of at least 700 square millimeters at a flow rate greater than 500 kilograms per hour and allow it to expand into a polymer foam between shaping elements while restraining the extrusion rate with a restraining device so as to form polymer foam having 96 volume percent or less void volume, anisotropic cell size, a thickness of 50 millimeter or greater, compressive and tensile moduli in the thickness dimension greater than 35 mega pascals and an average shear modulus greater than 16 mega pascals.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2011Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLCInventors: Van-Chau Vo, Alain Sagnard, John Gordon-Duffy
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Publication number: 20150292236Abstract: A fencing/railing assembly adapted to be positioned between a pair of posts and mounted thereto includes a plurality of pickets, a plurality of rails extending transverse to the pickets, and one or more pivoting, sliding connectors for connecting a picket to a rail, with the sliding, pivotal connection concealed by the rail. The connector is slidably mounted to the rail and is pivotally connected to the picket. In one embodiment, an elongated connector strip is concealed by the rail and spans multiple pickets. In another embodiment, the assembly includes a plurality of shorter connectors, one for each picket/rail connection.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2015Publication date: October 15, 2015Applicant: BARRETTE OUTDOOR LIVING, INC.Inventors: Gordon DUFFY, Jason DUFFY
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Patent number: 9151075Abstract: A fencing/railing assembly adapted to be positioned between a pair of posts and mounted thereto includes a plurality of pickets, a plurality of rails extending transverse to the pickets, and one or more pivoting, sliding connectors for connecting a picket to a rail, with the sliding, pivotal connection concealed by the rail. The connector is slidably mounted to the rail and is pivotally connected to the picket. In one embodiment, an elongated connector strip is concealed by the rail and spans multiple pickets. In another embodiment, the assembly includes a plurality of shorter connectors, one for each picket/rail connection.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2010Date of Patent: October 6, 2015Assignee: BARRETTE OUTDOOR LIVING, INC.Inventors: Gordon Duffy, Jason Duffy
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Patent number: 8785510Abstract: Prepare a closed-cell alkenyl aromatic polymer foam by an extrusion process using a blowing agent composition that contains at least 30 weight-percent of the chlorine-free hydrofluorocarbon blowing agent such that the foam has a density of 48 kilograms per cubic meter or less, contains more than 50 weight-percent styrene-acrylonitrile copolymer based on total polymer weight and at least eight weight-percent of a chlorine-free hydrofluorocarbon blowing agent that has a lower solubility in polystyrene than 1,1,2,2-tetrafluoroethane (HFC-134).Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2008Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLCInventors: Van-Chau Vo, Richard T. Fox, Warren H. Griffin, John Gordon-Duffy, Lawrence S. Hood, Roy E. Smith
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Patent number: 8597768Abstract: A laminated foam article contains at least two foam boards having mating peak and groove surface profiles where surface skin remains on at least a portion of the profiles and wherein the foam boards are laminated to one another in a mating orientation with the peaks of one foam surface within the grooves of the adjoining foam surface with an adhesive between the mating surfaces of the foams and wherein the laminated foam article has a thickness that exceeds 200 millimeters.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2011Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLCInventors: John Gordon-Duffy, Anett Borgwardt
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Publication number: 20130266766Abstract: Prepare extruded thermoplastic polymer foam by preparing a foamable polymer mixture containing thermoplastic polymer and blowing agent at a mixing pressure, cooling the foamable polymer mixture and extruding it through a foaming die at a die pressure at least 90 bars lower than the mixing pressure and out through a die opening having cross sectional dimensions of 2.5 millimeter or more and a cross sectional area of at least 700 square millimeters at a flow rate greater than 500 kilograms per hour and allow it to expand into a polymer foam between shaping elements while restraining the extrusion rate with a restraining device so as to form polymer foam having 96 volume percent or less void volume, anisotropic cell size, a thickness of 50 millimeter or greater, compressive and tensile moduli in the thickness dimension greater than 35 mega pascals and an average shear modulus greater than 16 mega pascals.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2011Publication date: October 10, 2013Applicant: DOW GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLCInventors: Van-Chau Vo, Alain Sagnard, John Gordon-Duffy
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Patent number: 8413332Abstract: A fencing/railing assembly adapted to be positioned between a pair of posts and mounted thereto. The assembly includes a plurality of pickets, a plurality of rails extending transverse to the pickets, and one or more pivoting, sliding connectors for connecting a picket to a rail, with the sliding, pivotal connection concealed by the rail. The connector is slidably mounted to the rail and is pivotally connected to the picket. The sliding, pivotal connection allows the pickets to be oriented at greater angles relative to the rails (i.e. it allows the assembly to rack to a greater degree, thereby allowing the fencing/raining to following more-steeply changing terrain or contours). In one embodiment, an elongated connector strip is concealed by the rail and spans multiple pickets. In another embodiment, the assembly includes a plurality of shorter connectors, one for each picket/rail connection.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2012Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Barrette Outdoor Living, Inc.Inventors: Gordon Duffy, Jason Duffy
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Publication number: 20130032772Abstract: A fencing/railing assembly adapted to be positioned between a pair of posts and mounted thereto. The assembly includes a plurality of pickets, a plurality of rails extending transverse to the pickets, and one or more pivoting, sliding connectors for connecting a picket to a rail, with the sliding, pivotal connection concealed by the rail. The connector is slidably mounted to the rail and is pivotally connected to the picket. The sliding, pivotal connection allows the pickets to be oriented at greater angles relative to the rails (i.e. it allows the assembly to rack to a greater degree, thereby allowing the fencing/raining to following more-steeply changing terrain or contours). In one embodiment, an elongated connector strip is concealed by the rail and spans multiple pickets. In another embodiment, the assembly includes a plurality of shorter connectors, one for each picket/rail connection.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2012Publication date: February 7, 2013Inventors: Gordon DUFFY, Jason DUFFY
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Publication number: 20130034700Abstract: A laminated foam article contains at least two foam boards having mating peak and groove surface profiles where surface skin remains on at least a portion of the profiles and wherein the foam boards are laminated to one another in a mating orientation with the peaks of one foam surface within the grooves of the adjoining foam surface with an adhesive between the mating surfaces of the foams and wherein the laminated foam article has a thickness that exceeds 200 millimeters.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2011Publication date: February 7, 2013Inventors: John Gordon- Duffy, Anett Borgwardt
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Publication number: 20130026433Abstract: A fencing/railing assembly adapted to be positioned between a pair of posts and mounted thereto. The assembly includes a plurality of pickets, a plurality of rails extending transverse to the pickets, and one or more pivoting, sliding connectors for connecting a picket to a rail, with the sliding, pivotal connection concealed by the rail. The connector is slidably mounted to the rail and is pivotally connected to the picket. The sliding, pivotal connection allows the pickets to be oriented at greater angles relative to the rails (i.e. it allows the assembly to rack to a greater degree, thereby allowing the fencing/raining to following more-steeply changing terrain or contours). In one embodiment, an elongated connector strip is concealed by the rail and spans multiple pickets. In another embodiment, the assembly includes a plurality of shorter connectors, one for each picket/rail connection.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2012Publication date: January 31, 2013Inventors: Gordon DUFFY, Jason DUFFY
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Patent number: 8324288Abstract: Extruded polymer foams are prepared using brominated fatty acids, an ester, amide or ester-amide of a brominated fatty acid, a glyceride of one or more brominated fatty acids, or a polymerized brominated fatty acid as an FR additive. The brominated FR additives unexpectedly are stable at the extrusion temperatures, and provide excellent flame retardancy to the foams.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2011Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLCInventors: William J. Kruper, Jr., David R. Arrowsmith, Duane R. Romer, Bruce M. Bell, William G. Stobby, Inken Beulich, Zenon Lysenko, John Gordon-Duffy, Chau V. Vo
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Publication number: 20120286224Abstract: A fencing/railing assembly adapted to be positioned between a pair of posts and mounted thereto. The assembly includes a plurality of elongate pickets and one or more rails extending transverse to the pickets. The pickets each have at least one protrusion formed or positioned thereon. The rails have an elongate channel formed on an inside portion thereof for cooperating with the protrusion. The rails further include picket openings formed in an upper portion thereof for receiving pickets therethrough. The picket openings are sized and adapted to be slipped over the pickets and securely held in place by engagement of the protrusions with the channels formed on the inside portion of the rails. The channels and the protrusions form a connection between the pickets and the rails.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2011Publication date: November 15, 2012Inventors: Gordon DUFFY, John Robert WITLIN
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Publication number: 20120118481Abstract: Prepare a dimensionally stable polymeric foam article by affixing first and second polymeric foams together in a layered orientation to produce an article having a thickness of at least 50 millimeters wherein at least the first polymeric foam contains an infrared absorbent and is prepared using a blowing agent containing carbon dioxide.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2010Publication date: May 17, 2012Inventors: John Gordon-Duffy, Anett Borgwardt