Patents by Inventor Gordon L. Stauffer

Gordon L. Stauffer 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: 5848534
    Abstract: A wine bottle refrigerator has a pivotal front access door for a cooling chamber enclosing racks supporting bottles of wine, and an upper portion of the chamber encloses a wood cigar humidor supported by a drawer for movement between a retracted storage position within the chamber and an extended access position after the door is open. The humidor encloses a humidifier to maintain the cigars at generally a predetermined relative humidity, and the wine bottle refrigerator maintains the temperature of the bottles of wine and the humidor at a dependable and substantially constant predetermined temperature and relative humidity. In one embodiment, a removable humidor is supported by an extendable drawer, and in another embodiment, the extendable drawer forms part of the humidor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1998
    Assignee: Northland Corporation
    Inventor: Gordon L. Stauffer
  • Patent number: D448391
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2001
    Assignee: Northland Corporation
    Inventors: Gordon L. Stauffer, Richard B. Detrick
  • Patent number: D449316
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Assignee: Northland Corporation
    Inventors: Gordon L. Stauffer, Richard B. Detrick