Patents by Inventor Jeffrey D Hancock
Jeffrey D Hancock 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: 20230309748Abstract: A cooking device may include a cooking chamber. A first gas-powered heat source may include one or more burners disposed in the cooking chamber. A second solid fuel burning heat source may include a burn pot disposed in the cooking chamber, and the burn pot may be spaced below the burners of the first heat source in a vertically stacked configuration. A drawer may be movable between an open position and a closed position relative to the cooking chamber. The drawer may include a drip tray that is disposed between the burners of the first heat source and the burn pot of the second heat source when the drawer is in the closed position. The drawer may allow the drip tray to be at least partially removed from between the burners of the first heat source and the burn pot of the second heat source when the drawer is in the open position.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: LIFETIME PRODUCTS, INC.Inventors: Lynn D. VanDyke, Donald Waite, Jeffrey D. Hancock, Christopher N. Schenck
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Publication number: 20220322767Abstract: An eyeglasses-like frame may include a central section that horizontally traverses a wearer's face. The central section may include a first cheek portion sized and configured to be disposed at least proximate a cheek of the wearer, and a second cheek portion sized and configured to be disposed at least proximate a cheek of the wearer. A bridge portion may be generally horizontally disposed between the first cheek portion and the second cheek portion. The first cheek portion, the second cheek portion, and the bridge portion may be disposed below a lower portion of the wearer's eyes. The eyeglasses-like frame may include a left temple section connected to the central section via a first hinge and a right temple section connected to the central section by a second hinge. A mask may be connected to the frame and the mask may be adjustable to tighten around the wearer's face.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2021Publication date: October 13, 2022Inventors: Jeffrey D. Hancock, Christopher N. Schenck
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Publication number: 20220279969Abstract: A cooking device may include a cooking chamber. A first gas-powered heat source may include one or more burners disposed in the cooking chamber. A second solid fuel burning heat source may include a burn pot disposed in the cooking chamber, and the burn pot may be spaced below the burners of the first heat source in a vertically stacked configuration. A drawer may be movable between an open position and a closed position relative to the cooking chamber. The drawer may include a drip tray that is disposed between the burners of the first heat source and the burn pot of the second heat source when the drawer is in the closed position. The drawer may allow the drip tray to be at least partially removed from between the burners of the first heat source and the burn pot of the second heat source when the drawer is in the open position.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2021Publication date: September 8, 2022Applicant: LIFETIME PRODUCTS, INC.Inventors: LYNN VANDYKE, Donald Waite, Jeffrey D. Hancock, CHRISTOPHER SCHENCK
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Publication number: 20220279966Abstract: A cooking device may include a single cooking chamber and two different fuel systems to warm, prepare, and/or cook foodstuffs within the single cooking chamber. The cooking device may also include a heat and/or smoke distribution system. The heat and/or smoke distribution system may include a gas heat source at least partially disposed within the cooking chamber and a solid fuel heat source at least partially disposed within the cooking chamber. The gas heat source and the solid fuel heat source may be disposed in a vertically stacked configuration, and a diffuser may be disposed between the solid fuel heat source and the gas heat source. A drip tray may also be disposed between the solid fuel heat source and the gas heat source, and the drip tray may include one or more openings to control the flow of heat and/or smoke within the cooking chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2021Publication date: September 8, 2022Applicant: LIFETIME PRODUCTS, INC.Inventors: LYNN VANDYKE, Donald Waite, Jeffrey D. Hancock, CHRISTOPHER SCHENCK
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Publication number: 20220279970Abstract: A cooking device may include a cooking chamber and a drip tray may be disposed within the cooking chamber. The drip tray may include one or more portions such as a first portion, a second portion, a third portion, and a fourth portion. The first portion and the second portion may be disposed in an angled configuration, such as a V-shaped configuration. In addition, the third portion and the fourth portion may be disposed in an angled configuration, such as a V-shaped configuration. The second portion and the third portion may be disposed in an angled configuration, such as an inverted V-shaped configuration. The drip tray may be sized and configured to control at least a portion of a flow of thermal energy within the cooking device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2021Publication date: September 8, 2022Applicant: LIFETIME PRODUCTS, INC.Inventors: Lynn Vandyke, Donald Waite, Jeffrey D. Hancock, Christopher Schenck
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Patent number: 10982731Abstract: A bungee loop retention assembly includes a housing, bungee channels, and a hold. The housing includes a first end and a second end. The bungee channels are disposed in the housing and extend from the first end to the second end. The hold is positioned at least partially in the housing and includes an external portion and retainers configured to interfere with a portion of a bungee retained in the bungee channel. The external portion has a central section between sleeves that define openings sized to surround portions of the bungee. The hold translates from a first position in which the retainers squeeze the bungee against a channel surface to a second position in which the retainers are separated from the bungee. In the first position, the bungee is bound to the openings and to the housing such that an intra-mechanism force pulls the hold against the housing.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2019Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: INNOVATIVE PRODUCT SOLUTIONS, LLCInventors: Jeffrey D. Hancock, Christopher N. Schenck
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Publication number: 20210071738Abstract: A bungee loop retention assembly includes a housing, bungee channels, and a hold. The housing includes a first end and a second end. The bungee channels are disposed in the housing and extend from the first end to the second end. The hold is positioned at least partially in the housing and includes an external portion and retainers configured to interfere with a portion of a bungee retained in the bungee channel. The external portion has a central section between sleeves that define openings sized to surround portions of the bungee. The hold translates from a first position in which the retainers squeeze the bungee against a channel surface to a second position in which the retainers are separated from the bungee. In the first position, the bungee is bound to the openings and to the housing such that an intra-mechanism force pulls the hold against the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2019Publication date: March 11, 2021Inventors: Jeffrey D. Hancock, Christopher N. Schenck
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Publication number: 20210001780Abstract: An arm subassembly may include a ring with inner and first surfaces. The arm subassembly may include a first interlock element on the first surface. The arm subassembly may include a first tooth set on the inner surface. The arm subassembly may include a first block with a structure. The arm subassembly may include a second tooth set on a surface of the structure. The second tooth set and the structure may be configured to receive the ring such that the first tooth set interfaces with the second tooth set. The second tooth set and the structure may retain a position of the ring relative to the first block. The arm subassembly may include a second block with a second surface that includes a second interlock element. The second surface may be configured to contact the first surface such that the first interlock element interfaces with the second interlock element.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2019Publication date: January 7, 2021Inventors: Jeffrey D. Hancock, Christopher N. Schenck
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Patent number: 10806301Abstract: A cooking device including a housing assembly, device components, and a lower door. The housing assembly defines a cooking volume configured to receive a cooking structure on which foodstuffs are placed. The housing assembly includes a fixed bottom portion having rear portion that includes lower, rear curve. At least a subset of the device components is positioned in a lower portion of the cooking volume located below the cooking structure. The lower door is movably coupled to the fixed bottom portion of the housing assembly and is positionable in an open position in which the subset of the device components is accessible. In a closed position, the lower portion of the cooking volume is substantially sealed. The lower door include a front lower curve that is substantially similar to the lower, rear curve.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2018Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: Lifetime Products, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey D. Hancock, Christopher N. Schenck
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Publication number: 20200305642Abstract: A cooking device may include a housing, a gas burner, an unburned gas vent assembly, and a vent. The unburned gas vent assembly may include a gutter disposed in the housing and at least a portion of the gutter may be disposed below at least a portion of the gas burner. The vent may be in fluid communication with an inner volume of the gutter to enable a gas disposed in the gutter to exit the housing via the vent. The gas burner may extend from the first portion of the housing to the second portion of the housing, the vent may be disposed in the second portion of the housing, and the gutter may be sloped from the first portion of the housing to the second portion of the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2020Publication date: October 1, 2020Inventors: Jeffrey D. Hancock, Christopher N. Schenck
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Publication number: 20190374065Abstract: A cooking device including a housing assembly, device components, and a lower door. The housing assembly defines a cooking volume configured to receive a cooking structure on which foodstuffs are placed. The housing assembly includes a fixed bottom portion having rear portion that includes lower, rear curve. At least a subset of the device components is positioned in a lower portion of the cooking volume located below the cooking structure. The lower door is movably coupled to the fixed bottom portion of the housing assembly and is positionable in an open position in which the subset of the device components is accessible. In a closed position, the lower portion of the cooking volume is substantially sealed. The lower door include a front lower curve that is substantially similar to the lower, rear curve.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2018Publication date: December 12, 2019Inventors: Jeffrey D. Hancock, Christopher N. Schenck
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Patent number: 10495317Abstract: A cooking device includes a housing assembly, a first heat source, a second heat source, a first heat control system, and a second heat control system. The housing assembly defines two cooking volumes adjacent to one another. A first cooking volume has a first portion of the cooking structure and a second cooking volume has a second portion of the cooking structure. The first heat source is disposed in the first cooking volume and provides thermal energy directly to the first portion of the cooking structure. The second heat source is disposed in the second cooking volume and occluded from the second portion of the cooking structure to provide thermal energy indirectly to the second portion of the cooking structure.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2018Date of Patent: December 3, 2019Assignee: Lifetime Products, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey D. Hancock, Christopher N. Schenck
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Publication number: 20190322223Abstract: A mounting block may be used to attach an accessory to a structure such as a vehicle. The mounting block may include a body with a first face on a first side of the body and a second face on a second side of the body. An opening may be disposed in the body and a first end of the opening may be disposed in the first face of the body and a second end of the opening may be disposed in the second face. The body may include a mounting surface that may be sized and configured to contact or abut a portion of the structure, such as a vehicle member. The mounting block may also include a fastener such as a worm-drive clamp. The worm-drive clamp may include an adjustment mechanism that is at least substantially disposed within the opening in the body.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2018Publication date: October 24, 2019Inventors: Jeffrey D. Hancock, Christopher N. Schenck
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Patent number: 10292531Abstract: A cooking device includes a housing assembly, a cooking structure, a first heat source, and a second heat source. The housing assembly defines a single, integrated cooking volume that includes a central portion disposed between a first portion and a second portion. The cooking structure has a cooking surface arranged for placement of a foodstuff and is disposed between the central portion and the first portion. The first heat source is positioned a first distance from the cooking structure in a first direction. The first heat source is disposed in the central portion and arranged to heat the cooking structure via convection. The second heat source is disposed a second distance, which is greater than the first distance, from the cooking structure in the first direction. The second heat source is disposed in the second portion and is arranged to provide thermal energy indirectly to the first portion and the central portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2018Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: Innovative Product Solutions, LLCInventors: Jeffrey D. Hancock, Christopher N. Schenck
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Patent number: 9308855Abstract: A hook end gripper on ends of flexible tie-down straps used to secure loads on a supporting surface. The hook end gripper includes: a mounting base easily attached to a load supporting surface; a ring having an arch on one end to receive a hook on the end of a strap; a tunnel holding an end of a ring opposite the arch such that the ring is positioned to receive the end hook of the strap; a resilient and deformable tongue having an edge shaped to conform to an inside of the arch and spaced from the inside of the arch by a distance less than the thickness of an end of the hook on the end of the strap to be attached to the arch; and a body section of the gripper, secured to opposite sides of the D-ring and to the tongue.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2015Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Inventors: Jeffrey D. Hancock, Christopher N. Schenck
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Patent number: 9079539Abstract: A pipe mountable mirror with bracket has a pipe mounting member with semi-circular surface to engage and to be clamped to an upright support or overhead, horizontal structural member and that has a projecting arm supporting a cylindrical base with a bore therethrough and a non-rotating ring of teeth surrounding the base; a mirror support arm having one end pivotable around the base, and a bore therethrough aligned with the bore through the base, and a ring of teeth that mesh with the teeth surrounding the base and a coiled spring acting to bias the ring of teeth rotable with the arm into meshing engagement with the non-rotable ring of teeth and being adjustable held in mesh by a bolt inserted through the spring and threaded into a nut secured in the cylindrical base, and a threaded shaft projecting from the other end of the mirror arm, a locking nut threaded onto the shaft and an attachment member fixed to a mirror and turned onto the threaded shaft.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2012Date of Patent: July 14, 2015Inventors: Jeffrey D. Hancock, Christopher N. Schenck
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Publication number: 20140224851Abstract: A fender bag for all terrain vehicles, and the like, having a pouch with a rectangular shaped open receiving end and a flip top cover connected by a hinge to the pouch and pivoted to close the receiving end. A receptacle having spaced apart side and end walls interconnected by a bottom and having an open top is sized and shaped to fit either bottom, or a side wall, first, through the open receiving end of the pouch, to thereby accommodate access to the interior of the pouch whether the bag is positioned in an upright position or a horizontal position. The extent of insertion of the receptacle into the pouch is determined by easily repositioned shelf brackets secured to inner surfaces of opposed spaced apart side or end walls. The flip top cover will close the bag over the inserted receptacle and articles placed therein at all inserted positions of the receptacle.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2013Publication date: August 14, 2014Inventors: Jeffrey D. Hancock, Christopher N. Schenck
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Publication number: 20140153123Abstract: A pipe mountable mirror with bracket has a pipe mounting member with semi-circular surface to engage and to be clamped to an upright support or overhead, horizontal structural member and that has a projecting arm supporting a cylindrical base with a bore therethrough and a non-rotating ring of teeth surrounding the base; a mirror support arm having one end pivotable around the base, and a bore therethrough aligned with the bore through the base, and a ring of teeth that mesh with the teeth surrounding the base and a coiled spring acting to bias the ring of teeth rotable with the arm into meshing engagement with the non-rotable ring of teeth and being adjustable held in mesh by a bolt inserted through the spring and threaded into a nut secured in the cylindrical base, and a threaded shaft projecting from the other end of the mirror arm, a locking nut threaded onto the shaft and an attachment member fixed to a mirror and turned onto the threaded shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2012Publication date: June 5, 2014Inventors: Jeffrey D. Hancock, Christopher N. Schenck
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Patent number: D767957Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2015Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Inventor: Jeffrey D. Hancock
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Patent number: D1012275Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2021Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: INNOVATIVE PRODUCT SOLUTIONS, LLCInventors: Jeffrey D. Hancock, Christopher N. Schenck