Patents by Inventor Joseph A. McDonnell

Joseph A. McDonnell 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: 12369768
    Abstract: The spray mop includes a handle having a mop head at its lower end and a grip at its upper end. The mop includes a receiver adapted to hold an inverted bottle of cleaning solution, as sold at retail with an attached sprayer. The mop includes an adapter that is screwed onto the bottle of cleaning solution after the original sprayer is removed, whereby the bottle of cleaning solution can be inverted and inserted into the receiver. A spring-loaded retainer securely holds the bottle of cleaning solution in the receiver so that if the mop is dropped, inverted, or bumped there will be no leakage, while a trigger on a handgrip at the upper portion of the mop handle activates a valve in the adapter whereby cleaning solution is dispensed through a spray nozzle at the lower portion of the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: For Life Products, LLC
    Inventor: Joseph A. McDonnell
  • Publication number: 20240065512
    Abstract: The spray mop includes a handle having a mop head at its lower end and a grip at its upper end. The mop includes a receiver adapted to hold an inverted bottle of cleaning solution, as sold at retail with an attached sprayer. The mop includes an adapter that is screwed onto the bottle of cleaning solution after the original sprayer is removed, whereby the bottle of cleaning solution can be inverted and inserted into the receiver. A spring-loaded retainer securely holds the bottle of cleaning solution in the receiver so that if the mop is dropped, inverted, or bumped there will be no leakage, while a trigger on a handgrip at the upper portion of the mop handle activates a valve in the adapter whereby cleaning solution is dispensed through a spray nozzle at the lower portion of the receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventor: Joseph A. McDonnell
  • Patent number: 11844478
    Abstract: The spray mop includes a handle having a mop head at its lower end and a grip at its upper end. The mop includes a receiver adapted to hold an inverted bottle of cleaning solution, as sold at retail with an attached sprayer. The mop includes an adapter that is screwed onto the bottle of cleaning solution after the original sprayer is removed, whereby the bottle of cleaning solution can be inverted and inserted into the receiver. A spring-loaded retainer securely holds the bottle of cleaning solution in the receiver so that if the mop is dropped, inverted, or bumped there will be no leakage, while a trigger on a handgrip at the upper portion of the mop handle activates a valve in the adapter whereby cleaning solution is dispensed through a spray nozzle at the lower portion of the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: For Life Products, LLC
    Inventor: Joseph A. McDonnell
  • Patent number: 11846302
    Abstract: The fan includes a fan frame, blades positioned inside the fan frame, a grill frame on a side of the fan frame, a centerline of the grill frame traversing through a midpoint of the grill frame, a first motor configured to rotate the blades to produce an air flow in a first direction through the grill frame, the first direction being parallel to a centerline of the grill frame, a second motor configured to rotate the grill frame within the fan frame, a plurality of louvers affixed within the grill frame, the plurality of louvers including a first subset of louvers and a second subset of louvers, the first subset of louvers possessing no offset angle relative an angle of the centerline, each one of the second subset of louvers being angled toward a first side of the grill frame due to the at least one first offset angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Inventor: Joseph A. McDonnell
  • Patent number: 11548134
    Abstract: A multi-piece detachable mop body is disclosed herein. Among other features, the multi-piece detachable mop body comprises a plurality of pole sections configured to couple with one another to form an integral elongated body during use and disengage with one another into the plurality of pole sections for transportation, packaging and storage purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: For Life Products, LLC
    Inventor: Joseph A. McDonnell
  • Patent number: 11426049
    Abstract: A multi-surface spray mop system having a spray mop and mop stand. The mop having an elongated segmented body with at least an upper pole section and a lower pole section releasably coupled. The mop stand supports and maintains the spray mop in an upright position above a floor surface by maintaining the center of gravity of the spray mop within a base of a support area defined by the mop supporting stand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: For Life Products, LLC
    Inventor: Joseph A. McDonnell
  • Publication number: 20220079410
    Abstract: The spray mop includes a handle having a mop head at its lower end and a grip at its upper end. The mop includes a receiver adapted to hold an inverted bottle of cleaning solution, as sold at retail with an attached sprayer. The mop includes an adapter that is screwed onto the bottle of cleaning solution after the original sprayer is removed, whereby the bottle of cleaning solution can be inverted and inserted into the receiver. A spring-loaded retainer securely holds the bottle of cleaning solution in the receiver so that if the mop is dropped, inverted, or bumped there will be no leakage, while a trigger on a handgrip at the upper portion of the mop handle activates a valve in the adapter whereby cleaning solution is dispensed through a spray nozzle at the lower portion of the receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventor: Joseph A. McDonnell
  • Patent number: 11147429
    Abstract: The spray mop includes a handle having a mop head at its lower end and a grip at its upper end. The mop includes a receiver adapted to hold an inverted bottle of cleaning solution, as sold at retail with an attached sprayer. The mop includes an adapter that is screwed onto the bottle of cleaning solution after the original sprayer is removed, whereby the bottle of cleaning solution can be inverted and inserted into the receiver. A spring-loaded retainer securely holds the bottle of cleaning solution in the receiver so that if the mop is dropped, inverted, or bumped there will be no leakage, while a trigger on a handgrip at the upper portion of the mop handle activates a valve in the adapter whereby cleaning solution is dispensed through a spray nozzle at the lower portion of the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: For Life Products, LLC
    Inventor: Joseph A. McDonnell
  • Publication number: 20210274992
    Abstract: A multi-surface spray mop system having a spray mop and mop stand. The mop having an elongated segmented body with at least an upper pole section and a lower pole section releasably coupled. The mop stand supports and maintains the spray mop in an upright position above a floor surface by maintaining the center of gravity of the spray mop within a base of a support area defined by the mop supporting stand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Applicant: For Life Products, LLC
    Inventor: Joseph A. McDonnell
  • Patent number: 11013392
    Abstract: A multi-surface spray mop system having a spray mop and mop stand. The mop having an elongated segmented body with at least an upper pole section and a lower pole section releasably coupled. The mop stand supports and maintains the spray mop in an upright position above a floor surface by maintaining the center of gravity of the spray mop within a base of a support area defined by the mop supporting stand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: FOR LIFE PRODUCTS, LLC
    Inventor: Joseph A. McDonnell
  • Patent number: 10926276
    Abstract: The sprayer includes a sprayer housing defining a chamber, and a cylinder within the chamber. The cylinder defines more than one discharge tube positioned in a longitudinal direction within the sprayer housing, the cylinder being selectively rotatable within the chamber. More than one suction tube extends from a lower portion of the sprayer housing. The more than one suction tube is in selective fluid communication with the more than one discharge tube of the cylinder, as the cylinder is rotated within the chamber. The foam sprayer attachment includes a major body defining a discharge channel and a screen traversing the discharge channel. The major body includes a base with a connecting structure that is a raised lip or a cut-out area that conforms the base to a raised ridge on a discharge connection of the sprayer. The connecting structure includes a pair of non-raised lips bracketing each connecting structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Inventors: Joseph A. McDonnell, Christopher Deherrera
  • Publication number: 20200129035
    Abstract: A disposable nozzle is disclosed herein. Among other features, the disposable nozzle comprises a hollow cylindrical body having an inlet upstream end configured to receive a flow of liquid and an outlet downstream end for distributing the flow of liquid in a desired spray pattern; and attachment means configured to removably couple the disposable nozzle to an spraying system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Joseph A. McDonnell, Dung T. Tran, Juan Jose Alvira Fernandez
  • Publication number: 20200122312
    Abstract: A multi-piece detachable mop body is disclosed herein. Among other features, the multi-piece detachable mop body comprises a plurality of pole sections configured to couple with one another to form an integral elongated body during use and disengage with one another into the plurality of pole sections for transportation, packaging and storage purposes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventor: Joseph A. McDonnell
  • Patent number: 10578325
    Abstract: The humidifier has an upper tank and a lower reservoir. A liquid level switch in the lower reservoir works in conjunction with a valve in a water passage between the upper tank and the lower reservoir in order to provide an automated flow of water to the lower reservoir during operation of the humidifier. The upper tank is unsealed, such that air in the upper tank may equalize with an ambient air pressure. The humidifier can be top-filled allowing that the upper tank to be permanently affixed to the base of the humidifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Great Innovations, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph A. McDonnell, Dung Tran
  • Publication number: 20190365190
    Abstract: The spray mop includes a handle having a mop head at its lower end and a grip at its upper end. The mop includes a receiver adapted to hold an inverted bottle of cleaning solution, as sold at retail with an attached sprayer. The mop includes an adapter that is screwed onto the bottle of cleaning solution after the original sprayer is removed, whereby the bottle of cleaning solution can be inverted and inserted into the receiver. A spring-loaded retainer securely holds the bottle of cleaning solution in the receiver so that if the mop is dropped, inverted, or bumped there will be no leakage, while a trigger on a handgrip at the upper portion of the mop handle activates a valve in the adapter whereby cleaning solution is dispensed through a spray nozzle at the lower portion of the receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventor: Joseph A. McDonnell
  • Patent number: D866895
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Inventor: Joseph A. McDonnell
  • Patent number: D870871
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Great Innovations, LLC
    Inventor: Joseph A. McDonnell
  • Patent number: D888197
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: FOR LIFE PRODUCTS. LLC
    Inventor: Joseph A. McDonnell
  • Patent number: D902516
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: FOR LIFE PRODUCTS, LLC
    Inventor: Joseph A. McDonnell
  • Patent number: D944924
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: For Life Products, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph A. McDonnell, Christopher Deherrera