Patents by Inventor Liette Tousignant

Liette Tousignant 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: 9801477
    Abstract: A hanging bracket for hanging a picture frame having at least two right angled corners on a supporting structure. The bracket is a one-piece member formed of plastic having a planar base terminating with a beveled edge formed by two straight sections and an intervening arcuate section. A V-shaped column is spaced from the beveled edge by a V-shaped planar portion of the base and extends perpendicularly from the base terminating in a V-shaped top edge with two straight legs joined at a rounded corner. A pin is embedded in the rounded corner and extends outwardly beyond the straight legs of the column. The base is inserted between the back of a canvas picture and the two adjacent frame members at each corner of the picture frame with the projecting pins being pressed into the support structure to suspend the picture frame therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: UNDER THE ROOF DECORATING INC.
    Inventors: Kelly R. Krake, Liette Tousignant, Michael Kurtz
  • Publication number: 20170208971
    Abstract: A sheet hanging device is configured to attach a sheet of material (e.g., a poster) to a substrate (e.g., a wall) without causing any damage to the sheet or the substrate. The sheet hanging device includes a magnet and a metal member disc. The metal member disc is releasably attached to the substrate via adhesive. The magnet is carried by body member, and may be attached to an insert. The sheet is secured between the magnet and the metal disc as the two are brought together to create an attraction therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Inventors: Kelly R. Krake, Liette Tousignant, Michael Kurtz
  • Patent number: 9622601
    Abstract: A sheet hanging device is configured to attach a sheet of material (e.g., a poster) to a substrate (e.g., a wall) without causing any damage to the sheet or the substrate. The sheet hanging device includes a magnet and a metal member disc. The metal member disc is releasably attached to the substrate via adhesive. The magnet is carried by body member, and may be attached to an insert. The sheet is secured between the magnet and the metal disc as the two are brought together to create an attraction therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: UNDER THE ROOF DECORATING INC.
    Inventors: Kelly R. Krake, Liette Tousignant, Michael Kurtz
  • Publication number: 20170055732
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for hanging objects on a supporting wall includes a bracket with an outwardly extending shelf for supporting engagement with the object. A flange extends upwardly from the bracket and is secured by a fastener to the object. A marking device is removably mounted in an aperture formed in the bracket and has a sharp marking element extending therefrom. After the bracket is attached to the object by the fasteners and the marking element is positioned in the aperture, the object is pressed against the supporting wall at the desired hanging location whereupon the marking element marks the wall at the correct location for installing the hanging hardware. After the hanging hardware is installed at the marked locations, it is subsequently received in the bracket aperture after the marking element is removed therefrom to hang the object on the hanging hardware.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Kelly R. Krake, Liette Tousignant, Michael Kurtz
  • Publication number: 20170055728
    Abstract: A bracket for hanging a picture frame on a supporting structure. The bracket is a one-piece member formed of plastic having a pair of legs projecting perpendicularly from a bottom surface of a base and extending at right angles with respect to each other. The legs are spaced from a peripheral edge of the base forming a V-shaped planar portion between the edge and legs. A reinforcing member extends between the pair of legs and an attachment pin mounted in the reinforcing member extends outwardly beyond a top surface of the base. A pair of securement pins in the frame legs are driven into the frame to secure the bracket in a right angle corner of the frame. A pair of attachment pins is pressed into the supporting structure to suspend the frame therefrom after two of the brackets are secured in upper right hand corners of the frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Kelly R. Krake, Liette Tousignant, Michael Kurtz
  • Publication number: 20170055729
    Abstract: A hanging bracket for hanging a picture frame having at least two right angled corners on a supporting structure. The bracket is a one-piece member formed of plastic having a planar base terminating with a beveled edge formed by two straight sections and an intervening arcuate section. A V-shaped column is spaced from the beveled edge by a V-shaped planar portion of the base and extends perpendicularly from the base terminating in a V-shaped top edge with two straight legs joined at a rounded corner. A pin is embedded in the rounded corner and extends outwardly beyond the straight legs of the column. The base is inserted between the back of a canvas picture and the two adjacent frame members at each corner of the picture frame with the projecting pins being pressed into the support structure to suspend the picture frame therefrom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Kelly R. Krake, Liette Tousignant, Michael Kurtz
  • Publication number: 20170055730
    Abstract: A bracket for hanging a picture frame on a supporting structure. The bracket is a one-piece member formed of plastic having a pair of legs projecting perpendicularly from a bottom surface of a base and extending at right angles with respect to each other. The legs are spaced from a peripheral edge of the base forming a V-shaped planar portion between the edge and legs. A reinforcing member extends between the pair of legs and an attachment pin mounted in the reinforcing member extends outwardly beyond a top surface of the base. A pair of attachment pins is pressed into the supporting structure to suspend the frame therefrom after two of the brackets are secured in upper right hand corners of the frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Kelly R. Krake, Liette Tousignant, Michael Kurtz
  • Publication number: 20170059084
    Abstract: A decorative object and a method of hanging the same on a support surface without tools. The object includes a body having a front wall and a rear wall and a hanging member for mounting the object on the support surface is provided, where the hanging member is integral with the rear wall. The hanging member comprises a body having a shaft and a tip. The rear wall of the object is molded and the shaft and tip are molded as part of the rear wall. In other instances, the hanging member includes a base and the base is positioned to be enveloped by molding material when the rear wall is fabricated. In other instances, the base is snap-fittingly installed into a recessed region of the rear wall and is able to be pivoted between a use position and a non-use position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Kelly R. Krake, Liette Tousignant, Michael Kurtz
  • Publication number: 20160309927
    Abstract: A sheet hanging device is configured to attach a sheet of material (e.g., a poster) to a substrate (e.g., a wall) without causing any damage to the sheet or the substrate. The sheet hanging device includes a magnet and a metal member disc. The metal member disc is releasably attached to the substrate via adhesive. The magnet is carried by body member, and may be attached to an insert. The sheet is secured between the magnet and the metal disc as the two are brought together to create an attraction therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventors: Kelly R. Krake, Liette Tousignant, Michael Kurtz
  • Publication number: 20110121142
    Abstract: A wall hardware device, a wire guide device, and an item hanging system including one or both of the wall hardware device and the wire guide device. The wall hardware device includes a straight nail and an auxiliary head. The auxiliary head includes a skirt section, a cap section and a throat section extending between the skirt section and the cap section. The nail extends through the skirt section and the throat section and terminates in the cap section. The wire guide device guides an item hardware wire into engagement with a wall hardware device. The wire guide device includes a connecting segment for connecting with the wall hardware device and a guiding segment for guiding the item hardware wire into engagement with the wall hardware device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2009
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Applicant: UNDER THE ROOF DECORATING INC.
    Inventors: Liette Tousignant, Kelly Russell Krake, Kevin Charles Seel, Michael Kurtz, Nicole Kirsten Jannesson
  • Patent number: 6978551
    Abstract: A picture hanging device has a body, at least one marking element extending from one side of the body for marking a wall and the like, the body having at least one flexible portion which is of one piece with a remaining portion of the body, the marking element being arranged on the at least one flexible portion so that by displacing the at least flexible portion relative to the remaining portion of the body, the marking element can be displaced transversely to the body for marking purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2005
    Inventors: Kelly R. Krake, Liette Tousignant
  • Publication number: 20020078582
    Abstract: A picture hanging device has a body, at least one marking element extending from one side of the body for marking a wall and the like, the body having at least one flexible portion which is of one piece with a remaining portion of the body, the marking element being arranged on the at least one flexible portion so that by displacing the at least flexible portion relative to the remaining portion of the body, the marking element can be displaced transversely to the body for marking purposes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2000
    Publication date: June 27, 2002
    Inventors: Kelly R. Krake, Liette Tousignant
  • Patent number: D769106
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: UNDER THE ROOF DECORATING INC.
    Inventors: Liette Tousignant, Kelly R. Krake, Michael Kurtz