Patents by Inventor Stephen Lawson

Stephen Lawson 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).

  • Publication number: 20230322428
    Abstract: An apparatus for supporting a laundry hamper is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a supporting rod having one or more sides arranged to form a closed frame, one or more mounting brackets, and means for securing the mounting bracket to a door of a cabinet, such as a tilt-out cabinet. Each of the mounting brackets comprises a channel with a recess within which a portion of the supporting rod is inserted therein. The channel comprises a first channel segment and a second channel segment separated by a gap. Each of the first and second channel segments comprises a first side wall and an opposing second side wall integral with a bottom wall to define a generally U-shaped structure. The bottom wall of the first channel segment faces a side opposite from the side at which the bottom wall of the second channel segment faces. Aspects of the invention relate to a laundry hamper assembly comprising the apparatus and at least one laundry hamper being supported thereon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Stephen Lawson, Stephen Campion
  • Publication number: 20210394207
    Abstract: A sprayer device includes a pump having a pump inlet and a pump outlet, the pump inlet including a first quick connector, a spray nozzle fluidly communicated with the pump outlet, and a sealed solution container including a second quick connector, the second quick connector removably connectable to the first quick connector of the pump inlet to fluidly communicate the solution container with the pump inlet. The pump can be positioned within a pump housing and the sealed solution container can be positioned within a container support structure. The pump housing and container support structure may further be contained within a backpack carrier. The spray nozzle may comprise an electrostatic or turbulent flow spray device, amongst other things.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Autumn Ryan, Dana Ryan, Stephen Lawson
  • Patent number: 10874213
    Abstract: A drawer structure including a front end, a rear end and the side walls, the front end having a panel front and a crossbar in which a gap between the panel front and the crossbar permits the insertion of an insert or the passage of a fabric material whereby a basket may be secured in a drawer frame. Where a fabric material is passed between the panel front and the crossbar it may be wrapped around the crossbar and inserted into an inward facing recess of the crossbar whereby the material may be secured by the tension applied by the weight of the basket causing a crossbar clip to splay and prevent the fabric from being dislodged from the recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Tag Hardware Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Stephen Lawson, Stephen Campion
  • Patent number: 10799041
    Abstract: A wall-mountable organizer rack having two or more vertical bars and one or more horizontal bars in which each horizontal bar has a rear central channel. The rear central channel of each horizontal bar has a channel mouth and a channel front wall, and the height of the channel front wall is greater than the height of the channel mouth for substantially all of the length of each horizontal bar. Bar fasteners inserted into the rear central channel from the vertical bars to fix the vertical bars to the horizontal bars may have at least one dimension that is larger than the height of the channel mouth to fix the fasteners within the channel. Organizer rack attachments inserted into the rear central channel may have at least one dimension that is larger than the height of the channel mouth to secure the attachments within the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Tag Hardware Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Stephen Lawson, Sergio Ullod
  • Publication number: 20200305615
    Abstract: A wall-mountable organizer rack having two or more vertical bars and one or more horizontal bars in which each horizontal bar has a rear central channel. The rear central channel of each horizontal bar has a channel mouth and a channel front wall, and the height of the channel front wall is greater than the height of the channel mouth for substantially all of the length of each horizontal bar. Bar fasteners inserted into the rear central channel from the vertical bars to fix the vertical bars to the horizontal bars may have at least one dimension that is larger than the height of the channel mouth to fix the fasteners within the channel. Organizer rack attachments inserted into the rear central channel may have at least one dimension that is larger than the height of the channel mouth to secure the attachments within the channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Stephen Lawson, Sergio Ullod
  • Publication number: 20200221870
    Abstract: A drawer structure including a front end, a rear end and the side walls, the front end having a panel front and a crossbar in which a gap between the panel front and the crossbar permits the insertion of an insert or the passage of a fabric material whereby a basket may be secured in a drawer frame. Where a fabric material is passed between the panel front and the crossbar it may be wrapped around the crossbar and inserted into an inward facing recess of the crossbar whereby the material may be secured by the tension applied by the weight of the basket causing a crossbar clip to splay and prevent the fabric from being dislodged from the recess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Stephen Lawson, Stephen Campion
  • Publication number: 20160368277
    Abstract: A system for digitally printing a hydrographic design on a water-soluble film, the system including a source roll of a water-soluble film, the source roll disposed on a tensioned unwind roller, a digital printer, a temporary support for the water-soluble film maintained during partial transport of the water-soluble film through the digital printer from the unwind roller to a powered rewind roller and a tension roller or a spread roller for maintaining controlled tension to the water-soluble film, wherein the water soluble film once wound upon the powered rewind roller is linerless.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Applicant: AMERICAN HYDROGRAPHICS
    Inventors: STEPHEN LAWSON PETERSON, CLAY MATTHEW REIERSON, FRANK WILLIAM SHERMAN
  • Publication number: 20160111027
    Abstract: A magnetic receptive media comprising at least one first polymer layer and a magnetic receptive layer comprising a polymer and a magnetic receptive material or a magnetized material, wherein the at least one first polymer layer is embossed with a three-dimensional pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Applicant: XCEL PRODUCTS, INC.
    Inventors: STEPHEN LAWSON PETERSON, CLAY MATTHEW REIERSON
  • Publication number: 20160107427
    Abstract: A multilayer film comprising a printed hydrographic design, the multilayer film comprising a support liner, a water-soluble polymer film fixedly attached to the support liner and a hydrograph design printed thereon, the hydrographic design comprising a solvent based ink, and methods of making and using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Inventors: STEPHEN LAWSON PETERSON, CLAY MATTHEW REIERSON, FRANK WILLIAM SHERMAN, MAVORIC J. FARMER, MICHAEL J. STOLL, THOMAS VINCENT CARROLL, IV
  • Publication number: 20130318442
    Abstract: A system and method that allow users to directly compare audio gear, for example microphones and other items in the audio recording chain (e.g. preamplifiers, cables, amplifiers, etc.), against the same instance of recorded material and equidistant from the source material. The system and method allow a user to make the comparison against “bed music” tracks giving the user a representation of how the compared items of audio gear will perform in the end product or music mix. By providing the user the ability to make an “apples-to-apples” comparison between audio gear, users are able to determine the audio gear that best meets their needs before making a purchase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: Phase 2 Interactive, LLC
    Inventor: Stephen LAWSON
  • Patent number: 7757869
    Abstract: A flexible deformable retainer has top and bottom horizontal walls and lateral vertical walls, the latter being perpendicular to a slatwall track, respectively to top and bottom horizontal walls of the latter. Top and bottom horizontal walls have edges abutting a central flat body of a hanger's bracket and each outward edge has a removal cutoff. Lateral vertical walls are used for insertion into vertical slits provided in a hanger's bracket. Each lateral vertical wall includes a curvature configured for snapping into a vertical slit. The retainer is able when the hanger is bumped vertically, to engage, via upper edges of its lateral vertical walls, a horizontal top of an intermediate channel of the slatwall track. A gap is provided between a horizontal top of the latter and the upper edges of retainer's lateral vertical walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Inventor: Stephen Lawson
  • Patent number: 7753217
    Abstract: A retainer is shaped and sized to accommodate within it a bracket of a hanger in order to prevent an upward, vertical translation of the bracket, followed by its pivoting and finally fall to the ground, by using one end of the retainer for positioning and stabilizing, with respect to one channel of a slatwall track, one extremity of the bracket, while another end of the retainer, vertically spaced from the aforementioned one, is inserted by snapping into another parallel channel of the slatwall track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Inventor: Stephen Lawson
  • Patent number: 7717279
    Abstract: A slatwall track, which comprises a horizontally elongated assembly of uniform thickness and has a front and a back side, incorporates an upwardly extending member, retracted from the front side, for intermeshing with a downwardly extending member, coplanar with the front side, of another above located slatwall track. The slatwall track further incorporates one or more channel subassemblies for supporting items. The channel subassemblies are generally followed downwardly by rigidity boxes. A member for stopping projecting backwardly from the downwardly extending member limits an upward movement of a lower slatwall rack during intermeshing. The spacing between an outside extremity of the member for stopping and a wall to which the slatwall track is secured and the spacing between the upwardly extending member and the same wall are equal and correspond to a thickness of a panel intended to be inserted, between two slatwall tracks, into these spacings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Inventor: Stephen Lawson
  • Patent number: 7597297
    Abstract: The system comprises a rod subassembly for suspending articles, supported at extremities by a holding subassembly. The former includes a hollow rod having along its length an upper recessed zone similar to a circular segment and incorporates at each lateral extremity a continuous, capturing recess extending towards an interior of the rod. A protection insert is placed on the zone and retained by the recesses. The rod is covered with longitudinal corrugations. The holding subassembly includes a bracket for attaching to an external recipient and a sleeve flange for supporting the rod and for interengaging with the bracket. The bracket includes a wedge-shaped element, while the sleeve flange has a flange with a recess complimentary to the foregoing element. By inserting the wedge-shaped element into the complementary recess, an interengagement between those parts which incorporate the former and the latter occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Inventors: Christopher Isfeld, Stephen Lawson
  • Publication number: 20080105637
    Abstract: A retainer is shaped and sized to accommodate within it a bracket of a hanger in order to prevent an upward, vertical translation of the bracket, followed by its pivoting and finally fall to the ground, by using one end of the retainer for positioning and stabilizing, with respect to one channel of a slatwall track, one extremity of the bracket, while another end of the retainer, vertically spaced from the aforementioned one, is inserted by snapping into another parallel channel of the slatwall track.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2007
    Publication date: May 8, 2008
    Inventor: Stephen Lawson
  • Publication number: 20080105636
    Abstract: A flexible deformable retainer has top and bottom horizontal walls and lateral vertical walls, the latter being perpendicular to a slatwall track, respectively to top and bottom horizontal walls of the latter. Top and bottom horizontal walls have edges abutting a central flat body of a hanger’ bracket and each outward edge has a removal cutoff. Lateral vertical walls are used for insertion into vertical slits provided in a hanger’ bracket. Each lateral vertical wall includes a curvature configured for snapping into a vertical slit. The retainer is able when the hanger is bumped vertically, to engage, via upper edges of its lateral vertical walls, a horizontal top of an intermediate channel of the slatwall track. A gap is provided between a horizontal top of the latter and the upper edges of retainer's lateral vertical walls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2007
    Publication date: May 8, 2008
    Inventor: Stephen Lawson
  • Publication number: 20080000862
    Abstract: A slatwall track, which comprises a horizontally elongated assembly of uniform thickness and has a front and a back side, incorporates an upwardly extending member, retracted from the front side, for intermeshing with a downwardly extending member, coplanar with the front side, of another above located slatwall track. The slatwall track further incorporates one or more channel subassemblies for supporting items. The channel subassemblies are generally followed downwardly by rigidity boxes. A member for stopping projecting backwardly from the downwardly extending member limits an upward movement of a lower slatwall rack during intermeshing. The spacing between an outside extremity of the member for stopping and a wall to which the slatwall track is secured and the spacing between the upwardly extending member and the same wall are equal and correspond to a thickness of a panel intended to be inserted, between two slatwall tracks, into these spacings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2007
    Publication date: January 3, 2008
    Inventor: Stephen Lawson
  • Publication number: 20070235612
    Abstract: The system comprises a rod subassembly for suspending articles, supported at extremities by a holding subassembly. The former includes a hollow rod having along its length an upper recessed zone similar to a circular segment and incorporates at each lateral extremity a continuous, capturing recess extending towards an interior of the rod. A protection insert is placed on the zone and retained by the recesses. The rod is covered with longitudinal corrugations. The holding subassembly includes a bracket for attaching to an external recipient and a sleeve flange for supporting the rod and for interengaging with the bracket. The bracket includes a wedge-shaped element, while the sleeve flange has a flange with a recess complimentary to the foregoing element. By inserting the wedge-shaped element into the complementary recess, an interengagement between those parts which incorporate the former and the latter occurs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2007
    Publication date: October 11, 2007
    Inventors: Christopher Isfeld, Stephen Lawson
  • Patent number: 7243884
    Abstract: A tilt-out laundry bag assembly for use with a bottom hinged cabinet door, comprises a suspension bracket subassembly and a laundry bag subassembly, the latter being suspended from the former. The suspension bracket subassembly includes a pair of parallel inter-bracket rods located in a plane perpendicular to the bottom hinged cabinet door. One of the rods is spaced from the mentioned door, while a second one is located in a position somewhat retracted from that door. The laundry bag subassembly comprises at least one laundry bag and a pair of hangers for each laundry bag. A laundry bag includes a pair of opposite flat panels and a pair of opposite folded panels. Each of the former has at the top a pair of loops for each hanger. Each hanger has a central grip for a hand and at each extremity a semi-circular configuration to fit with each one of the inter-bracket rods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Inventors: Stephen Lawson, Christopher Isfeld
  • Patent number: D702218
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: General Instrument Corporation
    Inventors: Liang Hua Wu, Willie Y. Fong, Stephen A. Lawson, Tzu-Hsiang Lee