Patents by Inventor Steve Donnelly

Steve Donnelly 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: 20070033726
    Abstract: A method for mounting a massaging micro jet in a slanted wall of a whirlpool bath, in a recessed position relative to the slanted wall, the micro jet being connectable to a pressurized fluid supply. The method comprises: performing an opening in the slanted wall; inserting a holding cup a predetermined orientation in the opening, the holding cup having a mounting flange at a free end, a bottom partition recessed from the free end, and a micro jet mounted to the bottom partition and having a port extending there through, the mounting flange of the holding cup abutting an inner surface of the slanted wall and the port being oriented substantially horizontally in the predetermined orientation; and securing the mounting flange of the holding cup to the slanted wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2006
    Publication date: February 15, 2007
    Inventors: Nicolas Lebrun, Steve Donnelly, Bernard Lebrun
  • Patent number: 7127751
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method for mounting micro jets on whirlpool bath surfaces. Micro jets are mounted in the bottom of cups. The cup containing the micro jet is mounted in an opening performed in the whirlpool bath shell. The proposed method is specially interesting for jets located on surfaces where fluid flows are obstructed such as the surface where a person's back rests when someone lies in a whirlpool bath. This method allows manufacturers to install micro jets those whirlpool bath surfaces without having a recessed part. Moreover, it allows to modify easily the fluid jet pattern depending on the consumer's needs. The present invention also concerns recessed micro jets for whirlpool baths and method for mounting the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2006
    Assignee: Maax Canada Inc.
    Inventors: Nicolas Lebrun, Steve Donnelly, Bernard Lebrun
  • Publication number: 20040199992
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method for mounting micro jets on whirlpool bath surfaces. Micro jets are mounted in the bottom of cups. The cup containing the micro jet is mounted in an opening performed in the whirlpool bath shell. The proposed method is specially interesting for jets located on surfaces where fluid flows are obstructed such as the surface where a person's back rests when someone lies in a whirlpool bath. This method allows manufacturers to install micro jets those whirlpool bath surfaces without having a recessed part. Moreover, it allows to modify easily the fluid jet pattern depending on the consumer's needs. The present invention also concerns recessed micro jets for whirlpool baths and method for mounting the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2003
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Applicant: MAAX Inc.
    Inventors: Nicolas Lebrun, Steve Donnelly, Bernard Lebrun
  • Patent number: 6154893
    Abstract: The bracket is to be installed to the inner face of the peripheral rim of a bathtub, to attach the latter to the inner peripheral edge portion of a fixed casing. The bracket has a rigid head portion which is fixedly attached to the inner rim of the bathtub, and a downwardly depending arcuate resilient foot which carries at its lower end a foot. When installing the bathtub inside the casing and more particularly inside the casing peripheral edge portion, the tub is downwardly displaced until its rim comes into downward abutment against the casing peripheral edge portion, the bracket slidingly abutting against the casing peripheral edge portion with a corresponding resilient foot deformation, allowing the foot to slide under the casing peripheral edge portion and to snap itself thereunder for preventing vertical displacement of the bathtub relative to the casing peripheral edge portion. Indeed, the casing peripheral edge portion is then wedged between the bracket foot and the bathtub rim.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2000
    Assignee: Maax Inc.
    Inventor: Steve Donnelly
  • Patent number: D440639
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2001
    Assignee: Maax Inc.
    Inventor: Steve Donnelly
  • Patent number: D441064
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2001
    Assignee: Maax Inc.
    Inventor: Steve Donnelly
  • Patent number: D523124
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Assignee: MAAX Canada Inc.
    Inventors: Bernard Lebrun, Gabriel Boutin, Bruno Côté, Steve Donnelly, Sylvain Dufour, Nicolas Lebrun, John Penterman, Suzanne Ouellette
  • Patent number: D524926
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Assignee: Maax Canada Inc.
    Inventors: Bernard Lebrun, Gabriel Boutin, Bruno Côté, Steve Donnelly, Sylvain Dufour, Nicolas Lebrun, John Penterman, Suzanne Ouellette
  • Patent number: D526054
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: Maax Canada Inc.
    Inventors: Bernard Lebrun, Gabriel Boutin, Bruno Côté, Steve Donnelly, Sylvain Dufour, Nicolas Lebrun, John Penterman, Suzanne Ouellete
  • Patent number: D527082
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Assignee: Maax Canada Inc.
    Inventors: Bernard Lebrun, Gabriel Boutin, Bruno Côté, Steve Donnelly, Sylvain Dufour, Nicolas Lebrun, John Penterman, Suzanne Ouellette
  • Patent number: D527083
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Assignee: Maax Canada Inc.
    Inventors: Bernard Lebrun, Nicolas Lebrun, Gabriel Boutin, Bruno Côté, Steve Donnelly, Sylvain Dufour, John Penterman, Suzanne Ouellette
  • Patent number: D544585
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2007
    Assignee: MAAX Canada Inc.
    Inventors: Bernard Lebrun, Gabriel Boutin, Bruno Côté, Steve Donnelly, Sylvain Dufour, Nicolas Lebrun, John Penterman, Suzanne Ouellette
  • Patent number: D405514
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1999
    Assignee: Maax Inc.
    Inventor: Steve Donnelly
  • Patent number: D405515
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1999
    Assignee: Maax Inc.
    Inventor: Steve Donnelly