Patents by Inventor William R. Laupan

William R. Laupan 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: 7207462
    Abstract: A dispenser is adjustable to contain beverage container lids of various sizes. A housing has a front element with an opening. Pager assemblies are mounted in slots which extend radially outwardly from the opening. A stack of lids is inserted into the housing through the opening, and the pager assemblies allow a single lid to be extracted from the stack by the pivoting of a door containing two claws which engage the frontmost lid. To reconfigure the dispenser for a different lid size, a template is positioned frontwardly of the housing front element, and the pager assemblies are adjusted to abut the template, thereby configuring the pager assemblies in the proper position. The claws on the lid are then replaced with claws which are configured to the new lid shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: Acry Fab, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey E. Gunderson, William R. Laupan
  • Patent number: 6843373
    Abstract: A serving tray has a slot formed in a side wall of the tray into which is received the corner of a shouter card with a friction fit between the card and the slot. Both bottom corners of the card extend through the side wall of the tray at opposite ends of the slot and the shouter card is supported from the bottom by the tray in the middle of the slot. The slot is made of alternating angle segments so that from end to end the slot is straight but a friction fit is created between the slot and the shouter card by the alternating peaks and valleys of the slot for a relatively wide range of shouter card thicknesses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2005
    Assignee: Traex Company
    Inventor: William R. Laupan
  • Patent number: 6726031
    Abstract: Dishwasher rack and extender for an automatic dishwasher has 12, 20, 30 or 42 compartments defined by a plurality of rows of adjacent hexagonal compartments with a half hexagonal compartment at the end of each row and two rows of pentagonal compartments with a half pentagonal compartment at one end. The rows of pentagonal compartments border opposite sides of the rows of hexagonal compartments and the end compartments alternate ends from row to row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2004
    Assignee: Traex Company
    Inventor: William R. Laupan
  • Publication number: 20020174576
    Abstract: A serving tray has a slot formed in a side wall of the tray into which is received the corner of a shouter card with a friction fit between the card and the slot. Both bottom corners of the card extend through the side wall of the tray at opposite ends of the slot and the shouter card is supported from the bottom by the tray in the middle of the slot. The slot is made of alternating angle segments so that from end to end the slot is straight but a friction fit is created between the slot and the shouter card by the alternating peaks and valleys of the slot for a relatively wide range of shouter card thicknesses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2002
    Publication date: November 28, 2002
    Inventor: William R. Laupan
  • Publication number: 20020117461
    Abstract: Dishwasher rack and extender for an automatic dishwasher has 12, 20, 30 or 42 compartments defined by a plurality of rows of adjacent hexagonal compartments with a half hexagonal compartment at the end of each row and two rows of pentagonal compartments with a half pentagonal compartment at one end. The rows of pentagonal compartments border opposite sides of the rows of hexagonal compartments and the end compartments alternate ends from row to row.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2002
    Publication date: August 29, 2002
    Inventor: William R. Laupan