Patents Issued in December 2, 2010
  • Publication number: 20100299795
    Abstract: This invention defines a welding helmet that encloses a welders head on five sides and with an optional skirt covers their neck. The helmet contains a fan, filter and cooling module to provide clean cool air that reduces welding fume levels in the breathing zone below suggested maximums. By providing cool air to the welders head and neck area their whole body will feel cooler. It suggests the use of an external power source to provide the energy required to have a fan of sufficient capacity to draw air thorough a quality filter so potentially hazardous constituents of welding fumes are captured. This externally supplied power allows the required cooling capacity thermal electric cooling modules to be used to significantly lower the ambient air temperature. This helmet allows the welding operator to have sufficient cooling to improve their overall work environment for one of the most objectionable welding issues, excess heat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2009
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventor: Gerald Daniel Uttrachi
  • Publication number: 20100299796
    Abstract: A perspiration pad for absorbing underarm perspiration and providing deodorant to the underarm is provided. The perspiration pad is configured to be attached to a body proximate the person's underarm. In one embodiment, the perspiration pad has an absorbent layer with a deodorant. The absorbent layer is attached to a larger sheet or a barrier. The barrier extends beyond the edges of the absorbent layer and has a surface with an adhesive coating for releasably attaching the pad to an underarm. In various embodiments, the perspiration pad is translucent or transparent, has a flesh colored outer surface, or has a surface that receives color imparting cosmetics such as makeup or foundation. The perspiration pad is packaged with a protector that seals the deodorant-embedded absorbent layer to preserve the deodorant for use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2010
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventor: Shohreh Hamed Hashemian
  • Publication number: 20100299797
    Abstract: A garment including an inner layer of material adapted to be disposed adjacent to a wearer's skin. The inner layer preferably forms a body suit with legs formed of elastic, body-shaping material that includes a bodice portion and torso/legs portion. The garment also includes at least one exterior layer that may be fashioned as a skirt, a dress, a long-legged pants, a jumpsuit, or similar attire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2010
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventor: Shari Riehl
  • Publication number: 20100299798
    Abstract: The invention relates to a garment that includes a torso portion and a pair of sleeves, with the junction between the torso portion and each of the sleeves including a closable opening. Each of the closable openings includes a first portion positioned on a respective underarm, extending along a side of the torso portion, and a second portion extending on a respective one of the sleeves, with each of the sleeves including a proximal portion adjacent the torso portion, a distal portion adjacent the proximal portion, and an arrangement carried by the proximal portion to maintain the distal portion in a lifted-up state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2009
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: Arc'Teryx Equipment Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Walker Clarke Fayle, Brian Hans Pedersen, Anthony Richardson
  • Publication number: 20100299799
    Abstract: A garment with localized compression effect for performing a sport, the garment being obtained by assembling first pieces of basic elasticity and second pieces that present a compression effect. The garment includes a plurality of types of second piece suitable for producing different compression effects, each type acting in a determined compression range; each second piece is arranged so as to produce a compression effect that is either longitudinal or transverse; and the second pieces of the various types are arranged in the assembly so as to surround certain transverse sections of at least one limb and/or the torso in full or in part and so as to exert a non-uniform compression effect with a pressure gradient that decreases towards the heart. In a variant, the second pieces are selected from three types, having compression ranges that correspond to compression effects that are respectively weak, medium, and strong.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2008
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: DECATHLON
    Inventors: Nicolas Belluye, Thibaud Thedon, Kostia Puchaux
  • Publication number: 20100299800
    Abstract: A hand warmer is provided with a viewing window that allows a media device, such as a cell phone, personal digital assistant, music player, or gaming device to be viewed and manipulated by a user while the user holds the media device with one or both hands within the hand warmer. The user is thus able to keep his or her hands and the media device warm and dry and otherwise protected from the elements while operating the media device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2010
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: H&L Apparel, LLC
    Inventor: Loyd E. Jackson, JR.
  • Publication number: 20100299801
    Abstract: The infant wrap or swaddle (1) has a body portion (3) that forms the majority of the infant wrap or swaddle (1). The body portion (3) has extending out each side thereof, a left hand side arm region (5) and a right hand side arm region (6), which extend either side of the central region (4). The overall look in plan view is a boomerang shape, particularly in the side arm regions. This shape provides the best form for conforming to the infant and wrapping the infant securely. The central region (4) has extending perpendicularly, from top to bottom, a medial plane (7). Transverse to this is a mid-transverse plane (8). In the preferred embodiment the side arm portions (5) and (6) extend from the central region (4) at an acute angle (16) to the medial plane (7). The front side (9) has a pouch (11) located on an inferior portion (14) (i.e. that region at least in part below the mid-transverse plane 8) of the central region (4). The pouch (11) has an opening (15) directed in the superior direction (13).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2008
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventor: Amelia Anne Bristed Nilsson
  • Publication number: 20100299802
    Abstract: An adjustable garment includes an article of clothing and a plurality of improved and unique adjustment features. The improved adjustment features includes a plurality of spaced apart pockets and elastic band members disposed along sleeves, inseams and interior front and back portions of a shirt body portion, pants inseams, interior front and back pants leg portions, waist section of pants, interior portions of foot or bootie portions and associated extended body portions on one-piece garments. The spaced apart pockets include a lower closed end and an upper open end with a fastener adjacent thereto. The elastic band having a first end cooperating with the lower closed end and a second end extending partially out of the open end with a plurality of fastener holes thereon. Adjustment of the garment is achieved by pulling the second end to connect a desired fastener hole with the pocket fastener.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2009
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventors: Teresa Bailey, Erin C. Bailey, Ebony C. Bailey
  • Publication number: 20100299803
    Abstract: A hospital garment with releasable seams allows medical personnel to easily access the body of a patient. The garment may include a top, a pant, or both.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventor: Jeff Ladra
  • Publication number: 20100299804
    Abstract: An expandable clothing includes two cloth members, and an expandable element secured between the cloth members and having a resilience greater than that of the cloth members for allowing the clothing to be expanded to fit various users having different sizes or dimensions. The clothing may be selected from pants, trousers, skirts or shorts, sweaters, shirts, jackets or coats or the like having two tubular pant-legs or two sleeves for accommodating or receiving the legs or the feet, or the hands of the users. The expandable elements may be attached to the inner portions or the side portions of the pant-legs or the sleeves, or attached to the rear portion of the coat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2009
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventor: Cheng Han Huang
  • Publication number: 20100299805
    Abstract: A full coverage, over the head, disposable medical gown is described. The gown includes a front member, a left rear member, and a right rear member. The left rear member and the right rear member are folded over the front member to define a body portion of the gown. The left rear member and the right rear member are attached to one another to define a neck opening for the gown. This attachment occurs in an area that lies between the neck and the shoulder blades of a person wearing the gown. At least one of said left rear member and said right rear member includes perforations therein that extend from the neck opening to an edge of the respective rear member proximate the attachment area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2009
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventor: Joseph A. Graneto, III
  • Publication number: 20100299806
    Abstract: A torso-covering garment for playing paintball having gripping areas to enable the user to grippably contact a gripping area of the garment with the butt stock of the gun. Each gripping area comprises a pliant, non-cushioning substrate. Common embodiments of the garment are shirts, jerseys, jackets, and vests. A method of playing paintball which comprises wearing the garment of the invention, and a method of fabricating the garment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2010
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: Dye Precision, Inc.
    Inventor: Bryon Benini
  • Publication number: 20100299807
    Abstract: A secure-fitting and absorbent elongated hood for containing, managing, and drying wet hair and preventing water from dripping onto flooring or onto the wearer's clothing during the hair drying or hair setting process, requiring no leaning forward of the head for application. Such elongated hood generally comprises an absorbent concave form-fitting cap having a centering button located thereon, a triangular wing of fabric extending from each of the left and right sides of said form-fitting cap of said elongated hood, reciprocal hook-and-loop fabric strips sewn onto each left and right triangular wing, an elongated tail region being progressively tapered from said concave form-fitting cap to a rounded and concave distal end and having an elastic loop for fastening purposes, and concave petal-shaped protuberances of absorbent fabric at such concave distal end for catching, retaining, and absorbing water dripping from the wearer's hair.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2010
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventor: Cynthia Saito
  • Publication number: 20100299808
    Abstract: A sports visor having attachment points by which to affix and remove from a sweatshirt or jacket hood. The visor is comprised of a top face and a bottom face and may be secured to the hoot with a securing means located on the back of the visor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2009
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventor: Sanderford John
  • Publication number: 20100299809
    Abstract: There is provided an article to be arranged at the sole of a human foot, in particular for practicing sports and physical activities. In particular the article relates to a sock, to be used mainly for practicing sports and physical activities (for example golf), wherein on the zone of the sock (P) arranged at the sole of the foot, one or more plates (1-6) made of plastic material containing ferrite are arranged on the external surface of the sock.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2008
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventor: Daniela Mazzarolo
  • Publication number: 20100299810
    Abstract: Methods for identifying one or more individuals as members of one or more pre-defined group based on a defining characteristic or name of the group include providing a garment including a material having fabric stitching that includes externally visible repeating source identifying indicia viewable from substantially all elevation perspectives when the garment is worn. Garments, methods and systems for using same, for example, in a multi-group environment, are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2009
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventor: Julia Ann Snyder
  • Publication number: 20100299811
    Abstract: Shorts having a constitution where the exposed skin area can be freely determined while a wearer wears the shorts without unnecessary physical or psychological burden is disposed. By connecting an approximately inverted triangular front cover and an approximately inverted triangular back cover at their tops of individual approximately inverted triangular shape, when the wearer wears the shorts, a lower abdomen, a crotch and buttocks of the wearer's body can be covered as one unit by the front and back covers. Further, by inserting a ring-shaped string into a string through passage made at upper hems of the front and back covers in a freely slidable manner, both ends of the upper hems of the front and back covers can be slid towards the center along the string and a state of the front and back covers is changeable to a narrow-width state to cover the lower abdomen, the crotch and the buttocks of the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2008
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventor: Ohki Murata
  • Publication number: 20100299812
    Abstract: A protective arrangement has a rigid shell to cover a body part and at least one impact absorbing pad removably attached to the inner surface of the rigid shell. The pad has an outer part made of an outer curved sheet and an inner part made of an inner sheet that is parallel to and spaced inwardly from the outer sheet to define a space. The inner and outer sheets have a plurality of spaced apart projecting hollow protrusions extending to the other sheet, the protrusions of one sheet alternating with the protrusions of the other sheet to form an impact absorbing pattern of alternating protrusions in the space between the sheets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2009
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventors: Larry E. Maddux, Raymond J. Drake, JR., Louis Anthony VanHoutin, Vincent R. Long, Cortney Warmouth
  • Publication number: 20100299813
    Abstract: An improved helmet padding includes a multi-layered liner including an innermost layer consisting of a comfort liner designed to engage the head of the user, and having an outer surface covered by an inner surface of a relatively low density foam layer. The relatively low density foam layer consists of a first region of relatively uniform thickness with an outer area from which a multiplicity of protuberances extend radially outwardly. The radially outward layer of the inventive padding consists of a layer of relatively high density foam. The outer layer includes a plurality of recesses corresponding to the protuberances of the inner layer and sized to snugly receive the conical protuberances therewithin. The outer surface of the outer foam layer is shaped and configured to engage the outer shell of a helmet in which it is installed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2010
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventor: Don E. Morgan
  • Publication number: 20100299814
    Abstract: An improved helmet mounting device for an optical device, such as a night vision device, is provided. The mounting device herein includes sliding carriage arms and a pivot member for pivoting the viewing device up and away from the user's line of sight. In the depicted preferred embodiments, an optional reinforced mounting fastener system is provided. In another aspect, a movable sensor element may provided on the helmet mount for controlling operation of an attached vision device. In still further embodiments, a breakaway mechanism is provided which allows the user to select between a rigid attachment between the helmet and the optical device and a breakaway attachment wherein the optical device will break away from the helmet when an applied force exceeds a threshold amount of force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2010
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: WILCOX INDUSTRIES CORP.
    Inventors: Marc J. Celona, Gary M. Lemire, James W. Teetzel
  • Publication number: 20100299815
    Abstract: The present invention provides goggles with rubber seals around the face/eyes and comprises of adjustable elastic bands which ensures a tight liquid seal. These adjustable elastic bands are placed around each ear, thus providing full/complete eye protection and complete access to a person's scalp/hair during the cleaning/treatment process. The weep holes in the bottom edge which are ¼ inch in front of the lower rubber seals provide an outlet of any droplets or condensation that may form inside the goggles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2009
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventors: Martha F. Wells, Michael T. Cravatt
  • Publication number: 20100299816
    Abstract: A yarn, fabric, and garment suitable for use in arc and flame protection and having improved flash fire protection, consisting essentially of (a) 50 to 60 weight percent meta-aramid fiber having a degree of crystallinity of at least 20%; (b) 31 to 39 weight percent modacrylic fiber; and (c) 5 to 15 weight percent para-aramid fiber; said percentages on the basis of components (a), (b), and (c). In some embodiments, 1 to 3 weight percent of the meta-aramid fiber is replaced with an antistatic fiber comprising carbon or metal with the proviso that at least 50 weight percent meta-aramid fiber is maintained. Garments made from the yarns provide thermal protection such that a wearer would experience less than a 65 percent predicted body burn when exposed to a flash fire exposure of 4 seconds per ASTM F1930, while maintaining a Category 2 arc rating per ASTM F1959 and NFPA 70E.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2009
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventor: Reiyao Zhu
  • Publication number: 20100299817
    Abstract: A yarn, fabric, and garment suitable for use in arc and flame protection comprising aramid fiber and modacrylic fiber wherein the modacrylic fiber has less than 1.5 percent antimony and is preferably antimony-free. In one embodiment, the yarn, fabric, and/or garments consist essentially of (a) 50 to 80 weight percent meta-aramid fiber having a degree of crystallinity of at least 20%, (b) 10 to 40 weight percent modacrylic fiber that is antimony-free, (c) 5 to 20 weight percent para-aramid fiber, and (d) 1 to 3 weight percent antistatic fiber, based on the total weight of components (a), (b), (c) and (d). In some embodiments, garments made from the yarns provide thermal protection such that a wearer would experience less than a 65 percent predicted body burn when exposed to a flash fire exposure of 4 seconds per ASTM F1930, while maintaining a Category 2 arc rating per ASTM F1959 and NFPA 70E.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2009
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventor: Reiyao Zhu
  • Publication number: 20100299818
    Abstract: Lavatory treatment blocks which provide improved foaming benefit and improved foam substantivity are provided. The lavatory treatment blocks may be used with or without a lavatory treatment device, such as an in the bowl type, or in the cistern type device. Preferred embodiments of the lavatory treatment blocks provide a cleaning and/or sanitizing and/or disinfecting benefit to a sanitary appliance being treated using the lavatory treatment blocks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2008
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: RECKITT BENCKISER, INC.
    Inventor: Robert Zhong Lu
  • Publication number: 20100299819
    Abstract: A toilet seat with an automatic turning cover includes a start device, a toilet seat cover, a toilet seat, an elevating arm, a turning arm and a belt. The toilet seat cover and elevating arm are coupled to the start device. A lower end of the turning arm is pivotally coupled to the middle of the elevating arm and fixed to the toilet seat cover, and an upper end is pivotally coupled to a pivotal base and passed through two fulcrums of the turning arm to couple the upper end with the pivotal base. The toilet seat controls the start device to drive the elevating and turning arms to lift the toilet seat independently. The belt is pulled to change the surface of the toilet seat to face towards the front of the toilet seat cover. The start device is controlled to lift both toilet seat cover and toilet seat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2009
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventor: Hsin-Ching Huang
  • Publication number: 20100299820
    Abstract: A water flushing device includes a membrane engaged onto a housing, a casing extended in the housing for forming an outer peripheral space between the housing and the casing, a valve device for selectively blocking and opening an opening of the membrane, a barrel mounted to the membrane and engaged in the casing. A gasket is engaged into the membrane and includes an outer peripheral flange for engaging with the membrane and includes one or more slots formed in the outer peripheral flange and extended radially for allowing the water to flow through the slots of the outer peripheral flange of the gasket and to quickly flow into a sealed upper compartment of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2009
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventor: Meng-Meng Chen
  • Publication number: 20100299821
    Abstract: A flush valve assembly having a handle assembly positioning bushing for spacing a handle assembly within an opening of the flush valve assembly. The handle assembly positioning bushing having an eccentric opening for receiving the handle such that rotation of the handle assembly positioning bushing with regard to the flush valve assembly body alters the height of the handle assembly and, thus, the volume of water passing through the flush valve assembly during a flush cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2010
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventor: John R. Wilson
  • Publication number: 20100299822
    Abstract: An air activated toilet flush system, including: a toilet bowl; a reservoir; a fluid conduit between the reservoir and the toilet bowl; a system for supplying water into the reservoir; and a system for supplying air into the reservoir, wherein a supply of air into the reservoir causes fluid to flow from the reservoir through the fluid conduit and into the toilet bowl.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2010
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: Fluidmaster, Inc.
    Inventors: Matt Vargas, Brian Lamb, Tom Stout, Eric Bennett, Tuan Le
  • Publication number: 20100299823
    Abstract: The present invention provides for an improved toilet for flushing bodily waste materials. This toilet includes a secondary drain that communicates liquid that is backing up during a potential overflow situation into a conventional drainage sewer without any modification to that sewer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2010
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventors: Patrick G. Stack, Lawrence A. Trowbridge
  • Publication number: 20100299824
    Abstract: A jet powered toilet flushing system, including: a toilet bowl; a reservoir; a fluid conduit between the reservoir and the toilet bowl; a jet inside the reservoir, the jet having a nozzle directed toward an entrance of the fluid conduit; a fill valve that supplies water to the jet; and a flow diverter in the reservoir, the flow diverter positioned to divert water flow: (a) from the jet nozzle into the entrance of the fluid conduit when the reservoir is full, or (b) from the jet nozzle away from the entrance of the fluid conduit and into the reservoir when the reservoir is empty.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2010
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: Fluidmaster, Inc.
    Inventors: Matt Vargas, Tom Stout, Anurupa Rao
  • Publication number: 20100299825
    Abstract: A jet for a spa or bathing system that has a water flow modifier, where the water flow modifier is controlled independently from the flow rate of water through the jet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2009
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventor: Stephen M. Fleischer
  • Publication number: 20100299826
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a mobile mass decontamination unit for use in nuclear, radiological, biological or chemical (NRBC) accidents for evacuating categorizing and decontaminating victims.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2007
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventor: Vladimir Grcevic
  • Publication number: 20100299827
    Abstract: The invention relates to a one-piece shower pan with no openings for water leakage, other than the drain hole, and designed for easy installation of tiles of various thicknesses. The shower pan comprises a drain hole designed to fit a conventional drain pipe such that when the conventional drain pipe is fastened to the shower pan, the conventional drain pipe extends ½ to 2 inches above the bottom of the shower pan. In this way, when cement or other adhesive is floated on the interior surface of the shower pan, tiles of varying thickness can be installed in such a manner that the top surface of the tiles are substantially flush with the top portion of the conventional drain pipe. The shower pan also has a waterdam with a fin extending vertically on the outer edge of the waterdam as added protection against water migration outside the shower pan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2010
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventor: Leonard Eriksson
  • Publication number: 20100299828
    Abstract: Improvements in a foot washing device is disclosed. The improvements include the use of air with water to increase the washing efficiency with minimal use of water. The device is ideally used where clean water is limited such as on a boat, ship or other device where a person enters the boat with sand dirt or debris on not only the bottom but also the sides and top of the feet. The device blows water and air over the top of the feet and under the feet to wash off the sand. The amount of cleaning force is critical to reduce sand that can leave the feet and enter into the boat. The water can be filtered and recycled to reduce clean water use. The device may further include its own power supply, chemical cleaning agent and a water heating or cooling mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2010
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventor: ELI MINIER SHAPIRO
  • Publication number: 20100299829
    Abstract: A water level control device for efficiently regulating the depth of a liquid within a container having a drain plug, such as a bathtub. The water level control device generally includes a lower unit including a connector, an elongated assembly including a lower end and an upper end, wherein the lower end of the elongated assembly is fluidly connected to the lower unit, and an upper unit fluidly connected to the upper end of the elongated assembly. The upper unit includes an inlet for receiving water that is directed through the elongated assembly and the connector to regulate a water level in communication with the inlet. The connector is fluidly connected to a drain within a basin and the inlet is generally positioned below the overflow drain of the basin. The upper unit is also removably attached to the side wall of the basin and is adjustable in height along the side wall via adjusting the length of the elongated assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2009
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventor: James Trujillo
  • Publication number: 20100299830
    Abstract: An improved device for assisting a caregiver in lifting and moving a patient. The device comprises a unitary garment member having a front panel section, a rear panel section and an interconnecting central or middle panel section. The device further includes a plurality of integral, reinforced support straps that enhance the structural integrity of the garment member. The rear panel section includes two flap portions extending laterally on opposing sides of the rear panel section. The two flap portions can be pulled forward and attached to the front panel section whereby the device becomes a vest-type garment that completely surrounds the patient's torso. The improved patient assistance device includes a plurality of strategically positioned hand holds, which provide enhanced leverage enabling a caregiver to more easily assist a patient wearing the device to move from one position to another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2009
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventors: John A. Thomas, Phillip A. Clifford
  • Publication number: 20100299831
    Abstract: A collapsible bed frame that supports a box spring includes side rails and telescoping cross rails. A first hinge connects upper and lower portions of a first side rail that are each at least 35 inches long. A first portion of a cross rail telescopes inside a second portion of the cross rail, and the first portion is connected to the first hinge. Upper and lower portions of a second side rail are connected by a second hinge that includes a slot. The second portion of the cross rail has a tongue that fits into the slot on the second hinge. The side rails also have support legs with flanges that extend above the side rails when the support legs are extended. The first and second hinges also include flanges that together with the support leg flanges prevent the box spring from sliding towards either side of the bed frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2009
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventor: Youn Jae Lee
  • Publication number: 20100299832
    Abstract: A combination sleeping bag and air mattress with air bladders includes a sleeping bag having an upper layer openable and closable to a lower layer with a removable liner capable of disposition therebetween for providing additional warmth to the sleeping individual. The lower layer is embedded with a resilient cushioning member for support, and disposed adjacent the resilient cushioning member and throughout the lower layer are interconnected air bladders that when inflated contour to and conform about the individual's body for supporting muscular-skeletal areas such as the head, neck, shoulders and upper and lower lumber regions of the back. The air bladders are inflatable by a bellows and check valve arrangement located at the lower end of the sleeping bag, and the combination sleeping and air mattress includes internally extending heating conductors, a thermal control adjacent the upper end of the sleeping bag, a built-in solar powered radio AM-FM self-contained with controls and clock, and a transponder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2009
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventor: John T. Alford
  • Publication number: 20100299833
    Abstract: An exercise device with a mat portion and one or more support assemblies. The mat portion defines a plurality of through holes. Each support assembly has a support member, a support bridge, and one or more support inserts. The support member has a flat bottom and a bolster-shaped top and defines one or more cavities that extend through the bottom of the support member and into the interior of the support member. The support inserts are generally hollow and are fitted into the cavities in the support member. The support bridge defines one or more projections that extend upwards from and generally perpendicular to the top of the support bridge. Each projection is sized and shaped to fit through one of the through-holes in the mat portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2010
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: Fitness Equipment Manufacturing, LLC
    Inventor: George Kessler
  • Publication number: 20100299834
    Abstract: A urethane cup having a slot in the middle covering and completely enclosing the bed frame wheels and shaft to keep you from stumping your toes. Near the bottom of the cup is a slot which the wheel sits in. The remainder of the cup is for the shaft protection. The slot may be formed during the manufacturing as a removable unit, so the cup can be used selectively on bed frames and shafts. A simple application: lift frame and set wheel into cup slot. The lip at the opening must be extended for added safety.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2009
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventor: Fred Smith, III
  • Publication number: 20100299835
    Abstract: A massage table has a table top with a padded upper surface and support frame which supports the padded table top in a raised, generally horizontal orientation. The padded upper surface can support a male or female user in a face down, prone position on the surface, and has a first, female anatomical recess and a second, male anatomical recess. The female and male recesses are designed to receive anatomical protuberances on the female and male body, respectively, when lying face down on the table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2009
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventor: Adelaide Andrews
  • Publication number: 20100299836
    Abstract: An ordinary bed mattress used in an ordinary situation by a person unable to take refuge by himself/herself such as a patient unable to walk or bedridden patient can be used as a component of a stretcher in a disaster situation, if the mattress is contained in the mattress cover of this invention, and the person lying on it can be carried to a safe place for evacuation. This invention proposes a mattress cover for disaster time transportation, comprising a mattress inserting portion for inserting a mattress into the cover, grip portions attached to the cover at the portions corresponding to the corners of the mattress as contained within the cover, and the ends on one side of multiple fastening belts to be fastened across in the transverse direction of the mattress as contained within the cover, being fixed to the cover at the portions corresponding to the longitudinal edges of the mattress as contained within the cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2007
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: PARAMOUNT BED CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Tanaka, Akira Nishimura, Yumiko Mori, Yutaka Andou, Kouichi Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20100299837
    Abstract: Disclosed is an inflatable stretcher. The stretcher is stored in a deflated state within a frangible outer covering. A lanyard is connected to the internal gas vessel via an “external to internal” mechanical link which does not violate the vacuum seal of the stretcher's outer covering. Pulling the lanyard activates the vessel to rapidly inflate the stretcher. This inflation causes an overpressure condition within the covering that results in a progressive tear and the eventual separation of the outer covering. The stretcher can thereafter be used to transport a patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2010
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: Conax Florida Corporation
    Inventor: Tom Yandle
  • Publication number: 20100299838
    Abstract: A travel pillow comprising a front having a thin planar portion for receiving the user's head and one or two lateral forwardly projecting cushioning portions. The distance the lateral cushioning portions project forward gradually increases from the thin planar portion to a peripheral portion of the travel pillow in an arced manner. The back of the pillow comprises an anti-skid material such as silicone coated fiberglass weave which keeps the pillow stationary when the user rests his/her head against the pillow. The user places the pillow on the seat and then rest the back of his/her head on the thin planar portion of the pillow. The user can then tilt or turn his/her head in many different positions on a lateral cushion and the pillow will remain stationary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2009
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventors: Karen E. Lanci, Anna Wei Kronthal
  • Publication number: 20100299839
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a bedding or seating product (10) having a spring core (12) comprising coil springs (26) having unknotted end turns (72, 74) made from high tensile strength wire. In each embodiment, the end turns (72, 74) of the coil springs (26) are generally U-shaped having one arcuate leg (76) longer than the other (78), the legs (76, 78) being joined by a connector (80) having an arcuate bump (81) therein. The springs (26) are oriented in the spring core (12) such that a long leg (76) of one end turn (72) abuts a short leg (78) of the adjacent end turn (72) prior to be wrapped in helical lacing wire (32). The high tensile wire enables the coil springs (26) to be manufactured using less wire than heretofore possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2010
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: L&P PROPERTY MANAGEMENT COMPANY
    Inventors: Guido Eigenmann, Niels S. Mossbeck, Darrell A. Richmond
  • Publication number: 20100299840
    Abstract: The invention refers to a sensor arrangement for weight and/or movement sensing in a bed and uses thereof, to a bed and to a method of sensing weight and/or movement of a user in a bed. For the sensing of weight, activity and/or cardiopulmonary performance in a bed, force sensors (6) integrated between a bedframe (2) and a mattress frame (3) are used. The sensors are designed in a way that they can be positioned between the mattress frame and the bedframe without significantly enhancing the height of a mattress bearing surface. Thus, the integration into any bed with bedframe can be easily realized. The measurements do not require any user interaction or even direct contact between user and sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2008
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
    Inventors: Andreas Brauers, Ralf Dorscheid, Frank Johnen
  • Publication number: 20100299841
    Abstract: An arm is pivotally coupled to a support structure at one end and a patient care equipment support, such as a service head, is pivotally coupled to the arm at the other end. The arm has a first portion and a second portion coupled to the first portion for extension and retraction relative to the first portion. Brakes are provided to brake the extension and retraction of the portions of the arm, to brake the pivoting movement of the arm relative to the support structure, and to brake the pivoting movement of the patient care equipment support relative to the arm. Each of the brakes is releasable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2010
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventors: David P. Lubbers, Paul R. Weil, D. Scott Manlove, Brian J. Hoffman, Christian H. Reinke, Jonathan D. Turner, Stephen R. Hamberg
  • Publication number: 20100299842
    Abstract: A self-enclosable inflatable mattress has a mattress body, a valve and a bag. The mattress body has a sidewall and a chamber being defined in the mattress body. The valve is mounted through the mattress body. The bag is attached to the mattress body and has a surrounding sheet, at least one holding sheet and at least one fastener. The at least one holding sheet is mounted on a corresponding margin of the surrounding sheet and detachably connected to a corresponding surrounding sheet. The fastener is mounted between the surrounding sheet and the holding sheet. The self-enclosable inflatable mattress is easily stored compactly and prevents dust from contacting the mattress body during storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2009
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventor: Cheng-Chung Wang
  • Publication number: 20100299843
    Abstract: A multifunctional tactical device for fire, police, military and other tactical invasive and protective actions includes: a) a claw head having a ram region and a claw region, the ram region having a top of a predetermined width and a bottom that has a predetermined width that is at least 30% wider than the top predetermined width, the claw head having a front with a flat ram area at the ram region, and having a back with a handle attachment, the claw region having a plurality of claws extending downwardly from the bottom of the ram region; b) an elongated handle member having a proximal end and a distal end and being connected to the claw head handle attachment at the distal end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2009
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventors: John A. Dapkins, JR., Nicholas Klementowicz, III, Kenneth P. Glynn
  • Publication number: 20100299844
    Abstract: An installation tool for a drop-in anchor includes a drill bit including a first end configured as a drill for forming a hole in a workpiece for a drop-in anchor. A tool sleeve is securable to the drill bit and includes a tool pocket at least partially receptive of the drill bit therein, and a tool tip configured to drive a plug of a drop-in anchor into an installed position to secure the drop-in anchor in the workpiece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2010
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: POWERS PRODUCTS III, LLC
    Inventors: Alan J. Armiento, Robert La Barbera