Patents Issued in April 5, 2016
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Patent number: 9301579Abstract: In a waterproof slide fastener, fastener elements are formed using a synthetic resin which contains a silicone resin or a fluorine-based resin, and a water repellant agent is applied to waterproof tapes and the fastener elements and hence, the waterproof slide fastener can exhibit a water-repellent effect brought about by the waterproof tapes and a water-repellent effect brought about by the fastener elements. Accordingly, it is possible to properly prevent the intrusion of a liquid through a gap formed between the left and right fastener elements and a gap formed between the fastener element and the waterproof tape.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2012Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: YKK CorporationInventors: Takaaki Fujii, Kiyomasa Segawa
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Patent number: 9301580Abstract: Disclosed is a sliding element for use with jewelry including a plate body, a sliding flange extending from a first lateral edge of the plate body, and a crimping flange extending from a second lateral edge of the plate body. The plate body, the sliding flange, and the crimping flange can be stamped from a uniform flat metal sheet.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2014Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: Alex and Ani, LLCInventor: Carolyn A. Rafaelian
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Patent number: 9301581Abstract: An umbrella with a canopy rotating function comprises a central shaft, an upper nest assembly, a lower nest assembly, a canopy unit. The upper nest assembly comprises an upper nest body, a fastener and a movable upper nest. The lower nest assembly comprises a pulley seat, a lower nest body and a movable lower nest. Thus, in an opened state, the upper nest body and the lower nest body are connected and positioned, and the canopy unit can link with the movable upper nest and the movable lower nest, so that the movable lower nest and the movable upper nest synchronously rotate relatively to the central shaft.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2015Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Inventors: Ping-Tung Su, Shih-Shin Kuo
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Patent number: 9301582Abstract: An umbrella is formed of an elongated shaft having a first end and an opposite second end and a runner slidably disposed about the elongated shaft. The umbrella includes a rib assembly including a plurality of ribs that are attached to the runner by a plurality of struts that move between open and closed positions. In accordance with the present invention, the elongated shaft has a cross-sectional shape defined by a plurality of curved sections and a plurality of planar sections interspersed between the plurality of curved sections for providing increased torsional strength to the elongated shaft. At least one of the ribs can have a cross-sectional shape defined by a plurality of curved sections and a plurality of planar sections interspersed between the plurality of curved sections for providing increased torsional strength to the at least one rib.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2013Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: SHEDRAIN CORPORATIONInventors: David Ryan Haythornthwaite, Andrew Paul Haythornthwaite
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Patent number: 9301583Abstract: A storage container includes a main body and a cover. The main body includes a first recessed portion and an outer edge portion. The first recessed portion has an opening portion and is bounded by a first bottom surface portion and a first peripheral wall portion including a first wall portion. The outer edge portion protrudes further than the first wall portion on an outer periphery side of the storage container with respect to the first wall portion. The first wall portion has a groove portion and at least one first hole portion. The groove portion is formed on a protruding end portion of the first wall portion in a position separated from an edge of the first recessed portion toward the outer edge portion. The at least one hole portion opens onto the protruding end portion, communicates with the groove portion and is separated from the first recessed portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2014Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasutoshi Kano, Kazuma Hojo
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Patent number: 9301584Abstract: A carrying case assembly for positioning an electronic device to take a self portrait includes a housing structured to insertably receive the electronic device. An arm is movably coupled to the housing. The arm is positionable between a deployed position and a stored position. The arm is positionable in an extended position after the arm is positioned in the deployed position. The arm may be gripped by a user. The electronic device is retained a selected distance away from the user.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2014Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Inventor: Shane Butts
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Patent number: 9301585Abstract: A bag assembly includes a base member configured to be releasably coupled to a horizontal surface to maintain a position of the bag assembly with respect to the surface. The bag assembly further includes a support member attached to and extending outwardly from the base member. A bag member is disposed adjacent the support shaft and includes at least one compartment, the compartment having at least two openings for access into the compartment. The bag member rotates about the support shaft to access the at least two openings.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2012Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Inventor: Robert Fulmer
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Patent number: 9301586Abstract: A ponytail holder includes a first body member, a second body member movably coupled to the first body member with a hinge member, and a fastening member to secure the first body member to the second body member, wherein the first body member and the second body member form a conical shape, in a closed state.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2014Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Inventor: Franzine Jones
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Patent number: 9301587Abstract: An apparatus and system for preparing a hair coloring includes a graduated syringe and a container filled with a pigmented hair dye. The container includes an air-tight chamber and an opening, and also includes an engagement mechanism for installing the container on a rack for support. An air-tight reclosing seal at the opening allows the syringe to engage the air-tight reclosing seal, and extract the hair dye from the air-tight chamber. When the syringe is disengaged from the container, the air-tight reclosing seal closes off the air-tight chamber and permitting a known quantity of the hair dye to be withdrawn from the container into the syringe, allowing an accurate and repeatable quantity of hair dye to be dispensed from the container.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2014Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Inventor: Stephen D'Amico
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Patent number: 9301588Abstract: Hair or partial hair removal system and hair growth deterrent that includes mechanical process for cutting, plucking or shaving hair follicles, along with pre and/or post skin treatment techniques. The skin treatment techniques can include the application of energy to the skin surface before, after and/or during the application of the mechanical process. Such techniques include the application of heat and/or energy from illumination sources and/or RF emitters. Further skin treatment techniques include the application of solutions before, after and/or during the mechanical process and/or the application of heat and/or energy. Overall, the system operates to treat an area of skin to facilitate the removal of all or a portion of hair, retard further growth, and recovery of skin surface.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2013Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: Syneron Medical LTDInventors: Shimon Eckhouse, Tuvia Dror Kutscher
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Patent number: 9301589Abstract: A method of manufacturing a cosmetic applicator formed of a substrate and an application element comprising one or more application areas that are cohesively maintained on the substrate in a gapless, side-by-side formation in the presence of wet and/or dry binders. The substrate is subjected to a wetting agent that provides a better bind for the cosmetic slurries as they are printed onto their respective application area. The cosmetic compositions of each cosmetic application area may be different. Various cosmetic effects may be provided to end-users in a portable application.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2008Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: Aon Products, Inc.Inventors: Catholyn T. Griffiths, Leonard V. Lange, Thomas R. Burtzlaff, Raheel Khan
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Patent number: 9301590Abstract: A retractable cosmetic pencil including a barrel, godet, lower threaded portion and an end cap is disclosed. The godet can be configured to move longitudinally within the barrel. The lower threaded portion can be configured to be coupled to the godet. The end cap can be configured to be coupled to the lower threaded portion. An injection receiving opening can formed in the closed end of the end cap, wherein the injection receiving opening is configured to receive an injection nozzle such that the retractable cosmetic pencil can be backfilled when the godet is in a retracted position relative to the lower threaded portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2014Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: INTERNATIONAL COSMETIC SUPPLIERS LTDInventor: David Julian Cave Thompson
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Patent number: 9301591Abstract: A dual end liquid applicator including a reservoir handle having a first opening defined at a first end, a second opening defined at a second end opposing the first end, a first head member, and a second head member is provided. The reservoir handle defines an internal cavity for storing a dispensing liquid. The first head member is operably connected at the first opening at the first end of the reservoir handle. The second head member is operably connected at the second opening at the second end of the reservoir handle. The first head member and the second head member, when rolled over a contact surface, transfer and dispense the dispensing liquid from the internal cavity of the reservoir handle through the first opening at the first end of the reservoir handle and the second opening at the second end of the reservoir handle respectively, to the contact surface.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2013Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Inventor: Sheherazade Sohrabpour King
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Patent number: 9301592Abstract: A multi-purpose makeup applicator. The applicator includes a handle, a hollow elongated shaft extending longitudinally outward from the handle, a first applicator located within the shaft and a second applicator formed on the shaft. The first applicator comprises an elongated member, affixed to the handle at one end, and an applicator tool affixed to a second, opposite end. The elongated member of the first applicator is a retractable eyeliner tool for applying cosmetics around the eyes. The second applicator is coupled to the distal end of the shaft and comprise bristles extending outwardly from the shaft forming a brush used to apply cosmetics, such as mascara. A twist and slide mechanism may be located in the handle for retracting and/or extending the first applicator. The second applicator can retract/extend into/out of the elongated shaft or can remain in a permanent extended position.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2013Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: M.Y.H LTDInventor: Melanie Yeh Hofmann
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Patent number: 9301593Abstract: A packaging system for a cosmetic product is disclosed. The system includes a reservoir for holding a cosmetic product. The reservoir defines an open end of the reservoir and a closed end opposite the open end of the reservoir. The system further includes a casing positioned at least partially over the reservoir, wherein at least a portion of the casing is transparent for observing the reservoir through the casing, and wherein a size and/or shape of the reservoir as observed through the casing appears different than an actual size and/or shape of the reservoir.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2013Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: L'OREALInventors: Zachary Mahoney, Wenzhen Cheng, Anthony Drouin, Thomas Kearney, Ludovic LeCaro
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Patent number: 9301594Abstract: A convertible placemat and carrier having a generally planar flexible sheet with a center portion for supporting an object, preferably food and beverage products. The carrier also includes a plurality of spaced-apart slits arranged in a plurality of concentric rings extending radially outward from the center portion of the sheet. The remaining portion of the sheet between the slits is interconnected to form a lattice structure. The sheet is moveable from a flat planar configuration to an expanded configuration in the form of a carrier. An object is held in the center of the sheet and handle portions are moveable upwardly away from the center portion and the sheet expands via the lattice structure to form a carrier for holding the object placed in the center portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2014Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Inventors: Susan D. Scior, William G. Weber
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Patent number: 9301595Abstract: A device holster may accommodate different sized devices, such as guns, weapons, tools, etc. One example configuration may include a front cover that includes a number of engaging snap portions and a molded surface area that provides a cavity shaped as a hand gun barrel and hand gun trigger housing, and a rear cover with a larger surface area than the front cover which provides a rear cover including a number of layers including a first layer composed of a first material, a middle layer composed of a second material and a third layer composed of a third material, and the second material of the middle layer is different from the first material of the first layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2014Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Inventor: Thomas Tedder
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Patent number: 9301596Abstract: An attachment assembly for an electronic device attaches to an electronic device, such as a cell phone, to prevent a user from dropping, losing or breaking the electronic device. The assembly includes a housing having a top wall, a bottom wall and a perimter wall coupled to and extending between the top wall and the bottom wall. A tether is retractable into and out of the housing. The tether has a first end extending outwardly of the housing. A connector is coupled to the first end of the tether. The connector is configured for releasably attaching an electronic device to the tether.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Inventor: Steven Parker
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Patent number: 9301597Abstract: A hand tool assembly, such as a push broom, includes an elongated work head defining a width and having a slot formed therein extending in a direction along the width. A handle includes an end portion slidably mounted in the slot such that the end portion is movable between a first position and a second position. A fastening mechanism releasably secures the end portion of the handle to the work head when the end portion is in the first position.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2014Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Inventor: Leo William Heintschel
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Patent number: 9301598Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are described for acquiring, among other things, lesion information from a hair or fur-covered region of a biological subject.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2013Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: Elwha LLCInventors: Roderick A. Hyde, Gary L. McKnight
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Patent number: 9301599Abstract: An inclinable desk device includes a panel that may be used to support an object. Each of a pair of mounts is configured for being coupled to a support surface. The panel is slidably adjustable relative to the mounts to achieve a desired angle with respect to the support surface.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2015Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Inventor: Rick Ritchie
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Patent number: 9301600Abstract: A glider consisting preferably of a silicone molded platform with eight roller balls strategically placed on the undersurface of the platform. The glider provides a mobile cushion to support a wrist, elbow or forearm while actively mousing, drawing, or performing other tasks. The glider can be used independently or with a cushion positioned on the top of the platform. It can be placed under the wrist to help alleviate repetitive stress injuries such as carpal tunnel by maintaining the wrist in a neutral position. Versatility is offered by allowing use of the glider alone, cushioning alone, or combinations of glider and cushioning with various cushions.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2015Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Inventor: Jatinder Singh Duggal
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Patent number: 9301601Abstract: A hands-free reading holder, comprising a frame assembly, including a first frame member and a second frame member adjustably connected to the first frame member, in which the first frame member includes a transverse shaft; a handbag which accommodates the frame assembly and includes a handles member and a reading-object holder assembly, including a holder member; and a connecting member, in which the holder member carries a reading object, and the connecting member is adjustably connected between the holder member and the transverse shaft, wherein the first frame member, the second frame member, and the reading-object holder assembly each include movable joints thereby providing a plurality of rotary shafts for the holder member.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2015Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Inventor: Ren-Yang Pan
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Patent number: 9301602Abstract: An overbed table holder system that allows a patient to dispose personal trash or hold a container filled desirable objects to a patient lying in a hospital bed. The system includes a moveable overbed table, a bag or container holding, an intermediate member disposed between the bag and container holding member and the table's perimeter side edge, and a ring element that receives either a disposable trash bag or a container holder. The ring element is connected to the intermediate member that temporarily snap fits against the perimeter side edge and over the table. During use, a disposable trash bag or one of two types of container holders may be placed over the ring element. Objects or containers may be placed inside the container holder. The intermediate member is forced against the perimeter side edge at a desired location to hold the bag or a container. The intermediate member may be easily moved to any location along the perimeter side edge and remove entirely for cleaning.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2013Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Inventor: Stewart Cardon
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Patent number: 9301603Abstract: A collapsible storage cabinet having an improved structure and assembly technique is disclosed. The storage cabinet is designed to collapse to a compact size to minimize required shipping and retail space usage, while providing for ease of assembly by a consumer and improved structural design via recessed top and bottom walls. The collapsible storage cabinet includes a collapsible subassembly having a front wall, an opposing back wall, and a pair of folding sidewalls extending between and coupling the front wall and back wall. Top and bottom walls are selectively secured to the subassembly to maintain the cabinet in a fully assembled state.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2014Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: QUALITY CRAFT INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Vincent George Koehn, Barry Kane Retchloff
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Patent number: 9301604Abstract: A shelf extender that is designed to be connected to a shelf of an existing shelf system to increase a total depth of a shelf of the shelf system. The shelf extender includes a body portion and a connection arrangement. The shelf extender can include one or more legs and/or support flanges. The body portion has a generally flat and planar top surface. The top surface generally has a depth that is less than a depth of a top surface of the shelf. The connection arrangement generally lies in the same plane as the top surface of the body portion. The connection arrangement is connected to the body portion and includes a connector designed secure the connection arrangement to a top surface of the existing shelf.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2014Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: Nestec S.A.Inventors: Aaron Misener, Curtis Taylor
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Patent number: 9301605Abstract: An end unit has an end wall and first and second side walls forming a corner. One end of an L-shaped rail with first and second flanges seats in the corner against the end wall, with the flanges flat against the side walls. One side wall has a protrusion abutting the first flange to restrict movement of the rail away from the other side wall. The first side wall has a tab in a slot in the first flange, engaging the flange on a side of the slot away from the end wall, preventing movement of the rail away from the first side wall, while permitting movement of the rail away from the end wall to a position where the tab aligns with the slot to permit movement of the rail away from the first side wall. A pin in aligned holes prevents the movement away from the end wall.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2014Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: Middle Atlantic Products, Inc.Inventors: Nico Corbo, John Franetovich, Richard Fluhr
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Patent number: 9301606Abstract: Thorough optimization and improvement have been made on the basis of original closed-shelf stack room by the unattended full-automatic book management system of the invention. The concept of a book basket is brought in to process an order of each borrower in a batch. The device is simplified and the efficiency of single functional part is enhanced during the period of storing books, taking books, returning books, conveying a book basket and transmission, thereby the functions of the whole system being optimized. The system includes bookracks, a laneway vehicle, a laneway vehicle interface, a transmission device, a book taking window, and a book returning window, and further includes a book basket and a book box independent of the bookracks.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2013Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: Beijing Institute of TechnologyInventors: Fan Zhang, Yongfa Zhang
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Patent number: 9301607Abstract: A combination toy chest and play station includes a toy chest defining an interior space, a lid hingedly connected to toy chest for enclosing the interior space, and a table hingedly connected to the toy chest. The table is pivotable about the toy chest between a vertical orientation and a horizontal orientation.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2015Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Inventor: Joyce McLaurin
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Patent number: 9301608Abstract: A storage including a main body with a storeroom. The storeroom having a first opening and a second opening opposite to the first opening. The storeroom also having a first drawer that is drawn through the first opening and a second drawer drawn through the second opening. The storeroom further having a storage basket provided between the first drawer and the second drawer, where the storeroom restricts one of the first and second drawers from being drawn in a state in which the other is drawn. When the first drawer is drawn, the storage basket is drawn through the first opening together with the first drawer, and when the second drawer is drawn, the storage basket is drawn through the second opening together with the second drawer.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2014Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Yang Jic Lee, Sang Chul Lee, Yeong Sook Chae
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Patent number: 9301609Abstract: A pull-out guide for a furniture part which is pulled out of a basic furniture structure having first and second guide rails, the second guide rail is mounted for displacement over a displacement distance, in and counter to a displacement direction. A braking action of the second guide rail is damped at least at one end of the displacement distance by a stop damper against which a mating stop element runs up. The stop damper includes a lever mounted for pivoting about a pivot axis on the guide rail on which the stop damper is arranged, and has first and second lever arms which can be flexed elastically for damping the braking action of the second guide rail. At a limit value for the pivoting action of the first lever arm, an overload-stop device takes effect and limits the pivoting action of the first lever arm about the pivot axis.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2014Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: FULTERER Gesellschaft mbHInventors: Wolfgang Muller, Edwin Grubel
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Patent number: 9301610Abstract: An easy-to-assemble, easy-to-break down boltless shelving system including a rack and shelves on which articles can be stored and displayed. The boltless shelving system has upstanding corner posts located at the four corners of the rack by which back and side panels can be slidably and removably attached to the rack to enclose three sides thereof. Each upstanding corner post of the rack has a pair of flat faces that extend from one another at an angle. The outer ends of the flat faces are bent to form longitudinally-extending flanges that run along opposite sides of each of the corner posts. The flanges have a generally L-shaped profile to create guide channels. Panels are pushed downwardly and into receipt by the guide channels of opposite facing flanges of a pair of adjacent corner posts, whereby to enclose the rack of the shelving system on any number of sides thereof.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2015Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Inventor: Christopher H. Berry
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Patent number: 9301611Abstract: A leg and foot support structure applied to tiltable armchairs, comprised of a quadrangular rigid structure, said quadrangular rigid structure being lifted by means of feet; a pivotable quadrangular articulated frame for supporting the feet that is assembled on the front half and within said rigid structure; moving parts of said structure being operated by driving assemblies comprised of articulated arms connected and actuated simultaneously by a driving unit. An inner sliding frame composed of two quadrangular structures that slide over each other through articulated arms pivoted to the respective structures and to a rigid articulated frame that is angularly moved in order to be underneath a seat structure; said quadrangular structures start their relative slippage only after the articulated rigid frame reaches an end of its angular displacement.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2010Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Inventor: Percival Lafer
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Patent number: 9301612Abstract: A chair includes a unitary shell defining a seat portion and a riser portion. The riser portion is generally normal to the seat portion. The chair further includes a back support and a flexible coupling that couples a portion of the back support to a portion of the riser portion. The flexible coupling includes a cushion between the portion of the back support and the portion of the riser portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2013Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: Grand Rapids Chair CompanyInventors: John M. Kaloustian, Ryan E. Haase
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Patent number: 9301613Abstract: A mobile seat system for positioning a user low to a ground surface and enabling the user to move about as needed. The system features a base with a plurality of caster wheels and a cushion that is removably attached to the base via a screw-like mechanism. The cushion may have a back support component to help support the user's back.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2014Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Inventor: Melloyde Mattis
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Patent number: 9301614Abstract: In accordance with one embodiment a marsh duck hunting stool, comprised of unitary construction having no detachable members, provides a compact, lightweight, floatable structure, with simple functionality, primarily used in a duck marsh environment. The stool includes a horizontally oriented seat platform with a single, elongated, vertically oriented support member. The support member comprises two tubular members, one sliding within the other, providing a plurality of seat height settings. A foot and stake assembly is pivotally disposed on the bottom end of the sliding tubular member. The foot and stake assembly limits soft soil penetration and provides fore and aft/side to side stability. The sliding tube rotates within the foot and stake assembly thereby providing 360 degree pivot of the seat platform.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2014Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Inventors: Ronald Lee Christopher, Andrew Wesley Christopher
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Patent number: 9301615Abstract: A seating structure includes a backrest member having an upper edge, opposite side edges and a lower edge. The backrest member has a forwardly facing convex shape formed along a vertical centerline thereof between the upper and lower edges. The lower edge has a forwardly facing concave shape. The lower edge has outer portions positioned forwardly of an entirety of the upper edge.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2014Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: Herman Miller, Inc.Inventors: Yves Behar, Bret Recor, Naoya Edahiro, Qin Li, Andrew J. Kurrasch, Christopher C. Hill, John Matthai, Brock Walker
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Patent number: 9301616Abstract: A chair is provided that is configurable to provide a substantially horizontal seating surface when the chair is disposed on an angled ground surface. The chair comprises a back frame having a pair of telescoping back legs including an upper back leg tube and a lower back leg tube slidingly disposed within the upper back leg tube. The chair additionally includes a pair of locking mechanisms comprising a locking key that includes a locking aperture through which the respective lower back leg tube extends. Each locking mechanism is structured and operable to selectively position the respective locking key in an engaged position that binds the lower back leg tube such that the lower back leg tube cannot slide into the upper back leg tube, and a disengaged position that allows the lower back leg tube to freely slide within the upper back leg tube.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2015Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Inventor: Greg A. Miller
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Patent number: 9301617Abstract: A one-piece office chair made of plastic with an adjusting apparatus comprises a middle axle seat, a seat frame, a back frame, and two armrests which are formed in one-piece to complete the entire chair frame. Furthermore, an adjusting apparatus is applied to provide supports and elasticity for the chair frame, enabling the back frame to adjust the angle in accordance with users' movements, featuring the present invention as an ergonomic design of comfortable seating with easy assembly and light weight.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2014Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Inventor: Yung-Hua Chen
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Patent number: 9301618Abstract: A connector for coupling an exercise device to a five-leg chair includes a plate having a wheel hole, and an exercise device coupler. The coupler may include a plurality of wheel holes. The exercise device coupler may include pin slots.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Inventor: Christoph Leonhard
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Patent number: 9301619Abstract: Apparatus and methods for providing a stool with a seat, a spring device, a leg connected to spring device, and an engagement surface disposed at a distal end of the leg.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2014Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: Butterfly Therapy Solutions, LLCInventors: Nathan Myron Verdier, Mollie Michelle Verdier
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Patent number: 9301620Abstract: A hunting seat includes a base coupled to a tube structure. The base has a first surface and a second surface. A seat has attached pivotally thereto an adjustment tube having a plurality of adjustment holes disposed within. The seat has a seating surface configured to support a person and a seat underside surface opposite to the seating surface. In a substantially flat ground use, the base is disposed with the first surface facing the seat underside surface and the adjustment tube disposed within and pinned to a tube of the tube structure. In a sloped ground use, the base is disposed with the second surface facing the seat underside surface and the adjustment tube pinned in a pair of brackets pivotally mounted to a section of the base. A method of operating a hunting seat is also described.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2013Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Inventor: Michael Earl Emrich
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Patent number: 9301621Abstract: A collapsible marsh stool comprises a seat, an anchoring post and a pair of retaining flanges depending from the underside of the seat, in a deployed configuration the anchoring post fitting in an opening in the top end of a telescoping support leg, and the support leg received in the center hole of a mud plate such that the mud plate is slidingly disposed on the leg, upward movement of the mud plate limited by a stop on the leg, and a collapsed configuration in which the mud plate is disposed adjacent the seat's underside with the anchoring post removably received in the mud plate's center hole, the leg removably retained in the apertures of the retaining flanges, and the side edge of the mud plate captured between the leg and the underside of the seat.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2014Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Inventors: Theodore William Barstad, Sean P. McDermott
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Patent number: 9301622Abstract: The systems and methods described herein include a shell that fits around the mattress of an adjustable bed. The shell may help cover unsightly pivot joints and motors that are part of the adjustable bed. The shell may help hold the mattress in place during the operation of the adjustable bed, or when a user exits or enters the bed. The shell may further help keep the shape of the mattress and prevent the mattress from sagging with time and use. Additionally, the systems and methods described herein include for providing additional features in the shell. Such features may help the user be more comfortable in the adjustable bed, and improve the user's quality of life. These features may be especially useful for patients confined an adjustable bed for prolonged periods of time, such as in a hospital or elderly home care.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2010Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: DREAMWELL, LTD.Inventor: Anne Kozel
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Patent number: 9301623Abstract: A portable baby change apparatus (10) may include a first part (20), adapted to be removably suspended from a support structure (110); a second part (30), pivotably attached to the first part (20), and providing at least a portion (32) of a surface for changing a baby; wherein the first and second parts (20, 30) are pivotable relative to each other, between a closed configuration wherein the first part (20) covers said portion (32) of said surface, and an open configuration wherein, when the first part (20) is suspended from a support structure (110), said surface (32) is substantially horizontal. Extension parts (40), coupled to the second part (30), are movable relative to the second part (30) between a first position and a second position wherein, the extension parts (40) provide further portions (42) of said surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2015Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: HERDTEX PRODUCTS LTDInventor: George Kenneth Herdman
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Patent number: 9301624Abstract: A foldable play yard apparatus is provided. The play yard includes a frame having a plurality of upright posts. The posts have a top, a bottom, and a clamp connected to at least one longitudinal side of the post. The play yard further includes a flexible enclosure having a plurality of edges inserted in the clamps to form walls between the upright posts. The clamp includes: a housing having an opening for receiving the edge of the enclosure and defining an interior channel within the housing; a flag piece, which is positioned in the interior channel of the housing, connected to the edge of the enclosure; and a locking piece positioned across the interior channel from the flag piece. A frictional engagement between the locking piece and the flag piece maintains the flag piece and the edge connected thereto within the interior channel.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2013Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: Thorley Industries LLCInventors: Jared A. Rosenthal, Elijah M. Wiegmann, Robert D. Daley, Frederick Karl Hopke, Henry F. Thorne
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Patent number: 9301625Abstract: A hanger for displaying floor mats includes a main body portion and at least one post extending from the main body portion for receiving at least one floor mat. The hanger further includes a locking member hingedly coupled with the body portion and selectively movable between a first configuration disengaged from the post, and a second configuration engaging the post to capture a floor mat supported on the post.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2014Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: Kraco Enterprises, LLC.Inventors: John J. Fiumefreddo, Alexandria R. Hill, Kenneth A. Gross
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Patent number: 9301626Abstract: A classification device (2) for identification of articles (3) in an automated checkout counter is presented. The device comprises a memory unit (5) capable of storing digital reference signatures, each of which digital reference signatures corresponds to an article identity, a processor (6) connected to the memory unit (5), and at least one sensor (4, 7, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 24) configured to determine a measured signature of an article (3) wherein said processor (6) is configured to compare said measured signature with the digital reference signatures, and to calculate a matching probability of a predetermined number of article identities.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2011Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: ITAB Scanflow ABInventors: Magnus Tornwall, Carl Von Sydow, Johan Moller, Erik Kooi, Hugo Boiten
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Patent number: 9301627Abstract: Certain embodiments disclose a corral and enclosure defined by three members having an opening configured to hold one or more shopping carts and display one or more advertisements, with two substantially parallel walls of different lengths and advertisement panels affixed on the walls, such that they are staggered. The staggered arrangement of the at least two advertisement panels facilitates better visibility and allows the simultaneous viewing of at least two advertisement panels. The longer member also further protects vehicles parked on its side from colliding with shopping carts.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2015Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: Starlite Media, LLCInventor: Harold Lueken
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Patent number: 9301628Abstract: Some embodiments disclose a corral configured to hold one or more shopping carts and display one or more advertisements. The corral can include: (a) an enclosure having an opening configured to receive the one or more shopping carts, the enclosure having a first side; and (b) at least one first panel located at the first side and configured to display at least a first advertisement of the one or more advertisements. The advertising panels can be configured to be coupled adjacent the opening of the corral to facilitate better visibility.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2015Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: Starlite Media, LLCInventor: Joseph Allen