Patents Issued in March 5, 2019
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Patent number: 10219631Abstract: A backrest mounted item hook and drink holder including an arm member which is extendible from a first recess within a rearward side of a backrest portion of a chair body to hang a purse or other item therefrom and a drink holder rack extendible from a second recess within the rearward side. The drink holder rack also has a pivotable upper portion with a convex exterior side and a central aperture and a pivotable lower tray portion which has a bottom end to support a lowermost end of a bottled drink container thereon while an uppermost end of the bottled drink container is retained within the central aperture. When each of the arm member and the drink holder rack is in the retracted condition, the chair body is stackable atop another chair body.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2017Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Inventor: Filemon Jimenez
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Patent number: 10219632Abstract: An activating platform is disclosed. The platform includes a curved support plate. The support plate is divided into a standing area and a sitting area, the sitting area including a chair with a mounting arrangement and a seat. The curved shape of the support plate is meant to provoke the balance of a user standing or sitting on the platform, i.e. that the user has to use the muscles actively to hold the balance. Naturally, the user will rock around in a small angle around a middle position and flex in the hips and back to maintain the balance.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2014Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Inventor: Hans Christian Mengshoel
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Patent number: 10219633Abstract: The personal flotation device is adapted for use with a person and a pet. The personal floatation device is configured for use with water. The personal flotation device provides buoyancy during water based activities. The personal flotation device is a multipurpose device that: 1) forms a seat; 2) forms a raft; and, 3) forms a plurality of flotation devices. The plurality of flotation devices are suitable for use by the person and the pet. The personal flotation device comprises a pet pad, a float, an insulated storage case, a dry storage container, and a plurality of straps. The plurality of flotation devices comprises the pet pad and the float. The plurality of straps interconnect the pet pad, the float, the insulated storage case, and the dry storage container to form the seat and the raft portions of the personal flotation device.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2017Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: D and M Asset Management, LLCInventor: Douglas Masi
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Patent number: 10219634Abstract: A supporting apparatus for a crib has two legs and a frame. Each leg has a rack. The frame is moveably mounted between the legs and has a body, two moving seats and two adjustment members. The moving seats are mounted on the body, and the legs are inserted into the moving seats respectively. The adjustment members are mounted on the moving seats respectively and engage with the racks of the legs respectively, and each adjustment member is rotatable and moveable upward and downward along a corresponding one of the racks of the legs. The supporting apparatus can be steplessly adjusted to adjust the height of a bed surface of the crib to improve safety.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2015Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: B & B BEST INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventor: Shu-Chen Wang
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Patent number: 10219635Abstract: A nut dispenser device for dispensing nuts is provided. The nut dispenser device comprises a hollow support structure having a top side, a bottom side, and an open front side. A nut holder housing is pivotally connected to the support structure with the nut holder housing having a back door pivotally connected to the nut holder housing near a top of the nut holder housing. A spring mechanism is positioned between the support structure and the nut holder housing with the spring mechanism biasing the nut holder housing in a generally upward direction. A nut collection base is mounted to the bottom side of the support structure. As the back door of the nut holder housing opens and the nuts are dispensed therethrough, and into the nut collection base by gravity for retrieval by the user.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2017Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Inventor: Salvatore C. Eso, Jr.
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Patent number: 10219636Abstract: A merchandise display hook and method for dispensing one or more items of merchandise from a merchandise display hook and/or for loading one or more items of merchandise onto the display hook are provided. The display hook may include at least one rod configured to be mounted to a display fixture and to receive one or more items of merchandise thereon. The display hook may also include a helix disposed about the rod and extending at least partially along a length of the rod. The helix is configured to rotate in a dispensing direction for dispensing the one or more items of merchandise from the rod and/or an opposite loading direction for loading the one or more items of merchandise onto the rod.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2017Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: InVue Security Products Inc.Inventors: David N. Berglund, Erik L. van Bergen, Christopher J. Fawcett
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Patent number: 10219637Abstract: A feeder device configured for mounting on a shelf for feeding successive products (p) to a front of the shelf. The device comprises an elongated guide member (10) which is configured for extending longitudinally backwards from the front of the shelf when the device is mounted. A sled (30) is slidably arranged at the guide member (10) such that the sled can slide along the length of the elongated guide member, and configured for engaging a backmost product of the successive products (P) for pushing the products towards the front of the shelf. The feeder device also comprises means (35) for urging the sled (30) along the guide member (10) towards a front end of said guide member. Indication means are arranged to indicate that the sled (30) has reached a certain position along the guide member (10).Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2016Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: HL DISPLAY ABInventors: Isak Åberg, Mårten Sjöberg
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Patent number: 10219638Abstract: A ducted shelf for an open-fronted display unit employing air curtains comprises a duct extending forwardly or rearwardly through the shelf and communicating at a forward end with a discharge or return opening, the duct being wider in the widthwise direction at the forward end than at a rearward end of the duct. Guide walls divide the duct into a group of channels disposed successively side-by-side in the widthwise direction. Each channel has a respective length reflecting a degree of widthwise offset between the rearward end and the forward end of that channel. A longer channel of the group has a greater width in the widthwise direction at its rearward and forward ends than a shorter channel of the group.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2014Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: Applied Design and Engineering Ltd.Inventors: Ian Wood, Edward Hammond
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Patent number: 10219639Abstract: A product display unit includes a track, a first sidewall, a second sidewall, and a width adjustment feature. The track defines a longitudinal axis and is configured to support a plurality of products thereon. The first sidewall is disposed adjacent the track. The second sidewall is disposed adjacent the track. The width adjustment feature is disposed in mechanical cooperation with the first sidewall. The width adjustment feature enables a distance between the first sidewall and the second sidewall to be changed. The distance is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2016Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: Display Technologies, LLCInventors: Andrew Howard, Marty Lynn Illers
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Patent number: 10219640Abstract: An enclosure for displaying artwork, historical documents, and artifacts that require controlled atmospheric conditions is provided that is low cost and less cumbersome compared to existing microclimate enclosures. The enclosure has a frame construction that is easy to set up, maintain, and monitor with a hypoxic/anoxic microclimate that protects against, oxidation of its contents, pests, and bacterial growth. The enclosure is suitable for: paintings, works on paper, ephemera, textiles, mineral specimens, archeological metallic artifacts, animal skins and other organic items, rubber and polymers, and items susceptible to insect damage. A method of testing and servicing one or more enclosures is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2014Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Inventor: Jerome Feig
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Patent number: 10219641Abstract: A bottle having a water volume measuring function comprises a bottle-lid, a bottle-body, and a measure module disposed in the bottle-lid which comprises at least a micro controller unit, a memory unit and a sound wave transceiver unit. The memory unit stores a lookup table with corresponding relationships between a plurality of frequencies and remained water volumes in the bottle-body. The sound wave transceiver unit emits sound waves with sweeping frequencies towards the bottle-body and receives reflected waves. The micro controller unit determines if any frequency of the sound waves is an air-resonance frequency according to the energy level of each of the reflected waves. When a sound wave frequency is determined as an air-resonance frequency, the micro controller unit obtains the corresponding remained water volume by checking with the air-resonance frequency in the lookup table and users can view the remained water volume without opening the bottle-lid.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2017Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: BALTEK CO., LIMITEDInventor: Tzu-Chuan Liao
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Patent number: 10219642Abstract: A beverage container lid assembly and insert enable a user to selectively control contained beverage movements when outfitted upon a beverage container. The lid assemblies all include a primary lid form having a primary beverage outlet and a secondary lid attachment cooperably engaged with the primary lid form for providing certain beverage flow diversion structure. The secondary lid attachments may be attachable to select surfacing of the primary lid forms for forming a beverage-receiving compartment intermediate the primary lid form and the secondary lid attachment in which compartment heat transfer is effected by the structural characteristics of the defined space. The lid assembly may be attached to a beverage container such that the user may manually position the secondary lid attachment relative to the primary lid form for manually and selectively position beverage flow diversion structures relative to the primary beverage outlet.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2015Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Inventor: Pavel Savenok
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Patent number: 10219643Abstract: An apparatus for dispensing a disposable glove and applying it to the hand of a user in which a stream of air drawn into an enclosed glove applying chamber through a constricted opening aligned with the heel of the glove inflates the topmost glove in a stack of gloves in the chamber so that a user can readily insert his hand into the glove. After the user has donned the glove on the hand, a wall of the chamber is opened to permit the user to readily withdraw his hand from the glove applying chamber while the air flow which originally inflated the top-most glove is disrupted. Upon closures of the chamber wall, the re-established air flow automatically inflates the next lower glove in the glove stack to prepare the next glove for receipt of another hand. The apparatus alternatively or in addition includes a glove removal chamber arranged to remove a glove from a gloved hand using a stream of air drawn into the glove removal chamber.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2017Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Inventors: David Scott Purcell, John Robert Morris
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Patent number: 10219644Abstract: A mat includes a mat body defining an upper surface dimensioned for a user to stand on the upper surface. The upper surface is non-planar and includes at least one terrain feature defining the non-planarity. The terrain feature has a size that is on the order of magnitude of the size of the user's foot. Presenting this surface to the user may help remind him or her to move his or her feet to thereby adopt multiple poses, thereby preventing the user from maintaining any single pose for a fatigue-inducing duration.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2015Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Inventors: Ryan Feeley, Christopher Perkins, Isaac Borowiec
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Patent number: 10219645Abstract: An electric food processor is of the type in which the user applies pressure to the food item against a rotary processing member (4) against during processing. A pressure indicator (10) is provided for displaying a signal at least representing the user-applied pressure.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2015Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Dieter Johann Maier, Thomas Schlug
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Patent number: 10219646Abstract: The appliance includes a chute for admitting food in a downward direction; a screw for processing foods leaving the chute, which is centered on an axis and includes an upper stage, provided with a sweeper acting on the foods leaving the chute to fragment them, and a separate lower stage to drive food fragments coming from the upper stage of the screw downward and press them; a chamber for receiving the screw, which is substantially centered on the axis and which includes an upper part, connected to the outlet of the chute to receive the foods leaving the chute and surrounding the upper stage of the screw, and a lower part, surrounding the lower stage of the screw to separate the juice from the food fragments when the latter are pressed by the lower stage of the screw; and a driving system including an electric motor for driving the screw.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2016Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: SANTOSInventors: Nicolas Fouquet, Cedric Gelin
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Patent number: 10219647Abstract: A portable coffee brewing device includes a lid pivotally connected to an upper end of the container by a hinge and button. A heating element housing and an electrical component housing is connected to a lower end of the container. A drain is positioned in a bottom wall of the container and is fluidly connected to a heating element positioned within the heating element housing. The heating element is controlled by electrical components positioned in the electrical components housing. A drip tube is fluidly connected to the heating element and the lid. A single serve coffee holding device is positioned below the lid. When the container is filled with fluid and the heating element is powered, heated fluid is forced up the drip tube through the passageway in the lid and into the coffee grounds holding device in a continuous cycle. The device is connectable to an external power source.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2018Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Inventor: Brett C. Richardson
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Patent number: 10219648Abstract: System for making an infused beverage, includes: at least one infusion assembly of a machine for preparing infused beverages; at least one capsule containing an aromatic substance for the preparation of an infused beverage through interaction with a liquid; the capsule including: a cup-shaped body with a recess having a depth for containing a predetermined amount of an aromatic substance; the body including at least one side wall and a bottom, and running around a vertical axis; the first infusion assembly including: a first infusing member, including a recess for accommodating at least partially the capsule; a second infusing member for cooperating with the first infusing member so as to at least partially close the recess to define an accommodating seat with the first infusing member; the capsule including first coupling elements; the infusion assembly including second coupling elements structured to removably engage the first coupling elements.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2016Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: SCACCO SAInventor: Emilio Alfredo Capitani
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Patent number: 10219649Abstract: The coffee machine has at least one infusion unit and at least one filter holder that is manually connected to and disconnected from the infusion unit for preparation of coffee, and it comprises at least one added support element of the filter holder for keeping it attached to the coffee machine when the filter holder is not connected to the infusion unit, said added support element comprising heating means for heating said filter holder to a predetermined temperature. The additional support element can be implemented also as a standalone element and, therefore, not connected to the coffee machine.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2015Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: CMA MACCHINE PER CAFFE' S.R.L.Inventors: Beppino Ceotto, Giovanni Rossetto
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Patent number: 10219650Abstract: A stirring member rotating around an axis of rotation in a direction of rotation together with a rotor and stirring a stirred object accommodated in an inner pot includes a stirring portion, a cross-sectional shape of the stirring portion in a cross-section orthogonal to the axis of rotation has a front end portion located foremost in the direction of rotation, and when a virtual circle centered at the axis of rotation and passing through the front end portion is drawn, a tangential straight line in the front end portion of a centerline of the cross-sectional shape is directed inward in a direction of radius of rotation on a forward side of the direction of rotation with respect to a tangent in the front end portion of the virtual circle.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2013Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yui Kumon, Masaki Ohtsuka
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Patent number: 10219651Abstract: A cooking management system is described that identifies a customer and orders a product for the customer based at least on current temporal data. The cooking management system identifies customers associated with previous product requests that occurred during a predetermined range of time based at least on a comparison of current temporal data with temporal data associated with the previous product requests. The cooking management system causes presentation of identifiers of the identified customers on a display. Responsive to determining that the identifier for a particular customer has been selected, the cooking management system automatically causes a cooking device to prepare a product for the particular customer based at least on customer data associated with the particular customer.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2015Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: Starbucks CorporationInventors: Randy Hulett, Izaak Koller, Brian Shay
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Patent number: 10219652Abstract: The present invention relates to a portable stove for burning multiple fuels comprising. The portable stove includes a burner body having a burner head, an exchangeable jet screwable into the burner head, a plurality of legs attached to the burner body, and a flame spreader detachably mounted on top of the burner head upstream the jet in the flame direction. The present invention is characterized in that the portable stove includes at least a second exchangeable jet screwable into the burner head, and the portable stove includes at least one mounting structure, wherein the second jet is supported within said mounting structure. The present invention is further characterized in that the flame spreader is attached to the portable stove with an elastic element.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2015Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: FENIX OUTDOOR DEVELOPMENT AND CSR AGInventors: Magnus Hagström, Erland Brännholm, Niklas Liljedahl, Eric Svartström
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Patent number: 10219653Abstract: A foldable and portable grilling unit includes a body and a plurality of upright corner leg members which together support the body spaced above a support surface. The body has front and back walls and opposite side walls extending between them so as to form a grilling chamber when the body is in an erected operational configuration. The side walls each are formed by a pair of panels, inner hinged connections between the panels of each pair, and outer hinged connections of the panels of each pair to the front and back walls. The panels of each side wall may be folded to convert the body to a compacted portable configuration in which it may be transported in a container sleeve by a user.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2016Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Inventor: Luis Alberto Ruiz
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Patent number: 10219654Abstract: The invention discloses a facilitated cooking method which allows it to stir and heat food on the basis of magnetic fields preferably respectively by induction cooking. A magnetic stirrer heater (110) is preferably propelled by coils (125, 128) and heated by an induction coil (110). A corresponding arrangement and a magnetic stirrer heater are disclosed as well. The combined heating and stirring arrangement can be used for automated cooking by carrying out the stirring and heating of the food according to a time schedule.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2014Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: Electrolux Appliances AktiebolagInventors: Stefano Carella, Michael Herzog, Alex Viroli
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Patent number: 10219655Abstract: A food processor driven by en electric motor includes a stirrer vessel and a stirring mechanism in the stirrer vessel, an optional heater, and also a volatile or non-volatile memory in which useful date for using the food processor can be stored. The food processor is provided with a loudspeaker and a data file is used for producing sound by the loudspeaker, for example for outputting speech, music or sounds.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2014Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbHInventors: Velina Van Der Gaag, Sabrina Hoffmann, Miron Sernecki
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Patent number: 10219656Abstract: Exemplary methods and systems for dispensing soap sanitizer or lotion as a function of hand size are disclosed herein. An exemplary dispenser for dispensing a soap, sanitizer or lotion includes a housing, a processor in the housing, a reservoir for holding fluid, a pump for pumping the fluid and a sensor for sensing a parameter that is indicative of the hand size. The exemplary dispenser also includes circuitry for determining a dose volume of fluid to be dispensed as a function of the sensed parameter that is indicative of a hand size and circuitry for causing the pump to dispense the dose volume.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2016Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: GOJO INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Keith Allen Pelfrey, Nick E. Ciavarella, Mark A. Bullock, Mark W. Moore, Jackson W. Wegelin
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Patent number: 10219657Abstract: The invention describes a method for manufacturing a portable fluid dispensing device that comprises a hand-held applicator that includes a pocket that is configured to receive one hand of a user. The pocket partitions the hand-held applicator into a rear portion and a front portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2017Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: TACTOPACK, INC.Inventors: Jonathan D. Albert, Steven Bank
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Patent number: 10219658Abstract: A towel holder assembly for holding paper towels and toilet paper includes a stand that may be vertically oriented on a support surface. The stand may be positioned adjacent to a sink. A pair of rollers is provided and each of the rollers is movably coupled to the stand. Thus, each of the rollers may be accessible from the sink. Each of the pair of rollers may selectively dispense an associated one of a roll of paper towels and a roll of toilet paper.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2016Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Inventor: Holly Simmons
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Patent number: 10219659Abstract: An inclining toilet-seat lift is an apparatus that aids and supports a user while transitioning from a standing position to a sitting position, and vice versa, in order to relieve himself or herself. The apparatus includes a U-shaped base, a plurality of supporting legs, a platform, a posterior-bracing plate, an excrement-receiving hole, and a lifting mechanism. The U-shaped base upholds the plurality of supporting legs and the lifting mechanism. The plurality of supporting legs upholds the platform and the posterior-bracing plate. The platform supports and mounts the posterior-bracing plate, which rotates about a first edge of the platform and supports a user as the user sits down and stands up. The excrement-receiving hole allows a toilet or a bucket to collect excrement without the excrement coming into contact with the platform and the posterior-bracing plate. The lifting mechanism lowers and raises the posterior-bracing plate onto and from the platform.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2017Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Inventor: Joe Armstrong
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Patent number: 10219660Abstract: A hand vacuum cleaner has a horizontally disposed cyclone with a dirt outlet provided in a lower portion of the cyclone.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2016Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: Omachron Intellectual Property Inc.Inventor: Wayne Ernest Conrad
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Patent number: 10219661Abstract: A hand vacuum cleaner has a horizontally disposed cyclone handle and the main body has a handle axis that extends upwardly and forwardly with respect to the cyclone axis of rotation.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2016Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: Omachron Intellectual Property Inc.Inventor: Wayne Ernest Conrad
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Patent number: 10219662Abstract: A hand vacuum cleaner has a front end having a dirty air inlet and a cyclone that has a cyclone axis of rotation that extends rearwardly wherein the cyclone air inlet is located at a front end of the cyclone and the cyclone air outlet is located at a rear end of the cyclone.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2016Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: Omachron Intellectual Property Inc.Inventor: Wayne Ernest Conrad
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Patent number: 10219663Abstract: A system for removing a volume of liquid including a pressure-sealed-pump-vessel, at least one liquid-aperture, a liquid-level-control-valve, a liquid-discharge, a sump-pump, a pressure-sealed-suction-vessel, and one or more vessel-connections. The one or more vessel-connections configured to fluidly couple the pressure-sealed-pump-vessel and the pressure-sealed-suction-vessel, in the preferred embodiment. The sump-pump is located within the pressure-sealed-pump-vessel and includes a pump-inlet and a pump-outlet. The pump-inlet fluidly coupled to the liquid-aperture, and the pump-outlet is fluidly coupled to the liquid-discharge. The sump-pump configured to pump the volume of liquid from the pressure-sealed-pump-vessel and from the system via the liquid-discharge to remove the volume of water from a roof surface or other similar horizontal or substantially horizontal surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2016Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Inventor: Samuel Dale Fox
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Patent number: 10219664Abstract: A vacuum cleaner and carrier assembly includes a vacuum cleaner and a carrier. The vacuum cleaner includes a housing having a suction inlet and an air outlet, an airflow passage that extends from the air inlet to the air outlet, and a suction source disposed within the housing and operable to generate a suction airflow that travels through the air inlet and through the air outlet. The vacuum cleaner also includes a battery that supplies power to the suction source to generate the suction airflow. The carrier includes a main body in which at least a portion of the housing is received and a battery receiving portion configured to receive the battery therein when the battery supplies power to the suction source.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2016Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: TTI (Macao Commercial Offshore) LimitedInventor: Robert Lauer
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Patent number: 10219665Abstract: A robotic cleaning device having main body, at least one driving wheel to move the robotic cleaning device across a surface to be cleaned, and a brush for removing debris from the surface to be cleaned. The brush is arranged on a protrusion in a front end portion of the main body. The widest part of the main body is located between the protrusion and the opposite sidewall of the main body, and within the front end portion of the main body.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2013Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: Aktiebolaget ElectroluxInventor: Anders Haegermarck
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Patent number: 10219666Abstract: A dust remover for a vacuum cleaner is provided inside a filter and is rotated by a motor. The dust remover includes: a rigid rotary member perpendicularly coupled to an output shaft of the motor to be rotated according to a rotation of the output shaft; a rotating buffer member assembled with an end portion of the rigid rotary member to be rotatable around a rotary shaft that is in parallel with the output shaft; a striking member having an end portion fixed to the rotating buffer member and another end portion contacting the filter; and an elastic member having an end portion coupled to the rotating buffer member and another end portion coupled to the rigid rotary member so as to apply an elastic recovery force to the rotating buffer member to rotate in a direction in which the rigid rotary member rotates.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2017Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Inventor: Hyun Tae Kim
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Patent number: 10219667Abstract: A vacuum cleaner may include a cleaner body including a suction motor for generating suction force, a suction unit communicating with the cleaner body and suctioning air and dust, and a battery assembly for supplying power to the suction motor. The battery assembly may include a plurality of battery cells, an inner case including a plurality of cell cases having the plurality of battery cells respectively accommodated therein and spaced apart from each other, and an outer case having the inner case accommodated therein and including a flow hole in which air flows.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2016Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Dongho Kwon, Deokwon Kang, Seonghoon Han
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Patent number: 10219668Abstract: A floor cleaning machine for cleaning a surface includes a body having a suction nozzle thereon, a handle pivotably coupled to the body and having a motor housing portion, and a suction motor assembly operable to draw fluid and dirt from the surface through the suction nozzle. The floor cleaning machine also includes a recovery tank coupled to the handle in fluid communication with the suction motor assembly to receive and store fluid and dirt drawn through the suction nozzle and an expandable hose fluidly communicating the recovery tank and the suction nozzle. The hose is in one of a retracted configuration and an expanded configuration when the handle is pivoted to a substantially upright position, and the other when pivoted to a reclined position. The hose at least partially wraps around the motor housing portion when in the expanded configuration.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2016Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: Techtronic Industries Co. Ltd.Inventors: Kevin Vail, Gavin Burnham, Jennifer Kathryn Marsden, John Bantum
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Patent number: 10219669Abstract: A wiper unit includes a retaining ring, which is arranged in a rotationally symmetric fashion about a longitudinal axis and which includes a contact portion for being received at a housing part, a primary wiper and a secondary wiper, which is axially spaced away from the primary wiper towards the secondary side. A primary lip is formed at the primary wiper and a secondary lip is formed at the secondary wiper. The primary lip and the secondary lip, in a mounted state, contact a sliding surface of a guided slide partner part in a sealing fashion, wherein the primary lip protrudes towards the primary side in a collar-like fashion and wherein the primary lip, at the side thereof facing away from the guided slide partner part, is at least sectionally conically tapered towards the primary side, wherein the primary lip comprises a contact surface arranged for abutting the sliding surface.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2016Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: Dr. Walter Hunger Beteiligungs GmbH & Co. Besitz KGInventor: Ingrid Hunger
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Patent number: 10219670Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for cleaning a surface. In one example, the method includes passing a feed liquid from a liquid source to an electrolysis cell and inducing a current through the electrolysis cell to electrochemically activate the feed liquid in the electrolysis cell. Electrolysis of the feed liquid can generate an electrochemically-activated liquid that is super-saturated with dissolved gases (e.g., oxygen and/or hydrogen) and also contains nanobubbles. In one configuration, the electrolysis cell generates a concentration of nanobubbles having a diameter of 10 nm to 450 nm of at least 1×106. The method can further involve dispensing at least one portion of the electrochemically-activated liquid to the surface.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2015Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: Tennant CompanyInventor: Mark S. Citsay
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Patent number: 10219671Abstract: A surface cleaning device including a surface-contacting assembly having a suction opening; a body; a suction source in fluid communication with the suction opening for sucking a fluid mixture of liquid and air from a surface; a rotation assembly mounted on the body for rotation relative to the body, the rotation assembly being rotationally fixed relative to the surface-contacting assembly, a separation chamber in which liquid is separated from the fluid mixture, the separation chamber providing a suction inlet in fluid communication with the suction opening, a suction outlet in fluid communication with the suction source, and a drainage outlet for connection to a receptacle for receiving liquid separated from the fluid mixture; and a receptacle for receiving liquid separated from the fluid mixture via the drainage outlet.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2014Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: Techtronic Floor Care Technology LimitedInventors: Daragh Manning, Darren Holmes, Samuel Bennett
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Patent number: 10219672Abstract: The present invention teaches multilayer cleaning articles that include a substantially dry surface contact layer and a gripping layer. The contact layer may represent one exposed major face of the cleaning article (e.g., a cleaning pad), while the gripping layer may represent the opposite exposed major face of the cleaning article. The contact layer may include abrasive synthetic fibers, so as to be effective in scrubbing soils and spills from a surface. The contact layer includes a cleaning composition pre-loaded therein. The cleaning composition is such that the contact layer feels dry to the touch prior to use, before wetting with water. The cleaning composition may include about 1% to about 40% by weight water. The gripping layer includes at least 40% by weight of pulp fibers (e.g., natural cellulose pulp fiber), and exhibits a mean hand grip value that is at least 0.015 1/in2 (reciprocal inches squared).Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2015Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: The Clorox CompanyInventors: Elisa Calimano, Daniela Fritter, Kristina Perlas, Jason White, Chosu Khin, Janiece Hope, Bernard Hill, Stephen Fisher, Kelly Dickson, William Ouellette
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Patent number: 10219673Abstract: A surface cleaning apparatus, and in particular a steam mop, comprises a steam generator and a steam outlet fluidly connected to the steam generator to deliver steam to a floor surface. Steam from the steam generator can be applied to a cleaning composition applied to a stain on the floor surface. The cleaning composition can be applied directly to the floor surface, or indirectly via a cleaning pad.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2016Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: BISSELL Homecare, Inc.Inventors: Jay M. Kellis, Kevin Haley, Jeffrey A. Scholten, Joseph Michael White
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Patent number: 10219674Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of handling process water in a household appliance (1) and to a household appliance, for example a dish washer. The household appliance comprises a wash tub (3) for performing wash program cycles and a tank (5) for storing process water to be re-used in a following program cycle, the method comprising the steps of: determining (101) the type of detergent used in the household appliance with a sensor unit (7), measuring (102) the amount of detergent in the process water with the sensor unit, comparing (105) at least one sensor unit output value with a predetermined threshold value to define the quality of the process water, and storing (106) at least a part of the process water from a rinse cycle in the tank (5) when the sensor unit output value complies with the predetermined threshold value related to the quality of the process water.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2012Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: Electrolux Home Products Corporation N.V.Inventors: Christian Lundberg, Elisabetta Bari, Monica Celotto, Guiseppe Dreossi, Sarah Tempelmann, Bernd Krische
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Patent number: 10219675Abstract: The present invention relates to a dishwasher (1) comprising a tub (2) wherein the items to be washed are placed and a door (3) providing access to the tub (2), and wherein formation of unpleasant odor in the tub (2) is prevented by way of air within the tub being circulated through an ion generator.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2010Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: ARCELIK ANONIM SIRKETIInventors: Nasir Efe Aras, Orhan Atabey
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Patent number: 10219676Abstract: A lint removing device (10), the device (10) comprising: a housing (12), a roller (14) for holding a lint-removing material (141), wherein the roller (14) and lint-removing material (141) are dimensioned and configured to be housed by the housing (12), wherein the roller (14) and housing (12) are arranged such that the roller (14) is deployable from the housing (12); and an actuator (16) coupled with or formed by either the roller (14) or the housing (12), the actuator (16) being manipulable by a user to deploy the roller (14).Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2014Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: TPL IP HOLDINGS LIMITEDInventors: Daniel Woolman, Stuart Woolman
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Patent number: 10219677Abstract: A direct visualization catheter includes an elongate shaft defining a lumen and having a distal end portion and a proximal end portion and a transparent balloon attached to the distal end portion of the shaft. The balloon includes a first layer comprising a thermoset polymer and a plurality of polymeric fibers at least partially embedded in the thermoset polymer and a second layer disposed on the first layer and comprising a hydrogel.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2016Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignees: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC, MAYO FOUNDATION FOR MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCHInventors: James P. Rohl, David R. Wulfman, Brian T. Berg, Joseph Thomas Delaney, Jr., Brian J. Tischler, Peter M. Pollak, Harold M. Burkhart, Joseph A. Dearani, Sorin V. Pislaru
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Patent number: 10219678Abstract: An insertion portion mounted tool of an insertion instrument includes: an expansion and retraction section provided on an outer circumferential side of an insertion portion so as to be movable forward and backward in a longitudinal direction, and configured to be expanded in the subject by an operation from outside of the subject to thereby be held by an inner wall of the subject; a positioning portion that defines a range in which the expansion and retraction section is movable forward and backward in the longitudinal direction with respect to the insertion portion; and a rotational movement restriction portion that restricts an angle in which the expansion and retraction section is rotationally moved in an outer circumferential direction on an outer circumference of the insertion portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2017Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Fuminori Wake
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Patent number: 10219679Abstract: An endoscope which can reduce time and labor for cleaning processing is provided. The endoscope includes: a distal end portion body which is provided on the distal end side of an insertion portion; a rotating shaft which is rotatably supported in the distal end portion body; an elevator which is coupled with one end of the rotating shaft; an elevator erecting lever which is coupled with the other end of the rotating shaft; an operating wire which rotates the rotating shaft through the elevator erecting lever by operation of an operating member and raises the elevator; a partition wall which includes a holding hole to support the rotating shaft; and a seal member which is disposed between the holding hole and the rotating shaft, at least part of the seal member being exposed to a surface side facing the elevator of the partition wall.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2016Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Toshizumi Tanaka, Tomohiro Ohki, Teruyuki Emura, Sunao Hachisuka
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Patent number: 10219680Abstract: The overtube includes a slider within an overtube body, which guides an endoscope and a treatment tool into a body cavity. An endoscope-coupled part and a treatment tool-coupled part are provided inside the slider, and the slider has a dead zone where the forward and backward movement of either the endoscope or the treatment tool does not interlock with the movement of the other and a sensing zone where the forward and backward movement of either the endoscope or the treatment tool interlocks with the movement of the other. A contact surface of the overtube body with a body wall is constituted of a wall surface member that serves as a rotation-preventing wall surface for preventing rotation in a rotational direction with an axial direction of the overtube body as a center.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2016Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Shinichi Yamakawa