Lift Patents (Class 16/416)
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Patent number: 12114825Abstract: A household appliance includes a cabinet, a door, and a handle. The cabinet includes a plurality of panels and defines an internal chamber therein. The door includes a front panel and an interior panel, the front panel and the interior panel defining a door cavity between the front panel and the interior panel. The front panel may include a handle cavity edge. The front panel can define a handle cavity at the handle cavity edge. The handle cavity edge may include a plurality of flanges angled into the door cavity. The handle may be disposed in the handle cavity and may include an outer surface and an inner surface. The handle further may include a plurality of snaps located on a periphery of the inner surface. The snaps may be lodged against corresponding flanges and may attach the handle to the front panel of the door.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2021Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.Inventor: Aldo Vincent Kremmel
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Patent number: 11982100Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a device for attaching to a door or window, comprising: a flat surface configured to attach to a door or window; an adhesive applied to the flat surface; a diagonal surface; a concave surface connecting the diagonal surface and the flat surface; and a solid body positioned between the flat surface, the diagonal surface, and the concave surface. The device may alternatively have one or more screw holes spanning the thickness of the device.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2023Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Inventor: Ryan Hudson-Peralta
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Patent number: 11708809Abstract: A filter element is provided that is preferably a side entry air filter having an air filter media pack, a housing seal and a frame that has a clamping projection, a pivot projection and/or guide members. The clamping projection can define a non-linear bearing surface that may be chevron shaped to provide for interface and potential alignment benefits. The housing seal may be a wave seal that undulates.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2022Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: PARKER-HANNIFIN CORPORATIONInventors: Brian T. Ehrenberg, John Nichols, Randel D. Harbur, James Ray Manley, Jeffrey Dufour
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Patent number: 11352810Abstract: Provided is a cabinet door-system and a locking mechanism therefore.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2018Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: KETER PLASTIC LTD.Inventor: Ishay Kagan
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Patent number: 11187007Abstract: The present invention provides a door pull assembly including an external mounting brace, a securing means to affix the brace to a door, a mounting assembly mounted with the brace, and a pull assembly mountable within the mounting assembly. The external mounting brace includes a front face and a rear wall, the rear wall securable against an interior portion of the door and a plurality of interior walls defining an enclosed cavity. The mounting assembly affixable within the enclosed cavity and including at least one fastener engaging with the fastener mating element within the external mounting brace. The pull assembly mountable in an interior space of the mounting assembly.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2019Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: National Security and Door Corp.Inventors: Mark Allen Longest, Scott Childress
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Patent number: 10501961Abstract: The present invention provides a flush pull handle affixable to a door. The handle includes a mounting brace disposed within a door, a mounting assembly including a top portion, bottom portion, first side portion and a second side portion, the mounting assembly affixable to the door via at least one fastener. The mounting assembly includes at least one mounting flange. The handle further includes a pull assembly including an assembly interior portion having a first interior side and a second interior side, the first interior side having at least one flange mount opening. The pull assembly includes an assembly face having a handle flush with the pull assembly extruding across at least a portion of the assembly interior portion.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2017Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: NATIONAL SECURITY AND DOOR CORP.Inventors: Mark Allen Longest, Scott Childress
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Patent number: 10407981Abstract: A handle is releasably secured to a rail wall by means of fasteners extending from inside the rail. An actuator shaft pushes against a contact plate to move a movable braking member to stop the rotation of a rod inside the rail.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2016Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: Hunter Douglas Inc.Inventors: Richard N. Anderson, Eugene W. Thompson, Robert E. Fisher
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Patent number: 10240858Abstract: A home appliance, particularly a domestic refrigerator, includes a container being a drawer-type movable container and having a handle for the container. The handle has a connection profile fixed to the container and a second profile fixed to the connection profile, for forming the handle.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2015Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Mustafa Ertik, Tanzer Yildizgoecer
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Patent number: 10155306Abstract: A handle with a mounting track includes a handle section. One or more legs extend from the handle section and are attachable to a surface. When the leg is attached to the surface, the handle section forms a graspable handle. A mounting track is formed along at least a portion of the handle section. The mounting track includes a base, two vertical rails extending opposite each other from the base, and two horizontal beams each extending from a different one of the vertical rails over the base toward the other horizontal beam. The horizontal beams are laterally spaced apart from each other by a first distance. The vertical rails and the horizontal beams define a track within which a retention element of a mount assembly can move.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2017Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: National Products, Inc.Inventor: Jeffrey D. Carnevali
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Patent number: 10053893Abstract: An electronic door latch includes a sensor mounted inside of an outer surface of the door. The sensor may be a proximity sensor, a touch sensor or other suitable sensor configured to determine if a user's hand is present. The door latch release system further includes a powered latch that selectively retains the door latch in a closed position. The system may include a handle formed by a flange or other structure extending across a portion of a recess or pocket in the door. The system may include a receiver that utilizes a signal from a security transmitter (e.g. keyless entry fob).Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2018Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Rajesh K. Patel, Kosta Papanikolaou
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Patent number: 9883745Abstract: A structural arrangement is provided in the form of a bracket for fastening a profile handle, wherein the bracket is constructed and arranged to be fastened by a fastening screw on a top edge of a front wall of a door or a drawer and contains a passing hole able to receive the fastening screw and a pair of side recesses. The pair of side recesses configures a rail for fitting and sliding a pair of tines existing in an inner region of a base of the profile handle, and the bracket includes other features such as having three of four edges of the bracket comprises removable tabs, a rectangular shape, and a configuration wherein the passing hole is positioned in an internal end of the bracket, the internal end being opposite to the edge of the bracket has one of the removable tabs.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2015Date of Patent: February 6, 2018Assignee: CERMAG COMERCIAL IMPORTADORE E EXPORTADORA LTDA.Inventor: José Luis Gonzales
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Patent number: 9021660Abstract: A handle has at least one fastening plate or holding part which can be fastened in a through-hole in a thin wall such as a sheet-metal wall by means of snap devices. According to the invention, the fastening plate forms or carries a pivot bearing for the at least one end of a handle, or the like, which is bent, for example, from a round material such as thick wire, this end having a round cross section.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2008Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Inventor: Dieter Ramsauer
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Patent number: 8307515Abstract: The description relates to a handle shell to be installed in an opening in a thin wall such as a sheet-metal door leaf, a side wall of a sheet-metal cabinet, or the like, with a flange part, fastening elements proceeding from or being received in the flange part for fastening the flange part to the thin wall, and with a shell part. According to the invention, the flange part and shell part are two separate structural component parts, the flange part has a first flange supported on the edge of the opening in the thin wall, and the shell part of the handle shell has another flange which is enclosed in such a way by the first flange part after being installed that it extends between the thin wall and the first flange part.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2007Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Inventor: Dieter Ramsauer
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Patent number: 8001656Abstract: A handle has at least one holding plate which can be mounted in an opening in a thin wall such as a sheet-metal cabinet door, a head part, such as a flange or olive-shaped handle, which overlaps the rim of the opening of the thin wall on its (outer) side, and a body part which proceeds from the head part and can be pushed through the opening in the thin wall, and a holding part which is carried by the body part, supported on the other (rear) side of the thin wall, and is separate from the body part, wherein the holding part is formed by holding elements which project in a flexible manner from the body part in the direction of its outer surface and whose free end has an inclined surface for supporting the body part on the rim or edge of the opening without play.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2005Date of Patent: August 23, 2011Inventor: Dieter Ramsauer
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Patent number: 7798486Abstract: An image forming apparatus may include an image forming mechanism to form an image and to transfer the image onto a recording sheet and a container configured to contain the recording sheet. The container may include a container part, a handle attachment part, and/or a handle. The handle may be attached to the handle attachment part. The handle may be attachable to and detachable from the container and to pull out the container from the image forming apparatus. The handle may include an insertion part, a handle part, and/or a grip. The insertion part is configured to attach the handle to the container. The handle part may be configured to protrude from a front surface of the container and to include a through-hole and a grip to be held through the through-hole.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2006Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Koichi Hasegawa, Shinichi Kato, Shigeru Horiguchi
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Patent number: 7784208Abstract: The display panel has an outer surface to which a sign may be attached and an inner surface having a fastener composed of resiliently deformable material. An end of the fastener is separated from the display panel by a slit which is adapted to receive an outer plate of a conventional door handle The outer plate is held in the slit by the resiliently deformable composition of the fastener. The plate may however be removed from the slit by the application of a force opposed to the bias of the resilient material in order to widen the slit.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2008Date of Patent: August 31, 2010Inventor: Peter J. Thompson
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Patent number: 6748627Abstract: A loudspeaker assembly comprising a cabinet and a grille in which the grille is at least secured in part to the cabinet sides by a pair of handgrips that are shaped and sized to permit lifting of the unit using fingers of a hand.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2002Date of Patent: June 15, 2004Assignee: Boston Acoustics, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Kotsatos, Doug Hogue, David G. Kroll, Stephen Mills, Carol Catalano
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Patent number: 6464095Abstract: The storage chest of the present invention comprises: a box portion having opposed front and rear walls, a pair of opposed side walls; and a floor attached to the front, rear and side walls to form a storage cavity; and a lid pivotally interconnected with the rear wall. The lid includes: a generally planar top panel; and a front panel merging with and extending generally perpendicularly to the top panel. The front panel includes a recess formed by a horizontally disposed face and a vertically disposed face positioned below and merging with the horizontally disposed face. The top panel and front panel are integrally formed from a unitary member of substantially constant thickness.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2001Date of Patent: October 15, 2002Assignee: Delta Consolidated IndustriesInventor: Richard A. Samsel
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Patent number: 6209739Abstract: The storage chest of the present invention comprises: a box portion having opposed front and rear walls, a pair of opposed side walls; and a floor attached to the front, rear and side walls to form a storage cavity; and a lid pivotally interconnected with the rear wall. The lid includes: a generally planar top panel; and a front panel merging with and extending generally perpendicularly to the top panel. The front panel includes a recess formed by a horizontally disposed face and a vertically disposed face positioned below and merging with the horizontally disposed face. The top panel and front panel are integrally formed from a unitary member of substantially constant thickness.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 1999Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Assignee: Delta Consolidated IndustriesInventor: Richard A. Samsel