Stacked Articles Patents (Class 211/49.1)
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Patent number: 11957244Abstract: Chest of drawers includes a fixed structure which defines at least one housing configured to house at least one moveable drawer configured to have a closed position with respect to the fixed structure in which the drawer is completely contained inside the housing and an open position in which at least part of the drawer protrudes outside the housing. The chest of drawers includes a first identification element visible from the outside of the fixed structure configured to provide information regarding the contents of the drawer.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Dental Art S.P.A.Inventor: Fabio Giaretta
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Patent number: 11922780Abstract: Administrating a package of shuffled playing cards to prevent fraudulent card exchanges. The administrating system is configured to calculate places and a number of packages of shuffled playing cards at places of the backyard, the places of playing tables, places of carriers and the disposition place using information obtained by the loading step and unloading step and the administrating system calculates by every ID codes bases 1) places of packages registered by the registering step for registering to a data base of administrating system and a number of packages place by place from information obtained from the loading step and the unloading step. The administrating system is configured to recognize whether there is a lost package by comparing the information of all ID codes registered in registering steps with the ID codes at places of packages obtained at the calculating step from the loading step and the unloading step.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: ANGEL GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Yasushi Shigeta
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Patent number: 11895807Abstract: A data rack system includes a data center rack frame, a shelf positioned within the data center rack frame; and a modular battery unit disposed on the shelf. The modular battery unit further includes a housing having an outer surface, a plurality of strips of phase change material (“PCM”) attached to the outer surface and spaced apart from one another; and air flow channels. The air flow channels are formed in spaces between two adjacent strips of the plurality of strips and defined by a shape and size of the spaces between the two adjacent strips.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2020Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Madhusudan K. Iyengar, Melanie Beauchemin, Christopher Malone
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Patent number: 11882952Abstract: A hanger storage device. The hanger storage device may include a container base, the container base may include a floor and one or more sidewalls. The hanger storage device may further include one or more compartments defined at least partially by the floor and the one or more sidewalls; one or more alignment pegs disposed in the one or more compartments, wherein the one or more alignment pegs may be formed in the floor and extend perpendicularly upward therefrom, and wherein the one or more alignment pegs may be configured to receiving a hook portion of the hanger; and a lid, wherein the lid may be configured to secure atop the one or more sidewalls thereby enclosing the one or more compartments.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Inventor: Neil Reithinger
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Patent number: 11883946Abstract: A handheld device configured to transport or store tools can include a back plate having a planar rear surface and an opposing front surface. A top wall can extend outwardly from a first end of the rear surface in a first direction. The top wall can have an interior surface and an opposing exterior surface. A bottom wall can extend outwardly from a second end of the rear surface in the first direction. A handle can extend outwardly from the exterior surface of the top wall in a second direction. The second direction is perpendicular to the first direction. At least two spaced-apart mounting points can each extend outwardly from the front surface in the first direction. Each mounting point can be configured to be inserted into a receptacle of at least one of the tools to attach the at least one of the tools to the handheld device.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Inventor: Gregory La Vardera
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Patent number: 11866082Abstract: A magazine for bundles of blanks includes a vertical channel configured for inserting and extracting bundles of blanks and a succession of groups of supporting parts distributed along the channel. The supporting parts are configured to support the underside of a respective bundle of blanks. More specifically, each supporting part is movable between an extracted position, where it projects from the channel, towards the inside of the channel, to intercept a bundle that is moving down along the channel and to provide a steady support for the bundle, and a retracted position, where the supporting part is aligned or recessed with respect to the channel to allow the bundle to move along the channel towards a portion under the supporting part. The magazine also includes, for each supporting part, an actuating device configured to promote the passage of the supporting part from the retracted position to the extracted position and controllable by an operator, preferably manually.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: G.D.S.P.A.Inventors: Salvatore Carboni, Andrea Biondi, Antonio Vitali
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Patent number: 11842606Abstract: When an unfair gaming currency is delivered to a dealer from a player, the currency is detected as unfair. The inspection system for inspecting the gaming currency, in which an RF tag is built, comprises: a gaming currency tray for housing the gaming currencies of the dealer in a casino game; an RF reader for reading the RF tags of the plural gaming currencies housed in the gaming currency tray; plural photosensors for detecting at least the number of the plural gaming currencies housed in the gaming currency tray at a constant time interval or always in a method other than RFID; and an inspection/alarm part for generating alarms when the number of the gaming currencies whose RF tags are read by the RF reader is not equal to the number of the gaming currencies detected by the plural photosensors.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2021Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: ANGEL GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Yasushi Shigeta
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Patent number: 11832741Abstract: A corrugated paper display moveable from a stowed condition to a display condition is described herein. The display has a first rectangular sleeve having opposed lateral edges, a front edge, and a back edge. Two side panels one of each are attached respectively to one of each of the two opposed lateral edges. A back wall is connected to the back edge and the two side panels. A rectangular display compartment extends between the opposed side walls and a shelf is positioned in the rectangular display compartment. A front panel is hingedly connected to the first sleeve and rests on top of the first sleeve when in the stowed condition. When in the deployed condition, the front panel extends from the first sleeve to form a body of a second height which is 1.5 to 2.5 times greater than the first height.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Menasha CorporationInventors: Gina L. Burgert, Amy Melnick, Colleen Wills
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Patent number: 11827427Abstract: A shipping assembly includes a folded core, made of corrugated carton or other foldable material, formed with a hollow center along the entirety or a portion of the core. A base at a bottom of the folded core is foldable along a folding line to attain a perpendicular position to the folded core. The base has two protrusions above the folding line. Upper and lower lateral members include two folded tabs which are inserted in upper and lower portions, respectively, of the column assembly to form a frame assembly. The frame assembly is affixed to an inner volume of a box.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Nalto Marketing Ltd.Inventors: Amnon Zamir, John Kowarsky
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Patent number: 11814095Abstract: The embodiments described herein are directed to a cart and related methods. The cart includes a base, a plurality of wheels connected to the base, a lower platform mounted to the base, a back panel mounted to the base, a set of lateral panels, an opening side of the cart, and a linking mechanism. The set of lateral panels defines an interior space of the cart. At least one of the set of lateral panels includes a shelf. The shelf is pivotally mounted to a rectangular frame of the at least one of the set of lateral panels. The opening side of the cart is open to provide access to the interior space of the cart. The linking mechanism is configured and arranged to connect the cart to another cart.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2023Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLCInventor: Morgan Sannes
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Patent number: 11810431Abstract: Administrating a package of shuffled playing cards to prevent fraudulent card exchanges. The administrating system is configured to calculate places and a number of packages of shuffled playing cards at places of the backyard, the places of playing tables, places of carriers and the disposition place using information obtained by the loading step and unloading step and the administrating system calculates by every ID codes bases 1) places of packages registered by the registering step for registering to a data base of administrating system and a number of packages place by place from information obtained from the loading step and the unloading step. The administrating system is configured to recognize whether there is a lost package by comparing the information of all ID codes registered in registering steps with the ID codes at places of packages obtained at the calculating step from the loading step and the unloading step.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: ANGEL GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Yasushi Shigeta
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Patent number: 11783665Abstract: A detection system according to the present invention includes a control device that detects fraud conducted on a game table by using the image analysis result obtained by an image analysis device. In addition, each game token used in this detection system has a multilayer structure having plastic layers with a plurality of different colors stacked on each other, with a colored layer being provided at least intermediately, and white layers or light-colored layers (not illustrated, but may be any layers lighter in color than the colored layer) being stacked on two sides of the intermediate colored layer. As described above, this game token has a multi-layer structure including the colored layer, with the white layers or light-colored layers (not illustrated, but may be any layers lighter in color than the colored layer) being stacked on the two sides of the intermediate colored layer.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: ANGEL GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Yasushi Shigeta
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Patent number: 11741793Abstract: Administrating a package of shuffled playing cards to prevent fraudulent card exchanges. The administrating system is configured to calculate places and a number of packages of shuffled playing cards at places of the backyard, the places of playing tables, places of carriers and the disposition place using information obtained by the loading step and unloading step and the administrating system calculates by every ID codes bases 1) places of packages registered by the registering step for registering to a data base of administrating system and a number of packages place by place from information obtained from the loading step and the unloading step. The administrating system is configured to recognize whether there is a lost package by comparing the information of all ID codes registered in registering steps with the ID codes at places of packages obtained at the calculating step from the loading step and the unloading step.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2021Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: ANGEL GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Yasushi Shigeta
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Patent number: 11678743Abstract: A stacking storage arrangement is specified, comprising a rack having multiple container receiving spaces that each have an opening at the bottom end thereof, wherein at at least one opening a latch arrangement is arranged which comprises at least one latch unit having a holding latch that can be moved between a locking position and a release position. An objective is to be able to operate a stacking storage arrangement of this type in an economical manner. For this purpose, the holding latch is configured to be replaced from the inner side of the opening.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2020Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: JUNGHEINRICH AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Jörg Cavelius, Michael Becker
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Patent number: 11643124Abstract: The embodiments described herein are directed to a cart and related methods. The cart includes a base, a plurality of wheels connected to the base, a lower platform mounted to the base, a back panel mounted to the base, a set of lateral panels, an opening side of the cart, and a linking mechanism. The set of lateral panels defines an interior space of the cart. At least one of the set of lateral panels includes a shelf. The shelf is pivotally mounted to a rectangular frame of the at least one of the set of lateral panels. The opening side of the cart is open to provide access to the interior space of the cart. The linking mechanism is configured and arranged to connect the cart to another cart.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2022Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLCInventor: Morgan Sannes
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Patent number: 11633284Abstract: A bone graft system includes a two-dimensional mesh sheet sized and shaped to, when folded along fold lines, form a three-dimensional graft containment structure configured to be packed with a bone graft material for placement within a target area of a bone, the mesh sheet including a first end flap connected to a remaining portion of the mesh sheet via a first fold line and a second end flap connected to the remaining portion of the mesh sheet via a second fold line, a third fold line extending from the first fold line to the second fold line so that the remaining portion is configured to be wrapped around folded first and second end flaps to form the graft containment structure, the first and second end flaps substantially corresponding to a profile of the target area of the bone.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: DEPUY SYNTHES PRODUCTS, INC.Inventors: Steffan Daniel, André Furrer
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Patent number: 11631299Abstract: When an unfair gaming currency is delivered to a dealer from a player, the currency is detected as unfair. The inspection system for inspecting the gaming currency, in which an RF tag is built, comprises: a gaming currency tray for housing the gaming currencies of the dealer in a casino game; an RF reader for reading the RF tags of the plural gaming currencies housed in the gaming currency tray; plural photosensors for detecting at least the number of the plural gaming currencies housed in the gaming currency tray at a constant time interval or always in a method other than RFID; and an inspection/alarm part for generating alarms when the number of the gaming currencies whose RF tags are read by the RF reader is not equal to the number of the gaming currencies detected by the plural photosensors.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2021Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: ANGEL GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Yasushi Shigeta
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Patent number: 11615679Abstract: Administrating a package of shuffled playing cards to prevent fraudulent card exchanges. The administrating system is configured to calculate places and a number of packages of shuffled playing cards at places of the backyard, the places of playing tables, places of carriers and the disposition place using information obtained by the loading step and unloading step and the administrating system calculates by every ID codes bases 1) places of packages registered by the registering step for registering to a data base of administrating system and a number of packages place by place from information obtained from the loading step and the unloading step. The administrating system is configured to recognize whether there is a lost package by comparing the information of all ID codes registered in registering steps with the ID codes at places of packages obtained at the calculating step from the loading step and the unloading step.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2021Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: ANGEL GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Yasushi Shigeta
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Patent number: 11557181Abstract: Administrating a package of shuffled playing cards to prevent fraudulent card exchanges. The administrating system is configured to calculate places and a number of packages of shuffled playing cards at places of the backyard, the places of playing tables, places of carriers and the disposition place using information obtained by the loading step and unloading step and the administrating system calculates by every ID codes bases 1) places of packages registered by the registering step for registering to a data base of administrating system and a number of packages place by place from information obtained from the loading step and the unloading step. The administrating system is configured to recognize whether there is a lost package by comparing the information of all ID codes registered in registering steps with the ID codes at places of packages obtained at the calculating step from the loading step and the unloading step.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2021Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: ANGEL GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Yasushi Shigeta
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Patent number: 11522210Abstract: An alignment dowel comprises a body extending along a longitudinal axis, the body comprising a plurality of resilient vanes that extend generally perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, and an actuator portion. The stack has openings of a predetermined diameter. The vanes are arranged around the longitudinal axis so as to extend along the axis and project radially outwards to define an outer diameter of the body. The actuator portion is operable to move the vanes between a collapsed configuration in which the outer diameter is smaller than the predetermined diameter, and an expanded configuration in which the outer diameter of the body is greater than in the collapsed configuration. A stack assembly jig, comprises a tool base on which a stack of components can be positioned. The tool base has guide holes that are no smaller than the predetermined diameter and are positioned to correspond to the position of the openings in the stack.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2020Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: Ceres Intellectual Property Company LimitedInventor: Tomasz Domanski
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Patent number: 11517178Abstract: A supply container for a dispensing device for introducing a pourable detergent in metered amounts into a treatment chamber of a program-controlled cleaning appliance, the dispensing device including a rotatable carrier unit, the supply container being replaceably receivable in the carrier unit. The supply container includes: a reservoir chamber; a dispensing opening; a metering chamber connectable to the reservoir chamber via an interposed outlet opening; and a closure device configured to close the outlet opening at least until the supply container is first put into use. The closure device is configured to cooperate with an actuating device to open the outlet opening to provide a flow path of the detergent from the reservoir chamber into the treatment chamber of the appliance via the metering chamber and the dispensing opening.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2020Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: Miele & Cie. KGInventors: Dirk Wegener, Guenter Kroeger
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Patent number: 11510506Abstract: An expandable product pusher display for displaying products while urging the products to the front of the display as they are removed by consumers. Left and right end caps support plural tiers of product pusher assemblies, each including left and right product platforms with pushers having springs arranged to urge the products forwardly. Each tier includes a scissor mechanism expandably disposed between the left and right product platforms, and configured to adjust the distance therebetween while maintaining parallel alignment, so as to accommodate products of different width through adjustment of the scissor mechanisms.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2021Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: VIRA Insight, LLCInventor: Nick Farinola
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Patent number: 11361685Abstract: A header for coupling to a retail display structure includes a front panel and a rear panel. The rear panel is formed coplanarly with the front panel, bordering the front panel along a longitudinal fold line. The rear panel is folded about the longitudinal fold line to fit adjacent and be adhered to an interior surface of the front panel. Hooks are initially coplanarly formed in an interior of the rear panel and coupled to a remainder of the rear panel via a fold line. Each of the hooks is folded rearwardly away from the rear panel defining an offset portion and a downwardly extending portion. The downwardly extending portion is spaced from the rear panel to receive at least a portion of the retail display structure between the exterior surface of the rear panel and the downwardly extending portion of each of the hooks.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.Inventors: Selina Larsen, Jacob K. Pomputis, Scott J. Fuenffinger
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Patent number: 11330934Abstract: A disposable support pan has a sidewall with a top lip that support the lips of rectangular food trays above a support surface. A disposable suspension tray inside the support pan has a flange resting on a support pan shoulder so the bottoms of two pockets in the suspension tray are between the support surface and the bottom of the food trays. Water in each pocket reacts with a calcium-oxide packet in each pocket to boils a predetermined amount of water to generate steam that heats the food trays without having the packets contact the food trays. One or two tray supports on each side of the pan may extend from the shoulder to a top support flange extending outward around a periphery of the support pan. The suspension tray has corresponding recesses to mate with the tray supports to keep steam from entering the area below the suspension tray.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2020Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Inventors: David Amirault, Steven L. Cox, Andrew B. Mendenhall, Dennis M. Turner
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Patent number: 11325626Abstract: A stocking cart includes a base structure having an opening configured to receive forks of a forklift; a plurality of wheels connected to the base structure; a back panel mounted to the base structure and extending opposite from the plurality of wheels; first and second lateral panels mounted to the base structure, the first and second lateral panels and the back panel defining an interior space of the cart; and at least one strap provided on an open side of the cart to provide access to the interior space of the cart, the at least one strap being configured to hold one or more items inside the cart. The cart also includes a linking mechanism configured to connect the cart to another cart.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2019Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLCInventor: Morgan Sannes
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Patent number: 11125358Abstract: A stackable bracket includes a base, and a plurality of clips configured to extend from the base. Each of the plurality of clips is configured to include a pair of holding members, each of the holding members of the plurality of clips is configured to define an opening configured to receive one of a plurality of cables or ducts, and the openings of each pair of holding members are configured to be aligned with one another in a first direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2020Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: PPC BROADBAND FIBER LTD.Inventors: Kim Leeson, Harvey Etheridge
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Patent number: 11065486Abstract: A device for suppressing and/or extinguishing a fire associated with a container may include a housing defining a hollow sleeve and a column configured to be received within the hollow sleeve. The column may define a first chamber, a second chamber, at least one aperture, and a piercing end configured to pierce a barrier. The first chamber may be configured to receive an expansion agent, and the second chamber may be configured to receive a fire extinguishing agent. The device may be configured such that upon activation of the expansion agent, the column extends from the housing so as to enable the piercing end to penetrate the container and to enable the fire extinguishing agent to be delivered into an interior of the container via the at least one aperture.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2018Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: Federal Express CorporationInventor: James B. Popp
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Patent number: 11058232Abstract: A merchandise display system may include a tray having a front rounded portion and a surface defining a plurality of apertures, a lip extending from the front rounded portion of the tray, a front wall, and a plurality of dividers attached to the tray, the plurality of dividers may be configured to separate product into one or more rows. The front wall may be formed as a separate component from the tray and the plurality of dividers.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: RTC Industries, Inc.Inventor: Stephen N. Hardy
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Patent number: 11007530Abstract: A holder (10) receives and stores laboratory vessels for samples, microorganisms, cell cultures or the like, with a housing (14), and at least one receptacle (20) for the laboratory vessels. The receptacle (20) extends along a loading axis (L) in the housing (14) and is configured such that the laboratory vessels can be introduced into the receptacle (20) and can be stacked on top of each other therein, wherein the receptacle (20) in the housing (14) has a loading opening (20a) to permit loading. On an underside (18) arranged remote from the loading opening (20a), the receptacle (20) has an unloading opening (20b), which can be closed by means of a closure mechanism (38) arranged in the housing (14). The closure mechanism (38) is provided with a slide (40, 42), via which the slide (40, 42) is movable to the unloading opening (20b) to permit closure and is movable from the unloading opening (20b) to an opening position to permit opening.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2016Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: ANDREAS HETTICH GmbH & CO. KGInventor: Klaus-Günter Eberle
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Patent number: 11000132Abstract: A product display unit for displaying products includes a track defining a non-linear path and a pusher that moves along the non-linear path. The pusher is configured to move the products along the non-linear path.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2019Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: Marmon Foodservice Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Marty Illers
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Patent number: 10940787Abstract: A landscape equipment holder includes a “bracket in proximity to a spring-biased pivoting latch. The latch is capable of being removably secured over the bracket to entrap a elongated portion of landscape equipment.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2020Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Inventor: Jason W. Woosley
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Patent number: 10775400Abstract: The invention relates to a feeding system (10) having a feeding apparatus (30) for conveying laboratory vessels for samples, microorganisms, cell cultures or the like, and a carrier (12) having one or plural holders (16) for storing laboratory vessels, which feeding apparatus (30) has a loading area (36) and an unloading area (46) remote from the loading area (36) in which plural laboratory vessels can be stored in a vertically stacked configuration, with each receiving unit (34) being coupled to an endless conveyor unit (38) which transports the receiving unit (34) from the loading area (36) to the unloading area (46), and in which the carrier (12) can be used to introduce laboratory vessels into one or plural receiving units (34) in the loading area (36), for which purpose the carrier (12) is at least partially slid over the at least one receiving unit (34) which is to be loaded or unloaded, and for this purpose has projections (28, 32) and/or recesses that are associated with the carrier (12) and are proviType: GrantFiled: February 24, 2017Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: ANDREAS HETTICH GMBH & CO. KGInventor: Klaus-Guenter Eberle
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Patent number: 10683160Abstract: The disclosure provides at least an apparatus, method and system for a pill dispenser. The pill dispenser may be capable of dispensing a predetermined number of pills, and may include a push button; a container capable of containing a plurality of pills and including, at substantially an end portion thereof, a pill exit, and, on an inner circumference thereof, a threaded track; a cap that removably connects the push button and the container; and a dispenser fittedly positioned within the container. The dispenser may include a spring; threads capable of being rotatably received by the threaded track upon actuation of the push button; at least one pill stop at a portion thereof substantially adjacent to the pill exit; and a ramp therewithin capable of guiding ones of the plurality of pills to the pill stop upon compression of the spring.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2017Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: NYPRO INC.Inventor: Robert G. Petit
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Patent number: 10670169Abstract: A stackable bracket includes a base, and a plurality of clips configured to extend from the base. Each of the plurality of clips is configured to include a pair of holding members, each of the holding members of the plurality of clips is configured to define an opening configured to receive one of a plurality of cables or ducts, and the openings of each pair of holding members are configured to be aligned with one another in a first direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2018Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: PPC BROADBAND FIBER LTD.Inventors: Harvey Etheridge, Kim Leeson
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Patent number: 10337667Abstract: A modular, motorized camera slider system for use with various camera devices, including mobile phones and small, lightweight portable video cameras. A motorized shuttle, straight and curved connectable track pieces, and removable bipod legs enables users to add controlled linear movements to video and time lapse photography. The motorized shuttle supports a camera and moves along the connected tracks, which in turn are supported by the bipod legs or other support system.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2017Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: DYNO EQUIPMENT, INC.Inventors: Scott Matthews, Christopher M. Szczur
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Patent number: 9890514Abstract: A stackable bucket having a floor, a back wall, and two side walls has a tapered front to back floor but wherein the back wall is substantially rectangular. A diagonal bend allows each side plate to connect to the tapered floor and to the rectangular back wall. Gussets and double-ended reverse hooks may also be used to provide spacing between nested buckets.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2017Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Inventors: Steve Wright, Bob Beales
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Patent number: 9801459Abstract: A dumbbell sling for transporting a plurality of dumbbells with one hand is provided. The dumbbell sling may provide spaced apart rails. Each rail extends from a top end to a bottom end, wherein each top end provides a handle, and wherein each bottom end provides a pair of elbows interconnecting the opposing bottom ends. The rails may be dimensioned apart to accommodate the handle of dumbbells for sliding there between so to be stacked on the pair of elbows, whereby the use may tote a plurality of dumbbells with a single hand manipulating the top end handles.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2016Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Inventor: Michael Joseph Mundy
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Patent number: 9624044Abstract: A rack for a heavy equipment bucket having a rectangular base and two vertical posts. Each vertical post has one or more upwardly angled extending protrusions. A series of double ended reverse hooks are provided with the rack for stacking heavy equipment buckets.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2015Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Inventors: Steve Wright, Bob Beales
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Patent number: 9549599Abstract: An exemplary embodiment provides a stackable container for gemstones that has an optically clear lid having an optically planar upper surface with a first optical property, such as a refractive index. The lid has an underside coating of a clear gel adhesive having a second optical property matched with the first optical property to minimize optical distortion. The gel releasably adheres gemstones to the lid. The base and lid of the stackable container clamp releasably together without hinges and without a snap fit closure. The container has a gemstone containment volume wherein gemstones appear to “float” and can be examined. For stackability, an upper region of the lid mounts releasably to an underside of a base of a like second stackable container; and the base mounts releasably to an upper region of a lid of a like third stackable container such that a plurality of stackable containers are stackable in an array.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2014Date of Patent: January 24, 2017Inventors: Margo O'Tyson Bedman, Peter George Carlier, Lisa Brooks Pike
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Patent number: 9433305Abstract: A retainer assembly for an associated merchandising structure includes a planar divider mounted to the associated merchandising structure with the divider including a first side, a second side, a front end and a rear end. A first retainer is pivotally mounted to a first side of the divider adjacent the front end thereof. A second retainer is pivotally mounted to the second side of the divider adjacent the front end thereof. The first and second retainers are biased into an orientation normal to the plane of the divider. Each of the first and second retainers is adapted to pivot omnidirectionally in relation to the plane of the divider.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2014Date of Patent: September 6, 2016Assignee: Fasteners For Retail, Inc.Inventors: Gregory M. Bird, Gerald Matthew Szpak, Shane Obitts, Michael Eric Liedtke, Matthew Grubbs
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Patent number: 9392882Abstract: A merchandising system for a displaying a plurality of products is disclosed. The system comprises a base and a pusher member. The base includes a product-supporting surface and a track disposed beneath the product-supporting surface. The base defines a longitudinal axis. The pusher member is disposed in mechanical cooperation with the base and is configured to slide longitudinally with respect to the base. The pusher member includes a base-contacting surface and a plurality of legs downwardly depending from the base-contacting surface. Each of the plurality of legs is configured to mechanically engage the track. The track includes a discontinuity to enable the legs of the pusher member to selectively mechanically engage the track.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2015Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignee: Display Technologies, LLCInventor: Matthew Pichel
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Patent number: 9287538Abstract: An electric storage apparatus in which a first projecting portion projecting on one side and a second projecting portion projecting on the opposite side of the one side are formed at different positions in a direction orthogonal to a direction in which the first and second projecting portions project.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2014Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignees: GS YUASA INTERNATIONAL LTD., KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasutaka Miyawaki, Hiroshi Yamashiro, Hiroaki Tao, Yoshihiro Nakamura, Yusuke Sawada
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Patent number: 9138092Abstract: A footwear hanger including a central stem having support arms for supporting footwear where the arms are attached to the stem and the hanger has a suspension means for attaching the hanger to a display. The stem has a V-shaped or Y-shaped cross-section along at least part of its length which allows the footwear hanger to be easily stacked one on top of the other when stored without footwear being attached.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2013Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignee: PHINEAS PRODUCTS LIMITEDInventors: Daniel Wright, Mark Segasby
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Patent number: 9030827Abstract: A server includes a casing, a bottom plate, a first hard disk module, a second hard disk module, and a lifting device. The bottom plate is disposed in the casing and configured to be sliding relative to the casing. The first hard disk module is movably disposed on the bottom plate. The first hard disk module includes a track. The second hard disk module is fixed on the bottom plate and disposed behind the first hard disk module. The lifting device moves up the first hard disk module when the bottom plate is pulled out of the casing, and the lifting device moves down the first hard disk module when the bottom plate is pushed into the casing. A drawer lifting device is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2013Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: Quanta Computer Inc.Inventors: Maw-Zan Jau, Chao-Jung Chen, Yaw-Tzorng Tsorng, Chung-Hua Jen
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Publication number: 20150122754Abstract: A coin holder is provided which has a base portion and at least one elongate trough defined in the base portion. Each trough is sized and shaped to receive a stack of a particular denomination of coins. A plurality of regularly-spaced grooves is formed in the bottom surface of at least one trough. The grooves are oriented transversely to the trough. Each one of the grooves is adapted to receive one of the coins in the stack. The grooves are spaced apart so that every nth coin in the stack is received in one of the grooves. The grooves are shaped so that every nth coin in the stack is laterally displaced from adjacent coins in a generally vertical direction to provide a discernible pattern in the stack of coins.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2014Publication date: May 7, 2015Inventor: Steven Leong Jung
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Publication number: 20150101998Abstract: A double-wide, drive in storage rack assembly for supporting loads on pallets including horizontal truss beams and stiffener panels at load-supporting levels constructed to increase the rigidity of the rack and/or minimize the amount of steel used in the rack. In some examples, the storage rack assembly includes mill-building bracing.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2013Publication date: April 16, 2015Applicant: Steel King Industries, Inc.Inventor: Arlin Dennis Keck
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Patent number: 8998004Abstract: Disclosed are a conveyance rack for retaining and conveying resilience-memory metal rings and a method for retaining the metal rings. The conveyance rack is provided with a base and a plurality of retaining shafts which extend parallel to each other, being erected on the base, and which are provided with, on the side walls thereof, a plurality of protrusions abutting on the lower end surfaces of the metal rings. The protrusions abut on the lower end surfaces of the metal rings by point contact.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2010Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiharu Watabe, Masaomi Saruyama, Kensuke Shiota
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Patent number: 8991602Abstract: The present invention provides a module used for stacking thin panels that allows for stacking of a plurality of thin panels in the vertical direction efficiently and stably. The module includes a sandwiching support portion, a load transmitting portion, and a positioning portion. The sandwiching support portion sandwiches and supports the thin panel. The load transmitting portion is coupled with the sandwiching support portion, and transmits the weight of the thin panel in the vertical direction. The positioning portion relatively positions thin panels, which are stacked in the vertical direction, in the horizontal direction. The sandwiching support portion includes a lower plate-shaped body and a vertical wall. The lower plate-shaped body is disposed on a lower portion of the module. The vertical wall extends upward from an outer edge of the lower plate-shaped body to form an approximately C-shaped cross-sectional surface in conjunction with the lower plate-shaped body.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2011Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignees: Hitachi Transport System, Ltd., Kyoraku Co., Ltd.Inventors: Nobuyuki Kashima, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Takeshi Matsue, Hiroyuki Hashimoto, Koichiro Yoshida
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Publication number: 20150076090Abstract: An article store is provided with vertical main supports, front and rear crossmembers arranged transversally to the storage and retrieval directions and fastened on the main supports, and at least one bearing profile extending in the storage and retrieval directions and supported vertically relative to the front crossmember. The upper side of the bearing profile is located in a plane higher than the upper edge of the front crossmember and forms a bearing device for the articles. The bearing profile is supported vertically on the front crossmember by a support whose upper end is connected to the bearing profile. The front crossmember is provided with form-fit structures in order to fix the vertical support of the bearing profile at least in the longitudinal crossmember direction. The lower end of the support engages form-fit structures of the front crossmember.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2014Publication date: March 19, 2015Inventor: Mark B. J. Heijmink
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Publication number: 20150076089Abstract: A guide assembly for a displaying a plurality of products is disclosed. The guide assembly includes a base, a first lateral wall and a second lateral wall. The base includes a product-supporting surface defining a longitudinal axis. Each lateral wall includes a plurality of support members and a rail. The support members extend upwardly from a lateral side of the base. The rail is spaced above the base and extends along portions of the support members. A proximal-most support member of the first lateral wall is longitudinally offset from a proximal-most support member of the second lateral wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2013Publication date: March 19, 2015Inventor: Andrew Howard