With Stacking Feature Patents (Class 220/23.6)
  • Patent number: 12065282
    Abstract: The invention relates to a transport container (1) having an interior (4) which is delimited by a container base (2) comprising guide receptacles and by a container cover (3) which is opposite the container base (2) and from which there project guide bodies (6) on the cover outer side (5) opposite the interior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Inventors: Peter Entenfellner, Andreas Holzleithner
  • Patent number: 12049340
    Abstract: The present invention provides a multi-cup arrangement comprising a polypropylene sheet, wherein the polypropylene sheet comprises at least two cavities, the cavities each protruding from the sheet from a bottom surface of the sheet, wherein the cavities are separated from each other via one or more spacer area(s) on the sheet, wherein the spacer area(s) each comprise one or more groove(s) on the bottom surface of the sheet that are positioned to allow the sheet to be broken along the groove by bending the sheet towards the top surface, wherein the grooves are positioned to divide the sheet into multiple segments, each segment comprising one or more cavities, wherein each of the groove(s) has a maximum depth of ?25% and ?80% with regard to the thickness of the polypropylene sheet. Such multi-cup arrangement may be separated into individual cup segments by moderate manual force, whilst the arrangement does not undesirably bend nor snap under the action of its own weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V.
    Inventors: Zahir Bashir, Rajiva Joshi, Azzedine Kioul, Fayez Abdullah Alfayez, Abdul Rahim Ahamed Arafath
  • Patent number: 12043218
    Abstract: Disclosed is a side pack that may be on a utility vehicle. In example embodiments, a top panel of the side pack includes channels that are used to connect an option, for example, mechanical equipment, to the side pack. Disclosed also is a method of moving the side pack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Stellar Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: James Aaron Flatebo, Scott Aaron Britson, Matthew Wendell Schroeder
  • Patent number: 11833500
    Abstract: An addition system for introducing particulate material into an industrial process is disclosed. The addition system comprises a vessel for holding the particulate material, wherein the vessel has a top and a bottom; one or more weighing devices; a controller for controlling operation of the addition system; a base plate to support the vessel and optionally the controller; and three or more legs, each leg having an uppermost section that connects to the vessel and a foot that is connected to the base plate. The widest diameter of the vessel is less than the diameter of a circle drawn through the feet of the legs. The one or more weighing device are mounted on the base plate and support the legs of the vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Johnson Matthey Process Technologies, Inc
    Inventors: Martin Evans, Ashim Mukerjee, Gary Pauley, Rahul Prasad
  • Patent number: 11807418
    Abstract: A system for displaying, transporting, storing, and serving food that includes stackable catering platters, containers, and covers. The system provides a modular catering platter system for use in both hot and cold food applications, even at the same time. At least two stackable sectional platters are provided including a larger sectional base and a smaller top section that stackably mate directly with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: SABERT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yohanan Siskindovich, Sarah Ovsiew
  • Patent number: 11794941
    Abstract: A packaging assembly includes a packaging enclosure with a bottom closure that folds into a flap with a latch that locks into an opening on a face of the packaging enclosure. Upper faces of the packaging enclosure allow for juxtaposing and superposing a plurality of the packaging enclosures and providing space for air to circulate between them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Nalto Marketing Ltd.
    Inventors: Amnon Zamir, John Kowarsky
  • Patent number: 11793123
    Abstract: A pot stand is provided that is capable of being simply used, receiving drained water without causing water leakage, reducing manufacturing cost and enables easy disposition of the drained water. The pot stand includes a main body, a water reservoir and a load receiving part. The main body includes an upper surface part that has a drain hole, a side surface part that supports the upper surface part and has a space opened upwardly, and a bottom surface part that is connected to the side surface part. The pot stand further includes an opening that is formed in a part of the side surface part and ribs that are provided in an inner side of the main body. The water reservoir is slidably movable through the opening to be taken in or out from the space. The load receiving part is a standing wall-like shaped and extends from the bottom surface part in the space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: COTTE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Daishi Tsuneoka
  • Patent number: 11782044
    Abstract: A water quality sampler includes a membrane receptacle and at least 7 sample membranes. The membrane receptacle comprises at least 7 membrane cavities disposed on a top surface of the membrane receptacle. Each membrane cavity is configured to hold a sample membrane and the sample membranes are each removably positioned within the membrane cavities and extend at least 1 cm out from the top surface of the membrane receptacle. A bottom of the membrane receptacle comprises a protruding lip that traces a bottom edge of the membrane receptacle in a downward direction, where the protruding lip encompasses a stacking chamber capable of receiving a top end of a second water quality sampler to allow stacking of multiple water quality samplers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Tyas Ikhsan Hikmawan, Perdana Karim Prihartato, Maryam Saber Qashqari, Ali Mothana Qasem
  • Patent number: 11745916
    Abstract: In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful for reusable containers and item delivery using reusable containers. In several embodiments, the reusable containers described herein include removable divider walls that can be used to selectively divide an interior of the container into multiple smaller portions. By a further approach, the container and divider walls can have cooperating components to mount the divider wall to the container. In some embodiments, the reusable containers described herein can also include bag handle holding features so that bags placed therein are prevented from spilling contents during transport.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Corey L. Peach, Craig J. Stevens, Christian J. Munoz, Michael R. Walden, Steven A. Welch, Elizabeth Enzor, Whitney Porter
  • Patent number: 11660254
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a pill organizer. The pill organizer comprises a box body. The box body comprises at least one pill storage cavity and at least one cover. The pill storage cavity defining an upper end opening. The cover is matched with the upper end opening and is disposed on the upper end opening of the pill storage cavity. One end of the cover is rotatably connected with the box body. Another end of the cover is detachably buckled with the box body. An elastic piece is disposed om an inner surface of the one end of the cover rotatably connected with the box body. One end of the elastic piece is fixed on the box body. Another end of the elastic piece of the covers is buckled with one side of the pill storage cavity of the box body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: ZHUHAI QUIN TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinpeng Guo, WeI Du
  • Patent number: 11649115
    Abstract: A container carrier system for carrying containers, especially blister packages, and a method of carrying containers. The system includes a body having a longitudinal channel having a central portion and two side portions, the central portion having a greater depth than a depth of channel portions on either side of the central portion. The body further includes roof portions that cover the two side portions. The channel is configured to allow movement of containers only in the longitudinal direction of the channel. The blister packages may carry unit doses of medication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Remedi Technology Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Steven E. Schneider, Richard W. Snodgrass
  • Patent number: 11253037
    Abstract: A corner bumper is adapted to be mounted to a corner of a substantially hard-sided carryable case, transport container, or the like, to act as a shock absorber for protecting the case and its contents from exterior impact. The bumper comprises intersecting wall portions to substantially cover the adjacent planes of a corner. The bumper includes feet elements to act as a base upon which the case can stand and space the base a distance from the underlying support surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Nexus Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Benjamin W. Bomer
  • Patent number: 11192690
    Abstract: The present disclosure concerns a coupling mechanism for detachably attaching two or more utility modules to one another, utility assembles, mobile carriers and other attachable modules and articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignees: Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation, Keter Plastic Ltd.
    Inventors: Yaron Brunner, Grant T. Squiers, Christopher S. Hoppe, Steven W. Hyma
  • Patent number: 11072451
    Abstract: Containers can include main bodies of various shapes and include one or more recessed channels that extends from one side to another of the container to provide greater ease of use and improved access to materials contained there, such as food and other solids, liquids, or combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Inventor: David M. Collins
  • Patent number: 10889406
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system of stackable open-top containers. The system comprises male and female containers that can be alternately stacked, either in upright or inverted position. When the system contains containers that are stacked in inverted position on top of upright container, substantial space saving is obtained by the system. The invention also provides male and female containers that are useful in the system of containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: SAEPLAST ICELAND EHF
    Inventor: Dagur Oskarsson
  • Patent number: 10820569
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to a pet bowl clean up device for attaching to a pet bowl. The present disclosure relates more particularly to a clean up device including a skirt and a ring. The skirt is configured to retain a solid substance and includes an inner edge configured to attach to a top portion of the bowl, an outer portion, and a flexible central portion extending along a length between the inner edge and the outer portion of the skirt. The ring is attached to the outer portion of the skirt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Inventor: Christopher Pyter
  • Patent number: 10206335
    Abstract: Thermoformed double tray system for cultivation of plants including a top tray which is stacked with a bottom tray. The top tray has cells for receiving a substrate. The bottom tray provides rigidity to the double tray system. The bottom tray has a baseplate which is provided with support elements to support the top tray. The baseplate has an outer edge which defines the outer contour of the bottom tray. A groove shaped deepening in the baseplate is extending in parallel with the outer edge. The deepening increases a bending stiffness of the bottom tray and provides rigidity to the double tray system. The deepening is provided with a reinforcing ribs which cross the deepening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Inventors: Iakovos Tsonakis, Aggelos Korkodilos
  • Patent number: 9985268
    Abstract: A battery module includes a housing configured to hold prismatic battery cells within a space defined by four interior walls of the housing. The housing includes a first interior wall that includes partitions extending upwards from a bottom of the housing and a second interior wall that includes partitions extending upwards from the bottom of the housing. The first interior wall faces opposite the second interior wall. The partitions disposed on the first interior wall and the partitions disposed on the second interior wall define slots between adjacent partitions, where each of the slots increases in width between the adjacent partitions from the bottom of the housing upwards. Each of the slots is configured to retain one of the prismatic battery cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Gary P. Houchin-Miller, Mikhail S. Balk, Richard M. DeKeuster, Stephen D. Cash
  • Patent number: 9339133
    Abstract: Provided are plate designs that enable a user to hold a plate in one hand, together with a drinking cup in the same hand. The subject designs find use in various situations in which a user desires to hold a plate and a drinking cup simultaneously. The subject designs also find use in various situations in which a user desires to hold a plate securely, in the presence or absence of a drinking cup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: Holdaplate, LLC
    Inventor: John Zox
  • Patent number: 9204739
    Abstract: An apparatus and method to retain a product support, displaying the product in a container, in adjustment panels mounted to a frame. Each adjustment panel may mount to the frame at a particular inclination angle, and include a number of serpentine slots for engaging a number of support pins extending from sides of the product support. Each serpentine slot in the number of serpentine slots may include a notch at each end, and at each direction change, of the serpentine slot. Each notch in a particular serpentine slot may be a different distance from a top edge of its respective adjustment panel. A first product support may be retained in a notch such that a top edge of a first container with a first depth on a first product support is substantially level with a top edge of a second container of a second depth on a second product support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: THE MARCO COMPANY
    Inventor: Joel Van Buskirk
  • Patent number: 9173512
    Abstract: A simulated bowl plate with a bowl placed at the middle or center and a plate placed around the periphery. The plate is connected to the rim of the bowl. The plate has sections for different foods. The bowl plate is capable of being used as a bowl, as a plate or bowl and plate combined. Cold and hot food can be served together on the same dish. The bowl plate saves storage space as less space is occupied as compared to storing bowls and plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Inventor: Bertha M. Evans
  • Patent number: 9038820
    Abstract: The present invention relates to utility surfaces. Specifically, the invention relates to a utility surface, generally a table or other flat surface, with drawers attached to the utility surface. In preferred embodiments of the present invention, the utility surface and attached drawers may be folded into a collapsed format that is convenient for portability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Inventor: Mohamed Ashry
  • Patent number: 8960469
    Abstract: A system for holding items includes a base tier including two or more totes and one or more higher tiers stacked on the base tier. Each of the higher tiers includes one or more totes stacked on a tote of a lower tier. Totes in of the tiers are laterally cross coupled to one another. The totes include lateral openings that allow removal of items through the lateral opening while the totes are stacked in place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Hunter Dean Helal, Mangesh S. Kolharkar, Douglas C. Bryan, Darryl I. Jenson, David H. Clark
  • Publication number: 20140374414
    Abstract: Provided herein is a tray for holding medical containers, including a plurality of elongated parallel cavities that are intended to receive at least one container. Each of said cavities includes a first set of contact surfaces for holding said at least one container, and each of said cavities includes a second set of contact surfaces for holding said at least one container when provided with a cap. The first set of contact surfaces and the second set of contact surfaces are arranged such that said at least one capped container is held in the cavity in a reverse orientation with respect to said at least one container when provided without a cap. A packaging for medial containers and a method for packaging medical containers are also provided herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicant: BECTON DICKINSON FRANCE
    Inventors: Romain Lanier, Adrien Plouvier, Charles Biancon, Franck Carrel
  • Patent number: 8827313
    Abstract: An intermodal tank container and complementary chassis, and features and methods for use thereof, are disclosed. The intermodal tank container and chassis has an appearance and length substantially similar to a non-intermodal OTR tank trailer, while affording the same capacity as an intermodal tank container. The design of the tank container allows for an improved, lighter design for the chassis and for improved usability of the tank container in intermodal environments such as with rail cars. The reduced weight of the chassis allows for a greater payload while remaining within various applicable legal restrictions for gross vehicle weight, axle weight, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: International Transport Equipment Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth Haut, Rex Michau
  • Patent number: 8800796
    Abstract: A storage system for storing a plurality of fluids or other goods has a plurality of containers adapted to fit within a receptacle. Each of the containers has an inner sidewall, an outer sidewall, and a top sidewall having a spout sealable with a cap such that the container contains the fluid or other goods when the cap is engaged with the spout. The plurality of containers are shaped such that the containers are stackable or nestable within the receptacle such that the containers tessellate, the inner sidewalls of the containers abutting each other, and the outer sidewalls abutting the inner surface of the receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Inventor: Paul Wagner
  • Patent number: 8714399
    Abstract: Provided are plate designs that enable a user to hold a plate in one hand, together with a drinking cup in the same hand. The subject designs find use in various situations in which a user desires to hold a plate and a drinking cup simultaneously. The subject designs also find use in various situations in which a user desires to hold a plate securely, in the presence or absence of a drinking cup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Inventor: John Zox
  • Patent number: 8714355
    Abstract: A container system includes a plurality of containers, a plurality of container receiving regions, a plurality of base unit latches, and a base unit. Each base unit latch is arranged to latch an associated one of the containers at least partially within an associated one of the container receiving regions. The containers may be transported separately from the base unit, and may be used to store tools and other accessories. In one embodiment of the container system, each base unit latch comprises a resilient latch member connected to the base unit. The resilient latch member is biased into a lock position to engage a lock engagement portion on an associated one of the containers. The resilient latch member may be movable against the bias to a release position wherein the associated container is able to be removed from the associated container receiving region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.
    Inventor: Jin Chi Huang
  • Patent number: 8678188
    Abstract: The present invention comprises a storage container that comprises a front panel, a back or rear panel, a left side panel, a top portion, and a bottom portion. Each of the panels, as well as the top portion and the bottom portion of the storage container, comprises a contact surface with each contact surface comprising at least one contact point. The use of multiple contact surfaces and multiple contact points allows a plurality of storage containers to be efficiently and securely stacked and nested, thereby allowing for quick and easy storage of items while conserving valuable yet precious storage space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Inventor: Helen D. Larsen
  • Patent number: 8662328
    Abstract: An interconnecting container system is described. Each container has a rounded rectangular parallelepiped body with four symmetrical sidewalls, a rounded square base and a rounded square top. An elongated sidewall slot is provided on each sidewall, the slot has a surrounding lip thereby creating an internal edge recess. The sidewall slot has an open end and an adjoining closed end. The adjoining closed end is centrally disposed along a transversal axis of the rectangular sidewall. A similarly constructed elongated base slot is provided on the base. The adjoining closed end of the base slot is centrally disposed on the square base. A neck is centrally provided on the top and extends from the top, it has a surrounding rim and an opening thereon. The rim of the neck and the internal recess of the base slot and the sidewall slot are dimensioned and shaped for sliding and interconnecting engagement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: 9224-9838 Quebec Inc.
    Inventor: Raymond Boisvert
  • Patent number: 8640487
    Abstract: A refreezable container for storage of perishable and/or temperature-sensitive items is described herein. A bottom surface, contiguous with one or more side surfaces is provided, each surface having an interior cavity at least partially filled with refreezable material, usable to retain contents within the container at a temperature less than ambient temperature. The bottom surface includes a lower groove therein. The side surfaces include a lip adapted for secure engagement for an upper object, which can include a top cover having a complementary groove, or the lower groove of an adjacent refreezable container, allowing multiple containers, with or without top covers, to be nested for storage or transport, and allowing multiple covered containers, or top covers independent of containers, to be stacked and nested.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Inventor: Adan Francisco Chapa
  • Publication number: 20140014653
    Abstract: A packing box (1, 2) with a bottom wall (15) and adjoining side and end walls (3-8) and at least one closure lid (9, 10) is provided. Several roughly identical packing boxes (1, 2) may be joined to each other at their mutually adjacent side walls (4, 5) and may swivel about a breakable film hinge (17) and at least one breakable connection cam (14) spanning the film hinge which is arranged between the mutually adjoining side walls (4, 5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2013
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Inventor: Peter Roesler
  • Patent number: 8602217
    Abstract: A container assembly that includes a first container, a second container and a latch arrangement movable between a latched position and an unlatched position is provided. The first container has a first container portion having a first opening into a first interior space in which articles to be transported can be stored and a first cover for closing the first opening. The second container has a second container portion having a second opening into a second interior space in which articles to be transported can be stored and a second cover for closing the second opening. The latch arrangement, when in the latched position, is constructed and arranged to connect the first container portion to the second container portion. The latch arrangement is positioned and configured such that when it connects the first container portion to the second container portion, the first opening and the second opening face opposite directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: The Stanley Works Israel Ltd.
    Inventors: David Sosnovsky, Mark Bensman
  • Patent number: 8573400
    Abstract: A thermoformed container system with a tray and a lid mounted on the tray, that includes special structures to help two or more containers to stand on their bottom edges when nested together, even though each individual container would be too unstable to stand in isolation. Alternative embodiments of the invention include a product case pack comprising at least two containers with product inside each container, and a method of retail sales display of two or more containers, where the containers are adapted to stand on their bottom edges when nested together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Plastic Ingenuity, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert G. LaMasney
  • Patent number: 8544141
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a cleaning cart system of the invention includes a reservoir assembly, an upwardly extending handle releasably connectable to the reservoir assembly, and at least two modular cleaning bins. The reservoir assembly includes a liquid reservoir and an integral wheeled chassis. The liquid reservoir includes a circumferential sidewall and an integral top wall, with the top wall including a plurality of openings. The two modular cleaning bins may be: positioned within the liquid reservoir; positioned on the liquid reservoir top wall with a leg of one bin positioned in one of the top-wall openings, and with a leg of the other bin positioned in another of the top-wall plurality of openings; and alternatively releasably interconnected to one another in a side-by-side orientation, with one of the bins supported on the upwardly extending handle by one or more of a plurality of handle brackets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Kaivac, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert W. Kyde, David W. Lloyd, John T. Richter, Robert S. Robinson
  • Patent number: 8540105
    Abstract: An easily openable metal can largely openable in the arranged state of two sheet metal-made cans in series. A means such as a projection for opening the drinking mouth of another can is formed at the lower part of a can body, and a break line and a means for guiding the means such as the projection are formed at the upper part thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Inventor: Norio Yasui
  • Patent number: 8523006
    Abstract: The structurally reinforced container includes a base having a bottom, side walls, corners and a top peripheral edge defining an open top end. A number of ridges are formed in at least one of the side walls and corners. The ridges are in the configuration of at least one arch that has an apex where the apex of the at least one arch is proximal to the open top end of the base. A lid resides in communication with the top peripheral edge of the base to releasably close the top end of the base. The integrated arches provide reinforcement to the base of the container to increase top load resistance without increasing the thickness of the material used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: EasyPak LLC
    Inventor: Marco Tulio Barbier
  • Patent number: 8505729
    Abstract: A container constructed and arranged to be connected to at least one other container. The container has a container portion, a cover, and a latch member movable between a first position and a second position. A retaining member on the container portion is engageable with the latch member. In the first position, the latch member engages the retaining member to inhibit movement of the latch member away from the first position. In the second position, the latch member is engageable with a container portion of the other container to connect the containers. The latch member is pivotally movable in a clockwise and counterclockwise manner. The latch member can be pivoted upwards to the second position to engage the other container and the latch member can be pivoted downwards to the first position to engage the retaining member to inhibit movement of the latch member away from the first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: The Stanley Works Israel Ltd.
    Inventors: David Sosnovsky, Mark Bensman
  • Patent number: 8490810
    Abstract: A method of merchandising a modular home storage container system includes providing a plurality of individual groups of containers adapted for use on standardized shelving. Each container has side walls extending upwardly from a bottom wall to an open top and a removable lid. The containers, in each group, have a uniform length which correlates with one of the shelving depths, a uniform width to provide a uniform footprint size to accommodate the use of a single size lid and a plurality of different heights to allow a consumer to optimize the use of the available shelf height space. The heights of the containers are graduated so that the overall height of two stacked shorter containers will approximate the height of a taller container. Preferably a chart correlating the lengths of the individual groups of containers with standard shelving depths is available at the display site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Snapware Corporation
    Inventor: John M. Lown
  • Patent number: 8444000
    Abstract: A paint tray includes a cavity defined by a bottom wall, a first side wall, a second side wall, a first end wall, and a second sloping end wall. Each of the first side wall, second side wall, first end wall, and second sloping end wall inclines upwardly and outwardly from the bottom wall. The cavity terminates at a top edge. The paint tray also includes a top tray rim adjacent the top edge of the cavity, a perimeter rim that inclines downwardly and outwardly from the top tray rim, a handle disposed at an edge of the perimeter rim proximate each end wall, and a leg panel extending downwardly and outwardly from each of a first side and a second side of the perimeter rim proximate the second sloping end wall. The leg panel has a bottom edge that is co-planar with the bottom wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Bercom International, LLC
    Inventors: Mark W. Bergman, Christopher M. Bergman, Matthew V. Leyden, Jeffrey B. Waffensmith, Jeffrey T. Given
  • Patent number: 8439196
    Abstract: A food storage container system including a plurality of food containers and a tray is provided. Each food container includes a container body defining an interior space for holding a product therein and a lid configured to open and close the interior space. The container body is formed from a material including a silicone elastomer. The tray includes a plurality of holders. Each holder defines a recess sized and shaped to removably hold one container of the plurality of containers therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Handi-Craft Company
    Inventors: Bernard J. Kemper, Charles H. Miller, Janine Berger
  • Publication number: 20130112687
    Abstract: A tube trailer containing a gas comprising from 35 to 92.5 vol % of molecular fluorine. A semiconductor manufacturing plant having a gas supply system wherein such tube trailer is connected to the gas supply system of the semiconductor manufacturing plant. A method for supplying a gas comprising using such tube trailer to transport gas from a gas manufacturing site to a user site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: SOLVAY SA
    Inventors: Marcello Riva, Stefan Mross, Thomas Schwarze
  • Patent number: 8434632
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide stackable meal trays for use in transporting and heating meal casseroles in an induction oven.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: MAG Aerospace Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Aziz Boubeddi, Paul Merrill
  • Patent number: 8393485
    Abstract: There is provided a food container for use in freeze storage of a food portion. The food container comprises a body defining a compartment for receipt of the food portion; a sealing lid for reversible sealing of the compartment; and provided to the body, one or more connectors, each connector arranged for reversible mating connection to a mating connector provided to a second body of a second similar food container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Brother Max Limited
    Inventors: Jonathan Morris Gold, Daniel Jason Tyler
  • Patent number: 8353417
    Abstract: A multi-purpose floatable container includes a casing, a cap, at least one linkage disc, and at least one buckling bolt. The casing has four corners and each corner has a linking groove, an upper hole, an upper enlarged hole, and a lower hole. The at least one linkage disc is partially and respectively inserted into at least one of the linking grooves. Each one of the at least one linkage disc has four connecting orifices longitudinally defined through the linkage disc. Each one of the at least one buckling bolt is inserted into the top hole of one of the corners, the upper hole, the connecting orifice, and the lower hole for fixing the cap on the casing. The container can be utilized as a single unit for storing objects in the casing. Multiple containers can also be assembled to form a floating platform for diversified purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Inventor: Pin-Chien Wu
  • Publication number: 20130008814
    Abstract: A moulding for accommodating and fixing rectangular-outline storage containers, wherein an accommodating surface of the moulding covers an even-numbered multiple of the area covered by the container surface, and in each case two containers are arranged adjacent to one another such that their facing side walls are located symmetrically in relation to the short centre longitudinal axis of the moulding. The underside of the moulding is directed away from the accommodating surface and is provided, along the course of the center longitudinal axis, with an encompassing groove which brings together the facing side walls of two adjacent storage containers arranged beneath the moulding and of which the side peripheries extend into the respective container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2011
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: GEORG UTZ HOLDING AG
    Inventors: Axel Ritzberger, Ruediger Koehler
  • Patent number: 8348091
    Abstract: Provided are plate designs that enable a user to hold a plate in one hand, together with a drinking cup in the same hand. The subject designs find use in various situations in which a user desires to hold a plate and a drinking cup simultaneously. The subject designs also find use in various situations in which a user desires to hold a plate securely, in the presence or absence of a drinking cup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Inventor: John Zox
  • Publication number: 20120279960
    Abstract: A TSA-compliant accessory kit facilitates the carry-on of approved liquids for air travel. The kit contains clear, three ounce plastic bottles. Each bottle has a secured cap with large grips in different colors and with raised symbols for ease of distinction. The bottles and caps are housed in a closely tailored, quart-sized, zippered transparent bag with adhesive decals and a permanent marker pen for labeling the bottles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2010
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Applicant: PakUrDerm Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Douglas Michael Herndon, Patricia Eloise Herndon, Jacob Christopher Vanbecelaere, Roy Paul Prosise, Charles Daniel Girouard
  • Patent number: 8272531
    Abstract: A set of handles is provided for gripping a first cooking culinary article that includes a first container, and a second cooking culinary article that includes a second container. These containers can be stacked in a stationary stacked position. Each handle includes a stud and/or a housing defined at least partly by a hollow zone of the handle, and a locking protrusion adapted to engage a reception zone and/or a reception zone adapted to engage a locking protrusion. The housing and/or stud of the first handle can engage with the housing and/or stud of the second handle for holding the containers superimposed in the stationary stacked position in which the first container does not contact the second container. The locking protrusion and/or reception zone of the first handle can engage with the locking protrusion and/or reception zone of the second handle, with the locking protrusion located along a vertical wall of the stud, and the reception zone located along a vertical wall of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: SEB SA
    Inventors: Pascal Cuillery, Stéphane Plichon, Guy Magnouloux, Jean-Francois Brasset
  • Patent number: 8201699
    Abstract: The present invention consists of a water or soda bottle or vessel which is designed to allow for the bottle to interconnect with other bottles of similar design and standard dimensions to form useful second use products. A recess in the lower surface of the bottle receives the neck of another storage bottle. There are recesses perpendicular to the vertical axis of the bottle capable of receiving the mating side recess of another storage bottle. There are two such recesses on each storage bottle, one on each side of the bottle, parallel to each other. This allows for a bottle positioned on its side perpendicular to a vertically positioned bottle to be used to connect two vertically perpendicular storage bottles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Inventors: Peter Zummo, Matthew John Naples