With Closure (e.g., Door) Patents (Class 312/138.1)
  • Patent number: 11592231
    Abstract: A refrigeration device includes a cabinet surrounded by a thermally-insulated housing having a sidewall facing outside and an inner liner spaced apart from the sidewall. At least one door is hinged to the housing by at least one hinge element and a front frame part is provided at a side of the housing facing the door. The housing includes a reinforcing member provided at a region of the housing adjacent a respective hinge element, so as to connect a pair of frame parts extending vertically between the sidewall and the inner liner to each other and to the respective hinge element and sidewall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Yigit Akalan, Samuel Harward, Cemalettin Hasturk, Toygun Karakaya, Erhan Kaya
  • Patent number: 11549743
    Abstract: A refrigerator includes a side panel, a U-shaped protrusion, a crossmember, a first protrusion, and a second protrusion. The U-shaped protrusion extends from the side panel. The protrusion has first and second flanges defining a space therebetween and extending horizontally into a refrigerator cavity. The first flange defines a slot and a notch. The first protrusion extends from the end of the crossmember and horizontally into the slot. The first protrusion engages the first flange within the slot to restrict horizontal movement of the crossmember relative to the side panel. The second protrusion extends from the end of the crossmember and horizontally into the notch. The second protrusion engages the first flange within the notch to restrict vertical movement of the crossmember relative to the side panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Luca Bonazza, Kamil El Sayed, Davide Ferretti, Daniele Meneghini, Emil D. Najczuk, Pier Giorgio Rosso, Piercario Tomasina
  • Patent number: 11236774
    Abstract: A Three-Dimensional Positioning and Holding Modular System for office and industrial work stations including embodiments of multi-rail beams and rail-arm-leg modules. The embodiments have tubes, bars, or channels arranged and connected in ways that provide improved ability to transmit torque along a long axis of the multi-rail beam while providing improved resistance to twisting under the forces of the torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Inventor: Clifford Bollman
  • Patent number: 11168936
    Abstract: A storage compartment for a refrigerator includes a base portion and first and second sidewalls spaced-apart from one another and upwardly extending from the base portion. A support member interconnects the inner and outer sidewalls. A door is pivotally coupled to the first and second sidewalls between open and closed positions, wherein the door further includes one or more inwardly extending retaining struts having upwardly extending tabs. The upwardly extending tabs abut an undersurface of the interconnecting support member when the door is in the closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Edson Isaltino Bento, Guilherme Nehring, Luiz Alfranio Alves Ferreira
  • Patent number: 10898036
    Abstract: Aircraft, aircraft paper towel dispensers, and methods for operating aircraft paper towel dispensers are disclosed. An aircraft paper towel dispenser includes a cabinet housing that defines an inner volume and a housing aperture that is configured to allow a portion of paper towel to be dispensed outside of the cabinet housing. The cabinet housing also includes a vanity cover configured to transition between an open state in which the inner volume is accessible, and a closed state in which the inner volume is not accessible. The aircraft paper towel dispenser comprises each of a paper towel holder within the inner volume and configured to secure a supply of paper towel, and a drive mechanism positioned within the inner volume and configured to cause the portion of the paper towel to be dispensed from the inner volume to a region outside of the cabinet housing via the housing aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Darren Carl McIntosh
  • Patent number: 10794111
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to modular recessed dispensers for holding consumable products such as, but not limited to, disposable latex gloves, gowns, masks that may be contained within a consumables box. In one embodiment, the modular recessed dispensers include replaceable doors or front panels and adjustable shelves and dividers that may be quickly reconfigured to cooperate with the replaced door. The modular recessed dispensers may be fully recessed or semi-recessed into a wall or other structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Bowman Dispensers, LLC
    Inventor: Danté G. DeGraaf
  • Patent number: 10787850
    Abstract: A sliding apparatus for a sliding door comprises: a front top roller part including an upper outer bracket and an upper inner bracket; a front bottom roller part including a lower outer bracket and a lower inner bracket which are fitted and fixed to both lower ends of the front door while being connected to each other by a lower connecting bar, and are formed to slide in both lateral directions after moving forward; a rear roller part including rear outer brackets and rear inner brackets which are formed at both upper ends and both lower ends of a rear door formed on one side of the front door, so as to slide the rear door; a front rail part including guide rails which are formed on the upper and lower end surfaces of a rear door frame and the upper and lower surfaces of the rear inner bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Inventor: Yong Il Jeoung
  • Patent number: 10634384
    Abstract: An indoor unit of an air-conditioning apparatus includes: a front panel arranged on a front side of an indoor unit body and having a flat shaped front surface; and a design cover mounted on a front side of the front panel and including an upper design cover and a lower design cover formed separately from the upper design cover, the front panel including: a recess formed to be recessed from the front side to a back side in a center of the front panel in an up-and-down direction in front view, and extending from an inner side of a left end portion of the front panel to an inner side of a right end portion of the front panel; an air inlet formed below the recess; a left-hand recess side portion; and a right-hand recess side portion. The left-hand recess side portion is flat and flush with flat surfaces above and below the left-hand recess side portion, the right-hand recess side portion is flat and flush with flat surfaces above and below the right-hand recess side portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Ishikawa, Akimoto Suzuki, Masahide Kinami, Hisanori Ikeda, Youhei Koyanagi
  • Patent number: 10492630
    Abstract: A display case door includes a panel assembly with a first transparent pane and a second transparent pane. The first transparent pane includes flanges extending from each of a first edge and a second edge of a shaped portion. The second transparent pane is adhered to both flanges of the first pane to define a space between facing surfaces of the second transparent pane and the shaped portion of the first transparent pane and extending between openings at opposite ends of the panel assembly. Caps are coupled to the panel assembly and cover the openings at each of the first end and second end. The door further includes a hinge coupled to one of the flanges, a door handle secured to a surface of one of the flanges, and an edge guard coupled along an edge of at least one of the flanges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Anthony, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul J. Artwohl, Jeffery W. Nicholson, Jun Huh
  • Patent number: 10495375
    Abstract: A refrigerator includes a cabinet, a door, and a dispenser located at the door. The dispenser includes a dispenser case located at an outer surface of the door, an extraction nozzle located at an upper portion of a recessed part of the dispenser, a hot water module located at a rear portion of or behind the recessed part, and a hot water module case that accommodates the hot water module. The hot water module is configured to heat, by induction heating, water supplied to the hot water module and to supply the heated water to the extraction nozzle, and the hot water module case couples to a rear wall of the dispenser case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Yonghyun Kim
  • Patent number: 10352092
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to modular recessed dispensers for holding consumable products such as, but not limited to, disposable latex gloves, gowns, masks that may be contained within a consumables box. In one embodiment, the modular recessed dispensers include replaceable doors or front panels and adjustable shelves and dividers that may be quickly reconfigured to cooperate with the replaced door. The modular recessed dispensers may be fully recessed or semi-recessed into a wall or other structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Bowman Manufacturing Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Dante G DeGraaf
  • Patent number: 10349550
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a guiderail for a cabinet, a chassis and a cabinet. Specifically, the present disclosure discloses a guiderail (1) used in a cabinet (100) and the corresponding chassis (2) and the cabinet (100). The guiderail (1) is mounted in the cabinet (100) and used to fix the chassis (2) which can accommodate storage processing units (3) with different dimensions. According to the present disclosure, the guiderail (1) comprises a main body part (10) and an extended part (30), wherein the main body part (10) is used to support the chassis (2) when it is inserted into the cabinet (100) along the guiderail (1); and the extended part (20) is used to fix the storage processing unit (3) extending from the chassis (2) so that storage processing units (3) of different dimensions can share the chassis (2) with the same specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Alice Aiqin Liu, Qingqiang Guo, Haifang Zhai, Jacky Jianguo Pang, Michael Hao Zhou
  • Patent number: 10258173
    Abstract: A display stand (10) comprising a double wall construction, respectively, an inner wall (11), defining an inner volume (50), and an outer wall (12) enclose said inner wall (11), and said inner wall (11) and said outer wall (12) defining a display volume (60), said display stand comprising an elevated stand (13) elevating said double wall construction and display volume characterized in that said elevated stand (13) comprises an opening (30) providing access to said inside of said elevated stand and the inner volume of the inner wall (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: LEGO A/S
    Inventors: Martin Urrutia Islas, Finn Flou Larsen, Jørgen SØgÅrd, Jan Nørup Pedersen, Mikulá{hacek over (s)} Dula, Zdenek Mayer, Franti{hacek over (s)}ek Lehký
  • Patent number: 10212842
    Abstract: A server chassis installable in a server rack may include a lower compartment, an upper compartment, and an interconnector. The lower compartment may have a front end defining a front opening configured to allow for the passage of a server therethrough. The upper compartment may define a top opening substantially orthogonal to the front opening and may be configured to allow for the passage of a plurality of storage cartridges therethrough. The interconnector may have a first set of connectors communicatively coupled with a second set of connectors. The first set of connectors may be configured to mate with the server, and the second set of connectors may be configured to mate with the storage cartridges, such that the interconnector allows for the removal of the server without the removal of the storage cartridges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: James Jeffrey Schulze, Troy Anthony Della Fiora, Daniel W. Tower
  • Patent number: 9966794
    Abstract: A power supply for a redundant power system includes a housing, a first circuit board, a second circuit board and a cooling fan. The first and second circuit boards are sequentially disposed in the housing. The length of the first circuit board is smaller than that of the second circuit board. Between the first and second circuit boards is a gap. The first and second circuit boards are each distributed with multiple electronic elements, and are connected by at least one electrical connecting line. The electronic elements form a power supply circuit, in which a bridge rectification module is disposed on the first circuit board and close to the gap. The cooling fan is at least connected to the first circuit board and a second circuit board to locate in the gap, and directly provides the bridge rectification module with a first cooling air current when activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: ZIPPY TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventors: Chin-Wen Chou, Yung-Hsin Huang, Yu-Yuan Chang, Tzung-Han Lee, Heng-Chia Chang
  • Patent number: 9557785
    Abstract: A computer device with at least one heat-dissipation channel includes a master unit and a peripheral unit. A case of the master unit includes a first connection surface including a first hole. The first hole communicates to an external space through a first heat-dissipation channel inside the master unit. A case of the peripheral unit includes a second connection surface including a second hole. The second hole communicates to the external space through a second heat-dissipation channel. A fan is located inside the second peripheral unit channel. When the first connection surface and the second connection surface are aligned to connect with each other, the first heat-dissipation channel, the first hole, the second hole and the second heat-dissipation channel are sequentially communicated in space to form an integrated heat-dissipation channel for guiding a cooling airflow driven by the fan to pass therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignees: INVENTEC (PUDONG) TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, INVENTEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chun-Chi Lin, Feng-Ku Wang, Lung-Hsun Song, Chia-Cheng Shih
  • Patent number: 9429606
    Abstract: Increasing the resolution of a resistance sensor by adjusting a current source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Siemens Industry, Inc.
    Inventor: Donald E. Charles
  • Patent number: 9016031
    Abstract: The door is made with a triple-lite insulated glass unit and a frame of aluminum rails. The insulated glass unit has a stepped cross-section with the outer glass lite being larger than the inner glass lites. An opaque non-conductive ceramic frit forms a rectangularly shaped border to mask the mounting of the inner glass lite(s). An electrically conductive coating on the outer glass lite is insulated from the aluminum rails of the frame by a plastic strip disposed between the outer glass lite and each rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Thermoseal Industries, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Richard Chubb, Ralph Wearsch
  • Patent number: 8998354
    Abstract: A door frame for a refrigerator display case that includes an inner metal member, an outer metal member, and first and second single plastic modules sandwiched between the inner and outer metal members. The inner and outer metal members and first and second plastic modules cooperate to define first and second door openings. The first and second single plastic modules each include a jamb middle plastic section, a header middle plastic section, a sill middle plastic section and a mullion middle plastic section. The first and second single plastic modules are adhered to the inner metal member and the outer metal member, and the first mullion plastic section and the second mullion plastic section are not adhered to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Anthony, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Ryan Wach, John Michael Roche, Sesha Madireddi, Raghujit Kunapuli, Sai Prakash Putti
  • Patent number: 8894160
    Abstract: A modular display having a front panel, a plurality of side panels, a rear panel, a first engagement member and a second engagement member is disclosed. A plurality of modular displays may be joined together by juxtaposing or superposing the various first engagement members and second engagement members of the plurality of modular displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Christy Vault Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Christensen
  • Publication number: 20140319979
    Abstract: This showcase for preserving and displaying objects in a protected environment comprises a base, a box made up of fixed side panels and an upper panel connected to each other in a sealing fashion and defining an abutment framework. At least the upper panel is made of glass, same case applying to an openable panel, which can be closed in a sealing fashion on the abutment framework. A lower opening support is fixed between the base and the openable panel, an upper opening support is fixed between the upper panel and the openable panel. The showcase comprises a seat formed in the upper panel, in proximity of the abutment framework and closed towards the outside of the box; in the seat the upper opening support is at least partially encased, in the direction of the thickness of the upper panel, thus being substantially invisible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: GOPPION S.p.A.
    Inventor: Alessandro GOPPION
  • Patent number: 8869493
    Abstract: The door is made with a multi-lite insulated glass unit and a frame of aluminum rails. The insulated glass unit has a stepped cross-section with the outer glass lite being larger than the inner glass lites. An opaque non-conductive ceramic frit forms a rectangularly shaped border to mask the mounting of the inner glass lite(s). An electrically conductive coating on the outer glass lite is insulated from the aluminum rails of the frame by a plastic strip disposed between the outer glass lite and each rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Thermoseal Industries, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Richard Chubb, Ralph Wearsch
  • Patent number: 8860574
    Abstract: A cabinet lock for protecting merchandise within a merchandise display cabinet having an inner door and an outer door. The cabinet lock includes a strike plate affixed to the inner door and a lock housing affixed to the outer door such that the cabinet is in a locked configuration that prevents access to the merchandise when the lock housing is operably engaged to the strike plate. A programmable electronic key communicates a security code with the cabinet lock and transfers electrical power to the cabinet lock to operate a lock mechanism between the locked configuration and an unlocked configuration. An indicator is provided for indicating whether the cabinet lock is in the locked configuration or the unlocked configuration. The indicator includes a first segment and a second segment that can be energized to visually indicate the status of the cabinet lock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: InVue Security Products Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey A. Grant, David N. Berglund, Hrishikesh P. Gogate, Justin A. Richardson, William M. Warren, Andrew W. Moock
  • Publication number: 20140265758
    Abstract: A heatable glass assembly includes a pane of glass having a first surface, a top edge, a bottom edge, and a side edge between the top edge and the bottom edge and having a length L. A pyrolytic coating is applied to a portion of the first surface. A conductive paste is applied along or adjacent to at least a part of the top edge, the bottom edge, and the side edge. The conductive paste associated with the top edge is in electrical communication with a portion of the conductive paste associated with the side edge, and the conductive paste associated with the bottom edge is in electrical communication with another portion of the conductive paste associated with the side edge. The conductive paste associated with the top edge and associated with the bottom edge is in electrical contact with the pyrolytic coating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: HUSSMANN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Craig S. Reichert
  • Patent number: 8813434
    Abstract: A retail kiosk includes a product fulfillment portion and a product display portion. The product fulfillment portion includes a cylindrical shell having an end with a continuous, circular edge. The product display portion includes a cylindrical shell having an end with a continuous, circular edge. The continuous, circular edge of the product fulfillment portion is out of alignment with the continuous, circular edge of the product display portion when the retail kiosk is deployed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Kristin M. Koppelman, Melissa M. Champine
  • Publication number: 20140225485
    Abstract: A press brake tool cabinet with a downward opening transparent door. The door included a number of rectangular polycarbonate slats in frame members. The cabinet included a frame assembly and a number of drawers. Left and right door track systems are connected to the cabinet, and the door moves from an upper closed position in front of the drawers to an open position beneath and behind the drawers. Stop plates defined the position of the door in the open position and hanger plates supported and retained the door in the upper closed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2014
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Inventor: Edward Karl Freimuth
  • Patent number: 8794721
    Abstract: A cover for a merchandising storage unit for displaying of goods with a storage compartment, which cover includes at least one lid having a rear part and a front part, and which is displaceable towards an open position by displacing the lid away from an access side of the storage compartment, wherein the lid in a closed position is arranged at an angle in relation to horizontal, the cover having a rail system having at least a right rail arrangement and a left rail arrangement for guiding the at least one lid, wherein each rail arrangement includes a first track for guiding the front part of the lid and having a front part and a rear part, and a second track for guiding the rear part of the lid and having a front part, and a rear part, wherein the second track is separate to said first track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Behr A/S
    Inventor: Uffe P. E. Pedersen
  • Publication number: 20130334938
    Abstract: A merchandiser including a case defining a product display area for supporting and displaying food product. The case includes a case frame having at least one mullion that defines an opening into the product display area. A door is positioned over the opening and is pivotably coupled to the case frame for movement between a closed position and an open position. A door hold open mechanism includes a housing attached to one of the mullion and the door, while the other of the mullion and the door defines a channel. The door hold open mechanism further includes an engagement member outwardly biased from the housing and is engageable with the other of the mullion and the door within the channel to hold the door in the open position to provide access to the product display area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2013
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: Hussmann Corporation
    Inventors: David W. Dickey, Paul D. Fogarty, Garrick N. McFarland, Denise Slatton, Raymond P. Twohy
  • Publication number: 20130293072
    Abstract: An improved cover and protector for handheld electronics and more specifically to a more dexterous tablet cover which allows for easier handling and positioning for easier user interface, and protection elements to avoid scratches, breaks from incidental contact, and accidental drops. The apparatus includes a front cover, a rear cover, and a removable handle affixed to the rear cover with lockable rotational adjustment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2012
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Inventor: Antonio Sturniolo
  • Publication number: 20130285517
    Abstract: A door frame for a refrigerator display case that includes an inner metal member, an outer metal member, and first and second single plastic modules sandwiched between the inner and outer metal members. The inner and outer metal members and first and second plastic modules cooperate to define first and second door openings. The first and second single plastic modules each include a jamb middle plastic section, a header middle plastic section, a sill middle plastic section and a mullion middle plastic section. The first and second single plastic modules are adhered to the inner metal member and the outer metal member, and the first mullion plastic section and the second mullion plastic section are not adhered to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Inventors: Robert Ryan Wach, John Michael Roche, Sesha Madireddi, Raghujit Kunapuli, Sai Prakash Putti
  • Publication number: 20130269382
    Abstract: A temperature-controlled display case is convertible between a full-service mode and a self-service mode and defines a temperature-controlled space therein. A base has a back side and a front side, and supports temperature-controlled food products within the temperature-controlled space. A pedestal is disposed beneath the base and includes a pocket. A back frame is coupled adjacent to the back side of the base and has openings to provide back side access to the food products during the full-service mode. A top frame is supported by the back frame. A front panel has an upper portion and a lower portion, and is movable between a deployed position for the full-service mode with the upper portion of the front panel adjacent to the top frame, and a stowed position for the self-service mode with the front panel disposed within the pocket to provide front side access to the food products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2013
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: Hill Phoenix, Inc.
    Inventors: William J. Carter, David W. Hoaglin
  • Patent number: 8517477
    Abstract: A merchandiser including a case defining a product display area for supporting and displaying food product. The case includes a case frame that has at least one mullion defining an opening into the product display area, a door that is positioned over the opening and pivotably coupled to the case frame for movement between a closed position and an open position, and a door hold open mechanism attached to either the mullion or the door. The other of the mullion and the door defines a channel, and the door hold open mechanism includes an engagement member that is outwardly biased from the mullion or the door to which the door hold open mechanism is attached such that the engagement member is engageable with the other of the mullion and the door within the channel to hold the door in the open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Hussmann Corporation
    Inventors: David W. Dickey, Paul D. Fogarty, Garrick N. McFarland, Denise Slatton, Raymond P. Twohy
  • Patent number: 8511768
    Abstract: A housing for a cabinet-like household appliance has a body and at least one door, which is connected to the body in a manner that enables it to swivel due to the provision of at least one first and one second multiple-articulation hinge. The door is supported on an upper supporting surface of the first multiple-articulation hinge and on a lower supporting surface of the second multiple-articulation hinge by means of at least one shim inserted between the door and at least one of the supporting surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventor: Rainer Brachert
  • Patent number: 8299375
    Abstract: A draft protection device for a laboratory instrument according to the invention encloses a weighing compartment that surrounds a balance pan and includes a rear wall, a front wall, two sidewalls, a top cover with at least one opening, and a floor that is delimited by border edges. The top cover is connected at least to one of the two sidewalls and/or the front wall and/or the rear wall in an arrangement where the top cover and the walls connected thereto are vertically movable together in relation to the balance pan. In addition, the vertically movable wall(s) are vertically moveable past the adjacent border edge(s) of the floor. In any vertical position of the top cover, at least one of the sidewalls is horizontally slidable relative thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Mettler-Toledo AG
    Inventors: Paul Lüchinger, Sandra Ehrbar
  • Patent number: 8294046
    Abstract: A draft protection device for a laboratory instrument. The device encloses a weighing compartment that surrounds a balance pan. The draft protection device includes a rear wall, a front wall, two sidewalls, a top cover, and a floor that is delimited by border edges. The draft protection device further includes at least one guiding means that is connected to the top cover and serves to guide the movement of at least one horizontally slidable sidewall, and/or a holder means that is connected to the top cover and serves to hold the front wall in place, wherein the guiding means and/or the holder means supports the weight of the at last one sidewall and/or the front wall in such a way that the wall(s) is pushed by a biasing torque against the floor of the weighing compartment. This torque is supported by the border edge facing towards the respective wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Mettler-Toledo AG
    Inventors: Paul Lüchinger, Sandra Ehrbar
  • Patent number: 8286565
    Abstract: A security lock box that is mountable to a shelf. The shelf has a shelf surface for supporting merchandise thereon. The security lock box includes a cover adapted to be supported on top of the shelf and adapted to house and secure merchandise supported on the shelf therein. The cover is at least partially transparent to display merchandise when housed therein. The security lock box further includes a security device, which has a shelf mount and a lock. The shelf mount is adapted to be fastened to the shelf, and the lock releasably locks the cover to the shelf mount between a locked state, wherein the cover is locked to the shelf mount, and an unlocked state, wherein the cover is releasable from the shelf mount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Southern Imperial, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas E. Valiulis, Robert Louis Northrup, Jr., Patrick J. Barkdoll
  • Patent number: 8282895
    Abstract: A reagent cabinet for an automated processing apparatus. The reagent cabinet has a housing, and a drawer slidably mounted in the housing. The drawer has a lower deck adapted to receive a fluid reservoir, and an upper deck located above the lower deck and adapted to receive a fluid supply container. A supply connection hose is provided to selectively connect the fluid supply container to the fluid reservoir. A reservoir connection hose is provided to selectively connect to the fluid reservoir and to convey fluid from the fluid reservoir to a downstream location outside the cabinet. A pump is mounted on the drawer. The pump is adapted to convey fluid through either the supply connection hose or the reservoir connection hose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Qiagen Gaithersburg, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Matthew Miller, Yancy Kenan Ragin
  • Publication number: 20120169187
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a presentation device (1), comprising a display space (2) provided for displaying products, in which said display space (2) can be closed by a closure element (3) which can be moved up and down.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicant: View Tube NV
    Inventor: Marc Lambert
  • Patent number: 8162414
    Abstract: A door for merchandise display cabinets that show refrigerated or frozen merchandise, features a vertical opening for accessing the merchandise space, is subdivided into compartments arranged vertically on top of each other, and its front part that is accessible by the customer can be closed with transparent doors and be moved horizontally. These doors have been executed as frameless insulating glass planes on which swivel bolts have been directly arranged on the insulating glass pane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Inventor: Albert Weiss
  • Patent number: 8113601
    Abstract: A merchandising system that improves the merchandising of product by limiting the number and the frequency with which product can be removed from, for example, a merchandising shelf. The merchandising system may include a base configured to support product and a housing configured to engage the base. The housing may comprise a top wall, a first side wall, a second side wall, and a front retaining wall. The system may further include a spring-urged pusher movably mounted on the base and a dampener assembly mounted to the spring-urged pusher configured to control the rate of speed at which the spring-urged pusher is urged forward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: RTC Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen Hardy
  • Patent number: 8079181
    Abstract: A door for a refrigerating unit is provided that includes a door leaf hinged to a body of the refrigerating unit and a decorative element that is superimposed on the door leaf in such a way as to be adjustable in position. The decorative element has a central cutout, through which a central region of the door leaf is exposed. A groove open towards this central region is formed on the door leaf in order to accommodate a profile element which conceals a gap between door leaf and decorative element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Görz, Karl-Friedrich Laible, Hans-Philipp Reitz
  • Publication number: 20110273065
    Abstract: A merchandiser including a case defining a product display area for supporting and displaying food product. The case includes a case frame that has at least one mullion defining an opening into the product display area, a door that is positioned over the opening and pivotably coupled to the case frame for movement between a closed position and an open position, and a door hold open mechanism attached to either the mullion or the door. The other of the mullion and the door defines a channel, and the door hold open mechanism includes an engagement member that is outwardly biased from the mullion or the door to which the door hold open mechanism is attached such that the engagement member is engageable with the other of the mullion and the door within the channel to hold the door in the open position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2010
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Applicant: HUSSMANN CORPORATION
    Inventors: David W. Dickey, Paul D. Fogarty, Garrick N. McFarland, Denise Slatton, Raymond P. Twohy
  • Patent number: 8047619
    Abstract: A security display case including an enclosure having a security portion and a display portion, a platform moveable from the security portion to the display portion, a security member that secures the security portion, a gas spring that moves the platform from the security portion to the display portion, and a stabilizing assembly that stabilizes the moving platform. Optionally, the gas spring is paired with another gas spring so that the lateral forces of the springs are substantially cancelled, and the vertical forces are combined to move the platform. The stabilizing assembly can be a rack and pinion gear including at least two pinion gears engaged by a common member which synchronizes rotation of the gears to prevent binding of the platform as it is moved. The security member can include doors that fold over the security portion and which are engaged at their edges by a common locking member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Amstore Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas D. Amstutz, Edward J. Bacheller, Richard J. Yager
  • Patent number: 8038233
    Abstract: A device for supporting glass panels in a substantially perpendicular position to each other. The device includes a block having a plate intended for gluing to a respective glass panel, at least one structurally separate right-angled element having a plate intended for gluing to a respective panel and a fixing device for adjustable fixation of the at least one right-angled element to said the block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Gruppo Confalonieri S.p.A.
    Inventor: Danilo Pezzoni
  • Patent number: 7958673
    Abstract: A product server for holding and displaying products. The product server has a front customer side, a rear employee side and a breath guard. The breath guard comprises a cover attached to the product server that is moveable between a lowered position covering the products held by the product server and a raised position in which the cover serves as a breath guard and allows access to the products. The cover is sufficiently transparent to allow viewing of the products from the customer side of the product server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Duke Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Thomas E. Yingst, Frederick A. Deluca
  • Patent number: 7877931
    Abstract: The present superstructure involves, for each upright, a spacer section bar (3), a hinge-bearing section bar (6), a hinge (8), a piston (13) that helps to lift the pane (1), and is completed by a gripper (9) for supporting the pane (1), a closing section bar (11) and a gasket; the section bar (3) has a box section so that it can be adjusted to be joined together with the section bar (6); each hinge (8) is fixed to the section bar (6) and at its end to be fixed to the gripper (9), bears conical guides (8.1) suitable for fitting the conical arms (9.1) situated on the gripper (9) itself; a gasket (12) is fixed to the gripper (9); where spherical panes (1) are involved, hinges (15) are used containing a body (15.1) and a connecting piece (15.2) that can be rotated with respects to the body (15.1) so that the panes (1) can be fitted on at different lengths of the circular arc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: N.E.M. Nord Est Meccanica S.N.C.
    Inventor: Alessandro Cianetti
  • Patent number: 7846026
    Abstract: A gaming machine includes a cabinet defining an internal space and a front side. The cabinet has an opening in the front side for providing access to the internal space. A door is movably mounted to the cabinet for movement between an open position providing access to the internal space, and a closed position wherein the door substantially closes off the opening in the cabinet. The door has an enlarged opening defining generally vertical spaced apart side edges. At least one screen is mounted to the door, and extends across at least a substantial portion of the opening in the door, the screen having an outside surface. A generally horizontal cross member extends across the enlarged opening, and has opposite ends positioned adjacent the vertical side edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: SPEC International
    Inventors: Orlando W. Stephenson, III, Kim D. Mc Comb, Dave J. Looks, Lee M. Terpstra
  • Patent number: 7836555
    Abstract: An internal hinge for a fire-resistant enclosure is provided. The internal hinge includes a cabinet end and a door end. The cabinet end is pivotally coupled with a bracket mounted on the enclosure and the door end is fixedly coupled with a door of the enclosure. The hinge includes first, second, third, and fourth segments. The first segment extends linearly from the cabinet end of the hinge. The second segment extends from the first segment in a generally curved path wrapping around the cabinet end approximately 90 degrees. The third segment extends linearly from the second segment and at an angle relative to the first segment. The fourth segment extends linearly from the third segment to the door end of the hinge and is perpendicular to the first segment. The internal hinge of the present invention allows the door of the enclosure to open approximately 147 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: John D. Brush & Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Kelvin H. Wildman
  • Patent number: 7793781
    Abstract: A combination article storage container and novelty item includes a housing having a first predetermined size and first predetermined shape and being manufactured from a first predetermined material. A predetermined article is contained within such housing. A mechanism releasably attaches such predetermined article within such housing at a predetermined location therein. An outwardly facing transparent front panel manufactured from a second predetermined material is attached to such housing at a predetermined location thereon. A mechanism provides access to remove and replace such predetermined article. A tool member is operably connected to such housing at a predetermined location on an outside of such housing for giving the appearance that in order to obtain such predetermined article such tool must be used to break the transparent front panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Inventor: Jeffrey C. Hoyt
  • Patent number: 7731308
    Abstract: A medication container is designed for secure storage of medications and other controlled substances. The container top has a sloped configuration which resists the stacking of medical files and other objects atop it (which might obscure view of the container), and it also includes a curved sliding front door allowing both a frontal and top view of medications within the container. The door is locked by use of two separate locks, one intended for a pharmacist or other medication control officer, and one by the personnel administering the medication to patients, whereby either of these parties may independently access the interior of the container. The container is also preferably designed to rapidly have a removable medication tray installed within or removed from its interior, and to rapidly be fixed to a medication cart, patient bedside table, or other structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Inventor: David Lester Riemer