Components Spaced From Bottom Wall Patents (Class 312/351)
  • Patent number: 11950718
    Abstract: A serving pitcher with an integrated cup holder. The present invention includes a pitcher having an interior volume that can hold multiple servings of beverages therein. The pitcher includes a concave cutout formed in a sidewall thereof, wherein the cutout extends from a lower side of the pitcher to an opposing upper side of the pitcher. A platform extending from the cutout at the lower side of the pitcher, wherein the platform includes a recess that can receive a cup therein. The platform is disposed within the concave cutout such that cups can be disposed on the platform in a vertically stacked configuration and supported in an upright configuration by the concave cutout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Inventor: John Vilardi
  • Patent number: 11937747
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a soap dish assembly that promotes the longevity of a bar of soap and allows a user to access to the soap without directly handling it. Particularly, the disclosed assembly includes a bottom plate configured to attach to a support surface (e.g., a shower wall). The bottom plate comprises a housing sized and shaped to cooperate with a bar of soap. The soap is therefore retained within the base housing via a middle plate. A front plate attaches to the bottom plate to retain the soap and middle plate therebetween. In use, a sponge or other bathing accessory can contact an exposed surface of the soap, thereby allowing access to the soap without having to directly handle it. Alternatively, a user can rub a desired body part (e.g., their hands) on the exposed portion of the soap for cleaning. As a result, the life of the soap is extended and does not get soggy or softened from excess contact with water during and after use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Inventor: Andrew Bordin
  • Patent number: 11897429
    Abstract: There is disclosed herein examples of a vehicle container unit that may be mounted within a vehicle. The vehicle container unit may be mounted to a seat of a vehicle and may include space for transporting items within the vehicle container unit. The vehicle container unit may mount to the seat via an anchor system of the seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Timothy Jon Meador, Marie Ledger, Jessica Uelmen, Anthony Galliano, III, Arun A. Mathews, Pratik Palnitkar
  • Patent number: 11783732
    Abstract: A sign holder assembly for a shelving system, in which the shelving system includes a first support post and a second support post, with each support post configured to support a side of a shelf, includes a cross member configured to be coupled to and extend between the first support post and second support post. The assembly further includes a support bracket having a base member configured to be positioned about a portion of the cross member in one of a plurality of positions along a length of the cross member, an extension portion extending from the base member, and a securement member projecting from the extension portion and spaced from the base member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: SPG International, LLC
    Inventor: Arturo Gonzalez
  • Patent number: 11766058
    Abstract: A popcorn popper is provided having a cabinet including a popcorn popping chamber, a kettle positioned within the popcorn popping chamber, at least one inlet provided in the top wall of the popcorn popping chamber configured to receive effluent from the kettle when popping popcorn and a recirculation passage in fluid communication with the at least one inlet that is configured to receive effluent from the at least one inlet. A filter is positioned in the recirculation passage and a blower including a housing in fluid communication with the recirculation passage is provided with an outlet of the housing being configured to direct filtered effluent into the popcorn popping chamber through the top wall and downwardly generally parallel to one of the side walls. A method of operating a popcorn popper is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Gold Medal Products Company
    Inventor: Timothy A. Rhome
  • Patent number: 11759036
    Abstract: A storage box includes a base having a bottom portion with inner and outer surfaces, and a peripheral wall surrounding the bottom portion to form a storage space with the inner surface. The outer surface has a placing slot and a knife sharpener fixing portion adjacent thereto. When the user places a knife sharpener in the storage space and closes a covering plate, the whole storage box is portable. The knife is sharpened when the covering plate is detached and embedded in the placing slot while the bottom portion is orientated upward, and the knife sharpener is disposed on the knife sharpener fixing portion. The user moves a knife back and forth between the knife sharpener by one hand and puts the other hand beside the covering plate to avoid being gashed by the knife in the knife sharpening process, thereby achieving protection purpose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: V NIVES, LLC
    Inventor: Isaac Vellekamp
  • Patent number: 11744360
    Abstract: A table has a shelf beneath a tabletop which holds charging strips, communication hubs, cords and/or other equipment in a storage compartment behind a divider wall. The divider wall has an opening forming a passageway for cords from the equipment that are used to power and/or communicate with electronic devices on the tabletop or in a cubby on the shelf ahead of the divider wall. The table also has a groove in the tabletop for holding electronic devices. The groove has one or more apertures through which cords pass from the equipment in the storage compartment to the electronic devices in the groove for providing power and/or communication. The table can be a desk, conference table, side table, end table, night stand, and any other piece furniture that has the tabletop and shelf with a divider wall and opening according to the present invention, such as wall shelves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Artifox, LLC
    Inventors: Sarah Elizabeth-Carpenter Mirth, Daniel Joseph Mirth
  • Patent number: 11627799
    Abstract: A workstation is disclosed. The workstation includes a tabletop or desktop having a work surface assembly that has a base structure, a cover member, and a brake assembly. The cover member is supported by the base structure and defines a work surface arranged at an inclination relative to a horizontal surface. The cover member is adapted to slide relative to the base structure between an extended position and a retracted position. Moreover, the brake assembly is adapted to prevent the sliding of the cover member relative to base structure and holds the cover member stationary with the base structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Inventor: Keith McRobert
  • Patent number: 11559185
    Abstract: A system and method for adjusting a dishwasher rack in a dishwasher includes a base, a slider and a lock for raising and lowering a dishwasher basket between an up and down position, respectively. The slider is connected in a fixed engagement with the dishwasher basket. The base includes two or more rollers for engagement with dishwasher slide rails and is slideably engaged relative to the slider. The lock is biased into a locked position when the base is fully upwardly extended relative to the slider and is released to permit the basket to be lowered downwardly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventors: Massoud Elkhoury, Michael Osvatic, William S. Poehls
  • Patent number: 11518972
    Abstract: A movable cell incubator contains: a body, a first lid, a second lid and an electric control unit. The body includes a first internal space, a refrigeration room, and an airtight culture room. The first lid airtightly covers the culture room, the second lid airtightly covers the refrigeration room, and the control unit includes a microprocessor, a power module, a digital/analog conversion module defined between a microprocessor and the power module, a heating module controlling temperature of the culture room, a cooling module supplying cold source to the refrigeration room, a peristaltic pump module, a flow sensing module, a CO2 detective supply module supplying CO2 to the culture room, and a setting display module exposing and fixed on the first lid, with the peristaltic pump module aseptically connected between cell culture media and cell culture bag by multiple conveying tubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Inventor: Lun-Kuang Liu
  • Patent number: 11512497
    Abstract: A remotely controlled cabinet assembly includes a cabinet unit that includes a central cabinet and a door that is hingedly coupled to the central cabinet. A plurality of locking units is each coupled to the central cabinet. Each of the locking units releasably engages the door for locking the door on the central cabinet. A control unit is coupled to the cabinet unit and the control unit is electrically coupled to each of the locking units. The control unit actuates each of the locking units to disengage and thusly unlock the door on the central cabinet. A keypad is coupled to the door and each of the locks disengages the door when an alpha-numeric code is entered into the keypad. An electronic device is carried by a user and the electronic device transmits an unlock command to the control unit for remotely unlocking the door on the central cabinet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Inventors: William Nylander, Melanie M. Cottone-Nylander
  • Patent number: 11511925
    Abstract: Systems and methods for nesting product packaging with strainer inserts are provided. Product packaging systems may include, for example, a product container with a lid and with a strainer insert disposed within the container. In some embodiments, the strainer inserts may be snapped into place in a channel, groove, or other retention feature of the parent container, thus permitting coupling without the use of adhesives or fasteners. The strainer inserts, when coupled within the parent containers, may define a drainage volume in which product fluids may drain to maintain the product separately from the fluids, e.g., to prolong shelf-life of the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Pianca Packaging LLC
    Inventor: Sameh Guirguis
  • Patent number: 11452376
    Abstract: A mounting device is configured to mount a panel to a wall of an object. The mounting device includes a mounting member and an auxiliary member. The mounting member is configured to be mounted to the panel, and the mounting member is arranged with at least one coupling device. The at least one coupling device is configured to connect the panel to the wall. The auxiliary member is configured to cover at least one predetermined portion of the mounting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignees: King Slide Works Co., Ltd., King Slide Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ken-Ching Chen, Fang-Cheng Su, Ci-Bin Huang, Yue-Hua Tang, Chun-Chiang Wang
  • Patent number: 11445887
    Abstract: A dishwashing appliance or rack assembly may include a rack, a front bracket, a rear bracket, and a joiner bar. The rack may include a sidewall having a transverse rail and slide in a transverse direction between an extended position and a retracted position. The front bracket may be attached to the sidewall and extend vertically between a fixed end secured to the sidewall and a free end laterally pivotable apart from the transverse rail. The rear bracket may be attached to the sidewall rearward from the front bracket. The rear bracket may extend vertically from a fixed end secured to the sidewall to a free end laterally pivotable apart from the transverse rail. The joiner bar may extend along the transverse direction from the front bracket to the rear bracket and be laterally translatable relative to the transverse rail to motivate the free end of the front bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Arpit Singhal, Justin Paul Mudd
  • Patent number: 11305699
    Abstract: A divider-type organizer that make use of the center console's interior walls in forming some or all of the individual bins and wherein the organizer's planar divider pieces extend generally orthogonally from one surface of an adjoining piece without extending significantly outwardly from the opposing side of the adjoining piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Inventor: Todd G Leifheit
  • Patent number: 11067331
    Abstract: Provided is a refrigeration appliance having a cabinet defining a storage compartment therein with one or more shelves supported in the compartment. A false wall is provided adjacent an internal wall of the compartment to conceal aspects of a support system that supports both the false wall and the one or more shelves within the compartment, via inter-engagement of the support system with the internal wall and with another internal wall disposed adjacent the internal wall. A wall of the support system including a plurality of mounting holes is retained outward of a major inward face of the false wall to provide a recessed and fluid appearance of the side of the interior of the compartment having the internal wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Electrolux Home Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Josh Hanson, Orin Miller
  • Patent number: 11009279
    Abstract: A portable cooler with integrated, fold-down shelf adapted for storage within a sidewall of the cooler to facilitate portability and functionality of the cooler. The shelf articulates between a storage position within a recessed portion of the sidewall and a deployed position parallel to the cooler lid for holding food and drink objects. The shelf features a cut-out portion to accommodate use of both the handle and shelf on the same sidewall, and a user may ergonomically access the shelf with a hand and fingers at a lip region of the recessed portion of the sidewall to raise the shelf out of the recessed portion of the sidewall. The handle may be a deployable handle or slidable handle. The cut-out portion of the shelf features a dimensional tolerance to accommodate the functionality of the shelf and handle without either the shelf or handle disturbing or interfering with the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Inventors: Robert McCarron, Ashleigh McCarron, Emily McCarron
  • Patent number: 10874213
    Abstract: A drawer structure including a front end, a rear end and the side walls, the front end having a panel front and a crossbar in which a gap between the panel front and the crossbar permits the insertion of an insert or the passage of a fabric material whereby a basket may be secured in a drawer frame. Where a fabric material is passed between the panel front and the crossbar it may be wrapped around the crossbar and inserted into an inward facing recess of the crossbar whereby the material may be secured by the tension applied by the weight of the basket causing a crossbar clip to splay and prevent the fabric from being dislodged from the recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Tag Hardware Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Stephen Lawson, Stephen Campion
  • Patent number: 10792953
    Abstract: There is provided to a tilt board (1, 51, 61, 101) comprising an activity surface (3) supported by a base (5). The base comprises a front wall (7) and a rear wall (9) that extends downwardly from the activity surface by a greater distance than the front wall. The activity surface (3) comprises an activity surface surround (15) defining an aperture (17) therein and a removable activity surface insert (19) dimensioned for reception in the aperture. A plurality of interchangeable activity surface inserts (19) may be provided. The activity surface inserts (19) are also tilt adjustable relative to the remainder of the tilt board. The tilt board (1, 51, 61, 101) is provided with a circumferential flange so that the tilt board may be inserted into an aperture of a larger work surface such as a table if desired. The tilt board can be used for a range of activities, can lie flat in a larger work surface if desired, and the tilt angle can be adjusted to several angles which is highly advantageous.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: SKM Advanced Products Limited
    Inventor: Pat McGee
  • Patent number: 10602909
    Abstract: A dishwasher has an interior with a tub and a dish rack slidably attached to the tub. The dish rack has vertically-oriented side rail and a height adjustment system. The adjustment system includes height adjustment mechanisms alongside the walls of the dish rack for vertically shifting the dish rack between lowered and raised positions relative to the tub. Each of the adjustment mechanisms includes an adjuster arm fixed vertically relative to the tub, with a locking boss at the first end, and a locking clip on the adjuster arm having at least one locking tab adapted to couple with the locking boss to prevent the rack from shifting vertically relative to the adjuster arm. The locking clip has a pair of interference ribs engaging a pair of side rails to prevent rotational movement of the rack with respect to the dishwasher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Kapil Gupta, Richard Lawrence Kretz, Ronald M. Nowell, Matthew M. Hansen
  • Patent number: 10512807
    Abstract: A portable fire hose dewatering device made of durable materials and used by one or more persons. It is considered fire fighting equipment and more specifically for efficiently removing the water from fire hoses prior to the hoses being rolled and stored. The device includes a mounting base, a rotatable shaft, bearings at the shaft ends, a pair of side structures/flanges on the mounting base, a spacer bar, and a set of pull handles connected to the side flanges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Inventor: James Madding
  • Patent number: 10357132
    Abstract: A sloped soap holder including a rectangular base unit and a plurality of foot members disposed on a bottom surface of the rectangular base unit. A single continuous sloped soap platform is disposed on a top surface of the rectangular base unit. Each of a right pair and a left pair of a plurality of a pair of vertically disposed X-shaped side supports has a lower surface disposed on the top surface of the rectangular base unit and an inner surface attached to each of the right edge and the left edge, respectively, of the sloped soap platform. Each of a plurality of drain openings and a plurality of linear grooves is disposed within the sloped soap platform. A plurality of raised diagonally disposed linear tracks is also disposed on the sloped soap platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Inventor: James Martin
  • Patent number: 10206544
    Abstract: A soap holder comprises a main body, and a carrying plate. The main body has a plurality of holes, an upper surface and a lower surface. The carrying plate has a plurality of bumps. The carrying plate is connected to one side of the main body by a hinge joint. Each of the plurality of bumps has a tip, and each of the plurality of bumps partially passes through a corresponding hole of the plurality of holes so the tips of the plurality of bumps expose above the upper surface. The tips of the plurality of bumps can carry a bar of soap. The main body and the carrying plate are separable and the soap drops onto the upper surface of the main body as each of the plurality of bumps withdraws from the corresponding hole of the plurality of holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Inventor: Jen-Yi Hsieh
  • Patent number: 9763557
    Abstract: Disclosed are a dish rack and dishwasher having the same. The present invention includes a wash tub forming a wash space, a rack configured to store a dish by being drawably provided within the wash tub, and a plurality of spray units configured to spray water upon the rack, wherein the rack comprises a frame configured to store a dish, a moving roller unit coupled with the frame to move upward and downward, the moving roller unit supporting a guide rail to draw the frame, and a location adjusting unit coupled with the frame, the location adjusting unit configured to selectively fix an upward/downward movement of the moving roller unit and release a fixed state of the moving roller unit to enable the upward/downward movement of the moving roller unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Minchul Kim, Kitae Kwon, Myungwon Ko
  • Patent number: 9549660
    Abstract: A dishwasher having an improved structure by which a basket is easily withdrawn, the dishwasher including a case, a basket arranged within the case to receive objects to be washed, a rail provided on an inner wall of the case in order to guide the basket such that the basket is withdrawn forward of the case, a link unit mounted to the basket to lift the basket, and an auxiliary unit connected to the link unit such that lifting force acts on the basket based on a position of the basket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nam Soo Park, Seung Mok Lee, Jae Won Lee, Young Kyun Jeong
  • Patent number: 9169893
    Abstract: A vibration reducing interface which uses interconnected layers of three or more concentrically arranged isolators to reduce vibrations in tools, vehicles, machines, weapons and anything else which uses pumps, compressors, engines, motors, spinning elements, out of balance loads or inconsistent, variable loading. The vibration reducing interface provides for tiering arranged isolators for reducing varying degrees and directions of vibration. The vibration reducing interface reduces vibration and its related negative affects including injury, damage and reduced control in relation to use of tools, vehicles, machines, weapons and other equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Inventors: Susan Joyce Williamson, Glen Everitt Moore
  • Patent number: 9062910
    Abstract: A refrigerator is provided. The refrigerator may include a main body having at least one storage chamber, a drawer mount installed in the at least one storage chamber that guides at least one drawer provided therein so as to be inserted into and pulled out of the at least one storage chamber, a cover configured to cover an upper opening of the at least one drawer and including guide grooves formed at left and right edges of the cover and guide rails mounted in the guide grooves and formed of metal, a shelf supported by the cover so as to be slidable on the cover by the guide rails, and a pair of supports provided at both sides of a lower surface of the shelf.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Taegyeong Kim, Ayoung Choo, Jaeyoul Lee, Nami Kim
  • Patent number: 9051106
    Abstract: A package (1) for touch-sensitive foodstuff products (P), such as chocolates or pralines, comprises:—a tray-like container (2) made of elastically deformable material that is able to receive a first part of the product (P) and has a mouth edge (3) that surrounds the product (P), allowing a substantial part thereof to emerge therefrom; and—a film (4) made of a material that is tearable and deformable in a plastic way, shaped according to a general dome-like conformation so as to contain, in the absence of stresses, the aforesaid substantial part of the product (P) emerging from the mouth edge (3) of the tray-like container (3); the tray-like container (2) and the film (4) are connected to one another in conditions of hermetic seal at the mouth edge (3) of the tray-like container (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: SOREMARTEC S.A.
    Inventor: Giuseppe Milano
  • Patent number: 9028017
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which in some implementations an expandable or adjustable snap-in cam or other friction device having a mechanically lockable drawer, shelf or divider in a cabinet, pantry, kitchen cupboard mount includes no screws or other permanent mounting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Inventor: Jeffrey M Nicholson
  • Patent number: 9013071
    Abstract: A power cord management system for managing flexible electrical power cords associated with hair or bathroom handheld appliances includes a power cord storage body. A pair of spaced apart cord wrapping elements are coupled to the power storage body about which the flexible electrical power cord may be wrapped for storage. At least one of the cord wrapping elements is movable between a storage and release position. The cord wrapping elements are configured to retain the wrapped power cord upon the power cord storage body when the at least one of the cord wrapping elements is in the storage position and wherein the wrapped power cord may be removed from the power cord storage body without unwrapping the wrapped power cord when the at least one of the cord wrapping elements is moved to the release position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Inventor: Natalie Levi
  • Patent number: 9004432
    Abstract: A rotatable housing assembly for use in mounting slides to equipment racks has components for different mounting options on different sides of the housing, and a retractable pin for use in positioning the housing. In some embodiments the housing is rotatably mounted to a bracket attached to a slide member, for example approximate a front of the side, and the retractable pin extends into a semicircular slot of the bracket for use in indexing position of the housing. The housing may include a button for use in retracting the retractable pin, and the assembly may provide for toolless mounting of the slide, and do so in a variety of rack configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Accuride International Inc.
    Inventor: David Laniado Lacarra
  • Patent number: 8960822
    Abstract: A drawer track with an anti-slip structure may include four connecting units; two rails horizontally installed on both sides of a receiving space formed by said connecting units at four corners, said rail having multiple through holes and a slide sheet on each inner portion of the rails; a drawer; and at least one anti-slip member. The drawer is placed onto and slides along the slide sheets of the rail. The rail has multiple through holes and is connected with the L-shaped anti-slip member to limit the movement of the drawer. The drawer track with an anti-slip structure can be quickly and conveniently installed and safely operated, and provide sufficient structural stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Inventor: Yen-Huang Hsu
  • Patent number: 8955930
    Abstract: A toolbox system is designed as with modular drawer unit with a mounting cradle that can adjust the height of the modular drawer unit, making it compatible to a wide variety of applications. The mounting cradle can be affixed from the top or bottom and can adjust the position of the modular drawer unit to various heights. The modular drawer units can be fabricated in different depths and stacked together for optimal space utilization. The toolbox system allows for placement so that the drawers pull out of a compartment or work space, allowing complete accessibility and space utilization. The mounting cradle can be designed so that the toolbox system can fit in almost any storage compartment or other desired spaces. The toolbox system allows for easy access to its compartments, especially in confined or limited spaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Inventor: Jeffrey John Zehrer
  • Publication number: 20140346933
    Abstract: A support system for one or more display items is configured with side walls extending in a longitudinal direction from a base towards a top such that an interior is defined between the base, top and side walls. A plurality of receptacles are configured in the base and a plurality of holes are configured in a floor parallel to and spaced apart from the base. Within the interior, a plurality of transparent platforms of a plurality of different sizes are configured at a plurality of different distances from the base. One or more transparent pillars are configured to extend between the receptacles, through the holes and into a supporting relationship with each of the one or more platforms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2013
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Inventor: JOSHUA SIMON
  • Publication number: 20140132140
    Abstract: A cabinet shelf organization system for improving flexibility in installation and positioning of cabinet shelves within a cabinet housing. The cabinet shelf organization system generally includes a cabinet housing with either a built-in or retroactively installed support insert. The support insert includes a grid-like arrangement of rows and columns of apertures. Cabinet shelves may be selectively arranged and installed within the cabinet housing by utilizing fastening rods extending through the cabinet shelves to anchor each shelf to corresponding apertures on the support insert in the desired location. The support insert may either be built in to the back wall of the cabinet housing or may be secured thereto through use of upper and lower mounts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Inventor: Chadwick D. Jaeger
  • Patent number: 8646444
    Abstract: A rack for an appliance includes a main section having a support frame, and an arm coupled to the support frame and movable relative to the support frame between a first position and a second position. In one example, the arm is movable towards the first position and is configured for engagement with a stop portion of an appliance cavity for inhibiting removal of the main section therefrom. In another example, the appliance cavity includes at least one stop portion, and the arm is movable towards engagement with the stop portion for inhibiting removal of the main section from the appliance cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Electrolux Home Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Wayne Williams, Jason Paul Norberg, Bryan Thomas Phillips, Julie Anne Robinson, Timothy Paul Doyal, Jeffrey A. Ambrose, Jason Robert Yochum
  • Patent number: 8567882
    Abstract: A rack assembly for an appliance is provided. The rack assembly includes a sidewall and a rack adjustment assembly. The rack adjustment assembly includes an engagement cam that selectively engages a member of the sidewall in order to permit the sidewall to be moved upwardly and downwardly along a vertical direction relative to the rack adjustment assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: William Nathan Garnett
  • Patent number: 8534471
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for adjusting a height of a rack within a dishwasher. The system includes a rack plate assembly and a wheel plate assembly. The rack plate assembly is configured to be secured to the rack. The rack plate assembly includes a rack plate and a handle pivotally secured to the rack plate. The wheel plate assembly is adjustably secured with respect to the rack plate. The wheel plate assembly includes a wheel plate having at least one adjustment slot. A portion of the handle securely engages the wheel plate through the at least one adjustment slot. The portion of the handle is configured to disengage from the at least one adjustment slot in order to adjust the rack plate with respect to the wheel plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Chong Bin Wong, Luca Gennaretti
  • Patent number: 8333448
    Abstract: A refrigerator is provided. The refrigerator includes a shelf member provided in the refrigerator; a position setting member positioning the shelf member at the set height; a guide member maintaining the connection state of the shelf member and the position setting member; and a rise induction mechanism allowing the shelf member to be raised by stages as connected with the position setting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Jong-Seok Yoon, Anthony Ogg
  • Patent number: 8322545
    Abstract: A shelf for a metal cabinet has a planar member, a ramped member extending from the planar member having a first, curved portion and a second, straight portion. The first, curved portion and second, straight portion are connected via a third, curved portion therebetween. The first curved portion has a first radius, and the second, curved portion has a second radius different from the first radius. The straight portion forms an outer wall of the shelf.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Metal Fabricating Corporation
    Inventors: Bernard J. Golias, Jr., Gary W. James, Robert J. Golias
  • Patent number: 8287060
    Abstract: A metal cabinet assembly has first and second opposed side walls and at least one shelf interposed between the first and second side walls. The shelf has a first planar member including at least one elongated slot formed through the first planar member. A second member includes a first wall which extends from the first planar member. A first curved portion is formed between the first wall and the first planar member wherein the first wall has at least one key-shaped opening formed through the first planar wall and substantially aligned with the elongated slot. The key-shaped opening has various configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Metal Fabricating Corporation
    Inventors: Bernard J. Golias, Jr., Robert J. Golias, Gary W. James, Gary R. Kish, Bernard J. Golias, Sr.
  • Patent number: 8172347
    Abstract: A variable shelf assembly includes a mounting member mounted in a storage compartment of a refrigerator, a shelf support member coupled to the mounting member such that the shelf support member is vertically movable, a shelf mounted on the shelf support member, and a lifting unit to lift the shelf support member. The mounting member and/or the shelf support member has a plurality of cool air circulation holes through which cool air circulating in the storage compartment passes. The lifting unit includes a driving gear, a driven gear rotatable by the driving gear, a screw shaft coupled to the driven gear, at least one moving member movable by the rotation of the screw shaft, and at least one rotary link having one end rotatably coupled to the moving member and the other end rotatably coupled to the mounting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae Hoon Lim, Dae Yeop Park, Myung Ju Sim
  • Patent number: 8172344
    Abstract: A safety cabinet includes an enclosure defining an opening and a door rotatably attached to the enclosure. The door is movable between an open position and a closed position, the door configured to selectively cover the enclosure when in the closed position. The safety cabinet comprises a spill-sloped shelf for directing fluid into a sump area of the cabinet and preventing damage to objects in the safety cabinet or harm to users of the safety cabinet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Justrite Manufacturing Company L.L.C.
    Inventors: Steven Michael Eyer, Patrick A. Malone
  • Publication number: 20120091873
    Abstract: A furniture system which is readily reconfigurable into a variety of work surface configurations and shelving configurations as well as additional component configurations associated therewith so as to readily adapt the furniture system to the specific needs of an office area. The system includes a system of brackets which readily accommodates mounting of work surfaces at a variety of elevations, and a shelving system which maintains shelves of different materials and thicknesses so that the top surfaces thereof align in a common plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: Haworth, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Compton, Brent Kunzi, Kristen Glick, Randall W. Borgman, Steve King, Shane Kuipers, Alex Lamfers, Mark Powell, Robert C. Wayner, Steffen Lipsky, Bret Wyngarden, Brian Gingrich
  • Patent number: 8087735
    Abstract: A free standing furniture apparatus including a furniture unit having a unit height dimension, a base including a base wall having a base height dimension and first and second separated base wall ends, the base wall at least in part circumscribing a base space where the base wall includes a top edge surface that resides substantially in a single edge plane and a back wall member supported by the base wall proximate the first and second ends of the base wall member and extending substantially vertically upward from the base wall member and substantially perpendicular to the single edge plane so that there is a receiving space that is unobstructed by the back wall member and that is above the base space for receiving the furniture unit, the back wall member having a back wall height dimension that is greater than the unit height dimension so that at least a portion of the back wall member is observable above the furniture unit when the furniture unit is received within the receiving space, wherein the furniture
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Steelcase Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Rheault, William Small
  • Patent number: 8079655
    Abstract: A furniture system which is readily reconfigurable into a variety of work surface configurations and shelving configurations as well as additional component configurations associated therewith so as to readily adapt the furniture system to the specific needs of an office area. The system includes a system of brackets which readily accommodates mounting of work surfaces at a variety of elevations, and a shelving system which maintains shelves of different materials and thicknesses so that the top surfaces thereof align in a common plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Haworth, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Compton, Brent Kunzi, Kristen Glick, Randall W. Borgman, Steve King, Shane Kuipers, Alex Lamfers, Mark Powell, Robert C. Wayner, Steffen Lipsky, Bret Wyngarden, Brian Gingrich
  • Patent number: 8056988
    Abstract: A cabinet assembly has at least one cabinet. Each cabinet is a frame and has multiple erect bars, a front board, a rear board, a bottom board, a left opening, a right opening, a wheel assembly and an inner chamber. The wheel assembly is mounted on a lower surface of the bottom board and has multiple wheels and a substrate. The wheels are mounted on the lower surface of the bottom board. The substrate is mounted below the bottom board and contacts to the wheels, allows the wheels to slide on the substrate and holds the cabinet. The inner chamber is formed between the front board, the rear board and the bottom board and communicates with the left opening and the right opening. Therefore, users put the objects from both the left opening and the right opening, so the cabinet assembly is very convenient for the users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Inventor: Hui-Lan Pan
  • Patent number: 7971943
    Abstract: A food storage device for storing a food product, a shelf positioned at least partially within the housing, and a coupling assembly coupling the shelf to the housing and adjustable (e.g., infinitely) to position the shelf in one of a plurality of different angles relative to the housing. Preferably, the housing comprises a frame creating a surface coupled to the coupling assembly, and a translucent panel coupled to the frame to facilitate viewing food product positioned in the housing. In one embodiment, the coupling assembly comprises a magnetic assembly including a magnet secured to the shelf and magnetically coupled to the housing. Preferably, the magnetic assembly further comprises a magnet holder secured to the shelf, wherein the magnet is secured to the holder. In this embodiment, the magnet can be secured to the magnet holder by an intermediate material (e.g., plastic) positioned between the magnet and the magnet holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: Hatco Corporation
    Inventor: John F. Quella
  • Patent number: 7926891
    Abstract: A support construction is provided for fixing at least one furniture drive for a movable furniture part in a furniture body. The support construction includes two lateral holding portions and a transverse bearer extending between the holding portions. The holding portions have fixing means for preferably releasably fixing the holding portions to a respective pull-out-guide assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Julius Blum GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Ritter
  • Patent number: 7909420
    Abstract: A pull-out guide for a dish rack of a dishwasher includes a guide rail which can be fixed to the body of a dishwasher, and a running rail which can be connected to a grid-like dish rack which is composed of wires, and a central rail which increases the pull-out length. The running rail is provided with two rows of clamp-like holders which lie one above the other and in which two wires of a dish rack which lie one above the other and run horizontally can be fixed, with the result that the dish rack is held in a dimensionally stable manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Paul Hettich GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Peter Jährling