S. C. Johnson Son, Inc.

S.c. Johnson Home Storage, Inc.

Datacard Corporation

Interlock Structures International, Inc.

Placon Corporation

Eagle Development Corporation

Charles Austen Angell

Brian Clemens

Brett Ryan Johnson

Jennifer Dianne Astwood

Scott W Demarest

Donald E McCumber

Shaohui Qiu

Richard K Strayer

Ralph L Schipani

Patrick M Hamilton

Mark Brauer

Joseph Perushek

Paul Miklautsch

Kyle Gudmunson

Lee Powers

Walter Croll

Brian C Dais

Arthur Joseph Paulson

Charles Thomas Graves

Faith Jewel Rekowski

Paul E Furner

Lyle Cecil Bungert

Nichole M Chagnon

Michael A Morrison

Eric C Stender

Lyle C Bungert

A foldable truss member suitable for commercial displays includes a plurality of side members that are adjacently hinged together. The side members include support members and bridging members having extensions. The side members are joined into a foldable structure with a hinge member between the support member and extensions of adjacent side members. A display structure can be formed by connecting locking members between two truss members.

Foldable support structure with hinged sawtooth wall members

Desktop printer housing

Improvements that facilitate loading of supply items into data bearing identification or financial document production equipment. Supply items include web materials that are used in data bearing identification or financial document production equipment, and which are supplied from a supply cylinder and wound onto a take-up cylinder after use. Examples of supply items include monochromatic and multi-color print ribbons, webs that carry laminate patches, cleaning tape, and other web materials that are used up during use of the equipment. Data bearing identification or financial document production equipment include thermal printers, laminators and combinations thereof, and other equipment that utilize supply items.

Supply items for printers and the like, and method of loading supply items

A foldable truss member suitable for commercial displays includes a plurality of side members that are adjacently hinged together. The side members include support members and bridging members having extensions. The side members are joined into a foldable structure with a hinge member between the support member and extensions of adjacent side members. The truss includes a locking frame that is removably attached to ends of the side members. A display structure can be formed by connecting a locking frame between two truss members.

Foldable support structure with hinged sawtooth wall members and rigid end cap

Desktop printer

Container and lid

End cap for display truss

Container

A bait station for crawling insects and method for presenting bait to targeted insects. The bait station includes a base and a cover fastened to the base. The base includes a bait cup with a bait cup wall. A side support extends upwardly above the level of the bait cup wall. The cover includes a shell that defines a walkway between the shell wall and the bait cup wall. The shell also includes a roof that spans the space encompassed by the shell wall, the roof being supportable by the side support. An antechamber is defined on one side by the side support and on another side by the shell wall. The floor of the antechamber is continuous with the floor of the walkway. An antechamber door in the shell wall opens into the antechamber to admit targeted insects thereto and is so located that straight line access through the antechamber door to the bait cup is restricted by the side support. The antechamber is sufficiently wide from the side support to the shell wall as to provide room for a targeted insect to enter the bait station through the antechamber door and avoid the side support by entering the walkway, thus gaining access to any bait contained in the bait cup. The method of the invention includes providing such a bait station, containing a selected bait within the bait cup and placing the bait station on a surface where targeted insects crawl.

Bait station for crawling insects

A bait station for crawling insects and method for presenting bait to targeted insects. The bait station includes a base and a cover fastened to the base. The base includes a bait cup with a bait cup wall. At least one side support extends upwardly above the level of the bait cup wall and extends longitudinally generally along the bait cup wall. The cover includes a shell that defines a walkway between the shell wall and the bait cup wall. The shell also includes a roof that spans the space encompassed by the shell wall, the roof being supportable by the side support. An antechamber is defined on one side by the side support and on another side by the shell wall. The floor of the antechamber is continuous with the floor of the walkway. An antechamber door in the shell wall opens into the antechamber to admit targeted insects thereto and is so located that straight line access through the antechamber door to the bait cup is blocked by the side support. The antechamber is sufficiently wide from the side support to the shell wall as to provide room for a targeted insect to enter the bait station through the antechamber door and avoid the side support by entering the walkway, thus gaining access to any bait contained in the bait cup. The method of the invention includes providing such a bait station, containing a selected bait within the bait cup and placing the bait station on a surface where targeted insects crawl.

A transparent thermoformed thermoplastic blister has a product bubble which protrudes from a flange which is connected to a backing card. The bubble has an access opening which is selectably uncovered by a pivotable door hinged to the flange and to a hinge panel by parallel hinges, with the hinge panel hinged to the flange to define an over-center hinge arrangement. The lengths of the hinge panel and door, as well as the spring constants of the hinges may be selected to form a closure which will tend to remain opened once opened, or alternatively one which will automatically spring closed when finger pressure on the door is released. The closure may alternatively be formed in a clamshell package. The physical manipulation of the door is similar to the throwing of a light switch, and hence is readily apprehended by new users.

Blister package with pivotable door closure

Crawling insect bait station

Growing community of inventors

Minneapolis, MN, United States of America

Charles Austen Angell