Colgate Palmolive Company

General Housewares Corporation

Chesebrough-pond's USA Co., Division of Conopco, Inc.

Berg Company, LLC

Sunbeam Products, Inc.

The Coleman Company, Inc.

Wki Holding Company, Inc.

Continental Sprayers International, Inc.

Savant Instruments, Inc.

Eagle Electric Manufacturing Co., Inc.

Loreal Sa

Orthologic Corp.

Iatromed, Inc.

The Venture Fund of Washington

Donald R Lamond

Bert D Heinzelman

John C Crawford

Thomas E Mintel

John P Curtis

James Herbert Kemp

Kedar N Rustogi

Laura H Edelman

Christopher J Claypool

Richard Whitehall

John Moldauer

Michael J Keating

Thomas E Giles

Ronald F Faust

Adam Sebastian Sanchez

Dylan M Akinrele

Albert H Dorsey

Kristie M Killen

Robin Esterson

Paul Lacotta

Anna Stern

Bill Fiebel

Robert Moskovich

David R Schiff

Adam Sherman

James A Petronio

Walter Stoeckmann

James T Collins, Iii

David L French

Jose L Correa

Donald D Foster

Howard S Leopold

Yuliy Rushansky

Michael Glater

Robert Pandorf

Stephen John Raven

William Fiebel

Tucker H Fort

Michael R Giebel

Karl D Kirk

Diego Fontayne

Derek Guy Savill

Dale C Barnett

Peter Leonard Dawson

Daniel M Stewart

Lois Josephine Slachowitz

Jose Correa

Jesse Lee Doroqusker

A method for dispensing a beverage from a bottle that includes communicating a dispensing authorization message from a control unit to at least one of a server interface carried by a beverage server and a pour spout secured to a bottle, wherein the dispensing authorization message at least one of includes or initiates a dispensing command, and wherein the pour spout responds to the dispensing command by opening a spout valve through which a beverage flows from the bottle and out of the pour spout.

System and method of use for dispensing liquids from a container

A pour spout, for attaching to a bottle, has a first wireless transceiver and a valve for selectively controlling flow of a beverage from the bottle. A server interface, adapted to be carried by a person who serves beverages, has a second wireless transceiver. A control unit is provided to wirelessly communicate with the second transceiver. In one mode, the pour spout transmits a spout identifier to the server interface, which responds by transmitting the spout identifier and a server identifier to the control unit. The control unit responds with a reply transmission causing the server interface to command the pour spout to open the valve. In another mode, a person selects a cocktail, that results in the control unit sending designations of a plurality of liquor ingredients to the server interface. The server interface controls dispensing each of the plurality of liquor ingredients.

Wireless control system for dispensing beverages from a bottle

A pour spout has a bottle adapter for insertion into a mouth of a bottle. A housing has a chamber into which a housing inlet and a housing outlet open with the housing inlet connected to the bottle adapter for receiving beverage from the bottle. A valve carriage is movable within the chamber and has a carriage inlet in fluid communication with a carriage outlet. A resilient first tube provides a first beverage passageway between the housing inlet and the carriage inlet. A resilient second tube provides a second beverage passageway between carriage outlet and the housing outlet. The first or second tube has a valve seat that is engaged and disengaged by a plunger on the valve carriage as the valve carriage moves within the chamber. A valve actuator moves the valve carriage in response to signal from a control circuit that receives a wireless command signal.

Spout with a valve for dispensing liquor from a bottle

A pour spout for dispensing a beverage from a bottle including a bottle adapter for attaching to a bottle to receive a beverage from the bottle, a housing having a chamber into which a housing inlet and a housing outlet open, the housing inlet connected to the bottle adapter for receiving the beverage, a valve carriage moveably received within the chamber and having a carriage passage, a resilient first tube providing a first passageway for beverage to flow from the housing inlet to the carriage passage, a resilient second tube providing a second passageway for beverage to flow from the carriage passage to the housing outlet, a valve operatively connected to the valve carriage to control flow of the beverage through the housing from the housing inlet to the housing outlet; and a valve actuator for moving the valve carriage within the chamber to operate the valve open or closed.

Pour spout device and method of use for dispensing liquid from a container

Tool handle

An ergonomic wrench for rotating a member in a torquing plane substantially perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the member is provided, having a head portion for engaging the member and a handle extending therefrom in a first longitudinal direction. The invention further includes a handle which is substantially elliptical, having a major axis and a minor axis when viewed in a cross-sectional plane perpendicular to said first longitudinal direction, the major axis of which is arranged substantially perpendicular to the torquing plane.

Ergonomic handle for a wrench

A self-securing handle for a tool having a longitudinally extending main body portion, is provided. The handle includes an elongate body having a first end and a longitudinally opposed second end, and a central cavity extending from the first end to the second end thereof. The handle further includes a securing mechanism positioned within the central cavity proximate the second end of the handle. The handle receives the tool main body portion within the central cavity, and the securing mechanism mates with a receiving structure on the tool main body portion to secure the handle to the tool main body portion.

Self-securing tool handle

Tape and tape clip

A system for absorbing shock including a resilient member positioned between a portion of the head and a portion of the shaft of the tool. The resilient member dampens and absorbs vibration travelling from the head to the shaft and reverberations travelling through the tool. The system also includes a shock-absorbing member having an internal portion positioned within a cavity in the head of the tool and an external portion positioned on an upper surface of the head that dampens and absorbs vibration travelling within the head and reverberations travelling through the tool. The system further includes a bonding material filling spaces with the cavity and a channel within the head that further dampens and absorbs vibration travelling from the head to the shaft and reverberations travelling through the tool. The system includes a handle portion that has a soft elastomeric outer coating that provides a comfortable grip to the user and hinders vibration from travelling from the shaft to the hand of the user.

Shock absorption system for a striking tool

Tape measure

A grill cover assembly having a generally rectangular main body, a tapered left side portion, attached to the left edge of the main body, a tapered right side portion, attached to a right edge of the main body, and a generally square pocket piece attached to the left side portion. The grill cover provides lightweight and portable protection for a barbecue-type grill. The grill cover assembly can fold into its own built-in pocket for easy and convenient storage.

Barbeque grill cover

A basting brush having a replaceable bristle head provides for economical and hygienic reuse of basting brush handle portions. The brush also permits rapid twist-lock disconnection and replacement of the bristle head element. Angled bristles, a curved neck and a soft-grip hand-piece provide for improved comfort during use for more convenient basting action.

Basting brush with replaceable bristle element

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Haworth, NJ, United States of America

Donald R Lamond