Hamilton Beach Brands, Inc.

Hamilton Beach/proctor-silex, Inc.

Brita Gmbh

S. C. Johnson Son, Inc.

Pre Holding, Inc.

Pre Holdings, Inc.

Mark K Romandy

Martin Patrick Brady

Mark C Steiner

Paul M Blankenship

Dean C Warner

Guoyao Ye

Derwood Stephen DeLong

Michael J Morecroft

Michael S Garman

Peter M Neumann

Anthony V Cruz

Gregg M Davis

Peter A Koloski

Cyan Godfrey

Thornton K Lothrop

Margaret F Butler

Michael W Allen

Patrick Walraven

Terry M Kovara

Michael T Kopczewski

Steve Williamson

Stephen D Beverley

Dean Mondragon

Mike Page

Amber N Mazooji

Anthony Ventura

Michael Ellis Smith

Cuong Huy Truong

Brian C Bock

Drew Carlson

Benjamin Henry Branson, Iii

Elliott Hsu

James Robert Gaynor

Michael G Sandford

Koen Aidan Ambrose

Marianne B Grisdale

David Matthew Schandel

Tuan Quoc Tran

George William Stamper, Iii

Stephen C Williamson

Atle Larsen

Gregory E Salyers

Joan M Gardiner

William D Star

Beverage maker

Water purification device

Filter unit

A water purification system includes: a housing; a reservoir mounted to the housing and configured to hold and provide unfiltered water to the housing; a dispensing spout mounted to the housing and configured to dispense filtered water; and a filter assembly. The filter assembly includes: a filter unit with an inlet fluidly connected with the reservoir, and the outlet fluidly connected with the dispensing spout; a filter receptacle configured to connect the filter unit inlet with the reservoir and the filter unit outlet with the dispensing spout; and a locking yoke. The locking yoke is configured to move between a locked position, in which the locking yoke engages the filter unit and retains the filter unit in the receptacle, and an unlocked position, in which the locking yoke disengages from the filter unit to enable the filter unit to be removed from the receptacle.

Water purification system

Coffeemaker

Jack receiver with cover

A jack receiver for a kitchen cooking appliance includes a bracket mounted to the appliance. The bracket includes an aperture for receiving a thermometer therethrough. A jack socket for receiving and engaging a portion of the thermometer therein projects from the bracket aperture to an opposing side of the chamber's wall from the jack receiver, and is in operative communication with the appliance's controller. A cover is pivotably attached to the bracket and a biasing member exerts a biasing force onto the cover to bias the cover into a position covering the bracket aperture. The cover is pivotable against the biasing force of the biasing member, uncovering the bracket aperture, for insertion of the thermometer. Removal of the thermometer from the jack receiver permits automatic pivotable return of the cover to the covering position under the biasing force of the biasing member.

Kitchen appliance with an improved temperature probe jack receiver cover

A beverage maker is disclosed with a removable filter carrier, a receiver for the removable filter carrier, and a locking mechanism to selectively secure and seal the carrier to the beverage maker by way of lifting the carrier to engage a sealing surface. In use, the filter carrier is linearly inserted into the receiver via a front face of the beverage maker. The receiver may also include the locking mechanism. The locking mechanism includes a lever that is actuated to operate the locking mechanism. Actuation of the lever is translated to lift and clamp the filter carrier against the seal surface. In the 'sealed' position, the lever is selectively fixed in place until the user actuates the lever so as to release the filter carrier. In the 'released' position, the filter carrier is still supported by the locking mechanism but it may be selectively removed from the receiver. The locking mechanism reduces or eliminates conventional issues with securing a filter carrier to a beverage maker such as properly aligning the filter carrier so that it may be secured to the beverage maker, the filter carrier disengaging from the beverage maker during use, or not being able to remove the filter carrier after a brew cycle.

Beverage brewing apparatus with a filter carrier receiver

Slow cooker

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Midlothian, VA, United States of America

Mark K Romandy