Georgia-pacific Corporation

Maytag Corporation

Frontier Lighting Technologies, LLC

Whirlpool Corporation

The Gorman-rupp Company

Robert J Hayes

Jeffrey T DeBord

John R Moody

Dennis Joseph Denen

Paul E Hsu

Michael T Kopczewski

Joshua M Broehl

Brian Kenneth Linstedt

John Joseph Knittle

Gregory James Merz

Craig D Yardley

Keith Hobart Gausmann

Jamison Joseph Float

Gary Petersen

James Huang Lua

Kenneth C Boyle

Robert Brueckner

Doug Drenten

Don Staufenberg

David Fett

Gary Schmitz

Matt Bowers

Jay F Perkins

George A Clark

Gary Edwin Myers

Steve E Pever

Douglas G Schaefer

Brent L Burchfield

Kristi Lafrenz

Sally Stark

Samuel Joseph Marino

Fred Lowery

Kristi R Lafrenz

Sally A Stark

Doug Huffer

The present invention includes a collapsible lighting device comprising: (a) a container having a base portion and optional lid portion, that is adapted to be reversibly moved from a closed position to an open position; (b) at least one light source disposed in the container; and (c) a collapsible envelope of a diffuser material disposed in the container, and adapted to be reversibly moved from a contained position defining a contained volume within the container when the container is in the closed position, to a deployed position when the container is in the open position.

Collapsible lighting device

A toaster is provided having a base which may be interchangeable or integral with the toaster unit. The toaster also contains an angled heating chamber having manually moveable heating element assemblies, a centering carriage, and a toast lift that optimize the distance between the heating elements and the bread product. Furthermore, an angled top for viewing the bread product within the heating chamber, and including a user control interface for controlling the actions of the toaster, located on the top surface thereof are provided.

Toaster

A dispenser for rolled absorbent web material is disclosed. A carriage is rotatable between at least two orientations. The carriage includes a first roll holder, which holds a first roll of absorbent web material in a primary position when the carriage is in a first orientation and in a secondary position when the carriage is in a second orientation, and a second roll holder, which holds a second roll of absorbent web material in the secondary position when the carriage is in the first orientation and in the primary position when the carriage is in the second orientation. A roll sensor senses the amount of absorbent web material remaining on the roll in the primary position. A feed mechanism dispenses absorbent web material from at least one of the rolls. A transfer mechanism feeds absorbent web material from the roll in the secondary position into the feed mechanism when the absorbent web material on the roll in the primary position is nearly depleted.

Waste minimizing carousel-style dispenser

A coupling for connection of a tube comprises a coupling housing which includes a first end into which the tube is inserted, a clamping ring which is positioned in the coupling housing against a first conical surface, a sealing ring which is positioned in the coupling housing, and a return ring which is positioned in the coupling housing between the clamping ring and a second end of the housing adjacent a second conical surface that is tapered opposite to the first conical surface. The return ring is expandable and comprises a central aperture which is smaller than the external diameter of the tube. Accordingly, when the tube is pushed into the coupling housing and forced through the return ring, the return ring will expand and move along the second conical surface.

Can and bottle dispenser

A paper dispenser including a carriage that is rotatable between at least a first orientation and a second orientation. The carriage holds at least two rolls of paper. In the first orientation, the first roll is in a primary position and the second roll is in a secondary position. In the second orientation, the first roll is in the secondary position and the second roll is in the primary position. A roll sensor senses the amount of paper remaining on the roll held in the primary position. Paper from at least one of the two rolls is fed into a feed mechanism for dispensation. A transfer mechanism feeds paper from the roll held in the secondary position into the feed mechanism when the roll sensor senses that the paper on the roll held in the primary position is depleted to less than a predetermined diameter.

Waste minimizing paper dispenser

Apparatus for dispensing paper from rolls which feeds continuously, roll to roll, and does not require extra procedure to bring stub roll into position. The apparatus has a device for holding and positioning at least first and second rolls of paper with respect to each other; a device for dispensing paper from the first roll; a device for dispensing paper from the first and second rolls simultaneously when the first roll reduces to a predetermined diameter of paper, a device for positioning the depleted first roll for replacement without the necessity of removing the second roll; and a device for dispensing from the second and replacement rolls simultaneously when the second roll reduces to a predetermined diameter of paper. The apparatus also has a capacity-change based proximity sensor comprising a circuit according to a balanced bridge principle where detection is based on detecting a phase difference, which depends upon the amount of detected capacitance difference or change. The proximity detector senses when a hand is placed near the dispenser, and thereupon dispenses a set amount of towel. It does not keep dispensing the towel. The hand must be withdrawn and placed in proximity to the sensor again.

Minimizing paper waste carousel-style dispenser apparatus, sensor, method and system with proximity sensor

A pump (,) includes a motor (,) which rotates a pumping assembly (,) which includes a face plate (,) and a cylinder (,). A piston (,) reciprocates in the cylinder (,) to draw fluid into the cylinder (,) from an intake groove (,) and an intake port (,) formed in a manifold plate (,) positioned adjacent to the face plate (,), and to thereafter discharge that fluid to a discharge groove (,) and a discharge port (,) formed in the manifold plate (,). The piston (,) rides on a swash plate (,) as the face plate (,) rotates, and the extent of reciprocation of the piston (,) and therefore the amount of fluid to be dispersed on each reciprocation of the piston (,) is controlled by an adjuster wheel (,) which can be moved to allow the swash plate (,) to pivot a predetermined extent. As such, the pump (,) can dispense a known precise amount of fluid on each reciprocation of the piston (,).

Low volume, high precision, positive displacement pump

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Lewis Center, OH, United States of America

Robert J Hayes