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Cd3 Storage Systems, Inc.

Cd3, Inc.

Cd3 Storage System, Inc.

Ronald E Hunt

Verlon E Whitehead

Adolph B Habich

Richard Francis Frankeny

Karl Hermann

William M Jenkins

Bonnie Lee Buzick

Robert James Bair

Paul Feinstein, Jr

Tod Alan Barrett

Jerome A Frankeny

Tod Barrett

Javad Haj-ali-Ahmadi

Eliot Fette Noyes

Herbert E Meister, Jr

Elmer J Gill

Ernest G Souliere

Shari M Hunt

Herbert A Burkhead

Alan J Schwartz

John Allen Church

Louis Marion McDaniels

Paul Francis Munch

A vertical grill comprises a back chimney within the housing having an inlet and an outlet. The inlet is in the form of one or more first openings in the back frame member, and the outlet being a second opening which is higher than the inlet. A first air intake located in at least one of the grill's panels. A removable tray module comprises a slide positioned at an incline between the front and back sides, configured to direct fats and break away solids to the front side of the tray. At least one channel is covered by the slide and configured for air flow. An external receptacle is positioned at the front side of the tray, wherein the slide leads into the receptacle so that fats and break away solids may be channeled into the external receptacle after traveling downwards along the incline of the slide.

Vertical grill with external drip tray module

Steamer for a vertical grill

Tray for a vertical grill

Vertical grill

A media storage apparatus includes a frame, a shaft, and a plurality of retainers for retaining a plurality of portable planar storage media. The plurality of retainers is supported by the shaft and rotatable about the shaft from a selectable position to a selected position. The apparatus further includes a retainer selection mechanism, coupled to the frame, that traverses the frame to cause selected ones of the plurality of retainers traversed by the retainer selection mechanism to rotate in sequence from the selectable position to the selected position.

Media storage container, apparatus and method

Disc storage locker

A method of encouraging weight loss via a talking electronic scale. The talking electronic scale determines the weight of a particular person in response to a specific user input. The talking electronic scale utilizes a data storage unit to store and conceal an initial weight for the particular person. The talking electronic scale compares a subsequent weight of the particular person to the concealed initial weight in response to a specific user input and utilizes a speech synthesis unit to announce a difference between the concealed initial weight and the subsequent weight for the particular person without ever displaying or announcing the numerical value of the initial weight.

Method and system for a talking weight loss scale

Disc transport device

Disk storage locker

A toy animal formed of molded plastic provides simulated respiration. An aperture in the upper section of the molded plastic animal is covered with a flexible simulated animal pelt. A battery-powered electric motor within the toy animal provides a rotating output which is coupled to the underside of the flexible simulated animal pelt within the aperture utilizing a flexible shaft. This manner rotation of the motor output alternately extends and depresses the flexible simulated animal pelt, thereby simulating respiration.

Toy animal with simulated respiration

Disk storage device

A bilateral media storage unit for storing and carrying CD ROMs, computer diskettes, removable disk storage devices and the like. The storage unit includes a discus shaped portable housing having a generally bowl shaped lower base component and a generally bowl shaped upper cover component which are coupled together at opposite points on their peripheries by selectively releasable hinges which pivotally couple the upper cover component to the lower base component and which release the upper cover component to pivot away from the lower base component when released. An accordion pleated extendable media receptacle is mounted within the portable housing. The accordion pleated extendable media receptacle includes a first group of extensible slots which are adapted to receive a first group of substantially planar storage media and a second group of extensible slots which are adapted to receive a second group of substantially planar storage media wherein the first group of extensible slots are extended in response to a pivoting of the upper cover component away from the lower base component in a first direction and wherein the second group of extensible slots are extended in response to a pivoting of the upper cover component away from the lower base component in a second direction.

Bilateral media storage unit

An accordion pleated media storage unit is provided which is constructed of a continuous elongate web of flexible material, such as a non-woven polyester spun material. A continuous zigzag fold of the elongate web creates multiple overlying planes, each of which has at least one edge which is integral with an adjacent plane. A bond is then formed along each edge of a pair of adjacent planes, extending from a common edge to a point just short of the mid-line of each plane, such that multiple adjacent pockets are formed which, when the unit is extended, are separated by a specified distance and wherein the pocket dimensions are not altered, greatly enhancing insertion and retrieval of a storage media element.

Accordion pleated media storage unit having separable pockets

A modular, portable apparatus for storing and carrying a plurality of disc shaped recording media has a housing including a lower base component and an upper cover component. The lower base component and the upper cover component are pivotally coupled. Slots within the housing retain a plurality of disc shaped recording media in a plurality of parallel adjacent positions. A disc selector selects and automatically retains a particular one of said plurality of disc shaped recording media within the upper cover component while the remainder of said plurality of disc shaped recording media remain within said lower base component during pivotal movement of said upper cover component with respect to said lower base component. A connecting device on each of the two ends of the housing is adapted to selectively couple the modular apparatus to either an end of another identical modular apparatus or a carrying device for carrying the modular apparatus. Thus, a selected plurality of modular apparatuses can be selectively coupled together and to the carrying device to allow convenient carrying of said selected plurality of modular apparatuses.

Modular recording media storage apparatus

A disk storage device is shown of the type used to store computer floppy diskettes. A series of springs are utilized to urge a floppy disk outward from a storage slot provided in the body of the device. One corner of the floppy disk is utilized to temporarily restrain the disk within its associated storage slot. A moveable lever is utilized to lift the restraining corner of the floppy disk from behind the restraint and permit the spring loaded slot to eject the computer floppy disk.

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Georgetown, TX, United States of America

Ronald E Hunt