Laura J Morris

US Patent:

D480872, Oct 21, 2003

Filed:

Dec 19, 2002

Appl. No.:

29/172808

Inventors:

Thomas Welsh - Aurora IL
Michael C. Thuma - LaGrange IL
Laura Morris - Willow Springs IL

Assignee:

Home Products International, Inc. - Chicago IL

International Classification:

0301

US Classification:

D 3302, D3273

US Patent:

6764148, Jul 20, 2004

Filed:

Jan 11, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/044509

Inventors:

Laura Morris - Willow Springs IL
Shailesh Patel - Brooklyn NY
Peter Graves - Palos Park IL
Paul Mann - Oak Park IL
Michael Thuma - LaGrange IL
Ron Llanes - Lisle IL

Assignee:

Home Products International, Inc. - Chicago IL

International Classification:

E05C 106

US Classification:

3123321, 312222, 312333, 292163

Abstract:

A latch arrangement for a drawer includes a latching mechanism having a latch element and a latching mechanism-receiving structure formed as part of a drawer. The structure includes two integral spring elements for biasing the latching mechanism upwardly. The latching mechanism and the drawer have cooperating, snap-engageable retaining features that allow the latching mechanism to move over a vertical range of movement but retain the latching mechanism on the structure. The structure and the remaining portions of the drawer can be molded as a unitary plastic part. The latching mechanism can be molded as a second unitary plastic part.

US Patent:

6874650, Apr 5, 2005

Filed:

Dec 19, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/322020

Inventors:

Thomas Welsh - Aurora IL, US
Michael C. Thuma - LaGrange IL, US
Laura Morris - Willow Springs IL, US

Assignee:

Home Products International, Inc. - Chicago IL

International Classification:

B65D001/24

US Classification:

220519, 220508, 220520

Abstract:

A stackable container, including side walls extending upwardly from a bottom wall and defining an open-top, enclosed space therein, and rigid support members spaced about the bottom wall, the rigid support members having a vertical height. The side walls are tapered outwardly so as to be stackable in a nesting relationship within a similar container with a stacking offset less than the support members vertical height whereby the support members are supported on aligned rigid support members of the similar container. Outwardly tapered stress-relieving triangular corner surfaces extend upwardly between 130 and 140 from corners of the bottom wall and connect to side walls to form each junction of the bottom wall with two side wall. A lid has a rim adapted for placement around a container rim, with inwardly projecting flanges on each of the lid rim sides whereby the flanges extend beneath a downwardly facing portion of the container rim adjacent each of the four walls to releasably secure the lid to the container rim.

US Patent:

D3498328, Aug 23, 1994

Filed:

Mar 8, 1993

Appl. No.:

D/005598

Inventors:

Norton Sarnoff - Northbrook IL
Carl R. Fletcher - Arlington Heights IL
Laura A. Morris - Oak Park IL
John F. Chmela - Mount Prospect IL

Assignee:

Ensar Corporation - Wheeling IL

US Classification:

D 7557

US Patent:

53897684, Feb 14, 1995

Filed:

Nov 3, 1993

Appl. No.:

8/147116

Inventors:

Norton Sarnoff - Northbrook IL
Carl R. Fletcher - Kildeer IL
Laura A. Morris - Oak Park IL
John F. Chmela - Mount Prospect IL

Assignee:

Ensar Corporation - Wheeling IL

International Classification:

H05B 680

US Classification:

219732

Abstract:

A circular microwaveable chip maker integrally molded of a microwave oven resistant plastic material, having a row of spacers defining slots between each adjacent pair of spacers. Thin food items are held in the slots in a spaced array to facilitate their cooking in a microwave oven. The chip maker has a handle for transporting it into and out of a microwave oven.