Michael F Crowley

US Patent:

6802246, Oct 12, 2004

Filed:

Apr 27, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/832371

Inventors:

Richard Chang - Taipei Hsien, TW
Mario Bernardo Accumanno - East Hanover NJ 07936
Michael William Crowley - Randolph NJ 07869

International Classification:

A47J 3102

US Classification:

99285, 99299, 99306, 99323

Abstract:

A timer tea maker is constructed to include an infusion cup carrying a timer, and a link mechanism provided at one side face of the infusion cup and controlled by the timer to raise a stopper from a bottom through hole of the infusion cup for enabling prepared tea to discharge out of the through hole to a tea cup below the infusion cup when the set time has expired.

US Patent:

6805040, Oct 19, 2004

Filed:

Apr 27, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/832394

Inventors:

Richard Chang - Taipei Hsien, TW
Mario Bernardo Accumanno - East Hanover NJ 07936
Michael William Crowley - Randolph NJ 07869

International Classification:

A47J 3102

US Classification:

99285, 99299, 99306, 99323

Abstract:

An tea maker is constructed to include an infusion cup, the infusion cup having a skirt for supporting on any of a variety of cups, a stopper mounted in the bottom through hole of the infusion cup, a resilient member secured between a base of the stopper and the bottom wall of the infusion cup to hold the stopper in the closed position to seal the bottom through hole of the infusion cup against leakage, a link, and a rocker arm fastened pivotally with the infusion cup and coupled between the stopper and the link and adapted to lift the stopper from the bottom through hole upon downward movement of the link by the user.

US Patent:

D498383, Nov 16, 2004

Filed:

Aug 13, 2003

Appl. No.:

29/188066

Inventors:

Richard Chang - Taipei Hsien, TW
Mario Bernardo Accumanno - East Hanover NJ 07936
Michael William Crowley - Randolph NJ 07869

International Classification:

0701

US Classification:

D 7305, D7312, D7318, D7321