Patents Assigned to Koninklijke Emballage Industrie van Leer B.V.
  • Patent number: 5908526
    Abstract: A process of manufacturing a laminated product, comprises the steps of: providing a carrier film; coating the film with a lacquer; applying a metal layer to the lacquer on the carrier film; applying a protective coating material to the metal layer; curing the protective coating material using UV-light (or EB radiation); applying a water based adhesive to the protective coating layer; applying a water permeable substrate to the adhesive layer; and removing the carrier film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1999
    Assignee: Koninklijke Emballage Industrie Van Leer B.V.
    Inventor: Anthony Norbert Ainscough
  • Patent number: 5853100
    Abstract: A drum with a drum closure provided in a drum wall comprises an insert and a shut-off cap which can be placed in the insert which insert is situated in a collar on the drum wall pointing towards the outside of the drum and has a first flange which rests against the inside of the drum wall and a second flange which is flanged radially outwards over the collar and also a sealing ring which is wedged between the first flange and the inside of the drum wall. An additional seal which may or may not be connected to the sealing ring, is provided between the collar and the insert lying opposite in order to improve the sealing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1998
    Assignee: Koninklijke Emballage Industrie Van Leer B.V.
    Inventor: Herman P. Kars
  • Patent number: 5823382
    Abstract: Baseplate (4) for a pallet container (1). The baseplate (4) is designed to accommodate the container section of a pallet container (1). To ensure run-off of the fluids which are present in the pallet container (1) towards an outflow opening with valve (6) close to a peripheral side of the pallet container (1), the baseplate (4) is constructed with a slope. This slope is such that, in the normal use position of the baseplate (4), this baseplate (4) is constructed with a downward slope to all sides from the center point of this place (4), whilst a peripheral gutter (13) is provided. The lowest point thereof is located at the outflow opening for the fluids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1998
    Assignee: Koninklijke Emballage Industrie Van Leer B.V.
    Inventors: Maurice Gerardus Maria Van Giezen, Harald Feijth
  • Patent number: 5622277
    Abstract: A container device for bulk goods or liquid comprises a folding frame and a container accommodated in the frame, which frame comprises a base section as well as at least two folding side sections provided on opposite sides of the base section, which side sections are movable between a horizontal position and an upright position. The frame has a top section which is supported some distance above the base section and foldably interacts with one of he sides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 22, 1997
    Assignee: Koninklijke Emballage Industrie Van Leer B.V.
    Inventors: Maurice G. M. Van Giezen, Harald Feijth
  • Patent number: 5538155
    Abstract: A container for bulk material, having side walls and a bottom, in combination with an insert of flexible material. The insert has side walls of the same shape as the side walls of the container and fits removably in the container. The insert has a tubular core spaced inwardly from the side walls of the insert, this core being of flexible material and having connecting elements that extend between the core and the side walls of the insert. The insert has a filling aperture, whereby during filling of the container with bulk material, the bulk material connects initially in the core and presses the flexible material of the core radially outwardly into a cylindrical shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1996
    Assignee: Koninklijke Emballage Industrie Van Leer B.V.
    Inventor: Hendrik C. A. Hoekstra
  • Patent number: 5432437
    Abstract: A high frequency magnetic field exposure meter for use in an induction heat sealing operation for heat sealing metal foil elements in closures to containers to be closed by the closures. The meter has a magnetic field sensing coil, a rectifier to convert the a.c. output from the coil to a d.c. output, an integrating circuit to integrate the d.c. output over an exposure period to an h.f. magnetic field, and a display device to indicate the integrated exposure value generated by the integrating circuit. During operation, the meter generates a quantitative reading indicating exposure to the h.f. magnetic flux as an integral of the magnetic flux, which generates the induction heating currents, over the exposure period during the induction heat sealing operation, and the reading provides a useful measure of the induction heating generated in an induction heat sealable closure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1995
    Assignee: Koninklijke Emballage Industrie Van Leer B.V.
    Inventor: Peter G. Turner
  • Patent number: 5257707
    Abstract: A collapsible container has a bottom panel (1) and at least three hingedly interconnected faces (3-6) which are collapsible on the bottom panel (1). At least two interconnected faces (4-6) are composed of hingedly interconnected rigid face halves (7,8) which are separated from each other along a diagonal hinge line (9). According to an embodiment, three faces (4-5) are made up of hingedly interconnected face halves (7,8) and a fourth rigid face (3) is hingedly connected to a face at the free edge (11) thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1993
    Assignee: Koninklijke Emballage Industrie Van Leer B.V.
    Inventor: Antje E. Soede
  • Patent number: 5238516
    Abstract: Method for producing a material embodying an interference pattern, in which there is solvent-coated a transparent, thermoformable lacquer on one side of a base film, which lacquer is capable of forming a releasable direct bond with the base film. The lacquer is dried so as to form a solid lacquer layer. An interference pattern is formed by embossing the side of the solid lacquer layer which faces away from the base film with a printing device carrying the negative of the interference pattern. The embossed side of the lacquer layer is clad with a metal layer. A substrate is glued onto the metal layer, and the base film is released from the lacquer layer. A second base film is provided with a second transparent lacquer layer, and an interference pattern is introduced in this second lacquer layer. Then the second lacquer layer is applied by means of a transparent glue onto the first lacquer layer, and the second base film is removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1993
    Assignee: Koninklijke Emballage Industrie van Leer B.V.
    Inventors: Gijsbertus van Suylekom, Edward J. van der Laan
  • Patent number: 5143504
    Abstract: Method of manufacturing a seam connection between body flanges (9) and end wall flanges (5) of a drum (11) by means of a seaming roller (14) which folds the flanges about eaach other, the essential difference with respect to prior art seaming operations being that the precurl (6) of the end wall flange (5), known in itself, is guided into the lower portion of the groove (15) of the seaming roller so that during the radial movement inwardly of the seaming roller (14) the flanges (5,9) may bulge outwardly in axial direction and form a so called cat's back by means of which the flanges and accordingly end wall (2) and body (1) are centered upon each other, whilst further a distance is provided between the upstanding edge (3) of the end wall (2) and the curvature (10) between body (1) and body flange (9) which distance during the seaming operation may be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1992
    Assignee: Koninklijke Emballage Industrie Van Leer B.V.
    Inventor: Gerleen H. Braakman
  • Patent number: 5022552
    Abstract: Method for preparing a closure of a container. The container is provided with an outwardly directed collar wherein a threaded ring is placed. After position of the threaded ring this is welded to the free edge of the collar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 11, 1991
    Assignee: Koninklijke Emballage Industrie van Leer B.V.
    Inventor: Herman P. Kars
  • Patent number: 4962862
    Abstract: The invention deals with the butt-welded connection between the endwall and the body of a thermoplastic container. Contrary to the known connection the invention provides the endwall with an axially extending edge, which may form part of a gripping edge and which overlaps the weld, so that the weld beads are hidden, while further the area of transition between the endwall and its edge above the weld has an axial thickness which is in essence the same as the thickness of the endwall and the radial thickness of the axially extending edge of the endwall, so that the material flow of the plastic during molding of the endwall is more even.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 16, 1990
    Assignee: Koninklijke Emballage Industrie Van Leer B.V.
    Inventors: Edward J. Farrington, Gerrit J. Van Keimpema
  • Patent number: 4944399
    Abstract: The invention relates to a container (1) of the type which can be stacked which container has a top surface with a pouring orifice (6) adjacent one edge of the top surface (2) and a handle (9,10) which forms an integral part with the bottom of a recessed portion (8) of the top surface (2,4) and which in its initial or normal starting position extends at a sharp angle with respect to the vertical axis of the container and in a plane which is perpendicular to the plane of symmetry through the vertical axis of the container and the vertical axis of the pouring orifice, which handle may resiliently be bent into an upright gripping position or a downwardly folded storage position in which position it is completely inside the recessed portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 31, 1990
    Assignee: Koninklijke Emballage Industrie Van Leer B. V.
    Inventors: Cornelis A. Ten Bruggencate, Andreas N. Montijn, Gerrit J. Van Keimpema
  • Patent number: 4806021
    Abstract: A container for a drink comprised of a bag of flexible plastic material for drink compacting sheets (1,2) welded upon each other by means of spaced longitudinal and transverse seams (3,4,5 and 6) which bag by means of a strip (7) or sheet (23) has been provided with a space for the insertion of a straw (13) such that the welding seams of said strip (7) or sheet (23) are either at a distance from the seams of the bag or coincide with said seams, an opening being provided for the insertion of the straw. The straw is movable within the space for puncturing the inside wall of the space which is elastically deformable and elastically surrounds the outer perimeter of the straw after it has punctured the wall. The straw may be removed if the contents of the bag are only partially consumed, thereby forming a seal by the punctured wall pushing against the outside wall of the space under pressure from the contents therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1987
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1989
    Assignee: Koninklijke Emballage Industrie Van Leer B.V.
    Inventors: Willem Koudstaal, Alan Thomas, Jeffrey L. Lewis
  • Patent number: 4757594
    Abstract: Method of providing the inner side of a neck of a vessel with a synthetic sleeve provided with inner screw thread for a closure stop (15) said sleeve being provided with an outer collar (8) with the shape of a truncated cone having its smallest diameter at the outer end and smaller than the inner diameter of the neck (3) and its largest diameter larger than the inner diameter of the neck, which sleeve in heated condition is pressed into and through the neck until the collar snaps outwardly over the edge of the neck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1986
    Date of Patent: July 19, 1988
    Assignee: Koninklijke Emballage Industrie van Leer B.V.
    Inventors: Herman P. Kars, Willem F. Kors
  • Patent number: 4750873
    Abstract: In a device for the extrusion of a tube the extruded tube (2) is guided by a piston (20) placed inside said tube (2) at a distance from the extrusion head (1) the cooling of the extruded tube (2) is improved by means of nozzles (13) which spray water (5) at an angle against the inside of the tube (2) and away from the extrusion head (1), the said water sprays further kept away from the extrusion head by a fan (17) which blows air through the tube (2) away from the head (1) means (14-22) being provided for the supply and discharge of water and air respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 14, 1988
    Assignee: Koninklijke Emballage Industrie Van Leer B.V.
    Inventors: David O. Loe, Gerrit J. Van Keimpema
  • Patent number: 4726866
    Abstract: Process and device for connecting together an extruded plastic cylindrical vessel body (2) with a plastic lid (1) by means of butt-welding of edges (4,5) heated with a heated plate (12) the said lid being deformed elastically to a larger diameter prior to butt-welding, the device for expanding the lid (1) having a conical expansion element (9), a supporting ring (10) and locking elements (11) holding the expanded lid at a diameter corresponding to the edge diameter of the body (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1986
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1988
    Assignee: Koninklijke Emballage Industrie Van Leer B.V.
    Inventors: Gerrit J. Van Keimpema, Bernard J. DeLoos, Edward J. Farrington
  • Patent number: 4723566
    Abstract: Valve closure for the discharge of liquid from a container by means of pressurized gas, said valve closure comprising a housing and a channel for discharge of liquid having an end wall at its top end and liquid passage openings near said end wall, an elastic valve body disposed around said liquid discharge channel, and clamped at one of its edges, and openings (18) provided in said valve body (5) which in the unstressed closing position of the valve body are closed off by a portion (11) of said housing and which openings (18) are in communication with the inside of said container through openings (21) in said housing (2) or in a part (3) connected therewith, whereas in the deformed open position of the valve body said openings (18) are in alignment with the openings (21) in said housing and said valve body is in positive sealing engagement with a seat to prevent the liquid and gas streams from being short-circuited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1985
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1988
    Assignee: Koninklijke Emballage Industrie Van Leer B.V.
    Inventor: John D. Lewins
  • Patent number: 4681228
    Abstract: Some chemical products are so toxic that they must not come into contact with parts of the human body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 1986
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1987
    Assignee: Koninklijke Emballage Industrie Van Leer B.V.
    Inventors: Peter R. Kerry, Jeffrey L. Lewis
  • Patent number: D357417
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 18, 1995
    Assignee: Koninklijke Emballage Industrie Van Leer B.V.
    Inventors: Gerrit J. Van Keimpema, Peter Van Gerve
  • Patent number: D362618
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1995
    Assignee: Koninklijke Emballage Industrie Van Leer B.V.
    Inventors: Albert E. Paling, Alun Thomas