Patents Assigned to MAPA GmbH
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Publication number: 20140069888Abstract: A baby bottle sleeve comprising a cylindrical sleeve made of an elastomer material for holding a baby bottle having a top opening for a top end region of a baby bottle extending out of the sleeve, and a cutout extending downward from the edge of the top opening that can be opened for inserting and removing a baby bottle, and at least one closable and openable closing means that, in a closed state, fixes the cutout in a closed position and releases the cutout in an open state so that it can be opened.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2013Publication date: March 13, 2014Applicant: MAPA GmbHInventors: Bodo Warden, Sarah-Dimple Dass
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Patent number: 8597329Abstract: A dummy teat including a nipple carrier and a hollow dummy nipple projecting from the nipple carrier, which has areas of a smaller wall thickness at least on two opposed longitudinal sides.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2008Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: MAPA GmbH Gummi- und PlastikwerkeInventors: Alexander Du Chesne, Guenter Marr, Helmut Tomforde
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Patent number: 8528756Abstract: A closure system for a baby bottle including a lower closure ring screwed onto an external thread of a bottle, an upper closure ring for connecting to a screw ring for fastening a drinking teat, locking elements which rotatably and releasably lock together the lower closure ring and the upper closure ring, a circular lip seal made of a soft elastic material concentric to a lower peripheral part being arranged on the first upper face, with at least one axially oriented sealing lip and at least one circular seal geometry engaging with the lip seal and concentric to an upper peripheral part being arranged on a second lower face or vice versa and by rotating the upper closure ring relative to the lower closure ring the upper throughflow hole may optionally be brought into overlapping and non-overlapping positions relative to a lower throughflow hole.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2010Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: MAPA GmbHInventors: Eckhard Itzek, Björn-Frederik Seidler
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Publication number: 20130214012Abstract: The invention is directed to a push-pull closure for a drink container including a mouthpiece holder. The container includes a pin, which projects into the through-opening of the mouthpiece holder; several bars, parallel to the pin and arranged around the pin, which are connected to the mouthpiece holder and to the pin; a mouthpiece that is axially displaceable and sealing with respect to the mouthpiece on the outer circumference and accommodating the pin in the further through-opening; at least one circumferential seal element, which blocks and unblocks the passage of liquid through the further through-opening in an closing/opening position of the mouthpiece in the mouthpiece holder; and several ribs of a soft elastic material, axially extending on the circumference of the mouthpiece at the bottom, wherein the mouthpiece may be inserted into the mouthpiece holder, and the bars can engage free spaces and the ribs engage recesses between the bars.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2013Publication date: August 22, 2013Applicant: MAPA GmbHInventor: MAPA GmbH
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Publication number: 20130165852Abstract: An breast milk pump having an electric motor, a pump driven by the motor, a suction cup, an electrically activated first three-way valve in a suction line, an electrically activated second three-way valve in a pressure line, an electronic control system, which sets the electric motor into an operating mode or an idle mode depending on an activation of a switch; in the operating mode, it operates the electric motor and the electrically activated first and second three-way valves in cycles, which comprise a suction phase, in which the electric motor is switched on, the inlet of the pump is connected to the suction cup via the first three-way valve and a floater valve, the pump outlet is connected via the second three-way valve.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2012Publication date: June 27, 2013Applicant: MAPA GMBHInventor: Mapa GmbH
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Patent number: 8403158Abstract: A feeding bottle comprising a bottle, which has an opening and an external thread surrounding the opening, a teat, which has a nipple carrier with a fastening edge and, on the nipple carrier, a teat nipple with a drinking hole in a side surface, a ring nut, which has an internal thread for screwing onto the external thread and means for connecting with the fastening edge of the teat, in order to keep the teat from the bottle opening, and a covering cap, which can be placed on the teat and, whereas the covering cap in its placed position presses with the inside of its side wall against the side surface of the teat nipple having the drinking hole and form a seal and, with the inside of its bottom, presses against an opposite side surface of the teat nipple.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2009Date of Patent: March 26, 2013Assignee: MAPA GmbHInventor: Eckhard Itzek
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Publication number: 20130056435Abstract: A bottle teat comprising: A nipple sleeve having a hollow nipple and a through-hole connected at the bottom to a hollow nipple sleeve which is connected at the bottom to a nipple flange that is connected to the nipple sleeve to be fastened to a bottle by a fastening ring which serves at the bottom with an annular disc-shaped ring flange overlapping the nipple flange, A contact area projecting downward or upward from the nipple flange, or from the nipple sleeve above the nipple flange outward into the area for placing a ring flange, and A lip valve that is opened when the nipple flange is not fastened to a bottle arranged in a deforming area next to the contact area so that the deformation of the nipple flange that arises from pressing the fastening ring against the contact area closes the valve.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2012Publication date: March 7, 2013Applicant: MAPA GMBHInventor: Eckhard Itzek
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Publication number: 20130053764Abstract: An electrical pump for breast milk, having an electric motor, a pump, at least one suction cup, a suction line connecting the suction cup to the pump, an outlet for breast milk connected to the suction cup, a venting line connected to the suction cup, an electrically activated venting valve in the venting line, an electronic control system which adjusts the speed of the electric motor and the electrically activated venting valve to switch the electric motor on and off to allow the electric motor to run at a desired speed and to operate the electric motor continuously and/or in cycles, in which the electric motor is alternately switched on and off, and the electronic control system opens the venting valve when the electric motor is switched off, and closes the venting valve when the electric motor is switched on.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2011Publication date: February 28, 2013Applicant: MAPA GMBHInventor: Reinhold Jaeger-Waldau
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Publication number: 20120175335Abstract: A closure system for a baby bottle including a lower closure ring screwed onto an external thread of a bottle, an upper closure ring for connecting to a screw ring for fastening a drinking teat, locking elements which rotatably and releasably lock together the lower closure ring and the upper closure ring, a circular lip seal made of a soft elastic material concentric to a lower peripheral part being arranged on the first upper face, with at least one axially oriented sealing lip and at least one circular seal geometry engaging with the lip seal and concentric to an upper peripheral part being arranged on a second lower face or vice versa and by rotating the upper closure ring relative to the lower closure ring the upper throughflow hole may optionally be brought into overlapping and non-overlapping positions relative to a lower throughflow hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2010Publication date: July 12, 2012Applicant: MAPA GMBHInventors: Eckhard Itzek, Björn-Frederik Seidler
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Patent number: 8215504Abstract: A bottle teat of an elastic material includes a hollow suction nipple and a circumferential mounting edge for fixation to the bottle opening of a drinking bottle. A hollow transition zone is disposed between the mounting edge and suction nipple as well as at least one drinking slot oriented in the longitudinal direction of the suction nipple and extending from the outside up to the inside of the suction nipple in an outwardly bulged external end region of the suction nipple. The bottle teat further includes at least one ventilation valve with a valve slot which is extended from the outer wall of the transition zone up to the inner wall of the transition zone.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2006Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignee: MAPA GmbH Gummi— und PlastikwerkeInventors: Gunter Marr, Eckard Itzek, Elke Ladiges, Heinz Lischinsky
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Publication number: 20110303630Abstract: Push-pull closure for a drink container comprising a body element which comprises a through-opening and a fastening device, with which it may be sealingly and releasably connected to an opening of the drink container, a mouthpiece which may be axially displaceably inserted into the through-opening of the body element and which comprises at least one locking portion which may engage behind the through-opening of the body element, and a locking element which may be releasably attached to the inner face of the body element facing the drink container, the locking element being arranged so that the locking portion of the mouthpiece may not adopt a position in which it does not engage behind the through-opening of the body element, when the mouthpiece is inserted into the through-opening and the locking element is attached to the inner face of the body element.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2009Publication date: December 15, 2011Applicant: MAPA GMBHInventors: Eckhard Itzek, Bjoern Frederik Seidler, Ralf Holschumacher
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Publication number: 20110266319Abstract: A device for the fastening of a pacifier to the clothing of a child with a flexible band, means for fastening on a pacifier on one end of the band and a clip for fastening to the clothing of a child on the other end of the band, which has a disk-like carrier with two arms on one side, each of which has a claw on the end, which are pivotable through actuation of at least one spring-elastic arm from a together position into an apart position and return to the together position when the arms are released.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2009Publication date: November 3, 2011Applicant: MAPA GMBHInventors: Reinhold Jaegar-Waldau, Tim Somberg
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Publication number: 20110266246Abstract: A feeding bottle comprising a bottle, which has an opening and an external thread surrounding the opening, a teat, which has a nipple carrier with a fastening edge and, on the nipple carrier, a teat nipple with a drinking hole in a side surface, a ring nut, which has an internal thread for screwing onto the external thread and means for connecting with the fastening edge of the teat, in order to keep the teat from the bottle opening, and a covering cap, which can be placed on the teat and, whereas the covering cap in its placed position presses with the inside of its side wall against the side surface of the teat nipple having the drinking hole and forma a seal and, with the inside of its bottom, presses against an opposite side surface of the teat nipple.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2009Publication date: November 3, 2011Applicant: MAPA GMBHInventor: Eckhard Itzek
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Publication number: 20110198309Abstract: Closure system for a children's drinking bottle or a children's drinking cup comprising a sealing ring which has on an external periphery a fastening means for sealingly and releasably connecting to a container edge of a container of the children's drinking bottle or the children's drinking cup, an aperture for receiving a mouthpiece and/or a blind lid and an internal thread, which borders the aperture and is arranged at a distance from the aperture and the fastening means and a fixing insert with a through aperture and an external thread which may be screwed into the internal thread of the sealing ring in order to clamp sealingly a fastening attachment of the mouthpiece and/or the blind lid between the fixing insert and the sealing ring.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2008Publication date: August 18, 2011Applicant: MAPA GMBH GUMMI- UND PLASTIKWERKEInventors: Eckhard Itzek, Bjoern Frederik Seidler, Reiner Pils, Celine Mialet, Bertrand Coutellier
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Publication number: 20110168656Abstract: The invention relates to a feeding bottle having a drinking teat made of a flexible plastic, a bottle made from plastic having higher strength than the flexible plastic and connected to the drinking teat in one piece by means of injection molding, and a reinforcement thread extending from the bottle through the drinking teat up to the drinking opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2009Publication date: July 14, 2011Applicant: MAPA GMBH GUMMI- UND PLASTIKWERKEInventor: Eckhard Itzek
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Publication number: 20110130791Abstract: Comforter with a mouth shield and a hollow teat part which is fixed by means of an insert part in a clamped manner in an opening of the mouth shield, and which comprises a mouth portion, a shaft portion and a peripheral flange arranged at the end of the shaft portion remote from the mouth portion, the teat part having a security strip made of a relatively hard material, which is connected to the mouth portion, extends as far as the region of the flange and has a widening there.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2009Publication date: June 2, 2011Applicant: MAPA GMBHInventors: Guenter Marr, Eckhard Itzek
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Patent number: 7938281Abstract: A leakproof bottle for feeding a child includes a first external thread around a bottle opening, and a lower closure ring having a first internal thread, which is screwed onto the first external thread and has at least one first throughflow hole. An upper closure ring has a second external thread on which the lower closure ring sits in a sealing manner and which has at least one second throughflow hole which, by rotation of the upper closure ring relative to the lower closure ring, can be brought into coinciding and non-coinciding positions relative to the first throughflow hole. Locking elements can rotate the lower closure ring and upper closure ring relative to each other and releasable lock them, with a drinking teat and a screw ring having a second internal thread, which is screwed onto the second external thread of the upper closure ring, releasably securing a lower edge region of the drinking teat to upper closure ring.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2006Date of Patent: May 10, 2011Assignee: MAPA GmbH Gummi- und PlastikwerkeInventors: Günter Horntrich, Eckhard Itzek
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Patent number: RE43730Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2012Date of Patent: October 16, 2012Assignee: MAPA GmbHInventors: Reiner Pils, Stephane Pottier
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Patent number: D679948Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2012Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignee: MAPA GmbHInventors: Birgit Meyer, Andrej Walger, Eckhard Itzek
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Patent number: D683589Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2011Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Assignee: MAPA GmbHInventors: Eckhard Itzek, Birgit Meyer, Andrej Walger