Patents by Inventor Alain Franchet

Alain Franchet has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6581793
    Abstract: A cap adapted to be secured on a neck of a container wherein the cap includes a top wall and a depending annular skirt having an inner annular projection. A fluid seal having a central transverse wall, an outer annular shoulder and a inner annular bead rests on the inner annular projection so as to define a space between the cap and the fluid seal into which the fluid seal is pushed when the cap is secured to the neck of the container to make a seal between the outer annular shoulder of the seal and the inner annular projection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2003
    Assignee: Novembal
    Inventors: JeanPatrice Racine, Michel Luzzato, Alain Franchet
  • Patent number: 5648037
    Abstract: A process for manufacturing a closing device constituted by a tapped closing device and a tamper-proof ring inlcuding, on the one hand, an annular joining strip with controlled deformation and, on the other hand, an inner annular projection. A preforming of the tamper-proof ring is effected:by axially introducing in said device a cylindrical mandrel which is provided with an annular peripheral cam such that the lower face of the inner annular projection comes into abutment against said cam, thenby exerting on said device and/or on the mandrel a bearing effort whose force is sufficient to ensure a relative stroke of the mandrel in the device in contact with the cam up to a preforming position maintained for a determined time so as jointly to produce an outward bending of the strip with controlled deformation and a remanent deflection towards the closing device of the inner annular projection so that its upper face remains inclined by an angle with respect to the normal to the axis of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1997
    Assignee: Le Moulage Automatique
    Inventors: Alain Franchet, Vincent Guerrazzi, Pierre Pellerano
  • Patent number: 5402901
    Abstract: A closure device for a recipient with a threaded neck. It includes a tapped closure having a lower part attached to a guarantee strip by a zone of connection of low mechanical resistance, the strip presenting an elastically-deformable, inner, annular bead adapted to clip beneath a holding flange formed on a lower periphery of the neck by forced screwing of the closure; and an outer peripheral boss axially separated from the bead by a zone of controlled elastic deformation, an upper face of the boss and a lower edge of a lateral wall of the closure having formed therein, respectively, at least one tooth and at least one notch, the tooth being intended to be temporarily received in the notch during screwing when the bead is in abutment with the holding flange in order to avoid any relative rotational displacement of the closure with respect to the strip and to ensure clipping without deteriorating the zone of connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1995
    Assignee: Le Moulage Automatique
    Inventors: Jose Carvalheiro, Alain Franchet, Vincent Guerrazzi, Pierre Pellerano