Patents by Inventor Edward J. Drozd

Edward J. Drozd 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: 5579932
    Abstract: A tamper-indicating, child resistant closure for a threaded bottle includes an inner cap and an outer driver telescoped over the inner cap. The inner cap includes a top wall having spaced apart upstanding ribs. The outer driver includes a top wall having a pair of top wall segments hinged for pivotal movement to, and being spaced apart from each other by a spacing rib also forming part of the top wall of the driver. Each of the top wall segments initially is secured to contiguous sections of the outer driver by frangible, tamper-indicating tabs, and the top wall segments are moved from a generally horizontal position to a generally vertical position after the tamper-indicating tabs have been broken to form a driving section in the top wall of the driver. This driving section then is directed into the space between the upstanding ribs associated with the top wall of the inner cap by moving the inner cap and outer driver axially toward each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1996
    Assignee: Lincoln Mold and Dye Corporation
    Inventors: Edward J. Drozd, Vincent Comitini
  • Patent number: 5033632
    Abstract: A tamper-evident closure includes a cap having an interior, threaded peripheral skirt, a tamper-evident ring disposed below the lower edge of the skirt and a plurality of elongate bridge members interconnecting the tamper-evident ring to the cap. Each bridge member includes a lower end forming a lower juction with the ring an upper end thinner than the lower end forming an upper juction with a surface of a recess formed in the skirt. Each bridge member is designed to break at the upper end thereof when the closure is rotated in a direction to remove it from the container, and each bridge member is inclined upwardly at an acute angle to the ring from the lower to the upper junction, in the direction in which the cap is required to be rotated to remove it from the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1991
    Assignee: Lincoln Mold and Die Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Mattia, Edward J. Drozd, Vincent Comitini
  • Patent number: 4860738
    Abstract: A hand held metered spray dispenser including a housing, a nozzle on the housing, a fluid container in the housing, an orifice in the housing, and a converter pivotal to the housing for converting a manual force applied through the orifice along a manual force axis to a force moving the container along a pumping axis transverse to the manual force axis to dispense a metered amount of fluid through the nozzle along a dispensing axis substantially coincidental with the pumping axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1989
    Assignee: Schering Corporation
    Inventors: Manfred K. Hegemann, Edward J. Drozd, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4771769
    Abstract: A hand held metered spray dispenser including a housing, a nozzle on said housing, a fluid container in said housing, an orifice in said housing, and a converting means pivotal to said housing for converting a manual force applied through the orifice along a manual force axis to a force moving said container means along a pumping axis transverse to the manual force axis to dispense a metered amount of fluid through said nozzle along a dispensing axis substantially coincidental with said dispensing axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1982
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1988
    Assignee: Schering Corporation
    Inventors: Manfred K. Hegemann, Edward J. Drozd, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4547332
    Abstract: The method of forming a tamper-evident closure having a threaded cap and a tamper-evident ring removably connected to each other by break-away tabs. The method includes the steps of molding the threaded cap and tamper-evident ring as an integral unit in a side-by-side relationship to each other and with the break-away tabs integrally connecting them. A retaining lug is also molded on the ring and has a substantially inwardly directed surface. An outwardly directed shelf and cam means are also molded on the cap. After the molding operation, the integrally molded part is removed from its mold and the tamper-evident ring and the threaded cap are moved relative to each other with the break-away tabs acting as a hinge to enable the cap and tamper-evident ring to be brought into substantial vertical alignment with each other while the inwardly directed surface of the retaining lug is snapped over the shelf to hold the cap and ring in alignment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1985
    Assignee: Captive Plastics, Inc.
    Inventor: Edward J. Drozd, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4545508
    Abstract: A container lid such as a lid for a parmesan cheese container or the like, having a plurality of independently operative openings which is formed of a one piece two layer central bulk access and peripheral crescent-shaped broadcast construction, and which provides a substantially airtight seal for the container, which permits the container to be repeatedly and readily opened and closed, and which selectively permits bulk removal and access to the interior of the container, or the broadcast of the contents of the container through one or more limited access openings in the closure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 1983
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1985
    Assignee: Kraft, Inc.
    Inventors: B. Jay Cribb, Jr., Edward J. Drozd, Jr., Ian R. Wilmot, Debradell C. Leap
  • Patent number: 4516697
    Abstract: The present invention provides a hand dispenser for a liquid product that includes a resilient closed container mounted upon a base. The container, which has a discharge port connected to a dispensing orifice for the liquid product, is movable between a first position, which closes the discharge port and makes the dispenser adapted for traveling, shipment, and the like. The container also has a second position, which opens the discharge port and places the dispenser in the dispensing mode. The dispenser, when in the dispensing mode, is manually operated by squeezing the container, which dispenses a portion of the liquid product; upon return of the resilient container to its original shape, the level of the liquid drops, and a lesser pressure is created in the air pocket over the liquid product, thus causing atmospheric air to press back any movement of liquid product toward the dispensing orifice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 14, 1985
    Assignee: Captive Plastics Inc.
    Inventors: James R. Dreps, Edward J. Drozd
  • Patent number: 4489843
    Abstract: Tamper-evident closures include a threaded cap and a tamper-evident ring removably connected to each other by break-away tabs adapted to break when the cap is rotated in a direction to remove it from a cooperating container. The cap and ring have cooperating surfaces for transmitting closing rotational movement of the cap to the ring to thereby rotate the cap and ring together during closing of the container to thereby prevent separation of the cap from the ring at the break-away tabs. The ring further includes at least one locking surface adapted to engage a corresponding surface on a container to prevent the ring from rotating in the opening direction of rotation, whereby rotation of the closure to open it will cause relative movement between the cap and ring to sever the break-away tabs. A method of molding the cap, tamper-evident ring and break-away tabs as a single member also constitutes a part of the invention, as well as the particular container constructions adapted to cooperate with the closures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1983
    Date of Patent: December 25, 1984
    Assignee: Captive Plastics, Inc.
    Inventor: Edward J. Drozd, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4405306
    Abstract: A douche product which comprises a bottle filled with a douching liquid, a reservoir in the bottle containing a liquid to be mixed with the douching liquid and a nozzle attached to the bottle for dispensing the contents of the bottle, the nozzle and the reservoir having cooperating devices so that the reservoir may be opened to permit the contents thereof to drain into the bottle when the nozzle is moved relative to the bottle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1981
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1983
    Assignee: Beecham Inc.
    Inventors: Robert W. Pritchard, Edward J. Drozd, Michael K. Lutz
  • Patent number: D295787
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 1985
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1988
    Inventors: Manfred K. Hegemann, Edward J. Drozd, Jr.