Patents by Inventor Jack C. Sloan

Jack C. Sloan 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).

  • Hand-holdable, reuseable containers
    Patent number: 6039213
    Abstract: Hand-holdable containers for various, liquid, powder and solid products can be made suitable for a "second use" by providing such containers with an animal simulating configuration, a first opening in the animal's nose region for dispensing an original product stored in the container and a sealed second opening that can be readily unsealed when the original product stored in the container is used up so that said container can be used to store or display other items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2000
    Inventors: Mark A. Sloan, Jack C. Sloan
  • Hand-holdable, reuseable containers having animal configurations
    Patent number: 5850940
    Abstract: Hand-holdable containers for various, liquid, powder and solid products can be made suitable for a "second use" by provided such containers with an animal simulating configuration, a head (cap) which is attached to the animal's neck region, a first opening in the animal's neck region for dispensing the original product stored in the container and a sealed second opening that can be readily unsealed when the original product stored in the container is used up so that said container can be used to store or display other items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Inventors: Mark A. Sloan, Jack C. Sloan, Deanna J. Nervig
  • Phase separation by gas evolution
    Patent number: 5360554
    Abstract: A solute can be separated from a solute/solvent solution by dissolving a gas-forming material into said solution and then adjusting the temperature, pressure and solute concentration of the resulting solution such that a Joule-Thompson free expansion of the gas-forming material released from the solution will produce a three-phase separation of the components of said solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1994
    Assignee: Parhelion, Inc.
    Inventors: Jack C. Sloan, Walter Lurie, Adrian C. Ferramosca