Patents by Inventor James E. Westfall

James E. Westfall 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: 4274544
    Abstract: A closure cap for containers of the bottle and jar type wherein the closure cap is formed in one piece of plastics material and is formed with an integral sealing strip which is directly engageable with the terminal sealing surface of a container automatically to form a continuous seal therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1981
    Assignee: The Continental Group, Inc.
    Inventor: James E. Westfall
  • Patent number: 4000825
    Abstract: A press-on turn-off closure cap for glass containers which have a top rim sealing finish, a contiguous frusto-conical sealing finish, and on the neck therebelow a circumferential band of thread formations. The closure cap has a cup-shaped shell with a top panel and a two-step depending skirt. The shell is lined at the juncture of the top panel and the upper inner step with an annular gasket formed of solid plastisol or the like which provides hermetic sealing engagement with both the top rim finish and also the contiguous frusto-conical side seal finish. In addition the lower step of the shell is lined with a circumferential gasket which after being pushed down over the band of thread formations takes a cold-flow set so as to form mating thread formations capable of camming the closure cap off the container on relative rotation between the cap and container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1974
    Date of Patent: January 4, 1977
    Assignee: Continental Can Company, Inc.
    Inventor: James E. Westfall