Patents by Inventor Michel Luzzato
Michel Luzzato 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).
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Patent number: 10669077Abstract: A cap for closing a neck of a bottle is disclosed. The cap includes a lid for closing off the neck and a skirt for fixing to the neck. The skirt is provided with a bulge line for interfering by wedging with the neck, a weakened line to be ruptured by propagation of a tear, and a stop means for preventing the tearing propagating in the rectilinear extension of a first part of the weakened line that runs along the bulge line while being situated on the side of the latter opposite to the lid. The weakened line also includes second and third substantially rectilinear parts which, on the periphery of a skirt, follow on respectively from the first part to the second part of the weakened line. The second part of the weakened line avoids the stop means and extends on either side of the bulge line, while being inclined both with respect to the bulge line and with respect to the direction of the axis of the skirt.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2012Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: Novembal USA Inc.Inventors: Michel Luzzato, Stéphane Graux
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Publication number: 20200062458Abstract: The invention relates to a sealing device which includes a tubular skirt, suitable for being removably attached to a neck of a container in order to seal said neck, and an annular lip, arranged inside the skirt, and suitable for resting sealingly against an inner surface of the neck when the skirt is attached to the neck.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2017Publication date: February 27, 2020Inventors: Michel LUZZATO, Franck HANCARD
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Patent number: 10562683Abstract: A stopper for a container neck, comprising: a skirt having a generally tubular shape and being centered on an axis, the skirt being adapted to surround a neck of a container, and being provided internally with a snap-on member adapted to fasten the skirt to the neck in a removable manner by jamming the snap-on member with an external projecting boss of the neck of the container; and an opening strip having a generally annular shape and including a peripheral portion that is permanently connected to a peripheral portion of the skirt, the strip being movable relative to the skirt between: a first position, in which the strip surrounds an external lateral surface of the skirt, by providing an annular space radially between the external lateral surface of the skirt and an inner surface of the strip; and a second position, in which the inside of the strip is substantially detached from the skirt in order to enable the strip to be manually grasped so that the skirt is unsnapped from the neck.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2016Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: Novembal USA Inc.Inventor: Michel Luzzato
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Patent number: 10363693Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a manufacturing method for a plug for a container neck. In one implementation, a skirt of the plug is molded and provided with an attachment device adapted to removably attach to the container neck and with a permanent retention strip around the container neck. The retention strip is adapted to pass, by folding, from a molding configuration to an operating configuration. A peripheral break line is then cut out in the skirt, adapted so as to be broken during the first opening of the plug. In some implementations, the retention strip may be prefolded and thereby pass from a molding configuration to an intermediate prefolded configuration. The retention strip is then folded until it passes into an operating configuration. In some implementations, the folding of the retention strip may pass the retention strip from an intermediate prefolded configuration to an operating configuration.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2015Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: Novembal USA Inc.Inventors: Michel Luzzato, Anthony Gaillard, Fabien Flamand, Ronald Kirk Dodd
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Publication number: 20180141727Abstract: A stopper for a container neck, comprising: a skirt having a generally tubular shape and being centered on an axis, the skirt being adapted to surround a neck of a container, and being provided internally with a snap-on member adapted to fasten the skirt to the neck in a removable manner by jamming the snap-on member with an external projecting boss of the neck of the container; and an opening strip having a generally annular shape and including a peripheral portion that is permanently connected to a peripheral portion of the skirt, the strip being movable relative to the skirt between: a first position, in which the strip surrounds an external lateral surface of the skirt, by providing an annular space radially between the external lateral surface of the skirt and an inner surface of the strip; and a second position, in which the inside of the strip is substantially detached from the skirt in order to enable the strip to be manually grasped so that the skirt is unsnapped from the neck.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2016Publication date: May 24, 2018Inventor: Michel LUZZATO
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Patent number: 9889971Abstract: The invention relates to a stopper device with an external cap made from plastic and an internal insert for fixing the device around the neck of the container. The sleeve of the cap forms a head, into which the insert may be introduced and permanently fixed and a skirt extending axially from the insert. According to the invention, contamination on the neck of the container may be limited and the appearance improved. Particularly at the base of the neck, the skirt essentially forms a frustum converging towards the axis of the sleeve on extending from the head, before the installation of the device around the neck, the frustum forming, at the end opposite the head, an internal surface to come into contact against the container neck under the influence of an elastic deformation of the sleeve as a result of the installation of the device around the neck.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2006Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: SOLOCAP-MAB S.A.Inventors: Michel Luzzato, Gregory Antier
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Patent number: 9884705Abstract: A cap for sealing a container neck includes a first skirt section, and a second skirt section. The second skirt section includes a first axial end connected to the first skirt section, a second axial end opposite the first axial end and connected to an end wall of the cap, and an intermediate section extending axially between the first and second axial ends. The cap further includes a plurality of ribs distributed around the central axis and projecting in a radial direction from at least the intermediate section towards the central axis. Each rib includes an exterior radial end connected to an interior cylindrical surface of the intermediate section, and an interior radial end radially opposite the exterior radial end. The interior radial end has at least one protrusion projecting in a direction orthogonal to the radial direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2015Date of Patent: February 6, 2018Assignee: NOVEMBAL USA INC.Inventors: Chistopher Wood, Michel Luzzato
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Publication number: 20170066164Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a manufacturing method for a plug for a container neck. In one implementation, a skirt of the plug is molded and provided with an attachment device adapted to removably attach to the container neck and with a permanent retention strip around the container neck. The retention strip is adapted to pass, by folding, from a molding configuration to an operating configuration. A peripheral break line is then cut out in the skirt, adapted so as to be broken during the first opening of the plug. In some implementations, the retention strip may be prefolded and thereby pass from a molding configuration to an intermediate prefolded configuration. The retention strip is then folded until it passes into an operating configuration. In some implementations, the folding of the retention strip may pass the retention strip from an intermediate prefolded configuration to an operating configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2015Publication date: March 9, 2017Applicant: NOVEMBAL USA INC.Inventors: Michel LUZZATO, Anthony GAILLARD, Fabien FLAMAND, Ronald Kirk DODD
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Patent number: 9580212Abstract: A packaging assembly includes a bottle, which may be used upside-down such that a neck is turned towards the ground, and a closure without any added seal gasket for closing the neck. This closure includes a cap for obturating the neck, and a skirt for attachment to the neck. The cap includes an inner sealing lip, delimiting on its outer face, a convex tight bearing surface for bearing tightly against the inner face of the neck, and a substantially flat ramp surface, which connects the tight bearing surface to a lower axial end of the lip, and which, while the lip is deformed with the remainder of the closure when an inner clip of the skirt interferes with an outer bead of the neck during placement of the closure on the neck, may interfere with a free end of the neck to guide engagement of the lip inside the neck.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2012Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.Inventors: Stéphane Graux, Richard Lamoureux, Michel Luzzato
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Patent number: 9278784Abstract: A capping device includes an external outer cap adapted to be removably fixed to the exterior face of a container neck, and an internal insert adapted to plug the opening of the neck. The insert is adapted to be fitted to the neck independently of the outer cap and before fitting the outer cap to the neck. When it is fitted to the neck, the outer cap is adapted to be permanently fastened to the insert. When filling the container, the insert may include means for retaining it on the neck adapted to connect the insert mechanically to the neck before the outer cap is fitted to the neck, thereby sealing at least the exterior peripheral surface of the free end of the neck against a cleaning liquid applied externally to the neck.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2012Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignee: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.Inventors: Christopher Wood, Michel Luzzato, Veronique Bernard, Grégory Antier
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Publication number: 20160039579Abstract: The invention concerns a cap (1) for a container neck, including a tubular skirt (20) which defines a central axis (X-X) and which includes, successively along this axis, a first skirt part (40), provided internally with means (41) for removably fixing it to the exterior surface of the container neck (2), and a second skirt part (50) including: a first axial end (51) which connects the rest of the second skirt to the first skirt part and which is provided internally with at least one surface (54A, 57A) adapted to abut axially against the free end (4) of the container neck, a second axial end (53) which is axially opposite the first end and which is blocked transversely by an end wall (10) of the cap, and an intermediate part (52) which extends axially between the first and second ends, from which project radially ribs (55, 57) substantially parallel to the axis (X-X) and distributed in a direction peripheral to this axis and which, in an axial section half-plane of the skirt, have, outside said ribs, a radType: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2015Publication date: February 11, 2016Inventors: Chistopher WOOD, Michel LUZZATO
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Patent number: 9199769Abstract: A cap for a container neck includes a tubular skirt defining a central axis. The skirt includes an internal first skirt part, means for removably fixing the first skirt part to an exterior surface of the container neck, and a second skirt part. The second skirt part includes a first axial end connecting the second skirt part to the first skirt part, internally having at least one surface adapted to abut a free end of the container neck. The second skirt part also includes a second axial end opposite the first end, and an intermediate part extending between the first and second ends. Ribs project radially from the intermediate part in a direction substantially parallel to the axis. A radial dimension of the intermediate part is less than a radial distance between the exterior cylindrical surface of the first skirt part and the interior radial end of the abutment surface.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2012Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.Inventors: Christopher Wood, Michel Luzzato
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Patent number: 9051090Abstract: A stopper device includes a base adapted to be fastened to a neck of a container, and a cap movable relative to the base between closed and open positions. A strand in an unaltered configuration extends along a periphery of the cap. First and second longitudinal ends of the strand are connected to the cap frangibly and non-frangibly, respectively. A hook protrudes toward an outside of the base, and when the strand is in the unaltered configuration, the hook retains a running portion of the strand, blocking movement of the cap from the closed to the open position. The first end of the strand includes a tab for detaching the first end by breaking the frangible connection and moving the running portion toward an outside of the cap until the cap may freely move from the closed to the open position without the running portion being retained by the hook.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2012Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.Inventors: Grégory Antier, Michel Luzzato
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Patent number: 9010555Abstract: The invention relates to a cap (1) that comprises a circular skirt (12), said cap including an irremovable portion (12-2) fixedly attached about the neck of a vessel (2) and a removable portion (12-1) removably attached to the neck, the irremovable and removable portions being separated by a first weakening line (20). In order to maintain the removable portion of the skirt attached to the irremovable portion of the skirt after the first opening, the skirt is provided with a second peripheral weakening line (34). It is also provided that the first weakening line extends less than 360°, while the two ends (34A, 34B) of the second weakening line are located along the periphery of the skirt respectively between a first (28A) of the two ends of a linking portion of the skirt and the hasp (26-1) closest to said first end, and between the second end (28B) of the linking portion and the hasp (26-6) closest to said second end.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2009Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.Inventors: Michel Luzzato, Jerome Mezerette
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Publication number: 20140291323Abstract: A cap for closing a neck of a bottle is disclosed. The cap includes a lid for closing off the neck and a skirt for fixing to the neck. The skirt is provided with a bulge line for interfering by wedging with the neck, a weakened line to be ruptured by propagation of a tear, and a stop means for preventing the tearing propagating in the rectilinear extension of a first part of the weakened line that runs along the bulge line while being situated on the side of the latter opposite to the lid. The weakened line also includes second and third substantially rectilinear parts which, on the periphery of a skirt, follow on respectively from the first part to the second part of the weakened line. The second part of the weakened line avoids the stop means and extends on either side of the bulge line, while being inclined both with respect to the bulge line and with respect to the direction of the axis of the skirt.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2012Publication date: October 2, 2014Inventors: Michel Luzzato, Stéphane Graux
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Publication number: 20140158660Abstract: A cap for a container neck includes a tubular skirt defining a central axis. The skirt includes an internal first skirt part, means for removably fixing the first skirt part to an exterior surface of the container neck, and a second skirt part. The second skirt part includes a first axial end connecting the second skirt part to the first skirt part, internally having at least one surface adapted to abut a free end of the container neck. The second skirt part also includes a second axial end opposite the first end, and an intermediate part extending between the first and second ends. Ribs project radially from the intermediate part in a direction substantially parallel to the axis. A radial dimension of the intermediate part is less than a radial distance between the exterior cylindrical surface of the first skirt part and the interior radial end of the abutment surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2012Publication date: June 12, 2014Applicant: Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.Inventors: Christopher Wood, Michel Luzzato
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Publication number: 20140097150Abstract: A stopper device includes a base adapted to be fastened to a neck of a container, and a cap movable relative to the base between closed and open positions. A strand in an unaltered configuration extends along a periphery of the cap. First and second longitudinal ends of the strand are connected to the cap frangibly and non-frangibly, respectively. A hook protrudes toward an outside of the base, and when the strand is in the unaltered configuration, the hook retains a running portion of the strand, blocking movement of the cap from the closed to the open position. The first end of the strand includes a tab for detaching the first end by breaking the frangible connection and moving the running portion toward an outside of the cap until the cap may freely move from the closed to the open position without the running portion being retained by the hook.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2012Publication date: April 10, 2014Applicant: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.Inventors: Grégory Antier, Michel Luzzato
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Patent number: D824257Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2016Date of Patent: July 31, 2018Assignee: NOVEMBAL USA INC.Inventors: Christopher Wood, Michel Luzzato
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Patent number: D836442Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2018Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: NOVEMBAL USA INC.Inventors: Christopher Wood, Michel Luzzato
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Patent number: D838171Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2018Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: NOVEMBAL USA INC.Inventors: Christopher Wood, Michel Luzzato