Infusion Containing Patents (Class 206/.5)
  • Patent number: 11857673
    Abstract: A material includes a metallic, nanoporous structure having a plurality of nanopores having a porosity that allows passage of insulin but not IgG. The metallic nanoporous structure includes titanium, 316L stainless steel and may have a textured nano-sericeous surface. A nanoporous bicontinuous structure can be integrated with nanopores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: NanoVault Medical, LLC
    Inventors: Willard W. Hennemann, Bryan L. Steelman, Thomas J. Webster, Janet E. Davis
  • Patent number: 11685561
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for making a pouch received in a wrapping, comprising a pouch making device which is adapted to produce a pouch containing brewable material in a water-permeable wrapping, and comprising a sealing station with two sealing jaws movable relative to each other for sealing the pouch in a wrapping formed by a wrapping material. This device is characterized in that it comprises a pouch handling device for removing the finished pouch from the pouch making device and a wrapping material handling device for handling the wrapping material during the U-shaped wrapping of the wrapping material, wherein the handling device and the wrapping material handling device are adapted such that the pouch held by the pouch handling device and the wrapping material held by the wrapping material handling device are introduced into the sealing station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Teepack Spezialmaschinen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Stefan Lambertz, Hans Knops
  • Patent number: 11673738
    Abstract: A capsule containing a substance for the preparation of a potable beverage. The capsule comprises an aluminum capsule body having a side wall and an outwardly extending flange. The capsule is hermetically closed by an aluminum cover attached to the outwardly extending flange. The capsule further comprises a sealing member at the outwardly extending flange for providing a fluid sealing contact with an enclosing member of a beverage preparation device. The capsule further comprises an elastic support structure, which is attached to an outer cover surface of said cover. In a condition, in which the capsule is freely resting with said elastic support structure on a fully straight reference surface, the elastic support structure provides a spacing between the outwardly extending flange and said reference surface, said spacing being constant all around in the circumferential capsule direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Koninklijke Douwe Egberts B.V.
    Inventors: Hielke Dijkstra, Erik Pieter Van Gaasbeek, Ralf Kamerbeek, Arend Hendrik Groothornte, Marc Hendrikus Joseph Ottenschot
  • Patent number: 11587596
    Abstract: A hard disk drive includes a base deck and a cover. The cover is coupled to the base deck to create an enclosure. The hard disk drive also includes tape that covers at least a portion of the cover and the base deck. The tape includes an adhesive layer, which includes an adhesive material and a moisture-absorbent material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Chee Yin Chan, Wei Leng Tee, Than Zaw Myint
  • Patent number: 11577424
    Abstract: In a method for treating wood, a wood treatment device for a long-term treatment of wood is provided. An active agent for wood treatment is applied to a carrier material and the carrier material provided with the active agent for wood treatment is introduced into the receiving space of a hollow cylindrical body of the wood treatment device. The wood treatment device is driven into the wood. A thrust pin of the wood treatment device is displaced to release a first outlet opening at an open end face of the hollow cylindrical body and a second outlet opening in a wall surface of the hollow cylindrical body of the wood treatment device to bring into contact the receiving space with the wood and to release the active agent for wood treatment into the wood. The wood treatment device is left behind in the wood.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: IML Instrumenta Mechanik Labor GmbH
    Inventors: Erich Hunger, Sebastian Hunger, Fabian Hunger
  • Patent number: 11485873
    Abstract: A film: (a) 50 to 85 wt % polymer comprising: (i) 30 to 70 wt % hard polymer with Tg from 40 to 70° C. and 40 to 80 wt % (C1-C10)alkyl (meth)acrylate; 10 to 40 wt % C3-C8 carboxylic acid; and 0 to 25 wt % hydroxyalkyl (meth)acrylate; and (ii) 30 to 70 wt % soft polymer with Tg from ?20 to 20 ° C. and 50 to 90 wt % (C1-C10)alkyl (meth)acrylate; 5 to 30 wt % C3-C8 carboxylic acid; and 0 to 25 wt % hydroxyalkyl (meth)acrylate; hard Tg minus soft Tg is at least 30° C.; (iii) 0 to 10 wt %, of (C12-C24)alkyl (meth)acrylate polymer containing crystallizable portion with Tm from 0° C. to 37° C.; (b) 10 to 40 wt % of polyethylene oxide having Mw from 250,000 to 4,000,000; and (c) 0 to 10 wt % of poly(vinylpyrrolidone) having Mw from 25,000 to 2,000,000.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignees: Dow Global Technologies LLC, Rohm and Haas Company
    Inventors: Afua Sarpong Karikari, Michael C. Mitchell, Marianne Creamer, Nilesh Shah
  • Patent number: 11425921
    Abstract: A dried food fresh-keeping packaging bag structure includes a packaging bag and a fresh-keeping device in the packaging bag. The fresh-keeping device includes a storage box. One side of the storage box is attached to an inner surface of the packaging bag. The storage box has a storage chamber filled with a preservative. One side of the storage chamber is formed with an outlet provided with a breathable film to block the preservative. An outside of the breathable film is provided with a sealing film to seal the storage chamber. One end of the sealing film extends to an outside of a mouth of the packaging bag to form a pull portion. When in use, the pull portion is pulled to tear the sealing film from the fresh-keeping device, so that the dried food product in the packaging bag is kept dry by the preservative.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: ChuanPen International Packing CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsung-Ping Chien, Yi-An Chien
  • Patent number: 11242195
    Abstract: A capsule for the preparation of a beverage in a beverage preparation device having a flange partially made of paper and partially made of polymer so as to improve the inside tightness of the capsule, such as to prevent air enters inside the capsule via folds and creases, is disclosed. Methods of producing and using the capsule are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Societe des Produits Nestle S.A.
    Inventors: David Nordqvist, Daniel Abegglen, Arnaud Gerbaulet, Stéphane Pellegrini
  • Patent number: 11019840
    Abstract: A pouched product configured for insertion into the mouth of a user of that product is provided herein. The pouched product can include an outer water-permeable pouch defining a cavity containing a composition adapted for oral use and having a surface area, wherein the outer water-permeable pouch can include a nonwoven web including a first plurality of continuous filament heat sealable binder fibers oriented substantially parallel to each other in a first direction, a second plurality of continuous filament heat sealable binder fibers oriented substantially parallel to each other in a second direction, wherein the first direction and the second direction are substantially perpendicular to each other, and wherein the first plurality of continuous filament heat sealable binder fibers and the second plurality if continuous filament heat sealable binder fibers are bonded with a heated lamination process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
    Inventors: Andries Don Sebastian, Eric Taylor Hunt, Bruce Alan Bengtsson, Alton Busbee, Jeremy Barrett Mabe, Yan Pu
  • Patent number: 11000146
    Abstract: A pad, for use in a coffee-maker for preparing 1 or 2 cups of beverage, includes an envelope with an inner space which is filled with a beverage preparation product for preparing the beverage. The beverage preparation product comprises a product to be extracted with a fluid (and/or a product soluble in a fluid). The envelope is formed by a first disc-shaped sheet and a second disc-shaped sheet which are interconnected adjacent their longitudinal edges. The interconnected parts of the first sheet and the second sheet form a sealing seam wherein the first sheet and the second sheet each form a filter which can pass a fluid and which forms a barrier to the product to be extracted. The second sheet is of form-retaining design. In use with the coffee-maker, a fluid such as water is supplied under pressure to the pad so that the fluid is pressed through the pad for obtaining a beverage which thereupon leaves the pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Koninklijke Douwe Egberts B.V.
    Inventor: Johannes Cornelis Sanders
  • Patent number: 10953730
    Abstract: The instant devices and approach provide a way to provide custom scented fluids (or air freshener) in the form of evaporated scented air and also atomized scented liquids. It combines a vessel capable of constraining scented fluids or air fresheners with a semipermeable membrane for dispersing evaporated scented air and also an atomizer for dispersing scented liquids into the air and thereby eliminates the need for secondary valves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Inventor: Christopher A. David
  • Patent number: 10925459
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a washing ball case for a dishwasher. The washing ball contains a case body with an upper plate portion and a lower plate portion and has through holes formed in an outer side portion thereof so as to completely drain the washing water at the time of washing dishes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: DAEEUN GLOBAL SOLUTION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kyung-sub Shin
  • Patent number: 10927331
    Abstract: A detergent pouch may be made from a dissolvable paper which completely dissolves upon contact with liquid water thereby releasing the detergent contained within the pouch. The dissolvable paper may be a Cellulose gum such as Carboxymethyl Cellulose. The dissolvable paper is free from any coloring, dyes, impurities and other toxins. The detergent may be laundry detergent such as Sodium Carbonate, C12-15 Pareth-2, and Sodium Metasilicate which is free from any fillers, perfumes, coloring agents, or brighteners. The paper pouch and the powder detergent may be safe for septic wastewater treatment systems, biodegradable, and hypoallergenic. The paper pouch may be non-toxic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: SUTHERLAND PRODUCTS, INC.
    Inventors: Charles T. Sutherland, III, Stuart Morgan Sutherland, James Richard Daniel Sutherland, Marc Alan Mason
  • Patent number: 10865510
    Abstract: The invention relates to a dispenser for washing machines, comprising a casing (1) provided with openings (2) that can house a container (3) for an active substance, and is characterized in that it also comprises a structure (4) placed inside said casing (1), said structure (4) being of a harder material than the material of said casing (1). It allows the casing to be of a material which is soft enough to not damage the clothing during the washing process, and the structure to be of a material which is hard enough to protect the active substance inside the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: ZOBELE ESPAÑA, S.A.
    Inventors: Julio Cesar Ruiz Ballesteros, Jordi Maso Sabaté, Dominic Doyle
  • Patent number: 10803296
    Abstract: A computer implemented method, a computerized apparatus and a computer program product for automatic scent selection. The computer implemented method comprising: detecting an event, wherein the event is associated with a user. The method further comprising: in response to the detection of the event, determining, by a processor, a scent for the event. The method further comprises applying, by a dispenser, the selected scent on the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: SHMUEL UR INNOVATION LTD.
    Inventor: Shmuel Ur
  • Patent number: 10577182
    Abstract: The apparatus includes an operating unit, which can be a welding unit for welding a closing film to an edge zone of a containing element or a separating unit for separating containing elements from portions of sheet material. The apparatus includes a control unit programmed to enable the operating unit to selectively process a continuous strip of containing elements or discrete groups of containing elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Sarong S.p.A.
    Inventors: Andrea Bartoli, Alberto Bartoli
  • Patent number: 10531784
    Abstract: A disk, ball or sheet/strip shaped device is made of a silicone or thermoplastic elastomer substance having a tacky surface and a Shore Durometer hardness preferably in the range of 10 to 40. The device is adapted to be placed into a laundry washer or dryer, such that the tumbling motion causes the tacky surfaces of the device to rub against the clothing, thereby removing pet fur. Further tumbling causes the fur collected on the device to eventually disengage and be caught in the lint filter, vent or drain of the washer/dryer. In an alternate embodiment, the tacky silicone or thermoplastic elastomer can form a liner on agitators, fins or paddles within the washer/dryer so as to collect animal fur from fabrics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Inventor: Michael Sweigart
  • Patent number: 10526570
    Abstract: Pouches, for example pouches that contain one or more active agents, such as a fabric care active agent or dishwashing active agent and/or detergent compositions, and more particularly pouches employing a water-soluble fibrous wall material, pouches employing a fibrous wall material that ruptures during use, and methods for making same, are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Andreas Josef Dreher, Mark Robert Sivik, Gregory Charles Gordon, Hailing Bao, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Paul Thomas Weisman
  • Patent number: 10525010
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to aqueous compositions for use in the manufacture of capsule shells and capsules with a functional polymer dispersion. The present disclosure relates to aqueous compositions for use in the manufacture of capsule shells endowed with controlled release properties. The present disclosure also relates to aqueous compositions for use in the manufacture of capsule shells and capsules endowed with moisture barrier properties. The present disclosure also relates to methods of manufacturing the capsule shell and capsules, and to capsule shells and capsules obtained therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Capsugel Belgium NV
    Inventors: Hassan Benameur, Keith Hutchison
  • Patent number: 10517414
    Abstract: There is described a hand-held brewing and extracting pipe and method for coffee and tea.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Bripe Inc.
    Inventors: Craig Stephen L. Hall, Timothy James Panek
  • Patent number: 10492509
    Abstract: A coffee brewing system and method brew hot coffee at an elevated temperature by mixing coffee grounds with hot water, filtering the hot coffee to remove at least some of the coffee grounds from the hot coffee to form filtered hot coffee, and rapidly cooling the filtered hot coffee to reduce a temperature of the filtered hot coffee to form cooled coffee. The coffee optionally may be mixed with a gas, such as nitrogen, prior to serving the cooled coffee. The system and method can rapidly produce cold coffee in large amounts without diluting the coffee in water or ice, or waiting for the coffee to cool in a refrigerated environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: RONNOCO COFFEE, LLC
    Inventors: Dan Pabst, Dan Janson
  • Patent number: 10485227
    Abstract: A liquid ant bait pack having a primary bait well and a plurality of feeding reservoirs for holding liquid bait is provided in which the walls of the feeding reservoirs as well as the primary bait well are sloped to facilitate ant access to the liquid bait held therein while reducing the risk of the ants falling into the bait and drowning. Ant access is further facilitated by dry platform areas positioned between the reservoirs. The inclusion of multiple feeding reservoirs, the bait well and the dry platform areas provides an increased area over which ants can simultaneously access the bait. The entrance to the bait pack is sealed during manufacture and then readily opened by the consumer using a tear-off tab that can removed without the need for any tools.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: WOODSTREAM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Marko K. Lubic
  • Patent number: 10464739
    Abstract: Methods and packages for storing film strips while reducing or eliminating stress cracking during storage, including use of packages having an inner surface made from polymeric materials exhibiting various physical properties and including films and pouches that are annealed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Aquestive Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Beuford Arlie Bogue, Greg Slominski
  • Patent number: 10427087
    Abstract: A dehumidifier apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a housing having an interior space and a vent for permitting airflow into the interior space. The apparatus also includes a cartridge sized for removable insertion into the interior space of the housing. The cartridge includes a tray defining a first pocket, a second pocket, and a channel extending from the first pocket to the second pocket. The cartridge also includes a cover coupled to the tray over the first pocket such that the first pocket is in fluid communication with the second pocket via the channel. The cover has a first layer and a second layer detachable from the first layer. The first layer is gas permeable and liquid impermeable. The second layer is gas impermeable and liquid impermeable. The cartridge further includes a desiccant material contained in the first pocket by the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Willert Home Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Bryan Bruce Willert
  • Patent number: 10350540
    Abstract: The currently-described technology relates to a method of constructing an adsorbent assembly. An adsorbent material is enclosed within a housing. The adsorbent material that is enclosed in the housing is dried by allowing moisture to escape the housing through an injection opening defined by the housing. Water is injected into the housing through the injection opening. After injecting water into the housing, the injection opening of the housing is sealed with a substantially vapor-impermeable material. Adsorbent assemblies are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Andre D. Leier
  • Patent number: 10342181
    Abstract: A capsule (1) for insertion into a bore of a porous element to apply treatment substance to the interior of the element and having a container (2), with at least one internal cavity (3) for receiving treatment substance and an outer stop flange (8), and a plug (4) received in and fixed to the container through a common interconnecting land (5). A first container shank portion (6) that extends from a first insertion end (1A) of the capsule and up to the area of the interconnecting land has a uniform, generally cylindrical shape, a second container shank portion (7) extending away from said container first shank portion, from the area of the inter-connecting land towards the outer stop flange, at least at an inner surface (7B) thereof has an outwardly slightly diverging, conical shape and at an outer surface (7A) thereof, separated a short distance from the outer stop flange has a first circumferential beveled edge (9) serving as a transition to an outer increased diameter section (7C).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Mertec AB
    Inventor: Hans A. K. Merving
  • Patent number: 10337200
    Abstract: A dispenser system for delivering various combinations of dispersants to a body of water with the various combinations of dispersants supplied to the body of water through the interchanging of dispensing cartridges which are attachable to a main dispensing cartridge where a condition for interchanging of dispensing cartridges may be triggered by an event and the dispersants are isolated from a floatation member in the dispenser system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: KING TECHNOLOGY INC
    Inventors: Joseph King, Jeffrey Johnson, Paul Freeberg, Lyle Enderson, Donald Dalland, Terry Goeman
  • Patent number: 10328169
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system for introducing fragrances into the interior of a vehicle via the ventilation system comprising a combination of a fragrance cartridge (2) and an air filter (1), wherein the fragrance cartridge (2) has at least one air inlet opening (3) and at least one air outlet opening (4), as well as a space (17) accommodating a fragrance-emanating substrate, wherein the fragrance cartridge (2) is secured to the air filter (1) in such a manner that air passes through the fragrance cartridge (2) when the ventilation system has been activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ursula Marschall, Erhan Ergen, Andreas Menne
  • Patent number: 10327994
    Abstract: A medicine dispensing system includes canisters and packing assemblies to place specific doses of medicines into capsules. The system removes inert and filler ingredients to place only those active ingredients prescribed to the patient. The system includes a conveyor belt to move the capsules between canisters filled with the active ingredients. A dose is placed and packed into the capsules for each active ingredient. Thus, the number of capsules for a variety of medicines is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: DOSE PACK LLC
    Inventor: Miteshkumar Ishwarbhai Patel
  • Patent number: 10280551
    Abstract: A disk, ball or sheet/strip shaped device is made of a silicone elastomer substance having a tacky surface and a Shore Durometer hardness preferably in the range of 10 to 40. The device is adapted to be placed into a laundry washer or dryer, such that the tumbling motion causes the tacky surfaces of the device to rub against the clothing, thereby removing pet fur. Further tumbling causes the fur collected on the device to eventually disengage and be caught in the lint filter, vent or drain of the washer/dryer. In an alternate embodiment, the tacky silicone elastomer can form a liner on agitators, fins or paddles within the washer/dryer so as to collect animal fur from fabrics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Inventor: Michael Sweigart
  • Patent number: 10264910
    Abstract: A disposable strainer (1) for tea infusion comprises a base (10) and a deformable infusion container (11) with a moisture-permeable body (110) attached to the base (10). The base (10) is foldable, the disposable strainer (1) includes a squeezing mechanism (12) connected to the body (110) of the infusion container (11) and adapted to squeeze the infusion container (11) once the base (10) is folded, and the squeezing mechanism (12) consists in a first thread (121) adapted for drawing out of the disposable strainer (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Inventor: Elena Arkadyevna Merinova
  • Patent number: 10258186
    Abstract: A single serving brewing cartridge adapter fits into known single serving horizontal coffee makers and allows use of a common single serving cartridge made for a vertical coffee maker. The cartridge adapter includes a fixed extraction needle in the base of cartridge adapter and defines walls rising from the base to guide a cartridge into position. The extraction needle pierces a single use cartridge to release brewed beverage into the cartridge adapter. An injection needle in the horizontal coffee maker lid punctures a foil cover of single use cartridges and passes through a permanent opening in a lid of the cartridge adapter and an extraction needle in the horizontal coffee maker cooperates with the cartridge adapter to carry brewed drink from the cartridge adapter. Reusable cartridges including permanent openings to receive the injection needle and to release brewed beverage may also be used with the cartridge adapter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Inventor: Adrian Rivera
  • Patent number: 10144555
    Abstract: The present invention provides a container for drinking fluids wherein the container has an integrated interior compartment for storing solid elements used for treating drinking fluids. The interior compartment includes a plurality of perforations that allow the fluid found in the container to flow through the interior compartment to allow such fluid to interact with the contents of the interior chamber. The interior chamber may include a compound for treating the fluid and for forming, for example, alkaline water. The treatment compound is compressed into solid beads that will interact with the drinking fluid but will not substantially dissolve. In one embodiment the treatment compound comprises of Tourmaline, Kaoline, Magnesium, Magnesium Oxide, Silicone Dioxide and Calcium Oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: DYLN LIFESTYLE, LLC
    Inventors: Dorian R. Ayres, David M. Walker
  • Patent number: 10149390
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to accommodating embedded substrates during direct writing onto a printed circuit board and to other patterning problems that benefit from an extended depth of focus. In particular, it relates to multi-focus direct writing of a workpiece by the continuous or step-wise movement of the workpiece during the sequence of exposures having different focus planes. In one implementation, a multi-arm rotating direct writer is configured for interleaved writing focused on two or more focal planes that generally correspond to two or more surface heights of a radiation sensitive layer that overlays the uneven workpiece. Alternating arms can produce interleaved writing to the two or more focal planes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Mycronic AB
    Inventors: Per Askebjer, Mats Rosling
  • Patent number: 10094129
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of a floating pool dispenser are described. In one embodiment, a floating pool dispenser includes an outer assembly, an inner assembly, an end cover, and a lid. The inner assembly contains chemicals to be dissolved in a pool. The inner assembly moves vertically relative to the outer assembly in response to the continuous dissolving of chemicals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: NINGBO DONGCHUAN SWIMMING POOL EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huaizhong He, Hu Zhang
  • Patent number: 10086992
    Abstract: A disposable strainer for infusing tea has a rigid base with a fold line along which the base of the strainer is folded once infusion is complete, an easily deformable moisture-permeable infusion container, and a squeezing mechanism consisting of threads, the threads being laid over the surface of the moisture-permeable container of the strainer, and the squeezing mechanism allowing by threads drawing to squeeze the infused tea inside the strainer once the strainer is folded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Inventor: Elena Arkadyevna Merinova
  • Patent number: 10040606
    Abstract: A package has a flexible package body and a handle for carrying the package. The flexible package body has at least six faces and a reclosable opening on a face of the flexible package body. The handle is positioned over the reclosable opening and has a first strap, a second strap, and a connection portion. The first strap includes a first end and a second end. The first end of the first strap is attached to one face of the package body. The second strap includes a first end and a second end. The first end of the second strap is attached to another face of the package body that is opposite to the face that is attached to the first strap. The connection portion is located on the second end of the second strap and is detachably engaged to the second end of the first strap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: GPCP IP Holdings LLC
    Inventor: Gregory D. Moore
  • Patent number: 10039419
    Abstract: A container and system for holding a cutting tool of a food processing device is disclosed. The container includes a shell defining a chamber sized to receive one of at least a first cutting tool and a second cutting tool. The shell has a slot that receives a stem of the first cutting tool when the first cutting tool is positioned in the chamber and another slot that receives a stem of the second cutting tool when the second cutting tool is positioned in the chamber. The shell also has a plurality of openings that are sized to permit fluid to pass into the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: David J. Gushwa, Euan Skinner MacLeod, Edith M. Wine
  • Patent number: 10039408
    Abstract: A hanging device with a disposable beverage filter bag includes a filter bag and a hanging ring. The filter bag is made of a filter fabric or filter paper to form a flattened single-opening bag. The filter bag has an opening at an upper end thereof and a pair of hanging slits transversely symmetrically located at middle sections of two sides close to the upper end. The hanging slits are half the width of the opening. The hanging ring is made of a stainless steel wire by winding. The hanging ring has a pair of hanging portions protruding outward from middle sections of two sides of a main frame. When in use, the hanging slits of the filter bag are hanged on the hanging portions of the hanging ring to form a filter stand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Inventor: Ying-Yen Chang
  • Patent number: 9988197
    Abstract: A package system is disclosed for dispensing controlled amounts of a chemical agent. The package system includes an outer package that is generally gas and liquid impermeable. The outer package contains an inner package made from a degradable material, such as a material that is water degradable. The inner package contains a measured amount of a chemical agent. The chemical agent may be difficult to handle and may have corrosive properties, may be an oxidizer, or the like. The package system facilitates dispensing the chemical agent into a particular environment. In one embodiment, the package system is designed to hold a chemical agent for treating recreational water sources, such as swimming pools.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: ARCH CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Fred Simonsen, Karen Boyd, John Puetz
  • Patent number: 9988205
    Abstract: A non-woven mono-component, mono-constituent poly lactic acid (PLA) web is disclosed. The web material is useful for production of infused and brewed beverage filtering media such as tea bags and other pouches and filters. The nonwoven network of PLA fibers in mono-component, mono-constituent configuration provides enhanced liquid infusion properties, superior wet strength and weight properties that surpass current beverage bags and pouches because of its unique composition and structure. The manufacture of Biodegradable Tea and Coffee filter fabrics utilizing PLA powders in place of low melt mono-component, mono-constituent fibers to improve fabric elongation and reduce cost. The addition of a Chlorine scavenger allows preserving the taste and essence of the beverage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Nonwoven Network LLC
    Inventors: Stephen W. Foss, Jean-Marie Turra
  • Patent number: 9771173
    Abstract: Methods and packages for storing film strips while reducing or eliminating stress cracking during storage, including use of packages having an inner surface made from polymeric materials exhibiting various physical properties and including films and pouches that are annealed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: MonoSol Rx, LLC
    Inventors: Beuford Arlie Bogue, Greg Slominski
  • Patent number: 9770695
    Abstract: To provide an emulsion preparation device capable of forming an emulsion in a chemical liquid of diverse composition and further realizing a relatively low sliding resistance. An emulsion preparation device (1) provided with a filter part (10), wherein: the filter part (10) is constructed from first and second, two mesh parts (31) and (33) and fibers (32); and the fibers (32) are loaded into a space (30) between the first mesh part (31) and the second mesh part (32).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Shionogi & Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideji Kashiwagi, Yasushi Moroto, Kazuyuki Takata, Shuichi Hatano, Koji Karasawa, Atsushi Ito, Kazuhiro Ozawa
  • Patent number: 9693650
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods and systems for liquid flow control and beverage preparation are disclosed. The apparatuses, methods and systems of the present invention include liquid flow control and beverage preparation capsules, pods, cartridges, pouches, systems, and modules for controlling and directing flow streams of liquid through a beverage preparation process. The apparatuses, methods and systems of the present invention may be used in combination with or included as an integral assembly of any apparatus, method or system for liquid dispension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Lukasz D. Skalski, Tiemen T. Van Dillen
  • Patent number: 9687107
    Abstract: A beverage preparation capsule containing a beverage preparation ingredient, having a body with side walls formed from one or more substantially air- and liquid-impermeable sheet materials defining a chamber containing a beverage preparation ingredient and further defining an outlet channel having an upstream end in fluid communication with the chamber for escape of beverage from the chamber. At least a region of the outlet channel is filled by a filtration material for filtering the beverage escaping from the chamber. Also provided is a clamp assembly for preparing a beverage from such a capsule, the clamp assembly comprising two or more clamp members, wherein an inner wall of at least one of the clamp members comprises a concave base surface for receiving the capsule and one or more pressure pads projecting from the concave base surface for selectively constricting a region of the capsule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Mars, Incorporated
    Inventors: Peter Austin, Paul Fletcher, David Knowles, Sam Hyde
  • Patent number: 9688445
    Abstract: The present invention provides a container for drinking fluids wherein the container has an integrated interior compartment for storing solid elements used for treating drinking fluids. The interior compartment includes a plurality of perforations that allow the fluid found in the container to flow through the interior compartment to allow such fluid to interact with the contents of the interior chamber. The interior chamber may include a compound for treating the fluid and for forming, for example, alkaline water. The treatment compound is compressed into solid beads that will interact with the drinking fluid but will not substantially dissolve. In one embodiment the treatment compound comprises of Tourmaline, Kaoline, Magnesium, Magnesium Oxide, Silicone Dioxide and Calcium Oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: DYLN LIFESTYLE, LLC
    Inventors: Dorian R. Ayres, David M. Walker
  • Patent number: 9668609
    Abstract: An individual frozen drink dispenser includes a bottom shelf configured to support a blender cup. The bottom shelf has a blender drive to drive the operation of blades provided in the blender cup. The dispenser further includes a dispensing chamber including a cartridge receptacle configured to receive a frozen beverage cartridge, and a dispense plunger. The dispenser further includes a water reservoir having a water pump to drive the movement of water from the water reservoir to the dispense plunger of the dispensing chamber and into the blender cup. A controller coupled to the blender drive, the dispenser plunger, and the water pump controls the operation of the individual frozen drink dispenser. Other embodiments of the dispenser and methods of dispensing frozen drinks are further disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Island Oasis Frozen Cocktail Co., Inc.
    Inventor: J. Michael Herbert
  • Patent number: 9655380
    Abstract: An assembly and method are provided for storing and dispensing a soluble substance, such as a flavoring, into a liquid. A useful application of the subject invention includes the case where lime-flavored liquid is contained in a foam artificial lime stored in the neck of a beer bottle, attached to a beer bottle or can, or attached to the 6-pack or 12-pack carton. The artificial lime may be retrieved from the neck or a protective covering and acted upon so it diffuses the lime-flavored liquid into the beer when it is inserted into the beer bottle. Alternately, juice from the artificial lime may be squeezed into the beer, or the artificial lime may be simply retrieved and discarded. Rather than needing to buy a natural lime, cut it up and push a wedge into a beer bottle, an artificial lime, or a packaged natural lime, may be stored directly in or with the beer bottle and placed in functional contact with the beer at time of consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Inventor: James F. Kramer
  • Patent number: 9648982
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to tea machines that utilize infusion bag dispensing systems to dispensing tea or other substances from canisters into the infusion bag. The tea machine comprises: a canister housing; one or more removable canisters, each canister configured to be refillable with loose tea and/or infusible sweetener; a plurality of empty infusion bags configured to contain tea and/or other infusible substance; an infusion bag dispenser adapted to hold a plurality of empty porous-walled infusion bags and configured to retrieve an empty infusion bag and hold and open the retrieved bag for filling with tea and/or other infusible substance; and a measuring cup adapted for determining the quantity of tea or other infusible substance to be extracted from the canister(s) and dispensed into the infusion bag. The tea machine of the present invention may be manually operated, or may be operated electronically, or may be controlled by a microprocessor or/and be programmed by the end user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Inventors: David Bikerman, Thomas Muckle
  • Patent number: 9545121
    Abstract: Capsule insert able in a beverage production device for preparing a beverage from a substance contained in the capsule by introducing liquid in the capsule and passing liquid through the substance using centrifugal forces for producing the beverage which is centrifuged peripherally in the capsule relatively to a central axis of the capsule corresponding to an axis of rotation during the centrifuging operation comprising: an enclosure containing a predetermined amount of beverage substance, a cup-like shaped body, an upper wall for closing the body, wherein it comprises a flange-like rim extending outwardly from the body which comprises an annular raising portion forming a restriction for the centrifuged liquid How path when said portion is engaged by a pressing surface of the beverage production device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventors: Alexandre Perentes, Christian Jarisch, Alfred Yoakim, Jean-Paul Denisart, Antoine Ryser