Specified Mixture Components Patents (Class 206/568)
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Patent number: 6390292Abstract: The invention provides a container (10) for separately containing a first flowable material (15) and a second flowable material (17) until mixing of the first and second flowable materials is desired comprising: (i) a first chamber (13) containing the first flowable material and having a first head space (14) comprising gas at a pressure greater than or equal; to atmospheric pressure; (ii) a second chamber (16) containing the second chamber (16) containing the second flowable material, the second flowable material containing gas, and optionally, the second chamber comprising a second head space (18) containing gas at a pressure greater than atmospheric pressure; (iii) means for reducing the pressure in the first chamber; (iv) means (20) for transferring gas between the first and second chambers; and (v) means for transferring the second flowable material into the first flowable material when the pressure in the first chamber is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2000Date of Patent: May 21, 2002Assignee: Carlton and United Breweries LimitedInventor: Donn Bede Hawthorne
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Patent number: 6372313Abstract: A package assembly or kit can be used in conjunction with storing and dispensing adhesive materials. The package assembly includes an enclosure in which an applicator and a container may be positioned. The container contains adhesive material. The enclosure may include a base and a cover. The base preferably includes one or more cavities, with at least one applicator disposed in one of the cavities. Further, the container may be disposed in another of the cavities. The cover may be provided with a plurality of wells. The container may include a restrictor positioned within a neck of the container. The restrictor is provided to limit the volume of adhesive material retained in an absorbent end of an applicator such as a swab.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 1998Date of Patent: April 16, 2002Assignee: Closure Medical CorporationInventors: Keith R. D'Alessio, Gary F. Prokop, Leonard F. Czuba, Carl E. Behrend, Peter J. Kopec
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Patent number: 6364105Abstract: A liquid dispensing bag has a sealed concentrate pouch and a mixing pouch, the concentrate pouch having a fluid tight seal separating the concentrate pouch from the mixing pouch, and the concentrate pouch containing a base material at a first concentration. Upon the introduction of diluent into the mixing pouch, and upon the rupturing of the fluid tight seal, the concentrate pouch and the mixing pouch will be in communication with each other, and the diluent and the base material can mix to form a solution in which the concentration of the base material will be at a second, lesser concentration than the first concentration.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2000Date of Patent: April 2, 2002Assignee: Canberra CorporationInventors: R. Bruce Yacko, Jeffrey C. Gayer, Edward L. Mueller, John A. Wiegand
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Patent number: 6364103Abstract: A cartridge for holding a first and a second fluid including an outer capsule containing the first fluid and having a first end and a second end. An inner capsule is enclosed within the outer capsule and is positioned such that while the outer capsule is in a first position the inner capsule is positioned in a generally spaced apart relationship from the first end and the second end of the outer capsule. The inner capsule contains the second fluid. At least one spike is positioned on at least one of the first end and the second end of the outer capsule. The at least one spike is attached to an inner surface of the outer capsule and is oriented toward the inner capsule for piercing the inner capsule when the outer capsule is deformed. Wherein the outer capsule is deformable into a second position permitting the at least one spike to penetrate the inner capsule allowing the first fluid and the second fluid to mix.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2000Date of Patent: April 2, 2002Assignee: Sermed Industries, Inc.Inventors: Roberto M. Sergio, Winfield Wood, Jr.
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Patent number: 6355644Abstract: Disclosed are benzylpiperazinyl-indolinylethanone compounds which are useful for the treatment and/or prevention of neuropsychological disorders including, but not limited to, schizophrenia, mania, dementia, depression, anxiety, compulsive behavior, substance abuse, Parkinson-like motor disorders and motion disorders related to the use of neuroleptic agents. Pharmaceutical compositions, including packaged pharmaceutical compositions, are further provided. Compounds of the invention are also useful as probes for the localization of GABAA receptors in tissue samples.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2000Date of Patent: March 12, 2002Assignee: Neurogen CorporationInventors: He Zhao, Andrew Thurkauf
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Patent number: 6319243Abstract: Containers and methods for storing medical solutions are provided. More specifically, containers and methods for storing components that are to be admixed together to create a final solution, one of the components comprising a lipid. In an embodiment, a container including an interior defining at least two chambers. The first chamber includes a lipid containing liquid. The second chamber includes a liquid that does not include a lipid. The first and second chambers are separated by an openable seal.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 1998Date of Patent: November 20, 2001Assignee: Baxter International, Inc.Inventors: Michael Becker, Michael Masterson, Freddy Desbrosses
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Patent number: 6287612Abstract: An article of manufacture that combines a squeezable food product and a packaging unit for storing and consuming of the food product. The squeezable food product includes a first food component forming a base component and a second food component forming a filling component. The first food component and the second food component form a combinable food product upon consumption having sensory and nutritive properties close to a solid metal. The packaging unit is a supple pouch having a main external squeezable body and at least one partition layer which divides the squeezable body into at least two separate cavities. The first and second food components are separately stored in different cavities. On extrusion and recombination, the two food components are perceivable as two different components.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 1999Date of Patent: September 11, 2001Assignee: Nestec S.A.Inventors: Rao Mandava, Klaus Kempin, Jorgen Holm
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Patent number: 6286669Abstract: An easy to use handyman package for storage and application of one or more contents, such as a two part reactive adhesive and applicator. The package consists of a backing card, a membrane, and a blister cover sheet. The backing card is formed with a number of holes, and a membrane covers the card to seal the holes. A blister cover sheet is laminated to the membrane and includes a number of blisters which correspond in position to the holes formed in the backing card. In one example the package can have three blisters containing two reactive substances and an applicator. During use, folding motion of the package causes the contents to erupt from the package, allowing mixing, application, and disposal an easy task.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2000Date of Patent: September 11, 2001Inventor: Nelson Collie
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Patent number: 6258872Abstract: The present invention concerns novel methods for enhancing the mechanical performance of tissue adhesives and sealants which comprises employing a primer molecule in association with a tissue adhesive or sealant, wherein the primer molecule serves to enhance the strength of the interface between the tissue and the adhesive matrix. The primer molecules described herein function to interact with a protein present in the tissue, thereby altering its characteristics to make it more amenable to bonding with the adhesive matrix. Primer molecules may be applied to the tissue independently from the tissue adhesive or sealant or may be mixed with the tissue adhesive or sealant prior to application to the tissue.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 1998Date of Patent: July 10, 2001Assignee: Protein Polymer Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Erwin R. Stedronsky
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Patent number: 6225065Abstract: A nucleic acid amplifying enzyme having a short reaction time and high fidelity is provided. The enzyme of this invention is a thermostable DNA polymerase having a nucleic acid extension rate of at least 30 bases per second and a 3′-5′ exonuclease activity. Also provided are a method and kit for amplifying nucleic acid.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 1999Date of Patent: May 1, 2001Assignee: Toyo Boseki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masao Kitabayashi, Taku Arakawa, Hiroaki Inoue, Bunsei Kawakami, Yoshihisa Kawamura, Tadayuki Imanaka, Masahiro Takagi, Masaaki Morikawa
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Patent number: 6182822Abstract: An assembly includes a first element provided with a snap-fitting bead; and a second element having a snap-fitting lip, capable of passing over the snap-fitting bead so as to allow the second element to be mounted on the first element so that it can rotate freely. The assembly includes structure for allowing the snap-fitting lip to pass over the snap-fitting bead when the assembly is fitted together. By rotating the first element with respect to the second, the structure for allowing the lip to pass over the snap-fitting bead is inoperative for taking the assembly apart.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 1998Date of Patent: February 6, 2001Assignee: L'OrealInventor: Nicolas Albisetti
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Patent number: 6142303Abstract: Apparatus and method for the interim sanitary storage of medical sharps and subsequent inurnment of them to a condition acceptable in commercial landfills. A receptacle contains dry calcium hypochlorite to sanitize sharps that are placed in the reception. It has a removable closure cap to admit the sharps. A supply container contains cementitious material to which water is added, and then poured into the receptacle to envelop the sharps. A permanent lock is applied to the receptacle cap to prevent further access or escape of the sharps which are encapsulated in the resulting cementitious urn.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 1998Date of Patent: November 7, 2000Assignee: Earth-Shield IncorporatedInventors: Joe A. Dendy, Mark T. Rodgers, Lucas T. Dobrzanski
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Patent number: 6092649Abstract: A cartridge for holding a first and a second fluid including an outer capsule containing the first fluid. An inner capsule is enclosed within the outer capsule and has a portion attached to a portion of an inner surface of the outer capsule. The inner capsule contains the second fluid. A self-sealing preferable section is disposed on the outer capsule and a perforatable section is disposed on the inner capsule and is generally aligned with the self-sealing perforatable section of the outer capsule. The concentration of the second fluid in the inner capsule increases the shelf life of the second fluid, relative to the shelf life of the mixture of the first fluid and the second fluid, while the outer capsule and the first fluid act as a protective layer to cause the second fluid to be mixed with the first fluid to form a non-hazardous mixture in the event of an accidental rupture of the inner capsule, thus increasing the variety of fluids, and their associated shelf lives, that can be stored or transported.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 1999Date of Patent: July 25, 2000Assignee: Sermed Industries Inc.Inventors: Roberto M. Sergio, Winfield Wood, Jr., Peter O. Sildye
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Patent number: 6047818Abstract: This invention relates to apparatus for separately storing and subsequently mixing two components of a substance to be dispensed.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 1997Date of Patent: April 11, 2000Assignee: BESPAK plcInventors: Richard John Warby, Miro Stan Cater
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Patent number: 6036005Abstract: A package for storing, mixing and dispensing multi-component products in which the components must be maintained separate from one another until just prior to use, and then mixed together for use. The package includes an outer container for holding a first material, and an inner container within the first container for holding a second material. The inner and outer containers, and particularly the inner container, are flexible tubes with a flattened and sealed end. The other end of the inner tube is closed by a displaceable plug which may be displaced therefrom upon exertion of a predetermined compressive force caused, for example, by simultaneously squeezing the outer and inner containers. Displacement of the closure plug from the inner container enables the first and second materials to be mixed together.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 1999Date of Patent: March 14, 2000Inventors: Arthur A. Krause, Walter K. Lim
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Patent number: 6021892Abstract: A device (1) for the extemporaneous mixing of N constituents (A, B) has N compartments (2a, 2b), each having a first end (22a, 22b) and a second end (24a, 24b) on the opposite side to the first, each of the first and second ends being surmounted by a neck (22a, 24a; 22b, 24b) delimiting an opening (12). (N-1) intermediate obturators (14) separate each compartment in a detachable manner from the compartment or compartments which are adjacent thereto when the N compartments are placed on one another. An actuator (18) is provided for ejecting the (N-1) intermediate obturators (14) for effecting the mixing of N constituents, and first end obturators (8) and second end obturators (9) are provided for obturating the end openings of the first compartment (22a) and of the N.sup.th compartment (24b). One of the first or second end obturators has an opening (26) for the dispensing of the mixture. The first and second ends of any of the N compartments can receive any of the said obturators.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 1998Date of Patent: February 8, 2000Assignee: L'OrealInventor: Gilles Baudin
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Patent number: 6015474Abstract: The present invention concerns novel methods for enhancing the mechanical performance of tissue adhesives and sealants which comprises employing a primer molecule in association with a tissue adhesive or sealant, wherein the primer molecule serves to enhance the strength of the interface between the tissue and the adhesive matrix. The primer molecules described herein function to interact with collagen present in the tissue, thereby altering its characteristics to make it more amenable to bonding with the adhesive matrix. Primer molecules may be applied to the tissue independently from the tissue adhesive or sealant or may be mixed with the tissue adhesive or sealant prior to application to the tissue.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 1997Date of Patent: January 18, 2000Assignee: Protein Polymer TechnologiesInventor: Erwin R. Stedronsky
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Patent number: 6001213Abstract: A non-environmentally hazardous, non-volatile adhesive promoter composition useful in promoting the cure and/or enhancing adhesion of adhesives and for use in combination with adhesive bond polymerization. The promoter composition is a combination of a fluid carrier that remains substantially present during the curing of an adhesive composition and an active component capable of promoting the cure and/or enhancing adhesion of the adhesive and being miscible in the fluid carrier.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 1997Date of Patent: December 14, 1999Assignee: Loctite CorporationInventor: Ju-Chao Liu
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Patent number: 5979657Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, a combination stirrer and condiment dispenser includes a body portion having at least a pair of laterally spaced compartments for holding at least a pair of substances to be dispensed into a drinking glass or drinking cup. The end portions of the compartments are capped to hold the substances to be dispensed in place. In one embodiment the caps are located at opposite ends of the stirrer body portion so that the substances to be dispensed may be separately dispensed into the cup or glass. In another embodiment the caps are located at the same end of the stirrer body portion so that both substances may be simultaneously dispensed into the cup or glass. After one or both substances are dispensed into the cup or glass the body portion may be used to stir the dispensed item into the liquid in a mixing operation.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 1997Date of Patent: November 9, 1999Inventor: Steve Bumbera
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Patent number: 5979658Abstract: A kit for external fixation pin site care in conjunction with practicing a uniform and consistent standardized protocol to significantly reduce post-operative infection risk is provided. The kit contains labeled treatment materials to be used in the newly-designed, standard post-operative cleansing and infection treatment procedure. The result is significantly reduced incidences of infection at the pin/skin interface of patients.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 1998Date of Patent: November 9, 1999Assignee: Brown Medical IndusrtiesInventors: Robert E. Allen, Jody S. Panian
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Patent number: 5979647Abstract: A disposable lid is used with a container has pre-stored additives such as sugar or cream. The base member has at least one compartment region which has a sealed outlet and a cover sealing the compartment region to prevent the additive from exiting the compartment region. When the cover is actuated, the outlet breaks open and allows the additive in the compartment region to flow into the container. The outlet in the base member projects from the base member and preferably has troughs formed in the outlet. The outlet is arranged under the cover, and when the cover is depressed the outlet opens at the troughs to allow the content to exit out of the compartment region. The cover is preferably made of a flexible material to permit the outlet to be depressed by applying pressure on the cover. The compartment region of the base member is formed by raised walls surrounding the compartment region, the cover being affixed to top of the raised wall to create an air tight seal.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 1998Date of Patent: November 9, 1999Inventor: Ki Su Han
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Patent number: 5977199Abstract: The invention describes a dental composition, delivery system and method for making temporary crowns and bridges in which the composition comprises two free-radical polymerizable pastes, one a catalyst paste and the other a base paste, wherein the catalyst paste comprises at least one polymerizable monomer, at least one polymerization initiator which is a peroxide oxidizing agent, at least one first polymerization inhibitor and a filler, and wherein the base paste comprises at least one polymerizable monomer, at least one polymerization accelerator, at least one second polymerization inhibitor, at least one non-polymerizable plasticizer and a filler. These catalyst and base pastes are stored in a dual cartridge from which they can be dispensed with a dispenser, preferably in a 1:1 volume ratio, and can be mixed in a static mixer to form a moldable polymerizing material, which is then applied to a prepared area of one or more teeth in a patient's mouth to form a crown or a bridge.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 1998Date of Patent: November 2, 1999Assignee: The Kerr CorporationInventor: Xiaoyi Xie
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Patent number: 5971351Abstract: An apparatus and method for custom blending and fabricating lipstick to the specific demands of individual customers. The present invention provides a kit which enables a user to blend various pigments to arrive at a very specific shade, and then blend the desired shade with a specific base to result in a desired consistency of lipstick, and which also allows the blended bases and pigments to be heated to a liquefied form and poured into a mold for hardening. Upon cooling and hardening, a conventional lipstick case can be attached to the lipstick for removal from the mold and use by the customer. The present invention therefore not only allows a user to quickly attain the specific shade and consistency of lipstick desired, but also eliminates the time consuming and unsatisfactory process of visiting multiple stores having expansive inventories of variously shaded and textured lipsticks.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 1997Date of Patent: October 26, 1999Inventor: Mary Swaab
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Patent number: 5938034Abstract: A package (1) for measured amounts of different photographic chemicals, which are to be stored apart and which are to be discharged simultaneously with a view to stirring into liquid, comprises an outer membrane (4) and at least one partition wall (5) that divides the chamber delimited by the outer membrane into two compartments (3,3). According to the invention, the package comprises a storage portion (12) and a neck portion (13), said partition wall extending across both portions, and those portions of the compartments which are disposed within the storage portion essentially containing the full, measured amounts of chemicals. The neck portion is so designed that a single cut along the cutting line (11) opens both chambers.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 1997Date of Patent: August 17, 1999Assignee: Deltagraph A/SInventors: Birger Josephsen, Kaj Nielsen
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Patent number: 5934493Abstract: A disposable lid has a flexible disk-like body and at least one slot opening formed in the body. The slot opening is adapted to receive a small container containing additives, such as sugar and cream. The slot opening is defined by a plurality of intersecting lines which break open upon application of predetermined pressure. The lid also has at least one protrusion formed near the slot opening to create an opening in the container as the container is inserted into the slot opening. The small additive container described above preferably has an elongated body which is adapted to be inserted into the slot opening of the lid through the intersecting lines. The elongated body is inserted into the slot opening, a release opening is formed in the elongated body of the additive container to release the content.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 1997Date of Patent: August 10, 1999Inventor: Ki Su Han
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Patent number: 5932201Abstract: A cosmetic composition for the first stage of an operation for the permanent reshaping of keratinous material, in particular the hair, which consists in reducing the disulphide bonds of keratin, characterized in that it comprises at least one active agent suitable for the reduction of the disulphide bonds of keratin, at least one basifying agent chosen from ornithine, a salt of ornithine, lysine, a salt of lysine, arginine, and a salt of arginine, and at least one cationic polymer containing primary, secondary or tertiary amine groups or quaternary ammonium groups in the main chain.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 1996Date of Patent: August 3, 1999Assignee: L'OrealInventors: Arnaud de Labbey, Fran.cedilla.ois Pataut
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Patent number: 5875889Abstract: A device for separately packaging two components, for mixing them together, and for dispensing the resulting mixture, includes a receptacle having two compartments, a removable plug for separating the compartments prior to first use, a dispenser endpiece, a rotary drive member suitable, in an initial position, for preventing the endpiece being opened, and a coupling device for transforming rotation of the drive member into action on the plug for the purpose of putting the two compartments into communication with each other. The coupling device includes a coupling member that is axially movable relative both to the receptacle and to the drive member.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 1997Date of Patent: March 2, 1999Assignee: L'OrealInventor: Nicolas Albisetti
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Patent number: 5875888Abstract: A device for separately packaging two components, for mixing them together, and for dispensing the resulting mixture includes a two-compartment receptacle, a removable plug for separating the compartments during storage of the components until first use, a dispenser endpiece defining an outlet channel for the mixture, closure suitable for closing the outlet channel during storage of the components, and a drive member that is axially displaceable to drive relative displacement of the endpiece and the closure so as to open the outlet channel. The drive member also displaces the plug so as to put the compartments into communication with each other. The plug is connected to the drive member by a coupling member enabling the plug to be entrained over at least a portion of the axial displacement of the drive member so as to establish communication between the compartments.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 1997Date of Patent: March 2, 1999Assignee: L'OrealInventor: Nicolas Albisetti
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Patent number: 5842574Abstract: A craft package for making a three dimensional utilitarian object, such as an instrument face, includes a first package portion of rigid transparent PVC with a wall thickness of between about 0.30-0.60 inches having a mold-shaped interior in the configuration or reverse configuration of a three dimensional object. A second package portion is fixed to the first package portion to form a container having an interior, and the second package portion is preferably another rigid plastic element having a mold-shaped interior in the configuration or reverse configuration of a second three dimensional object. A moldable material, such as plaster of paris, dry quick setting cementitious material, or a synthetic polymer curable at a temperature lower than the degradation temperature of the first package portion, is disposed in non-activated form within the container interior, and is of sufficient volume to form one of the three dimensional objects.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 1995Date of Patent: December 1, 1998Inventor: Brendon G. Nunes
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Patent number: 5792303Abstract: A non-environmentally hazardous, non-volatile adhesive promoter composition useful in promoting the cure and/or enhancing adhesion of adhesives and for use in combination with adhesive bond polymerization. The promoter composition is a combination of a fluid carrier that remains substantially present during the curing of an adhesive composition and an active component capable of promoting the cure and/or enhancing adhesion of the adhesive and being miscible in the fluid carrier.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 1995Date of Patent: August 11, 1998Assignee: Loctite CorporationInventor: Ju-Chao Liu
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Patent number: 5718933Abstract: A container for storing a food product and a sauce therefor having a lower section for containing the food product and an upper section for containing the sauce. The container includes a tab which can be pulled to allow air into the upper section to release the sauce from the upper section and the food product from the container.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 1996Date of Patent: February 17, 1998Assignee: BC-USA, Inc.Inventor: Jerry Fultz
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Patent number: 5662942Abstract: A kit and method for easily and conveniently obtaining a fingerprint impression which is subsequently used to create an accurate three-dimensional fingerprint replication. The kit comprises at least one finger sleeve, a base material and a catalyst for forming an amount of impression material, and instructions for using the kit to obtain the fingerprint impression using the finger sleeve and the impression material. The invention also comprises a unique finger sleeve adapted for use with the kit to obtain a fingerprint impression.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 1996Date of Patent: September 2, 1997Inventor: Anthony Kim, II
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Patent number: 5647481Abstract: A dispensing package system for a liquid product including first and second components which must be mixed together prior to use, includes a first container for containing the first component, and a second container for containing the second component prior to use. The first container includes a top dispensing nozzle sealed off by a cap when not in use, and a bottom port sealed by a removable plug from the interior thereof. To mix the components together a user unscrews a cap from the second container, and screws the neck of the second container into a threaded boss of a skirt secured to the bottom of the first container, for forcing a top portion of the neck of the second container into the bottom port of the first container for frictional engagement therewith, and for forcing the plug out of the port into the interior of the first container.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 1995Date of Patent: July 15, 1997Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf AktienInventors: Volker Hundertmark, Peter Funke, Dietholf Mehl
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Patent number: 5616305Abstract: A flexible medical packaging unit designed as a bag (14) including a single connector (18) containing a powdered salt concentrate (16), i.e. bicarbonate, with a volume sufficient for one dialysis treatment. The bag (14) has such a capacity that the powdered salt concentrate (16) will only partially be dissolved even when completely filled with water.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 1995Date of Patent: April 1, 1997Assignee: Fresenius AGInventor: Bernd Mathieu
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Patent number: 5616337Abstract: A unit dose package has two chambers separated by a frangible seal. A liquid or solvent is provided in one of the chambers. An absorptive pad and powder are provided in the other chamber. The liquid and powder are stored separately, to avoid decomposition of the unstable mixture. In use, the first chamber is squeezed or rolled, bursting the seal, and driving the liquid into the second chamber, where it dissolves the powder and is absorbed by the pad. The package is peeled or torn open, and the pad is removed and applied to the skin.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 1995Date of Patent: April 1, 1997Assignee: Genta IncorporatedInventors: Elizabeth J. M. Kasianovitz, Lisa A. Bellm, Kameron W. Maxwell
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Patent number: 5587353Abstract: Kits comprising an agricultural chemical composition which can be safely applied to crops without causing any chemical damage; comprising a mixture, which exerts excellent potentiating effects on various agricultural chemicals, of compounds represented by the following general formula (I) and having (n1+n2+n3) and (n4+n5+n6) each being a number of 0 to 100 on the average, and an agricultural chemical, wherein the weight ratio of the mixture to the agricultural chemical ranges from 0.1 to 50: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 each represent a straight-chain or branched alkyl, alkenyl or hydroxyalkyl group having from 1 to 30 carbon atoms.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 1995Date of Patent: December 24, 1996Assignee: KAO CorporationInventors: Yuichi Hioki, Kazuhiko Kurita, Keiko Kawabata, Toshikazu Azuma
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Patent number: 5567266Abstract: A non-environmentally hazardous, non-volatile adhesive promoter composition useful in promoting the cure and/or enhancing adhesion of adhesives and for use in combination with adhesive bond polymerization. The promoter composition is a combination of a fluid carrier that remains substantially present during the curing of an adhesive composition and an active component capable of promoting the cure and/or enhancing adhesion of the adhesive and being miscible in the fluid carrier.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 1994Date of Patent: October 22, 1996Assignee: Loctite CorporationInventor: Ju-Chao Liu
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Patent number: 5536469Abstract: System employing a sterile medical solution containing glucose or glucose polymers, for example nutritional solutions or solutions for peritoneal dialysis, whereby the majority of the solution is packed in a first package, while the glucose or the glucose polymers are separately packed in a second package, whereafter the two packages are heat sterilized. The content of the glucose or glucose polymers in the second package is maintained above 10% by weight, preferably above 20% by weight and most preferably in the order of 40% by weight in order to reduce or totally eliminate the breakdown of glucose. The medical solution after sterilization, mixing and diluting to 1.5% glucose content has an absorbency caused by breakdown products from glucose at 228 nm less than 0.35 and preferably in the order of 0.20 or lower. The medical solution is also defined in that after sterilization, mixing and dilution to 1.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 1994Date of Patent: July 16, 1996Assignee: Gambro ABInventors: Sven Jonsson, Per Kjellstrand, Evi Martinson, Anders Wieslander, Eva Svensson, Anders Andren
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Patent number: 5529794Abstract: A container for storing a food product and a sauce therefor having a lower section for containing the food product and an upper section for containing the sauce. The container may be manipulated to release the sauce from the upper section and the food product from the container.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 1994Date of Patent: June 25, 1996Assignee: BC-USA, Inc.Inventor: Jerry Fultz
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Patent number: 5435518Abstract: A plastic-model kit having a plurality of components containing at least one die sheet for molding having cavities therein and at least one thermoplastic resin having a low softening temperature, the die sheet and the thermoplastic resin being packed together in a unitary package. The thermoplastic resin can be softened, by dipping in hot water, for example, at about 60.degree. C. to 80.degree. C., and the softened resin can be cast by hand or by a simple tool into the cavities on or through the molding die sheet and then cooled at ordinary temperature (that is, 20.degree. C. to 30.degree. C.) to form various shaped and sized pieces for the plastic-model kit. Ornaments or decorations having a three-dimensional or roughly three-dimensional visuality such as for dolls, human models, animal models, building models, ship models, car models, airplane models, and the like can be assembled from the plastic-model kit.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 1993Date of Patent: July 25, 1995Assignee: Daicel Chemical Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Yuji Iguchi
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Patent number: 5411876Abstract: Improvements to the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), a process for in vitro enzymatic amplification of specific nucleic acid sequences, can be achieved by changing the way that PCR reagents are mixed and the enzymatic reaction is started and by the replacement of mineral oil, commonly used as a vapor barrier to minimize solvent evaporation, by a grease or wax. The use of such mixtures allows for the delay of reagent mixing until the first heating step of a PCR amplification, thereby reducing the enzymatic generation of nonspecific products which occurs when a complete mixture of PCR reagents, with or without test sample, stands at room temperature or below. These mixtures increase the shelf-life of PCR reagents and increase protection of the laboratory environment against contamination by PCR product.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 1992Date of Patent: May 2, 1995Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.Inventors: Will Bloch, Jonathan Raymond, Alan R. Read
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Patent number: 5398812Abstract: A marking system comprising a rigid container and a quantity of fabric located therein and a quantity of marking fluid to saturate the fabric, the marking fluid comprised of a two to nine percent iodine in ethanol solution and the iodine/ethanol solution being mixed with about the same amount of water.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 1994Date of Patent: March 21, 1995Inventor: Michael Y. S. Hwang
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Patent number: 5348159Abstract: The invention disclosed relates to a composition and method for enhancing the contrast of polycyanoacrylate-developed fingerprints and the like. The composition includes a metal chelate of the structural formula ##STR1## wherein R is a UV-absorbing aromatic group, X is an electron attracting group and M is a suitable metal ion, a suitable water-soluble organic solvent and water, at a pH of 3 to 10.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 1992Date of Patent: September 20, 1994Assignee: Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada as represented by the Solicitor General of CanadaInventors: John E. Watkin, Della A. Wilkinson
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Patent number: 5333737Abstract: A package for adhesives having first and second parts including a card slideable within a box, premeasured adhesive portions in compartments shaped to conform to a dispensing and mixing paddle, and a mixing vessel dimensioned to receive the compartments therein. The card may be capable of interlocking engagement with the box to prevent card removal. The conformity of the compartment shape to the dispensing and mixing paddle allows substantially the entire contents of the compartment to be removed with one pass of the paddle.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 1992Date of Patent: August 2, 1994Assignee: Power Poxy Adhesives, Inc.Inventor: Bryan J. Clark
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Patent number: 5314069Abstract: A process for obtaining a package containing at least two mutually reactive materials comprises the steps of introducing the reactive materials into an envelope suitable for vacuum packing, placing the reactive materials within said envelope in separate layers with at least one intervening separating layer of a material which is inert relative to the adjacent layer of a reactive material, evacuating and sealing the envelope.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 1992Date of Patent: May 24, 1994Assignee: Deltagraph A/SInventor: Kaj Nielsen
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Patent number: 5291991Abstract: The container (10) comprises a first compartment (11) and a second compartment (12) which are separated by a central cylindrical throat (13). The compartment (11) is extended by a neck (14) which comprises a first region (15) adjacent to the upper open end of the container and a second region (16) located between the first region (15) and the inside of the container. The region (15) has one section which is greater than that of region (16). Both regions (15, 16) are substantially cylindrical. The section of the second region (16) is substantially identical to that of the central cylindrical throat (13). An intermediate sealing plug (17) compressed into the central cylindrical throat (13) allows sealed storage of two different substances in the compartments (11) and (12). A sealing member (23) inserted into region (15) of the neck (14) is displaceable between a first, storage position, in which it acts as a seal, and a second, ready for use position.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 1991Date of Patent: March 8, 1994Assignee: Becton Dickinson France S.A.Inventor: Gabriel Meyer
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Patent number: 5267646Abstract: A container having a plurality of chambers chiefly for use in the field of medicine. The body of the container is made of flexible plastics and has partition means dividing the container body into the chambers and permitting communication between the chambers when required. The container body comprises container portions forming the plurality of chambers and including at least one container portion having no cover and at least one container portion having a cover. The cover encloses the container portion therewith to form a closed space therein around the container portion and is made of a flexible film having barrier properties against moisture and gas. At least one of a desiccant and an oxygen absorber can accommodated in the closes space. The container is inexpensive, has high quality and is efficient to use and easy to dispose of.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 1992Date of Patent: December 7, 1993Assignee: Otsuka Pharmaceutical Factory, Inc.Inventors: Fujio Inoue, Yasuo Furuta, Shigetoshi Kashiyama
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Patent number: 5253759Abstract: The present invention relates to a containerization system comprising at least one inner cold water soluble bag located within an outer cold water soluble bag. Each cold water soluble bag independently contains an agrochemical that does not substantially dissolve the bag, or bags, which it contacts. Typical agrochemicals are in solid, substantially non-aqueous liquid, or organic gel form. The inner bag contains an agrochemicals such as plant protection compounds, pesticides, fungicides, insecticides, acaricides, nematocides, herbicides, plant nutrients or plant growth regulators. The outer bag contains agrochemicals such as penetrating agents, synergists, antidotes, sticking agents, spreaders, plasticizers.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 1992Date of Patent: October 19, 1993Assignee: Rhone-Poulenc Inc.Inventors: Samuel T. Gouge, James E. Shue
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Patent number: 5252312Abstract: Disclosed is a packaged effervescible composition which generates fresh effervescence at the time of use. The composition comprises a first liquid component including hydrogen peroxide as a functional ingredient and a second liquid component including sodium bicarbonate as a functional ingredient. The package comprises a container for the components and a closure system comprising an inclined crown portion, at least two pouring spouts extending upwardly from the upper surface of the crown and a cover for securement to the crown portion, the cover being provided with depending plugs to close the closure. Preferably each pouring spout is provided with a vent opening which allows smaller through openings in the spouts. The through openings can thus be positioned closer together on the crown. This gives the advantage that the package can be used dispensing liquids into a small container such as a mouthwash cup with controlled pouring.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 1992Date of Patent: October 12, 1993Assignee: Chesebrough-Pond's USA Co., Division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: James L. Gentile, David R. Williams, Alexander G. Ziemkiewicz
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Patent number: 5232774Abstract: An anchor bolt-setting capsule containing a 2-cyanoacrylate component and a cure accelerator. In use, the capsule is set in the bolt hole and the anchor bolt is then driven. The resulting disintegration of the capsule results in immediate reaction of the two components to provide a firm bond securing the anchor bolt in position.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 1991Date of Patent: August 3, 1993Assignee: Kabushiki, Kaisha Alpha GikenInventors: Masanori Otsuka, Masami Jimu, Minoru Fukuzawa, Hiroki Ohata