Provided With Means To Purposely Depress Or Contact Receptacle Contents Patents (Class 215/231)
  • Patent number: 11873140
    Abstract: The invention relates to a biodegradable stopper comprising a casing of rigid biodegradable material, consisting of an annular body with a covered flank, and an internal ring of biodegradable elastic material the total width of which is equal to or smaller than the internal width of the annular body, comprising one or more internal recesses in which one or more portions of the ring fit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: PUJOLASOS, S.L.
    Inventor: Galâ‹…la Romera Formiguera
  • Patent number: 11434050
    Abstract: A stopper for a container and an assembly of a stopper and a container wherein the stopper has an insertion section configured for insertion into the container. The insertion section has a sealing section for closing the container in a sealing position of the stopper and a contact section for holding the stopper in a drying position of the stopper. The contact section has at least one passage opening for a gas exchange between an interior of the container and the surroundings of the container. The stopper has a sealing body and a main body connected together, wherein the main body has a higher degree of hardness than the sealing body. Regions of a lateral surface of the insertion section in contact with an inner surface of a container wall are formed by outer surfaces of the sealing body in the region of the contact section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: KISICO KIRCHNER, SIMON & CO. GMBH
    Inventor: Jan Kirchner
  • Patent number: 10954041
    Abstract: A selectably securable container lid that is selectively attachable to different sized rims of different cups, having a circular body, a central aperture which passes through the body, a perimeter edge, a top side, and a bottom side. The top side may include a diametral valley and the bottom side may include a plurality of radially disposed securing nubs. The selectably securable container lid may be frictionally secured to the rim of a cup through the application of mechanical force that presses the selectably securable container lid into the rim, and may be later removed from the cup by lifting from an edge of the selectably securable container lid sufficiently to dislodge the friction fit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Inventor: Jaidah Wilson-Turnbow
  • Patent number: 9834338
    Abstract: A fluid preservation device, for preserving a liquid within a container, which includes an elongated member with a proximal end and a distal end and an inner shaft and an outer shaft. The outer shaft and inner shaft are attached to an expandable sealing member. The expandable sealing member has an expanded state and a collapsed state and a state change mechanism attached to the proximal end of the elongated member to change the state of the expandable sealing member between the expanded state and the collapsed state. When the expandable sealing member is in the collapsed state, it can pass through an opening of a container and when the expandable sealing member is in the expanded state it is big enough to contact the inner surface of the container near the surface of the liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Smart Assets, Inc.
    Inventor: Michelle Arney
  • Patent number: 9656847
    Abstract: Vacuum bottle stoppers for wine, particularly suited for partially consumed bottles of wine are disclosed. Systems are also disclosed for evacuating a partially consumed bottle of wine, filling the wine bottle head space with an inert or other gas and the storing the wine bottle while maintaining the inert or other gas in the bottle. The stopper has a vacuum valve and a vacuum indicator in a removable cap. The vacuum valve has a self-closing passageway due to the passageway traversing an elastomeric material. The vacuum indicator moves in response to vacuum and reveals a marking on a valve opener when a desired vacuum is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Haley's Corker, Inc.
    Inventors: Jean E. Haley, James D. Ryndak, Roger M. Masson
  • Patent number: 9618304
    Abstract: A vibration damping nock for crossbow arrows includes an insert to absorb bow string slap, thereby to prevent damage to the nock during crossbow firing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: FeraDyne Outdoors, LLC
    Inventors: William Edward Pedersen, Christopher M. James, Jon A. Syverson
  • Patent number: 9266657
    Abstract: The container includes a lower wall and an erect side wall limiting an upper opening of a housing for accommodating a flexible pouch containing a fluid; containment elements including a containment wall, the gap between its peripheral edge and the side wall being limited; the containment wall adapted to be applied against the pouch and held fixed in this position by holding elements arranged in the container and borne by the containment elements by a structural and functional combination, and being movable between an inactive retracted state and an active expanded state, in which a distal end part is either moved away from the side wall or applied there against without any chance of sliding; and adapted to be applied at any desired location of a zone of the side wall such that the containment wall can be applied and held against the pouch regardless of how full the latter is.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: SARTORIUS STEDIM FMT SAS
    Inventors: Stephane Baud, Bastien Guillot
  • Publication number: 20150102042
    Abstract: A lid, having an opening area encased by one of the variety of shaped sidewalls with a flexible ribbed portion extending downwardly to one of the variety of shaped bases is provided for completely purging of atmospheric gases out of a container upon installation so as to eliminate head space by forming an airtight barrier with the container and the lid. A lid rim, having an inside portion connected to the top of the one of the variety of shaped with the flexible ribbed portion and an outside portion is provided for seating the lid to the container. The dome shaped base is connected to the bottom of the one of the variety of shaped side walls forming a circular base of the lid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Inventor: Gary Matsch
  • Patent number: 8875917
    Abstract: The present invention pertains to a closure cap for a container, the closure cap including a top part connectable to a container body via a hinge, the top part being pivotable about the hinge. The top part further includes a sealing skirt to sealingly engage with an opening of the container body, and the top part includes a desiccant chamber for accommodating a desiccant. A spring element for pre-tensioning products received in the container body, the spring element extending from the top part in a single loop, is also an element of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Clariant Production (France) SAS
    Inventors: Armindo Lourenco, Vincent Sebille
  • Patent number: 8863991
    Abstract: A bottle formed of a food-grade plastic material, such as clear polyethylene terephthalate, may include a frustoconical neck portion, a shoulder region, a base region, and a sidewall portion have opposed grip-enhancing surfaces, and elastically deformable pressure panels. A cap for the container may include a valve to control product leakage, and may be sized to allow inversion of the bottle. A generally trapezoidal tab of the cap may be moveable between a closed position covering a cap orifice and an open position outside the plane of the cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: H.J. Heinz Company
    Inventors: Wayne C. Cleary, Michael D. McMahon
  • Patent number: 8662342
    Abstract: A method and device for releasably sealing a material into a container is disclosed. The device has a plug handle and a flexible plug body with an exterior edge that conforms to the contours of the interior wall of the container. The plug body is inserted into the container and is positioned to the surface of the material within the chamber using the plug handle. The plug body exerts resistance pressure against the interior wall of the container. The resistance pressure releasably seals the material in the chamber. In certain embodiments, while the plug body is inserted into the container, the resistance pressure squeezes the material from at least a portion of the interior wall of the container down to a pool of the material in the chamber of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Inventor: Andrew John DeTolla
  • Publication number: 20140014613
    Abstract: A lid, having an opening area encased by one of the variety of shaped sidewalls with a flexible ribbed portion extending downwardly to one of the variety of shaped bases (e.g., a domed shaped base), is provided for completely purging of atmospheric gases out of a container upon installation so as to eliminate head space by forming an airtight barrier with the container and the lid. A lid rim, having an inside portion connected to the top of the one of the variety of shaped with the flexible ribbed portion and an outside portion is provided for sealing the lid to the container. The dome shaped base is connected to the bottom of the one of the variety of shaped sidewalls forming a circular base of the lid. The one of the variety of shaped sidewalls is provided for manipulating the lid from a relaxed state to an elongated state while being submerged into a liquid to displace an amount of fluid needed to raise the fluid level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2012
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Inventor: Gary MATSCH
  • Patent number: 8579137
    Abstract: In the case of a packaging unit comprising a plastic bottle (2) with a flexible foil bag (3) arranged therein, wherein a hollow interspace (5) is formed at least in certain regions between the surface of the inner wall of the plastic bottle (2) and the outer surface of the foil bag (3), the foil bag (3) is designed such that it at least partially automatically elastically contracts and/or can be compressed at least in certain regions by a force effected by a means arranged in the interspace (5) and/or can be collapsed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Lustenberger, Stephan Kurtze
  • Publication number: 20130200033
    Abstract: A medicine container cap for use with a bottle containing a plurality of pills includes a casing having a pill dispensing opening. A pill dispensing track assembly is removably coupled to the casing and includes a pill ramp for delivering pills to the pill dispensing opening and an insert that includes a pill dispenser slot that receives pills from the pill ramp and is open to the pill dispensing opening. The insert is detachably from the pill ramp and is insertable through an opening in the casing for being attached to the pill ramp. The pill ramp includes an adjustable member that modifies a characteristic of the pill ramp based on at least one characteristic of the insert that is selected, inserted through the opening in the casing and coupled to the pill ramp.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2012
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Inventors: Moses Zonana, Ben Way, Daniel Garcia, Rodrigo Ferreira, Werner Blumenthal
  • Patent number: 8490795
    Abstract: Containers and methods for disposing unused pharmaceutical product are disclosed. Each container (100, 200, 300) may include a container body (104, 204, 304) with an internal chamber (116, 216, 316) for storing pharmaceutical product, along with a cover (124, 224, 324) for selectively limiting access to the chamber (116, 216, 316). An encapsulation component (128, 228, 328) may be selectively disposable within the chamber (116, 216, 316), and may be operable to encapsulate the pharmaceutical product within the container (100, 200, 300). For instance, the encapsulation component (128, 228, 328) may melt and/or flow into contact with the pharmaceutical product and thereafter solidify to encapsulate the pharmaceutical product. The encapsulation component (128, 228, 328) may melt and thereafter solidify between the cover (124, 224, 324) and shell (104, 204, 304) to limit removal of the cover (124, 224, 324) from the shell (104, 204, 304).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Mallinckrodt LLC
    Inventor: Robert J. Ziemba
  • Patent number: 8377697
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides test strip carriers for insertion into test strip vials and methods of making the same. Also provided are test strip vials including test strip carriers, and systems including test strip vials, test strip carriers and analytical test strips. The test strip carriers of the present disclosure are capable of engaging with the caps of test strip vials and thereby facilitating the retrieval of one or more test strips from the test strip vials upon opening of the test strip vials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Abbott Diabetes Care Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Myles, Cherie Bulala
  • Patent number: 8365931
    Abstract: The specification discloses a device (10) insertable into a wine bottle (12) after opening, the device (10) being intended to float on the surface (21) of wine remaining in the bottle (12) and minimize deterioration of the remaining wine, said device (10) including a core structure (11) having a thin spring plate (11a) capable of being deformed when the device (10) is inserted into the bottle (12) and capable of recovering its shape once inserted into the bottle (12), the core structure (11) further having at least one floatation means (11b) and said device (10) including a liquid impervious outer sheath (18) having upper and lower walls (14, 15) sealed to one another to retain the core structure (11) therein, the outer sheath (18) being of a material that is non reactive with wine and including a flexible outer peripheral edge zone (42) with cuts or the like (49) formed therein, the outer peripheral edge zone (42) being adapted, in use, to contact the internal surfaces of the wine bottle (12) while floating
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Inventors: Barry Maxwell Rees, Malcolm McKenzie
  • Patent number: 8302793
    Abstract: A closure for a container having a support device for fillers, in particular a tablet tube, the support device providing an elastically deformable support element that is capable of being brought from a first position, in which the support element is undeformed, into a second position in which the support element is deformed. The support element has a contact area that, in the second position, transmits a supporting force to the fillers; in the second position the support element is situated closer to the container mid-axis than is the case in the first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Sanner GmbH
    Inventor: Horst Schorner
  • Patent number: 8236254
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides test strip carriers for insertion into test strip vials and methods of making the same. Also provided are test strip vials including test strip carriers, and systems including test strip vials, test strip carriers and analytical test strips. The test strip carriers of the present disclosure are capable of engaging with the caps of test strip vials and thereby facilitating the retrieval of one or more test strips from the test strip vials upon opening of the test strip vials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Abbott Diabetes Care Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Myles, Cherie Bulala
  • Patent number: 8132578
    Abstract: A sifter insert for the neck of a powder jar is secured above the product reservoir and below the cap of the jar. The insert has a central concave dish for supporting a quantity of powder product, and a channel around the perimeter of the dish. The insert is secured in the neck such that the dish is spaced below the bottom of the cap. Slots in the channel permit the flow of powder from the reservoir into the channel when the jar is inverted with the cap closed, and from the channel onto the dish when the inverted jar is righted. Powder in the dish is accessed by the user upon removal of the cap. The cap is then closed and the jar shaken to return excess powder from the dish to the reservoir through the slots in the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: ELC Management LLC
    Inventor: Wayne J. LoPrete
  • Patent number: 8079488
    Abstract: A lid for use with a jar having an opening includes a closure member configured to cover the jar opening when the closure member is fastened to the jar. The lid includes an attachment member coupled to the closure member to selectively fasten the closure member to the jar. A catch is coupled to the closure member that extends toward the jar when the closure member is fastened to the jar. The lid includes a utensil having a use end and an opposed attachment end. A hook extends from the utensil attachment end so as to rotatably couple the utensil to the catch, each hook being removable from the catch only when the utensil is generally parallel to the closure member. The utensil has a length that prevents the utensil from being generally parallel to the closure member when the closure member is fastened to the jar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Inventor: David I. Darflinger
  • Publication number: 20110114592
    Abstract: A storage accessory that enables containers to be sealed at a desired level above the remaining contents. In an embodiment, the sealing device for a container comprises a device body having a chamber with an opening in the bottom end of the device body. The bottom end of the device body adapted to be inserted into a container, such as a wine bottle. A deployment member within the chamber, which may traverse the device body, is configured to be able to deploy arms that bias a flexible barrier outward to engage the container. In an embodiment, the arms are formed from resilient metal wires made of superelastic shape memory alloy, such as NiTi. When in a retracted position, the resilient wires may fit into the chamber of the device body. When in an expanded position, the resilient wires bias the flexible barrier causing the flexible barrier to seal a container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2010
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Applicant: Diversified Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark Garrison
  • Patent number: 7815049
    Abstract: A container packing filler includes an annular roll portion formed by folding one of axially opposite end portions of a stretchable tubular net radially outward and rolling the net toward the other end portion of the net, and a rigid holder portion provided at the other end portion of the net. The holder portion has sufficient axial length and a width greater than the diameter of a center hole of the annular roll portion so that, when the holder portion of the packing filler is squeezed into the center hole of the annular roll portion, the annular roll portion is expanded from the inside thereof by the holder portion and layers of the annular roll portion are unitarily rolled inward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: Shionogi & Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Hiramoto, Yasuyuki Shiraishi, Kenji Ohnishi, Kouichi Yoshimi
  • Patent number: 7690523
    Abstract: A food storage and retrieval system includes a food storage container and a basket disposed within the container. The basket includes a base and a plurality of wings disposed about a periphery of the base. The wings are pivotally attached to the base and biased to engage an inner surface of the container. An elongated handle is slidable through the base. The handle includes a flange at a lower end thereof for engaging a facing surface of the base to lift the basket within the container, and a key selectively engageable with the base to push the basket downwardly within the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Inventor: Robert E. Harris
  • Publication number: 20090057262
    Abstract: A bottle cap including an additive holding unit which is supported in a mouth of a bottle has in a lower portion thereof an opening for discharging the additive, and is open at the top. An open-and-shut unit is seated to be coaxial with the additive holding unit and moves up and down to open or shut the opening. An outer cap unit includes a sealing tube which is placed between the open-and-shut unit and the additive holding unit and performs a sealing function. A skirt having a forgery preventing function is integrally provided on a lower end of the outer cap body. A delay hook retains the skirt for a period when the opening is opened, thus delaying separation of the skirt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Inventor: Young Kook Cho
  • Patent number: 7395949
    Abstract: A volumetric displacement dispenser and method of using the dispenser is disclosed for dispensing liquid contents from an interior of a bottle with a bottle neck while preventing air from filling a void created within the interior of the bottle caused by the liquid contents being poured out of the bottle by gravity. The dispenser includes a stopper having first and second boreholes extending there through, the stopper being adapted to form an air-tight seal when it is seated into the bottle neck. An air pressure tube routed through the first of the boreholes has a first end open to atmospheric air and a second end open to the interior of the bottle. An expandable volumetric displacement balloon is attached to the second end of the air pressure tube and a one-way liquid valve is disposed in the outlet of the liquid flow channel in the stopper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Inventors: Vincent Ehret, Edward Eaton, Thomas Marchese
  • Patent number: 7041261
    Abstract: Sanitizing sponge disinfectant container bowls are disclosed, which are deep enough to hold cleaning sponges completely submerged in a disinfectant fluid. These containers are equipped with lids having downward projecting shafts or rotatable screw bolts which fit into the container bowl and press down on a sponge being sanitized. The lids are of sufficient weight to hold the sponges submerged in the disinfectant fluid. The container bowls are also provided with open ribbed rates against which or between which the sponges are held to facilitate the greater exposure of the surfaces of the sponges to the disinfectant fluid for improved cleansing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2006
    Inventor: Brian E. Margolis
  • Patent number: 7017768
    Abstract: A floatable barrier suitably adapted for use with a beverage container having a circular base and a cylindrical wall extending vertically therefrom. The floatable barrier comprising top and bottom planar surfaces for displaying advertising material thereon and for floatingly engaging a substantial portion of a comestible liquid contained in the beverage container, respectively; an outer wall integrally connecting the top and bottom planar surfaces along the periphery thereof principally serving as means to space apart and maintain a parallel relationship of the surfaces to form an inner chamber possessing thermal retaining and buoyancy characteristics; and a plurality of apertures collectively located along the periphery of and extending from the top planar surface to the bottom planar surface, through the inner chamber, to assist in promoting the condition of laminar flow over the floatable barrier as the beverage container is being filled with the comestible liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2006
    Inventor: Randy Jerome Iskierka
  • Patent number: 6619494
    Abstract: A package for tablet products that includes a container having an interior volume for holding the tablet products and a closure secured to a cylindrical finish of the container. A product hold-down device has an axially resilient central portion, a lower portion for engaging the upper surface of the product within the container, and an upper portion for securement within the container finish to hold the device in place within the finish, with the closure removed from the finish, against the axially resilient forces applied to the device by engagement of the lower portion with product in the container and resilient compression of the central portion of the device. Thus, the hold-down device can be inserted into the container and secured to the container using automatic packaging equipment, and the container closure then applied to the container. In use, the closure is removed from the container, and the device is removed and discarded by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2003
    Assignee: Owens-Illinois Closure Inc.
    Inventors: Brian J. Brozell, Stephen A. Eilertson
  • Publication number: 20030102311
    Abstract: The purpose of this invention is to greatly reduce the oxidation of liquids after the original sealed bottle or container has been opened. When some of the liquid has been removed, an equal volume of air is introduced. This air, in many cases, causes oxidation of the liquids and makes them unusable. What is new with this invention is using common sense by limiting the surface area of the liquid that comes into contact with the introduced air to solve the age-old problem of oxidation. How many thousands (millions) of bottles of wine have been poured down the drain because they went bad because of oxidation or how many thousands (millions) of cans of paint have been have been tossed out (to landfills) because the paint had hardened because of oxidation! These are but two of many examples of liquids that can have their useful life extended with this invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2001
    Publication date: June 5, 2003
    Inventor: James R. Brady
  • Publication number: 20020185463
    Abstract: A tablet presser is proposed which is inexpensive and not bulky and which can be stacked and automatically put into a bottle without any problem. Around a flat plate portion having sustantially the same size as the mouth of a tablet bottle, an elastically deformable legs are provided to retain the position of the flat plate portion. When the legs enter the bottle while being bent, they get into contact with the inner surface of the bottle. Movement of tablets in the bottle is prevented by pressing them with the bottom surface of the flat plate portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2002
    Publication date: December 12, 2002
    Inventor: Yoshiaki Arai
  • Patent number: 6398051
    Abstract: A package for tablet products that includes a container having an interior volume for holding the tablet products and a closure secured to a cylindrical finish of the container. A product hold-down device has an axially resilient central portion, a lower portion for engaging the upper surface of the product within the container, and an upper portion for securement within the container finish to hold the device in place within the finish, with the closure removed from the finish, against the axially resilient forces applied to the device by engagement of the lower portion with product in the container and resilient compression of the central portion of the device. Thus, the hold-down device can be inserted into the container and secured to the container using automatic packaging equipment, and the container closure then applied to the container. In use, the closure is removed from the container, and the device is removed and discarded by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2002
    Assignee: Owens-Illinois Closure Inc.
    Inventors: Brian J. Brozell, Stephen A. Eilertson
  • Patent number: 6345718
    Abstract: A containing device and method to hold and immobilize solder spheres during storage and transport including a container portion having an open top terminal end and an opposing closed bottom terminal end with at least one side wall connecting each terminal end, a removably attachable lid to seal the container portion and a lid insert for insertion into the container portion to immobilize solder spheres contained therein. In one embodiment, the lid insert is comprised of compressible material, such as a polymeric foam, whereby insertion of the lid insert into the container portion causes compression of the lid insert substantially adjacent to the side wall of the container portion, a bottom planar surface of the lid and an uppermost surface layer of solder spheres to completely fill any open or dead space within the containing device. The lid insert forms a mechanical seal which immobilizes the solder spheres until the lid insert is removed from the containing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2002
    Assignee: Fry's Metals, Inc.
    Inventor: Gerard R. Minogue
  • Patent number: 6286698
    Abstract: An apparatus for the reusable interim storage of partially consumed medicated oral dosage forms and methods for employing such an apparatus in order to use medicated oral dosage forms in the safest possible manner. The apparatus of the present invention in its broadest terms comprises (1) a container sized to hold a medicated oral dosage form, (2) means for allowing a medicated oral dosage form easy access into the container but substantially preventing the medicated oral dosage form from passing out of the container, and (3) a child resistant means for allowing an adult to remove a medicated oral dosage form from within the container despite the one-way access means. The preferred embodiment comprises an opaque container having one opening, a child resistant closure with an aperture there through that extends over said opening, and a plastic slitted membrane covering said aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2001
    Assignee: Cephalon, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Hague, Steve Shoemaker
  • Patent number: 6173851
    Abstract: An apparatus for the reusable interim storage of partially consumed medicated oral dosage forms and methods for employing such an apparatus in order to use medicated oral dosage forms in the safest possible manner. The apparatus of the present invention in its broadest terms comprises (1) a container sized to hold a medicated oral dosage form, (2) means for allowing a medicated oral dosage form easy access into the container but substantially preventing the medicated oral dosage form from passing out of the container, and (3) a child resistant means for allowing an adult to remove a medicated oral dosage form from within the container despite the one-way access means. The preferred embodiment comprises an opaque container having one opening, a child resistant closure with an aperture there through that extends over said opening, and a plastic slitted membrane covering said aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2001
    Assignee: Anesta Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Hague, Steve Shoemaker
  • Patent number: 5626266
    Abstract: A container assembly includes a central connecting member that extends to an attached support plate at the bottom of the container. After opening the top of the container, lifting of the connecting member results in the contents of the container being pulled up by the support plate for ease of use. The use of the assembly is particularly useful for materials having a thick consistency such as dog food or cat food or spackling paste which are difficult to remove from their containers. In the preferred embodiment the support plate includes openings to drain any liquid from the contents of the container as the contents are being lifted from the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 6, 1997
    Inventor: Gary K. Michelson
  • Patent number: 5411156
    Abstract: A content immobilizer includes an immobilizing medium, such as cotton, and a plastic integrally formed pull member, operatively coupled through the immobilizing medium, wherein the pull member has a flexible portion adapted to resiliently extend above an upper rim surface of the mouth of a bottle after removal of the closure. The pull member may also laterally compress and expand to frictionally engage with an interior wall surface of the bottle to secure the pull member in a predetermined position. A method for forming the content immobilizer includes inserting the pull member through the immobilizing medium, inserting the content immobilizer into the bottle such that at least a portion of the pull member extends out through the mouth of the bottle, and applying a closure, such as a tamper evident seal, a cap and/or both, over the mouth such that the portion of the pull member resiliently couples to a bottom surface of the closure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1995
    Inventor: Christopher J. Reckamp
  • Patent number: 5375730
    Abstract: An unloading valve for hopper cars used for transporting dry fluent material such as carbon black. An unloading pipe extends outwardly from the bottom of the hopper, and a closure removably attaches at the end of the pipe. The closure includes a plug extending within the pipe and presenting a surface that confronts the dry fluent material adjacent the inner end of the pipe. This surface has an angle selected to cause fluent material loaded into the hopper to become packed at the inner end of the pipe during loading and subsequent shipment of the hopper car. When the closure is removed for attaching an unloading conduit to the pipe, the packed material at the inner end of the pipe prevents any of that material from leaking out the pipe before the unloading conduit can be connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1994
    Assignee: Columbian Chemicals Company
    Inventors: Andrew J. Bahr, Luigi P. Simonelli, Wallace G. Murray
  • Patent number: 5269413
    Abstract: A pill container has a casing with a closed end, an open end, and a chamber. The chamber can hold the pills and communicate with the open end. A cap having an inside surface can releasably attach to the open end and close the casing. A pin is centrally secured at the inside surface of the cap. This pin is positioned to extend into the chamber of the casing when the cap is attached to the casing. A plunger is slidably mounted in the chamber of the casing. A spring mounted in the casing can urge the plunger toward the open end of the casing to hold the pills in position, so that agitation would not tend to powder the pills.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1993
    Inventor: George Stern
  • Patent number: 5248213
    Abstract: A seal means for a roll-on liquid dispenser in the form of an expansible web which elongates biaxially to overlay the roller and seal the dispensing passage when a dispenser closure is moved to a closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1993
    Assignee: Plastek Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard H. Seager, Alex S. Szekely, Alfred Astoreca, Robert Sheffler, Christopher S. Thorp
  • Patent number: 5229127
    Abstract: Quick miosis with 24 hour control of intraocular pressure of patients undergoing extracapsular cataract extraction surgery is achieved by applying to the eyes of the patient during surgery acetylcholine as a first miotic agent and carbachol as a second miotic agent. Acetylcholine provides quick miosis while carbachol enhances the miotic effect while providing post-surgery control of intraocular pressure. The two miotic agents can be dissolved in a common saline carrier. The two agents can be combined in a unit dosage package by disposing acetylcholine in powder form in a first compartment and a solution of carbachol in a second compartment. The combined miotic agent of the invention is especially useful when substances which raise IOP such as viscoelastic agents are used during ocular surgery and/or with sensitive patients who enter the surgery with elevated pressure such as those suffering from glaucoma.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1993
    Inventor: James W. McKinzie
  • Patent number: 5188253
    Abstract: A container unit comprises an integrally formed container component (1) comprising a casing (20) and a closure (10), which includes a lid (11) initially sealed with an original seal (12) . A separate bottom piece (30) for the container is permanently secured to the casing (20) of the container component containing the product, preferably by rotation-friction welding the bottom piece and the casing, both of which consist of polypropene. The component (1) is oriented with the closure (10) facing down and the product is poured in via the open end of the casing. The bottom piece is then placed in the open end of the container casing and rotation-friction welded to the casing. A partition (36) may be inserted in the casing to define a space for the product corresponding to the volume of the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1993
    Assignee: Duma AB
    Inventors: Cyril Poore, Bernard Sams
  • Patent number: 5096078
    Abstract: A closure assembly for a container which includes an air-impervious diaphragm which when subjected to differential pressure will expand to retain articles in place within a container. The diaphragm is retained in position by a ring member that secures the marginal portions of the diaphragm in position. the diaphragm may be secured to a container filled in a vacuum chamber so that atmospheric pressure will extend the diaphragm into the desired position or it may be subject to high pressure air to extend the diaphragm. Means for exhausting the high pressure air or for admitting atmospheric air into the interior of the container for facilitating removal of the closure assembly from the container are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1992
    Assignee: Murrie White Drummond Lienhart & Associates
    Inventor: Thomas P. McQueeny
  • Patent number: 5050707
    Abstract: An automatic oiling device for delivering oil to a bearing comprising a sealable container defining a reservoir for oil with a opening in which a hollow tube is fitted. One end of the hollow tube communicates with the interior of the sealable container and the other end is open. Wicking material is located in the hollow tube and extends into the interior of the sealable container at one end and extends from the other open end of the hollow tube for contact with a bearing to be oiled. The hollow tube and the wicking material co-operating to function as an automatic valve to release oil from the sealable container as needed by the bearing. The wicking material is packed into the hollow tube to a density sufficient to allow for an automatic valving cycle that controls the flow of oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 24, 1991
    Inventor: Arne Wilhelmsen
  • Patent number: 5018621
    Abstract: A resilient cylindrical tubular container for spherical objects such as medicinal pills, includes a stopper with flexible fingers extending into the tube to restrain the objects from movement during shipment. An adsorbent desiccant cushion in the bottom of the tube cushions the objects and keeps them dry. Objects are dispensed by removing the cap, pressing the tube at a point below the number of objects desired, and then inverting the tube to pour out only that number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1991
    Inventor: John J. O'Connell, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4991500
    Abstract: A refuse compactor device has a container housing having an open top end for holding a trash bag in which the bag mouth is in registration with and folded over the open top end of the container for receiving trash to be compacted. The compactor device further includes a compactor plate received within the container housing for manual movement from the open top end of the housing toward the bottom end of the housing to compress refuse material in the trash bag. The housing has ventilation apertures in its side wall and bottom to allow air trapped between the bag and the side walls of the housing to be expelled from the container. The compactor plate also has ventilation apertures to allow air included in the refuse to be expelled from the container as the plate is moved into the trash bag and housing. The compactor plate further has an opening to receive therethrough the mouth end of the bag for convenient closing of the bag mouth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 12, 1991
    Inventor: James S. Knapp
  • Patent number: 4984699
    Abstract: A container and cover combination and method of assembling the same is disclosed. The container and cover combination include a container 12 having a neck portion 20 defining an opening 22 into the container 12. A removeable cover 16 is fastened onto the neck portion 20. The cover assembly includes a tamper evident mechanism for indicating an attempted opening of the cover assembly. The tamper evident mechanism includes a substantially cup-shaped cap member 18 having a fractureable portion 30 and one way threads for locking the cap member 18 against unthreading from the neck portion 20 when the cap member 18 is rotated in one direction relative to the neck portion 20 and for forcing the cap member 18 further onto the neck portion to fracture the fractureable portion 30 when the cap member 18 is rotated in the opposite direction relative to the neck portion 20 thereby evidencing the attempt at opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 15, 1991
    Inventor: Gregory J. Zalut
  • Patent number: 4899897
    Abstract: A container closure in the form of a stopper is provided in which an outer wall engages exteriorly of the wall of the container. A tamper-proof ring is secured to the underside thereof by means of tear-off webs. The internal cylindrical surface of the ring comprises tabs directed obliquely inwardly and in the direction of the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 13, 1990
    Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Jean-Pierre Buttiker, Max Klaiber
  • Patent number: 4890753
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pharmaceutical bottle having a neck region with an open end, pills therein, a fibrous hygroscope member, such as a cotton wad, in the neck region of said bottle and a closure cap sealing the bottle opening. The neck region has on its inner surface a leaflet retaining ring which serves to hold the leaflet in place within the bottle immediately after the insertion. The tendency of the leaflet to unfold or open, causes the edges of the leaflet to engage the retaining ring and to be held in place at least until the bottle is sealed. The leaflet is in compression engagement with the fibrous hygroscope member, such that the pills are substantially prevented from moving relative to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 2, 1990
    Assignee: Creative Automation, Inc.
    Inventors: George Duryee, Allen M. Bartlo
  • Patent number: 4798302
    Abstract: A deformable holder is safeguarded against visible implosion by a diaphragm between cover and holder. The space between diaphragm and cover is in contact with the atmosphere via passages between diaphragm and cover, while the holder is hermetically closed off from the outer air by the diaphragm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1989
    Assignee: Skillpack B.V.
    Inventor: Cornelis Killestijn