Internally Extending Outlet Pipe Patents (Class 222/464.1)
  • Publication number: 20090283554
    Abstract: A device and method are provided for dispensing a beverage from a pressurized container. The dispensing device includes an integral source of compressed gas for maintaining the beverage within the container at a desired pressurized state. The dispensing device also includes a regulator for controlling the flow of gas from the compressed gas source to the interior of the container, as well as a pressure relief mechanism that accounts for potential over pressurization of the container. The beverage is selectively dispensed by actuation of a tap handle. Delivery is achieved through the device by a resilient delivery tube, and the delivery tube is either pinched closed or allowed to decompress by the actuation of the tap handle. In another embodiment, a check valve is used to control flow of the beverage in which the tap handle activates a transfer rod to seat and unseat a check element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2008
    Publication date: November 19, 2009
    Inventors: Jason Morgan Kelly, Vong Hoss, Gregory Clegg Spooner
  • Publication number: 20090272766
    Abstract: A docking station for use with a liquid container which supports the container in a convenient fixed location. The docking station is designed to accept a liquid container having a predetermined height and diameter. The docking station includes a cam operated actuator which is movable between an upper “open” position to a lower “closed” position. When the actuator is moved to its lower closed position, the actuator opens a valve in the liquid container to permit liquid to be drawn from the container. When the actuator is in its upper position, the valve in the container is closed. A manually controlled dispenser is mounted on the upper end of the docking station which is in communication with a source of water under pressure and the liquid being drawn from the container so as to mix the same and to dispense the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2009
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Inventor: Rodney Laible
  • Publication number: 20090236372
    Abstract: Apparatuses suited for use with, for example, fluid cosmetic products. In some embodiments, the present apparatuses include a container and a diptube having a diptube plug and a stem. In these embodiments, the diptube plug has a first press-fit surface, and the diptube is removably coupled to the container by a press fit between the first press-fit surface of the diptube plug and the container mouth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2008
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: Mary Kay Inc.
    Inventor: Tim Maddy
  • Publication number: 20090194561
    Abstract: In a method for distribution and dispensing of beverages, a one-way system is used including a disposable and freestanding container (100) blow moulded in one piece from a preform of plastics, and a tube structure having a tube (136) to be inserted in the container and a closure cap (102). The thin-walled container (100) is filled with beverage by means of the tube (136) and then closed by the closure cap (102). This filled unit (100, 102, 136) is distributed to the end user and connected to standard beverage dispensing means (138). After use, the empty container (100) is collapsed and discarded along with the tube structure which also is made of plastics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2006
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Applicant: REXAM PETAINER LIDKOPING AB
    Inventor: Mikael Quasters
  • Publication number: 20090179051
    Abstract: This device for applying a deodorant comprises a chamber (1) which is a transparent bottle, which contains a saturated alum solution (2) and alum crystals (3). The device is equipped with a conventional hand pump (4) provided with a push-button (5) to allow the solution to be extracted and sprayed onto the body. The bottom of the pump has an inlet (6) via which the solution is drawn up when the pump is operated. A cylindrical second chamber (8) is fixed around the bottom of the pump via its upper end (9). The lower end (12) of the second chamber extends down to the bottom (10) of the bottle, but leaving a gap to allow the solution drawn up by the pump to pass through the passage (11) left open. The interior volume (13) of the second chamber (8) is at least three times greater than the volume of the solution that the pump can extract in a single press of the push-button.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2007
    Publication date: July 16, 2009
    Inventor: Francis Verdan
  • Patent number: 7500581
    Abstract: A liquid transfer tool is provided that facilitates safe removal or transfer of liquids from containers in the upright position. The tool includes a retractable sealed tube that can pierce a seal and that extends to the bottom of the container to extract substantially all of the liquid disposed in the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Neil O'Leary, Frederick Tedesco
  • Patent number: 7490743
    Abstract: A dispenser assembly is provided. The dispenser assembly includes a container having a bottom, an open top and a side wall extending between the bottom and the open top, and a mating arrangement, the side wall having an inner surface; at least one container passageway mounted on the inner surface of the side wall and extending from the open top of the container to a position proximate to the bottom of the container; and a pump cap having a cap body, a pump mechanism arranged within the cap body, a pump cap passageway coupled to the pump mechanism, and a coupling arrangement arranged on the pump cap body and configured to detachably couple to the mating arrangement of the container such that the container passageway aligns with and sealingly engages the pump cap passageway in a fluid connection when the pump cap is mounted to the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Inventor: Kenneth J Herzog
  • Publication number: 20080314932
    Abstract: A hand operated air pump apparatus comprising an internal bellows in communication with an outer bellows wherein variable force on air pump forces compressed air through a discharge valve into a annulus between a bottle and a flexible bladder wherein said pump is attached upon a container or bottle like vessel wherein pumping action forces from bottle highly viscous substances, that may contain solid or abrasive particles, through a discharge spout without internal substance being contaminated by air or other environmental factors thus allowing for an improved method of removing all contents within a container with greater ease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2007
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventor: William Bundy Stone
  • Patent number: 7467735
    Abstract: A plastic container includes a squeezable bottle providing a lower main liquid reservoir for storing a cleaning solution, an upper dispensing receptacle for measuring and dispensing a measured quantity of liquid, and a transfer duct communicating a lower portion of the main liquid reservoir with an upper portion of the dispensing receptacle for transferring liquid from the main liquid reservoir to the upper dispensing receptacle. After the main liquid reservoir is filled through an opening at the base of the dispensing receptacle, the opening is closed with an insert equipped with a check valve. This same container is adapted to a single flow or double-flow proportioning container by providing a drop tube which opens the check valve and permits liquid to pass from the main reservoir through a check valve housed in a cap assembly, thence through a metering tip to a delivery tube which is in fluid communication with a proportioning device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2008
    Assignee: Minuteman International, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael A. Rau
  • Patent number: 7455396
    Abstract: Provided is an ink container suitable for forming a stable high-quality print image and obtaining stable operation of a printing device by enabling precipitates of coarse-grained ink etc. standing in an ink container body to be left in the ink container body and by eliminating troubles due to the supply of such precipitates of coarse-grained ink etc. to the printing device. A region for residual ink liquid 4 and a sheet-entry preventing member 6 as shape retaining means 5 are provided on the bottom 2a side of a bag-like ink container body 2 formed from a flexible sheet. The region for residual ink liquid 4 is disposed in a position lower than one end 3a of an ink supply opening part 3 fixed to the ink container body 2. When the sheet composing the ink container body 2 moves, the sheet-entry preventing member 6 prevents the sheet from entering the region for residual ink liquid 4, thereby keeping the shape and volume of the region part for residual ink liquid 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Inventor: Takahiro Wakayama
  • Publication number: 20080251545
    Abstract: A liquid transfer tool is provided that facilitates safe removal or transfer of liquids from containers in the upright position. The tool includes a retractable sealed tube that can pierce a seal and that extends to the bottom of the container to extract substantially all of the liquid disposed in the container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2008
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Neil O'Leary, Frederick Tedesco
  • Publication number: 20080217363
    Abstract: A beverage dispensing assembly that is capable of dispensing controlled or metered portions of a beverage charged with a gas fits onto a shelf in a conventional household refrigerator. The beverage dispensing assembly includes a sealed disposable container assembly that contains the beverage and a dispensing assembly that cooperates with the container assembly to selectively unseal the container assembly and dispense controlled portions of the beverage from the container assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2008
    Publication date: September 11, 2008
    Inventors: Marc L. Vitantonio, William E. Rabbitt, John W. Nottingham, John R. Nottingham, John W. Spirk, Jay Tapper, John Replogle, Jeffrey M. Kalman
  • Patent number: 7395947
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a spacer at connecting devices which are adapted to connect discharge devices (2) to packages (3) with liquid products (4), preferably foodstuff products, for discharging the products (4) from the packages (3). The spacer (19) is provided on a connecting means (26) and is adapted to be located in the package (3) in order to, during emptying of the package, keep wall portions thereof at a distance from a connecting device (1) such that the wall portions do not prevent or substantially obstruct emptying of the package (3). The spacer (19) has resilient properties and can be pressed into a space (28) in a tube member (23) and spring back to a normal shape (NF).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Assignee: Asept International AB
    Inventor: Sten Drennow
  • Publication number: 20080121664
    Abstract: An arrangement for coupling a plastic plug within an annular opening of a metal cylinder such that when the metal cylinder is heated, axial expansion of an end of the metal cylinder about the opening applies axially directed forces between axially spaced shoulder surfaces on the plastic plug to retain a plastic plug against rotation within the opening of the metal member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2007
    Publication date: May 29, 2008
    Inventors: Heiner Ophardt, Martin Anhuf
  • Patent number: 7325706
    Abstract: An assembly for effecting a quick connect of a flexible fluid delivery tube to a rigid dip tube for a liquid sprayer is provided. The assembly is mounted to a container of chemical liquid to be sprayed by a closure cap having a depending annular wall defining a cavity into which an adaptor for the delivery tube extends and is snap fitted in place by the provision of a retention feature coacting between a nipple of the adaptor and the annular wall. A vent port located in the annular wall in the vicinity of the coacting retention feature with an air gap provided between the vent port and the upper surface of the closure end wall. Alternatively, the vent port is located in the end wall of the closure. A cover is provided for sealing closed both the inlet opening from the container and the vent port in a condition of non-use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2008
    Assignee: MeadWestvaco Calmar, Inc.
    Inventors: Steve L. Sweeton, William L. Driskell
  • Patent number: 7320410
    Abstract: A removable cap assembly includes a cap having a curved side wall having an inner surface and an outer surface. A top portion extends from the curved side wall, a boss extending perpendicularly from the top portion. The boss has a bottom and a top, a first circumferential rib extending perpendicularly from the top of the boss and a second circumferential rib extending perpendicularly from the bottom of the boss. The boss and rib defining an opening in the cap, the opening has a width and a height. A stopper is dimensioned to seal the opening, the stopper has a hole therein configured to allow a fluid to flow therethrough. The stopper is maintained in the cap by the boss and second circumferential rib, the stopper includes a disc shaped base. A cylindrical wall portion extends from the base, a first groove in the base surrounding the wall portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2008
    Assignee: Ver Hage Enterprises
    Inventor: Richard P. Ver Hage
  • Patent number: 7316329
    Abstract: A “bag-in-a-drum” container for storage and dispensing of fluids. The container is adapted to minimize volumetric space requirements in storage, transport and use of the container. The containers are usefully employed in a system of supplying liquid in containers to an end user market and refabricating containers subsequent to consumption of the liquid from the containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2008
    Assignee: Advanced Technology Materials, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard Wertenberger
  • Patent number: 7299939
    Abstract: A removable cap assembly employs a cap with a curved side wall having an inner surface and an outer surface. A top portion extends from the curved side wall. A boss extends perpendicularly from the top portion. The boss further has a bottom and a top with a circumferential rib extending perpendicularly from the top and at least one ridge on the inside surface of the boss below the top and above the bottom. A stopper is dimensioned to seal the opening. The stopper has a hole therein configured to allow a fluid to flow therethrough. The stopper is maintained in the cap by the boss and the at least one ridge. The stopper includes a disc shaped base and a cylindrical wall portion extending from the base having at least one cavity corresponding to the location of the at least one ridge on the boss. A first groove in the base surrounding the wall portion is dimensioned to receive the bottom of the boss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2007
    Assignee: Ver Hage Enterprises
    Inventor: Richard P. Ver Hage
  • Patent number: 7156264
    Abstract: A removable cap assembly having a cap, a stopper and a sipper tube. The cap has a curved side wall which has an inner and outer surface. From this wall extends a top portion. A boss extends perpendicularly from the top portion. The boss has a bottom portion and a top portion. A circumferential rib extends perpendicularly from the top portion of the boss. The boss and rib define an opening in the cap. A stopper is provided that is dimensioned to seal the opening of the cap. The stopper is maintained in the cap by the boss and circumferential rib. The stopper includes a disc-shaped base and a cylindrical wall portion that extends therefrom. Additionally, a first groove that is dimensioned to receive the bottom portion of the boss is positioned in the base around the wall portion. Also, a second circumferential groove is positioned in the top portion of the wall portion. This second, groove is dimensioned to receive the rib. The stopper has a hole for receiving a sipper tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Inventor: Richard P. Ver Hage
  • Patent number: 7124913
    Abstract: A transportable container for high purity, high cost, liquid chemicals capable of maximizing dispensing of the liquid chemical content of the container at deviations from an upright position, comprising; a top wall, a side wall and a bottom wall, the bottom wall having an internal surface contacting liquid chemical with a concave upward contour having a lowest most point axially central to the container, an inlet, an outlet comprising a diptube through which the liquid chemical can be dispensed from said container with an outlet end adjacent the top surface and an inlet terminal end adjacent the lowest most point, a level sensor assembly having an output end adjacent the top surface and a terminal end adjacent the lowest most point; the diptube and the level sensor assembly being more proximate to one another at their terminal ends than their ends adjacent the top surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2006
    Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Michael Birtcher, Gildardo Vivanco, Thomas Andrew Steidl, Richard J. Dunning
  • Patent number: 7111762
    Abstract: An automatic dispenser includes a housing, a reservoir, a pump, an intake tube, and exhaust tube, and a spigot. The reservoir is disposed in the housing. The pump includes a pump chamber and is disposed in the housing. The pump is for drawing liquid from an associated container. The intake tube is in fluid communication with the pump chamber. The intake tube is adapted to be disposed in the associating container. The exhaust tube is in fluid communication with the pump chamber and the reservoir. The spigot is for selectively discharging the liquid from the reservoir. An energy efficient, measured dose appliance is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2006
    Assignee: Nottingham-Spirk Design Associates
    Inventors: Craig M. Saunders, Marc L. Vitantonio, Charles Peter Althoff, Jeffery Kalman
  • Patent number: 7059497
    Abstract: A valve assembly is disclosed for use in an aerosol spray can capable of spraying viscous materials or materials with large particulates without clogging or packing like traditional aerosol spray cans designed for spraying texture materials. The valve opening may be located at substantially any point between the bottom and the top of the container. The valve assembly includes a plurality of side-fitting dip tubes, a side-feeding mechanism, and at least one storage member connected, respectively, to at least one of the dip tubes, whereby texture material is dispensed when a central channel is aligned with a side conduit that is in flow communication with the dip tubes. This allows highly-viscous materials, such as a fire suppressant material, or materials having large particulates, such as stucco, as well as resin/catalyst or blowing-agent/urethane combinations to be sprayed from a single aerosol spray can without clogging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Assignee: Spraytex, Inc.
    Inventor: John R. Woods
  • Patent number: 6968983
    Abstract: A closed loop dispensing system for use on a liquid container such as a bottle or the like for dispensing the liquid contents from the bottle. The outlet opening of the bottle is closed by a throat plug having a valve positioned therein which is open when the container cap is mounted on the container, but which automatically closes when the cap is removed from the container. An inlet opening is provided in the container insert so that liquid may be drawn therethrough. A closure cap is mounted on the bottle and has a dispensing tube extending therefrom for dispensing liquid from the container to a mixing machine or the like. A check valve is associated with the cap for preventing backflow from the dispensing tube to the container and for permitting liquid flow from the container to the dispensing tube in response to suction being applied to the dispensing tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2005
    Inventor: Rodney Laible
  • Patent number: 6945437
    Abstract: In a siphon tube (1) of a reservoir, even when a front end of tube (1) is in the vicinity of the bottom of the reservoir, there is no fear that slurries are sucked by tube (1) which: reaches the bottom of the reservoir to draw a liquid contained therein out of the reservoir is characterized by a liquid-inlet opening (3) directed normal to a longitudinal axis of tube (1). Tube (1) has its front end formed into: an inverted T-shape provided with opposite end openings in a laterally extending portion thereof, each of which openings forms the liquid-inlet opening (3); or, an L-shaped curved form a front end of which forms an opening directed normal to the longitudinal axis of tube (1); or, is closed with a cap so that an opening is disposed adjacent to an upper surface of the cap to serve as the liquid-inlet opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2005
    Assignee: Surpass Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Ozawa, Takashi Imai
  • Patent number: 6923344
    Abstract: An easy and quantitative liquid dispenser is disclosed. The dispenser includes a regulator cock, an upper cover and a container. The container has a cylinder mounted on a bottom thereof, the cylinder is connected with the container, and a closure is mounted between the container and the cylinder. The upper cover has an outlet properly mounted thereon, a safety cover is connected to the upper cover through a rim of the upper cover and is covered on the outlet, and furthermore, a guiding pillar is downwardly extended from a bottom of the upper cover. The regulator cock is a plate which has a pillar extended from a bottom thereof, a circular prominence is mounted on a bottom end of the pillar, and a guiding hole is centrally penetrated through the pillar and the plate. After assembling the components above, the quantitative liquid dispenser according to the present invention can be formed so as to accurately measure and pour out the liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2005
    Assignee: Tops Equipment & Tools Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yen-Liang Chien
  • Patent number: 6918510
    Abstract: A pump, spray or suction actuated dispenser with a suction tube extending into a container, wherein the suction tube is used to mount a helix, and the helix carries at least one ornamental figure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Inventor: Mary Kay Bitton
  • Patent number: 6866881
    Abstract: A dispensing system and method for dispensing material onto a substrate. The dispensing system includes a frame, a support, coupled to the frame, that supports the substrate at a dispensing position in the dispensing system, and a dispensing head, coupled to the frame, that dispenses the material onto the substrate. The dispensing head includes a motor unit having a first motor coupled to an output drive mechanism, and a dispensing unit, removably coupled to the motor unit, having a material outlet from which the dispensing material is dispensed, the dispensing unit having a dispensing mechanism coupled to the material outlet and coupled to the output drive mechanism of the motor unit such that operation of the first motor causes the dispensing mechanism to dispense material through the outlet. The dispensing head may be controlled for deposition of dots of material having diameters smaller than a dispensing needle of the dispensing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2005
    Assignee: Speedline Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas C. Prentice, Brian P. Prescott, Kenneth C. Crouch, Murray D. Scott, Earl Sweet, Jr., Yingfei Ke
  • Patent number: 6851575
    Abstract: A pressurized package assembly includes a package having an least one outlet. In use, an inner space of the package is filled with a fluid that is dispensed via the outlet. In the inner space of the package, there prevails a pressure which can vary. The assembly also includes a pressure control device for feeding to the outlet, via the pressure control device, the fluid at a predetermined constant pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2005
    Assignee: Packaging Technology Holding S.A.
    Inventor: Jaap Herman van't Hoff
  • Patent number: 6837400
    Abstract: An improvement to a bottle for storing, identifying, and dispensing liquids comprises a valve-type nozzle coupled to the outer end of the tube, a vent, and an optional identification tag. The valve-type nozzle is adjustable along a continuous range between open and closed conditions to permit dispensing of fluid in a controlled fashion and sealing of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2005
    Assignee: Nalge Nunc International Corporation
    Inventors: Richard A. Leoncavallo, John D. DeLorme
  • Patent number: 6832699
    Abstract: The invention is related to a coating delivery system that includes at least one pressure vessel operable in sealed and unsealed conditions, a deliverable substance including a coating component interspersed with at least one of liquefied carbon dioxide and supercritical carbon dioxide, and a pressurizing fluid. The deliverable substance is disposed in a first pressure vessel of the at least one pressure vessel, and the pressurizing fluid directly exerts a pressure on the deliverable substance to effect transport thereof when the pressure vessel is in the unsealed condition. The deliverable substance may be spray discharged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2004
    Assignee: Terrasimco Inc.
    Inventors: Walter Neal Simmons, Walter John Simmons
  • Patent number: 6817485
    Abstract: Methods for discharging high purity liquid chemicals from an inner container in a protective pressure container are disclosed. One end of a liquid-discharge pipe is guided to the exterior of the inner container while the other end is at the bottom of the inner container. The high purity liquid chemical is discharged due to (1) gas pressure from a gas from a source connected to the protective pressure container or (2) a pump associated with the liquid discharge pipe or (3) a gas from a source connected to the inner container. The inner container preferably is blow molded and has an olefinic resin inner layer, a solvent-barrier resin intermediate layer, and an external layer of a light-shielding substance-containing resin composition. The inner container has certain absorbance controls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2004
    Assignee: Aicello Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Kawai, Yoshiaki Ito
  • Publication number: 20040217126
    Abstract: A spout assembly includes a spouting portion, an attaching portion for attaching on a pouch container, the attaching portion integrally extending from the spouting portion, and a spouting guide portion for easily spouting the contents out of the container, the spouting guide portion being disposed in the pouch container. The spouting guide portion includes a specifically designed portion representing goods, information, or esthetic sense.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2004
    Publication date: November 4, 2004
    Inventor: Jung-Min Lee
  • Patent number: 6802438
    Abstract: Pressurized Drinking Mug with a drinking mug capable of retaining a liquid. The mug has an attached hollow handle. The mug also has a removable, replaceable lid. The hollow handle contains a standard air pump mechanism that creates positive air pressure inside the mug. The lid has a liquid retaining reservoir that has a rigid straw portion extending down to the bottom of the mug and also extends upward to a removable replaceable flexible straw. The flexible straw is capable of being pinched closed or opened by a pinch valve so that when the pinch valve is opened, the liquid is forced up through the straw to the user's mouth. The rigid straw portion also contains a side port that can be restricted by a removable, replaceable plug. The port is also capable of retaining a push button valve that allows the pressurized liquid to be pumped into the reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2004
    Inventor: Garey Thompson
  • Patent number: 6776308
    Abstract: A apparatus with multiple paint intakes for providing a painting professional with the ability to draw paint from more than one container before having to reposition the spray painting equipment to draw from additional containers. The apparatus with multiple paint intakes includes a housing defining an interior chamber and a plurality of elongate support legs mounted on the housing for supporting the housing in an elevated condition above a surface. Each of the support legs has opposite ends, and each of the support legs has a passage formed therein extending between the opposite ends of the support leg and being in fluid communication with the interior chamber of the housing for permitting fluid to be drawn through each of the plurality of support legs and into the interior chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Inventors: Dave D. Davis, M. Shane Davis
  • Patent number: 6726066
    Abstract: A valve assembly is disclosed for use in an aerosol spray can capable of spraying viscous materials or materials with large particulates without clogging or packing like traditional aerosol spray cans designed for spraying texture materials. The valve opening may be located at substantially any point between the bottom and the top of the container. The valve assembly includes a side-fitting dip tube and a side-feeding mechanism, whereby texture material is dispensed when a central channel is aligned with a side conduit that is in flow communication with the dip tube. This allows highly-viscous materials, such as a fire suppressant material, or materials having large particulates, such as stucco, to be sprayed from an aerosol spray can without clogging. The valve assembly also includes a guiding mechanism to ensure alignment of the central channel and the side conduit in the actuated position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2004
    Assignee: Spraytex, Inc.
    Inventor: John R. Woods
  • Patent number: 6701975
    Abstract: A lid assembly for a paint reservoir includes a lid, a first rigid suction tube, and a second rigid suction tube. The lid includes a cover member and a flange that extends downwardly from the periphery of the cover member. A suction opening, vent hole opening, and bypass opening extend axially through the cover member. A first tubular member is positioned in the suction opening and a second tubular member is positioned in the bypass opening. The first suction tube extends through the first tubular member. The second suction tube is coupled to and extends downwardly from the first suction tube. The second suction tube is configured to extend near the bottom surface of the paint reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2004
    Assignee: Campbell Hausfeld/Scott Fetzer Company
    Inventor: Stanley D. Neal
  • Patent number: 6698619
    Abstract: A “bag-in-a-drum” container for storage and dispensing of fluids. The container is adapted to minimize volumetric space requirements in storage, transport and use of the container. The containers are usefully employed in a system of supplying liquid in containers to an end user market and refabricating containers subsequent to consumption of the liquid from the containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Assignee: Advanced Technology Materials, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard Wertenberger
  • Patent number: 6669062
    Abstract: A multi-port cap dispenser for a liquid dispensing system including a liquid container which supplies liquid to a draw-off mechanism. A cap is removably mounted on the container for selectively closing the outlet opening thereof with the cap having a liquid passageway formed therein. The dip tube is fluidly connected to the lower end of the liquid passageway and extends downwardly into the liquid container. An adapter manifold is mounted on the upper end of the cap and has a plurality of discharge passageways formed therein which are in fluid communication with a, liquid compartment formed in the adapter manifold. The adapter manifold has a hollow take-off member positioned above each of the discharge passageways which is in fluid communication with the associated discharge passageways. Each of the hollow take-off members or ports have a dispensing tube secured thereto which extends to a draw-off mechanism such as a dispenser, mixing machine, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2003
    Inventor: Rodney Laible
  • Publication number: 20030213816
    Abstract: A device for use with a container having a container top includes a tubular retainer engaging the container top and a tube assembly. The tubular retainer has a retainer top, a retainer bottom, a longitudinal axis, and an inner passageway formed along the longitudinal axis and defined by an inner surface. The tube assembly is frictionally disposed within the inner passageway of the tubular retainer. The tube assembly comprises (i) a tube having a first end and a second end, (ii) a weight attached to the second end of the tube, and (iii) an adapter attached to the first end of the tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2002
    Publication date: November 20, 2003
    Inventors: Kevin Harrity, Timothy R. Bartlett
  • Patent number: 6648182
    Abstract: In a preferred embodiment, a blow molded drum has a port including a neck with exterior buttress threads and a port opening having a shoulder. A snap-in down tube assembly seats with the shoulder and has an upwardly extending nipple. The dispense head has a first flow duct extending to a nipple and a second flow duct leading to an annular space around the nipple for a return fluid line or for providing air or a gas for displacing withdrawn fluid. In a preferred embodiment the threaded nut provides an axial removal force that disengages the nipple engaging portion with the nipple as the retainer nut is loosened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2003
    Assignee: Entegris, Inc.
    Inventors: Barry L. Rauworth, John M. Hennan
  • Patent number: 6644511
    Abstract: A container for dispensing a flowable fluid which has a first liquid and a second liquid disposed within a single chamber and which are separated and positioned one above the other. The container includes a bottle base, a bottle body which extends upward from the bottle base to a bottle finish, a fitment having a pouring spout and is arranged on the bottle body at an end opposite the base. The fitment has a first pouring opening from which a first liquid is dispensed and a second opening from which a second liquid is dispensed. A diptube is connected to one of the pouring openings projects downward from toward the bottle base. The diptube conveys the liquid on the bottom to a pouring spout while the liquid on top is conveyed to the pouring spout by the other pouring opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2003
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, a division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Feng-Lung Gordon Hsu, Richard Thomas Chalmers, Philip A. Tarrant, John Michael Paulovich, Edward John Giblin
  • Patent number: 6629627
    Abstract: A highly reliable digital level sensor assembly is provided to replace optical and capacitance type sensors in high purity chemical delivery systems. The digital level sensor assembly is particularly useful in bulk chemical refill delivery systems for high purity chemicals employing a manifold that ensures contamination free operation and canister change outs with a minimum of valves and tubing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2003
    Assignee: Advanced Technology Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen H. Siegele, Craig M. Noah, John N. Gregg
  • Patent number: 6609636
    Abstract: The present invention provides a bag-in-box packaging system having a paperboard box having sidewalls defining an interior chamber, and a flexible polymeric container positioned within the sidewalls of the box. The container having sidewalls sealed together along a peripheral edge to define a fluid chamber therebetween, the container having a dispensing fitment attached to a sidewall, the container further having a supplemental seam to direct fluid in an area proximate the fitment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignee: Packaging Systems LLC
    Inventors: Paul F. Petriekis, Wade H. Williams
  • Publication number: 20030132247
    Abstract: A container for dispensing a flowable fluid which has a first liquid and a second liquid disposed within a single chamber and which are separated and positioned one above the other. The container includes a bottle base, a bottle body which extends upward from the bottle base to a bottle finish, a fitment having a pouring spout and is arranged on the bottle body at an end opposite the base. The fitment has a first pouring opening from which a first liquid is dispensed and a second opening from which a second liquid is dispensed. A diptube is connected to one of the pouring openings projects downward from toward the bottle base. The diptube conveys the liquid on the bottom to a pouring spout while the liquid on top is conveyed to the pouring spout by the other pouring opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2002
    Publication date: July 17, 2003
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Feng-Lung Gordon Hsu, Richard Thomas Chalmers, Philip A. Tarrant, John Michael Paulovich, Edward John Giblin
  • Publication number: 20030102335
    Abstract: A spray pump apparatus typically employed in gardening and commercial applications wherein a charged liquid is sprayed in a garden environment or on a floor surface for removing spills, grease or stains. In its most fundamental embodiment, the spray pump apparatus for use in spraying fluids includes an outer housing and a pump assembly in mechanical communication with the outer housing for developing a pressure therein. An integral bladder assembly is mounted within the outer housing and comprises an integrally formed combination of a flexible bladder, a hose and a nozzle. The flexible bladder is subjected to the pressure developed by the pump assembly for expelling a fluid contained within the flexible bladder, wherein the integral bladder assembly is installed in and removed from the outer housing as the integrally formed combination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2001
    Publication date: June 5, 2003
    Inventor: Burton Barnett
  • Patent number: 6571995
    Abstract: A spout assembly for a liquid container includes a tube-shaped main body formed on a container cap and projected upward by a predetermined length, an operating tube inserted into the tube-shaped main body and extending into a container by a predetermined length, and a spout seal cap fitted on an upper portion of the tube-shaped main body. So as to enable the tube-shaped main body and the operating tube moves between a first position where the main body and the operating tube can be vertically erected on a surface of the container cap and a second position where the main body and the operating tube can be secured parallel to the surface of the container cap, a first pleated expansible and flexible part is provided on the main body and a second pleated expansible and flexible part is provided on the operating tube to correspond to the first pleated expansible and flexible part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2003
    Inventor: Jung Min Lee
  • Patent number: 6543654
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for emptying containers (2) filled with liquids, especially canisters and barrels, with an adapter (5)that can be fixed in a bung hole (3) of the container (2). The adapter (5) is fitted with a suction lance (7) pointing towards the container and has a degassing device. The device has a coupling piece (6) that can be attached to the adapter (5) for connecting a suction device (9). The adapter (5) has a set breaking point (10) surrounding the connection of the suction lance (7) by means of which the suction lance (7) can be pushed into the interior of the container. In a special embodiment, the set breaking point (10) is configured as a series of holes surrounding the central part (5b) connected to the suction lance (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Assignee: Ecolab GmbH & Co. OhG
    Inventors: Stephan Uhl, Wolfgang Huber, Frank Rainer Schuster
  • Publication number: 20030038147
    Abstract: In a preferred embodiment, a blow molded drum has a port including a neck with exterior buttress threads and a port opening having a shoulder. A snap-in down tube assembly seats with the shoulder and has an upwardly extending nipple. Either a dispense head or a closure seats within and is secured by a threaded retainer nut. The dispense head has a first flow duct extending to a nipple engaging portion to seal with the upwardly extending nipple and a second flow duct leading to an annular space around the nipple for a return fluid line or for providing air or a gas for displacing withdrawn fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2002
    Publication date: February 27, 2003
    Applicant: Entegris, Inc.
    Inventors: Barry L. Rauworth, John M. Hennen
  • Patent number: 6427875
    Abstract: A foam dispensing device is disclosed. The device includes a container for holding a foamable liquid and having at least one planar surface and a foam generating piston pump removably attached to the container to prevent liquid leaking from the container. The device can dispense foam when substantially the entire quantity of the liquid has been dispensed from the container when the container is in positioned in a first, generally horizontal position, or a second, generally vertical position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2002
    Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: Minh Quang Hoang, Jonathan Karl Burkholz, Donald Edward Hunt
  • Patent number: 6425502
    Abstract: In a preferred embodiment, a blow molded drum has a port including a neck with exterior buttress threads and a port opening having a shoulder. A snap-in down tube assembly seats with the shoulder and has an upwardly extending nipple. Either a dispense head or a closure seats within and is secured by a threaded retainer nut. The dispense head has a first flow duct extending to a nipple engaging portion to seal with the upwardly extending nipple and a second flow duct leading to an annular space around the nipple for a return fluid line or for providing air or a gas for displacing withdrawn fluid. In a preferred embodiment the threaded nut provides an axial tightening force and also provides an axial removal force that disengages the nipple engaging portion with the nipple as the retainer nut is loosened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2002
    Assignee: Entegris, Inc.
    Inventors: Barry L. Rauworth, John M. Hennan