Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Fay, Sharpe, Minnich & McKee
  • Patent number: 6834478
    Abstract: A bottle support plate for use in a rotary capping machine used to apply caps onto the upper threaded neck of one or more containers having a non-fully circular flange. The containers are moved along a generally circular path by a star wheel. The bottle support plate is connected to the star wheel and includes a pocket that at least partially supports and at least partially mates with the flange of the container to at least partially inhibit rotation of the container during the threading of a cap on the upper threaded neck of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2004
    Assignee: FCI, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael H. Peronek, Kevin Sweeny
  • Patent number: 6720076
    Abstract: An in-mold primer coating adapted to be applied in-mold to a thermoplastic substrate and heat cured to form a thermoset surface coating on the molded substrate. The in-mold primer coating comprises a coreactive polymerizable composition comprising an epoxy-acrylate oligomer having a molecular weight from about 350 to about 2500, a hydroxyl functional acrylate or methacrylate, a vinyl aromatic monomer such as styrene, and a small amount of acrylic or methacrylic acid, with the balance being other diacrylate and/or other ethylenically unsaturated monomer(s), if any.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2004
    Assignee: OMNOVA Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Douglas S. McBain