Patents Represented by Law Firm Fisher, Crampton, Groh and McGuire
  • Patent number: 4585151
    Abstract: A two piece safety or child resistant closure for a container in which one piece is a cylindrical cap which is attached to the container by threads or by a flange to snap onto the container. The cap has a dispensing orifice which may be located on the end of a spout through which the contents of the container are dispensed. The second piece of the closure is a cover which is rotatably connected to the cap. When the cover is rotated to its closed position, the dispensing orifice is covered and sealed and the cover is locked against rotation. A rocker arm occupying a portion of the cover is connected to the cover by a torsion hinge and contains the locking mechanism. In order to put the closure into its dispensing position, the rocker arm must be depressed at the same time that the cover is rotated. Rotation of the cover to the dispensing position uncovers the dispensing orifice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1984
    Date of Patent: April 29, 1986
    Assignee: Sunbeam Plastics Corporation
    Inventor: Edward Luker
  • Patent number: 4582169
    Abstract: An apparatus for dispensing grease into a plurality of bearing assemblies without waste and includes a base member equipped with at least one grease channel, a vertical support member adjustably supported on the base member, a stacking rod mounted on the base for stacking the bearing assemblies to be greased and a retaining means carried by the stacking rod to hold the stacked bearings in tight stacking alignment with each other. The bearings are placed in a vertical stacked relationship on the stacking rod and held in tight relationship to each other by the retaining means. Grease is applied through the grease channel, and the only path for the grease to travel is through the bearings around the inner and outer races of the bearings whereby the grease fills each bearing assembly completely before flowing up to the next bearing assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1984
    Date of Patent: April 15, 1986
    Assignee: Sunbeam Plastics Corporation
    Inventors: Darrel M. Alvis, Robert S. Fella
  • Patent number: 4574407
    Abstract: A portable beauty basin vanity for use in any location having a deck, side walls and end walls so as to form a cup-shaped body. The deck surface is equipped with a centrally located basin having a drain therethrough and equipped with a stopper means to selectively retain water within the basin or allow the operator to empty used wash water and refill the basin as desired. The deck surface is further equipped with various recesses to store and dispense various creams, lotions, soaps and washcloths. A detachable water spray apparatus is also provided having a spray head attachment and a tube means detachably secured at the other end to a water source. The spray head has means to control the flow of water and is detachably secured to the deck portion in close proximity to the basin by any suitable attachment means whereby the operator may dispense water in any direction as desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 11, 1986
    Inventor: Nicholas A. Didia
  • Patent number: 4571987
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for testing liquid storage tanks for leakage by using apparatus to measure changes in liquid level and temperature over a predetermined period of time in which the liquid level apparatus includes means for discharging a uniform low pressure to a fixed point below the liquid level in the container and measuring any change in pressures over the predetermined period of time and in which the temperature measuring apparatus includes a liquid filled probe extending for substantially the full depth of the liquid in the tank with any changes in temperature in the probe liquid resulting in an expansion or contraction of the probe liquid with such liquid expansion or contraction being visibly indicated at a sight tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 1983
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1986
    Inventor: John A. Horner
  • Patent number: 4572387
    Abstract: A threaded closure having both a tamper indicating and a non-backoff feature which locks the closure to a container to avoid unwanted loosening. The closure takes the form of a one piece cylindrical cap with an inwardly directed bead at its open end. The cap bead engages a complimentary bead on the neck of the container as the cap is screwed onto the container, and the cap bead snaps over the container bead to form a non-backoff seal. The cap has a tamper indicating band attached to its lower end by frangible webs. The band and container have complimentary stop means which coact to restrain movement of the band when the cap is unthreaded, fracturing the frangible webs giving an indication of tampering or initial opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1985
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1986
    Assignee: Sunbeam Plastics Corporation
    Inventors: Edward Luker, David M. Wright
  • Patent number: 4572388
    Abstract: A threaded one piece closure having a tamper indicating band attached to the lower end of a cap skirt by frangible bridges which fracture upon the initial opening of the closure leaving the detached band on the container indicating the initial opening or tampering. The bottom of the tamper indicating band is formed with a plurality of equally spaced stop segments attached by flexible webs. The tamper indicating band is also formed with a plurality of rectangular windows in line with the stop segments. The flexible webs permit the swinging of the stop segments into an operative position engaged within the windows so that they will coact with a flange or ratchet teeth on the container to provide a means for fracturing the frangible bridges upon unthreading of the cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1985
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1986
    Assignee: Sunbeam Plastics Corporation
    Inventors: Edward Luker, David M. Wright
  • Patent number: 4572385
    Abstract: A tamper indicating, child resistant closure is provided by a one piece threaded cap having a non-backoff feature. The child resistant component is provided by a squeeze and twist lock having a deflectable tab which cooperates with a radially extending container abutment spaced from the container neck. A radially extending tamper indicating block attached to the cap skirt by a frangible web also aligns with the container abutment and prevents opening unthreading until the block is removed. The non-backoff feature is provided by an inwardly directed flange at the bottom of the cap skirt cooperating with a container bead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1985
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1986
    Assignee: Sunbeam Plastics Corporation
    Inventor: Edward Luker
  • Patent number: 4572389
    Abstract: A tamper indicating closure for a container having a threaded neck includes a cup-shaped cap with internal threads and a substantially smooth exterior wall, the tamper indicating device taking the form of a satellite band which surrounds the cap and extends over a substantial portion of the height of the cap. The band is attached to the cap by a frangible connection. The satellite band covers so much of the side wall of the cap that it prevents gripping of the cap. When the cap has been sealed on a container and an attempt is made to open it, finger pressure applied to the band to reach removal torque will fracture the frangible connection between the band and cap. Also attempts to pull the band off the cap will break the frangible connection. Once the band has been removed from the cap the closure may be opened and closed in the conventional manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1986
    Assignee: Sunbeam Plastics Corporation
    Inventor: Peter P. Gach
  • Patent number: 4570810
    Abstract: A closure for a bottle comprises a tamper indicating band and a cap which is connected to the band in such a manner that the cap cannot be removed until the band is broken.The band provides a permanent tamper indication in that once it is broken, it cannot be restored to its original condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 1985
    Date of Patent: February 18, 1986
    Assignee: Sunbeam Plastics Corporation
    Inventor: Gene Hawkins
  • Patent number: 4567991
    Abstract: A tamper indicating child resistant package including a screw type closure for use with a container having a threaded neck portion. The package is comprised of a lock member on a container adjacent to the threaded neck, a closure having a top with coaxial inner and outer skirts, one or more lock elements depending from the outer skirt. The lock member is engageable with the lock elements to deflect the outer skirt to permit clearance of the lock elements and lock member upon closing of the closure relative to the container. The lock element is further deflectable radially outwardly upon radial inward squeezing of the outer skirt to clear the lock member upon removal of the closure from the container. A tamper indicating means is provided to maintain the lock element in circumferentially aligned relationship relative to the lock member, and is further provided with stop elements to cooperatively engage the stop lugs on the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 4, 1986
    Assignee: Sunbeam Plastics Corporation
    Inventor: Kevin V. Anderson
  • Patent number: 4557394
    Abstract: A lock arrangement for closures and containers in which the container has a radially extending flange below the threads on the neck of the container and the closure extends below the flange in the closed position of the closure and container. The flange is larger than the inside of the closure which is made of a material which is deformable and has a good memory so that the portion of the closure below the radially extending flange is deformed radially outwardly and returns to its original molded position after the closure has been applied to the container to form an undercut skirt portion affording axial closing pressure between the closure and container and resists unthreading of the closure from the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1985
    Inventor: Edward Luker
  • Patent number: 4548331
    Abstract: A two piece safety or child resistant dispensing closure for granular or pellet material. The opening of the dispensing window can be varied to control the rate of dispensing. One piece of the closure is a cap which is attached to the container by threads or a snap-on flange. The cap has a pair of opposed circumferential windows in its top. The second piece of the closure is a flat cover with corresponding circumferential dispensing windows. The cover is attached to the cap for rotation between an aligned window dispensing position and a closed, nonaligned window position. A pair of opposed rocker arms which may be depressed by the thumb and forefinger of the user is used to release the cover from its closed position and rotate it to a dispensing position. Detents on the cap coact with the rocker arms on the cover to secure the cover and cap with any desired degree of alignment between the windows on the cap and cover to achieve metered dispensing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 22, 1985
    Assignee: Sunbeam Plastics Corporation
    Inventor: Gary V. Montgomery
  • Patent number: 4548413
    Abstract: A game device for holding and propelling a ball therefrom upon swinging movement which includes an elongated shaft with a chute member for holding the ball. The chute member is pivoted to the shaft for swinging movement through approximately 180.degree. of arc and the shaft itself is intended to be held much as a golf club for swinging movement through an arc of swing in the manner of a golf club for propelling the ball therefrom. One end of the club is provided with a grip having indentations to guide the proper placement of the fingers for achieving a standard grip such as that used to hold a golf club.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 22, 1985
    Inventor: Chris A. David
  • Patent number: 4547118
    Abstract: A front end loader mechanism for a refuse handling vehicle wherein a pair of swingable lift arms have a pair of pivoted fork arms for engaging a refuse container and lifting it to an unloading position, the fork arms being foldable relative to the lift arms when the latter are in a transport position to minimize the overall length of the vehicle and have a cam abutment arrangement establishing the minimum angle to which the fork arms can be moved relative to the lift arms in the unloading position to prevent interference between various components of the loader mechanism, vehicle and refuse container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 1983
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1985
    Assignee: Peabody International Corp.
    Inventor: Francis H. Pittenger
  • Patent number: 4545780
    Abstract: Apparatus making foldable box blanks of pre-printed corrugated material by continuously delivering pre-printed web material to a reciprocating press which is operated intermittently to cut and score the web material and utilizing an accumulator mechanism which receives the pre-printed web material continuously and delivers it intermittently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 1983
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1985
    Inventor: William E. Martin
  • Patent number: 4544163
    Abstract: An arrow nock comprising a cylindrical body member having a plug shaft extending axially to one side for insertion within a tubular arrow shaft to maintain the shaft and nock in axial alignment. The nock is further provided with a grip portion which extends axially in the opposite direction from the plug shaft. The grip portion is flattened and merges with the cylindrical body member by way of an inclined surface. Disposed on opposite flat surfaces of the grip portion are pad portions facing in opposed directions and adjacent to a notch which receives the bow string. The pad portions are slightly elevated above the surface of the flattened portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1985
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1985
    Inventor: John P. Scanlon
  • Patent number: 4543246
    Abstract: A gas generator in which the gas is produced by a reaction between a solid metal and a liquid reactant. The generator is operated to produce hydrogen intended as an energy source particularly for operating internal combustion engines. A solid reactant is reacted with a liquid reactant under conditions in which both reactants are moving and continuously maintained under operating conditions. The solid is in the form of metal balls which are conveyed through a reaction chamber on inclined perforate channels. The liquid reactant is sprayed over the moving balls. Waste solid reaction products are removed by the rolling action of the balls on the perforate channels and the washing action of the sprayed liquid reactant. In the production of hydrogen, aluminum metal balls are used and the liquid reactant is a solution of sodium hydroxide. Because the reaction is exothermic, excess heat is removed by cooling the liquid reactant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1984
    Date of Patent: September 24, 1985
    Inventor: Clifford F. Houser
  • Patent number: 4540098
    Abstract: A tamper indicating and child resistant package including a closure for use with a container having lock members. The closure has a top with concentric inner and outer skirts depending therefrom. The outer skirt is equipped with locking tabs for engaging the lock member on the container to prevent removal of the closure from the container. The locking tabs are deflectable radially outwardly upon radial inward squeezing of the outer skirt at predetermined diametrically opposed points which are circumferentially spaced from the lock tabs. A frangible, removable taper indicating means is provided to maintain the lock tab in circumferentially spaced relationship to the lock member and the squeeze points in alignment with ramp means on the container to prevent radial inward deflection and opening rotation of the closure until the tamper indicating means is broken away and removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1984
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1985
    Assignee: Sunbeam Plastics Corporation
    Inventor: Edward Luker
  • Patent number: 4537318
    Abstract: A lock and seal member for a dispensing package including a container and a dispensing type closure is disposed in a manner to fuse the closure and container permanently together. Removal of the contents of the container requires dispensing through a dispensing passage in the closure while the seal remains in position to lock the closure in permanent position relative to the container and also to form a seal preventing the leakage of materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1984
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1985
    Assignee: Sunbeam Plastics Corp.
    Inventor: Gary V. Montgomery
  • Patent number: 4535110
    Abstract: An isocyanate terminated urethane prepolymer composition having an equivalent ratio of NCO to OH from about 1.2/1 to about 5/1. The isocyanate terminated urethane prepolymer acts as dual functional additive and is prepared by reacting one equivalent weight of a polyol having an average molecular weight of about 600 to about 4,000 and an average functionality of about 2 to about 6 and preferably 2 to 3 and most preferably 2 and 1.2 to 5 equivalents of polyisocyanate and preferably two equivalent weights of polyisocyanate, and preferably a diisocyanate, whereby the reactants combine in a one-step addition process to yield an isocyanate terminated urethane prepolymer of controlled molecular weight to impart improved low shrink, dynamic impact, molding characteristics as measured by viscosity index properties in thermoset polyester resin products, and particularly sheet molding compositions (SMC) by covalently bonding to the polyester resin matrix of the SMC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1984
    Date of Patent: August 13, 1985
    Assignee: The Budd Company
    Inventors: Kenneth A. Iseler, Probir K. Guha, Robert C. Yen