Patents Represented by Attorney Howard G. Bruss
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Patent number: 4697731Abstract: A collapsible, bulk shipping container with a take-out front panel that is made up of an inverted tray-type rectangular bottom, a collapsible three-sided body, one end of which is telescopically received in the tray-type bottom, and a removable take-out front panel that forms a tubular body with the three-sided body. The collapsible three-sided body is collapsible from a fully open position, in which it is U-shaped in configuration and in which it and the removable take-out panel form a tubular body which fills the tray-type bottom, into a collapsed condition in which it lies against one side of the tray-type bottom, one side of the collapsible three-sided body, the middle side, being secured to one side of the tray-type bottom. When the collapsible three-sided body has been collapsed, it can be folded over to lie against the tray-type bottom in a compact configuration for ease of the shipment or storage of at least these components of the bulk shipping container.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 1986Date of Patent: October 6, 1987Assignee: OI Forest Products STS Inc.Inventor: Teddy R. Snyder
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Patent number: 4697716Abstract: A closure for a container comprising a body of synthetic plastic material including a top wall and a peripheral skirt, removably engaging a container. An annular channel is provided on the inner surface of the top wall at the area of juncture of the top wall and the skirt. The channel comprises integral side wall portions and at least one of said side walls comprises spaced generally vertically extending ribs. A sealing gasket is cast in situ in the channel and interlocks with the spaced ribs.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 1982Date of Patent: October 6, 1987Assignee: Owens-Illinois, Inc.Inventor: George V. Mumford
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Patent number: 4696909Abstract: Platinum corrosion reducing amounts of a premelted oxide mixture that is PbO and B.sub.2 O.sub.3, or PbO and SiO.sub.2, or PbO, SiO.sub.2 and B.sub.2 O.sub.3 are added to raw batch ingredients for a lead-containing solder glass. All or part of the Pb.sub.3 O.sub.4 or PbO normally used in the raw batch is replaced for advantages including reducing the amount of platinum corrosion in a platinum melter used to melt the raw batch to provide the glass.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 1986Date of Patent: September 29, 1987Assignee: Owens-Illinois Television Products Inc.Inventor: Edward A. Weaver
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Patent number: 4690395Abstract: A label magazine comprising a tray for supporting a stack of labels and having a device at one end for yieldingly urging the labels toward the other end of the tray and a plurality of circumferentially spaced spring fingers positioned at the other end of the tray about the labels, each finger including an axially extending portion and an inwardly extending portion engaging the outermost label of the stack. Each finger is mounted so that it can be adjusted to move the finger inwardly of the label and accomodate variations in the size of the labels.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 1986Date of Patent: September 1, 1987Assignee: Owens-Illinois, Inc.Inventor: Casimir W. Nowicki
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Patent number: 4686931Abstract: In the application of a volatile solvent to a plastic, roll-on label for a bottle, a large diameter solvent applicating roll is formed with small diameter gravure rolls that extend from the surface of the solvent applicating roll. The small diameter rolls are circumferentially spaced from each other a distance that is equal to the spacing between the leading edge and trailing edge of a plastic label carried on the surface of a transfer drum. The small gravure rolls are relatively rotatable with respect to the large roll and are supplied with solvent from behind within the large roll.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 1985Date of Patent: August 18, 1987Assignee: Owens-Illinois, Inc.Inventors: Frank J. DiFrank, Mark R. Tipping
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Patent number: 4687112Abstract: A child-resistant package that includes a wide mouth blown glass container or blow molded plastic container, and a molded thermoplastic closure that is affixed to the finish portion of such container. The finish portion of the container has a radially outwardly projecting flange at the bottom portion of such finish portion, and this flange has a notch in its outer periphery. The closure has a flexible projection that extends outwardly and downwardly from the skirt of the closure, and a portion of this projection engages the notch in the flange of the finish to prevent the turning of the closure on the finish. The projection of the closure can be manipulated by hand to remove the portion of the projection that engages the notch in the container finish to disengage the closure projection from the container finish notch, to permit the removal of the closure from the container.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 1986Date of Patent: August 18, 1987Assignee: Owens-Illinois, Inc.Inventor: Peter T. Swartzbaugh
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Patent number: 4170074Abstract: Apparatus for preconditioning of organic hygroscopic coating powders to render them free flowing and facilitate their electrostatic application to preheated workpieces. The preconditioning technique includes drying the powder prior to electrostatic application to remove moisture and break up agglomerates using a fluidized bed drying process with concurrent mechanical agitation to form a substantially dry, free flowing powder and aspirating powder from the fluidized bed.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 1978Date of Patent: October 9, 1979Assignee: Owens-Illinois, Inc.Inventors: Russell W. Heckman, George A. Nickey
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Patent number: 4110095Abstract: An improvement is provided in methods for forming glass articles which methods are of the type wherein hot formable glass is first formed into a parison, or blank, in a parison or a blank mold and then the parison, or blank, is formed into the final glass article in a blow mold and wherein there is no relative rotation of the glass and the respective molds in the forming operation; the improvement resides in providing the cavity-defining surface of the blank mold with a layer, or coating, of a solid film lubricant or glass release agent which essentially comprises a non-colloidal lubricating graphite dispersed in a thermoset, cured, hard organopolysiloxane binder. The layer, or coating, is formed by applying a dispersion of graphite in an organic solvent solution of a further-curable, thermosettable, solvent soluble, organopolysiloxane onto the cavity defining surface of the blank mold and then curing said organopolysiloxane to a thermoset hard condition.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 1976Date of Patent: August 29, 1978Assignee: Owens-Illinois, Inc.Inventor: Edward J. Stengle, Jr.
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Patent number: 4097257Abstract: Improvements are provided in glass forming processes of the type wherein hot metal blank molds are employed by using the complementary action of a solid film lubricant layer, of graphite dispersed in a cured thermoset organopolysiloxane, along with an overspray of a lubricating oil.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 1976Date of Patent: June 27, 1978Assignee: Owens-Illinois, Inc.Inventor: Richard G. Davey
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Patent number: 4071597Abstract: There is disclosed herein improved packages, and methods of forming same, of the type wherein a container, such as for example a glass container, like a bottle or jar, is provided externally thereof with a heat-shrunk, cellular thermoplastic member, circumferentially and snugly engaging a sidewall portion of the container; the improvement resides in employing, as the thermoplastic member, a composite structure, or laminate, of a closed cellular polymeric layer preponderantly of polystyrene having incorporated therein from zero weight percent up to compatible amounts of a copolymer of ethylene and an alkyl ester of alpha-beta monoethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid or a copolymer of ethylene and vinyl acetate or a copolymer of ethylene and an alpha-beta monoethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid, or mixtures thereof, and, in adhered relationship to said cellular layer, a layer of a noncellular polymeric material preponderantly of ethylene moieties having incorporated therein moieties of vinyl acetate,Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 1976Date of Patent: January 31, 1978Assignee: Owens-Illinois, Inc.Inventor: James A. Karabedian
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Patent number: 4069934Abstract: There is disclosed herein improved packages, and methods of forming same, of the type wherein a container, such as for example a glass container, like a bottle or jar, is provided externally thereof with a heat-shrunk, cellular thermoplastic member, circumferentially and snugly engaging a sidewall portion of the container; the improvement resides in employing, as the thermoplastic member, a composite structure, or laminate, of a closed cellular polymeric layer preponderantly of polystyrene having incorporated therein from zero weight percent up to compatible amounts of a copolymer of ethylene and an alkyl ester of alpha-beta monoethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid or a copolymer of ethylene and vinyl acetate or a copolymer of ethylene and an alpha-beta monoethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid, or mixtures thereof, and, in adhered relationship to said cellular layer, a layer of a noncellular polymeric material preponderantly of ethylene moieties having incorporated therein moieties of vinyl acetate,Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 1976Date of Patent: January 24, 1978Assignee: Owens-Illinois, Inc.Inventor: James A. Karabedian
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Patent number: 4067949Abstract: There is disclosed herein improved packages, and methods of forming same, of the type wherein a container, such as for example a glass container, like a bottle or jar, is provided externally thereof with a heat-shrunk, cellular thermoplastic member, circumferentially and snugly engaging a sidewall portion of the container; the improvement resides in employing, as the thermoplastic member, a composite structure, or laminate, having a closed cellular polymeric layer preponderantly of polystyrene having incorporated therein from zero weight percent up to compatible amounts of a copolymer of ethylene and an alkyl ester of alpha-beta monoethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid or a copolymer of ethylene and vinyl acetate or a copolymer of ethylene and an alpha-beta monoethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid, or mixtures thereof, and, in adhered relationship to said cellular layer, a layer of a non-cellular polymeric material preponderantly of ethylene moieties having incorporated therein moieties of vinyl aceType: GrantFiled: March 12, 1976Date of Patent: January 10, 1978Assignee: Owens-Illinois, Inc.Inventor: James A. Karabedian
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Patent number: 4042519Abstract: Disclosed are ferrimagnetic glass-ceramics prepared by the in situ, thermal crystallization of certain nickel-zinc; manganese-zinc; and manganese-magnesium crystalline ferrites in a residual glassy matrix.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 1973Date of Patent: August 16, 1977Assignee: Owens-Illinois, Inc.Inventor: Edward A. Weaver
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Patent number: 4038446Abstract: There is disclosed herein improved packages, and methods of forming same, of the type wherein a container, such as for example a glass container, like a bottle or jar, is provided externally thereof with a heat shrunk, cellular thermoplastic member, circumferentially and snugly engaging a sidewall portion of the container; the improvement resides in employing as the thermoplastic member a composite structure, or laminate, of a closed cellular polymeric layer in which the polymer is a polymer of predominantly olefin moieties and, in adhered relationship to the closed cellular layer, a non-cellular polymeric layer n which the polymer is a polymer of predominantly olefin moieties with the cellular layer being in snug, heat shrunk engagement with the sidewall portion of the container and the non-cellular layer being disposed outwardly of the cellular layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 1974Date of Patent: July 26, 1977Assignee: Owens-Illinois, Inc.Inventor: Roger R. Rhoads
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Patent number: 4034131Abstract: There is disclosed herein improved packages, and methods of forming same, of the type wherein a container, such as for example a glass container, like a bottle or jar, is provided externally thereof with a heat shrunk, cellular thermoplastic member, circumferentially and snugly engaging a sidewall portion of the container; the improvement resides in employing as the thermoplastic member a composite structure, or laminate, of a closed cellular polymeric layer in which the polymer is a polymer of predominantly olefin moieties and, in adhered relationship to the closed cellular layer, a non-cellular polymeric layer in which the polymer is a polymer of predominantly olefin moieties with the cellular layer being in snug, heat shrunk engagement with the sidewall portion of the container and the non-cellular layer being disposed outwardly of the cellular layer.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 1975Date of Patent: July 5, 1977Assignee: Owens-Illinois, Inc.Inventor: Roger R. Rhoads
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Patent number: 4028196Abstract: Disclosed are pH responsive glass compositions which contain specified proportions of LiO.sub.2, SiO.sub.2, La.sub.2 O.sub.3, and Ta.sub.2 O.sub.5. In some embodiments, the glasses also contain a small proportion of Cs.sub.2 O. The glasses have very low electrical resistivity, are stable against devitrification, and are readily melted and formed into shapes which are suitable for glass electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 1975Date of Patent: June 7, 1977Assignee: Owens-Illinois, Inc.Inventor: Chung-Chang Young
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Patent number: 4015966Abstract: Disclosed is a technique for melting X-ray absorbing glass compositions by a process wherein molten glass is floated or supported on a bath of molten tin. The X-ray absorbing glass compositions are free of the oxides of lead, arsenic, antimony, bismuth, cadmium, and other readily reducible oxides to prevent discoloration of the glass upon contact with molten metal.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 1976Date of Patent: April 5, 1977Assignee: Owens-Illinois, Inc.Inventor: Edward A. Weaver
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Patent number: 4009301Abstract: A method for powder coating of articles with an organic polymeric material. Articles to be coated, preferably glass containers, are transported by a first conveying mechanism through a pre-heat oven wherein their temperature is raised to a level above ambient temperature. The preheated containers are then transferred to chucks of a second conveying mechanism which carry the containers through a powder spray apparatus wherein the organic polymeric material is applied to the container. The chucks of the second conveying mechanism are cool and any oversprayed material will not adhere thereto. After spraying, the containers are again heated to cure the sprayed-on powder coating to form a filmlike layer on the container. The containers are then cooled below the softening point of the organic polymeric material and released from the second conveying mechanism for further handling.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 1974Date of Patent: February 22, 1977Assignee: Owens-Illinois, Inc.Inventors: Russell W. Heckman, Joseph S. Koluch, Roger R. Rhoads
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Patent number: 4008126Abstract: Disclosed is a method for chemically immobilizing proteins, particularly enzymes, containing in their molecular structure specified proportions cystine and cysteine groups on a support to form a biologically active composite having prolonged service life by the in-situ polymerization of the protein.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 1976Date of Patent: February 15, 1977Assignee: Owens-Illinois, Inc.Inventor: Melvin H. Keyes
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Patent number: 4006003Abstract: A process is provided for melting glass forming ingredients by supplying all, or at least part, of the total heat required for such melting from the combustion of a combustible fuel which is an admixture of particulate coal and oil. The melting operating can be accomplished without any difficulty of temperature control and with no adverse effects on the quality or composition of the final glass. Excellent results are obtained employing, for example, a combustible fuel mixture of about 40% by weight of particulate coal having a particle size less than about 200 mesh and about 60% by weight of Number 2 fuel oil.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 1975Date of Patent: February 1, 1977Assignee: Owens-Illinois, Inc.Inventor: Valdis R. Daiga