Patents Represented by Attorney Michael J. McGreal
  • Patent number: 6260735
    Abstract: The present dual chamber sachet overcomes the problem of non-uniform dispensing when the sidewalls of the sachet are depressed. Through the use of a relatively thin intermediate divider wall, rounded corner edges at the lower end of each chamber of the sachet, tapered side edges up to the exit channel of each chamber of the sachet, and a relatively wide dispensing opening uniform dispensing can be achieved. This structure prevents the downward flow of substances in each chamber during dispensing. The substances are directed upwardly by the rounded lower corners of the sachet, the tapered upper walls and the wide dispensing opening. This relatively wide dispensing opening minimizes the back pressure caused by the substances flowing to a dispensing exit of a width less than that of the product chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2001
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventor: Orlando Fuquen
  • Patent number: 6253938
    Abstract: The present closure is one that is actuated and opened indirectly. A force on a push pad causes the lid to open. There is no direct manual force applied to the lid to open the lid. The closure is comprised of a base section and a lid section. These are separate molded sections. These separate molded sections are attached after molding. The base section has the attachment to a container, structural integrity, a spout, and a lid actuator mechanism. The lid actuator mechanism is comprised of a strap with a push pad with an actuator rod at the end adjacent an actuator wall. The lid section has a spout closing section for the spout of the base section and an attachment fitting for attachment to the base section. The spout closing section is attached to the attachment fitting by living hinges, and preferably, preloaded living hinges. Such living hinges reduce the force to actuate. The closure is opened by pushing on a push pad which in turn causes the living hinges to be actuated and the lid snap opened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2001
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Issac Zaksenberg, Alan Nimmey, Kevin Harrity
  • Patent number: 6247606
    Abstract: The containers have a length greater than the width and have a front wall, a rear wall, and connecting sidewalls. The container is closed at the bottom by a bottom wall and has a dispensing channel at a top end. Between the front wall and sidewalls and rear wall and sidewalls, there are concave transition walls. The concave transition walls extend at least half the distance from the bottom wall to the dispensing channel. The container has a handle formed by an aperture in the front wall extending to the rear wall, an aperture wall connecting the front wall and rear wall. At least partially surrounding the aperture there is an aperture concave transition wall. The concave transition walls provide increased longitudinal and lateral strength to the container. The bottom wall preferably has one or more concave recesses. These will be laterally and longitudinally in the base surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2001
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventor: Jon R. Zogg
  • Patent number: 6233856
    Abstract: A container has a label or decoration in the container and unattached to any interior surface. The label or decoration is in the form of a monolayer film or a laminate film with the decoration and other materials under a coating or within the laminate layers. A preferred mode is for the container to be a pump container having a constricted opening. The film will be of an elliptical to a rectangular shape. If rectangular the film will have rounded lower edges or a parabolic lower portion for ease of insertion into container openings. The container preferably will have grooves, projections or other techniques for stabilizing the film in the container. Monolayer films will have the decoration printed onto the surface and will have a protective coating over this surface. Laminate films can be of the same or dissimilar films with the printed surface between the laminate films. The useful adhesives for the films are those that are not affected by the product in the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2001
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Peter Haugk, Teresa Pavlak, Donald Losier, Scott Docken, Rodney Prochaska, David Segner
  • Patent number: 6230935
    Abstract: The dual chamber dispenser consists of two tubular chambers each of which is connected to a pump. The pumps are self-priming and are of a type that draw the substances from the tubular chambers. There is an activator which also serves as the top of the dispenser, side view apertures, a foot for better stability and a spout that is angled for enhanced dispensing. The side view apertures allow for viewing the fill level of the tubular chambers. The pumps are of a type having an upper valve and a lower valve, with the upper valves a part of the piston's that move in and out of the pumping chambers. The valves in said pumps are positive closing by means of a biasing spring. The substances to be dispensed are maintained separate, one from the other, until the substances are dispensed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2001
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Robert Mack, James C. McKinney, Kenneth R. Berger
  • Patent number: 6210766
    Abstract: The tube has a non-metallized holographic decoration. This holographic decoration is an inner layer of the tube body which is of a laminate structure. The holographic film layer is a non-metallized layer to prevent the delamination of the tube body when the tube body is formed with an overlap seal. In an overlap seal an edge of the laminate film potentially will be in contact with the contents of the tube. A metallized holographic layer can react with the contents of the tube and cause a delamination of the film in the area of the seal and the consequent failure of the seal. The innermost layer of the tube body will be a layer that is bondable to an outermost barrier layer, and further that is bondable to the shoulder of the tube. It should be bondable to the innermost layer in order to form the longitudinal seal of the tube body. It should be bondable to the shoulder since the primary bond of the shoulder to the tube body is of the shoulder to the innermost layer of the tube body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2001
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventor: Heather Larkin McLaughlin
  • Patent number: 6123982
    Abstract: The floss is comprised of a texturized yarn that has been coated and impregnated with a water-soluble polymer and the water-soluble polymer coating cured and set while the yarn is stretched and is under tension. The yarn while stretched and tensioned is at a reduced width, which allows for easier insertion of the yarn floss between teeth. The yarn floss is wound onto a spool in the decreased width condition. For use, a length of floss is removed from the spool and placed between teeth. The saliva in the mouth dissolves the cured and set water-soluble polymer with the floss expanding to fill the space between the teeth. The floss is optionally coated with flavors, medicants and other substances. These can be synthetic or naturally occurring substances such as herbal substances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2000
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventor: Jose Eder Fontana
  • Patent number: D440793
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2001
    Inventor: Alfonso Iannaccone
  • Patent number: D440879
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2001
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventor: Bruce Cummings
  • Patent number: D441283
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2001
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventor: John C. Crawford
  • Patent number: D442078
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2001
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventor: Orlando Fuquen
  • Patent number: D443203
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2001
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventor: John C. Crawford
  • Patent number: D443820
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2001
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: John C. Crawford, Patrick Calello
  • Patent number: D444064
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: John C. Crawford, Patrick Calello
  • Patent number: D444065
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: John C. Crawford, Patrick Calello
  • Patent number: D444383
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2001
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: John C. Crawford, Patrick Calello
  • Patent number: D444384
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2001
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: John C. Crawford, Patrick Calello
  • Patent number: D444708
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2001
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventor: Bruce Cummings
  • Patent number: D444709
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2001
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventor: Bruce Cummings
  • Patent number: D445672
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2001
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Adam Sherman, James C. McKinney, Daniel J. Durham, Frank E. Semersky