Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm William P. O'Meara, Esq.
  • Patent number: 6332488
    Abstract: Apparatus having laminating rolls for laminating continuous strips of different kinds of material together wherein all of the continuous strips enter the nip between the laminating rolls from one side of a plane tangent to each of the laminating rolls at the nip. Also, apparatus having rotary cutting and creasing rolls located before the laminating rolls form most of the cut lines for the carton blank without changing the continuity of a continuous strip of a relatively rigid material so that it can be pulled through the laminating rolls. In those instances wherein two carton blanks are formed at the same time, scrap removal apparatus is provided for removing scrap located between the two carton blanks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2001
    Assignee: Graphic Packaging Corporation
    Inventor: Joseph C. Walsh
  • Patent number: 6221192
    Abstract: Individual carton blanks formed from a lamination of a continuous strip of a relatively rigid material and a relatively flexible fluid impervious material and in some instances from spaced apart continuous strips of a relatively flexible material wherein all of the cut and fold lines are formed in the continuous strip of a relatively rigid material and then conveyed to the nip between two rotating laminating rolls where all of the continuous strips are secured together by an adhesive at desired locations. In some instances, the continuous strip of a relatively flexible fluid impervious material and the spaced apart continuous strips of a relatively flexible material are cut at a location spaced from the leading edge of the individual carton blanks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2001
    Assignee: Coors Brewing Company
    Inventor: Joseph C. Walsh
  • Patent number: 6212962
    Abstract: A bottle inspection apparatus and method are disclosed in which an improved housing contains an imaging device which is focused at a target area through an unobstructed window opening formed in a wall of the housing. The housing includes a sleeve member which may be attached to the housing in the vicinity of the unobstructed window opening and which may be positioned in close proximity to the imaging device, thus creating a restricted air path between the sleeve member and the imaging device which restricts the flow of cooling air exiting the housing. The imaging device may be mounted on a slide mount system such that it is adjustably moveable toward and away from the sleeve in order to adjustably control the amount of air restriction imposed and, thus, adjustably control the rate at which cooling air exits the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2001
    Assignee: Coors Brewing Company
    Inventor: Philip J. Lucas
  • Patent number: D435743
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2001
    Assignee: Coors Brewing Company
    Inventors: Ted W. Glauth, Randall D. Guenther
  • Patent number: D440498
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2001
    Assignee: Coors Brewing Company
    Inventors: Lee Buxton, Patrick B. Edson, Patricia O. Shibata, Frank L. Shriver, Joseph R. Haake, Jeff T. Carino, Retsu Ikeda, John Kill, Matthew J. Youngblood
  • Patent number: D450243
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2001
    Assignee: Coors Brewing Company
    Inventors: Ray A. Toms, Marilyn Quinn, Patrick B. Edson, Laura L. Sankey, Joseph R. Haake
  • Patent number: D450589
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2001
    Assignee: Coors Brewing Company
    Inventors: Joseph R. Haake, Patrick B. Edson, Steph H. Goss