Patents Assigned to Anchor Hocking Corporation
  • Patent number: 5085347
    Abstract: A container for fluent material having a nozzle for dispensing the material with the nozzle being moved into dispensing position and also being actuated by a slidably mounted container cover. The container may be, for instance, a pressurized container for dispensing an aerosol product or a pump container equipped with, for example, a ball check valve for dispensing a fluent mass material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 4, 1992
    Assignee: Anchor Hocking Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas H. Hayes, Lewis C. LoMaglio
  • Patent number: 5075835
    Abstract: A hollow glass lamp base is molded with a sidewall having a tapered, truncated dimple in it. The inner end of the dimple is knocked out, after the base has been annealed, to provide an opening so that the electric cord can extend out through the sidewall of the glass base. The need for an attached metal base and a connecting center tube is obviated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 24, 1991
    Assignee: Anchor Hocking Corporation
    Inventors: Paul H. Olshanski, Jerome Hazenstab
  • Patent number: 5016783
    Abstract: A container for fluent material having a nozzle for dispensing the material with the nozzle being moved into dispensing position and also being actuated by a slidably mounted container cover. The container may be, for instance, a pressurized container for dispensing an aerosol product or a pump container equipped with, for example, a ball check valve for dispensing a fluent mass material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1991
    Assignee: Anchor Hocking Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas H. Hayes, Lewis C. LoMaglio
  • Patent number: 5009324
    Abstract: A closure is provided with slots through which wash water can flow to wash food particles from the interthread space between the closure and a container, after the closure has been secured onto the container. At room temperature the washing slots are essentially closed to the ingress of dirt particles, but they open when the closure is heated so that water can flow through them and into the interthread space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 23, 1991
    Assignee: Anchor Hocking Corporation
    Inventor: Charles S. Ochs
  • Patent number: 4997467
    Abstract: A hollow glass lamp base is molded with a sidewall having a tapered, truncated dimple in it. The inner end of the dimple is knocked out, after the base has been annealed, to provide an opening so that the electric cord can extend out through the sidewall of the glass base. The need for an attached metal base and a connecting center tube is obviated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 5, 1991
    Assignee: Anchor Hocking Corporation
    Inventors: Paul H. Olshanski, Jerome Hazenstab
  • Patent number: 4993572
    Abstract: A composite closure for a container vents internal gas pressure in excess of a pre-established maximum. An insert disk fits inside an overhanging top lip of the closure. The undersurface of the top lip is recessed to present a chamber into which excess gas pressure beneath the cover can deflect the disk and thereby provide a vent under the disk. A stop on a small area of the undersurface of the top lip positively abuts the disk to prevent blocking the chamber if the closure is overtightened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 19, 1991
    Assignee: Anchor Hocking Corporation
    Inventor: Charles S. Ochs
  • Patent number: 4978016
    Abstract: A closure for a container has a tamper indicating band with band retaining means in the form of a conical hoop. The hoop is hinged to the band by arcuate hinges which are spaced by narrower windows along the hinge line, the windows extending partway toward but not to the inner edge of the hoop. As the hoop is turned inside out from its as-molded position to its use position, the inner edge of the hoop deforms radially adjacent the windows and thereby relieves hoop strength. As a result of the deformtion, the hoop in its use position assumes an advantageous polygonal peripheral shape rather than a circular shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 18, 1990
    Assignee: Anchor Hocking Corporation
    Inventor: Thomas H. Hayes
  • Patent number: 4949403
    Abstract: A packaged dispenser for discharging metered amounts of liquid into a flush tank controlled by the rise and fall of the tank liquid. A container has a screw cap which has internal cooperable screw threads and also has cap positioning means for controlling the position of the unthreaded cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 21, 1990
    Assignee: Anchor Hocking Corporation
    Inventor: Lewis C. LoMaglio
  • Patent number: 4875594
    Abstract: A composite closure having a metal shell with metal container engaging lugs and an attached molded plastic tamper evident insert band providing the combination of a pressure resistant seal with a plastic tamper evident indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1989
    Assignee: Anchor Hocking Corporation
    Inventor: Charles S. Ochs
  • Patent number: 4863030
    Abstract: A plastisol-lined metal closure of the press-on, twist-off type and having improved top load resistance to permit containers capped with such closures to be packaged in open top trays, the plastisol lining having a density of at least approximately 58 pounds per cubic foot, and in a closure for a 51 millimeter container, a thickness in the container rim engaging portion thereof, before application to the container, of at least approximately 0.024 inch, a thickness in the portion thereof which engages the portion of the container finish below the threaded portion of the finish, before application to the container, of at least approximately 0.025 inch, and a thickness in the portion thereof which engages the portion of the container finish above the threaded portion, before application to the container, of no greater than approximately 0.026 inch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 5, 1989
    Assignee: Anchor Hocking Corporation
    Inventors: John W. Bayer, Paul W. Dullabaun, Zbigniew Swierczek
  • Patent number: 4852753
    Abstract: A closure cap is disclosed for sealing containers and particularly for sealing thin-walled vacuum formed containers with threaded rims. The closure cap is a composite closure having a molded plastic ring for engaging the container and for mounting a disc-like metal cover. The metal cover includes a vacuum indicating disc particularly adapted for providing a positive indication for relatively low vacuums and the closure cap is adapted for being sealed onto the container with a combination of press-on and screwing action to provide for high speed vacuum sealing. The vacuum indicating action of the vacuum button is improved by providing a channel in the plastic ring at the edge of the metal cover for stablizing the button operation at the desired low vacuum levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 1, 1989
    Assignee: Anchor Hocking Corporation
    Inventor: Charles S. Ochs
  • Patent number: 4836423
    Abstract: The preferred package of this invention has a fluent or paste containing body portion with a pump, nozzle and cover combination mounted at its top. The cover is rotatably mounted on the body portion of the container so that it may be turned through a half turn from a nozzle closed position to a nozzle open dispensing position. The nozzle is coupled to a pump and cover so that the cover in its open position is pressed up and down moving the nozzle and pump in a pumping motion for dispensing the fluent from the container. An object of the invention is providing a container with a rotatable cover which is manipulated both for opening and closing the nozzle and for product dispensing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 6, 1989
    Assignee: Anchor Hocking Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas H. Hayes, Lewis C. Lo Maglio
  • Patent number: 4835035
    Abstract: A thermoset polymer coating with an effective ink-releasing amount of a liquid, organic soluble dimethyl- or methyl/alkyl organopolysiloxane for use in a closure assembly, the assembly including a metal closure with a top and depending skirt, the thermoset polymer coating being applied to the inside closure top and printed with ink indicia, a polyvinyl acetate coating applied over the ink, and the ink indicia being removed on the polyvinyl acetate-coated liner by the customer for promotional purposes such as for prizes, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 30, 1989
    Assignee: Anchor Hocking Corporation
    Inventor: John W. Bayer
  • Patent number: 4813561
    Abstract: A closure is described for sealing retortable containers. The closure has a disc shaped metal cover with a grooved sealing portion at its outer edge containing a sealant and a plastic ring for engaging the container. A clamping action holds sealant in the cover groove against a rim of the container and the relative dimensions of the closure groove and the container are chosen for providing a tight seal particularly after retorting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 21, 1989
    Assignee: Anchor Hocking Corporation
    Inventor: Charles S. Ochs
  • Patent number: 4809858
    Abstract: A composite closure cap is described comprising a molded plastic ring and a separate disc-like cover. The cover includes a gasket for sealing. Tapered friction surfaces on the plastic ring and on the cover interact to provide for the control of the closure cap removal torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 7, 1989
    Assignee: Anchor Hocking Corporation
    Inventor: Charles S. Ochs
  • Patent number: 4803031
    Abstract: An improved molded closure cap is described which has a softer sealing portion and a relatively hard closure engaging portion. The cap is molded using two differing plastics where the container engaging portion is molded of a softer seal-forming plastic and the remaining portion or shell is molded of a harder plastic. The novel molding apparatus and method employ plunger or die movement to facilitate a successive molding of the soft and hard cap portions without changing the molding plunger or die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 7, 1989
    Assignee: Anchor Hocking Corporation
    Inventors: Charles S. Ochs, Carl E. Koontz
  • Patent number: 4782968
    Abstract: An improved composite closure is described which has a cover portion which is at least partially plastic and a molded plastic ring portion. The molded ring also permits the cover to be inserted from the top of the ring rather than just upwardly over the ring threads and permits a plastic to plastic engagement or attachment of cover and ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1988
    Assignee: Anchor Hocking Corporation
    Inventor: Thomas H. Hayes
  • Patent number: D309554
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 1986
    Date of Patent: July 31, 1990
    Assignee: Anchor Hocking Corporation
    Inventor: Edward Meisner
  • Patent number: D315507
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1991
    Assignee: Anchor Hocking Corporation
    Inventor: Charles S. Ochs
  • Patent number: D318804
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1991
    Assignee: Anchor Hocking Corporation
    Inventor: Alexander S. Ochs