Patents Assigned to MAPA GmbH
  • Publication number: 20220395432
    Abstract: An apparatus may include an insert configured to be positioned between a nipple and an opening of a bottle when the nipple is mounted to the bottle. The insert is configured to facilitate airflow out of the bottle and through an interface between the nipple and the bottle when the nipple is dispensing fluid from within the bottle. A system may include a nipple, the insert, and a bottle with an opening. A method may include providing the insert, and positioning the insert between a nipple and an opening of a bottle when the nipple is mounted to the bottle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Applicant: MAPA GmbH
    Inventors: Kevin Thomas BAYONNET, Reiner PILS, Uwe WAGENKNECHT, Torsten HASTEDT
  • Patent number: 10945546
    Abstract: A drinking attachment (10) for drinking vessels (12), comprising a funnel-like circumferential drinking rim (14), which is open towards the drinking vessel (12), having a fastening section (16) for fastening the drinking attachment (10) to an edge region of the drinking vessel surrounding an opening of the drinking vessel (12), and a bowl-shaped elastic sealing disc (20), which can be inserted into the drinking rim (14) for sealing the drinking rim (14), the sealing disc (20) abutting circumferentially against the drinking rim (14) in the region of the end of the drinking rim (19, which is free in the intended mounting state of the drinking attachment (10) on a drinking vessel (12), while forming an interstice (22), which is open towards the drinking vessel (12), and being designed in such a way that it can be partially lifted from the drinking rim (14) by a suction action of a user of the drinking attachment (10), in order to open a passage to the interstice (22), the sealing disc (20) having in the region o
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: MAPA GMBH
    Inventors: Ralf Holschumacher, Eckhard Itzek, Jürgen Löhn
  • Patent number: 10835065
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a drinking vessel that can include a drinking container and a drinking attachment that is coupled to the container. A straw can be positioned through an opening in the drinking attachment. The straw can include a top end that includes an opening through which a user can withdraw liquid and a bottom end. A drinking valve can be positioned along the bottom end of the straw and can include a tube that is open on the top and closed on the bottom and further includes at least one flow-through opening connecting the inside of the valve to the outside of the straw. A suction tube can include a tube wall that can be slid over the valve to couple the straw to the suction tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: MAPA GMBH
    Inventors: Jürgen Löhn, Ralf Holschumacher, Eckhard Itzek
  • Publication number: 20200229625
    Abstract: A drinking attachment (10) for drinking vessels (12), comprising a funnel-like circumferential drinking rim (14), which is open towards the drinking vessel (12), having a fastening section (16) for fastening the drinking attachment (10) to an edge region of the drinking vessel surrounding an opening of the drinking vessel (12), and a bowl-shaped elastic sealing disc (20), which can be inserted into the drinking rim (14) for sealing the drinking rim (14), the sealing disc (20) abutting circumferentially against the drinking rim (14) in the region of the end of the drinking rim (19, which is free in the intended mounting state of the drinking attachment (10) on a drinking vessel (12), while forming an interstice (22), which is open towards the drinking vessel (12), and being designed in such a way that it can be partially lifted from the drinking rim (14) by a suction action of a user of the drinking attachment (10), in order to open a passage to the interstice (22), the sealing disc (20) having in the region o
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: MAPA GMBH
    Inventors: Ralf HOLSCHUMACHER, Eckhard ITZEK, Jürgen LÖHN
  • Patent number: 9987197
    Abstract: A teat with a base and a hollow and flexible mouthpiece protruding from it with a palate contact area, characterized in that the mouthpiece has a planar thinning area fully or partially extending over the palate contact area, in which the mouthpiece has a smaller wall thickness than in its adjacent areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: MAPA GMBH
    Inventor: Eckhard Itzek
  • Publication number: 20170258687
    Abstract: A teat, in particular for infants and small children, having a hollow nipple with at least one through-hole for liquid nutrition, which is connected at the bottom to a substantially annular-disc-shaped nipple flange, which serves to be fastened to the mouth of a vessel by means of a fastening ring with an annular-disc-shaped ring flange overlapping the nipple flange for pressing the bottom side of the nipple flange flat against the front-side edge of the mouth and at least one recess extending in the radial direction of the nipple flange on the top side of the nipple flange so that a ring flange of a fastening ring pressing against the top side of the nipple flange is spaced from the top side of the floor of the recess during the fastening of the teat on the mouth of a vessel, and the nipple flange is sufficiently flexible at least in the area of the recess so that the floor arches up and air from outside flows back into the vessel under the arched floor of the recess in the radial direction when the teat is
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicant: MAPA GmbH
    Inventor: Eckhard ITZEK
  • Patent number: D841174
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: MAPA GmbH
    Inventors: Uwe Wagenknecht, Bodo Warden, Sarah-Dimple Dass
  • Patent number: D874013
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: MAPA GmbH
    Inventors: Uwe Wagenknecht, Bodo Warden, Sarah-Dimple Dass
  • Patent number: D895817
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: MAPA GmbH
    Inventor: Bodo Warden
  • Patent number: D902416
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: MAPA GmbH
    Inventor: Bodo Warden
  • Patent number: D907785
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: MAPA GmbH
    Inventor: Bodo Warden
  • Patent number: D908897
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: MAPA GmbH
    Inventor: Bodo Warden
  • Patent number: D908898
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: MAPA GmbH
    Inventor: Bodo Warden
  • Patent number: D913506
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: MAPA GmbH
    Inventor: Elke Lisa Ladiges
  • Patent number: D915189
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: MAPA GmbH
    Inventors: Joana Ritter, Andrea Baumann
  • Patent number: D917239
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: MAPA GmbH
    Inventors: Collin Jacob Sutton, Anastasia Nicole Diamond, Jason Wade Cardani, Kelly Elizabeth Seagren, Melissa Sue Jacobson, Austin Peter Laniosz, Lea Marie Stewart, Kevin Thomas Bayonnet
  • Patent number: D917240
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: MAPA GMBH
    Inventors: Kelly Elizabeth Seagren, Melissa Sue Jacobson, Austin Peter Laniosz, Lea Marie Stewart, Alfredo David Carreno
  • Patent number: D928973
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: MAPA GmbH
    Inventor: Bodo Warden
  • Patent number: D929856
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: MAPA GmbH
    Inventors: Joana Ritter, Andrea Baumann
  • Patent number: D942805
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: MAPA GmbH
    Inventor: Bodo Warden