Patents Assigned to Mapa GmbH Gummi-und Plastikwerke
  • Patent number: 8597329
    Abstract: A dummy teat including a nipple carrier and a hollow dummy nipple projecting from the nipple carrier, which has areas of a smaller wall thickness at least on two opposed longitudinal sides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: MAPA GmbH Gummi- und Plastikwerke
    Inventors: Alexander Du Chesne, Guenter Marr, Helmut Tomforde
  • Publication number: 20110198309
    Abstract: Closure system for a children's drinking bottle or a children's drinking cup comprising a sealing ring which has on an external periphery a fastening means for sealingly and releasably connecting to a container edge of a container of the children's drinking bottle or the children's drinking cup, an aperture for receiving a mouthpiece and/or a blind lid and an internal thread, which borders the aperture and is arranged at a distance from the aperture and the fastening means and a fixing insert with a through aperture and an external thread which may be screwed into the internal thread of the sealing ring in order to clamp sealingly a fastening attachment of the mouthpiece and/or the blind lid between the fixing insert and the sealing ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2008
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Applicant: MAPA GMBH GUMMI- UND PLASTIKWERKE
    Inventors: Eckhard Itzek, Bjoern Frederik Seidler, Reiner Pils, Celine Mialet, Bertrand Coutellier
  • Publication number: 20110168656
    Abstract: The invention relates to a feeding bottle having a drinking teat made of a flexible plastic, a bottle made from plastic having higher strength than the flexible plastic and connected to the drinking teat in one piece by means of injection molding, and a reinforcement thread extending from the bottle through the drinking teat up to the drinking opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2009
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: MAPA GMBH GUMMI- UND PLASTIKWERKE
    Inventor: Eckhard Itzek
  • Patent number: 7938281
    Abstract: A leakproof bottle for feeding a child includes a first external thread around a bottle opening, and a lower closure ring having a first internal thread, which is screwed onto the first external thread and has at least one first throughflow hole. An upper closure ring has a second external thread on which the lower closure ring sits in a sealing manner and which has at least one second throughflow hole which, by rotation of the upper closure ring relative to the lower closure ring, can be brought into coinciding and non-coinciding positions relative to the first throughflow hole. Locking elements can rotate the lower closure ring and upper closure ring relative to each other and releasable lock them, with a drinking teat and a screw ring having a second internal thread, which is screwed onto the second external thread of the upper closure ring, releasably securing a lower edge region of the drinking teat to upper closure ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: MAPA GmbH Gummi- und Plastikwerke
    Inventors: Günter Horntrich, Eckhard Itzek
  • Publication number: 20110062105
    Abstract: A bottle teat made of a soft elastic material, comprising: a hollow suction nipple, a circumferential mounting edge for fixation to the bottle opening of a drinking bottle, a hollow transition zone between the mounting edge and the suction nipple, and two drinking slots extending from the outer side to the inner side of the suction nipple in an end region of the suction nipple, which are aligned in parallel to each other and whose distance from each other decreases from the outer side towards the inner side of the suction nipple.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2008
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Applicant: MAPA GmbH GUMMI- UND PLASTIKWERKE
    Inventor: Eckhard Itzek
  • Publication number: 20100268276
    Abstract: A dummy teat including a nipple carrier and a hollow dummy nipple projecting from the nipple carrier, which has areas of a smaller wall thickness at least on two opposed longitudinal sides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2008
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: MAPA GMBH GUMMI- UND PLASTIKWERKE
    Inventors: Alexander Du Chesne, Guenter Marr, Helmut Tomforde
  • Publication number: 20090039046
    Abstract: A bottle teat of an elastic material includes a hollow suction nipple and a circumferential mounting edge for fixation to the bottle opening of a drinking bottle. A hollow transition zone is disposed between the mounting edge and suction nipple as well as at least one drinking slot oriented in the longitudinal direction of the suction nipple and extending from the outside up to the inside of the suction nipple in an outwardly bulged external end region of the suction nipple. The bottle teat further includes at least one ventilation valve with a valve slot which is extended from the outer wall of the transition zone up to the inner wall of the transition zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2006
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Applicant: MAPA GMBH GUMMI- UND PLASTIKWERKE
    Inventors: Gunter Marr, Eckard Itzek, Elke Ladiges, Heinz Lischinsky
  • Publication number: 20090005811
    Abstract: Teat, pacifier, drinking spout or teething ring, comprising a base body which is made from at least one polymer material, and a transparent, unlcoloured layer, applied to the base body on the outside thereof from a latex and/or a polymer solution by dipping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2006
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Applicant: MAPA GmbH Gummi- und Plastikwerke
    Inventors: Alexander DuChesne, Steffen Berger, Heiner Blanken, Gunter Marr
  • Publication number: 20080314924
    Abstract: Drip catching device for bottles with contents of all types comprising an annular body made of sponge which may be attached to the neck of a bottle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: MAPA GmbH Gummi-und Plastikwerke
    Inventors: Gunter Marr, Peter Moeller, Karsten Schnoring
  • Patent number: 4526274
    Abstract: A feeding teat comprises a tip portion and a lower opening for connection to a container and is formed with an external recess, which is substantially wedge-shaped in cross-section and closed from the interior of the teat and constitutes a guide for an opening instrument. Such feeding teat and an opening instrument are held in a common holder. The common holder may consist of a cover and may be provided near one open end of the cover with clipping means for retaining the opening instrument.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1983
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1985
    Assignee: MAPA GmbH Gummi-und Plastikwerke
    Inventors: Lutz Kesselring, Horst Frodrich
  • Patent number: 4505398
    Abstract: A feeding or pacifying teat is provided on its surface with profiled portions consisting of elevations or recesses with respect to adjacent wall portions. At least the body of the teat has an accordion-like wall portion, which is zigzag-shaped in longitudinal section. The tapered portion connecting the body and nipple of the teat has a rough and particularly waffle-like outside surface or is provided on its outside surface with bosses. Additional profiled portions may be provided in the form of the peripherally extending, annular beads and a venting valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1983
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1985
    Assignee: MAPA GmbH Gummi- und Plastikwerke
    Inventor: Lutz Kesselring
  • Patent number: 4481949
    Abstract: A pacifier or dummy includes a resilient nipple, a guard, and a plug body inserted into the end of the tubular portion of the nipple that is opposite to the mouthpiece. The plug body is carried by a base, which is supported by the guard and is resilient in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the nipple. The plug has projections, which are particularly formed with beveled surfaces and movable along the axis of the nipple. The guard is provided with beveled surfaces adjacent to an opening in the guard. In response to a pull on the nipple, the base is resiliently deformed and the projections of the plug move toward the beveled surfaces of the guard. The plug body has outwardly protruding projections, which are oversize with respect to the clearance between lugs formed on the guard in the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1982
    Date of Patent: November 13, 1984
    Assignee: MAPA GmbH Gummi-und Plastikwerke
    Inventors: Lutz Kesselring, Horst Frodrich
  • Patent number: 4078570
    Abstract: A mounting assembly for infants' soothing teats comprising a teat nipple with an integral shaft portion made of an elastic material, a clamp member inserted into the shaft portion of the teat nipple, and a shield type mouth plate mounted on the shaft portion of the teat nipple wherein the clamp member includes an abutment surface and one or a plurality of integral yieldably movable locking elements adapted to cooperate with the abutment surface to safely retain the soothing teat assembly in its assembled relationship. The locking elements may consist either of articulated lugs being biased into a predetermined locking position by their inherent resiliency, or of slidably movable wedge members adapted to be selectively adjusted into a retaining position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1976
    Date of Patent: March 14, 1978
    Assignee: Mapa GmbH Gummi-und Plastikwerke
    Inventors: Horst Frodrich, Lutz Kesselring
  • Patent number: D452373
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2001
    Assignee: MAPA GmbH Gummi-und Plastikwerke
    Inventor: Günter Horntrich
  • Patent number: D278661
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1983
    Date of Patent: May 7, 1985
    Assignee: MAPA GmbH Gummi- und Plastikwerke
    Inventor: Ralf Gelsen
  • Patent number: D281398
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1983
    Date of Patent: November 19, 1985
    Assignee: MAPA GmbH Gummi- und Plastikwerke
    Inventor: Lutz Kesselring
  • Patent number: D583985
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2008
    Assignee: Mapa GmbH Gummi-und Plastikwerke
    Inventors: Bodo Warden, Ernst Wedekind, Reinhold Jager-Waldau
  • Patent number: D359519
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 20, 1995
    Assignee: MAPA GmbH GUMMI-und Plastikwerke
    Inventor: Octavio K. Nusse