Patents Assigned to SWIMC, LLC
  • Patent number: 12146075
    Abstract: A universal colorant composition compatible to tint water-borne and solvent-borne base paints and stains. The universal colorant composition includes one or more modified polyether dispersants with one or more pigment affinic groups, which wet, disperse, and stabilize the disperse included pigments. The universal colorant compositions provide for low viscosity drop and excellent compatibility when the colorant composition is used to tint a base paint or stain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: SWIMC LLC
    Inventors: Donald Diehl, Jacob S. Donlon, Patricia L. Olofsson-Elkow, Jean E. Shanks, Sarah Arcella
  • Patent number: 12139297
    Abstract: A coating composition is provided that includes a polymer, which is preferably a polyester polymer. The polyester polymer preferably includes one or more heterocyclic groups that preferably include at least one nitrogen atom and at least one carbonyl group. In one embodiment, the binder polymer is made using ingredients including tris(2-hydroxyethyl) isocyanurate. The coating composition is useful in a variety of packaging coating applications, including as a coating for aluminum monobloc containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: SWIMC LLC
    Inventors: Urban Castelberg, Kurt Hans Ashwanden
  • Patent number: 12138647
    Abstract: A fluid dispensing apparatus and liquid container with a fluid dispensing apparatus are provided. The fluid dispensing apparatus includes a valve body defining a bore that extends at least partially through a valve body, and an adaptor including a piercing member positioned to pierce a pierceable membrane enclosing the liquid container. The adaptor also includes a releasable fastener that cooperates with a portion of the liquid container to releasably couple the valve body to the liquid container. A liquid droplet production apparatus of the fluid dispensing apparatus controls a discharge of the liquid from the liquid container. The liquid droplet production apparatus includes a perforate membrane, and an actuator that is selectively operable to vibrate the perforate membrane and cause liquid droplets to be emitted from the perforate membrane and projected generally away from the liquid container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: SWIMC, LLC
    Inventors: Richard D. Hudson, Morgan S. Sibbald
  • Patent number: 12116179
    Abstract: Provided is a storage container for storing a material, the storage container including a lid and a container body having a first portion for holding the material and a second portion to which the lid is configured to be attached. The second portion is spaced from the first portion in a longitudinal direction by a collar defining a gap between the first and second portions. The first portion has a wall with a closed bottom portion defining a cavity for the material and the second portion has a wall defining an opening for accessing the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: SWIMC LLC
    Inventors: Michael P. Yajko, Eugene M. Merrill
  • Patent number: 12103028
    Abstract: Provided is an application apparatus for a coatings material. The application apparatus includes a supporting element extending along a first axis and having a first end and a second end. A first arm is coupled to the first end of the supporting element, and a second arm coupled to the second end of the supporting element. A first fastener attached to, and movable with respect to, the first end of the supporting element and detachably fixed to the first arm. Further, the first arm is configured to slide along the first axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: SWIMC LLC
    Inventors: Charles T. Buckel, Jr., Sharad Gaurav, Edward Ray Goodwin, Jr., Christopher S. Haber, Michael C. Lambertson, Jr., Hongbing Lai, Victor J. Levand, Yandong Shen, Robert A. Siegrist
  • Patent number: 12098296
    Abstract: A low odor aqueous quick-drying coating composition is described. The composition is a water based latex coating composition that includes a binder component with at least one copolymer and a neutralizing component. The composition dries in less than about 10 minutes at a temperature between about 5° C. to 35° C. and a relative humidity between about 30% and 95% and has a pH of 9.5 or less. The coating composition may be used for applications such as road marking and coating exterior surfaces, where use of a low-odor coating is desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: SWIMC LLC
    Inventors: Emile Stevens, Andrew Hearley
  • Patent number: 12091494
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes polymers and improved resin systems having flexibility, low water uptake, good adhesion, chemical resistance, and/or weatherability at extreme negative temperatures, such as temperatures down to about ?40° C. or below and even temperatures down to about ?60° C. The systems herein, in approaches, include a polymer or resin system for an epoxy component of an epoxy/amine system including an epoxy and/or acetoacetoxy functionalized flexible block copolymer that has a base hydrophobic polyol block or core, optional flexible monomeric blocks, and epoxy, acetoacetoxy, or both functional endcaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: SWIMC LLC
    Inventor: Anthony J. Tye
  • Patent number: 12077676
    Abstract: Polycyclocarbonate compounds and upgraded molecular weight polymers made from such compounds are provided. The polymers have particular utility in coating compositions, especially for use on food and beverage contact substrates that are formed into or will be formed into containers or container components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: SWIMC LLC
    Inventors: Sebastien Gibanel, Benoit Prouvost
  • Patent number: 12065583
    Abstract: A coating composition comprises a base coat component and a top coat component. The base coat component comprises at least one resin selected from the group consisting of a styrene, a styrene-ethylene/butylene-styrene block polymer and a mixture thereof, and at least one solvent for the resin. The top coat component comprises a Methyl-methacrylate-Acrylate-Methyl-methacrylate block polymer and a solvent for the Methyl-methacrylate-Acrylate-Methyl-methacrylate block polymer. A method of temporarily coating a substrate comprises applying the base coat component to a substrate, allowing the base coat component to dry and applying the top coat component and allowing the top coat to dry. The resulting coating can be removed from the substrate by peeling, even after extended exposure to ultraviolet light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: SWIMC LLC
    Inventor: Joseph F. McCarthy
  • Patent number: 12043448
    Abstract: This invention provides a polymer, which is preferably a polyether polymer. The polymer may be used in coating compositions. Containers and other articles comprising the polymer and methods of making such containers and other articles are also provided. The invention further provides compositions including the polymer (e.g., powder coatings), which have utility in a variety of coating end uses, including, for example, valve and pipe coatings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: SWIMC LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Niederst, Richard H. Evans, Robert Michael O'Brien, Kevin Romagnoli, Mark S. Von Maier
  • Patent number: 12020357
    Abstract: An image augmentation system and method for simulating the application of a coating to a surface of an original image. A mask generator can perform a search to detect a recognized object depicted in the original image, and generate a object mask for the recognized object. A user interface can to receive an identification of a selected object and an identification of a selected coating to be simulated on the selected object, and display a painted image. A renderer can receive the object mask for the selected object and the selected coating and generate the painted image, each pixel of the painted image having a painted color determined based on the object mask, the coating, and the original image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: SWIMC LLC
    Inventors: Preston Williams, Brendan Do, Daniel Cody Richmond, Michael Dowell
  • Patent number: 12018173
    Abstract: One-component waterborne coating compositions or paint having an optional crosslinker and a reactive binder polymer that interacts with a functionalized pigment, wherein the reactive binder polymer is derived from at least one monomer having at least one reactive functional group that interacts with a functional linkage of the functionalized pigment to provide high physical durability performance, including improved resistance to burnish, mar and scratching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: SWIMC LLC
    Inventors: Zhiwei Xie, James M. Cameron, Ruisong Xu, Jose Aravena Contreras
  • Patent number: 12006380
    Abstract: An aqueous coating composition useful in coating a variety of substrates, including interior or exterior portions of food or beverage cans. The coating composition includes a multi-stage polymeric latex having two or more emulsion polymerized stages in an aqueous carrier liquid, wherein the latex has one or both of: (i) a lower glass transition temperature (Tg) emulsion polymerized stage having a calculated Tg that is at least 20° C. lower than a calculated Tg of a higher Tg emulsion polymerized stage, or (ii) a gradient Tg with at least a 20° C. differential in the calculated Tg of monomers fed at the start of polymerization compared to monomers fed at the end of polymerization. When spray-applied on the interior of a food or beverage can, the composition exhibits a global extraction result of less than 50 ppm and a metal exposure value of less than 3 mA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: SWIMC LLC
    Inventors: Robert M. O'Brien, Mark Stuetelberg, Joseph D. Desousa, Mary Jo Scandolari, Nikolaus Koch, Stephen Pollin, Nusrah Hussain
  • Patent number: 11987719
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to an aqueous dispersion of inorganic fibers and a method for formulating an aqueous coating composition therefrom. The aqueous dispersion of inorganic fibers comprises water, inorganic fibers, a dispersing agent, an anti-settling agent and optionally additional additives, wherein the inorganic fibers have an average fiber diameter of from 1 micron to 100 microns and have a number average aspect ratio of from 1.1:1 to 10:1; and wherein the aqueous dispersion does not contain a film-forming amount of a polymeric resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: SWIMC LLC
    Inventors: Weihua Kai, Gang Duan, Xi Zhao, Shigang Fan
  • Patent number: 11981822
    Abstract: A method of forming a coating on a food or beverage container, which includes spraying a coating composition onto an interior surface of the food or beverage container, where the coating composition includes a latex copolymer and a metal drier or crosslinking agent. The latex copolymer is a reaction product of monomers that include (a) one or more styrene-mimicking monomers containing one or more cyclic groups and one or more ethylenically-unsaturated groups, at least a portion of such styrene-mimicking monomers being polycyclic monomers containing ring unsaturation, and (b) one or more other ethylenically-unsaturated monomers. Preferably, the coating composition is substantially free of each of BPA, PVC, other halogenated monomers, and optionally styrene. The method may also include curing the sprayed coating composition, thereby providing the coating on the interior surface of the food or beverage container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: SWIMC LLC
    Inventors: Joseph D. Desousa, Sebastien Gibanel, Benjamin J. Webster, Kailas B. Sawant, Benoit Prouvost
  • Patent number: 11976207
    Abstract: Water-based compositions containing a low VOC coalescent, a latex or water-dispersible polymer, and a water-insoluble UV-VIS (preferably, ultraviolet) absorber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SWIMC LLC
    Inventors: Mary Jane Hibben, Mike Wildman, T. Howard Killilea, Iain Harvey
  • Patent number: 11952511
    Abstract: An aqueous coating composition may include an aqueous carrier liquid; xanthan gum in an amount between about 0.05 wt. % and 0.5 wt. % of the aqueous coating composition; and a secondary rheology agent comprising at least one of a waterborne clay, a hydrophobically modified alkaline swellable emulsion, a hydrophobically enhanced urethane, a polyether polyol, or a hydrophobically modified ethoxylated aminoplast.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SWIMC LLC
    Inventors: Randy Chamberlain, Rachael Ilic, Isaac Quinones, Zhiwei Xie
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    Patent number: D1027639
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: SWIMC LLC
    Inventors: Richard D. Hudson, James J. Johnson, Gustavo A. Morales, Edward Ray Goodwin, Jr., Michael C. Lambertson, Jr., Charles T. Buckel, Jr.
  • Patent number: D1029497
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: SWIMC LLC
    Inventor: Michael P. Yajko
  • Patent number: D1034240
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: SWIMC LLC
    Inventors: Michael P. Yajko, Eugene M. Merrill