Patents Assigned to The Hartz Mountain Corporation
  • Patent number: 7582612
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for preparing a pharmaceutical formulation containing ivermectin and a method and composition that can contain ivermectin plus tetrahydropyrimidines. An examples of a tetrahydropyrimidine includes pyrantel. A pharmaceutical formulation is provided for use in the treatment of helminthiasis of mammals, and particularly tapeworm, hookworm, roundworm and heartworm of domestic animals and farm animals. The present invention also provides a method of treating helminthiasis in mammals, which method comprises administering to the mammal in need thereof an anthelmintically effective amount of a pharmaceutical formulation of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2009
    Assignees: Hartz Mountain Corporation, Virbac Corporation
    Inventors: Albert Ahn, Ian Cottrell
  • Patent number: 7413080
    Abstract: An improved blister package construction is provided. The inventive blister package construction allows for different visual presentations of the packaged products that would otherwise not be achievable with conventional blister packages. The blister package of the invention has one or two thermoplastic blisters designed and positioned on a backing card such that, when the card is folded along a transverse score line, the one or two blisters will lock together and the backing card will be formed into an ā€œLā€ shaped configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2008
    Assignee: The Hartz Mountain Corporation
    Inventor: Larry Van House
  • Patent number: 7396820
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for preparing a pharmaceutical formulation containing ivermectin and a method and composition that can contain ivermectin plus hexahydropyrazinoisoquinolines, tetrahydropyrimidines and benzimidazoles or febantel. Examples of hexahydropyrazinoisoquinolines, tetrahydropyrimidines and benzimidazoles include praziquantel, pyrantel pamoate and fenbendazole, respectively. A pharmaceutical formulation is provided for use in the treatment of helminthiasis of mammals, and particularly tapeworm, hookworm, roundworm, whipworm and heartworm of domestic animals and farm animals. The present invention also provides a method of treating helminthiasis in mammals, which method comprises administering to the mammal in need thereof an anthelmintically effective amount of a pharmaceutical formulation of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Assignees: Virbac Corporation, The Hartz Mountain Corporation
    Inventors: Ian Cottrell, Arima Das Nandy, Albert Ahn, Richard Fisher
  • Patent number: 7396819
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for preparing a pharmaceutical formulation containing ivermectin and a method and composition that can contain ivermectin plus hexahydropyrazinoisoquinolines and tetrahydropyrimidines. Examples of these include praziquantel and pyrantel. A pharmaceutical formulation is provided for use in the treatment of helminthiasis of mammals, and particularly tapeworm, hookworm, roundworm and heartworm of domestic animals and farm animals. The present invention also provides a method of treating helminthiasis in mammals, which method comprises administering to the mammal in need thereof an anthelmintically effective amount of a pharmaceutical formulation of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Assignees: Virbac Corporation, The Hartz Mountain Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Burke, Vinay Tripathi, Albert Ahn, Ian Cottrell
  • Patent number: 7395574
    Abstract: A lint roll apparatus includes an orienting mechanism for orienting the free edge of the outermost sheet of a adhesive roll with a predetermined point on a roll support. Orientation is implemented by cooperating stop members on the roll and the roll support, by a slidable member on the roll support moveable into and out of engagement with a notch in the roll or a roll core, or a trigger activated moveable pin which is engagable with a stop member carried on the roll or roll support. A motor driven spindle rotates a cylinder on which the roll is mounted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Assignee: The Hartz Mountain Corporation
    Inventor: William D. McKay
  • Patent number: 7377001
    Abstract: A cleaning apparatus includes a handle, a support coupled to the handle and a cleaning element mountable on the support. The support is fixed to the handle or is rotatably coupled to the handle for rotation by a drive motor mounted in the handle. The cleaning element may include bristles extending from a flexible mat fixed about the support or about a core mountable on the support. A cleaning sheet is windable about the support, the core or the cleaning element, including over and through the bristles, for dual cleaning action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Assignee: The Hartz Mountain Corporation
    Inventor: William D. McKay
  • Patent number: 7364380
    Abstract: A cleaning apparatus includes a substrate with outward projecting bristles extending through a sheet or scrim impaled over the bristles. The substrate may be mounted on a support which may carry a handle. The sheets may be single sheets arranged in a stack over the bristles on one or more surfaces of the substrate or a roll of separable sheets disposed over the bristles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: The Hartz Mountain Corporation
    Inventor: William D. McKay
  • Patent number: 7309182
    Abstract: A cleaning apparatus includes a substrate with outward projecting bristles. The substrate may be mounted on a support which may carry a handle or on a media dispensing container. The handle is hollow to carry a dispensable media from a dispenser mounted on the handle or has an open end to receive an aerosol or media dispensing container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2007
    Assignee: The Hartz Mountain Corporation
    Inventor: William D. McKay
  • Patent number: 7281288
    Abstract: An improved cleaning tool is provided with a flexible connection between the head or spindle and the handle. The improved tool broadly includes a spindle or head, a handle and a flexible connection between the head and handle to permit relative pivotal movement therebetween and rubber bumpers to protect against scratching furniture. The flexible connection regulates relative movement between the spindle head in such a way that lateral movement is greater than the up and down movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: The Hartz Mountain Corporation
    Inventor: William D. McKay
  • Patent number: D566345
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Assignee: The Hartz Mountain Corporation
    Inventor: William D. McKay
  • Patent number: D572417
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Assignee: The Hartz Mountain Corporation
    Inventor: William D. McKay
  • Patent number: D572868
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Assignee: The Hartz Mountain Corporation
    Inventor: William D. McKay
  • Patent number: D573316
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2008
    Assignee: The Hartz Mountain Corporation
    Inventor: William D. McKay
  • Patent number: D573317
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2008
    Assignee: The Hartz Mountain Corporation
    Inventor: William D. McKay
  • Patent number: D577467
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2008
    Assignee: The Hartz Mountain Corporation
    Inventor: William D. McKay
  • Patent number: D578257
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2008
    Assignee: The Hartz Mountain Corporation
    Inventor: William D. McKay
  • Patent number: D578258
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2008
    Assignee: The Hartz Mountain Corporation
    Inventor: William D. McKay
  • Patent number: D591926
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2009
    Assignee: The Hartz Mountain Corporation
    Inventors: Tiandong Jia, Robert T Sulikowski, Kim Cassar, Laura Donahue
  • Patent number: D610315
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: The Hartz Mountain Corporation
    Inventors: Rip J. Lopusnak, Sascha Prochaska
  • Patent number: D613002
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: The Hartz Mountain Corporation
    Inventors: Rip J. Lopusnak, Sascha Prochaska