Patents Assigned to United Packages Limited
  • Screw fixing device
    Patent number: 4312612
    Abstract: A device for fixing members to panels, or joining panels, which has a body moulded from a resilient plastic, comprising a head part and a tail part joined by strip-like connectors which distort when the tail part is pulled towards the head part, and including outwardly deflected wings displaceable inwards to allow the fixing device to be applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1979
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1982
    Assignee: United Packages Limited
    Inventor: Bruce R. Thompson
  • Variable volume flushing cistern
    Patent number: 4304014
    Abstract: This invention relates to a variable volume flushing cistern and in particular it relates to a cistern of the type in which a selection can be made of the amount of water discharged during a flush.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1981
    Assignee: United Packages Limited
    Inventor: Bruce R. Thompson
  • Variable volume flushing cistern
    Patent number: 4219895
    Abstract: A variable volume flushing cistern comprising a body with a division wall across it to form two compartments, the first containing a float and water inlet valve and communicating with a flushing valve on the base of the cistern, a second communicating through a movable flap with the flushing valve so that by closing the valve water from the second compartment can be prevented from discharging through the flushing valve when a smaller flush is required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 2, 1980
    Assignee: United Packages Limited
    Inventor: Bruce R. Thompson
  • Drier
    Patent number: 3975833
    Abstract: A clothes airer or drier that is fitted to a wall and can be collapsed to a compact shape. The upper end of the drier is designed as a compartment with a recess to receive portable heater-fan unit, the front of the unit having a hood movable from a closed position to an erected position where it is supported by a grid hinged to the main frame of the drier. The hood can be opened further to allow clothes to be placed on the grid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1975
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1976
    Assignee: United Packages Limited
    Inventors: Charles Rothauser, Bruce R. Thompson
  • Hand basin
    Patent number: D253487
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1977
    Date of Patent: November 20, 1979
    Assignee: United Packages Limited
    Inventor: Bruce R. Thompson