Patents Examined by Benjamin R Shaw
  • Patent number: 10351334
    Abstract: The invention pertains generally to an improved fluid dispensing device, particularly a dispensing device which employs at least one hemispherical domed canister source of reactants and which uses a color-changing dispensing plastic tip to inform the end-user if the reactants are at a proper use temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: ICP Adhesives and Sealants, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher D. Dolezal, Karl W. Burkart
  • Patent number: 10342313
    Abstract: Disclosed is an outlet pump vessel of a liquid content which is able to intercept the air, including a sealing nozzle having an inlet through which the liquid content is discharged during operation of the push button and the inlet of the sealed nozzle is closed during non-operation of the push button by inserting the sealed nozzle into an outlet of the liquid content of the push button to prevent the liquid content of cosmetics remaining on a transfer passage from being oxidized or deteriorated due to contact with the air and the liquid content on a discharge port side from being solidified and hardened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Inventor: Seong Il Kang
  • Patent number: 10336514
    Abstract: A container including a container body, a liquid composition contained in the container body, and a fitment. The fitment includes a timer and a spout oriented at an angle from the phreatic surface of the liquid composition contained in the container body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Nicole Lynn Briggs, Scott Eugene Mizer
  • Patent number: 10337179
    Abstract: A flood prevention apparatus for a sanitary ware product such as a bath or the like. The flood prevention apparatus comprises a multi chamber drain and an overflow apparatus. The multi chamber drain comprises a body defining at least a first and a second chamber therein. Openings into the body define a first outlet port and a second outlet port. Each of the first and second outlet ports are vertically and horizontally displaced relative to each other. The first outlet port is in fluid communication with the first chamber and the second outlet port is in fluid communication with the second chamber. The first and second outlet ports are each connectable to associated first and second pipe sections of the overflow apparatus. The overflow apparatus comprises a first pipe section configured to attach to the first outlet port and a second pipe section configured to attach to the second outlet port. The first and second pipe sections provide substantially vertical pipe sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: McAlpine & Co. Ltd.
    Inventor: James Edward McAlpine
  • Patent number: 10336517
    Abstract: A tamper-proof insert for use with a liquid container. The insert is of the foam liner venting type. The insert is designed to be inserted into the throat of a container such as a bottle. A retention lug ring is secured to the lower end of the insert. The retention lug ring includes a plurality of spaced-apart retention lugs, having upper and lower ends, which extend upwardly and outwardly from a base ring. The upper ends of the retention lugs of the retention lug ring engage the inside surface of the container to prevent the insert from being manually pulled upwardly and outwardly from the throat of the container. If the insert is pulled from the container against the resistance of the retention lugs, the lugs will break-away from the insert and it will be evident that the insert has been subjected to tampering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Inventor: Rodney Laible
  • Patent number: 10329783
    Abstract: A portable restroom is provided. The portable restroom offers features providing users with temporary toilet functions in a physically and emotionally secure environment while offering the owner/operator a cost-effective means of providing service. The portable restroom accomplishing the foregoing objectives includes the features of: improved ventilation; devices for no-touch sanitary safety practice; devices which facilitate personal carry in objects; combination “hover” handle and no touch door latch; a toilet seat with improved durability; improved door hinge installation and performance; improved base fastener retention; an improved base; and high-lift bearing surface and relief.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Sansom Industries LLC
    Inventors: Clyde Sansom, III, Henry Brown
  • Patent number: 10328447
    Abstract: A liquid dispensing product having: a spray dispenser having a nozzle with a guard of the nozzle and a liquid composition, the spray dispenser configured to spray the composition. The spray dispenser having a shroud housing a pump, the shroud having a shroud top surface, a shroud bottom edge opposing the shroud top surface and shroud walls connecting the shroud top surface to the shroud bottom edge; a rotatable nozzle cover housing a discharge nozzle, the discharge nozzle in fluid communication with the pump; a trigger operatively engaged with the pump; and a guard proximate the nozzle cover, the guard inhibiting contact by an outside structure or force with the nozzle cover from at least one direction. The guard is not in direct contact with the nozzle. The liquid composition having from about 5% to about 15%, by weight of the composition, of a surfactant system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Pieter Paul Dirk Jenny Maria Vandenbergh, Richard Christopher Hagee, Mark Armstrong
  • Patent number: 10321791
    Abstract: Another exemplary dispenser includes a refill unit and a refill unit frame member. The refill unit frame member has a bracket for receiving a lower portion of the refill unit. A back plate for mounting the dispenser is also included. An actuator is hingedly connected to the bracket. A curved push bar is connected to the actuator. An anvil is connected to the curved push bar. Movement of the actuator toward the back of the dispenser causes the anvil to move toward the front of the dispenser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: GOJO Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Nick E. Ciavarella, Matthew J. Archer, Michael J. Gallo
  • Patent number: 10323371
    Abstract: Disclosed is a device for absorbing and marking a potentially dangerous substance on the ground, the device including: an elongate hollow body, the inner walls of which define a storage space in which a powder is stored which is capable of absorbing the substance when the powder comes into contact with the substance, the storage space leading into an opening for pouring the powder onto the substance in order to neutralize the substance, a base on which the lower end of the body is directly or indirectly mounted, the base projecting laterally relative to the body so as to form a marker in order to position the device on the ground in a stable manner and to mark the presence of the absorbed substance on the ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: HG3 S.A.R.L.
    Inventors: Eric Bigata, Joel Blomet
  • Patent number: 10308361
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to a reservoir (40) that is easily removed from a grey water flush system. The reservoir is made modular so that rather than removing an entire reservoir/pump/circuitry system, the reservoir (40) can be separately removed from the system. The reservoir can also be made disposable, which can save cleaning and refurbishment costs. This can also increase turn-around time for maintenance of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: MAG Aerospace Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Razmik B. Boodaghians, Andrew Chan, Sung Hong
  • Patent number: 10293361
    Abstract: A cartridge for a viscous-material dispenser includes a cylinder and a plunger axially slidably fitted in the cylinder and dividing the cylinder into a filling chamber and a pressurizing chamber and includes a plurality of solid spacers in an annular gap between the plunger and the cylinder for maintaining a minimum spacing between the plunger and the cylinder. The spacers at least partially define a plurality of passages that fluidically connect the filling and pressurizing chambers and are configured such that a first portion of the viscous material extending from the filling chamber into the plurality of passages forms a seal together with the solid spacers to prevent a second portion of the viscous material located in the filling chamber from entering the plurality of passages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: KAGA WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Osamu Mizoguchi, Hitoshi Tsujikawa, Kyota Imai, Akira Kanazawa
  • Patent number: 10279363
    Abstract: A trigger-type liquid ejector includes an ejector main body and a nozzle member. The ejector main body includes a vertical supply pipe, an ejection barrel and a trigger mechanism; and the trigger mechanism includes a main piston and a main cylinder. In the trigger-type liquid ejector, the ejector main body includes a connection tube, a closing-off plug, a reservoir cylinder, a reservoir plunger and a reservoir valve, and the ejection barrel extends forward from the reservoir cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: YOSHINO KOGYOSHO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Kakuta
  • Patent number: 10280604
    Abstract: In a tri-flush toilet, three operational flush modes may be provided to enable water conservation. The toilet may include a third mode operating a peristaltic pump to reduce the water consumption per flush. The peristaltic pump is operably connected to evacuate fluids and/or solids form the toilet bowl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Inventor: Joseph D Maresh
  • Patent number: 10273035
    Abstract: A container for pourable foodstuffs has a base, a side wall connected to the base and surrounding a storage chamber. An elastic cuff is connected with a first end to the side wall and has a second end with an opening. The cuff width decreases from first to second end along a longitudinal container axis. The elastic cuff can be pushed into and pulled out of the storage chamber. A sealing element shaped as a stopper can be inserted into the opening for closing the container and has a shank portion matched in shape and size to the opening such that sealing abutment of a shank portion surface against surfaces of the elastic cuff adjoining the cuff opening is established in a contact region of the shank portion when the stopper is inserted. The shank portion has an end with a thickened portion thicker than the contact region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: KEEPER GmbH
    Inventors: Alex Dumler, Florian M. Witt, Johanna Königsberger, Matthias Hecker, Thorsten Plate, Andrew Ferrier
  • Patent number: 10264926
    Abstract: A collapsible liquid container for a fluid dispenser is provided and includes an upper wall, a collapsible sidewall, a bottom wall, fluid, and a dispensation mechanism. The upper wall, the collapsible sidewall, and the bottom wall cooperate to define a pressurized liquid reservoir. The fluid is contained within the liquid reservoir. A fluid dispenser includes a housing, a collapsing member, and a biasing member. The housing comprises an upper container portion and a support portion. The upper container portion at least partially defines an interior chamber for receiving the collapsible liquid container. The support portion extends downwardly from the upper container portion. The collapsing member is disposed within the interior chamber and is movably coupled with the upper container portion. The biasing member is coupled with the collapsing member and the housing and is configured to bias the collapsing member toward the dispensation zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: GOJO INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Nick Ermanno Ciavarella, Keith Allen Pelfrey
  • Patent number: 10266313
    Abstract: A dispensing closure (40) for a fluent substance-containing system, such as a container, includes a body (54) for receiving the fluent substance from the system, a locking member (56) assembled with the body (54), and a pivotable actuator (60) assembled with the locking member (56) and defining a dispensing flow passage (190) for discharging the fluent substance. The locking member (56) is rotatable relative to the body (54) from a locking position to an unlocking position to permit a user to pivot the actuator (60) from a closed position to a dispensing, open position. The body (54) has an abutment (110) that extends through the locking member (56) in the locking position to prevent the actuator (60) from moving into the open position. In the unlocking position of the locking member (56), the actuator (60) is not prevented by the abutment (110) from being moved into the open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: AptarGroup, Inc.
    Inventor: Nicholas J. Jelich
  • Patent number: 10267305
    Abstract: A piston pump arrangement that disables operation of the pump in the absence of an inlet liquid and also to a piston pump arrangement useful to discharge liquids from at least two sources and to disable discharge of all of the liquids when supply of liquid from at least one source is empty.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: OP-Hygiene IP GmbH
    Inventors: Heiner Ophardt, Andrew Jones, Zhenchun Shi, Valery Ten
  • Patent number: 10260926
    Abstract: Provided is a self-metering container, an initial positioning device thereof and an initial positioning method. The container comprises a container body, a variable pressure component, a metering channel and an outflow channel. When the variable pressure component is depressurized, contents in the container body enter the metering channel; and when the variable pressure component is pressurized, the contents in the metering channel flow outwards via the outflow channel. The container further comprises an initial positioning device. The initial positioning device comprises a backflow cavity, a backflow channel and a component capable of closing the backflow channel. The backflow cavity is in communication with the variable pressure component and the initial end of the metering channel. The initial end of the metering channel is higher than the bottom of the backflow cavity. The backflow channel is in communication with the bottom of the backflow cavity and the container body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: BEIJING RED-SEA TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zengxin Chen
  • Patent number: 10259621
    Abstract: A container (10) to dispense a liquid such as sauce. The container (1.0) has a resilient deformable body (11) that may be compressed to dispense the liquid from the interior (55) of the body (11). Mounted on the body (11) is a cap (37) that is movable along a path (axis 13) between a closed position and an open position. In the open position the upper opening (38) is open to allow the liquid to be dispensed. Preferably the path is linear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Mars, Incorporated
    Inventors: Matthew Cutts, Michael Ford, Lynne Morrison, James Brennan, Stuart May, Matthew Cormack
  • Patent number: 10260925
    Abstract: Provided is a container, which comprises a container body and a cover and further comprises a variable-pressure component, a metering channel, a liquid extraction channel and an outflow channel. The head of the metering channel is in communication with the variable-pressure component, and the tail thereof is in communication with the outflow channel and the liquid extraction channel. A valve, which is opened when the variable-pressure component is pressurized and is closed when the variable-pressure component is depressurized, is provided between the metering channel and the outflow channel. A valve, which is opened when the variable-pressure component is depressurized and is closed when the variable-pressure component is pressurized, is provided between the metering channel and the liquid extraction channel or within the liquid extraction channel. The metering channel, the liquid extraction channel and the outflow channel are fixed to the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: BEIJING RED-SEA TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zengxin Chen