Patents Examined by Blaine G Neway
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Patent number: 10865028Abstract: A heat sealable, retortable laminated foil capable of being heat sealed to itself or to a polypropylene substrate in forming a contact lens package includes an outer polymeric barrier layer, an intermediate barrier layer, an inner polymeric barrier layer, and a heat sealable layer.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2011Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: MENTCON SINGAPORE PTE LTD.Inventor: Kong Mun Chew
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Patent number: 10843857Abstract: A packaging container for a car floor mat including: a main body; at least one post member extending from the main body for supporting the car floor mat, and a securing arrangement releasably secured to the post member, the car floor mat being retained on the post member when the securing arrangement is secured to the post member, the car floor mat being removable from the packaging container when the securing arrangement is released from the post member, wherein the securing arrangement includes a catch supported on the main body by a hinged connection, the catch including a ring member for encircling the post member when engaging the post member, the ring member having an inwardly directed engagement member for engaging an overbite provided on the post member when the catch is hinged towards and interlocks with the post member.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2014Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: Custom Accessories Inc.Inventors: Giles Frederick Matthews, Nathanael Andrew Hunt, Warwick James Brown
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Patent number: 10800578Abstract: A tube for dispensing product includes a closed first end, an open second end opposing the closed first end, and a side wall extending between the closed first end and the open second end. The side wall and the closed first end define an interior portion to hold product. The side wall of the tube includes internal threads extending inwardly from the side wall adjacent to the open second end. The various elements of the tube may include interlocking features to seal the tube from outside fluids.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2016Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: KAO USA INC.Inventors: Matthew Fisher, Ken Adams
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Patent number: 10669077Abstract: A cap for closing a neck of a bottle is disclosed. The cap includes a lid for closing off the neck and a skirt for fixing to the neck. The skirt is provided with a bulge line for interfering by wedging with the neck, a weakened line to be ruptured by propagation of a tear, and a stop means for preventing the tearing propagating in the rectilinear extension of a first part of the weakened line that runs along the bulge line while being situated on the side of the latter opposite to the lid. The weakened line also includes second and third substantially rectilinear parts which, on the periphery of a skirt, follow on respectively from the first part to the second part of the weakened line. The second part of the weakened line avoids the stop means and extends on either side of the bulge line, while being inclined both with respect to the bulge line and with respect to the direction of the axis of the skirt.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2012Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: Novembal USA Inc.Inventors: Michel Luzzato, Stéphane Graux
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Patent number: 10638657Abstract: A seed tank assembly for an agricultural implement including a support rod with a first end and a second end, in which the first end is configured to couple to a first side of an opening in a seed tank, the second end is configured to couple to a second side of the opening in the seed tank, and the support rod includes a trough. The support rod is configured to provide structural support to the seed tank. The seed tank assembly further including a prop rod with a first end and a second end, in which the first end is slidably coupled to the support rod, the second end is configured to attach to a tank lid, the tank lid is configured to rotate from a closed position to a fully open position, and the tank lid forms an obtuse angle with the opening while in the fully open position. The trough is configured to block movement of the first end of the prop rod while the first end of the prop rod is engaged with the trough to hold the tank lid in the fully open position.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2013Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLCInventor: Scott A. Long
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Patent number: 10633175Abstract: A cargo container includes a base, side walls and a rear wall on the base and a top attached to the side walls and the rear wall. A door frame is attached to the base, the side walls and the top. A fabric panel is provided on or in the door frame. Left and right cable rings are provided at left and right lower corners of the fabric panel. Left and right door posts are positioned at left and right lower corners of the door frame. A cable in or on the fabric panel is attached to or extends around the left and right cable rings. A cable tensioner tensions the cable to secure the fabric panel in closed position in the door frame.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2015Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: SATCO, INC.Inventor: Peter Looker
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Patent number: 10604339Abstract: An equipment shipping, storage, and maintenance support system that includes a cover assembly including a variety of features and a mobile maintenance platform (MMP) coupled to the cover assembly via a plurality of latches. The MMP includes retractable wheel assemblies which enable lateral movement on a support surface in proximity to an end item with an equipment item mounted thereon (e.g., an aircraft with an aircraft radar). The MMP includes a vertical lift system that attaches or detaches from the equipment item to raise or lower the equipment item during maintenance activities. The cover can be installed on the MMP to provide protection against external environment in a storage or transit/shipping modes. The MMP also includes removable jacks which enable raising or lower of the MMP either during maintenance to reorient the equipment item for maintenance or storage purposes to include mitigate of undesirable environmental impacts from storage.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2015Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: James McKay, Michael A. Sayward, James Canary
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Patent number: 10597215Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a panel fixing device, including a box, a pressing member and an expansion agent. The inner wall of the frame of the box is provided with a limiting groove, the pressing member is movably disposed in the limiting groove, the frame has a receiving through hole connecting with the limiting groove, the expansion agent is received in the receiving through hole, and the expansion agent is used for pushing the pressing member after being expanded so that the pressing member compresses the panel accommodated in the box. An injection channel of the expansion agent is reserved on the box. After inflating the expansion agent, the pressing member is pushed by the expansion force, so that the pressing member compresses the panel in the box to limit the panel so as to prevent the box from causing a second impact during the dropping process.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2018Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: HUIZHOU CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Zhilin Zhao
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Patent number: 10589907Abstract: A disposable lid for a drink container has an annular cover portion with a spout having an opening therethrough. A container attachment portion of the lid provides removable association with the rim of the drink container. A liquid permeable filter is positioned within the spout. The liquid permeable filter is positioned to intercept all liquid flowing from the container through the opening.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2007Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: Volo Brands LLCInventor: Donald W. Lusareta
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Patent number: 10543952Abstract: According to some aspects of the present disclosure, a container includes a bottom, a top opposing the bottom, and a plurality of sides extending from the bottom to the top. The bottom, the top and the plurality of sides define an enclosure. The container includes a partition panel extends from a first one of the plurality of sides to a second one of the plurality of sides thereby dividing the enclosure into a first chamber and a second chamber. The container further includes a pass-through opening in the partition panel configured to permit flow of contents from the second chamber into the first chamber. The container also includes a pour spout configured to permit egress of the contents from the first chamber out of the enclosure.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2013Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: Packaging Corporation of AmericaInventors: Rory I. Wilson, Marcus Humphrey
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Patent number: 10457441Abstract: Some embodiments disclosed herein relate to a case for a communication device, having two or more portions movable with respect to each other. A first case portion may cover a particular component or area of the communication device. Accessories or auxiliary structures may be available for use with the particular component, and may be configured to attach to or be used with a communication device housing of a particular size or shape. The first case portion may be moved relative to a second case portion, thereby exposing the component or area of the communication device for use with the accessory. Additional embodiments disclosed herein related to modular components that may be used with cases in order to provide various accessories and features, such as mounts, flashes, batteries, and the like.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2013Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: Portero Holdings, LLCInventors: Patrick D. O'Neill, Chong Pak
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Patent number: 10429007Abstract: A gas pressure tank structure including: a tank wall, a compression oil cylinder, a locking ring, a spring cylinder, a locating pin mounting hole, a dowel pinhole, a refractory brick, a guide mechanism, a sealing structure, an arc joint, an arc shaped tank bottom, a steel ladle stand, a tank cover, and a reinforcing board.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2017Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: Amsted Rail Company, Inc.Inventors: Zhaoli Yang, Yue Zuo, Xuejun Zhu, Sijin Zhang, Chengqun Yan, Zhongxian Du, Jianfei Sun, Fuyang Cao, Dongye Yang
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Patent number: 10220986Abstract: Container includes a base, a cover, and a pull tab. The base has a bottom, a side wall extending upwardly from the bottom, and a rim at an upper edge portion of the side wall. The cover has a closed condition and an open condition and an outer edge portion interengageable with the rim of the base when the cover is in the closed condition. The pull tab extends outwardly from at least one of the base or the cover. The pull tab having a deformable formation to be deformed when the cover is moved from the closed condition to the open condition, the pull tab remaining attached to the at least one of the base or the cover when moved from the closed condition to the open condition. Additional embodiments relate to a tamper evident feature for a container, and a method for containing product in a container.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2009Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: PACTIV CORPORATIONInventors: Frank A. Petlak, Scott W. Follansbee, H. Bernard Kirkland, Craig E. Cappel
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Patent number: 8047372Abstract: The invention relates to a case for receiving a blister pack, comprising a first case half and a second case half. The halves are hinged on one another. The first case half is designed as a pocket for receiving the blister pack and has an outer part and an inner viewing part and also first apertures in the viewing part and second apertures in the outer part. The first apertures are at least partially aligned with the second apertures, specifically at least where the receptacles are located after the blister pack is received in the pocket. The second case half has a first compartment for receiving a first display displaying days of the week, and first windows for displaying the days of the week in an inner viewing surface of the second case half in the area of the first compartment. The first windows are arranged in such a way that they are aligned with the columns of the receptacles of a medicament pack received in the pocket.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2006Date of Patent: November 1, 2011Assignee: Bayer Pharma AGInventor: Sabine Leifeld
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Patent number: 8006845Abstract: A lockable pill container includes a holder defining at least one compartment having an access opening providing access to a pill holder interior volume. At least one lid is moveable between a covering position and an open position. The lid includes a first locking member that is sized to project into the holder when the respective lid is in the covering position. A second locking member is moveable between a locking position and a release position. The locking position includes a position in which the second locking member engages a first locking member of the at least one lid in the covering position. The release position includes a position in which the second locking member is disengaged from all of the first locking members. The second locking member includes opposite first and second ends. The second locking member is moveable from the locking position to the release position by application of a force against the second end.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2010Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignee: Apothecary Products, Inc.Inventors: Terrance O. Noble, Robert N. Priebe
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Patent number: 7959006Abstract: A bag has two handles extending from a containing structure that holds items. An elastic member is attached to each handle and each elastic member defines at least part of a passage. Arms of a bag rack assembly are placed through the passages defined by the elastic members so that the bag is supported on the bag rack by the elastic members.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2008Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.Inventors: Ryan McCoy, Daniel Joseph Hoyord, Angela L. Baer
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Patent number: 7921994Abstract: A package (10) includes a one-piece molded plastic container having a base (14), an outer wall (16), and at least one dividing wall extending across the outer wall to divide the container into at least first and second chambers that are separated from each other by the dividing wall. The container has an open end remote from the base, and a molded plastic lid (12) is provided for receipt over the open end of the container in sealing engagement with the outer wall and the dividing wall. The lid is constructed to seal the chambers from each other and from ambient surrounding the package. In at least one of the chambers, the dividing wall preferably has ribs for engagement by a coating application roller.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2005Date of Patent: April 12, 2011Assignee: Behr Procress CorporationInventors: Thomas R. Lee, Duberney Ospina
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Patent number: 7896156Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for holding information storage media such as a disk (4) having an aperture therein. The apparatus includes, among other elements, a base portion and engaging means for releasably engaging the information storage media via said aperture. The engaging means includes at least one arm resiliently cantilevered to the base portion, retaining means for engaging and retaining the information storage media on the apparatus, and release means. The depression of the release means disengages the retaining means and the information storage media. A locating means is provided for receiving a security member as it is inserted beneath the engaging means in a first direction parallel to the base portion so as to inhibit operation of the release means. The locating means is arranged to locate the security member laterally as it is inserted beneath the engaging means.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2005Date of Patent: March 1, 2011Assignee: Dubois LimitedInventors: Peter Antony Farrar, Robert Johnston
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Patent number: 7882950Abstract: A package for individual wine bottles includes a box shaped lower portion having a top side defining a first cutout for receiving a bottom portion of a bottle and a flat handle portion joined to and extending vertically from the top side of the box shaped lower portion. The handle porting defines a second cutout for accommodating the bottle. The box shaped lower portion and the flat handle portion are formed by folding a single corrugated cardboard sheet that has been cut into a predefined shape. Packaging wine bottles using this package is done in two stages. First, collapsible half-formed packages are manufactured by cutting corrugated cardboard sheets into the predefined shape and folding the sheets. Second, the half-formed packages are collapsed and transported to another facility such as a winery, where bottles of wine are packaged using the half-formed packages.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2009Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Inventor: Joseph Nazari
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Patent number: 7878326Abstract: Packaging for an article of manufacture, which includes a base with a ledge formed on its interior, a holder disposed within the base for holding an item, and a lid above the base. The holder, base, and lid may be transparent. The holder may suspend the item above a surface to give the item the appearance that it is floating within the packaging.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2007Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Bartley K. Andre, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Steve Jobs, Duncan Robert Kerr, Shin Nishibori, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Douglas B. Satzger, Calvin Q. Seid, Vincent Keane Seid, legal representative, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zorkendorfer