Patents Examined by D. Crosby
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Patent number: 5054946Abstract: The applicator device comprises an envelope with an opened base and a top formed with a neck and a squeezing member. The envelope is closed by a foot which is part of a container which is engaged and tightly fixed inside the envelope. The neck of the envelope receives a cap forming a stem prolongated by an applicator for a cosmetics product contained in the container.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 1988Date of Patent: October 8, 1991Assignee: Societe de Conseils et d'Etudes des Emballages SceeInventor: Simone Morel
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Patent number: 4996995Abstract: An ashtray which has a main body including a tray for receiving ashes and a housing having an opening facing upwardly for housing the tray therein, a lid member for covering the opening of the housing therewith, a hinge assembly for rotatably connecting the lid member to the main body, an air cleaning means disposed at the lid member for removing impurities from the air, the air cleaning means including a fan for exhausting the air, a drive means for driving the fan and an air cleaner for removing impurities from the air and a light means for lighting the main body and the lid member. The ashtray can be used in a dimly-lit-place as well as in a well-lit place, and is able to clean the air by removing impurities, including smoke emitted from cigarettes or other smoking materials.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 1989Date of Patent: March 5, 1991Assignee: Kobishi Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yoshikazu Kojima
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Patent number: 4902000Abstract: A toddler walking trainer is set forth utilizing a plurality of rails telescopingly mounted within support posts. The support posts and rails are encased in a resilient covering to enhance safety and comfort to a toddler utilizing the device. The support posts are mounted onto a "U" shaped rigid clamp reciprocatably mounted relative to an opposed "U" shaped clamp of an opposed support rail and post slidably received within a connecting member to grasp a resilient mat therebetween to provide safety and comfort to a toddler utilizing the device.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 1989Date of Patent: February 20, 1990Inventors: Robert D. Starks, John H. Starks, Jr., Nola S. Zarate
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Patent number: 4901458Abstract: An advertising display including a simulated winged butterfly, bee or the like, and which is rotatably driven by a battery operated electromotor to simulate the flight of a butterfly and draw the customer's attention to the merchandise displayed therewith. The rotatable display includes a thin piano wire on which the butterfly is mounted at the upper end of the wire, the lower end of the wire being secured to a rotatably driven member in such a manner as to preclude breakage due to the repeated flexing. An upper end portion of the wire is bent so that the butterfly trails in the direction of rotation of the driven member and produces a particularly lifelike, articulated and swinging movement of the butterfly.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 1988Date of Patent: February 20, 1990Assignee: Martin Paul, Inc.Inventors: Martin P. Belokin, Norman P. Belokin
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Patent number: 4902155Abstract: A liquid dispenser for dispensing a predetermined volume of liquid to a surface includes a bottle for containing a supply of the liquid with a movable sleeve coaxially located with and receiving the outlet end of the bottle. The sleeve includes a valve which closes and opens the bottle outlet as the sleeve moves toward and away, respectively, from the bottle outlet. The sleeve also includes a metered liquid reservoir to the opposite side of the seal from the bottle outlet for receiving a predetermined measured amount of liquid from the bottle. A valve is located at the reservoir to control the flow of liquid from the reservoir, and a dauber tip is in liquid-flow communication with the reservoir for receiving liquid from the reservoir and dispensing the liquid on a surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 1988Date of Patent: February 20, 1990Inventor: Sallie Q. Buschemeyer
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Patent number: 4887924Abstract: An angled plastic tip applicator comprises a compression moulded rigid upper part including a hollow annular tip part being truncated by a convex wall being longitudinally varyingly curved at an impermanent radius. A center tube dependent from the convex wall communicates with an opening in the convex wall. A flat top cap threaded on the tip and having a serrated outer surface has a center pin engageable with the center tube for tight sealing of the applicator. The applicator has a pliable lower metal laminated plastic tubular container wall prevents leaching and pollution of the product.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 1988Date of Patent: December 19, 1989Assignee: 501 Blistex Inc.Inventor: Richard K. Green
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Patent number: 4848374Abstract: A smoking device for releasing an aerosol into the mouth of a smoker comprises in combination, a chamber into which a mixture of air and a liquid aerosol precursor is introduced, a heat source surrounding the chamber, a first duct providing communication between the chamber and a smoker's mouth, whereby the contents of the chamber may be drawn into the smoker's mouth, a container for the aerosol precursor, a second duct means leading from the aerosol precursor container into the chamber whereby aerosol precursor may pass from said container into the chamber, and a third duct means providing communication between ambient air and the chamber whereby ambient air may be drawn into the chamber by the smoker, the arrangement being such that in operation liquid aerosol precursor entering the chamber is converted into a condensation aerosol.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 1988Date of Patent: July 18, 1989Inventors: Brian C. Chard, Christopher R. Bale, Beresford R. Gill, David Herron, Stephen J. Garrett
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Patent number: 4830026Abstract: In an ash tray apparatus provided with a cigarette lighter, the ash tray is pivoted open downward and the lighter is slided open frontward side by side, thus providing an easy access of the user to the cigarette lighter when the ash tray is completely open. The apparatus comprises, in particular, a front pin fixed to the ash tray; a rear pin fixed to the cigarette lighter and guided along a slot formed in a partition of the housing; and a link member having a front end connected the front pin and a rear end connected to the rear pin.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 1987Date of Patent: May 16, 1989Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kazunori Yokokawa