Patents Examined by David Fidei
  • Patent number: 7210576
    Abstract: Embodiments of garment hangers retail package comprising a display tag having a substantial display area located on top of the garment hanger supporting arms for illustrating the specialty features of the garment hanger. The display tag is sandwiched in between the first two hangers in a retail package of multiple hangers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2007
    Inventor: Peter Ar-Fu Lam
  • Patent number: 7017749
    Abstract: A presser member (1) of the present invention is formed of different materials for the contacting part (5) to press-hold the precision substrates (15) and for the parts other than the contacting part (5). The presser member (1) is shaped from a thermoplastic elastomer for a rectangular frame part, and the contacting part (5) has a pair of structuring parts (4) provided in such a fashion as to inwardly extend from each of a pair of oppositely facing sides. A second contacting part (11) is formed in the extension peripheral part extending via a supporting part (10). The other parts are shaped from a thermoplastic resin. The aforementioned contacting part (5) is provided with grooves of a V-shaped cross section with inclinations changed in the middle for receiving the peripheries of precision substrates (15), and V-grooves for press-holding the peripheries of precision substrates are provided in resilient pieces (12) separated and protruding in a comb teeth-like fashion to form the second contacting part (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2006
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Polymer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshitsugu Yajima, Masato Hosoi, Hideo Kudo, Takashi Matsuo
  • Patent number: 4819807
    Abstract: A tear-strip opening envelope apparatus is provided with a tear-strip opening feature for facilitated closing, sealing, opening and emptying thereof. A tear-strip is located on each of two panels enclosing the sides of the envelope, with each of the tear-strips attachably overlying the other in close alignment, upon sealing of the envelope. The attached aligned tear-strips create a single multi-ply tear-strip assembly which facilitates the opening and emptying of the envelope. Opening of the tear-strip opening envelope apparatus is accomplished by pulling the reinforced multi-ply tear-strip member, at an end thereof, across the tear-strip opening envelope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 11, 1989
    Inventor: Charles Giger
  • Patent number: 4730729
    Abstract: The container for dispatching, disinfecting, sterilizing and storing a variety of instruments such as endoscopes and parts therefore is so constructed that selectible bearing elements comprising pads may be utilized releasably and exchangeably in the container tray and/or lid, which fixedly support one or more side-by-side instruments in the container. By fitting bearing elements of different sizes a wide variety of different instruments can be accommodated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Inventor: Harry Monch
  • Patent number: 4722435
    Abstract: There is described a case for valuable documents, such as notably checks, credit cards, bank notes, etc., comprised of a box with a lid and a closure which may only be opened by inputting a code number, as well as a capsule or phial filled with a pressurized liquid which can destroy or make useless said documents, in which said capsule or phial is made completely or partly from fusible material, and said capsule or phial may be opened or unplugged electrically when electric or electronic means the case is fitted with, are operated due to any break-in attempt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 1986
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1988
    Assignee: Marc Mareels
    Inventors: Marc Mareels, Michel Moerman
  • Patent number: 4634001
    Abstract: A box, particularly for holding floppy discs, has an outer sleeve enclosing a drawer. The drawer can be withdrawn partially from the sleeve to a position where pins moulded inside the sleeve and sliding in grooves in the sleeve limit the withdrawal. The drawer and sleeve can then be swung with respect to each other and the drawer moved back on itself. The open box is self-supporting in this invert-V configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1984
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1987
    Inventor: Thomas C. V. Wakelin
  • Patent number: 4632245
    Abstract: One face of a hand held device such as a yo-yo snaps over nubs projecting inwardly from a cavity and held securely in a display and transport medium for a yo-yo. Multiple nubs allow for secure retention of both concave and convex faced yo-yos while permitting unobstructed view of an exposed face of the yo-yo.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 30, 1986
    Assignee: Donald F. Duncan
    Inventor: Nathan Lerner
  • Patent number: 4630733
    Abstract: This relates to a device for identifying a product which may be placed within a carton. Most particularly, it relates to cartons for drinks served at a fast food establishment. The carton is formed of a paperboard having a plastic facing both interiorly and exteriorly. Identifying indicia is printed on the carton adjacent a corner of the carton and tabs are defined by cut lines which extend through the outer plastic layer and terminate within the paperboard core with the paperboard being readily delaminatable. When the carton is folded to define corners, the tabs, which extend across the corners, automatically have their starting ends displaced from the plane of the paperboard so as to be readily grippable and removable. The projecting tabs also function as anti-stacking devices in that they project from the corners and prevent telescoped opened cartons from wedging one within the other when they are stacked for ease of handling and shipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1986
    Assignee: Continental Bondware, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert E. Fear
  • Patent number: 4629040
    Abstract: According to the invention, a rigid insert is provided in a soft luggage shell. The insert conforms to the configuration of the inside luggage surface and is removably held in place by a twistable retainer ring. The ring is encased in a cloth sleeve and mounted to the luggage in the vicinity of an edge of the insert. By twisting the ring, the ring and associated sleeve can be selectively placed either abuttingly against the insert or away from the insert to allow its removal. The invention also contemplates the provision of a protective shield which is removably mounted to a surface of the luggage which abuts a carrying vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1986
    Assignee: Vetter Products, Inc.
    Inventor: William L. Jones
  • Patent number: 4618066
    Abstract: Disclosed is an inventive apparatus which is interchangeably useful as a container or a megaphone. The apparatus includes a rigid, hollow, double-walled body open at its bottom through an outlet and opened at its top through a port. The apparatus is designed to be hand-held. A removable and reinsertable cap and base are designed to fit respectively into the port and outlet. When inserted, the cap and base make the body useful as a temperature maintaining potable liquid container. When removed, the cap and base open the body for use as a megaphone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 21, 1986
    Assignee: Mug-A-Phone, Inc.
    Inventor: John G. Vail
  • Patent number: 4614297
    Abstract: This relates to tamper resistant cartons wherein the outermost closure flap is provided with a sealing flap of which at least a portion functions as a tuck flap and which tuck flap passes between a front panel and a terminal inner panel with a tuck flap portion being bonded on its inner surface to the outer surface of the inner terminal panel in an inaccessible position whereby the carton cannot be opened without rupturing the same to the extent that tampering would be apparent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1984
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1986
    Assignee: Federal Paper Board Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Robert E. Davis, Patrick S. Maio, Lawrence J. Growney
  • Patent number: 4610349
    Abstract: A four-pack bottle carrier requiring minimal gluing and materials, which can be readily glued up with existing machinery, which will lie flat after gluing and prior to erection, and which can be folded flat again after use. The carrier which is formed from a single piece of paperboard includes four side panels (12, 14, 16, 18) of substantially equal width, a side glue flap (26), and two pairs of opposed bottom panels (66, 68 and 80, 82). The upper portion of the side panels are provided with suitable die cuts (34, 36, 38, 40, 42) and cutouts (56, 62, 64) which facilitate the forming of the bottle dividers (94, 96) and a combined handle and bottle dividers when the bottle carrier is glued up and erected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1986
    Assignee: Wagner Folding Box Corp.
    Inventors: Arthur Schwartz, Paul O. Scott
  • Patent number: 4610333
    Abstract: A frame for a flexible suitcase comprises a single closed moulding of substantially rectangular longitudinal section, having an upper edge, a lower edge and two side edges interconnecting said upper and lower edges. The moulding is manufactured in a single pressure moulding operation from a synthetic material and is provided with a groove open towards the outside. Accessory supports are moulded in one piece with the aforementioned moulding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1986
    Assignee: Ste Delsey
    Inventor: Andre G. Seynhaeve
  • Patent number: 4606457
    Abstract: A package is described which includes individual paperboard packages folded from blanks and which contain and display articles such as glass tumblers or goblets. The individual packages are assembled in sleeves also folded from paperboard blanks which accommodate two, three or four of the individual packages while exposing them for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1985
    Date of Patent: August 19, 1986
    Assignee: Anchor Hocking Corporation
    Inventor: Richard E. Pugh
  • Patent number: 4606070
    Abstract: A combined wind screen and carrying bag is formed from an elongated sheet attached to stakes at opposite ends thereof, the sheet having pockets opening towards said stakes, formed by a seam intermediate the stakes, such that the entire screen can be folded along the seams and articles carried in the pockets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1984
    Date of Patent: August 12, 1986
    Inventor: Robert A. Schachter
  • Patent number: 4601392
    Abstract: A travel cap 10 for a T shaped safety razor 11 is designed to be slid on to the razor head 12 from one end of the latter, and comprises a first tubular portion 10a which fits around the heat to one side or the razor handle 13, and a second wrap-around portion 10b integral with the first portion and extending over the remaining length of the razor head, the longitudinal sides 10c,10d of the wrap-around portion being spaced apart to define a slot 10e along which the razor handle 13 can slide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 22, 1986
    Assignee: Wilkinson Sword Limited
    Inventor: Wolfgang Althaus
  • Patent number: 4596330
    Abstract: Multipackages, packaging elements, and the method for making the multipackages wherein the containers of the multipackages are primarily containers having a generally cylindrical shape such as commonly used beverage bottles and cans and wherein the containers are arranged in the well known six or eight pack configurations. The package making elements are a pair of circumferentially continuous bands made from elastic plastic film materials capable of being highly stretched below the elastic limits thereof. The bands are applied in a highly tensioned condition, as opposed to known shrink film arrangements, about the group of containers with the axis of one band disposed vertically and with the axis of the other band disposed horizontally and longitudinally of the group to make a stable package capable of being carried by a person grasping the upper portion of the band arranged with its axis disposed horizontally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1981
    Date of Patent: June 24, 1986
    Inventor: Edward L. Benno
  • Patent number: 4595086
    Abstract: A top unit is provided defining a upper work surface and having front, rear and opposite side marginal portions. A downwardly opening cover also having front, rear and opposite side marginal portions is provided and the rear marginal portion of the cover is pivotally supported from the rear marginal portion of the top unit for swinging about an axis generally paralleling the rear marginal portions between a closed position closely telescopingly engaged over the top unit from above and a open position extending upwardly from the rear marginal portion of the top unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1984
    Date of Patent: June 17, 1986
    Inventor: Lewis H. Simpson
  • Patent number: 4589548
    Abstract: An apparatus for collecting sputum including: a sputum container having an open end and a closed end; and a funnel which includes a mouth at one end and a discharge portion at the other end. The discharge portion is removably attachable to the container to establish fluid communication between the funnel and the container. A cap is provided for removably covering the container opening. Further provided is a base having a top which includes a recess for receiving the closed end of the container to support at least a portion of the container above the base and a chamber with an opening at its lower end. The cap is releasably held within the chamber with the inside of the cap facing the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1984
    Date of Patent: May 20, 1986
    Assignee: Biomedical Polymers, Inc.
    Inventor: John E. Fay
  • Patent number: 4589560
    Abstract: A bottle of molded plastic material which has a square main portion and a lower extension portion. The lower portion has corners of special configuration that cooperate with corner structures of a carrying crate or rack whereby the bottle is protected against injury.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1984
    Date of Patent: May 20, 1986
    Assignee: McKesson Corporation
    Inventor: Robert M. Harris, Jr.