Patents Examined by David J. Walczak
  • Patent number: 11793294
    Abstract: A device for discharging a substance has a device housing equipped with a movable support in order to act on the substance, and a rotary handle for moving the support between a lower starting position and an upper extended position of the support. The rotary handle forms a spindle part together with a spindle. The spindle part passes through a housing base, and is locked to the housing base and is sealed. A locking protrusion engages into a locking recess of the spindle part, and a seal protrusion sealingly rests against a circumferential surface of the spindle part. The locking recess of the spindle part is formed axially below the circumferential surface which interacts with the seal protrusion. The seal protrusion is formed on a sleeve section of the device housing, and a sleeve section seal edge is sealingly surrounded by the spindle part in a U-shaped manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: RPC Bramlage GmbH
    Inventors: Jessica Niemeyer, Lea Hammersen
  • Patent number: 11793344
    Abstract: An apparatus for sanitary and controlled dispensing of a butter stick or another food product having a rectangular stick form. The apparatus includes a dispensing housing, a coupler, a base, and a cover. The dispensing housing includes a rectangular body with a central cavity, an elongated opening about a first side of the rectangular body, and a pair of grippers about a second side and a third side of the rectangular body adjacent to the first side. The coupler is attached to a bottom of the dispensing housing. The coupler includes a flexible material that increases a width about the bottom of the dispensing housing. The base couples to and decouples from the bottom of the dispensing housing via the coupler. The cover couples to and decouples from a top of the dispensing housing via the coupler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Au Cao, Inc.
    Inventors: Trang N. Cao, Chi H. Cao
  • Patent number: 11779094
    Abstract: An adjustable applicator head with protrusion elements and a dispensing orifice in fluidic communication with a formulation reservoir operably coupled to a sliding length-adjustment element configured to adjust an exposed protrusion length of the protrusion elements along a direction parallel to a central axis of the length-adjustment element. The applicator can be refilled and re-used and is adjustable for different lengths of hair and hair styles. The tines or bristles can be replaced with foam applicators, sponges, or other surfaces for various applications, such as skincare, makeup or makeup removal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: L'Oreal
    Inventors: William Robert Bickford, Jason Fyfe, Andrea Saverino, Oliver Sha
  • Patent number: 11779095
    Abstract: A container for stick type content includes a housing, a manipulation portion coupled to a lower side of the housing to be relatively rotatable with the housing, a first lifting portion provided inside the housing and including an accommodation portion on top in which at least a part of content is accommodated, and a second lifting portion provided inside the first lifting portion and including a support portion disposed inside the accommodation portion to support the content from below. The first lifting portion and the second lifting portion move upward or downward according to rotation of the manipulation portion, and the first lifting portion and the second lifting portion move upward simultaneously and move the content upward when the manipulation portion rotates in one direction while the second lifting portion moves upward alone and moves the content further upward when the first lifting portion moves upward to a certain height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: KR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jae Sam Byeon
  • Patent number: 11779954
    Abstract: A caulking alignment device including a base substrate having at least two panels, an alignment tab located on each panel with each alignment tab having a front side and a back side with the front side of the alignment tab removably attached to the corresponding panel by a non-permanent adhesive with each of the tabs supported on the base substrate in a spaced and perpendicular condition from each other, a non-permanent adhesive located on each of the back sides, a removable film covering the adhesive on each of the back sides, and caulk receiving channels formed from a spacing between the alignment tabs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Inventor: Jacob Michael Novak
  • Patent number: 11771202
    Abstract: A cosmetic material feeding-out container includes an outer tube, an inner tube disposed inside the outer tube, a cosmetic material container disposed in the inner tube with relatively moveable along a tube axial direction, an intermediate tube formed with a helical groove repeatedly on an inner circumferential face along a tube axial direction and disposed between the outer tube and the inner tube, an engagement member protruded from a portion of the cosmetic material container and engageable with the helical groove, and an operation unit including a knocking operation piece protruded from the outer tube and a rotating cam mechanism configured to rotate the intermediate tube in response to a knocking operation of the knocking operation piece, and the intermediate tube is configured to be rotated by the rotating cam mechanism to move the cosmetic material container along the tube axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Shiseido Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yu Nakahira
  • Patent number: 11772120
    Abstract: An apparatus (10) for use in dispensing adhesive (18) is provided that has a mix applicator (12) that has a receiving portion (16) and a mix applicator bore (14) through which adhesive can flow. A mix head (20) is present that has a mix head bore (26) that extends through the mix head. The mix applicator is receivable within the mix head such that the receiving portion is located within the mix head. Adhesive can be dispensed in a ribbon shape from the mix head bore at a distal tip of the mix head. A lock member is configured for extending through at least a portion of the mix head, and engages the mix applicator when the receiving portion is located within the mix head in order to retain the mix head onto the mix applicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Compagnie Generale des Etablissements Michelin
    Inventor: Ryan Michael Gaylo
  • Patent number: 11771201
    Abstract: A lipstick tube includes a lipstick carrier partially disposed in a cap and including a rotational seat, an axial snapping hole, and a snapping member between the snapping hole and the rotational seat; a joining device including an axial well, an annular protrusion, an annular member including two opposite recesses having a recessed element at an end, and two opposite latches each including first, second and third cavities at an end, and a protuberance having an inclined surface urging against the snapping member; and a base including a central shaft, a positioning member at an end of the shaft, four locking elements at four corners of the positioning member respectively, the locking elements being in the second and third cavities respectively, two opposite first ribs on an inner surface of the base configured to moveably dispose in the recesses respectively, and two positioning elements in the recessed elements respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Zhuhai Ding Rong Plastic Products Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Ting Nan Liu
  • Patent number: 11771296
    Abstract: A cleaning device includes a porous body and a dispensing reservoir disposed within the porous body. The dispensing reservoir has at least one opening being disposed at a predetermined location along a length of the dispensing reservoir such that a rate at which the solution flows into the porous body varies based specific orientations of the porous body. A perforated fluid supply conduit is also disposed within the porous body and extends alongside the dispensing reservoir, the perforated fluid conduit having a plurality of perforations. The dispensing reservoir and the perforated fluid supply conduit are not directly fluidly coupled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Inventor: Allen Norman Boldt
  • Patent number: 11766110
    Abstract: An applicator which comprises an application body arranged inside the front part of a barrel cylinder supplying the application body with the application liquid stored in a storage portion in the barrel cylinder, and is configured such that: a full coupling portion and a temporary coupling portion are formed on each of a front barrel and the barrel cylinder; the front barrel and the barrel cylinder each have an anti-rotation rib; the anti-rotation ribs are not engaged with each other in the initial coupled state before the temporary coupled state in which the temporary coupling portions of the barrel cylinder and the front barrel are engaged with each other; and, the anti-rotation ribs become engaged with each other in the fully coupled state in which the full coupling portions are engaged with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI PENCIL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Jun Nakada
  • Patent number: 11766887
    Abstract: An erasable ink writing instrument comprising a body extending along an axis, the body having a first end and a second end opposed to the first end along the axis, the first end being provided with a writing tip and with an eraser, wherein the writing tip is fed with erasable ink, wherein the writing tip is fixed with regard to the body and the eraser is movable along the axis with regard to the body, and the erasable ink writing instrument further comprising a helical-cam propelling mechanism configured to move the eraser along the axis between a retracted position and a protruding position. The erasable ink is a peelable ink and the eraser is a friction body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: SOCIÉTÉ BIC
    Inventor: Laurent Beaucher
  • Patent number: 11758997
    Abstract: An applicator head for applying a product including a cosmetic, care, or pharmaceutical product onto the keratinous substrate. The applicator head includes an applying member elongated along a longitudinal axis. The applying member includes an inclined distal end face and at least one sidewall extending from a proximal end of the applying member to a peripheral edge of the inclined distal end face. The at least one sidewall includes a front side face, a back side face, a left side face, and a right side face. An upper half portion of each of the back side face and the front side face is at least 20% narrower than an upper half portion of each of the left side face and the right side face. The at least one sidewall includes a central concave portion extending between a proximal portion and a distal portion of the at least one sidewall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: APR Beauty Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Min-Yan Zheng, Feng-Ying Fu, Jun Shen
  • Patent number: 11759300
    Abstract: An electric toothbrush includes a handle provided with a liquid feeding port, a toothbrush head connected to the handle and provided with a liquid discharging port communicated to the liquid feeding port through a liquid transfer passageway, a pumping mechanism disposed at the liquid transfer passageway and used for providing a pumping force for the liquid transfer passageway so as to transfer liquid from the liquid feeding port to the liquid discharging port and spray the liquid, and a transmission mechanism disposed on the handle and connected to the toothbrush head to drive the toothbrush head have a reciprocating motion relative to the handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Inventor: Xianhua Huang
  • Patent number: 11760122
    Abstract: A device for manual application of a liquid. The device may be used for painting, marking, drawing, writing and/or applying make-up to keratinous surfaces. The device includes a capillary store for the liquid, the capillary store having a filing level, and a measuring device for measuring the filing level of the capillary store.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Inventors: Karl-Peter Kämpf, Thiemo Daubner
  • Patent number: 11752796
    Abstract: A tail plug to be attached to a tail end of a shaft part of a writing instrument includes an inner plug that is fitted into the shaft part and an outer plug that is coupled with the inner plug. The inner plug has a first opening through which a fluid can flow in an axial direction of the shaft part; the outer plug has a second opening through which a fluid can flow in the axial direction of the shaft part, and at least one of the first opening and the second opening are configured to be closed when the outer plug and the inner plug are coupled with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: KURETAKE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ichiro Nishitani, Makiko Morimoto
  • Patent number: 11753558
    Abstract: Dry erase ink formulations containing a resin, a pre-assembled colorant, and a solvent, wherein the dry erase ink formulation has a surface tension of at least 25 dynes per centimeter, and writing instruments including a dry erase ink formulation are provided herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: SANFORD, L.P.
    Inventor: Wing Sum Vincent Kwan
  • Patent number: 11752797
    Abstract: A dual twist structure, an object ejecting device including the same, and a structure for sealing the same, the dual twist structure including: a housing configured to accommodate a content cartridge therein and having a cam groove provided at a tip thereof; a sleeve coupled to and fitted with the content cartridge and having a cam protrusion formed on an outer portion thereof; and a tubular operation body having a twist cam groove into which the cam protrusion is slidably fitted, and a cam pin protruding and configured to move to a position misaligned with the twist cam groove by being guided by the cam groove, in which the dual twist structure has the two cam grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Inventor: Youb Kim
  • Patent number: 11745214
    Abstract: A dispensing paintbrush includes a handle, a brush head connected to the handle, and bristles attached to the brush head to apply a fluid to a surface. A coupler is attached to the handle and is configured to connect to a fluid source. A nozzle is attached to the coupler and is configured to dispense the fluid to the bristles. The nozzle extends within the bristles and terminates at a position from the brush head that is less than one half the length of the bristles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Inventor: Michael Deegan
  • Patent number: 11738589
    Abstract: A thermochromic writing instrument including a writing body, storing a thermochromic ink therein, stored in a barrel; an operation body provided in the barrel to be operated to longitudinally move the writing body; a nib of the writing body configured to be capable of appearing from a front end of the writing instrument, wherein the writing instrument 1 further includes a friction unit, for rubbing handwriting in the thermochromic ink and capable of thermally changing the color of the handwriting by frictional heat generated at that time, and at least one clip body as the operation body, the friction unit 10 is provided at a rear end of the barrel, and the clip body is provided in an area other than the rear end of the barrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Ito
  • Patent number: 11738590
    Abstract: A novel blending stump pencil device that provides a user with one implement for both drawing and blending. The device comprises a wood-bodied pencil with a blending stump attached to a rear of the pencil via a securing apparatus. The device comprises a clear finish and a removable plastic sleeve that protects the blending stump from damage and debris. Further, the device can be included in a kit with multiple pencil types.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Inventor: Michael Johnson