Patents Examined by David T. Fidei
  • Tissue container with auxiliary compartment
    Patent number: 7575115
    Abstract: A tissue container comprising a tissue receiving enclosure and a re-closable opening for dispensing tissues there through, and an associated auxiliary compartment holding a preparation for use in conjunction with the tissues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Inventor: Liat De-Vries
  • Case for vinyl roller tool
    Patent number: 7571806
    Abstract: A rolling tool case for holding and transporting a tool. The case includes two sections which are joined to enclose the tool body in an interior cavity. The handle of the tool extends through an opening hole in the top of the case. The tool's handle may be gripped to roll the tool over a surface, reducing the needed size of the tool case. Wheels on the bottom of one of the two sections allow the case to roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Crain Cutter Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Lance D. Crain, Tan D. Nguyen
  • Package and method for personalizing a product in a container
    Patent number: 7571809
    Abstract: A single package for personalizing a product in a container includes a plurality of containers. Each container has a volume to hold a product and an exterior surface. The exterior surface of each container is unlabeled. A label kit provides for labeling the containers, and an enclosure holds the containers and the label kit in a single package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Inventor: Tammy A. Yahiel
  • Bottled beverage holding luggage
    Patent number: 7565974
    Abstract: A bottled beverage holding luggage (1) having a core (14), a vertical wall (13) located within the core and a plurality of horizontal walls (12) located within the core (14). The horizontal walls (12) intersect with the vertical wall (13) to form a plurality of openings (10) for the acceptance of bottles (9), which may be bottled beverages. Shock-absorbent sleeves (11) having at least one aperture (15) may be inserted into the openings (10). Thus, the bottles (9) are placed within the sleeves (11) and the sleeves (11) are ultimately placed within the openings (10) in the core (14) to protect the bottles (9) from breakage during transit. Alternatively, the core (14) may include removable horizontal and vertical shelves (17 and 22) which form the openings (10) or include a plurality of foldable dividers (27) which form the openings (10) for acceptance of the bottles (9).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2009
    Inventor: A. Stanley Adams, Jr.
  • Bat access and storage device
    Patent number: 7559423
    Abstract: The present invention provides a bat access and storage device for baseball and softball bats. In an exemplary embodiment, the bat access and storage device includes an athletic equipment bag including a general periphery defining an interior. The athletic equipment bag includes an access communicating with the interior. The bat access and storage device also provides a bat sack including a general body and a bat receptacle carried by the general body. The bat sack is adapted to be received within the interior of the athletic equipment bag via the access for storing multiple bats within the interior. Additionally, the bat sack is adapted to be removed via the access to provide accessibility to multiple bats outside of the athletic equipment bag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2009
    Assignee: Mizuno USA
    Inventor: Clint Vosloo
  • Packaging and/or applicator device for applying at least one substance
    Patent number: 7559426
    Abstract: A packaging and applicator device for applying at least one substance may include: a support that includes at least one cavity configured to containing the substance; and an applicator that includes at least one cut out part of the support that is secured to the support at least before use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2009
    Assignee: L'Oreal
    Inventor: Jacques Habatjou
  • Package including container and method of packing, with packing kit, container to provide package
    Patent number: 7556146
    Abstract: A packing kit for packing a container which contains a fluid together with a first gas, and thereby providing a package including the container, the packing kit including a packing bag which is adapted to fluid-tightly accommodate the container together with a second gas, a non-gas-tight case which accommodates the packing bag together with a third gas and which has a rigidity to restrain an expansion of the packing bag in a low-pressure environment where a portion of the third gas leaks from the non-gas-tight case and accordingly a pressure of the third gas becomes lower than a pressure of the second gas, and a volume-ratio reducing device which is provided inside of at least the non-gas-tight case so as to reduce a ratio of a volume of the third gas to a volume of the second gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2009
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masayuki Takata
  • Packaging bag for diapers
    Patent number: 7549538
    Abstract: A packaging bag facilitates understanding that the contents are diapers for older children from the display on the packaging bag at low costs. The packaging bag contains disposable underpants-type diapers of which the intended wearers are children 10 months and older. The surface of the packaging bag includes an intended wearer illustration display part which mainly shows one or more illustrations of the intended wearer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2009
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi Naoe, Fumihiko Ukita
  • Peelable seal
    Patent number: 7546918
    Abstract: The present invention provides a peelable seal for a multi-chambered container including a first edge and a second edge. At least one of the first edge or second edge includes a stress bearing portion and a non-stress bearing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2009
    Assignees: Baxter International Inc., Baxter Healthcare S.A.
    Inventors: Paul Andre Gollier, Patrick Balteau, Vincent Houwaert, Francesco Peluso
  • Contact lens case
    Patent number: 7540376
    Abstract: A contact lens case including a body or base portion with a pair of lens-receiving wells recessed therein, a cap or cover closable to form a substantially liquid-impermeable seal around the wells, and a latch or closure assembly engageable to secure the cover in its closed position. A compressible gasket around the wells assists in forming the seal with the cover. The wells include a primary bowl portion with a tapered secondary portion extending therefrom to assist in lens removal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2009
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Frans Mahieu, Lynn Goldblatt, Kim Muenzer, Spencer MacKay
  • Reusable shipping container for fragile objects
    Patent number: 7540381
    Abstract: A reusable shipping container having hingeable lids is described for use in transporting fragile items and artwork, such as paintings, mirrors, and the like. The container is made up of two substantially parallel end panels, a bottom panel extending between and perpendicular to the two end panels, a back panel extending perpendicular to the bottom panel and the two end panels, a lower front panel extending substantially perpendicular to the bottom panel and to the end panels, an upper front panel co-planar with the lower front panel and attached to the upper edge of the lower front panel with a hingeable means allowing for hingeable rotation, and a top panel that is substantially parallel to the bottom panel and is attached to the upper edge of the back panel with an attachment means that allows the top panel to rotate out of parallel with the bottom panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2009
    Inventor: Stanley J. Blasco
  • Accordion product display container
    Patent number: 7537121
    Abstract: An “accordion-like” product display container with a plurality of compartments is provided. The product display container has a collapsed configuration in which the panels are folded up and an expanded display configuration in which the panels form areas for holding product to be displayed. Each compartment in the plurality of compartments further comprises at least one rigidity flap, e.g., a pair of rigidity flaps. The rigidity flaps are deployed into a rigidifying position to stiffen the product display container are resist compression from the expanded display configuration to the collapsed configuration. The display container may be transitioned from the collapsed state to the rigid state solely by deploying the rigidity flaps. The rigidity flaps may be held in place by bottom panels of the compartments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2009
    Assignee: Sonoco Development, Inc.
    Inventors: Rick Markson, Jay Weinberg, Luigi Taranto
  • Reclosable consumable product package assembly
    Patent number: 7533773
    Abstract: The present invention provides a reclosable consumable product package for retaining an array of products until the products are desired to be removed. The package includes a container packet formed of a planar extent roll for retaining and enclosing the array of products. A cover with adhesive attached thereto defined by an openable flap overlies the packet. The packet is scored along its surface in such a way that opening of the flap causes the packet to open along the scoring to expose the product for dispensing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Assignee: Cadbury Adams LLC
    Inventors: Allen Sydney Aldridge, Charles F. Flynn, IV, James S. Mandle
  • Windshield packaging system using pressure-regulated clamps with synergistic clamp jaw components
    Patent number: 7533771
    Abstract: A windshield packaging system that provides effective support for the windshield during substantial vertical drops, protects the windshield against side impacts, is simple in design, requires only modest skill to effectively assemble, protects windshields of different size with the same size carton, and minimizes inventory management problems. The windshield packaging system includes jaw components having a synergistic effect, horizontally-running flutes, and pressure-regulated clamps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: David Allison
  • Structure of air-packing device
    Patent number: 7533772
    Abstract: An air-packing device has an improved shock absorbing capability to protect a product in a container box. The air-packing device is comprised of first and second thermoplastic films where predetermined portions are bonded thereby creating a plurality of air containers, a plurality of heat-seal lands each sealing the first and second thermoplastic films in a small area of the air container thereby creating a plurality of series connected air cells for each air container, a plurality of check valves for corresponding air containers for allowing the compressed air to flow in a forward direction, and at least one pocket formed of a sheet of thermoplastic film bonded to either the first thermoplastic film or the second thermoplatic film at boundaries between two adjacent air containers. The air-packing device is folded after the product is inserted in the pocket and installed in a container box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Assignee: Air- Paq, Inc.
    Inventors: Kark K. Yoshifusa, Wei-Wen Peng
  • Tray and bundle pack
    Patent number: 7527152
    Abstract: A bundle pack includes a tray having a bottom, a sidewall, and a tray longitudinal axis. A plurality of packaged products disposed in the tray and the packaged products each having a product longitudinal axis and a product transverse axis. The plurality of packaged products is each disposed at an angle in the tray such that each product longitudinal axis forms a product angle ? with the tray longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2009
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Laura Lee Lentner, Joshua Hilton Thyren, Charlcie C. K. Leitner, Richard Frederick House
  • Wafer container with secondary wafer restraint system
    Patent number: 7523830
    Abstract: A wafer container providing improved wafer restraint during physical shock events. In embodiments of the invention, a secondary wafer restraint structure defining a plurality of notches is interposed between opposing wafer restraint members on the door of the container. The notches may be defined by one or more converging edges or surfaces meeting at a junction. The junctions are positioned so as to align with the wafer receiving portions of each opposing pair of wafer restraint member so that when the door is fully sealingly engaged with the enclosure of the container, the edge of the wafer is contacting the junction. In this position, any vertical movement of the wafer due to shock imparted to the container causes the wafer to contact the converging surfaces or edges, thereby limiting such movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: Entegris, Inc.
    Inventors: John Burns, Matthew A. Fuller, Jeffery J. King, Martin L. Forbes, Mark V. Smith
  • Stackable container
    Patent number: 7513365
    Abstract: The present invention provides a stackable container having a plurality of pallet blocks arranged to define a pallet block matrix and a container unit adapted to rest upon the pallet block matrix, wherein one or more of the pallet blocks is adapted to positively position the container relative to a support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: International Paper Company
    Inventors: Adam C. Cornelius, Eric J. Oberliesen
  • Baby bottle/beverage device
    Patent number: 7506754
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a contemporary beverage dispenser, especially suited as a baby bottle, comprising a solid connector that has an upper portion and a lower portion and a plastic bag connected to the lower portion. The uniqueness of the combination of the connector and bag is that the connector is designed to fit on the lip of a conventional baby bottle with the bag in the bottle or is used without a bottle. When used without a bottle, a compression ring is used to connect a head, such as a nipple, to the beverage dispenser of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignee: Simple Innovations, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Eugenio Segovia, Jr., Kurt S. Myers
  • Drug display card
    Patent number: 7506761
    Abstract: A fold line separating an upper section from a lower section of a drug display card such that the upper section is folded downwardly to lie parallel to and in contact with the lower portion. The upper portion is interengaged with the lower portion so as to secure the upper portion in place. In addition, both the upper portion and lower portion include a hanging hole which are in alignment with each other to form a single through passage when the upper edge is folded along an upper portion of the lower portion of the card. A double thickness reinforced hanging card is thereby provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignee: Navajo Manufacturing Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Gordon Levy