Patents Examined by Donnell A Long
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Patent number: 11866315Abstract: A beverage apparatus and system is disclosed. The beverage apparatus is configurable to add flavors, minerals, vitamins, or other such additives to a source fluid, such as purified water, in response to a user's selection of settings, to provide a customized beverage. Advantageously, the beverage apparatus uses the purified water to cleanse the components that come into contact with the additive as part of the preparation of each beverage and includes this cleansing wash as part of the beverage itself, thus providing a self-cleaning apparatus that does not require a separate drain.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: SUM LLCInventors: Tyler G. Hurd, Lloyd G. B. Cooper, Foster Daniel Phillips, Daniel Jacob Bolus, Tarek Midani
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Patent number: 11858797Abstract: A dispenser head for in-line mixing and dispensing of beverages, which may be carbonated or nitrogenated. The dispenser head comprising a pump, a dilution mechanism, an additive mechanism, and outlet nozzle and optionally a regulation system. In use, the pump can pump concentrate liquid for the liquid product from a concentrate source to the dilution mechanism; the dilution mechanism can receive diluent liquid suitable for the liquid product from a diluent source, operable to mix the diluent liquid and the concentrate liquid and provide diluted concentrate liquid; and the additive mechanism can receive additive fluid for the liquid product from an additive source, to combine the diluted concentrate liquid and the additive fluid.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: QUANTEX ARC LIMITEDInventors: Richard Paul Hayes-Pankhurst, Jonathan Edward Ford
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Patent number: 11858697Abstract: A dispensing package for a floor treatment composition. The dispensing package includes a coupling shell and a container. The coupling shell is provided with a dispensing opening and at least one front aperture. The container includes a membrane seal engaged with a sealing surface of the container. The coupling shell can provide for a connection between a container and a dispensing system.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Richard Christopher Hagee, William Michael Cannon, John Charles Van Rens, Kerry Lloyd Weaver
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Patent number: 11858698Abstract: A coupling shell including a top wall, a shell wall, a front aperture in the top wall, a dispensing opening in the top wall, and a neck fitment projecting into the shell interior of the shell wall. The coupling shell can provide for a connection between a container and a dispensing system.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Kerry Lloyd Weaver, Richard Christopher Hagee, William Michael Cannon, John Charles Van Rens
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Patent number: 11849664Abstract: A hopper extension includes forward and rearward walls connected by first and second side walls to form a container area having an upper opening and a lower opening. The lower opening includes a mating interface that slidably interfaces with an existing hopper. The hopper extension further includes a ramped wall extending from each of the forward, rearward, first side and second side walls to form a seed opening positioned intermediate the upper and lower openings. An underside of at least one of the ramped walls defining an air cavity that is placed over an air grate of an existing hopper when the hopper extension is secured thereto.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2020Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Rosenberg Industries LLCInventor: Jason Rosenberg
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Patent number: 11852246Abstract: A valve assembly has a stationary valve body and a valve member that is movable relative to the valve body at least from a closed position, in which the valve member cooperates with a valve seat to completely obstruct a fluid path formed through the valve body, to an open position, which allows fluid to flow through the fluid path. The valve member has a disc- or ball-shaped rigid component that is overmolded with a flexible component and at least partially encompasses the rigid component in a circumferential direction to form a ring gasket section.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2019Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Schoeller Allibert GmbHInventor: Eddy Cruiming
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Patent number: 11851256Abstract: The present application relates to a system for evacuating fluid from a flexible container. The system includes a spout connected to a flexible container. A passageway within the spout is in fluid communication with an inside of the flexible container, and the passageway has a top end and a bottom end. An evacuation facilitating structure is positioned proximate the bottom end of the passageway and has a fluid channel therethrough. The evacuation facilitating structure blocks portions of the wall of the flexible container from entering the bottom end of the passageway and preventing fluid from evacuating the container via the passageway.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Liqui-Box Corp.Inventors: Paul N. Georgelos, Ronald E. Kieras, Matt Ruschmeier
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Patent number: 11850625Abstract: There are provided a syringe filled with a resin composition and a storage method thereof. According to the syringe and the storage method, mixed air, which causes the resin composition to be intermittently discharged from the syringe, is suppressed. The syringe filled with the resin composition includes a syringe, a resin composition filling the syringe, and a plunger. The resin composition contains voids. The ratio of the volume of the voids relative to the volume of the resin composition is 1.0 ppm by volume to 520 ppm by volume. The voids have a maximum diameter of 2,500 ?m or less.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2020Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: NAMICS CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroki Myodo, Yosuke Sakai, Masaaki Hoshiyama
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Patent number: 11851261Abstract: A liquid container includes a first storage level for the liquid, and a second level of pressurization for a gas. The first and second levels can be stored flat when empty. The first level and/or the second level has a first and/or a second non-return connection part, including: a first fitting body, a first base, a non-waterproof first stop to limit the movement of the first one, a first waterproof shoulder to limit the movement of the first base and to prevent fluid backflow, and a first connector configured to connect to a third connection part of a fluid injection and/or extraction system.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2019Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: FLEXIKEG SASInventors: Jean-Christophe Doux, Anas Binebine
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Patent number: 11845075Abstract: A rotary feeder having a stationary, cylindrical housing having disposed therein a number of injection nozzles, and within which rotate a plurality of vanes about a central axis, wherein pairs of adjacent vanes of the plurality of vanes define wedge volumes, wherein the housing extends a width along the central axis, wherein each of the vanes has a length along the central axis, and wherein the injection nozzles are positioned across the width of the housing, such that a spray pattern of a gas injected via the number of injection nozzles spans substantially the entire length of the vanes.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2020Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LPInventors: Andrea L. Hoener, Elena Mathopoullos, Jorge Garza
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Patent number: 11845603Abstract: A device for dispensing a fluid substance (F) comprising a manually operated pump (2) coupled to a deformable bag (3), the deformable bag being housed inside a container (4); the container (4) is formed of a collar (5) made of plastic material snap-coupled to a tubular element (6) formed from a paper or cardboard-based material.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2021Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: LUMSON S.p.A.Inventor: Matteo Moretti
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Patent number: 11840378Abstract: A container (100) is provided that includes a chamber (102), a dispensing passageway and a resilient valve (120). The chamber contains a viscous fluidic material. The valve (120) is configured to transition from a normal state to a dispensing state upon a discharge pressure being applied to the chamber (102) to allow the viscous fluidic material to pass through the orifice (131) of the resilient valve and to be dispensed from the dispensing passageway as a string of the viscous fluidic material. The orifice (131) is open in the normal state. The valve is also configured to return from the dispensing state to the normal state upon cessation of the discharge pressure, whereby the resilient valve (120) assumes a pinching state while returning from the dispensing state to the normal state in which the string of the viscous fluidic material is pinched off by the orifice edge.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2020Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive CompanyInventors: Francis Tatu, Juhi Solanki, Scott Demarest, Mark Bartlett
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Patent number: 11839338Abstract: A fluid dispenser with a pump mechanism that dispenses fluid when activated. A light sensor detects light in or around the fluid dispenser, and a controller controls a function of an electronic component of the fluid dispenser based on detection data received from the light sensor.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2022Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: OP-Hygiene IP GMBHInventors: Albrecht Lang, Adrian Senn, Michael Müller
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Patent number: 11832705Abstract: The invention relates to a cosmetic container capable of adjusting the amount of content dispensed. A cosmetic container according to one aspect of the invention comprises: an outer container that holds a content; a handle that is rotatably coupled to an upper portion of the outer container; an adjustment member that is coupled to an upper portion of the handle to rotate as an integrated body with the handle and is provided with a downwardly protruding pressure protrusion; and a pump that is configured to suction and dispense the content held in the outer container and is configured such that a pressing on a portion thereof by the pressure protrusion changes an amount of content dispensed, where rotating the adjustment member adjusts a discharging amount of the pump by adjusting the extent to which the pressure protrusion presses the pump.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: SAMHWA CO., LTDInventor: Kyungchang Lee
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Patent number: 11834320Abstract: A beverage dispensing apparatus includes: a plurality of reservoirs configured to supply respective fluids for delivery to an injection assembly having a single fluid input; a fluid delivery manifold defining a chamber, and having (i) for each of the reservoirs, a respective chamber inlet, and (ii) a single chamber outlet; for each chamber inlet, a respective valve configured to selectably open or close the corresponding chamber inlet; for each reservoir, a respective input conduit connected to a corresponding chamber inlet, to deliver fluid from the reservoir into the chamber; and an output conduit connected between the single chamber outlet and the single fluid input of the injection assembly, to deliver fluid from the chamber to the injection assembly.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Inventor: Matthew T. Carley
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Patent number: 11827505Abstract: The present application provides a beverage dispensing system. The beverage dispensing system may include a syringe cartridge assembly and a nozzle. The syringe cartridge assembly may include an ingredient chamber, a water chamber, and a dosing pump such that the ingredient chamber is in communication with the nozzle and the water chamber is in communication with the dosing pump.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: THE COCA-COLA COMPANYInventors: Sanjida Tamanna, Dick P. Welch, Zachary Ian Stelwagon
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Patent number: 11827426Abstract: A valve carrier ring for carrying a self-closing dispensing valve is adapted to be assembled with a closure body of a container. The valve carrier ring includes an annular seat portion including a support surface for supporting a retaining portion of the valve and a circumferential wall located radially outwards of the support surface and extending coaxially with the support surface. The circumferential wall has a preformed radial protrusion adapted to extend over the retaining portion of the valve for providing a preliminary retention of the retaining portion in the seat portion. A snap bead is formed at a radial outer side of the valve carrier ring adapted to cooperate with a means of the closure body to provide a snap connection between the valve carrier ring and the closure body. The radial protrusion is constituted by a flexible inwardly inclined extremity of the circumferential wall.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2020Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Weener Plastics Group B.V.Inventors: Jacobus Jan Morren, Annabel Hoekstra, Sebastiaan Wilhelmus Josephus Den Boer
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Patent number: 11820638Abstract: A drink making device including a hood, a base configured to support at least four bottles, a tower connecting the base and the hood; and a dispenser for dispensing a beverage. The hood includes at least four attachment connectors. Liquid from the bottles is selectively pumped through the connectors through the dispenser to dispense a beverage.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2022Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: BLACK & DECKER INC.Inventors: Oleksiy P. Sergyeyenko, Andrew Cross, Thomas Landis, Randy L. Rhoades, Graham Bone, Daniel Langford, Mark Thomas Davies, Michael C. Doyle, Aldon O. Blackwood, Tylan A Tschopp
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Patent number: 11815186Abstract: A valve assembly has a stationary valve body and a valve member that is movable relative to the valve body at least from a closed position, in which the valve member cooperates with a valve seat to completely obstruct a fluid path formed through the valve body, to an open position, which allows fluid to flow through the fluid path. The valve member has a disc- or ball-shaped rigid component that is overmolded with a flexible component and at least partially encompasses the rigid component in a circumferential direction to form a ring gasket section.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2019Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Schoeller Allibert GmbHInventor: Eddy Cruiming
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Patent number: 11814279Abstract: A water-dispensing device includes a water tank, a dispensing line, a pump configured to draw water from the tank into the dispensing line, an outlet line, a dispensing valve, a spigot downstream of the outlet line and in selective fluid communication therewith via the dispensing valve, and a valveless directional fitting that couples the dispensing line to the outlet line for enabling fluid communication therebetween. The fitting has a hollow main body extending between an inlet port and a dispensing port. The dispensing line is connected to the inlet port and the outlet line is connected to the dispensing port. The fitting has a recirculation port that intersects an interior of the main body. The recirculation port has a smaller diameter than the dispensing port. A recirculation line is connected to the recirculation port and the water tank to place the water tank in fluid communication with the recirculation port.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2023Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: QUENCH USA, INC.Inventor: Andrew Troy Nuttall