Patents Examined by Ernesto A Grano
  • Patent number: 11812841
    Abstract: A cosmetic container with contents visible from an outside according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a container body provided at one side thereof with a first locking hook and formed of a transparent material; a container lid for opening and closing the container body; a content container mounted in the container body, receiving the contents therein, and formed of a transparent material; a content container lid for opening and closing the content container; a push button installed on the container lid so as to be press-operated and provided with a second locking hook; and a button coupling member coupled to an inside of the container lid to fix the push button and hingedly coupled to the container body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: PUM-TECH KOREA CO., LTD
    Inventor: Do Hoon Lee
  • Patent number: 11801976
    Abstract: A closure may have a top wall and a side wall depending from the top wall. A plug seal device may depend from said top wall within the side wall. The plug seal device may have an upper section, a lower section, and a sealing section proximate the boundary between the upper section and the lower section. The sealing section is operable such that when the plug seal device is inserted in an opening to an inner cavity in a container, the sealing section engages with an inner container surface to provide a seal between an inner cavity of the container and the external environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: HUSKY INJECTION MOLDING SYSTEMS LTD.
    Inventor: Arnold Heinz Mai
  • Patent number: 11794943
    Abstract: A tray container includes a paper-based material having a number of sides extending from a container bottom. Each side has a proximal end that is contiguous with the container bottom and a distal end that is configured to fold into a bonding surface and a reinforced portion. The bonding surface and the reinforced portion each include two layers of the container material. The tray container has a perimeter bonding surface that includes each bonding surface of the container sides. A support ring is attached to the perimeter bonding surface, defining a cover bonding surface to which a film or mesh cover may be bonded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Inventor: Alonso Garcia Sanchez
  • Patent number: 11794941
    Abstract: A packaging assembly includes a packaging enclosure with a bottom closure that folds into a flap with a latch that locks into an opening on a face of the packaging enclosure. Upper faces of the packaging enclosure allow for juxtaposing and superposing a plurality of the packaging enclosures and providing space for air to circulate between them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Nalto Marketing Ltd.
    Inventors: Amnon Zamir, John Kowarsky
  • Patent number: 11760193
    Abstract: A reservoir cap closure indicator coupled to a cap comprises a body configured to move between a first position and a second position. An indicator coupled to the body indicates a position of the reservoir cap closure indicator as the body moves between the first position and the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Louis A. Sigioltzakis, Joseph C. Kuhn, John S. Pontaoe
  • Patent number: 11759393
    Abstract: A prescription medicine packaging system includes cells. Each cell stores prescription medicine. Each cell has an opening adapted for access by a user. A cap is aligned over and seals each opening. Each cap includes a first part and a second part that are independent of one another and uniquely identifiable by features thereof. Each of the caps is breached via one of removal and destruction of one of its first part and second part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Inventors: Hassan Zakaria, Matthew Gaal
  • Patent number: 11753209
    Abstract: The present application describes a sleeve for retaining a container. The sleeve comprising: a front element, a rear element, and a plurality of side elements. The front element comprises a substantially inelastic material forming a pouch. The front element further comprises a top edge and an exterior surface. The top edge defines a front aperture, and the front element further comprises an elastic collar attached to the top edge. The rear element comprises a substantially inelastic material forming a closeable space. The rear element further comprises a zipper and an exterior surface. The zipper is configured to open and close the closeable space. The plurality of side elements comprise an elastic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Inventors: Thomas Neil Parry, Madison M. Gillespie, Lucas Allen Williamson
  • Patent number: 11753229
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to electronic smoking devices and in particular to a tray for at least a portion of an electronic smoking device. The tray (100) comprises at least one cavity (101) for containing the portion. The tray (100) is configured to be reversibly deformed from a default form into a deformed form by finger interaction with interaction elements of the tray (100) having a distance to each other of at least 90% of the average distance between thumb tip and index finger tip or a middle finger tip of an adult. The tray (100) is configured to return to the default form once the finger interaction is terminated. The default form provides the at least one cavity (101) for containing the portion in an inaccessible manner and the deformed form is required for accessing the portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Fontem Ventures B.V.
    Inventors: Thorben Rehders, Sebastian Senftleben, Duncan B. Robinson
  • Patent number: 11738903
    Abstract: Apparatus and method(s) according to which a first container lid is sealingly engaged against a container body. Once so sealingly engaged, the container body is stacked onto a second container lid so that a first three-dimensional profile of the second container lid matingly receives a second three-dimensional profile of the container body, which second three-dimensional profile is located at an end portion of the container body opposite the first container lid. In one or more embodiments, the second container lid is identical to the first container lid. In one or more embodiments, the stackable containers have respective detachable and re-attachable container lids. In one or more embodiments, each container body and its corresponding detachable and re-attachable lid are both made of recyclable plastic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Inventor: Merrilee Kick
  • Patent number: 11738937
    Abstract: A crate includes a base and a plurality of walls including a front wall. The front wall is movable between a retracted, open position and a closed position. In some embodiments, the front wall includes a frame, a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is hingeably connected to the frame and the second portion is hingeably connected to the first portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Rehrig Pacific Company
    Inventors: Mauricio D. Cavalcante, John Bobel Zelek, William P. Apps, Ryan C. Meers
  • Patent number: 11724853
    Abstract: Disclosed are devices, systems and methods for controlling scent delivery by a scented article for beverage containers such as box cartons. In some aspects, a scent delivery system includes a cap removably attachable to a carton container at an opening of the carton container, the cap being moveable between an open position that allows a fluid beverage within the carton container to flow outward and a closed position that prevents the beverage to flow outward; and a scented article that couples to the carton container or the cap and operable to generate a scent capable of stimulating an olfactory sensation of a user including during consumption of the beverage when the cap is in the open position, and when the cap is in closed position, a seal is created by the cap and a base region of the carton container to enclose the scented article and lock in the scent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: SZENT CO.
    Inventor: Shawn Griffis
  • Patent number: 11718439
    Abstract: A polymeric container formed from a preform and configured for storing a commodity under pressure. A base of the container includes a standing ring configured to support the container upright when the standing ring is seated on a planar standing surface. A curved diaphragm of the base extends from the standing surface to a center of the base. A plurality of dimples are defined by the base and are evenly spaced apart along the standing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: AMCOR RIGID PACKAGING USA, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Woloszyk, Walter J. Strasser
  • Patent number: 11712795
    Abstract: A wheeled storage container apparatus for storing and transporting tools and equipment includes a body having a body back side with a drop lip portion extending down from proximal a body top side and defining a catch cavity to hook onto a railing. A lid is coupled to a body front side to selectively cover or expose the body top side. A pair of wheels is coupled to the body. A tray has a tray rim selectively engageable with the body top side and a plurality of tray compartments extending down into the body inside. A locking arm has a pivot portion pivotably coupled to the drop lip portion of the body back side, an arm portion extending from the pivot portion, and a catch portion extending from the arm portion. The catch portion is selectively engageable with the lid to maintain the lid in a closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Inventor: Paul Koehler
  • Patent number: 11708191
    Abstract: Opening/closing device (1) for a container (100) for pourable products having at least one pierceable portion (101), said opening/closing device comprising a collar (2) combinable with said container at said pierceable portion, a cap (3) provided with a lower portion (3a) and displaceable on the outer surface (2a) of said collar (2) in a constrained and only rotatable way by first guiding means (40) interposed between said collar (2) and said lower portion (3a), and a cutting element (5) movable in a constrained way inside said collar (2) by second guiding means (60), which are interposed between said cutting element (5) and said collar (2) to sever said pierceable portion, said device (1) further comprising pushing means (7) for said cutting element (5) which are driven by said cap (3), at least during its first displacement on said outer surface (2a) of said collar (2), such as to aid the displacement of said at least one cutting element inside said collar in direction of said pierceable portion, said cap (
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: EASY PLAST S.R.L.
    Inventors: Roberto Silla, Luigino Michetti
  • Patent number: 11702240
    Abstract: Embodiments describe a holder and an easel for holding and/or display one or more items. The holder and the easel are formed from a single piece of material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Inventor: Stanley Ewing Greene
  • Patent number: 11691798
    Abstract: A packaging system for fragile items comprising an outer box, a tray insert and a plurality of inner boxes. The system components protect the items, for example, glass pipes, during distribution, and easily convert into a display system for the items at the point of retail sale. Each item is contained in its own inner box, which includes one or more viewing windows to allow a purchaser easily to view the items. The inner boxes fit removably within paired holes in the tray insert, which provides multiple points of contact to hold the boxes in place, yet allows flexibility to protect the items from impact forces and to allow easy access by a purchaser. The tray insert fits within the outer box, which provides impact and debris protection during transit, and converts to a display mode. Both the outer box and each inner box may be marked with a code to allow inventory tracking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: LIT BRANDS LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Creager, William Cowan, Zachary Taylor, Donald L Creager, III, Max Creager
  • Patent number: 11685098
    Abstract: A composite preform including a preform and a plastic member in close contact with the outer surface of the preform is made by preparing the preform made of plastic material and arranging the plastic member to surround the outer surface of the preform. Subsequently, the composite preform is heated and inserted in a blow molding die and undergoes blow molding in the blow molding die, by which the preform and the plastic member of the composite preform are inflated integrally and a composite container is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takuma Miyawaki, Yusuke Suga, Mariko Ichinose
  • Patent number: 11679907
    Abstract: In the alcohol market or in the liquor industries, it is common to find that the packaging activity is carried out in glass bottles and on some occasions in PET (POLYETHYLENE TEREPHALATE) and PP (POLYPROPYLENE) type containers. In the case of these latter packages, there are problems of conservation of quality, aroma and flavor, since they give off particles because they are not completely resistant to alcohol. Now, glass bottles are the most used since thanks to their 10 barrier property they preserve the flavor and quality of these kinds of drinks for longer, maintaining the level of alcohol, aroma and flavor from bottling but having serious transport and packaging problems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Inventors: John Alexander Botero, Lukas Robledo Martinez
  • Patent number: 11643254
    Abstract: What is proposed is a closure unit consisting of a glass container (50) with external, circumferentially offset threaded elements (54, 55) on a container neck (52) of the glass container, and a closure cover made of sheet metal, wherein the closure cover (1, 2) has an encircling plastics layer (30; 30h, 30v) on the inside of the cover. The closure cover is pressed onto the container neck (52) and can be opened with a rotational movement via the threaded elements (54, 55) and a vertical section (30v) of the plastics layer. The container neck (52) has a horizontal end surface (52a) on which a horizontal section (30h) of the plastics layer rests under pressure in a sealing manner. A central region (11) of the closure cover passes with an adjoining, circumferentially oriented transition zone (11a, 11b, 11c) into an axially downwardly projecting skirt section (12) which ends in a roll-up region (21a, 21; 22).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: SILGAN HOLDINGS INC.
    Inventors: Robert Fink, Hans-Peter Hein, Helmut Klemm, Andreas Maniera, Ludwig Kramer
  • Patent number: 11629005
    Abstract: The invention is a system for positioning and removably securing an intermodal container to an intermodal pallet. The system permits the container's longitudinal centerline to be offset from the longitudinal centerline of the pallet, while still providing sufficient support to the container. The invention is a removable system of adapters for positioning and securing a container to the surface of the pallet, and when the adapters are in place, define longitudinal and lateral boundaries for engagement with an intermodal container. A plurality of strap brace assemblies positioned on one side of the pallet to provide an offset anchor position for a plurality of flexible straps, which secure the container when it is positioned on the pallet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Kalitta Air LLC
    Inventors: Conrad Kalitta, Steven Brewer