Patents Examined by J. C. Jacyna
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Patent number: 11560489Abstract: Provided is a dispersion liquid of colored resin fine particles for an aqueous ink having excellent stability and a sufficient drawn line intensity; an aqueous ink composition for a writing instrument such as felt-tip pens, marking pens, and ballpoint pens using the dispersion liquid of the colored resin fine particle as a colorant; and a writing instrument loaded with the composition. The dispersion liquid of colored resin fine particles for an aqueous ink includes colored resin fine particles dispersed in water, the colored resin fine particles composed of at least a cyclohexyl (meth)acrylate monomer, and a basic dye or an oil-soluble dye, in which the content of the cyclohexyl (meth)acrylate monomer is 30% by mass or more, and the content of the basic dye or the oil-soluble dye is 15% by mass or more based on the total polymer component constituting the colored resin fine particles.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2018Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI PENCIL COMPANY, LIMITEDInventor: Hisato Haga
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Patent number: 11548694Abstract: Liquid dispensers for bottles comprise a dispensing chamber having small portals at either end. Dropwise addition of flavoring or coloring liquids, such as vermouth or bitters, to alcoholic beverages using those liquid dispensers is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2021Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Allen Brothers & Rosselot Inc.Inventors: Michael J. Allen, Jon T. Allen, Lawrence J. Rosselot
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Patent number: 11549250Abstract: An assembly for reusing greywater in a building for flushing toilet and other purpose to save the freshwater. The assembly includes a diverter to route a portion of greywater from drainpipes to a feed line. From the feed line, the greywater is collected in a pump tank. The pump tank has a pump that can lift the greywater from the pump tank to a storage tank positioned at a top level in the building, the pump tank is at the lower level in the building. A supply line transports the greywater stored in the storage tanks to the toilet tanks for flushing the toilet bowl.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2022Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Inventor: Calvin Coolridge Barrett
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Patent number: 11547195Abstract: A universal beauty tester, that is intended for use by any one of a plurality of beauty product suppliers to allow a potential customer at a retail location to obtain a sample testing of one of the beauty products of these suppliers, includes: (a) a display housing configured to house advertising material for the beauty product in such a manner as to not allow unauthorized access to this advertising material, (b) a base, (c) a universal tester bladder that is configured to store any one of the beauty products that are being made available for testing, (d) a liquid dispensing mechanism (e) a non-contact sensing mechanism that is configured to: sense when a customer makes a motion to indicate a desire to receive a test sample of the beauty product, and dispense a test sample, and (f) a processor that controls the operation of the tester and compiles data regarding its use.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2022Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Inventor: Patricia Morehouse
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Patent number: 11534033Abstract: The compression-mounted shower grab bar incorporates a grab bar, a plurality of mounting plates, a plurality of mounting caps, and a shower. The shower further comprises a first wall and a second wall. The compression-mounted shower grab bar is adapted for use by a client. The compression-mounted shower grab bar forms a structure the client can grasp for improved stability. The compression-mounted shower grab bar mounts between the first wall and the second wall of the shower. The plurality of mounting caps secures the grab bar to the plurality of mounting plates. The grab bar applies a compressive force that presses the plurality of mounting plates against the first wall and the second wall such that the grab bar is: a) secured to a fixed position in the shower; and, b) transfers the load of the client to the first wall and the second wall.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2021Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Inventor: Thomas McCcauley
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Patent number: 11533974Abstract: System for treating a head of hair, including a pipe for circulating a liquid, a device for feeding the pipe with water, at least one source of product, the product (P1) comprising one or more surfactants, a device for injecting product into the pipe to form a treatment solution comprising one or more surfactants in a content ranging from 0.35% to 1.5% by weight of surfactant(s) relative to the total weight of the treatment solution, a dispensing device for delivering the treatment solution onto the head of hair (B) with a flow rate of between 0.5 and 5 L/min, better still between 0.8 and 3 L/min.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2018Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: L'OREALInventors: Jean-Luc Robinault, Henri Samain
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Patent number: 11535442Abstract: A foam spray can comprises a motor pump, a foaming tube and a nozzle. The motor pump can be used to suck air and solution and pump out the liquid-gas mixture. One end of the foaming tube is connected to the motor pump for transmitting the liquid-gas mixture pumped by the motor pump and fully mixing the air with the solution to produce foam. The nozzle is connected to the other end of the foaming tube to spray foam. The length of the foaming tube is between 10 to 500 cm, the tube inner diameter is between 0.8 to 20 mm, and the pressure of the liquid-gas mixture in the tube is between 8 to 32 PSI, thereby to provide sufficient time, space and conditions for the mixing of the air and the solution in the foaming tube to fully mix the air and the solution, and then to spray abundant foam from the nozzle.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2021Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: FAIRWAY ELECTRONIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Lin-Han Yen, Yu-Jen Fang
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Patent number: 11535178Abstract: The vehicle dash-mounted hand sanitizer dispenser is configured for use with a vehicle. The vehicle is further defined with a passenger compartment and a vent. The vehicle dash-mounted hand sanitizer dispenser mounts on the vent. The vehicle dash-mounted hand sanitizer dispenser is configured for use with a hand sanitizer. The vehicle dash-mounted hand sanitizer dispenser stores and dispenses the hand sanitizer. The vehicle dash-mounted hand sanitizer dispenser comprises a reservoir structure and a control circuit. The reservoir structure forms the fluidic connection necessary to: a) contain the hand sanitizer; and, b) discharge the hand sanitizer into the passenger compartment. The control circuit is an electric circuit. The control circuit provides the motive forces necessary to pump the hand sanitizer into the passenger compartment. The control circuit initiates the operation by detecting motion near the discharge point of the hand sanitizer.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Inventor: Derrick James
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Patent number: 11523671Abstract: The cosmetic liquid container (1) includes: a case (7) in which a cosmetic liquid is filled; a pressing plate (43) disposed at an inner bottom of the case (7) and forming a cosmetic liquid filling space (S) in which the cosmetic liquid is filled in the upper portion, and pressing the cosmetic liquid upward; elastic members (11, 40) disposed under the pressing plate (43) and pressing the pressing plate (43) toward the cosmetic liquid filling space (S); a support part (13) coupled to the lower portion of the case (7), supporting lower portions of the elastic members (11, 40), and compensating elastic force by pressing the elastic members (11, 40) toward the pressing plate (43) upon rotation; a filling pull rod (44) mounted on the lower portion of the pressing plate (43).Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2019Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Inventor: Jong-bum Lee
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Patent number: 11519163Abstract: Water and space saving bathroom components especially useful for a comfort station. Included are a novel toilet having a cistern with a sink in combination with the toilet, a novel waterless urinal and a hand sanitizer dispensing station. The sink is an integrally formed sink into the top of the cistern and has a drain formed into the sink for draining effluent from the sink into the toilet cistern. A faucet is installed in the surface of the sink to provide a clean water source for hand washing and the like that generates grey water after washing. The waterless urinal can be plumbed and mounted to a comfort station wall or on a mobile stand, while the hand sanitizer dispensing station may be adapted for multiple dispensers. The dispensers may be mounted at different heights to accommodate adults, children and disabled persons in wheelchairs.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2019Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Inventor: Earl Jacob Braxton
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Patent number: 11511496Abstract: A method of adhering a cosmetic pressed powder product or a stick type applicative product (e.g. a lipstick) inside a receptacle therefor is disclosed. The receptacle comprises a casing having a top end and a base end with a receiving base member disposed at the base end, and the receiving base member has an inner surface. The base member may be designed or adapted to be moveable inside the casing to advance and retract the product. The method comprises applying a silicone hot melt adhesive composition in liquid form to at least part of the inner surface of the receiving base member; inserting the product into the receiving base member on or in the silicone hot melt adhesive composition while still in liquid form; and cooling, and optionally curing, the silicone hot melt adhesive to adhere the product inside the receptacle. Retained-products formed via the method are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2018Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: DOW SILICONES CORPORATIONInventors: Glenn V. Gordon, Bartley D. Maxon, Rochelle A. Nesbitt
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Patent number: 11504737Abstract: A pack comprising: a dispenser for anaerobically curable composition; and anaerobically curable composition held within the dispenser. The dispenser has (a) a reservoir in which anaerobically curable composition is held, the reservoir having an outlet through which the anaerobically curable composition can be dispensed; (b) a dispensing pump for pumping the anaerobically curable composition from the reservoir out through the outlet. The reservoir and pump together form an airless pump assembly. An applicator with an applicator surface, for example a roller, is in communication with the outlet, the applicator for applying to a substrate the anaerobically curable composition that is dispensed by the pump from the reservoir out through the outlet. The pack provides a convenient way of forming of applying anaerobically curable composition in a thin even layer.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2020Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaAInventor: Peter O'Sullivan
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Patent number: 11504994Abstract: A stand may include a plurality of cells, each cell having an outer wall, an inner wall, a bottom edge, and a top edge separated from the bottom edge by a height. A perimeter of the outer wall may include a first plurality of segment, and a perimeter of the inner wall may include a second plurality of segments. Each segment in the second plurality of segments may be substantially parallel to a corresponding segment in the first plurality of segments. The cells may be arranged such that the bottom edge of each cell is aligned to a bottom plane, and the cells may be further arranged in at least a first row and a second row, wherein cells in the first row are lower in height than cells in the second row. Adjacent cells may be coupled to each other with a spacing connector that maintains separation therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2022Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Big Bee, Little Bee LLCInventors: Amy Leinbach, Marlo Parker Leinbach
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Patent number: 11503893Abstract: A cosmetic compact for solid or semi solid cosmetic product. The cosmetic compact comprising a lid and a base assembly, wherein the base assembly comprising a base, a frame, a shock absorbing member, and at least one cosmetic pan. The shock absorbing member is disposed in a cavity of the base. The shock absorbing member is coupled to the base and is coupled to the at least one cosmetic pan such that a shock imparted on the cosmetic compact is isolated from the at least one cosmetic pan. The shock absorbing member is deformable and comprises a hollow tubular body defining a central bore extending between an upper-flange and a lower-flange of the shock absorbing member.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2020Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: CRYSTAL INTERNATIONAL (GROUP)Inventors: Roger Hwang, Stephen M Fisher, II, William Lloyd Alusitz
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Patent number: 11473287Abstract: A tile drain and method of installing a tile drain is provided. The tile drain includes a drain body and a drain cover. The drain body defines a top opening, top weep apertures, and bottom weep apertures. The top opening receives the drain cover and serves as the primary drain for the tile drain. The top weep apertures are positioned below a top layer, such as a tile layer, of the base so as to receive fluid positioned between the top layer and a top waterproofing layer of the base. The sub weep apertures are positioned below the top waterproofing layer of the base so as to receive fluid positioned between the top waterproofing layer and a bottom waterproofing layer of the base. The drain body is encapsulated within the base, but the drain cover is adjustable relative to, and removable from, the drain body.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2020Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Inventor: David Blamble
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Patent number: 11470945Abstract: A pen has an external shape similar to that of a ballpoint pen or fountain pen. The pen includes a cavity in the tube type pen body for receiving gel varnish, and a brush for applying this to a finger nail. At the front end of the pen body, a sleeve is positioned which can be screwed on, and contained therein are LED/LEV lights, with a battery, for curing the applied gel varnish with UV light.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2020Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: Yves Swiss AGInventor: Claude Niedermann
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Patent number: 11457736Abstract: A sink includes a front wall, a first side wall, and a second side wall. The front wall includes an inner surface that defines part of a basin of the sink, and an outer surface located opposite the inner surface that is configured to be exposed in front of an opening of a cabinet in which the sink is installed. The front wall includes first and second lateral portions that extend outwardly past the first and second side walls. The first and second lateral portions of the front wall are configured to at least partially overlap a front face of the cabinet adjacent the opening, so as to substantially conceal the opening when the sink is installed thereto.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2020Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: Kohler Co.Inventors: Jason R. Miller, Niels J. Eilmus
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Patent number: 11447307Abstract: The service capsule (20) comprises:—an outer skirt (32),—a transverse wall (34) defining at least one outlet orifice (48). The service capsule (20) includes, for each orifice (48), a dispensing conduit (36) defining a dispensing passage (51). The service capsule (20) includes a closing cap (40), mounted moving between a clear position and a position applied on the transverse wall (34). A filter (38) is arranged upstream from and/or in the product dispensing conduit (36), and is configured so that the cosmetic product (12) in the container (18) necessarily passes through the filter (38) when the product (12) is extracted from the container (18) through the service capsule (20). The filter (38) is integral with the product dispensing conduit (36).Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2019Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: L'OREALInventors: Sébastien Croibier, Etienne Valentin
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Patent number: 11447301Abstract: An elongated tubular housing adapted to receive an adjustable external compression device introduced on one end of the tubular housing distal from the opening releasing the contents, and retained in position by a member engaging a grooved strip that is integrated with and/or retained on the housing surface material with a strip surface of like material, providing a reliable, economic and functional outer compression member retention apparatus and method. Further embodiments according to the present invention include a dispenser having regions provided for ease and comfort of gripping, grooved strip end-stop to retain compression device, and grooved strip dimensional and placement details to provide functional, manufacturable and economic material dispenser.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2021Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: KLECHER, LLCInventors: Yuriy Chernov, Gennady I. Kleyman
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Patent number: 11432637Abstract: A cosmetic container is disclosed. The cosmetic container includes a container body which receives a cosmetic material and has a screw thread formed on the inner circumferential surface thereof; a moving frame having an edge on which a spiral protrusion coupled to the screw thread of the container body is formed; and a discharge part formed in the moving frame to discharge the cosmetic material.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2019Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: Amorepacific CorporationInventors: Jin Soo Jeong, Yoon Hee Lee, Min Ho Yu, Oh Soo Lee