Patents Examined by Jacob K. Ackon, Jr.
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Patent number: 5222597Abstract: A golf ball carrier is disclosed comprised of an elongated inner carrier sleeve open at either end and slotted for its full length, configured to receive a number of golf balls inserted one at a time into either end and grip the same. The inner carrier sleeve is substantially completely received into an elongated approximately equal length carrier sleeve closed at one end. The golf balls can be removed by being pulled through the slot, after the carrier sleeve is withdrawn from the casing tube sufficiently to expose the ball to be removed.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 1992Date of Patent: June 29, 1993Inventors: Edward A. Bluthardt, Robert E. Bluthardt, Jeffrey L. Goins, Sr.
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Patent number: 5163555Abstract: The present invention is a collapsible, multi-wall fiberboard container which is fixedly attached to a pallet. The container is particularly designed to hold flowable type materials such as sludge or particulates, and may be used for containing, transporting, storing or disposing of hazardous waste. The container is preferably a double wall, tubular member having opposed side panels and opposed end panels, with the end panels being generally normal to the side panels. The container also includes top and bottom flaps hingedly connected to the end and side panels. Three of the bottom flaps are formed as a half bellows. The remaining bottom flap is adapted to be attached to a pallet. Preferably, the top flaps are also of a regular slotted design. Laminated and glued to the interior of the container is a triple wall reinforcing member in the preferred embodiment. A polybag liner may be used in the container.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 1991Date of Patent: November 17, 1992Assignee: Georgia-Pacific CorporationInventors: Thomas M. West, Thomas Morrison
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Patent number: 5131534Abstract: A reel-type surgical suture dispenser features an extension member on the suture reel receptacle, there being positioned upon the extension member an upwardly projecting suture-retaining slotted member which facilitates dispensing of the suture and retaining thereon the terminal section of a length of suture withdrawn from the reel.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 1991Date of Patent: July 21, 1992Assignee: United States Surgical CorporationInventors: David L. Brown, Stanley J. Malinowski
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Patent number: 5101968Abstract: A suture retainer includes a first panel and foldably connected second through fifth panels. When all of the panels are folded, the retainer has the approximate size and shape of the first panel, and the suture is contained within the folded panels. Separator facilities on the first panel prevent suture strands from becoming tangled. The separator may constitute a pleated low friction sheet with the strands contained between the plats, or it may constitute one or more sinuous cuts in the first panel which define tabs for holding the strands. Sutures are withdrawn from a site at one end of the first panel. The second panel is foldably located at the other end of the first panel and maintains suture strands within the boundary of the first panel. The third panel is foldable about a side of the first panel to overly the folded second panel, the separator and the sutures and to complimentarily overly the first panel.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 1991Date of Patent: April 7, 1992Assignee: Lukens Medical CorporationInventors: Scott Henderson, James A. Wimbush
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Patent number: 5080224Abstract: Pack made from board or a similar material for several bottle-like containers arranged behind each other in at least one row, consisting of a tray-like base section, which is folded from a flat board blank and in which the containers stand, and a top section that covers the containers.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 1990Date of Patent: January 14, 1992Assignee: Lever Brothers Company, Division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Werner Kuhn, Walter Schragle, Walter Ramspott, Birgit Degeler
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Patent number: 4989730Abstract: A plastic shipping container for cotton swabs that has a T-section at the bottom of the container front panel that at the shipping destination is readily removed to form a dispensing opening for the cotton swabs.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 1989Date of Patent: February 5, 1991Inventor: Philippe Lemoine
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Patent number: 4978008Abstract: A yarn organizer holds the different colors of yarn required for a needlcraft project. The organizer is in the form of a flat card member having holes adjacent to the edges of the card. The holes are uniformly spaced from the edges and uniformly spaced apart, to maintain the rigidity of the card. The holes are of different diameters for convenience in holding different sizes of bundles of yarn. One surface of the card is adapted for writing so an identification of the yarns can be placed on the card adjacent to each hole.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 1989Date of Patent: December 18, 1990Assignee: Dal-Craft, Inc.Inventors: Emil J. Dalbo, Loraine E. Dalbo
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Patent number: 4928826Abstract: The present invention relates to a cartridge for packaging a roll film. The cartridge has a film outlet that is composed of upper and lower lips, each lip has a light-shielding ribbon attached to the inside thereof. Both extended side edge portions of the ribbon attached to the lower lip are slightly bent downwardly. Both extended side portions of the ribbon attached to the upper lip are also bent downwardly at a slightly larger angle than that of the lower lip. Consequently both side edge portions of both upper and lower lips overlap in a more complete manner or are more positively joined together.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 1988Date of Patent: May 29, 1990Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Osamu Shibazaki, Yorikatu Miyazawa, Toshio Kato
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Patent number: 4927012Abstract: A packaging assembly for two different substances, which are to be mixed by the consumer, consists of an ampule containing one substance, enclosed within a tube containing the other. Both components are made of plastic, and at least the ampule is so constructed as to permit it to be opened by manual compressive force applied through the tube body. The cavities of the ampule and tube are desirably closed simultaneously, as by forming a common heat seal across them.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 1989Date of Patent: May 22, 1990Inventor: John P. Rowe