Patents Examined by Jeffrey Allen
  • Feeding bottle capable of preventing nipple from falling out and with air return function
    Patent number: 9192544
    Abstract: A feeding bottle preventing a nipple from falling out and with an air return function including a nipple body and a bottle body, the feeding bottle further includes an air inlet plate, a capping and a fitting ring, and the air inlet plate is fixed between the nipple body and the bottle body by the capping. The present application can prevent the nipple from falling out, prevent leakage caused by drawing out of the nipple when baby is sucking and even falling out, and achieve the automatic air return.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: DONGGUAN YINYAN PLASTIC CONTAINERS CO., LTD
    Inventor: Zhujin Wang
  • Reinforcing or restraining strap or gusset system for rear wall member of bulk material cargo container liner
    Patent number: 9193523
    Abstract: An external reinforcing strap system for a bulk material cargo container liner comprises a plurality of vertically spaced, horizontally oriented reinforcing straps, or a plurality of horizontally spaced, vertically oriented reinforcing straps and a plurality of vertically spaced, horizontally oriented reinforcing straps, to have their tension levels individually adjusted in an independent manner in order to provide selected sections of the external reinforcing strapping system with requisites amount of tension. In addition, a substantially U-shaped reinforcing gusset system is also disclosed which provides the necessary reinforcement for the rear wall member of the bulk material cargo container liner but with a simplified structure effectively eliminating the aforenoted strapping system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: SIGNODE INDUSTRIAL GROUP
    Inventors: Oswaldo Mino, Pablo Llopez-Miquel, Michael J. McMahon, Stanley Piotrowski
  • Synthetic resin bottle
    Patent number: 9187202
    Abstract: This invention intends to provide a large-size bottle that can be held firmly with a hand in simple handling. This can be achieved by fitting the thumb and a co-working finger into place and stopping them from sliding upward and laterally along the body wall, and also by stopping other fingertips from sliding laterally. A pair of grips 8 is formed in opposed walls of the body 4, and each grip 8 comprises a main recession 9 having a relatively large depth and an auxiliary recession 13 extending downward from this main recession 9. Fingertips are stopped by the main recession 9 from sliding upward and laterally, and are also stopped by the auxiliary recession 13 from sliding predominantly in the lateral direction. Since the thumb and all fingers are utilized for bottle handling, the bottle 1 is held firmly and stably with a hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: YOSHINO KOGYOSHO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Goro Kurihara, Takao Iizuka
  • Child-resistant cap and container assembly
    Patent number: 9187220
    Abstract: A cap includes a top wall, an outer peripheral edge, a first section, and a second section. A skirt depends from the outer peripheral edge. The skirt includes an attached end, a free end, a plurality of slots, and a plurality of apertures. Each aperture is spaced-apart from the free end of the skirt. The top wall has a first configuration and a second configuration. When the top wall is in the first configuration, the first section is generally planer and the second section is generally arcuate. When the top wall is in the first configuration, the skirt extends generally perpendicularly to the first section to generally engage at least a portion of a container. When the top wall is in the second configuration, the free end of the skirt extends radially outwardly from the attached end thereof to allow the cap to be removed from the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Drug Plastics & Glass Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Frederick Biesecker, Gregory Sprishen, William Gordon Knestrick, III
  • Cup with outwardly protruding straw channel and nestable food container and cover
    Patent number: 9181009
    Abstract: A cup with an outwardly protruding straw channel and nestable food container and cover that enables simultaneous or intermittent access of the contents of the container and attached cup without disengagement of the food container from the cup, wherein a portion of the cup that holds the food container may be utilized as a fill line when filling liquids into the cup to ensure that insertion of the food container does not result in overflow of liquid from the cup. Additionally, the food container may include at least one cavity that may hold at least one independent drop-in container. A simple domed cover or variable height domed cover may keep food items that are placed within the food container warm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: SNACKTOPS, INC.
    Inventor: Ronald Mark Buck
  • Plate cover assembly
    Patent number: 9167925
    Abstract: A plate cover assembly includes at least one portion that is removably securable onto a plate. For example, one cover includes a first covering portion and a second covering portion which are positionable to enclose an outer portion of a plate. Upon removably securing the respective first and second covering portions together, the plate cover assembly encloses the border of the plate while leaving a central region of the plate exposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Inventors: Philip Rafnson, Carol Lozinski
  • Packing structure and assembling method thereof
    Patent number: 9156225
    Abstract: A packing structure adapted to pack a plurality of objects. The packing structure includes a plurality of first dividing plates and two side plates. The first dividing plates are arranged with intervals to form a plurality of containing spaces. Each of the first dividing plates has two sides opposite to each other, each of the sides has two first inserting slots, and a positioning portion is formed between the two first inserting slots. The two side plates are disposed at the two sides respectively. Each of the side plates has a plurality of positioning slots, and the positioning portions are respectively inserted into the positioning slots of the corresponding side plate. An extending direction of each of the first inserting slots is perpendicular to the corresponding side plate. The objects are adapted to be located in the containing spaces respectively and between the two side plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Wistron Corporation
    Inventor: Eva Wei
  • Child resistant, tamper evident container
    Patent number: 9156597
    Abstract: Two embodiments of a molded plastic container/closure combination are described. Each can be structured to provide a child resistant opening feature and, optionally, a tamper-evident feature. In both embodiments, the closure has radially extending bayonets arranged around an outer skirt, which bayonets can be rotated into a position underlying semi-annular ribs in a beam molded integrally with the sidewall of the container. Rotation of the closure in the unlocking direction is opposed by a structure which requires depression of a release tab downwardly. In one embodiment, depression of the release tab requires that a frangible element first be fractured and removed from the container sidewall. In the second embodiment, depressing the release tab is made possible by a living hinge formed on one side of the release tab.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: LETICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Anton Letica, John R. Selina
  • Multi-compartment vessel with optional lids
    Patent number: 9150330
    Abstract: Vessel including a vessel base having two vessel parts, each including an intermediate wall, a side wall, and a rim adjacent the side wall. In each vessel part, the side and intermediate walls define a respective chamber space including at least one chamber. Optional inner lids engage with lid-receiving portions defined by each vessel part to selectively close the chamber space. The vessel parts have a mating structure to facilitate selective attachment and separation, or may be permanently attached to one another. Optional outer lids engaged the rims independent of the engagement of the inner lids with the vessel parts. An annular band may be positioned around annular walls of the vessel parts to provide or aid in attachment of the vessel parts to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Inventor: David M Stravitz
  • Storage device comprising two parts
    Patent number: 9145230
    Abstract: A storage device for coupling at least one box and at least one cover having a carrier grip, together is formed by a lock or a snap lock, which is provided in one gable or side wall of the cover or the box, while a locking pin is provided in the opposite gable or side wall. The snap lock is adapted to engage a gripper flange, which is provided at the top of the gable or side wall of the box or the cover, while the locking pin is adapted to engage a locking edge, which is provided in the opposite gable or side wall of the box or the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: TANOS GMBH VERPACKEN ORDNEN PRASENTIEREN
    Inventor: Jens Ole Madsen
  • Insert for crown or screw caps for the closure of bottles
    Patent number: 9139342
    Abstract: An insert (8) for a screw (1) or crown (1?) cap for the closure of bottles (10) is described, the said cap (1, 1?) including a body (2) and the insert (8) being designed to be fixed to the body facing the interior of the bottle (10) when the cap (1, 1?) is closed over the said bottle. The insert (8) comprises a sealing element (9) capable of being compressed in one part between the body and a portion of the bottle (10) when the cap (1, 1?) is closed over the bottle, as well as a permeating element (16, 109, 209), connected to the sealing element, impermeable to liquids and having a permeability to oxygen measured at 20° C. of between 10?6 and 10?10 (Ncm3*cm/cm2*cmHg*s), which is designed to close a passage made in the said cap between the inside and outside of the bottle, in order to control the flow of oxygen between the inside and outside of the bottle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: CAPELLO SRL.
    Inventor: Giovanni Cappello
  • Twist vacuum-sealed container
    Patent number: 9132946
    Abstract: A rotary airtight container having a body, a lid that covers the opening of the body, a cover plate connected to the underside of the lid, a lifting mechanism for driving the cover plate to move with respect to the lid, a circumferential cone-shaped seal ring positioned all around the lid, and a tapered annular interface that on the bottom of the lid and engages the seal ring. As the lifting mechanism drives the cover plate to lift relative to the lid, the cone-shaped seal ring lifts relative to the lid and moves upwards along the tapered annular interface to seal the space between the tapered annular interface and the opening of the container, thus isolating the inside of the container from outside. This container changes the ordinary way of sealing that uses a locking nut for tightly pressing on the opening of the container, and is easier to operate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: ALS PLASTICS INDUSTRY COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Wai Po Sze
  • Beverage carrier
    Patent number: 9132948
    Abstract: Several embodiments of a beverage carrier are disclosed. In one embodiment, four side walls and a bottom are joined together to form an open box-type structure. The open box-type structure comprises an opening sized and shaped to allow a disposable drink carrier to be placed inside. The beverage carrier additionally comprises an insert for placing and retrieving the disposable drink carrier inside the box-type structure, the insert comprising a frame for receiving the disposable drink carrier and placement handles connected to the frame for raising and lowering the disposable drink carrier into and out of the box-type structure. Further, the beverage carrier comprises means for removably securing the box-type structure to a portion of a vehicle interior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Inventors: Brett Stokes, Harry Lubin
  • Compact table trash container with integrated condiment receptacles and associated method
    Patent number: 9126736
    Abstract: A combined trash receptacle and condiment holding apparatus includes a base member having a plurality of side walls configured in such a manner that an orifice as well as a plurality of recessed receptacles are formed in the base member, a plurality of vessels removably positioned within the receptacles, respectively, and supported at the base member, and a container removably positioned within the orifice and intermediately juxtaposed between the vessels respectively. The container is adapted to receive and segregate the trash therein while the vessels are adapted to receive the foodstuff therein. The orifice and the receptacles extend downwardly from an uppermost surface of the base member and remain supported on a lowermost surface of the base member. In this manner, the container and the vessels remain at a static and fixed upright position when the base member is transported.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Inventor: Fernando Wright
  • Releasable connection between a handle and a pan, and a pan with said connection
    Patent number: 9125523
    Abstract: A releasable connection between a pan and a handle comprises a bracket, which is provided with a hole and intended to project laterally from the body of the pan, and an engaging mechanism, which is intended to be arranged on the handle and which comprises an engaging tooth which is inserted into said hole and a cam element which is rotatable into a locked position for pushing with a first cam surface against a corresponding edge of the said hole so as to clamp a part of the bracket between the first said cam surface and a facing projecting part of the engaging mechanism. A strip allowing sliding of the cam and pressing against the edge of the hole is arranged between the said first cam surface and the corresponding edge of the hole. Advantageously the bracket may be made as one piece with an aluminum pan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: GBB SRL
    Inventor: Giuseppe Bogani
  • Device for sliding lid on a drilling mud container
    Patent number: 9120603
    Abstract: A device in a drilling-mud container (1) including bulkheads of plates (4, 5) provided with vertical and horizontal profiles (2, 3) forming a frame (2), the drilling-mud container (1) being provided with at least one sliding lid (8) which is arranged to be displaced in a sliding track (22) by means of at least one opening mechanism (15) independently of the position of a second hatch (7), wherein a toothed wheel (19), which is rotatably arranged in the drilling-mud container (1), is in engagement with a pitch rack (21) arranged in the sliding lid (8), and the pitch rack (21) is provided with an end portion (21a) which is inclined in the direction of the toothed wheel (19), the abutment of the end portion (21a) against the toothed wheel (19) causing the sliding lid (8) to be displaced in a vertical direction into sealing abutment against an abutment portion (22) on the drilling-mud container (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Consult Supply AS
    Inventor: Jan Sekse
  • Collapsible stackable shipping container with self-contained attachment members
    Patent number: 9108758
    Abstract: A container may be configured to be operable between a collapsed configuration and an erected configuration. The container may include a base that supports a first attachment member. The container may include a roof that supports a second attachment member. The first and second attachment members may be spaced apart from each other when the container is in the erected configuration. The first and second attachment members may be configured to allow the roof to be secured to the base when the container is in the collapsed configuration. A hinge assembly that may be used with the collapsible container may include a pivoting component, an attachment member that supports the pivoting component, and a securement member. The attachment member may cooperate with the securement member to secure the pivoting component in an upright orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Inventor: James F. Brennan, Jr.
  • Tank assembly having twist-and-lock mounting flange
    Patent number: 9102445
    Abstract: A tank assembly is provided for a machine. The tank assembly may have a tank with a plurality of sides connected to each other to substantially enclose a volume. A first side of the plurality of sides has an upper surface and a lower surface, and defines an opening into the volume and a first rotational stop feature at the opening. The tank assembly may also have a mounting flange with an upper member configured to engage the upper surface of the first side, a lower member configured to engage the lower surface of the first side, and a second rotational stop feature. The tank assembly may additionally have a resilient member disposed between the tank and the mounting flange. The resilient member may be configured to substantially seal an interface between the tank and the mounting flange and to bias the second rotational stop feature toward the first rotational stop feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventor: Jack A. Merchant
  • Beverage container lid
    Patent number: 9102444
    Abstract: A beverage container lid includes an interior cover, an exterior cover, and a hinge connecting the interior cover to the exterior cover. The beverage container is versatile in that it may be adapted for use with a beverage container containing a cold beverage, a hot beverage, or a foamy or creamy beverage. The beverage container lid preferably includes a spout, straw perforations, an elevated portion, a reservoir bottom, a well portion, and a pair of retaining walls preventing direct flow of beverage from a pair of openings in the interior cover to the spout. Methods of use and methods of making a the beverage container lid are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Enterprise Express, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Milan
  • Synthetic resin bottle
    Patent number: 9085387
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a bottle which is formed of a synthetic resin material into a cylindrical shape with a bottom. A bottom wall portion of a bottom of the bottle includes: a ground contact portion; a rising peripheral wall portion; a ring-shaped movable wall portion; and a depressed peripheral wall portion. The movable wall portion is rotatably disposed about a connecting part with the rising peripheral wall portion so as to move the depressed peripheral wall portion upward, and a concave and convex portion is formed over an entire circumference of the rising peripheral wall portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: YOSHINO KOGYOSHO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Goro Kurihara, Hiroaki Imai, Tadayori Nakayama, Junichi Itokawa