Patents Examined by Jeffrey R Allen
  • Patent number: 11542071
    Abstract: A snap action container includes: a cover plate and a container body; wherein the cover plate is rotatably connected to the container body by a rotation shaft, and covered on the container body; an elastomer receiving chamber is arranged at a position, corresponding to the rotation shaft, on the container body, an elastomer being inclinedly disposed in the elastomer receiving chamber, and one end of the elastomer being abutted against the rotation shaft; and when the cover plate is covered on the container body, the cover plate drives the rotation shaft to rotate, such that the rotation shaft presses against the elastomer to cause the elastomer to be subjected to elastic deformation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: HAIKOU LILI INVESTMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Junyuan Chen
  • Patent number: 11540510
    Abstract: A storage rack for storing and retrieving products to be maintained at a desired cryogenic temperature is provided. The storage rack includes an elongate mounting bar carrying a plurality of shelves, and an elongate stop bar that extends generally parallel to the mounting bar. The shelves are independently rotatable relative to the mounting bar towards and away from the stop bar, thereby enabling alignment of all of the shelves when the storage rack is to be stored, and also enabling easy access to each of the individual shelves. A handle projects upwardly and horizontally in a curved configuration from the stop bar and the mounting bar to provide a gripping surface for moving the storage rack. The shelves receive cylindrical vial containers with threadably removable lids to make retrieval and replacement of sample vials quick to perform, thereby avoiding temperature-induced damage to other samples in the storage rack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Fisher BioServices Inc.
    Inventor: Abdul H. Ally
  • Patent number: 11542072
    Abstract: A lid assembly including a camming lever and a sealing member for selectively sealing and unsealing a drinking aperture of a lid main body. The camming lever is rotatably to selectively move the sealing member between a sealed position adjacent to and an unsealed position spaced apart from the drinking aperture. The camming lever includes a lever arm extending from two cams having a cam axle extending therebetween. The cam axle is pivotally attached to the sealing member, which is pivotally attached to the lid main body. The cams engage an upper surface of the lid main body. A stub axle extends laterally outward from each cam and engages a ledge which limiting upward movement of the cams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Pacific Market International LLC
    Inventor: Evan Michael Choltco-Devlin
  • Patent number: 11542070
    Abstract: An apparatus is described. The apparatus is a closure or a lid. The closure includes a body portion, a tab, and a flange portion. The body portion comprises a first locking feature. The tab is coupled to the body portion of the closure via a hinge. The tab includes a plurality of edges and a second locking feature. The tab has a closed position and an open position, and when in the open position, the second locking feature is coupled to the first locking feature. When the tab is in a first condition, the plurality of edges of the tab pass through the flange portion from one position to another position without interference. When the tab is in a second condition, at least one of the plurality of edges of the tab overlaps the flange portion such that the flange portion interferes with the movement of the tab through the flange portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Inventors: Robert Joseph Borse, Michael Rae Borse, Joseph Jude Borse
  • Patent number: 11535428
    Abstract: A tamper-evident container has a lid with a rim with a bead mating with a groove in a base rim. The rim bead is interrupted by a tab wall which does not engage the base. The lid has a first flange portion which overlies a base flange. The base and lid first flange portions extend outwardly about the same amount. At the tab, a second portion of the lid flange extends substantially outwardly beyond the base flange. The flange second portion is connected to the first portion on both sides of the tab by weakened lines of material which extend cut lines through the tab front wall. The tab second flange portion is engageable to sever the weakened lines of material and pivot the tab upwardly to remove the lid, thus deforming it and evidencing tampering should the lid be replaced on the base. Base vents reduce ballooning when closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: PLACON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Donald E. McCumber
  • Patent number: 11530085
    Abstract: A system for manipulating heat transfer includes a thermal sleeve, a vessel and a lid. The thermal sleeve includes a first material and a second material. The vessel includes an outer wall disposed about an inner wall, the inner wall defining a reservoir configured to contain a liquid and the inner wall and outer wall defining a gap therebetween. The lid is configured to open to facilitate adding of the liquid to the reservoir. The thermal sleeve is configured to be positioned within the gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Inventors: Alice Dean, Elizabeth Paige McCoy
  • Patent number: 11530079
    Abstract: A transparent, plastic, one-piece, tamper-resistant/evident container includes a cover portion including an outwardly extending peripheral flange and a base portion having an upper peripheral rim. A tamper-evident hinge joins the cover portion with the base portion. The hinge includes a frangible section. When the container is closed, the outwardly extending peripheral flange of the cover portion abuts the upper peripheral rim of the base portion and the upper peripheral rim of the base portion extends beyond an outer edge of the outwardly extending peripheral flange of the cover portion and deters opening the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Inline Plastics Corp.
    Inventors: Robert Sellari, Peter Boback, Bruce K. Stein, Daniel A. Landan, Tadeusz J. Klimaszewski
  • Patent number: 11518583
    Abstract: A container assembly has a cup-shaped container, a lid body, a spout, a spout cover, and a spout cover securement, or lock. The lid body has a depending periphery that releasably mounts to the cup-shaped container. The lid body has a matrix extending within the periphery. The spout seat is located eccentrically and inwardly of the periphery. It has a root and a tip. The spout cover is movably mounted to the spout cover seat. When closed, the spout cover seals the spout. The lock moves between a first position and a second positon. In the first position the lock keeps the spout cover sealed to the tip. In the second position the spout cover securement permits motion of said spout cover to open. The lid is stackable on other lids. The container assembly cup comes in several forms, the different forms being mutually stacking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Inventors: Tommy Hawes, Kenneth Bertoli, Richard C. Stephens, Brandon Lee Stroud
  • Patent number: 11506336
    Abstract: A high pressure tank includes: a container body including dome parts; a reinforcement layer provided on an outer surface of the container body and including fiber-reinforced resin; and a protective member provided on an outer surface of the reinforcement layer, wherein the protective member includes a first layer disposed at the outer surface of the reinforcement layer that covers at least a part of the dome parts, and a second layer disposed outward of the first layer. The first layer is more deformable due to the same load applied from the outside than the second layer is.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Makoto Kojima, Akira Yamashita
  • Patent number: 11498732
    Abstract: A tamper evident container includes a cover with a first interlocking flange with a first tab for opening the container and a first extension joined to the first tab along a first frangible score line, a base with a second interlocking flange with a second tab for opening the container and a second extension joined to the second tab along a second frangible score line, a rim extending around a perimeter of the base, the rim having a flat portion connected to an outer wall, and a flange portion extending from the outer wall portion, wherein a position of the flat portion and the flange portion correspond to a sheet line, and wherein the first and second interlocking flanges, when securely fastened together, prevent access to the first and second tabs, and require more force to separate than to sever the first and second extensions along the frangible score lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: PIANCA PACKAGING LLC
    Inventor: Sameh Guirguis
  • Patent number: 11498737
    Abstract: A container assembly for holding containers filled with different items, such as food and cocktail garnishes is disclosed. The container assembly includes a support structure to support a plurality of removable containers. The containers are closed by a cover and sealed by perimeter seals. In illustrated embodiments, the cover includes a plurality of raised or dome shaped portions to provide interior head room for content in the containers. In embodiments described, the perimeter seals are formed of a gasket layer or bands and the support structure includes a support tray and container box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Inventor: Marjorie V Weir
  • Patent number: 11434046
    Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed and includes a can, which has an end wall incorporating a vent panel and a pouring panel, both panels being breakable and presenting a contour defined by a rupture line. A first actuation tab is externally affixed to the vent panel and manually and angularly displaceable, in order to be separated from the can jointly with the vent panel. A second actuation tab, which may be actuated after the vent panel is removed, is externally affixed to the pouring panel and provided with an end lower tooth, which is pressed against the rupture line of the pouring panel, when the second actuation tab is displaced so as to break, initially, the confronting spot region of the rupture line and, subsequently, to separate the pouring panel from said end wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Inventor: João Marques Fernandes
  • Patent number: 11407549
    Abstract: A container made of injection molded plastic, in particular for storing fruit, vegetables or other foods, includes a box having a box base, a side wall and an generally encircling, upper box periphery, which defines a box opening, and also includes a container lid for at least partially closing the box opening. On an inner side, directed toward an inner region of the box, the container lid has a three-dimensional surface structure including a plurality of respectively adjacent hollow bodies, of which the basic shape has a respective bottom surface, arranged on the inner side of the container lid, a top surface, which is oriented in the direction of the inner region of the box, and a lateral surface, which connects the bottom surface and the top surface to one another. At least some of the hollow bodies are open in the direction of the inner region of the box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Rotho Kunststoff AG
    Inventors: Christian Thoma, Bruno Meier, Marc Binder
  • Patent number: 11396405
    Abstract: A packaging, especially for food, including a cardboard shell and a cover placed thereon in the closed state and which engages over the outside of an upper edge of the shell. Inwardly protruding nubs arranged at at least two opposing side walls of the cover interact with retaining elements at associated side walls of the shell. The side walls having the retaining elements each have a wall portion which is connected to the bottom of the shell by a bend, a first reinforcing portion connected to the upper end of the wall portion by a bend, a second reinforcing portion connected to the first reinforcing portion by a bend and an adhesive-secured portion connected to the second reinforcing portion by a bend and which is adhesively bonded to the outer side of the wall portion. A sub-portion of the wall portion that lies above the adhesive-secured portion, and the first and second reinforcing portions delimit a triangular channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Messerle GmbH
    Inventor: Heiner Messerle
  • Patent number: 11396396
    Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to a container spout secured relative to a hollow container body. The container spout includes a cap region configured to accept a container cap (e.g., a snap-on cap), and a support region positioned between the cap region and the hollow container body. The support region comprises one or more bumper rolls positioned around an exterior of the support region and one or more support protrusions extending between a bottom edge of the cap region and a bottom edge of the support region, wherein each of the one or more support protrusions defines a substantially horizontal convex curvature having a radius smaller than a radius of the container spout. The support protrusions are aligned with corners of the container, and thereby transfer axial crushing forces applied to the container spout onto the container corners to increase the axial crush resistance of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: ALTIUM PACKAGING LP
    Inventor: Joey Palmer
  • Patent number: 11383885
    Abstract: The present invention provides a beverage container that is user friendly and ecofriendly. The present invention has three components which can be used irrespective of each other. According to a preferred embodiment, the present invention is spill proof and leak proof making it perfect for users to carry around. Further, the present invention is collapsible, which allows for compact storage. Furthermore, the present invention comprises braille impression outside the container and indicia inside the container for effectively indicating the volume of the container. Additionally, the lid of the present invention comprises multiple drinking ports, and a lid closure for making the container spill proof, irrespective of the drinking mode chosen by the user. Thus, the present invention allows the user to have a travel friendly, compact, ecofriendly, and reusable beverage holder with a detachable lid and lid closure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Inventor: Sal Yosufy
  • Patent number: 11383880
    Abstract: A plastic internally hollow body has a cavity for containing liquids, solids or gases, and includes a main body shaped and having an inner surface at least partially defining the cavity. The inner surface terminates in a shaped edge that delimits a coupling aperture to the cavity. The internally hollow body includes a closure body, having an outer sealing surface suitable at least partially engaging the inner surface of the main body. The closure body at least partially closes the cavity in correspondence of the coupling aperture. The main body is joined to the closure body at least partially along the shaped edge by a joining element over-moulded to the main body and the closure body and covering the over-moulding seat resulting between the main body and the closure body. A method for making the internally hollow body over-moulds the joining element by injection moulding with an over-moulding mould.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Inventors: Umberto Nenna, Fabrizio Poli
  • Patent number: 11371409
    Abstract: A fluid container includes a tank, a magnetic ring, and an adaptor coupled to the tank via an o-ring seal. The magnetic ring includes two half-ring portions that, when assembled, form a full magnetic ring. The fluid container can be used to store DEF or other fluids. Assembling the fluid container includes positioning the magnetic ring within a groove formed in an outer surface of a conduit of the tank, and threading the adaptor onto the conduit to lock the magnetic ring in place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: PACCAR Inc
    Inventor: Martha-Ann Fellman
  • Patent number: 11345522
    Abstract: A packaging assembly includes a container body defining an interior for housing a product and an opening leading to the interior. The assembly further includes a cap that moves with respect to the container body to move the assembly between a closed position in which the cap covers the opening, and an opened position in which the opening is exposed. A first seal (40) is defined between the container body and the cap. The first seal includes a protrusion (42) formed on one of the container body about the opening or the cap, and a groove (44) formed on the other of the container body about the opening or the cap. The protrusion is received by the groove when the assembly is in the closed position, such that contact is maintained in a sealing relationship around the opening between the groove and the protrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: CSP Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Freedman, Donald Lee Huber, Michael Bucholtz, Randall Christopher LeCroy
  • Patent number: 11346594
    Abstract: There is disclosed a refrigerator including a vacuum space formed between an outer case and an inner case to improve an insulation function thereof, which includes an inner case that defines an exterior appearance of a storage space, an outer case spaced apart a predetermined distance from the inner case, a vacuum space provided between the inner case and the outer case, with being maintained vacuum, to insulate the inner case from the outer case, a plurality of spacers for supporting the inner case and the outer case space that are spaced apart from each other, and a radiation blocking film provided in the vacuum space, spaced apart from the inner case and the outer case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Wonyeong Jung, Deokhyun Youn