Patents Examined by Michael J Melaragno
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Patent number: 10602828Abstract: Provided is a case for liquid state cosmetics. The case for liquid state cosmetics includes a case body in which a liquid content is contained, a shoulder unit coupled to an upper portion of the case body and having a content discharge hole at a central portion thereof, a pumping unit inserted into the shoulder part and connected to the content discharge hole to discharge the content through pumping action due to elasticity, and a button unit coupled to an upper portion of the shoulder unit and connected to the pumping unit to operate the pumping unit so that the content is discharged by pumping action of the pumping unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2018Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Inventor: Young-Kwang Byun
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Patent number: 10604401Abstract: A tap is described, for delivering liquids from a vessel comprising: an elongated supporting body equipped with an inclined internal contact surface next to its delivery end; an upper closing element and tamper-preventing seal which closes the delivery end of the supporting body; a pin centrally placed inside the supporting body and equipped with an O-ring adapted to sealingly engage the inclined internal contact surface when the tap is closed; a dome-shaped elastic valve element operatively connected to the pin at the opposite end with respect to the delivery end of the supporting body, the dome-shaped elastic valve element performing the automatic closure of the tap; and a plate operatively connected to the dome-shaped elastic valve element.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2017Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: Vitop Moulding S.R.L.Inventor: Diego Nini
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Patent number: 10595963Abstract: A dispenser includes a guide shaft, a housing, accommodating the guide shaft, and supporting the guide shaft movably frontward and rearward along an axial direction, a slide block slidably mounted on the guide shaft, a piston shaft having one end mounted on the slide block, and another end projecting from the housing as the slide block moves frontward, a handle projecting from the housing, a slide bar having one end rotatably supported on the housing, and another end approaching the handle when rotated, and an engaging piece provided on the one end of the slide bar and engaging a guide groove formed in the guide shaft, wherein the engaging piece moves the guide shaft frontward when the other end of the slide bar is rotated to approach the handle due to an operation of a user.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2017Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: GC CorporationInventors: Tatsunosuke Miyano, Shigeaki Matsunaga
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Patent number: 10589896Abstract: An anti-spurt device, for application in a closure of a container with a cap and a ring with teeth for cutting a sealing membrane. The anti-spurt device may comprise a tube that automatically unfolds from a folded position and may be connected with the cutting ring. In the folded or loaded position, the tube may be outside of the sealing membrane and with the breakage of the membrane, it may be inserted and automatically unfolded in the inside of the container. In a second main embodiment, the need for a cutting ring and membrane may be eliminated, and the tube may be installed on a carriage held by a hook that is released with the opening of the cap.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2017Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Inventor: Pablo Ibañez Razola
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Patent number: 10582786Abstract: A double chamber bottle assembly includes a first container that contains a fluid condiment and a second container that contains a fluid condiment. The second container releasably engages the first container such that the first and second containers form a bottle. A cap is rotatably coupled to each of the first and second containers and the cap has a plurality of dispensing apertures each extending therethrough. The cap is rotatable into a first open position to release the fluid condiment from the first container, a second open position to release the fluid condiment from the second container and a third open position to release both of the first and fluid condiments. A nozzle is coupled to the cap and the nozzle has a pair of chambers therein to receive, and subsequently dispense, the fluid condiment in the respective first and second containers.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2019Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Inventor: Alejandro Saint Geours
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Patent number: 10583450Abstract: In a dispenser for dosing of at least one component received in a receiving compartment, a valve device, forming an inlet valve and an outlet valve associated with an outlet opening, is formed of at least two valve elements.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2019Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Inventor: Gerhard Brugger
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Patent number: 10569942Abstract: A container and container closures are provided as well as methods of dispensing product from the container are provided. The container closure includes a pair of cover members. One cover member includes sifting apertures and the other cover member is imperforate to prevent dispensing product. The container closure may also include a measuring volume that can be used to measure a predetermined amount of product to be dispensed. Sifting and bulk dispensing may occur for either product dispensed directly from the container or when dispensing the predetermined volume of product.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2018Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: J.L. Clark, Inc.Inventor: Jason W. Ludewig
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Patent number: 10569287Abstract: A discharge device including a pump disposed to a container body in which contents are stored and which includes a discharge head provided with a discharge hole formed therein; a mounting cap; a support portion; and a press-down member. By rotating the press-down member, the discharge head is moved downward and the contents are discharged from the discharge hole. The discharge device includes a stopper which is movable between a restricted position where the downward movement of the discharge head is restricted and a non-restricted position where the downward movement of the discharge head is allowed.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2017Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: YOSHINO KOGYOSHO CO., LTD.Inventor: Kota Sakata
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Patent number: 10562051Abstract: A hopper assembly includes a hopper configured to contain a feedstock material. A vibration imparting device is arranged inside the hopper and a vibration source coupled to the vibration imparting device. Embodiments of the instant invention are believed to provide various improvements in feeding uniformity by providing various hopper configurations that ensure a more consistently uniform filling of the metering device for a variety of difficult-to-feed materials and not-so-difficult-to-feed materials. One, more or all of these embodiments are also believed to improve accuracy and add precision to control, and, in addition, offer more simplified hopper construction—which is less costly to manufacture and maintain.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2015Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: OERLIKON METCO (US) INC.Inventors: Elliot M. Cotler, Robert F. Savill, Jr., Ronald J. Molz, Daniel R. Arjona
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Patent number: 10561272Abstract: A beverage system may include a beverage maker, a vessel, and a liner assembly. The liner assembly may comprise a liner configured for the vessel, an integrated closure mechanism, a flexible tube; and a cuff having an interlock surface. The cuff may be received in at least a portion of the tube thereby securing the liner and the tube. The interlock surface may be configured to provide a first seal between at least the cuff and the liner. The integrated closure mechanism may be configured to provide a second seal on an upper portion of the liner. A method of using same is further provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2015Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: Plascon Packaging, Inc.Inventors: David E. Peterson, Matthew P. Klein
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Patent number: 10563794Abstract: Structural body comprises a concrete core and a cap around the opening. A first wrap is wrapped under tension around the concrete core and a portion of the cap to form a continuous water resistant barrier around the outer surface of the concrete core. A second wrap can be wrapped under tension around the inner surface of concrete core to form a continuous water resistant barrier around the inner surface of the concrete core. Structural body can be formed as a pipe with a male and female ends to interconnect multiple pipes. The joint formed between two structural bodies has a continuous water resistant barrier that prevents the environment from contacting the concrete core.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2015Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: FSC Technologies, LLCInventor: Claudio Subacchi
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Patent number: 10562064Abstract: A head plate device is disclosed for a cartridge arrangement for a dispensing apparatus for dispensing at least two flowable components. The head plate device includes at least two separate outlet openings for respectively dispensing the at least two flowable components, and at least two separate inlet passages of the head plate device through which the at least two flowable components can be introduced and flowed through separately from one another. A corresponding storage container device, a cartridge arrangement, and a dispensing apparatus combining a head plate device and a storage container device with a mixer device are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2015Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: SIKA TECHNOLOGY AGInventors: Richard Lavelanet, Andreas Hiemer
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Patent number: 10543498Abstract: A sealant coating nozzle and a sealant coating apparatus are provided. The sealant coating nozzle includes a nozzle cavity, a nozzle opening communicated with the nozzle cavity, telescopic inner films located in the nozzle cavity and driving apparatuses configured to drive the telescopic inner films to deform in the nozzle cavity; a volume of the nozzle cavity is reduced by the telescopic inner films in a first deformation state to extrude sealant in the nozzle cavity via the nozzle opening, and the volume of the nozzle cavity is increased by the telescopic inner films in a second deformation state to suck the sealant at the nozzle opening into the nozzle cavity.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2016Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Hefei BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yangkun Jing, Xiaopan Che, Kai Wang, Hui Jiang, Zhiwei Xu
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Patent number: 10543507Abstract: A casing for coaxially receiving and fitting a cartridge or a cartridge-like container on an ejection device for ejecting a viscous compound, wherein at least one shell portion of the casing is telescopic, and wherein the telescopic portion has at least two tubular portions which are arranged coaxially to one another in certain portions, and which are displaceable relative to one another in the axial direction. The tubular portions are inter-engaged via latching elements and can be locked relative to one another in different positions, and that the first tubular portion has a flange with a coupling element at a first end and can be releasably connected by the coupling element to the ejection device directly or via an intermediate piece, and that the first tubular portion has a sliding portion on which the second tubular portion is displaceable between a first locked position into a second locked position.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2017Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Inventor: Marco Roth
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Patent number: 10519021Abstract: A system and method for dispensing beverage from a container, such as wine from a wine bottle. Dispensing may be automatically controlled based on a detected orientation of the container, e.g., dispensing may occur when a bottle is tilted as if to pour from the bottle and stopped when the bottle is oriented upright. Dispensing may be stopped when the container is rotated about its longitudinal axis even while in a pour orientation. A remaining amount of beverage in the container and/or an amount of pressurized gas used to drive dispensing may be detected and beverage dispensing controlled accordingly.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2016Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: Coravin, Inc.Inventors: Michael Rider, Gregory Lambrecht, Andrew S. Sweezey, Chris Vogt
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Patent number: 10518278Abstract: A fluid dispenser device having a dispenser member mounted on the neck of a container, with a neck gasket interposed. The dispenser member is mounted by a fastener element having a fastener portion and a compression portion. The compression portion includes a projecting profile that exerts stresses on the neck gasket. After assembly, the neck of the container generates first stresses in the neck gasket, and the projecting profile of the fastener element generates second stresses in the neck gasket, the first stresses approximately axially opposite the second stresses. The neck includes a top curved margin and defines an edge in contact with the neck gasket, the first and second stresses approximately axially opposite but radially offset, such that said first and second stresses are balanced at least in part.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2012Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: APTAR FRANCE SASInventors: Guillaume Du Boisbaudry, Philip Steer
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Patent number: 10512347Abstract: A dual-dispensing lid includes a pour orifice, a pour spout corresponding with the pour orifice, and a pour cap selectively detachable from direct contact with the pour spout. The pour cap seals the pour spout from fluid exiting the fluid container through the pour spout. The lid also includes a sip orifice and an elongated and resilient sip spout inserted through the sip orifice. A sip cap is selectively releasable from compression against the sip spout and selectively compressible against the sip spout in a manner that seals the sip spout from fluid exiting the fluid container through the sip spout.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2018Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: Zak Designs, Inc.Inventors: Seth Shepard, Andrew Gillespie
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Patent number: 10512926Abstract: A finger spray pump for spraying a medium has a finger-actuated pump head movable between a spraying position and an initial position. The pump has an outlet nozzle and a pump chamber with an inlet valve and an outlet valve, a piston rod, a pump piston, a first spring acting between the piston rod and the pump piston, and a second spring acting between the piston rod and the pump housing. The pump piston is movable between a sealed position and an open position, to form the outlet valve, wherein the pump piston in the sealed position lies on a sealing extension of the piston rod and in the open position allows the passage of medium between the sealing extension and the pump piston. The pump piston is supported on two zones of an outer surface of the piston rod that are axially spaced apart.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2017Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: RPC Bramlage GmbHInventor: Sabine Goettke
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Patent number: 10512925Abstract: To provide a trigger sprayer that can maintain uniformity of a chemical solution containing fine powder and is superior in flow efficiency. The trigger sprayer of the present invention is designed such that a piston part 5 is moved by a pivotal movement of a trigger part, while being attached to a container, so as to apply a pressure to a liquid inside a cylinder part 42A of a cylinder structural part 4 so that the liquid in the container is jetted from a nozzle part 3 through a passage P.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2017Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: CANYON CORPORATIONInventor: Shinichiro Nakano
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Patent number: 10499774Abstract: A liquid dispenser for dispensing a liquid such as a hand sanitizer uses a receptacle that is dimensioned to properly fit within a typical vehicle cup holder. A receptacle cap is attached to the top of the receptacle. A pumping system passes through the receptacle cap so as to have a dip tube disposed within the receptacle and an actuator located above the receptacle cap. Actuation of the actuator draws liquid from the receptacle and dispenses the liquid onto a user's hand through a discharge portion of the actuator. Spilled liquid is captured within a collection pool defined on a upper surface of the receptacle cap. An protective dome cap is attached to an upper portion of the receptacle cap, has an opening therein for access to the discharge port, and can be pressed downwardly to actuate the pumping system.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2018Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Inventors: John Ryan, Rodrigo Dill
