Patents Examined by Nhan T. Lam
  • Patent number: 6082539
    Abstract: A tool box includes a base portion with a first recess and a cover with a second recess wherein a locking member is pivotally engaged with the first recess. The locking member has an engaging device. A first rib and a second rib respectively extend from the bottom of the first recess and the second recess so that the engaging device of the locking member is engaged with the second rib to connect the base portion and the cover. When two tool boxes are overlapped, the engaging device of the locking member of the lower tool box can be engaged with the first rib of the upper tool box so as to secure the two overlapped tool boxes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2000
    Inventor: Pei-Ling Lee
  • Patent number: 6079554
    Abstract: A tray for holding a plurality of beverage containers has a floor with a plurality of container seating areas on its top surface and structure on its bottom surface to enable a plurality of the trays loaded with containers to be stacked on top of one another in stable relationship, yet slid relatively easily on top of one another when desired. Peripheral heel protector bands extend around the periphery of the tray to protect the lower ends of containers from damage, and spacer members project upwardly from the floor between the container seating areas to maintain containers in the tray spaced from one another and prevent displacement of the containers from their seating areas when the tray is tilted. A tray sidewall includes spaced pillars extending upwardly from the periphery of the floor and supporting a top rail at their upper ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2000
    Assignee: International Container Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Roy Hammett, Douglas H. Heilman
  • Patent number: 6076660
    Abstract: A vial for a dental implant delivery system. The vial includes a clip and a lid that is permanently attached to the body of the vial. The lid disengages from the top of the vial when the body of the vial is squeezed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2000
    Assignee: Sulzer Calcitek Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas H. Day
  • Patent number: 6076678
    Abstract: An animal carcass wrapping kit for use by hunters in the field to decrease the possibility of deer tick infection, the carcass wrapping kit having a wrap cloth positioned within a hermetically sealed housing member, the wrap cloth being impregnated with a deer tick repellant prior to its positioning within the hermetically sealed housing member or while in the hermetically sealed housing member immediately prior to use by way of a fracturable ampule of vial within the hermetically sealed housing member containing the deer tick repellant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2000
    Inventor: John M. Clayton, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6076665
    Abstract: A tool holder includes a casing having a number of receiving chambers defined therein for receiving tools of different functions. The casing further includes a holder chamber defined therein for receiving an end of one of the tools. A holder is mounted to the casing and includes an engaging end for releasably engaging with the end of a tool to be received in the holder chamber. The holder further includes a press end for disengaging the engaging end from the end of the tool to allow removal of the tool from the holder chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2000
    Inventor: Louis Chuang
  • Patent number: 6073757
    Abstract: A container arrangement for contact lenses and solution therefor includes a lens case having receptacles for storing contact lenses in contact lens solution. A bottle is provided for containing the contact lens solution. A bottle is provided for containing the contact lens solution and a cavity integrally formed into a bottom of the bottle is provided for receiving and holding the contact lens case within confines of a bottle bottom perimeter and in an orientation providing upright level storage of the contact lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2000
    Assignee: Allergan
    Inventors: Joseph M. Kornick, J. Tirso Olivares
  • Patent number: 6073758
    Abstract: A foldover tag for jewelry items such as necklaces and bracelets includes a web fabricated from cardboard with a resilient foam rubber pad centrally disposed thereon. The pad includes a recess adapted to receive a clasp or fastener of the jewelry item therein. The foldover card is adapted for being folded about a transversely disposed foldline to effectively capture a portion of the jewelry item between front and rear portions of the card, and to secure the clasp within the recess of the pad. The present invention thus advantageously secures the clasp portion of the jewelry item in concealed relation within the foldover card during shipment and retail display of the jewelry item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2000
    Inventors: Anne C. Webster, Bernard M. Maceroni, Heidi J. Loomis
  • Patent number: 6070721
    Abstract: A display case for simultaneously displaying a phonograph album and record includes a shallow rectangular open topped base tray having a width to receive an album and a length to receive the album and at least a portion of a phonograph record. A support post projects from the bottom of the tray to support and position the record in the case at the end of the tray opposite the album preferably with a portion of the record inserted into an open side of the album. A hinged transparent cover is mounted on the tray to cover the album and record, and a latch is proved to releasably retain the cover in a closed position. Hanger brackets may be mounted on the back of the tray for hanging the case on a wall for displaying the album and record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2000
    Inventor: Richard J. Levitan
  • Patent number: 6070728
    Abstract: A hermetic package for fine particulate material. The package is arranged to be filled and vacuumized to hold the fine particulate material therein and isolated from the ambient atmosphere. The package, which may be in the form of a pouch or a gussetted packages, is formed of a flexible material to have at least a front and a rear panel. At least one degassing valve is mounted in at least one of the panels to enable gas within the interior of the package to vent to the ambient atmosphere. A filter sheet, e.g., a spun-bonded plastic, such as Tyvek.RTM., is secured to the interior of the package over the valve to prevent the fine particulate material within the package from entering into the valve and clogging it. The filter sheet may cover only a small portion of one of the panels of the package or may cover a major portion of that panel, or even cover substantially the entire interior of the package. The package includes a top portion forming a mouth, which is arranged to be opened, e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2000
    Assignee: Fres-co System USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas J. Overby, Jeffrey Scott Beer, Daniel R. Wigman
  • Patent number: 6068123
    Abstract: A drawer assembly includes a drawer retractably received in a receiving portion of a tool box and a driving device is located beside one of two opposite side walls of the drawer. A rack is attached to the inside of one of the two side walls and the driving device has a motor to rotate a gear which is engaged with the rack. A resilient link is disengagably engaged with the rack and connected to a button. When the button is pushed to disengage the resilient link from the rack, the motor rotates the gear to let the drawer slide out from the receiving portion. When the drawer is pushed into the receiving portion, the resilient link is engaged with the rack to position the drawer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2000
    Inventor: Shwu Ruu Chen
  • Patent number: 6065589
    Abstract: The invention relates to a presentation element suitable for displaying or presenting articles intended for sale, for example ornaments, pieces of jewellery and the like, which presentation element comprises a first element part comprising edges and a central portion for accommodating an article on a first side of the first element part. The presentation element is according to the invention characterized in that it comprises a second element part connected to the first element part, which comprises edges and a deformable central portion, which second element part can be adjusted into a first position, wherein the edges of the second element part butt against the edges of the first element part, on the first side thereof, and wherein the deformable central portion envelops the article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2000
    Assignee: ROMPA Kunststofprodukten B.V.
    Inventor: Marco Rene Ouwens
  • Patent number: 6065599
    Abstract: A new Video Cassette Storage Sleeve for protectively and decoratively covering a video cassette tape or the like. The inventive device includes an enclosing member having first and second parallel side walls, first and second end walls disposed perpendicularly between the first and second parallel side walls, and a top wall, the walls comprising a first fabric layer disposed in overlaying relationship to a second semi-rigid mesh layer. A display window on the second end wall is provided for insertion of a descriptive label.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2000
    Inventor: Joyce L. Lincoln
  • Patent number: 6062386
    Abstract: A multi-tier winding coil 1 of a welding wire in a hollow cylindrical configuration having a beginning wire end which is located in the innermost tier and at one of cylinder end faces, a combination of such coil with a shipment packaging box 21, and a combination of the coil 1 and a wire feed adapter 5 which is used to mount the coil on a welding machine are disclosed. The coil 1 includes bundling wires 3a-3d. The beginning wire end of the coil is bent to extend in a radial direction of the coil loop, and is then bent in a direction to extend parallel to the center axis of the coil, thus defining an L-configuration 1sr+1sa. A wire feed adapter 5 includes a barrel 5b formed with notches 5br-5br4 and 5ar-5a4 for receiving beginning ends 1s.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2000
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Welding Products & Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Inoue, Ichiro Masuda, Toru Ono, Yukio Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 6062384
    Abstract: A fastener structure is formed as a collection of a number of fasteners, each fastener having a head, a filament that is connected to the head, and a crossbar, each fastener being connected to a connected to a common linear support element, via a linking section that is an extension that crosses over the above-noted crossbar in the axial direction of the filament, so that the head parts and the crossbars of each of the fasteners are mutually parallel, wherein the force that is required to bend the above-noted common linear support element along a plane formed by a group of filaments is smaller than the force that is required to bend that bends the fastener structure in another direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2000
    Assignees: Kotec's Company, Ltd., Akira Furutsu
    Inventors: Hideyuki Ueno, Akira Furutsu
  • Patent number: 6062381
    Abstract: A cleaning kit for use in cleaning surfaces in clean rooms, semiconductor fabrication plants, pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities, etc. A stack of extremely clean wipers is packaged together with a container of cleaning fluid in a liquid-tight outer container. The kit is stored until just before it is to be used. Fluid is released from the inner container into the wipers. In one embodiment, the inner container is frangible and is broken by application of hand pressure to the outside of the outer container. The cleaning liquid is allowed to soak into the wipers, and the wipers are removed from the outer container for use. The container can be resealed to protect the wipers after the package has been opened. This device and method minimize deterioration of the wiper material due to prolonged contact with the cleaning fluid, and minimize the loss of effectiveness of substances such as biocides which might deteriorate due to prolonged contact with the wiper material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2000
    Assignee: The Texwipe Company LLC
    Inventors: William R. Paley, Steven J. Paley, Douglas W. Cooper, Peter B. Russo, Jeffrey C. Sayre, Howard D. Siegerman
  • Patent number: 6059101
    Abstract: A display package for a media item includes a base having opposing halves each formed of a pair of spaced apart upper and lower panels hingedly connected together along outer ends of the panels, the upper panels also being hingedly connected together along inner ends thereof. Central portions of the inner ends of the upper panels are spaced apart from each other to define an elongate slot therebetween. The display carrier also includes an upright body portion comprising a first body panel hingedly connected along a first edge thereof to an inner edge of a first one of the lower panels, and a second body panel hingedly connected to the first body panel along a second edge of the first body panel. The second body panel overlies the first body panel and is secured thereto to define a pocket adapted for reception therein of a graphic media item. The body panels extend upwardly through the slot and one of the first and second body panels has a window therein for viewing of the graphic media item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2000
    Assignee: Cadmus Communication Corporation
    Inventors: John A. Gambardella, Melanie Anne Moore, Tim Whitson
  • Patent number: 6059109
    Abstract: An organizer tray which is insertable within the upper portion of an empty container such as a five gallon bucket for use in organizing tools and like articles typically transported by craftsmen in empty buckets. The organizer tray is provided with bottom open, arcuately shaped channels which enable the tray to be emplaced over the upper rim portion of the container for easy access to the top open storage compartments. The organizer tray can conveniently be stacked onto a tray of identical design in a stable, slightly spaced configuration. For this purpose, the tray includes a radially inwardly extending protuberance which is engagable by a spacing finger provided on a superiorly mounted tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2000
    Assignee: Olympia Industrial, Inc.
    Inventor: Harvey Stein
  • Patent number: 6059098
    Abstract: A jewelry case includes a case including a bottom wall, a top wall, and a peripheral structure connected between the bottom and top walls to define at least one compartment therebetween, the peripheral structure including opposite side walls hinged to opposite edges of the bottom wall, and opposite end walls hinged to remaining opposite edges of the bottom wall, with the top wall hinged to an upper edge of one side wall; first ring posts arranged in a plurality of rows mounted to an underside of the top wall and extending toward the bottom wall, with a spacing between first ring posts in each row being at least equal to a width of one first ring post, and first ring posts of each row being offset from first ring posts of adjacent rows; second ring posts arranged in a plurality of rows mounted to an upper surface of the bottom wall and extending toward the top wall, with a spacing between second ring posts in each row being at least equal to a width of one second ring post, second ring posts of each row being
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2000
    Assignee: Ovadia Corp.
    Inventors: Joseph Ovadia, Tomasz Zawadzki
  • Patent number: 6059115
    Abstract: A ring tray includes a base having an upper surface, a lower surface, a plurality of elongated recesses in the upper surface, and a releasable holding arrangement on the upper surface in surrounding relation to the recesses and on the lower surface, the releasable holding arrangement being formed by layers of small hooks; a foam gripping member positioned in each recess for gripping a ring therein, the foam gripping member being folded so as to have a substantially M-shaped cross-section, formed by two inverted V-shaped portions connected together and between which the ring is gripped; and an upper pad having a fabric lower surface which is releasably held by the hooks in covering relation to the upper surface and the recesses, the upper pad including a central section engaged by the hooks on the upper surface, and two wrap-around sections connected at opposite sides of the central section, each wrapping around a side of the base and engaging the hooks on the lower surface, and the upper pad having a pluralit
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2000
    Inventor: Joseph Ovadia
  • Patent number: 6059106
    Abstract: A plastic blister package for display and storage of a toothbrush has a base member and a closure member connected to one another by an integrally molded hinge. The base member and closure member have a pair of flanges, one overlying the other with package in the closed position, and a lip is provided on flange edge of the base member for receiving the edge of the closure member to seal the cavity formed by the two members. A pair of protuberances extend from the base flange and are received in interfitting engagement with a pair of openings found in the closure flange to substantially lock the package in the closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2000
    Assignee: Gillette Canada Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley William Baker, Joseph Michael Kornick, Jose Tirso Olivares