Patents Examined by Patrick M Buechner
  • Meter housing for feeding granular or powdered material, meter system, agricultural implement comprising such meter system and method for feeding granular or powdered material
    Patent number: 10561058
    Abstract: A meter housing comprises a meter space with a material inlet and a material outlet, and a wall portion extending between the material inlet and the material outlet. The wall portion has substantially the form of a cylinder sector. The wall portion has a scraper part, which extends substantially parallel to a central axis of the cylinder sector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Vaderstad Holding AB
    Inventor: Gert Gilstring
  • Head plate device, storage container device, cartridge arrangement, dispensing apparatus, and their usage
    Patent number: 10562064
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: SIKA TECHNOLOGY AG
    Inventors: Richard Lavelanet, Andreas Hiemer
  • Reinforced concrete pipe
    Patent number: 10563794
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: FSC Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Claudio Subacchi
  • Fluid containers and fluid container systems
    Patent number: 10562673
    Abstract: An example fluid container includes a main body and a support leg. The main body has a bottom wall and a sidewall that extends from the bottom wall. The bottom wall has a bottom wall first internal surface and the sidewall has a sidewall first internal surface, a sidewall second internal surface, and defines a passageway. The bottom wall first internal surface extends from the sidewall second internal surface toward the passageway at a downward slope. The support leg extends from the main body and is sized and configured to support the fluid container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Inventor: Matthew Shane Carmody
  • Welding promoting element for a closure of an opening device
    Patent number: 10556403
    Abstract: A welding promoting element for an opening device is insertable into a lid (25) of said opening device to connect said lid (25) to a closing element (10) closing a pouring opening (14) of said opening device; the welding promoting element comprises a sheet element (31) provided with a layer (32) of electrically conductive material, with a first layer (33) of heat-sealable plastic material and with a second layer (34) of heat-sealable plastic material arranged on opposite sides of said layer (32), said layer (32) having a thickness comprised in the range 5-15 ?m and each of said first layer (33) and second layer (34) having a thickness comprised in the range 10-50 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.
    Inventors: Diego Cavanna, Livio Veronesi, Massimiliano Cereda, Davide Corradi, Rocco De Paola, Domenico Didonna
  • Writing instrument for forming thermochromic handwriting
    Patent number: 10556459
    Abstract: A writing instrument excellent in handwriting density and temporal stability. The writing instrument includes a ball-point pen tip attached to the front end portion of the ink storage cylinder; and a ball-point pen refill having an ink composition for a writing instrument loaded therein. The ink composition for the writing instrument is a thermochromic ink containing at least a thermochromic microcapsule pigment. The writing instrument includes a pressurization mechanism for applying a pressure to the back end of the ink composition for the writing instrument.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA PILOT CORPORATION (ALSO TRADING AS PILOT CORPORATION)
    Inventors: Takumi Kajiwara, Naoto Masushige
  • Pump with a polymer spring
    Patent number: 10543500
    Abstract: A fluid pump includes a plastomer spring. The spring includes a first end portion and a second end portion and a plurality of rhombus shaped spring sections, joined together in series at adjacent corners and aligned with each other in an axial direction to connect the first end portion to the second end portion. The spring sections can be compressed in the axial direction from an initial condition to a compressed condition and can subsequently expand to their initial condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: ESSITY HYGIENE AND HEALTH AKTIEBOLAG
    Inventors: Hugo Nilsson, Peter Bergman, Håkan Lindström
  • Casing for receiving and fitting a cartridge on an ejection device, and ejection device
    Patent number: 10543507
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Inventor: Marco Roth
  • Sealant coating nozzle and sealant coating apparatus
    Patent number: 10543498
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Hefei BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yangkun Jing, Xiaopan Che, Kai Wang, Hui Jiang, Zhiwei Xu
  • Beverage supply apparatus
    Patent number: 10526186
    Abstract: A beverage supply apparatus may include a touch panel for receiving an operation to select a main syrup from among different types of syrups stored in a number of syrup tank that is diluted with water or carbonated water to form a main beverage and for receiving an operation to select a topping syrup that is added to the main beverage as a flavor. The beverage supply apparatus also may include a nozzle in which the main beverage is produced by mixing water or carbonated water with the main syrup in a predetermined ratio and then the undiluted topping syrup is mixed with the main beverage to produce a beverage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: The Coca-Cola Company
    Inventors: Satoshi Kuboi, Atsushi Makino, Akira Goitsuka, Fumihiro Takahashi
  • Beverage extractor with controller
    Patent number: 10519021
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Coravin, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Rider, Gregory Lambrecht, Andrew S. Sweezey, Chris Vogt
  • Fluid product dispensing device
    Patent number: 10518278
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: APTAR FRANCE SAS
    Inventors: Guillaume Du Boisbaudry, Philip Steer
  • Container with valve
    Patent number: 10518943
    Abstract: The container (100) includes a body portion (102), an upper end portion (104), and a cap portion (106). The body portion, the end portion and the cap portion may be molded as one piece. The cap portion (106) may be attached to the body portion with a hinge (108). The body portion may have a side wall which allows the user to squeeze the side wall and dispense the product which is stored within the container (100). The container may include a valve. The valve may include an opening which allows the contents to be dispensed. The valve may be attached using a retention feature, a retaining ring, an adhesive and/or fusion. The retaining ring may engage the retention feature. After the valve is assembled to the container (100), the container is filled with a product and the lower end portion may be closed by using a heat seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: TC Heartland LLC
    Inventors: Teodor Gelov, Karen Nichols, Douglas Norton
  • Finger spray pump and nozzle head for spray pump
    Patent number: 10512926
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: RPC Bramlage GmbH
    Inventor: Sabine Goettke
  • Dual-dispensing lid
    Patent number: 10512347
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Zak Designs, Inc.
    Inventors: Seth Shepard, Andrew Gillespie
  • Method and system of vacuum loading
    Patent number: 10507605
    Abstract: A method and system of vacuum loading powder used in rotational molding are provided. A loader has a hopper with a tangential inlet at the top and a discharge assembly at the bottom. A vacuum source generates a vacuum at the center of the hopper drawing air and raw material into the tangential inlet. A filter assembly between the tangential inlet and the vacuum source partially separating the air from the raw material. One or more load cells between the hopper and a platform measures an amount of raw material present within the hopper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Wittmann Battenfeld Canada Inc.
    Inventors: Robbie Miller, Joseph Corturillo
  • Aerosol dispenser having annular seals and aerosol container therefor
    Patent number: 10501258
    Abstract: An aerosol container suitable for use as an aerosol dispenser. The aerosol container includes at least a valve and product delivery device joined to an outer container. The valve and product delivery device have respective annular welds or other seals joining the valve and product delivery to the outer container. The welds, or other seals may be concentric, with one circumscribing the other, in the same plane or different planes. Suitable product delivery devices include bags and dip tubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Robert Paul Cassoni, Kerry Lloyd Weaver, Robert Earl Magness, Andrew William Franckhauser, Matthew Aaron Neumann, Douglas Bruce Zeik, Scott Edward Smith
  • Liquid dispenser
    Patent number: 10499774
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Inventors: John Ryan, Rodrigo Dill
  • Meter for dispensing a granular product
    Patent number: 10499558
    Abstract: A chemical granule metering system, for use on a row crop planter, allows for control of chemical granule drop rate. The chemical granule metering system also includes a motor permitting control of chemical granule drop rate by adjusting the rotational speed of the motor. An impeller for a chemical granule meter system having a plurality of apertures is optimized to allow a broad range of chemical granule flow rates, reduce or mitigate clogging, and reduce pulsing characteristics of the metering system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Kinze Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventor: Vaughan Stevenson
  • Dispensing baked good container assembly and method
    Patent number: 10492500
    Abstract: A dispensing baked good container assembly includes a container having a top and a bottom and having a cavity configured to hold baked good ingredients and configured to be opened. The dispensing baked good container assembly includes a pastry bag coupled to the container. The pastry bag is initially packed in the container and is configured to be contained in the cavity. The pastry bag is configured to be deployed after the container is opened. The pastry bag is open to the container such that items are configured to be passed from the cavity of the container into the pastry bag after being deployed for mixing and dispensing of the baked good ingredients from the pastry bag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Inventors: Samuel Siwak, Benjamin Siwak, Molly Siwak