Patents Examined by Paul R Durand
  • Patent number: 12291413
    Abstract: An example bulk material dispensing apparatus includes: a frame; a hopper supported in the frame, the hopper configured to contain a bulk material for dispensing by the dispensing apparatus and having a hopper outlet; a feeding unit interconnected with the hopper outlet, the feeding unit configured to receive the bulk material from the hopper outlet and comprising: a feeding tube; and an auger disposed in the feeding tube, the auger configured to rotate to drive the bulk material received from the hopper outlet to be dispensed from a dispensing outlet; and a controller interconnected with the auger, the controller configured to: receive a dispensing request specifying a quantity of bulk material to dispense; and control the auger to rotate to dispense the quantity of bulk material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: SIGNIFI SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventors: Kris Dutkiewicz, Richard Longo, Yong Suk Jin, Shamira Jaffer
  • Patent number: 12290833
    Abstract: A nozzle is configured to receive and mate with a dispensing tube of a cartridge of sealer. The nozzle includes: a central body having a first end and a second end, with the central body further defining an interior volume; and a guide member extending from the central body of the nozzle. The first end of the central body is open and is configured to receive the dispensing tube. The second end of the central body defines a slit via which the sealer is dispensed. In use, a leading portion of the guide member extends beyond the slit and engages an edge of a panel to which the sealer is applied. The nozzle may also include a series of raised protrusions on an interior wall surface of the central body, which engage and press into the dispensing tube, creating an interference fit that assists in holding the nozzle in place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Craftech Innovations LLC
    Inventors: Anthony W. White, Andrew Godfrey
  • Patent number: 12281926
    Abstract: An industrial metering apparatus includes a hopper, a metering mechanism, a discharge opening, a window, a hinge, and a locking mechanism. The hopper includes a housing to contain a bulk material. The metering mechanism is coupled to the hopper and meters a quantity of the bulk material leaving the hopper. The discharge opening is coupled to the metering mechanism and discharges the metered quantity of the bulk material. The window covers an opening through the side of the housing. The hinge couples the window to the housing such that the hinge allows the window to hingedly open to allow access to the opening through the side of the housing and hingedly close to substantially prevent the bulk material from escaping from the hopper. The locking mechanism locks the window in a closed position to substantially prevent the bulk material from escaping from the housing of the hopper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: One Pass Innovators, LLC
    Inventors: Ryan DeWind, Gregory Allen DeWind
  • Patent number: 12275576
    Abstract: A nozzle assembly provides an adapter configured for insertion into a pressurized container, wherein a nozzle has been removed from the pressurized container. A tubing has a first end connected to the adapter and a second end. A discharge nozzle is releasably connected to the second end of the tubing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Inventor: John William Gourdier, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12275632
    Abstract: A system and method for dispensing fluids is introduced. A preferred embodiment comprises a sealed tank, a bag containing fluid inside the sealed tank, an outlet for dispensing the liquid in the bag, and a pressure generating device to create pressure in the sealed tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: fairlife, LLC
    Inventors: Timothy Peter Doelman, Vincent A. Baxter
  • Patent number: 12275669
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for treating the wall of a glass container (1), which wall delimits a cavity (4) and an opening providing access to said cavity (4), the method comprising: the dispensing of a treatment substance into the cavity, using a dispensing means (12) of which a dispensing orifice (13) is positioned some distance from the opening of the container (1) and outside the latter, the container (1) being in motion relative to the dispensing means (12), and the capturing, by an image-capturing device (16), during the dispensing, of at least one image of a spatial region including the opening of the container (1) and determining, by analysing said image, whether or not a predetermined quantity of substance was introduced into the cavity (4) of the container (1). Method and installation for treating glass containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: SGD S.A.
    Inventors: Pierre-Luc Etchepare, Christophe Depoilly, Jingwei Zhang
  • Patent number: 12274594
    Abstract: Formulation delivery systems, formulation delivery devices, and formulation cartridges for the same are provided. Formulation delivery systems include a reusable handle, a formulation dispensing assembly, and a controller. The formulation dispensing assembly includes a reciprocating nozzle assembly and a pump. The reciprocating nozzle assembly is fluidically coupleable to the formulation cartridge or the cleaning cartridge received within the reusable handle. Formulation delivery devices include a reusable handle configured to receive a formulation cartridge therein, and a formulation dispensing assembly disposed in the reusable handle. The formulation dispensing assembly includes fluid conduits, a pump fluidically connected to the fluid conduits, a reciprocating nozzle assembly, and a controller. Formulation cartridges include a reusable cartridge body, a valve frame, and a disposable refill packet reversibly-coupleable to the reusable cartridge body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: L'Oreal
    Inventors: Ji Lee, Carolina Canamaque, Joseph Grez
  • Patent number: 12269668
    Abstract: An activator for use with an aerosol spray can is presented having a two-part housing formed from a first side and a second side that when aligned and connected together retains a trigger that is pivotally attached to one of the first and second sides. Snap fittings or a can adjuster can be used to slidably engage with the spray can to securely hold the spray can and preventing axial movement relative to the housing. A nozzle elbow is movable contained within the housing having a distal end and a proximal end, where the proximal end accepts and operatively connects with a valve stem on the spray can. A spray head is releasably positioned in the distal end of the elbow nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: SEYMOUR OF SYCAMORE INC.
    Inventor: Christopher Packard Heatley
  • Patent number: 12263501
    Abstract: A compound applicator includes a nozzle assembly including a nozzle opening and a plug movable relative to the nozzle opening between a first position in which the nozzle assembly is in a closed state, and a second position in which the nozzle assembly is in an open state, a spring configured to bias the plug into the first position, a cylinder configured to receive and store a compound material, a main housing, a handle rotatable relative to the main housing, a pull rod having a first end coupled with the plug, and an input mechanism located at least partially within the handle and/or the main housing and configured to convert rotational motion of the handle into axial movement of the pull rod, thereby moving the plug from the first position toward the second position. The spring pulls the pull rod such that the pull rod is biased into tension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Ames Tools Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew W. Jungklaus, Michael T. Ventura
  • Patent number: 12258201
    Abstract: The valve cup for pressurized container has an outer face and an inner face and is provided with a peripheral bearing edge (51) for placing the cup on a can, a central opening for the passage of a product outlet rod (31), a descending wall in the continuation of the bearing edge, and a bottom wall between the descending wall and the central opening, which bottom wall comprises at least one frustoconical peripheral portion the outer face of which is concave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: LINDAL FRANCE SAS
    Inventors: Hervé Bodet, Eric Gaillard
  • Patent number: 12259264
    Abstract: A flavouring dispenser for dispensing doses of flavouring is disclosed. The flavouring dispenser comprises a flavouring chamber for containing flavouring; a dosing member having a dosing volume for receiving flavouring from the flavouring chamber, the dosing member defining an opening to the dosing volume through which flavouring is received from the flavouring chamber. A reciprocating member is movable relative to the dosing member between a closed position, at which the opening is isolated from the flavouring chamber by the reciprocating member, to a first open position, at which the opening is partially exposed to the flavouring chamber such that an amount of flavouring may enter into the dosing volume via the opening, and back to the closed position, such that the flavouring may be dispensed by the dosing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: ISHIDA EUROPE LIMITED
    Inventors: Lee Vine, Andrew Geoffrey Potter
  • Patent number: 12258194
    Abstract: The invention relates to a bag-in-box container for storing and transporting liquids with a maximum safety tap for direct consumption through flexible tubes, for housing a filled bag with two opposite vertical positions for handling and transport, and another position for dispensation, with better safety control and a content outflow anti-blocking system; and spouts with direct connection to tube lines for the conduction of and mixing with other products at a distance, or for visible dispensation without touching the container at a shorter distance, with another end tap, a flow interrupter with a deformable elastic element connected with flanges that can be actuated between normal and safety closed positions, a nozzle that can be connected to one of the spouts for direct dispensation into the mouth, and a set of measurements printed on the box to help sorting and recycling the components of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Inventors: Felipe Ortega Hernández, Natalia Ortega Hernández
  • Patent number: 12252311
    Abstract: There is described a lid-spout assembly for a package. The lid-spout assembly comprises at least a spout having a collar carrying a pouring outlet, a coupling ring arranged around a portion of the collar, a lid and a hinge element hinging the lid to the coupling ring. The lid is controllable between at least a closed configuration and an open configuration. The lid-spout assembly comprises an interaction assembly partially associated to the collar and partially associated to the lid and being designed such to determine a threshold force needed to be exceeded, in use, in order to control the lid from the closed configuration to the open configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.
    Inventors: Davide Morciano, Paolo Zanon
  • Patent number: 12252331
    Abstract: The valve (1) for pressurized container, includes a valve body (10) in which are placed a spring (20), a valve member (30), and a cup (50) having an outer face (53) and an inner face (54) and being provided with a central opening (52) through which a product outlet rod (31) can pass, the valve body (10) being fixed to the inner face (54) of the cup (50), the valve seal (40) being pressed against the cup while surrounding the central opening (52), and the valve body (10) being fixed to the inner face of the cup (50) by welding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: LINDAL FRANCE SAS
    Inventors: Hervé Bodet, Eric Gaillard
  • Patent number: 12246337
    Abstract: A portable granular material spreader including an enclosure adapted to dispense granular material through an outlet, and a pressurized air source. A chamber has first, second, and third passageways, and containing a distributor therein, the first passageway in fluid communication with the outlet to receive the granular material by virtue of gravity from the outlet with the distributor controlling a flow rate of the granular material in the chamber, the second passageway in fluid communication with the pressurized air source, and the third passageway for discharging the granular material entrained in pressurized air from the pressurized air source. A conduit being in fluid communication with the second passageway and the enclosure, the conduit end being sufficiently distal from the outlet to not result in aerating the granular material proximate the outlet while preventing a reverse flow of the granular material at the outlet during operation of the spreader.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Inventor: Charles William Henry
  • Patent number: 12246926
    Abstract: A bulk material transport system includes one or more bulk material transport bins, weighing platforms, and vehicles arranged in various combinations as bulk material transporters, assemblies, and units. The system is useful for coupling with a bulk material container, forming a reduced pressure region at an inlet of the transport bin, and dispensing bulk material into the transport bin through the reduced pressure region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc.
    Inventors: Kirk Holmes, Steven Will, Manfred Robert Romstöck, Guenther Josef Mlynar
  • Patent number: 12246906
    Abstract: Aiming to replace a vast assortment of plastic packages currently in massive use worldwide, the present invention relates to a dispenser that reduces waste with the ability to be periodically recharged with new refill packages made up of environmentally sustainable materials, being the core of the present invention the ability to cause an opposite movement of a loaded container against a piston located on top of a pin centralized at the set of parts that conform the lower half of the dispenser body, causing the compression and further expelling of the stored cargo through the container's nozzle, insofar that the referred container will be progressively embedded by screwing action enabled through compatible threading on the exterior of the refill packages and on the interior of a doubly threaded tube section which partially composes the lower half of the dispenser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Inventor: Paulo Roberto Jannotti Newlands
  • Patent number: 12240146
    Abstract: The invention relates to a nozzle (10) for dispensing concrete, mortar or the like, comprising a housing (12) and a mixing chamber (14) which is arranged therein and is delimited by a circumferential wall (16) and extends along a longitudinal axis (L) at least between a supply opening (19) and an outlet opening (20); an actively driveable mixing device, which is arranged in the mixing chamber (14); and an exit opening (32), which is directly or indirectly flow-connected to the outlet opening (20) of the mixing chamber (14). At least one cavity (44; 44a, 44b), which extends axially and in the circumferential direction, is arranged around the circumferential wall (16) of the mixing chamber (14) and is in contact with the circumferential wall (16) and at least substantially surrounds the mixing chamber (14) in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: MAI INTERNATIONAL GMBH
    Inventors: Klaus Kampitsch, David Kampitsch
  • Patent number: 12240746
    Abstract: A new and improved touchless flowable product dispenser which is to be utilized to reduce the amount of bacteria and germs transmitted when a customer wishes to dispense a flowable product, such as, for example, various condiments into a container. This invention allows large quantities of the flowable product to be stored and dispensed without customer contact, thereby reducing the risk of germ and bacteria transmission inside of a restaurant, particularly during infectious disease events or calendar seasons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: A. J. ANTUNES & CO.
    Inventors: Joe Carone, Chad Elliott
  • Patent number: 12241767
    Abstract: A container configured for housing a fluid. A compressible body disposed within the container for dispensing fluid. The compressible body is compressed by applying compression to the container. When the compressible body changes from a non-compressed state to a compressed state, the fluid within the container does not flow into compressible body and fluid within the compressible body flows out of the compressible body and when the compressible body changes from the compressed state to the non-compressed state the fluid flows into the compressible body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: FLEXPENSER AB
    Inventors: Amin Kazemzadeh, Esmail Pishbin, Giulia Gaudenzi, Robert Bouwens