Patents Examined by Shian T. Luong
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Patent number: 6929160Abstract: An apparatus for holding a fuel bladder is disclosed. The apparatus may include a lid, and a container body. The container body may include first and second hatch doors for accessing fuel in the fuel bladder. The lid may include one or more tie downs, which allow the apparatus to be tied down to an aircraft pallet. One or more devices may be provided for securing the lid to the container body. The container body may include first, second, third, and fourth channels fixed thereto for the use of a forklift device. The apparatus may be further comprised of a first device, which can be placed over an opening in the container body exposed by an opened first hatch door. The first device may include a hose, which can be attached to the fuel bladder in order for fuel from the fuel bladder to be supplied through the hose.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2003Date of Patent: August 16, 2005Inventors: Paul J. Elstone, Sr., Daniel L. O'Connor
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Patent number: 6926143Abstract: A case for tool shafts has a housing with an opening and an entrance, a sliding member slidably mounted on the housing, a top cap covering the opening, a bottom cap covering the entrance and an optional suspension plate. The multiple tool shafts are movably accommodated inside the housing in parallel and pushed to the opening by the sliding member. Thereby, the multiple tool shafts are arranged inside the case in an orderly manner. An individual tool shaft can be positioned at the opening by the sliding member removed conveniently from the housing through the opening.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2004Date of Patent: August 9, 2005Inventor: Kun-Chen Chen
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Patent number: 6926140Abstract: A single sheet of non-woven material is provided with sufficient strength and durability to store two compact discs without the necessity of laminating or otherwise interconnecting the non-woven sheet to a backing sheet or other materials for strength. The single sheet of non-woven material is positioned between the playing surfaces of the two compact discs to provide a non-scratching, protective surface and to reduce the costs associated with manufacturing the sleeves used to store the CDS.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2003Date of Patent: August 9, 2005Assignee: Case Logic, Inc.Inventors: James Allen Bergh, Mark E. Phillips, Terrence Martin Drew
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Patent number: 6926139Abstract: A compact disc and portable player holding device includes a housing that includes an upper portion and a bottom portion. The upper portion includes an upper wall and a first peripheral wall that is attached to and extends downward from the upper wall. The bottom portion includes a bottom wall and second peripheral wall that is attached to and extends upwardly from the bottom wall. A pivot member is attached to the first peripheral wall and second peripheral wall for pivotally coupling the upper portion to the bottom portion. A securing assembly is attached to a free edge of the first and second peripheral walls for selectively securing together the free edges. Compact discs may selectively be positioned in the housing. A fastening assembly selectively fastens a compact disc player to the housing.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2003Date of Patent: August 9, 2005Inventor: Kayla A. Poole
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Patent number: 6923314Abstract: A package for containers such as beverage bottles and cans includes a carrier with an array of loops, one loop provided for surrounding each container. A sleeve surrounds the group of containers held by the carrier. The carrier includes perforations, slits and frangible links for tearing the carrier and releasing containers individually. The sleeve includes parting lines allowing separated portions of the carrier to be pulled through the sleeve as the containers are released.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2002Date of Patent: August 2, 2005Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.Inventor: Leslie S. Marco
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Patent number: 6915905Abstract: A packing cushion material located between a packing article and a packing box to buffer shocks applied from the outside to protect electronic appliances such as audio apparatus and speaker apparatus and other articles housed and packed in the packing box is formed by pulp mold. The packing cushion material is characterized by upper and lower cushion portions contacting with the packed article from the lower direction or the upper direction and side cushion portions contacting with the packed article from the lateral direction to receive force acting from the lateral direction, wherein the side cushion portions include protrusion portions protruding in the upper and lower directions and including contact surfaces expanded in the upper and lower directions to surface-contact the packed article and reinforcement portions formed at the rear sides of the protrusion portions and having concave and convex portions.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2002Date of Patent: July 12, 2005Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Naomi Yoshimura
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Patent number: 6915907Abstract: An earplug distribution assembly is provided including an outer portion including four outer side panels, a top panel, and a bottom panel connected to form a box, an inner portion received at an interior of the box, the inner portion delimiting a plurality of chambers in the box, and earplugs stored in the chambers, one of the outer side panels including openings corresponding to each of the plurality of chambers thus allowing a user to access the earplugs in the chambers, each chamber including a distinct type of the earplugs.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2002Date of Patent: July 12, 2005Assignee: Cabot Safety Intermediate CorporationInventor: Brian Myers
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Patent number: 6913144Abstract: A yarn organizer, for conveniently holding and displaying a great variety of yarns, having at least two arms and a pivoting axle. The arms are substantially flat and have a connected end, a free end, and a plurality of openings extending fully through the arms. The openings are longitudinally spaced between the connected end and the free end. The pivoting axle extends transversely through the connected ends of the arms and allows the arms to pivot with respect to each other to selectively allow the arms to either fully or partially overlap each other. Spacers, which are located on the pivoting axle between the arms, allow for sufficient clearance for the yarn to extend through the openings of each arm and wrap around the side of the arm having that opening. Each opening of each yarn is uniquely identified with indicia.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2002Date of Patent: July 5, 2005Inventor: James L. Todd
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Patent number: 6910582Abstract: An improved shock absorbing insulated shipping container including an external corrugated cardboard box, receiving an insulated body having a cavity for holding a one or more breakable glass bottles, which bottles may contain high value liquid product being shipped, such as medicine or wine, and also receiving an especially configured and constructed, shock-absorbing filling structure or partition system for separating the glass bottles from one another, and from one or more receptacle cavities for holding phase change coolant or temperature control material in a predetermined relationship to the glass bottles. The container also includes an insulating and cushioning cover adapted to engage into a top opening of the insulated body after the bottles and coolant are received in the cavity thereof. The insulated body is preferably formed from injection molded polyurethane, wrapped in a plastic film.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2002Date of Patent: June 28, 2005Inventor: Gary W. Lantz
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Patent number: 6910579Abstract: A flexible sheet container is provided that permits a user to quickly and easily feed a leading sheet. The container has a base portion that defines a storage area and a top covering the base portion. The top includes an opening into the storage area through which individual flexible sheets are dispensed. A pair of opposing flaps is pivotally attached to the top at their first ends and each extends toward the dispensing opening with its second end. The complementary second ends of the flaps together further define the dispensing opening while in a dispensing position. The flaps pivot inward toward the storage area to provide access through the opening into the storage area. As such, to feed a leading flexible sheet, a user may rotate the flaps inward, grab a leading flexible sheet, and pull it through the opening. During dispensing, the flaps rotate outward and retain subsequent sheets.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2002Date of Patent: June 28, 2005Assignee: Georgia-Pacific CorporationInventors: Christopher Reinke, Charles W. Sears, Michael A. Susi, David H. Pitcher
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Patent number: 6907986Abstract: A recording medium disc storage case includes a holding plate for covering a recording side of a recording medium disc having a central hole, the holding plate having a holding portion to be removably fitted into the central hole of the disc, the holding portion having a base extending from an inner periphery of a perforation defined centrally of the holding plate, extensions extending circumferentially from the base, and projections each radially outwardly projecting from an end portion of each of the extensions, the projections having respective tips defining a circular envelope having a diameter greater than that of the central hole of the disc, and the extensions having an outer diameter such as to be fitted in the central hole of the disc.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2003Date of Patent: June 21, 2005Assignee: Meiko Kasei Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masaaki Kuremoto, Kei Kuremoto
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Patent number: 6907989Abstract: An improvement of a tool bag is disclosed. The tool bag comprises a main tool pocket, a secondary tool pocket, a folded pad and an adjustable back pocket. The two pockets are mounted in front of the tool bag and are provided with zippers to enclose the tools within the tool bag. The folded pad can be extended to provide a support to the user when the user's back is lying against the floor.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2003Date of Patent: June 21, 2005Inventor: Cheng-I Ho
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Patent number: 6907987Abstract: This invention relates to a security type disc storage case, including case cover, case back, and case bottom, which are connected by a folding V-shaped trough, characterized in that a security board, through which it can be judged that whether the disc storage case is once opened, is set at the outer side of the case cover. After the disc storage case is packed, the security board, case cover, and case bottom are connected together, which means the case is never opened. After purchasing the disc stored in such a case, the consumer can tear part of the security board, then the case cover can be opened freely, and the disc inside can be taken out or put in conveniently.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2002Date of Patent: June 21, 2005Inventor: Ching Mou Lee
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Patent number: 6902054Abstract: A jewel case for storing and transporting compact discs and related optical storage media. The jewel case includes a front cover, back cover and a hinge region connecting the front and back covers. At least one of the surfaces of the covers is treated to enhance its ink-receptive properties such that it can accept direct printing of text, graphics and related indicia, thereby obviating the need for separate printed indicia-containing inserts. Suitable plastic, such as high impact polystyrene, is used to make up the ink-receptive portions of the jewel case, thereby reducing its brittleness. The reduced thickness and simplistic configuration of the jewel case saves manufacturing and shipping costs, while the use of smaller quantities of plastic, as well as the reduction or elimination of paper inserts, results in reduced environmental impact once the jewel case is discarded.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2002Date of Patent: June 7, 2005Inventor: Patrick Steven McKean
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Patent number: 6899228Abstract: A panel (1) for receiving cassettes (2) and/or specimen slides (3) for histological or cytological preparations is embodied in rectangular fashion with two longitudinal sides (4), a first narrow side (5) and a second narrow side (6), and comprises a base (7) as support for the specimen slides (3) and/or cassettes (2). Peripheral side walls (8) are provided on both longitudinal sides (4) and on the first narrow side (5).Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2003Date of Patent: May 31, 2005Assignee: Leica Microsystems Nussloch GmbHInventors: Uwe Kiene, Manfred Biehl, Holger Metzner
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Patent number: 6896132Abstract: This storage media case has a base formed with a bottom wall sized and shaped to receive a disc and with peripheral rim walls further defining the disc-receiving portion of the base. Its lid is provided with its own set of rim walls that overlap the rim walls on the base when the lid is closed and thereby help to protect the disc from invasive contact. Mating hinge assemblies are formed at the back of both the base and lid. These assemblies allow the hinge elements to be snapped together with the lid registered over the base. The geometry of the base hinge assembly allows expansion room for the hinge clevis members on the lid to spread apart and snap over the hinge pins only when the lid is registered in a nearly closed position over the base. When the lid is opened, its hinge devises move down into narrower recesses in the base so that the base prevents the hinge devises from spreading.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2002Date of Patent: May 24, 2005Inventor: Markus W. Frick
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Patent number: 6896138Abstract: A blister pack has a main sheet unitarily formed with an array of pockets each dimensioned to receive a respective object and a frangible foil overlying a front face of the sheet and closing the pockets so that objects in the pockets are hermetically sealed therein by the foil. A pair of guides unitarily formed with the main sheet flank the array of pockets. A protective panel having an array of holes substantially identical to the array of pockets overlies the foil and is displaceable in the guides between a rest position with the holes at least partially offset from the pockets and the panel blocking the pockets and a dispensing position with the holes aligned with the pockets. A spring web unitarily formed with the sheet and with the panel urges the panel into the rest position.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2004Date of Patent: May 24, 2005Assignee: Uhlmann Pac-Systeme GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Nina Röck, Günter Kayran, Bernhard Hegemann
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Patent number: 6896131Abstract: A display and carrying package is provided which is particularly adapted for displaying and carrying a bedding ensemble, but which could be used for displaying and carrying any ensemble of products of different sizes. The package is in the form of a closed flexible bag, preferably box-shaped, having generally flat transparent front and rear walls and, preferably, having non-transparent side and top walls connected thereto. The bag preferably includes a zipper for closing and opening the bag to provide access to the interior of the bag. The ensemble of products of different sizes is positioned inside the bag with the large ensemble product in juxtaposition to the transparent front bag wall for viewing therethrough and the other smaller ensemble products are positioned inside the bag, preferably in pockets attached to the inside of the rear wall, in juxtaposition to the rear transparent wall and in side-by-side position for being viewed from the outside through the transparent rear wall.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2002Date of Patent: May 24, 2005Assignee: Springs Industries, Inc.Inventors: Maribel Bisbal, Derrick L. Anderson, Harvey J. Simon, Tracy A. Smith, Timothy J. Landers
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Patent number: 6896129Abstract: A package for containers such as beverage bottles and cans includes a carrier with an array of loops, one loop provided for surrounding each container. A sleeve surrounds the group of containers held by the carrier. The carrier includes perforations, slits and frangible links for tearing the carrier and releasing containers individually. The sleeve includes a parting line allowing separation of the sleeve to release the containers.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2003Date of Patent: May 24, 2005Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.Inventor: Leslie S. Marco
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Patent number: 6886695Abstract: Methods and systems for organizing cosmetics are disclosed. One cosmetic case system includes a body having a series of compartments that lock cosmetic containers into the compartment for ease of storage and use. In one set of embodiments, the containers are removable from the cosmetic case. In other embodiments, the containers are an integral part of the cosmetic case. The compartments include ridges that aid in locking the cosmetic containers into the compartments. Several of these cosmetic case bodies can be alternatively stacked so that storage capacity is increased. The cosmetic case can include a mirror on a surface of the body. The case can also include a hinged surface for additional storage.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2002Date of Patent: May 3, 2005Inventor: Julia T. Karoly