Patents Examined by William T. Dixson, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4506785
    Abstract: A circuit board container assembly includes a box (10) with internal side wall slots (16 and 17) for receiving dividers (21 and 22) in which are formed vertical slots (28, 29, 31 and 32) and into which are placed printed circuit boards (11). Thee dividers are color coded to indicate discrete offset positionings of edge tabs (23, 24, 26 and 27) on the respective dividers. The offset positioning of the edges permits the selection of dividers which are mounted in the wall slots to provide spacings of the bottoms of the divider slots at distances closely proximating the width of the circuit boards placed in the slots so that the boards are snugly held during transport of the box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1983
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1985
    Assignee: AT&T Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Roger L. Seefeldt
  • Patent number: 4506786
    Abstract: A bicycle storage structure which includes an elongated housing with one closed end and an opening at the other end. The housing has a top and a bottom joined by spaced side panels with one or more laterally projecting members protruding from the side panels into the interior of the housing. Said members having a surface adapted to overlie the pedals of a bicycle within the housing and prevent turning of the pedals as the bicycle is withdrawn from the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1983
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1985
    Inventors: Alvin E. Buchanan, James E. Buchanan
  • Patent number: 4506789
    Abstract: A child-resistant package includes a sealed blister positioned between opposed front and back paperboard sheets that are adhered to each other. The front paperboard sheet includes openings through which the blisters project, and the back paperboard sheet includes a tear strip overlying the blister and being movable in a linear direction to permit its separation from surrounding regions of the back sheet to thereby expose a rupturable backing strip of the sealed blister, there being no other blisters linearly aligned with the linear direction in which the tear strip is movable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1983
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1985
    Assignee: Packaging Coordinators, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey Dlugosz
  • Patent number: 4506784
    Abstract: A multiple-use container for viscous materials, such as soap, for example, includes a cylindrical body capable of receiving the soap, one end of which receives a removable lid and the other end of which has an integral bottom panel capable of serving as a conventional bottom for the container or, upon modification, as a push plate or dispensing member for the material. The bottom panel is joined to the walls of the cylindrical body by an annular, reduced thickness area or score line spaced slightly inwardly from the inner wall surface of the body. A second, concentric, reduced thickness area or score line, disposed approximately at the midpoint of the bottom panel, defines a removable access disc. The multiple-use container is capable of being used either as a dip can or as a self dispensing can. In the first mode, removal of the lid permits access to the interior so that the material may be dipped out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1985
    Inventor: Joseph S. Kanfer
  • Patent number: 4505384
    Abstract: An overwrapped carton is provided having a tubular body formed from a blank of paperboard cut and scored to provide a plurality of serially connected walls, one of which has a window or dispensing opening cut therein. A thin flexible protective sheet of film is disposed to extend over certain of the walls and the window and has end portions secured to one of the walls and a glue connector flap which secures the walls in a tubular array. The connector flap is formed from the material removed and cut from the wall to form the window, economizing on board material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1985
    Inventors: Raymond G. Scott, Irvin W. Sherwood
  • Patent number: 4505424
    Abstract: A container consisting of at least two layers of flexible material forming a pocket for retaining relatively flat articles, which also can be formed into a cylinder and retained in this position by providing adhering means in spot or strip form extending substantially along two overlapping edges, and inwardly from an overlapping edge for changing the diameter of the formed cylinder. External spot or strip adhering means also are provided to cooperate with that on the container for retaining the container in its flattened position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1985
    Inventor: George S. Chappars
  • Patent number: 4505386
    Abstract: The tackle box has upper and lower trays surrounded by a wall defining a space in which lures can be suspended from the underside of the upper tray. A handle operates a vertical shaft slideable with respect to the lower tray to lift the upper tray and bring the lures far enough above the upper edge of the wall to expose the lures and provide access to the lower tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1983
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1985
    Assignee: Harrington Tool Company
    Inventor: Thomas C. Abrahamson
  • Patent number: 4505387
    Abstract: A package for a roll of light-sensitive strip material which includes end covers and a circumferential cover. The circumferential cover is adhered to a leader connected to the outermost end of the strip or to the outermost end portion of the strip in the case no leader is used. The circumferential cover has a pair of side lips extending beyond the respective side edges of the strip and folded over the end covers. Each side lip has slits extending from the edge thereof toward, but terminating short of, the outer convolutions of the roll. The assembled roll and its package may be room-light loaded into exposure apparatus such as a camera, magazine, etc. with a portion of the circumferential cover extending from the roll. After the exposure apparatus has been sealed to light, the remainder of the circumferential cover may be stripped from the roll, tearing the side lips away from the rest of the circumferential covers so that successive convolutions of the strip material may be unwound from the roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1985
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Seto
  • Patent number: 4503972
    Abstract: A package structure supports and protects a plurality of microdrills, the microdrills being resiliently mounted such that the delicate drill bodies are located spaced from one another and spaced from their support in a contact-free manner in order to eliminate or minimize breakage during transport and handling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1983
    Date of Patent: March 12, 1985
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul Corporation
    Inventors: Jerome M. Nelligan, Dale R. Heminover
  • Patent number: 4503975
    Abstract: A display package for an article such as a nailpolish bottle is formed from a single sheet of material which is folded into the package. The package includes an article retaining portion and a display portion for containing display material. The article retaining portion includes a three layer bottom portion, an angle panel joined to one end of the bottom portion, and an upright panel joined to the opposite end of the bottom portion. The angle panel and upright panel are foldably joined at their other ends. The angle panel includes an opening dimensioned to allow part of the article to be visible for display purposes while at the same time to prevent the article from being removed through the opening. The display portion of the package comprises a single layer back panel which extends upwardly from the article retaining portion of the package. The display portion is a single thickness of material, while the package back is of a double thickness on the lower part of the package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1983
    Date of Patent: March 12, 1985
    Assignee: The Garber Company
    Inventors: George Meyers, David C. Mueller
  • Patent number: 4503974
    Abstract: An album for receiving a plurality of removable pages. The album comprises a front and back cover interconnected by a binder member. Preferably, the pages comprise sheets of jigsaw puzzles having removable puzzle pieces. An enclosure is incorporated onto the inside of the back cover of the album for receiving the puzzle pieces removed from the pages. A strap, connected to the binder, is provided for positioning around the enclosure and the pages when the album is closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1983
    Date of Patent: March 12, 1985
    Inventor: Barry Lane
  • Patent number: 4502596
    Abstract: A display and storage pack, as for video game cartridges, is made of folded, flexible, sheet-form plastic. Side-by-side pockets are spaced along the length of the plastic by heat-sealed seams and hinge areas. The game cartridges have a substantial thickness, so the seams do not extend to the folded, bottom edges of the pockets but stop above such edges. The plastic then can accommodate the thickness of the cartridges without stretching or tearing. Cartridges are held firmly in the pockets by friction with the plastic, yet then can be easily inserted and removed. The pack is entirely flat when empty, and folds compactly, accordion-like, when entirely or partially filled. An elastic band affixed to a tab on one end of the pack holds it in its folded position. Handles allow carriage or hanging storage of the folded pack. When the pack is open the game cartridges are displayed for selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1983
    Date of Patent: March 5, 1985
    Inventors: Raymond L. Saetre, Robert S. Saetre
  • Patent number: 4502599
    Abstract: A package of resealable polymeric bags is formed by stacking the bags formed with a flap having a strip of pressure-sensitive adhesive extending beyond the flap such that the sealing flap of each successive bag is the mounting means for that bag in the package, and each bag is positioned with the open side exposed on the top of the stack to afford easy insertion of an article in the bag, removal of the bag from the stack, a folding and sealing of the flap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 5, 1985
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: Jack L. Perecman
  • Patent number: 4501363
    Abstract: There is provided an improved surgical kit, including a pair of trays, one of which is adapted to be received inside of the other. Each tray includes a plurality of embossments in its bottom for receiving various surgical supplies. After the completion of the surgery the inner tray is adapted to be flipped over and applied as a top to the outer tray with various post-operative materials contained therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1983
    Date of Patent: February 26, 1985
    Inventor: Edward K. Isbey, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4501355
    Abstract: A soap saving device for pressure bonding two or more pieces of wet soap comprising a pair of soap dishes which may be nested together to pressure bond two or more pieces of soap located between the nested soap dishes, or alternatively each may be employed as independent and separate soap dishes. The different species are disclosed for developing a soap bonding or compressing force between the dishes. An elastic band is employed in a first species using identical nesting soap dishes. In the second species, a pair of tension bars, each formed with a series of surface locking ridges or grooves, is hinged to one soap dish so that they may pivot into locking alignment with a pair of slots each having a set of flexible locking tabs for engaging the locking ridges. In the third species, the sidewalls of a base soap dish are formed with several sets of exterior locking ridges which adjustably engage mating sets of locking ridges formed on the interior of the skirt of the top soap dish which nests over the base dish.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 26, 1985
    Inventor: Edward C. Hoffman
  • Patent number: 4501358
    Abstract: A desk set with integrally formed swivel clamping means which can be injection-molded without use of a cam-action mold. The swivel clamping means comprises four semicylindrical clamping members (28) inclined toward each other to form a socket for a ball (26) attached to an accessory support stem (24) for holding a pen (30), a clock (32), or the like. To increase friction between the ball (26) and the socket, the socket clamping members (28) each include an inwardly pointing lip (46) and the surface of the ball (26) is covered with alternating slots (38,42) and ridges (40,44).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1983
    Date of Patent: February 26, 1985
    Inventor: Benson Zinbarg
  • Patent number: 4501361
    Abstract: A printer thimble element storage case is disclosed having a front cover hingeably connected through a spine to a back cover. The inside of the back cover has attached thereto an element tray including a top surface spaced away from the inner surface of the cover and having a plurality of wells formed therein matable about the printer thimble elements. A spindle concentrically mounted in the bottom surface of each well securely retains the thimble elements. A top surface of the element tray is of generally rectangular configuration and slopes away from the edge thereof downwardly and toward the inner surface of the back cover, terminating in a mating surface and a stop ledge. The front cover includes, on an inner surface thereof a tray cover including a wall having an engagement edge formed thereon for receipt of the element tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 26, 1985
    Assignee: Communications Packaging Corporation
    Inventor: Robert D. Rose, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4501359
    Abstract: A casing for a video tape cassette having a window on one surface, through which a note on the cassette half of the video tape cassette received in the casing can be observed, characterized in that a transparent film cover is attached to the back side of the window, said film cover being located in a plane slightly lower than the plane of the surface of the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1983
    Date of Patent: February 26, 1985
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventor: Keiichi Yoshizawa
  • Patent number: 4501354
    Abstract: A soap saving device for pressure bonding two or more pieces of soap, comprising a one-piece structure which is an elongated, thin, flexible plastic strap. The strap includes a central section which serves as a supporting base for the pieces of soap which are to be bonded together, and a locking handle section extending from each side of the supporting base. When the handle sections are locked together so as to envelop two or more pieces of soap placed on the supporting base, the force exerted on the soap pieces by the tensioned strap pressure bonds these pieces into a usable bar. In a modification, a plastic soap retaining dish having a hinged clamping tab is substituted for one of the locking handle sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 26, 1985
    Inventor: Edward C. Hoffman
  • Patent number: 4501360
    Abstract: The packing, in particular for transporting and dispatching for example biological products, comprises a case body 1 subdivided into suitably calibrated receiving cavities 2, 3, 4 for receiving containers (for example tubes 7) of the products to be transported, at least a cover 11 capable of being fitted on said case body and so shaped as to cooperate with the latter for immobilizing the containers placed in said cavities, and detachable locking devices for locking said cover on said case body, said locking devices made inaccessible in the course of transportation. Application in the posting of biological or laboratory products which are precious, dangerous, or toxic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 26, 1985
    Inventors: Claude Levy, Jean-Philippe Duchesne