Patents by Inventor Allan Barker

Allan Barker has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5984122
    Abstract: A closure for a container, including means for counting and indicating the number of times the closure has undergone a cycle of closing and opening the container, and further including means for incorporating the closure into means for resisting the opening of the container by a child.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1999
    Assignee: Senetics, Inc.
    Inventors: Allan Barker, Gage Garby
  • Patent number: 5732836
    Abstract: A closure for a container, including means for counting and indicating the number of times the closure has undergone a cycle of closing and opening the container, and further including means for incorporating the closure into means for resisting the opening of the container by a child.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1998
    Assignee: Senetics, Inc.
    Inventors: Allan Barker, Gage Garby
  • Patent number: 5261548
    Abstract: A closure for a container, including means for counting and indicating the number of times the closure has undergone a cycle of closing and opening the container, and further including means for incorporating the closure into means for resisting the opening of the container by a child.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1993
    Assignee: Senetics, Inc.
    Inventors: Allan Barker, Gage Garby
  • Patent number: 5242067
    Abstract: An adaptor for use with an indicator device, comprising a ring-shaped element having an inner circumference for attaching to the indicator device and an outer circumference for grasping by the user in order to manipulate the indicator device. The inner circumference has an upper radial lip and lower radial lip that maintain the indicator device therebetween, and the outer circumference may have grasping-enhancing elements such as a set of circumferential knobs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1993
    Assignee: Senetics, Inc.
    Inventors: Gage Garby, Allan Barker
  • Patent number: 5009338
    Abstract: Disclosed is an indicator cap for indicating each time a bottle is opened and re-closed having an outer cover shaped in the manner of a conventional bottle cap with a window in the top piece of the cap. The cap is designed to be attached to the sealing cap of the container such that some motion can occur between the two caps during opening and closing of the container, and this lost motion drive is used to advance the indicator. Underneath the window, and within the body of the device, is an indicator wheel having numbers, days, times, etc. engraved or printed thereon which are visible through the window to indicate the next time a dose of the medication should be taken. The indicator wheel contains a pawl formed therein or attached thereto that engages a set of teeth, formed in the underside of the top piece of the outer cover, only when the device is being opened. This engagement causes the indicator wheel to move to the next index location each time the cap is opened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 23, 1991
    Assignee: Senetics Corporation
    Inventor: Allan Barker
  • Patent number: 4594774
    Abstract: A machine for dismantling, unloading and transferring to a disposal facility, nuclear reactor structure and/or components, which have been irradiated during operation of the reactor. The machine includes in one example a gantry mounted on a rigid, undismantled part of the reactor such as rails on the refuelling level of the reactor, a carriage angularly movable on the gantry, a platform movable linearly on the carriage, a mast on and axially movable relative to the platform, a manipulator mounted on the mast for angular and linear movement relative thereto, a variety of tools selectively mountable on the manipulator for effecting dismantling of reactor structure and/or components, and hoist means movable along a beam rotatable about the reactor center line and alignable with other beams to allow transfer of the hoist means from one beam to another. Alternative arrangements for varying the elevation of the mast are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1984
    Date of Patent: June 17, 1986
    Assignee: United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority
    Inventors: Allan Barker, Nigel W. Collins