Patents by Inventor Antonino Ragno

Antonino Ragno 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: 6283332
    Abstract: A fluid substance dispenser includes a dispensing head or pusher to be fitted onto the stem of a pump. The fluid substance dispenser also includes a cap to be fixed onto the mouth of a container containing the substance to be dispensed. On the outer surface of the head and on the inner surface of the cap, spiral ribs are provided which extend in the same direction. The spiral ribs interfere with each other and pass snapwise over each other, when the head is pressed onto the cap. The spiral ribs cooperating “with each other” to cause the head to withdraw from the cap, when the head is rotated about the cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2001
    Assignee: Lumson S.p.A.
    Inventor: Antonino Ragno
  • Patent number: 5842616
    Abstract: An atomized liquid dispenser applicable to the stem of manually operated pumps for dispensing a liquid enclosed in a container, the dispenser having an elongate chamber housing a movable piston from which there projects an appendix urged by a spring towards a discharge or dispensing nozzle, a portion of the appendix being insertable into and sealedly movable within a cylindrical seat in an insert in which there is provided the nozzle opening into the seat, a stop element being provided for retaining the piston, when in its rest position, with the free end of the appendix spaced from the end of the seat in the insert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1998
    Assignee: TER S.r.l.
    Inventors: Tommaso Ruscitti, Franco Carlappi, Antonino Ragno