Patents by Inventor Antonio Carlos Teixeira Alvares
Antonio Carlos Teixeira Alvares 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).
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Publication number: 20150165817Abstract: The present invention is applied to cans presenting a tubular body (10), inferiorly closed by a bottom wall (12) and superiorly closed by any of the parts defined by a removable lid (20), or by a set formed by an annular upper wall (16) and by a lid (20) which is seated on a seat defined in the annular upper wall (16). The inspection window comprises: a seat (40) provided in any of the parts defined by the lid (20), annular upper wall (16), and lateral wall (11) of the tubular body (10), said seat (40) presenting an outer annular surface (41) and an inner annular surface (42); and a plug (50) of transparent polymeric material, permanently fitted on the seat (40) and presenting a median panel portion (51) incorporating a peripheral upper flange (52), seated onto the outer annular surface (41) of the seat (40), and a peripheral lower ridge (53) tightly seated against the inner annular surface (43) of the seat (40).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2013Publication date: June 18, 2015Applicant: Brasilata S/A Embalagens MetalicasInventors: Antonio Carlos Teixeira Alvares, Antonio Roberto Sene
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Publication number: 20150129532Abstract: The present arrangement is applied to a can including a body portion; a neck portion incorporating an outer peripheral ridge and joined to the body portion by a transition portion; and a lid carrying an outer peripheral rib. A retention ring is seated on the outer peripheral, surrounding the latter and the outer peripheral ridge and being locked under said outer peripheral ridge; and a suspension ring carrying a grip handle and surrounding the neck portion, and locking, upwardly, the retention ring. A seal strip is joined to the suspension ring by breakable connection means, blocking access to a surrounding wall of the suspension ring, which is elastically deformable to unlock the retention ring.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2013Publication date: May 14, 2015Inventors: Antonio Carlos Teixeira Alvares, Antonio Roberto Sene
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Publication number: 20140353319Abstract: The present can includes a tubular body (C) formed by lateral walls of rectangular contour and which are connected, two by two, by longitudinal edges, said tubular body (C) being closed by an upper wall and a lower wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2012Publication date: December 4, 2014Inventors: Antonio Carlos Teixeira Alvares, Silverio Candido Da Cunha
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Patent number: 8800771Abstract: A container having a tubular body including a side wall, a bottom wall in the form of a spherical dome projecting to the interior of the container, and an upper wall in the form of an annular spherical dome, inferiorly attached to the side wall by an upper double seam. The bottom wall includes at least one seating region having a predetermined circumferential extension along a plane extending transversely with respect to an axis of the container and being axially spaced inwardly within the side wall of the container, the seating region being configured to be fitted around a respective circumferential extension a upper double seam of an identical and adjacent container inferiorly disposed in a vertical stack, and axially seated on said upper double seam, so as to define a single contact region between two vertically stacked containers.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2008Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: Brasilata S/A Embalagens MetalicasInventors: Antonio Carlos Teixeira Alvares, Silverio Candido Da Cunha
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Patent number: 8800807Abstract: The container includes a body including a tubular side wall with upper and lower edges that are double-seamed to end walls. The tubular side wall includes a deformation region formed by circumferential friezes, which are parallel and adjacent to each other and have a Z-shaped profile with their end legs disposed in planes which define, with the axis of the tubular side wall, an angle between 45° and 90°. The end legs are interconnected by a median leg inclined in relation to the axis and defining, with the respective end legs, an angle not superior to 90°. The adjacent end legs of two consecutive friezes being coplanar and interconnected, by their opposite ends, to the respective median legs.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2010Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: Brasilata S.A. Embalagens MetalicasInventors: Antonio Carlos Teixeira Alvares, Silverio Candido da Cunha
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Publication number: 20140209556Abstract: The can of the invention includes a body portion joined to a neck portion of reduced contour and which incorporates an outer peripheral projection and which defines an upper opening; and a lid having a peripheral tubular portion to be fitted into the upper opening, and an outer circumferential rib. The outer circumferential rib presents a semi-tubular shape, inferiorly opened and having: a radially inner edge which is joined to the upper edge of the peripheral tubular portion of the lid, by an annular step; and a radially outer edge. The outer circumferential rib carries, in its interior, an annular gasket to be seated on the outer peripheral projection of the neck portion, upon the fitting of the lid into the upper opening and the seating of the annular step on said outer peripheral projection.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2011Publication date: July 31, 2014Inventors: Antonio Carlos Teixeira Alvares, Antonio Roberto Sene
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Patent number: 8701918Abstract: A metallic lid for a can of the type which presents an opening defining a seating, said lid comprising, in a single piece, a bottom wall which incorporates, superiorly and peripherally, a side wall provided with a free upper edge and designed to be frictionally seated and axially retained in the interior of the seat. According to the invention, the bottom wall comprises a peripheral annular portion adjacent to the side wall, a median portion and an annular rib portion having the cross section in the approximate form of an inverted ‘U’, with the free edges of is lateral legs being respectively incorporated to the adjacent edges of the peripheral annular portion and median portion of the bottom wall.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2005Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Brasilata S/A Embalagens MetálicasInventors: Antonio Carlos Teixeira Alvares, Antonio Roberto Sene
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Publication number: 20140097191Abstract: The container comprises a peripheral side wall (10), whose upper peripheral edge (10c) defines a retention hook (11) with a profile in the form of an inverted U, having an inner side leg (11a), an arched base leg (11b) and an outer lateral leg (11c). An upper end wall (20) of the container comprises a median panel (21) and a peripheral upper skirt (22) having an end edge (22c) defining a closure hook (23) with a profile in the form of an inverted U, having an inner side portion (23a), an arched base portion (23b), and an outer side portion (23c) which incorporates an upwardly projecting end flange (23d). The closure hook (23) is fitted onto the retention hook (11) and radially inwardly deformed, compressing an elastic sealing element (40) between the two hooks and maintaining the end flange (23d) projecting upwardly to the interior of the retention hook (11).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2013Publication date: April 10, 2014Applicant: Brasilata S.A. Embalagens MetalicasInventors: Antonio Carlos Teixeira Álvares, Silvério Cândido da Cunha
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Patent number: 8631962Abstract: The container includes a peripheral side wall, whose upper peripheral edge defines a retention hook with a profile in the form of an inverted U, having an inner side leg, an arched base leg (lib) and an outer lateral leg (lie). An upper end wall of the container includes a median panel and a peripheral upper skirt having an end edge defining a closure hook with a profile in the form of an inverted U, having an inner side portion, an arched base portion, and an outer side portion which incorporates an upwardly projecting end flange. The closure hook is fitted onto the retention hook and radially inwardly deformed, compressing an elastic sealing element between the two hooks and maintaining the end flange projecting upwardly to the interior of the retention hook.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2009Date of Patent: January 21, 2014Assignee: Brasilata S.A. Embalagens MetalicasInventors: Antonio Carlos Teixeira Alvares, Silverio Candido da Cunha
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Patent number: 8622239Abstract: Improvement in a can of the type which comprises: a body portion; a neck portion of reduced contour and having an upper end edge provided with an outer peripheral projection and defining the contour of an upper opening; a transition portion joining the body portion and the neck portion; and a lid having a peripheral tubular portion to be fitted in the interior of the upper opening of the neck portion and having a free upper edge carrying an outer circumferential rib under which is applied an annular gasket to be seated onto the upper outer edge of the neck portion upon the fitting of the lid in the upper opening. The transition portion may externally incorporate, in a single piece, a plurality of spaced apart longitudinal ribs joining the transition portion to an adjacent lower region of the neck portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2008Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: Brasilata S.A. Embalagens MetálicasInventors: Antonio Carlos Teixeira Alvares, Pedro Bruni Labate, Manoel Jose Guarda
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Patent number: 8573439Abstract: The arrangement is applied to a container which includes a peripheral side wall having an upper end portion and a lower end portion in which are applied respective end walls, each including a median panel and a peripheral skirt, one of the upper end portion and lower end portion and the peripheral skirt being provided with at least one circumferential rib turned to the other of said parts, the other part being provided with a circumferential groove conformed to be fitted onto the circumferential rib upon the fitting of said end wall in the interior of one of the upper end portion and lower end portion of the peripheral side wall, said circumferential rib and circumferential groove forming, therebetween, a circumferential gap (F) in the interior of which is compressed an elastic sealing element.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2009Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Brasilata S.A. Embalagens MetalicasInventors: Antonio Carlos Teixeira Alvares, Silverio Candido da Cunha
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Patent number: 8550292Abstract: The closure arrangement is applied to a metallic container comprising a peripheral side wall which presents an upper edge surrounding an opening, in which is fitted a lid having a peripheral upper wall externally provided with a circumferential rib to be fitted in an inner circumferential recess of the peripheral side wall; and a circumferential groove located inferiorly to the circumferential rib and housing a sealing ring to be internally seated against the peripheral side wall upon the fitting and axial retention of the circumferential rib in the circumferential recess.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2009Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Assignee: Brasilata S/A Embalagens MetalicasInventors: Antonio Carlos Teixeira Alvares, Silverio Candido Da Cunha
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Publication number: 20130161470Abstract: The suspension device is formed: by a ring incorporating two opposite radial pins and being ascendingly seated and locked against an external peripheral rib of the body of the container; and by a U-shaped handle having end portions articulated in the radial pins and being angularly displaced between inoperative and operative positions. The ring incorporates a lock means to retain the handle in the inoperative position. Each end portion of the handle has a through opening, supporting a radial pin and presenting a width, in the direction transversal to the extension of the handle, sufficient to tightly support, in said direction, the radial pin, and a length, in the longitudinal direction of the handle, sufficient to support the radial pin, both with the handle in the inoperative position, and with the handle in angular displacement from the inoperative position to the operative position.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2011Publication date: June 27, 2013Applicant: Brasilata S.A. Embalagens MetalicasInventors: Antonio Carlos Teixeira Alvares, Antonio Roberto Sene
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Publication number: 20120255960Abstract: The container includes a body including a tubular side wall to whose upper and lower end edges are double-seamed an upper and lower walls, said tubular side wall presenting, close to at least one of its end edges, a deformation region formed by a plurality of circumferential friezes, parallel and adjacent to each other and presenting a Z-shaped profile with their end legs disposed in planes which define, with the axis of the tubular side wall, an angle between 45° and 90°, said end legs being interconnected by a median leg inclined in relation to said axis and defining, with the respective end legs, an angle not superior to 90°, the adjacent end legs of two consecutive friezes being coplanar and interconnected, by their opposite ends, to the respective median legs.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2010Publication date: October 11, 2012Inventors: Antonio Carlos Teixeira Alvares, Silverio Candido da Cunha
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Publication number: 20120181205Abstract: The container includes a superiorly opened tubular body formed by a peripheral side wall which affixes a bottom wall and which presents at least two inverted frusto-conical portions defining respective circumferential reductions in the contour of the tubular body, so that, upon fitting one container inside the other, the lower end edge of the peripheral side wall of the upper container is seated on the lower frusto-conical portion of the lower container; the lower frusto-conical portion of the upper container is seated on another frusto-conical portion of the lower container; and the upper frusto-conical portion of the upper container is seated on the upper end edge of the lower container.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2010Publication date: July 19, 2012Inventors: Antonio Carlos Teixeira Alvares, Silverio Candido da Cunha
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Patent number: 8083086Abstract: A closure arrangement for containers of the type comprising an annular upper wall (13) having an outer edge (13a) hermetically affixed to a lateral wall (11) of the container, and an inner edge (13b) defining an upper opening (14) to be closed by a lid (20), which comprises a peripheral wall (22) externally provided with a first and a second circumferential groove (23, 24) and an annular flange (25), incorporating a pending circumferential projection (26), said lid (20) being mounted in a first closing position, in which the inner edge (13b) is fitted in the first circumferential groove (23) defining a first sealing region and the pending circumferential projection (26) is fitted in the circumferential recess (16) defining therein a second sealing region, said lid (20) being mounted in a second closing position, after the first opening, in which the inner edge (13b) is fitted in the second circumferential groove (24), retaining the latter and defining therein a third sealing region.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2007Date of Patent: December 27, 2011Assignee: Brasilata S/A Embalagens MetalicasInventor: Antonio Carlos Teixeira Alvares
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Publication number: 20110299959Abstract: The container has a tubular body having a peripheral lateral wall provided with an upper end portion and a lower end portion defining an upper retention hook and a lower retention hook to which is double-seamed a lower end wall. An upper end wall is conformed to incorporate a peripheral upper skirt presenting an end edge defining an inverted U shaped upper closure hook to be seated onto the upper retention hook sandwiching an elastic sealing element therebetween. The upper closure hook and the upper retention hook and also a portion of the peripheral upper skirt and a confronting region of the upper end portion are deformed for seaming the upper closure hook onto the upper retention hook and to form, respectively, a retention rib and a retention groove which tightly fits the retention rib.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2010Publication date: December 8, 2011Inventors: Antonio Carlos Teixeira Alvares, Silverio Candido da Cunha
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Patent number: 8070012Abstract: A closure arrangement for cans and pots comprising a tubular body having a side wall whose upper edge defines a seat for a lid. The upper edge comprises a peripheral annular flange carrying, in a free outer edge, a continuous rib with a cross-section contour comprising two opposite circle arc portions, with curvature centers disposed in the same plane orthogonal to the axis of the tubular body, the lid being inferiorly provided with a continuous circumferential groove to be seated against the respective circle arc portions of the continuous rib, so as to axially lock the lid in the tubular body. An annular gasket is carried by one of the parts of peripheral annular flange and lid, to be pressed by the other of said parts upon closing the lid.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2007Date of Patent: December 6, 2011Assignee: Brasilata S/A Embalagens MetalicasInventors: Antonio Carlos Teixeira Alvares, Antonio Roberto Sene
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Publication number: 20110210129Abstract: The container includes a peripheral side wall, whose upper peripheral edge defines a retention hook with a profile in the form of an inverted U, having an inner side leg, an arched base leg (lib) and an outer lateral leg (lie). An upper end wall of the container includes a median panel and a peripheral upper skirt having an end edge defining a closure hook with a profile in the form of an inverted U, having an inner side portion, an arched base portion, and an outer side portion which incorporates an upwardly projecting end flange. The closure hook is fitted onto the retention hook and radially inwardly deformed, compressing an elastic sealing element between the two hooks and maintaining the end flange projecting upwardly to the interior of the retention hook.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2009Publication date: September 1, 2011Inventors: Antonio Carlos Teixeira Alvares, Silverio Candido da Cunha
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Publication number: 20110168730Abstract: The arrangement is applied to a container which includes a peripheral side wall having an upper end portion and a lower end portion in which are applied respective end walls, each including a median panel and a peripheral skirt, one of the upper end portion and lower end portion and the peripheral skirt being provided with at least one circumferential rib turned to the other of said parts, the other part being provided with a circumferential groove conformed to be fitted onto the circumferential rib upon the fitting of said end wall in the interior of one of the upper end portion and lower end portion of the peripheral side wall, said circumferential rib and circumferential groove forming, therebetween, a circumferential gap (F) in the interior of which is compressed an elastic sealing element.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2009Publication date: July 14, 2011Inventors: Antonio Carlos Teixeira Alvares, Silverio Candido da Cunha