Patents by Inventor Charles M. Brandt
Charles M. Brandt 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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Patent number: 6645423Abstract: In a process for making a multi-chambered container that is lightweight, relatively inexpensive to produce, and that requires less external reinforcement against flexure than conventional multi-chambered containers do, a parison is heated and inflated to form the container. Further, first and second pinched-in areas are fashioned in the sidewall of the container. The first pinched-in area includes first and second wall portions that extend inwardly toward an interior of the main body of the container, and a first end wall portion connecting the first and second wall portions. The second pinched-in area includes third and fourth wall portions that extend inwardly toward an interior of the main body, and a second end wall portion connecting the third and fourth wall portions.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2002Date of Patent: November 11, 2003Assignee: Constar International, Inc.Inventors: C. Joseph Everette, Charles M. Brandt, Richard G. Kraft
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Publication number: 20020096808Abstract: In a process for making a multi-chambered container that is lightweight, relatively inexpensive to produce, and that requires less external reinforcement against flexure than conventional multi-chambered containers do, a parison is heated and inflated to form the container. Further, first and second pinched-in areas are fashioned in the sidewall of the container. The first pinched-in area includes first and second wall portions that extend inwardly toward an interior of the main body of the container, and a first end wall portion connecting the first and second wall portions. The second pinched-in area includes third and fourth wall portions that extend inwardly toward an interior of the main body, and a second end wall portion connecting the third and fourth wall portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2002Publication date: July 25, 2002Inventors: C. Joseph Everette, Charles M. Brandt, Richard G. Kraft
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Patent number: 6390324Abstract: In a process for making a multi-chambered container that is lightweight, relatively inexpensive to produce, and that requires less external reinforcement against flexure than conventional multi-chambered containers do, a parison is heated and inflated to form the container. Further, first and second pinched-in areas are fashioned in the sidewall of the container. The first pinched-in area includes first and second wall portions that extend inwardly toward an interior of the main body of the container, and a first end wall portion connecting the first and second wall portions. The second pinched-in area includes third and fourth wall portions that extend inwardly toward an interior of the main body, and a second end wall portion connecting the third and fourth wall portions.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 1999Date of Patent: May 21, 2002Assignee: Crown Cork & Seal Technologies CorporationInventors: C. Joseph Everette, Charles M. Brandt, Richard G. Kraft
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Patent number: 6149024Abstract: A plastic bottle having a substantially uniform side wall thickness yet having a sculptured appearance is formed generally symmetrically about a vertical axis. The bottle includes a base portion, a side wall portion extending upward from a lower margin united to the base portion to an upper margin, a shoulder portion extending from the upper margin of the side wall portion to a neck portion, and a finish portion united to the neck portion and adapted to receive a closure. At least one of the side wall and shoulder portions includes a plurality of generally vertical ribs spaced uniformly around a circumference of the bottle, each generally vertical rib having an upper and lower end and, in cross-section, a central portion situated at a first radius from the bottle axis and a pair of generally symmetric side portions leading to the bottle surface at a second radius from the bottle axis, at least one set of the upper and lower ends of the ribs terminating at a common height on the container.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 1998Date of Patent: November 21, 2000Assignee: Constar, Inc.Inventors: David A. Deemer, Charles M. Brandt
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Patent number: 5971197Abstract: A plastic container that has more than one chamber and that is constructed so as to be stiffer than conventional molded multi-chambered containers includes a bottom wall, a neck, and a main body that has defined therein a first pinched-in area and a second pinched-in area that extends inwardly toward and is joined to the first pinched-in area so as to define separate compartments. The first end wall portion is laterally offset from the second end wall portion, so that the flexibility of the main body about the joint of the first and second wall portions is minimized. As a result, the container is less likely to need supplemental reinforcement against flexure.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 1997Date of Patent: October 26, 1999Assignee: Crown Cork & Seal Technologies CorporationInventors: C. Joseph Everette, Charles M. Brandt, Richard G. Kraft
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Patent number: 5928681Abstract: In a process for making a multi-chambered container that is lightweight, relatively inexpensive to produce, and that requires less external reinforcement against flexure than conventional multi-chambered containers do, a parison is heated and inflated to form the container. Further, first and second pinched-in areas are fashioned in the sidewall of the container. The first pinched-in area includes first and second wall portions that extend inwardly toward an interior of the main body of the container, and a first end wall portion connecting the first and second wall portions. The second pinched-in area includes third and fourth wall portions that extend inwardly toward an interior of the main body, and a second end wall portion connecting the third and fourth wall portions.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 1997Date of Patent: July 27, 1999Assignee: Crown Cork & Seal Technologies CorporationInventors: C. Joseph Everette, Charles M. Brandt, Richard G. Kraft
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Patent number: 5735421Abstract: A plastic bottle having a substantially uniform side wall thickness yet having a sculptured appearance is formed generally symmetrically about a vertical axis. The bottle includes a base portion, a side wall portion extending upward from a lower margin united to the base portion to an upper margin, a shoulder portion extending from the upper margin of the side wall portion to a neck portion, and a finish portion united to the neck portion and adapted to receive a closure. At least one of the side wall and shoulder portions includes a plurality of generally vertical ribs spaced uniformly around a circumference of the bottle, each generally vertical rib having an upper and lower end and, in cross-section, a central portion situated at a first radius from the bottle axis and a pair of generally symmetric side portions leading to the bottle surface at a second radius from the bottle axis, at least one set of the upper and lower ends of the ribs terminating at a common height on the container.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 1996Date of Patent: April 7, 1998Assignee: Constar Plastics, Inc.Inventors: David A. Deemer, Charles M. Brandt
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Patent number: 4805793Abstract: A blow molded container for liquids is vertically stackable with geometrically similar containers. Each container has a unitary body formed of an extruded parison the thermoplastic material. The containers have a bottom surface which includes a release groove bifurcating the bottom surface, the release groove including a remnant portion of the parison forming a web-like external rib depending downward within the release groove. A top surface of the container includes an opening closed by the cap and includes a notch which receives the remnant portion of the parison of a geometrically similar container stacked thereon to laterally locate and stabilize the relative positions of the stacked containers.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 1987Date of Patent: February 21, 1989Assignee: Pioneer/Eclipse CorporationInventors: Charles M. Brandt, Donald P. Denhoff, C. Joe Everett, Donald F. Murray, William H. Wilson
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Patent number: D525141Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2003Date of Patent: July 18, 2006Assignee: Johanna Foods, Inc.Inventors: Donald G. Beard, Charles M. Brandt, Stephen P. De Angelo, Sean Frielich, Stephen R. Lynn, John C. Minton, Robert P. Norberg
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Patent number: D526209Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2003Date of Patent: August 8, 2006Assignee: Johnanna Foods, Inc.Inventors: Donald G. Beard, Charles M. Brandt, Stephen P. De Angelo, Sean Frielich, Stephen R. Lynn, John C. Minton, Robert P. Norberg
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Patent number: D526210Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2003Date of Patent: August 8, 2006Assignee: Johanna Food, Inc.Inventors: Donald G. Beard, Charles M. Brandt, Stephen P. De Angelo, Sean Frielich, Stephen R. Lynn, John C. Minton, Robert P. Norberg
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Patent number: D526905Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2003Date of Patent: August 22, 2006Assignee: Johanna Food, Inc.Inventors: Donald G. Beard, Charles M. Brandt, Stephen P. De Angelo, Sean Frielich, Stephen R. Lynn, John C. Minton, Robert P. Norberg
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Patent number: D292378Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 1985Date of Patent: October 20, 1987Assignee: Sewell Plastics Inc.Inventors: Charles M. Brandt, Claude J. Everette
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Patent number: D310028Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 1987Date of Patent: August 21, 1990Assignee: Sewell Plastics, Inc.Inventors: Charles M. Brandt, Stephen R. Lynn
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Patent number: D402553Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 1997Date of Patent: December 15, 1998Assignee: The Clorox CompanyInventors: Judith C. Webster, Charles M. Brandt
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Patent number: D413519Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 1998Date of Patent: September 7, 1999Assignee: Crown Cork & Seal Technologies CorporationInventors: Theodore F. Eberle, Jizu J. Cheng, Richard G. Kraft, Charles M. Brandt
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Patent number: D421720Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 1998Date of Patent: March 21, 2000Assignee: Crown Cork & Seal Technologies CorporationInventors: Theodore F. Eberle, Jizu J. Cheng, Richard G. Kraft, Charles M. Brandt
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Patent number: D423365Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 1998Date of Patent: April 25, 2000Assignee: Crown Cork & Seal Technologies CorporationInventors: Theodore F. Eberle, Jizu J. Cheng, Richard G. Kraft, Charles M. Brandt