Patents by Inventor Craig E. McClean
Craig E. McClean 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: 6757957Abstract: A dispenser package for fluent products such as cosmetics and lotions that includes an integrally molded plastic container having a flexible body with a sidewall, a closed bottom, and a top wall having a dispensing opening offset from the axis of the container body. A closure has a base wall and a peripheral skirt. In some embodiments of the invention, the closure is rotatably mounted on the container body, and has a dispensing opening in the closure base wall for selective registry with the dispensing opening in the top wall of the container body. Detent elements are provided on the closure and container body for selectively locking the closure in open and closed positions. In alternative embodiments, the closure includes a flip-top hinged to the base wall, with a plug extending therefrom for selectively opening and closing the dispensing opening in the container body top wall.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2003Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: Owens-Brockway Plastic Products Inc.Inventors: Craig E. McClean, Robert E. Harman
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Patent number: 6691394Abstract: A dispensing package for fluent products includes a container of one-piece integrally molded plastic construction having a hollow flexible body, and a rigid integral finish defined by a deck that spans one end of the body, a package dispensing opening in the deck and a wall upstanding from a perimeter of the deck surrounding the deck and the opening. An actuator disk is mounted within the peripheral wall overlying the deck and the dispensing opening, and is pivotal between a closed position closing the opening and an open position for dispensing product from the opening through the actuator disk.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2002Date of Patent: February 17, 2004Assignee: Owens-Brockway Plastic Products Inc.Inventor: Craig E. McClean
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Publication number: 20040003489Abstract: A dispenser package for fluent products such as cosmetics and lotions that includes an integrally molded plastic container having a flexible body with a sidewall, a closed bottom, and a top wall having a dispensing opening offset from the axis of the container body. A closure has a base wall and a peripheral skirt. In some embodiments of the invention, the closure is rotatably mounted on the container body, and has a dispensing opening in the closure base wall for selective registry with the dispensing opening in the top wall of the container body. Detent elements are provided on the closure and container body for selectively locking the closure in open and closed positions. In alternative embodiments, the closure includes a flip-top hinged to the base wall, with a plug extending therefrom for selectively opening and closing the dispensing opening in the container body top wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2003Publication date: January 8, 2004Inventors: Craig E. McClean, Robert E. Harman
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Patent number: 6622895Abstract: A dispenser package for a fluent product that includes a plastic container having an axially extending cylindrical neck, and a closure secured to the open end of the neck. The closure includes a plastic fitment having a dispensing opening and a cylindrical wall received within the neck. The container neck has a radially opening circumferential channel, while the fitment has a radially projecting circumferential bead received by snap fit into the channel to secure the fitment to the neck. A top is pivotally secured to the fitment or to the container neck for selectively opening and closing the dispensing opening. In the preferred embodiments of the invention, the dispensing opening is circular, and the top has an annular wall that forms a plug seal within the dispensing opening when the top is in the closed position. The top is flush with the fitment or the axial end of the container neck in the closed position to form a compact visual structure.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2002Date of Patent: September 23, 2003Assignee: Owens-Brockway Plastic Products Inc.Inventors: Craig E. McClean, Robert E. Harman
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Patent number: 6615473Abstract: A dispenser package for fluent products such as cosmetics and lotions that includes an integrally molded plastic container having a flexible body with a sidewall, a closed bottom, and a top wall having a dispensing opening offset from the axis of the container body. A closure has a base wall and a peripheral skirt. In some embodiments of the invention, the closure is rotatably mounted on the container body, and has a dispensing opening in the closure base wall for selective registry with the dispensing opening in the top wall of the container body. Detent elements are provided on the closure and container body for selectively locking the closure in open and closed positions. In alternative embodiments, the closure includes a flip-top hinged to the base wall, with a plug extending therefrom for selectively opening and closing the dispensing opening in the container body top wall.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2001Date of Patent: September 9, 2003Assignee: Owens-Brockway Plastic Products Inc.Inventors: Craig E. McClean, Robert E. Harman
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Publication number: 20020092880Abstract: A dispenser package for a fluent product that includes a plastic container having an axially extending cylindrical neck, and a closure secured to the open end of the neck. The closure includes a plastic fitment having a dispensing opening and a cylindrical wall received within the neck. The container neck has a radially opening circumferential channel, while the fitment has a radially projecting circumferential bead received by snap fit into the channel to secure the fitment to the neck. A top is pivotally secured to the fitment or to the container neck for selectively opening and closing the dispensing opening. In the preferred embodiments of the invention, the dispensing opening is circular, and the top has an annular wall that forms a plug seal within the dispensing opening when the top is in the closed position. The top is flush with the fitment or the axial end of the container neck in the closed position to form a compact visual structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2002Publication date: July 18, 2002Inventors: Craig E. McClean, Robert E. Harman
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Patent number: 6394323Abstract: A dispenser package for a fluent product that includes a plastic container having an axially extending cylindrical neck, and a closure secured to the open end of the neck. The closure includes a plastic fitment having a dispensing opening and a cylindrical wall received within the neck. The container neck has a radially opening circumferential channel, while the fitment has a radially projecting circumferential bead received by snap fit into the channel to secure the fitment to the neck. A top is pivotally secured to the fitment or to the container neck for selectively opening and closing the dispensing opening. In the preferred embodiments of the invention, the dispensing opening is circular, and the top has an annular wall that forms a plug seal within the dispensing opening when the top is in the closed position. The top is flush with the fitment or the axial end of the container neck in the closed position to form a compact visual structure.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 1999Date of Patent: May 28, 2002Assignee: Owens-Brockway Plastic Products Inc.Inventors: Craig E. McClean, Robert E. Harman
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Publication number: 20010048008Abstract: A dispenser package for a fluent product that includes a plastic container having an axially extending cylindrical neck, and a closure secured to the open end of the neck. The closure includes a plastic fitment having a dispensing opening and a cylindrical wall received within the neck. The container neck has a radially opening circumferential channel, while the fitment has a radially projecting circumferential bead received by snap fit into the channel to secure the fitment to the neck. A top is pivotally secured to the fitment or to the container neck for selectively opening and closing the dispensing opening. In the preferred embodiments of the invention, the dispensing opening is circular, and the top has an annular wall that forms a plug seal within the dispensing opening when the top is in the closed position. The top is flush with the fitment or the axial end of the container neck in the closed position to form a compact visual structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 1999Publication date: December 6, 2001Inventors: CRAIG E. MCCLEAN, ROBERT E. HARMAN
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Publication number: 20010011446Abstract: A dispenser package for fluent products such as cosmetics and lotions that includes an integrally molded plastic container having a flexible body with a sidewall, a closed bottom, and a top wall having a dispensing opening offset from the axis of the container body. A closure has a base wall and a peripheral skirt. In some embodiments of the invention, the closure is rotatably mounted on the container body, and has a dispensing opening in the closure base wall for selective registry with the dispensing opening in the top wall of the container body. Detent elements are provided on the closure and container body for selectively locking the closure in open and closed positions. In alternative embodiments, the closure includes a flip-top hinged to the base wall, with a plug extending therefrom for selectively opening and closing the dispensing opening in the container body top wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2001Publication date: August 9, 2001Inventors: Craig E. McClean, Robert E. Harman
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Patent number: 6241128Abstract: A dispenser package for fluent products such as cosmetics and lotions that includes an integrally molded plastic container having a flexible body with a sidewall, a closed bottom, and a top wall having a dispensing opening offset from the axis of the container body. A closure has a base wall and a peripheral skirt. In some embodiments of the invention, the closure is rotatably mounted on the container body, and has a dispensing opening in the closure base wall for selective registry with the dispensing opening in the top wall of the container body. Detent elements are provided on the closure and container body for selectively locking the closure in open and closed positions. In alternative embodiments, the closure includes a flip-top hinged to the base wall, with a plug extending therefrom for selectively opening and closing the dispensing opening in the container body top wall.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 1998Date of Patent: June 5, 2001Assignee: Owens-Brockway Plastic Products Inc.Inventors: Craig E. McClean, Robert E. Harman
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Patent number: 6216915Abstract: A dual chamber package for containing and simultaneously dispensing two individually contained fluent products which are not continuously externally pressurized. The package has an outer container body formed of a resilient plastic material, which is closed at one end, and a pair of collapsible containers contained within the outer container body for containing the fluent products out of contact with one another. A single elevator is positioned in within outer container body, initially near the closed end thereof, and in contact with closed ends of each of the collapsible containers. The elevator receives the free end of a walking stick in a one-way connection, and lifting of the walking stick causes the elevator to rise, thereby simultaneously dispensing small doses of the packaged products from the collapsible containers.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 1999Date of Patent: April 17, 2001Assignee: Owens-Brockway Plastic Products Inc.Inventors: Robert E. Harman, Jeffrey J. Baltzell, Craig E. McClean
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Patent number: 5465864Abstract: A molded plastic container (10, 110, 310) having an open neck portion (12, 112, 212), the container being adapted to have a collapsible bladder (B) inserted therein. The bladder has a metallic ferrule (F) at an open end thereof, and the ferrule is adapted to be supported at a location adjacent a rim (14, 114, 214) of the neck portion. To provide for venting from the container during the filling of the bladder, and later during the dispensing of product therefrom, the rim is provided with a plurality of spaced apart upstanding bosses (16, 116, 216) which define slots (18, 118, 218) between adjacent ends of adjacent bosses. The ferrule, thus, rests on the bosses, and air can vent beneath the ferrule and the container through the slots. The container can also vent during dispensing, even with a closure C affixed thereto, by providing a radial bead (22, 122, 222) in the container with a plurality of longitudinally extending slots (24, 124, 224) in the exterior thereof.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 1994Date of Patent: November 14, 1995Assignee: Owens-Illinois Plastic Products Inc.Inventor: Craig E. McClean