Patents by Inventor David A. Manera
David A. Manera 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: 9382049Abstract: A child-resistant closure for liquid medicaments consisting of two parts, a dosage cup and a bottle adapter. Dosage cup is configured to have cap lugs which reversibly engage helical locking lugs. In thread-on bottle adapter embodiments, helical locking lugs are located on the bottle adapter. In press-in bottle adapter embodiments, helical locking lugs are located on the neck finish of the bottle. A downward force is required to close the system, said force deforming a flexible shoulder, which in turn, creates an upwardly biasing force acting on the dosage cup to lock it in place in a child-resistant manner.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2013Date of Patent: July 5, 2016Assignee: COMAR, LLCInventors: David T. Kershner, David A. Manera, Michael Ruggieri, Kimberly A. Wargo
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Patent number: 9327877Abstract: A passive valve closure for liquid medicaments, configured to permit irreversible attachment to a pre-existing bottle and reversible engagement with a dosage cup bearing lugs such that when the dosage cup engages skirt lugs on the closure, a child-resistant closure is effected.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2013Date of Patent: May 3, 2016Assignee: Comar, LLCInventors: David A. Manera, John B. Daly
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Patent number: 8858215Abstract: A system for producing blow molded articles. The system includes an injector nozzle mounted to a parison cavity block having a parison cavity such that the injector nozzle injects molten plastic into the parison cavity to form a parison. The injector nozzle is mounted to the parison block by means of two seats, a distal seat where the distal end of the injector nozzle is seated within an opening in the parison cavity block and a proximal seat, a linear distance inwardly from the distal seat, where a circular flange on the injector nozzle is seated within an annular shelf formed in the parison block. The two spaced apart seats ensure an accurate alignment between the centerline of the injector nozzle and the parison cavity. As a further feature, there is a system to heat the nozzle tip to reduce the temperature differential between the nozzle and the parison cavity.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2009Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: Comar, LLCInventor: David A. Manera
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Publication number: 20140166608Abstract: A passive valve closure for liquid medicaments, configured to permit irreversible attachment to a pre-existing bottle and reversible engagement with a dosage cup bearing lugs such that when the dosage cup engages skirt lugs on the closure, a child-resistant closure is effected.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2013Publication date: June 19, 2014Inventors: David A. Manera, John B. Daly
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Publication number: 20140014611Abstract: An improved child-resistant closure for dispensers of liquid medicaments, the closure being of a two-part construction. The closure has an outer cap with a quantity of shoulder lugs and skirt lugs and an inner cap with a quantity of shoulder lugs and flexible beams. The closure has equal quantities of shoulder lugs on the inner and outer caps, equal quantities of skirt lugs and flexible beams, flexible beams having an arcuate underside, shoulder lugs having a depth to prevent hyper-flexion of the flexible beams, and an ideal overlap when the faces of the shoulder lugs are aligned. Additionally, provided are methods for attaching and removing the cap from a pre-existing bottle.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2013Publication date: January 16, 2014Inventors: John D. Buehler, John B. Daly, Kevin A. DiPlacido, Redd J. Harold, David T. Kershner, David A. Manera, Timothy K. Stangle, Russ Granato
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Publication number: 20140014612Abstract: A child-resistant closure for liquid medicaments consisting of two parts, a dosage cup and a bottle adapter. Dosage cup is configured to have cap lugs which reversibly engage helical locking lugs. In thread-on bottle adapter embodiments, helical locking lugs are located on the bottle adapter. In press-in bottle adapter embodiments, helical locking lugs are located on the neck finish of the bottle. A downward force is required to close the system, said force deforming a flexible shoulder, which in turn, creates an upwardly biasing force acting on the dosage cup to lock it in place in a child-resistant manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2013Publication date: January 16, 2014Inventors: David T. Kershner, David A. Manera, Michael Ruggieri, Kimberly A. Wargo
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Patent number: 8517997Abstract: A dispenser assembly for liquid products is disclosed. Such an assembly may include an elongated barrel, and an elongated plunger having a flexible sealing lip disposed at an end thereof. The sealing lip may have an outer diameter in a relaxed state that is greater than an internal cross-sectional diameter of the barrel. When the plunger and barrel are actuated axially relative to one another, the sealing lip flexes inwardly and provides the sole contact between the plunger and the barrel.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2008Date of Patent: August 27, 2013Assignee: Comar, Inc.Inventors: David A. Manera, John D. Buehler
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Patent number: 8459312Abstract: An adapter to be pressed into the neck of a bottle to receive a syringe for accessing the bottle contents by a syringe. The adapter has a distal end that extends into the bottle and a normally closed valve located at that distal end to prevent the contents from leaking out of the bottle if the bottle is inverted. An upper flange of the adapter seats against the top of the bottle and is recessed into the top of the bottle to prevent easy access to pry the adapter out of the bottle. A cap is also disclosed that is adapted to be pressed into the neck of a bottle. The cap has an upper lid that is hinged to a lower body to allow the upper hinge to move between a closed position sealing the bottle and an open position where the bottle is accessible by a syringe.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2010Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignee: Comar, Inc.Inventors: David A. Manera, Victoria Moore O'Brien, Brian Myers, Daniel R. Hoffman, John D. Buehler
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Publication number: 20110204097Abstract: A dispenser assembly for liquid products is disclosed. Such a dispenser assembly may include an elongated barrel, and an elongated plunger positioned therein with the elongated plunger having a flexible sealing lip disposed at an end thereof. The sealing lip may have a beaded portion providing for easier movement of the plunger within the barrel while creating an effective seal between the plunger and the barrel. In an embodiment, the cross-section of the beaded portion is oval and the thickness of the flexible sealing lip tapers inwardly towards it distal end. The flexible sealing lip may be curved in the shape of an arc of a circle.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2010Publication date: August 25, 2011Inventors: John David Buehler, David A. Manera
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Publication number: 20110012293Abstract: A system for producing blow molded articles. The system includes an injector nozzle mounted to a parison cavity block having a parison cavity such that the injector nozzle injects molten plastic into the parison cavity to form a parison. The injector nozzle is mounted to the parison block by means of two seats, a distal seat where the distal end of the injector nozzle is seated within an opening in the parison cavity block and a proximal seat, a linear distance inwardly from the distal seat, where a circular flange on the injector nozzle is seated within an annular shelf formed in the parison block. The two spaced apart seats ensure an accurate alignment between the centerline of the injector nozzle and the parison cavity. As a further feature, there is a system to heat the nozzle tip to reduce the temperature differential between the nozzle and the parison cavity.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2009Publication date: January 20, 2011Inventor: David A. Manera
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Publication number: 20100327010Abstract: An adapter to be pressed into the neck of a bottle to receive a syringe for accessing the bottle contents by a syringe. The adapter has a distal end that extends into the bottle and a normally closed valve located at that distal end to prevent the contents from leaking out of the bottle if the bottle is inverted. An upper flange of the adapter seats against the top of the bottle and is recessed into the top of the bottle to prevent easy access to pry the adapter out of the bottle. A cap is also disclosed that is adapted to be pressed into the neck of a bottle. The cap has an upper lid that is hinged to a lower body to allow the upper hinge to move between a closed position sealing the bottle and an open position where the bottle is accessible by a syringe.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2010Publication date: December 30, 2010Inventors: David A. Manera, Victoria Moore O'Brien, Brian Myers, Daniel R. Hoffman, John D. Buehler
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Patent number: 7632244Abstract: A tamper evident tip cap assembly for a prefilled dosage syringe having a tip cap wherein a sleeve is frangibly connected to the tip cap, and is captured within an overcap freely rotatable thereon. The tamper evident tip cap assembly is removed from the syringe tip cap by pulling the overcap to break the frangible connection between the sleeve and syringe tip cap.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2006Date of Patent: December 15, 2009Assignee: Comar, Inc.Inventors: John Buehler, Brian Gatton, David Manera
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Publication number: 20090062749Abstract: A dispenser assembly for liquid products is disclosed. Such an assembly may include an elongated barrel, and an elongated plunger having a flexible sealing lip disposed at an end thereof. The sealing lip may have an outer diameter in a relaxed state that is greater than an internal cross-sectional diameter of the barrel. When the plunger and barrel are actuated axially relative to one another, the sealing lip flexes inwardly and provides the sole contact between the plunger and the barrel.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2008Publication date: March 5, 2009Applicant: Comar, Inc.Inventors: David A. Manera, John D. Buehler
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Patent number: 7438552Abstract: A dispenser assembly for liquid products comprising an elongated, generally cylindrical barrel of a predetermined internal cross-sectional diameter having a discharge opening at one end and open at its opposite end, an elongated, generally cylindrical hollow plunger having an outer diameter less than the barrel internal diameter and a circumferentially extending axially directed sealing lip adjacent the tip portion having an outer diameter greater than the internal diameter of the barrel in the relaxed state to thereby flex the lip inwardly against its bias and providing the sole sliding contact between the plunger and barrel when the plunger and barrel are actuated axially relative to one another.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2006Date of Patent: October 21, 2008Assignee: Comar, Inc.Inventors: David A. Manera, John D. Buehler
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Publication number: 20080097310Abstract: A tamper evident tip cap assembly for a prefilled dosage syringe having a tip cap wherein a sleeve is frangibly connected to the tip cap, and is captured within an overcap freely rotatable thereon. The tamper evident tip cap assembly is removed from the syringe tip cap by pulling the overcap to break the frangible connection between the sleeve and syringe tip cap.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2006Publication date: April 24, 2008Inventors: John Buehler, Brian Gatton, David Manera
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Publication number: 20070062900Abstract: A moisture-tight safety closure and a container wherein a depending, circumferentially extending sealing lip on the closure engages a flexible wall portion on the neck of the container. A plurality of circumferentially extending lugs on the closure cooperate with a plurality of circumferentially spaced hooks on the container neck for releasably securing the closure to the container.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2005Publication date: March 22, 2007Inventors: David Manera, John Buehler, Brian Gatton
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Publication number: 20070007232Abstract: A moisture-tight safety closure and a container wherein a depending flexible, circumferentially extending sealing lip on the closure engages a radius finish on the neck of the container. A plurality of circumferentially extending lugs on the closure cooperate with a plurality of circumferentially spaced hooks on the container neck for releasably securing the closure to the container.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2006Publication date: January 11, 2007Inventors: David Manera, John Buehler, Brian Gatton
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Publication number: 20060180954Abstract: A dispenser assembly for liquid products comprising an elongated, generally cylindrical barrel of a predetermined internal cross-sectional diameter having a discharge opening at one end and open at its opposite end, an elongated, generally cylindrical hollow plunger having an outer diameter less than the barrel internal diameter and a circumferentially extending axially directed sealing lip adjacent the tip portion having an outer diameter greater than the internal diameter of the barrel in the relaxed state to thereby flex the lip inwardly against its bias and providing the sole sliding contact between the plunger and barrel when the plunger and barrel are actuated axially relative to one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2006Publication date: August 17, 2006Inventors: David Manera, John Buehler
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Patent number: 7070581Abstract: A dispenser assembly for liquid products comprising an elongated, generally cylindrical barrel of a predetermined internal cross-sectional diameter having a discharge opening at one end and open at its opposite end, an elongated, generally cylindrical hollow plunger having an outer diameter less than the barrel internal diameter and a circumferentially extending axially directed sealing lip adjacent the tip portion having an outer diameter greater than the internal diameter of the barrel in the relaxed state to thereby flex the lip inwardly against its bias and providing the sole sliding contact between the plunger and barrel when the plunger and barrel are actuated axially relative to one another.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2003Date of Patent: July 4, 2006Assignee: Comar, Inc.Inventors: David A. Manera, John D. Buehler
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Patent number: D568347Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2007Date of Patent: May 6, 2008Assignee: Comar, Inc.Inventors: David A. Manera, Brian M. Myers, Brian M. Gatton, Jr., David T. Kershner