Patents by Inventor David Richard Stonehouse

David Richard Stonehouse 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: 9889455
    Abstract: A particulate sprayer includes a gas reservoir to hold a gas, a liquid reservoir to hold a product, and a low pressure section including an exit opening connected to the liquid reservoir. The product includes a liquid and solid particles. The low pressure section transports gas released from the gas reservoir over the exit opening. The product is drawn, pushed, or drawn and pushed from the exit opening into the transported gas to create a spray of the product to be sprayed from the particulate sprayer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: MCCORMICK & COMPANY, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Tracie L. C. Wilson, David Richard Stonehouse, Craig Harvey Nelson, Carys Eleri Lee, Paul Nigel Marsh, Benjamin Erland Impey
  • Publication number: 20170081074
    Abstract: A self-supporting flexible film container is disclosed that includes a container base and a flexible film attached to the container base that forms a container wall and defines a packing region within the container. The container wall has at least one support column, such as a tubular support column, integrally formed therein. A method of conforming the container includes providing a web of flexible film, forming tubular support columns in the web of flexible film and forming a container from the web of flexible film containing the support columns. The support columns can be formed by ploughing and forming the web of flexible film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventors: Rolland LORBACH, Sandra K. HAND, Stuart Michael RUAN JONES, Sheryl S. BRUNKEN, Anthony D. GAYLOR, Thomas MILLER, Philip Russell FAWCUS, Steven Jonathan CLARKE, Adrian MORDUE, Donald Scott PEEBLES, Scott FEDOR, David Richard STONEHOUSE
  • Publication number: 20150129674
    Abstract: A particulate sprayer includes a gas reservoir to hold a gas, a liquid reservoir to hold a product, and a low pressure section including an exit opening connected to the liquid reservoir. The product includes a liquid and solid particles. The low pressure section transports gas released from the gas reservoir over the exit opening. The product is drawn, pushed, or drawn and pushed from the exit opening into the transported gas to create a spray of the product to be sprayed from the particulate sprayer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: MCCORMICK & COMPANY, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Tracie L.C. WILSON, David Richard STONEHOUSE, Craig Harvey NELSON, Carys Eleri LEE, Paul Nigel MARSH, Benjamin Erland IMPEY
  • Publication number: 20150050392
    Abstract: Method and system of using a drinks device to provide a variety of different types of drink requiring respective mixes of components and water. Drinks containers are arranged to each house separately the required components of a respective drink. Each drinks container is provided with a respective delivery outlet for dispensing a mix of the respective housed components. The drinks device is used to act upon respective drinks containers so as to mix the separately housed components and dispense the mixed components from the respective delivery outlet in conjunction with water from a water dispenser of the drinks device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2013
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Applicant: Barcadi & Company Limited
    Inventors: David Richard Stonehouse, Craig Harvey Nelson, John Antony Stephenson, Carys Eleri Lloyd, Michel Francois Marie Robin, Lawrence Lee Williams
  • Publication number: 20130327780
    Abstract: A flexible film container (100) is disclosed. The container includes a top (110), a base (130) and a body (120), the top and base joined to the container body. The container body has at least three discrete sidewalls (121) and is formed of a continuous web of a flexible film The flexible film container is self-supporting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: THE HERSHEY COMPANY
    Inventors: Sandra K. Hand, Marcus R. Plato, David Richard Stonehouse, Jonathan Hogwood, Andrew MacLeod, Wilbert Paulus Johanna Maria Schoenmakers, Ian Dunckley
  • Publication number: 20130056547
    Abstract: A particulate sprayer includes a gas reservoir to hold a gas, a liquid reservoir to hold a product, and a low pressure section including an exit opening connected to the liquid reservoir. The product includes a liquid and solid particles. The low pressure section transports gas released from the gas reservoir over the exit opening. The product is drawn, pushed, or drawn and pushed from the exit opening into the transported gas to create a spray of the product to be sprayed from the particulate sprayer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: MCCORMICK & COMPANY, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Tracie L.C. WILSON, David Richard Stonehouse, Craig Harvey Nelson, Carys Eleri Lee, Paul Nigel Marsh, Benjamin Erland Impey
  • Publication number: 20120255950
    Abstract: Fluid packaging container of substantially rigid, or semi rigid construction. The container being configured to be operatively connectable to a beverage dispensing station. The fluid packaging container defines an interior space and contains a first volume of a liquid ingredient and a second volume of gas. In use the first and second volumes are each variable between a volume of substantially zero and a volume corresponding substantially to the interior space and being complementary to one another. Thereby the first and second volume together fill the interior space. The fluid packaging container in particular includes a fluid outlet arranged to communicate with the beverage dispensing station and pressure equalizing means for maintaining a predefined pressure in the second volume, irrespective of liquid withdrawn from the interior space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2012
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Inventors: David Morrison Russell, David Richard Stonehouse, Stuart Michael Ruan Jones, Craig Harvey Nelson
  • Publication number: 20120043391
    Abstract: A spray device for connection to a reservoir of fluid for spraying, the spray device includes a dosing chamber for holding fluid; a connector for fluidly connecting the dosing chamber to the reservoir; a piston moveable from a first end of the dosing chamber to a second end of the dosing chamber so as to draw into the dosing chamber fluid from the reservoir; a spring biasing the piston towards said first end; a plunger, actuable by a user, to move the piston towards said second end against the bias of the spring; a nozzle for spraying fluid; and a user-actuable valve for selectively fluidly connecting the dosing chamber to the nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2011
    Publication date: February 23, 2012
    Inventors: Mark Robson Humphries, Craig Harvey Nelson, Stuart Michael Ruan Jones, David Richard Stonehouse, Edwin Paul Earnshaw, Andrew Macleod
  • Publication number: 20110061743
    Abstract: A tapping apparatus 1 for beverage 7, provided with a beverage holder 2 and a pressure regulating device 9, the pressure regulating device 9 comprising a first compartment 11 and a second compartment 12, wherein the first compartment 11 contains a first substance 23 and the second compartment 12 a second substance, between the first and the second compartment at least a part of a dosing device 13 is provided and wherein at least one of the first and second compartment is in communication with an inner space 6 of the beverage holder 2. The first and second component can react with each other while forming a gas, in particular C02 gas which dissolves in the beverage 7 and pressurises the beverage holder 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Applicant: HEINEKEN SUPPLY CHAIN B.V.
    Inventors: Mark Humphries, John Coppendale, David Morrison Russell, David Richard Stonehouse, David William Neil Edington
  • Patent number: 7696728
    Abstract: A combination of an electrically powered toothbrush incorporating an electric power supply which comprises a capacitor, and a charging unit which incorporates one or more replaceable or rechargeable battery cells, enabling recharging of the capacitor without connection to the main electricity supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: Glaxo Group Limited
    Inventors: David Murray Cross, David Richard Stonehouse, Timothy Michael Wood
  • Publication number: 20080187733
    Abstract: A wipe in the form of an absorbent tissue which comprises at least two layers of material, one of which is non-porous or at least sufficiently less porous than the other so that it forms a hygienic barrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2005
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Inventors: Oday Abbosh, Ian Hamilton Dryburgh, Nigel Lawson, Timothy Michael Wood, David Richard Stonehouse
  • Patent number: 5845501
    Abstract: A device for chilling the contents of a beverage container (10, 74) comprising a shell, the interior of which is adapted to accommodate the container (10, 74) the contents of which are to be chilled, and the wall of which comprises an annular reservoir (16, 70) for liquified refrigerant gas under pressure, which surrounds the container. The reservoir (16, 70) is openable at (30, 76) to permit the liquefied refrigerant to escape therefrom and create a cooling effect on the wall of the container (10, 74), consequent on the change of phase from liquid to gas, and expansion of the gas, to chill the container (10, 74) and its contents. The outer surface of the shell is formed with a heat insulating layer (24, 78) so that the cooling effect is preferentially directed towards the interior. The reservoir (16, 70) may be vented at the top of the bottom or through a plurality of apertures (106, 108) distributed around the interior of the shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1998
    Inventors: David Richard Stonehouse, Timothy Michael Wood, Craig Harvey Nelson, David Livingstone, Frances Brindle, Philip Theaker