Patents by Inventor Dirk Stewart Zijlstra

Dirk Stewart Zijlstra 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: 5647416
    Abstract: A liquid container support housing is provided with a removable container support dispenser which is seated at an open top end of a removable liquid holding reservoir provided in the support housing. The container support dispenser has a central upwardly projecting feed probe on a bottom wall thereof and which is dimensioned to enter a cap secured over an opening of a neck end of a liquid container supported in an inverted position on the container support dispenser. The feed probe has a plug engaging end adapted to disconnect a sealing plug formed integral with the cap, when the probe enters a central sealing sleeve of the cap in close sealing fit therein, and for engaging the plug spaced from an internal end of the sleeve when disconnected therefrom. The feed probe has a liquid conduit therein to channel liquid from the liquid container into the liquid dispensing reservoir of the support housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1997
    Assignee: Les Produits Addico Inc.
    Inventors: Andre Desrosiers, Dirk Stewart Zijlstra