Patents by Inventor Eckhard Itzek

Eckhard Itzek 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: 10945546
    Abstract: A drinking attachment (10) for drinking vessels (12), comprising a funnel-like circumferential drinking rim (14), which is open towards the drinking vessel (12), having a fastening section (16) for fastening the drinking attachment (10) to an edge region of the drinking vessel surrounding an opening of the drinking vessel (12), and a bowl-shaped elastic sealing disc (20), which can be inserted into the drinking rim (14) for sealing the drinking rim (14), the sealing disc (20) abutting circumferentially against the drinking rim (14) in the region of the end of the drinking rim (19, which is free in the intended mounting state of the drinking attachment (10) on a drinking vessel (12), while forming an interstice (22), which is open towards the drinking vessel (12), and being designed in such a way that it can be partially lifted from the drinking rim (14) by a suction action of a user of the drinking attachment (10), in order to open a passage to the interstice (22), the sealing disc (20) having in the region o
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: MAPA GMBH
    Inventors: Ralf Holschumacher, Eckhard Itzek, Jürgen Löhn
  • Patent number: 10835065
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a drinking vessel that can include a drinking container and a drinking attachment that is coupled to the container. A straw can be positioned through an opening in the drinking attachment. The straw can include a top end that includes an opening through which a user can withdraw liquid and a bottom end. A drinking valve can be positioned along the bottom end of the straw and can include a tube that is open on the top and closed on the bottom and further includes at least one flow-through opening connecting the inside of the valve to the outside of the straw. A suction tube can include a tube wall that can be slid over the valve to couple the straw to the suction tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: MAPA GMBH
    Inventors: Jürgen Löhn, Ralf Holschumacher, Eckhard Itzek
  • Publication number: 20200229625
    Abstract: A drinking attachment (10) for drinking vessels (12), comprising a funnel-like circumferential drinking rim (14), which is open towards the drinking vessel (12), having a fastening section (16) for fastening the drinking attachment (10) to an edge region of the drinking vessel surrounding an opening of the drinking vessel (12), and a bowl-shaped elastic sealing disc (20), which can be inserted into the drinking rim (14) for sealing the drinking rim (14), the sealing disc (20) abutting circumferentially against the drinking rim (14) in the region of the end of the drinking rim (19, which is free in the intended mounting state of the drinking attachment (10) on a drinking vessel (12), while forming an interstice (22), which is open towards the drinking vessel (12), and being designed in such a way that it can be partially lifted from the drinking rim (14) by a suction action of a user of the drinking attachment (10), in order to open a passage to the interstice (22), the sealing disc (20) having in the region o
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: MAPA GMBH
    Inventors: Ralf HOLSCHUMACHER, Eckhard ITZEK, Jürgen LÖHN
  • Patent number: 9987197
    Abstract: A teat with a base and a hollow and flexible mouthpiece protruding from it with a palate contact area, characterized in that the mouthpiece has a planar thinning area fully or partially extending over the palate contact area, in which the mouthpiece has a smaller wall thickness than in its adjacent areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: MAPA GMBH
    Inventor: Eckhard Itzek
  • Publication number: 20170354279
    Abstract: A drinking vessel comprising a drinking container comprising an interior, a drinking attachment comprising a bottom wall and a drinking element, which protrudes upwards from the bottom wall and which has at least one drinking opening on the outer end, which is connected to the interior via a passage channel, which extends through the drinking element, holding devices for releasably holding the drinking attachment on the drinking container, a drinking valve arranged in the passage channel, which closes when ambient pressure is present at the drinking opening, and which opens when a suction underpressure is present at the drinking opening, characterized in that the drinking valve comprises a tube, which is open on the top and closed on the bottom, which, in a wall, has at least one flow-through opening, which connects the inside of the tube to the outside of the tube, wherein the wall of the tube, at least in the area of the flow-through opening, is formed as a soft elastic diaphragm, and when ambient pressu
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2015
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Inventors: Jürgen LÖHN, Ralf HOLSCHUMACHER, Eckhard ITZEK
  • Publication number: 20170258687
    Abstract: A teat, in particular for infants and small children, having a hollow nipple with at least one through-hole for liquid nutrition, which is connected at the bottom to a substantially annular-disc-shaped nipple flange, which serves to be fastened to the mouth of a vessel by means of a fastening ring with an annular-disc-shaped ring flange overlapping the nipple flange for pressing the bottom side of the nipple flange flat against the front-side edge of the mouth and at least one recess extending in the radial direction of the nipple flange on the top side of the nipple flange so that a ring flange of a fastening ring pressing against the top side of the nipple flange is spaced from the top side of the floor of the recess during the fastening of the teat on the mouth of a vessel, and the nipple flange is sufficiently flexible at least in the area of the recess so that the floor arches up and air from outside flows back into the vessel under the arched floor of the recess in the radial direction when the teat is
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicant: MAPA GmbH
    Inventor: Eckhard ITZEK
  • Patent number: 9522769
    Abstract: Push-pull closure for a drink container comprising a body element which comprises a through-opening and a fastening device, with which it may be sealingly and releasably connected to an opening of the drink container, a mouthpiece which may be axially displaceably inserted into the through-opening of the body element and which comprises at least one locking portion which may engage behind the through-opening of the body element, and a locking element which may be releasably attached to the inner face of the body element facing the drink container, the locking element being arranged so that the locking portion of the mouthpiece may not adopt a position in which it does not engage behind the through-opening of the body element, when the mouthpiece is inserted into the through-opening and the locking element is attached to the inner face of the body element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: MAPA GMBH
    Inventors: Eckhard Itzek, Bjoern Frederik Seidler, Ralf Holschumacher
  • Publication number: 20160199262
    Abstract: A bottle teat, in particular for infants and small children, having a suction part with at least one drinking slit, and a teat flange connected to the bottom end of the suction part for fastening to the front edge of a mouth of a container, wherein the drinking slit is cut by a laser beam in the suction part, and is opened a small gap when the bottle teat is in an unstressed state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Applicant: MAPA GmbH
    Inventor: Eckhard Itzek
  • Patent number: 9289357
    Abstract: A bottle teat made of a soft elastic material, comprising: a hollow suction nipple, a circumferential mounting edge for fixation to the bottle opening of a drinking bottle, a hollow transition zone between the mounting edge and the suction nipple, and two drinking slots extending from the outer side to the inner side of the suction nipple in an end region of the suction nipple, which are aligned in parallel to each other and whose distance from each other decreases from the outer side towards the inner side of the suction nipple.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Inventor: Eckhard Itzek
  • Publication number: 20150142054
    Abstract: A teat with a base and a hollow and flexible mouthpiece protruding from it with a palate contact area, characterized in that the mouthpiece has a planar thinning area fully or partially extending over the palate contact area, in which the mouthpiece has a smaller wall thickness than in its adjacent areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: MAPA GMBH
    Inventor: Eckhard Itzek
  • Publication number: 20140374372
    Abstract: A closure system for a bottle for baby food having a bottom shell part and a bottom closure ring that can be screwed onto a thread of a bottle, and a bottom partition wall above an inner thread on the edge connected to the bottom shell part blocking the cross-section of the bottom shell part, the bottom partition wall having a top side and a bottom side with a bottom flow hole ending in the first top side and in the bottom side, a top closure ring connectable to a threaded ring to fasten a teat to the top edge of the top shell part, with a top partition wall blocking the cross-section of the top shell part and connected at the edge to the top shelf part, locking elements locking the bottom closure ring and top closure ring in a rotatable, releasable manner, and an elastic sealing lip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2011
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Eckhard Itzek, Böjrn Frederik Seidler
  • Patent number: 8708174
    Abstract: A bottle teat comprising: A nipple sleeve having a hollow nipple and a through-hole connected at the bottom to a hollow nipple sleeve which is connected at the bottom to a nipple flange that is connected to the nipple sleeve to be fastened to a bottle by a fastening ring which serves at the bottom with an annular disc-shaped ring flange overlapping the nipple flange, A contact area projecting downward or upward from the nipple flange, or from the nipple sleeve above the nipple flange outward into the area for placing a ring flange, and A lip valve that is opened when the nipple flange is not fastened to a bottle arranged in a deforming area next to the contact area so that the deformation of the nipple flange that arises from pressing the fastening ring against the contact area closes the valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: MAPA GmbH
    Inventor: Eckhard Itzek
  • Patent number: 8528756
    Abstract: A closure system for a baby bottle including a lower closure ring screwed onto an external thread of a bottle, an upper closure ring for connecting to a screw ring for fastening a drinking teat, locking elements which rotatably and releasably lock together the lower closure ring and the upper closure ring, a circular lip seal made of a soft elastic material concentric to a lower peripheral part being arranged on the first upper face, with at least one axially oriented sealing lip and at least one circular seal geometry engaging with the lip seal and concentric to an upper peripheral part being arranged on a second lower face or vice versa and by rotating the upper closure ring relative to the lower closure ring the upper throughflow hole may optionally be brought into overlapping and non-overlapping positions relative to a lower throughflow hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: MAPA GmbH
    Inventors: Eckhard Itzek, Björn-Frederik Seidler
  • Patent number: 8403158
    Abstract: A feeding bottle comprising a bottle, which has an opening and an external thread surrounding the opening, a teat, which has a nipple carrier with a fastening edge and, on the nipple carrier, a teat nipple with a drinking hole in a side surface, a ring nut, which has an internal thread for screwing onto the external thread and means for connecting with the fastening edge of the teat, in order to keep the teat from the bottle opening, and a covering cap, which can be placed on the teat and, whereas the covering cap in its placed position presses with the inside of its side wall against the side surface of the teat nipple having the drinking hole and form a seal and, with the inside of its bottom, presses against an opposite side surface of the teat nipple.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: MAPA GmbH
    Inventor: Eckhard Itzek
  • Publication number: 20130056435
    Abstract: A bottle teat comprising: A nipple sleeve having a hollow nipple and a through-hole connected at the bottom to a hollow nipple sleeve which is connected at the bottom to a nipple flange that is connected to the nipple sleeve to be fastened to a bottle by a fastening ring which serves at the bottom with an annular disc-shaped ring flange overlapping the nipple flange, A contact area projecting downward or upward from the nipple flange, or from the nipple sleeve above the nipple flange outward into the area for placing a ring flange, and A lip valve that is opened when the nipple flange is not fastened to a bottle arranged in a deforming area next to the contact area so that the deformation of the nipple flange that arises from pressing the fastening ring against the contact area closes the valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: MAPA GMBH
    Inventor: Eckhard Itzek
  • Patent number: D679948
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: MAPA GmbH
    Inventors: Birgit Meyer, Andrej Walger, Eckhard Itzek
  • Patent number: D683589
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: MAPA GmbH
    Inventors: Eckhard Itzek, Birgit Meyer, Andrej Walger
  • Patent number: D719268
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: MAPA GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Recht, Uwe Wagenknecht, Eckhard Itzek, Ralf Holschumacher, Bodo Warden, Sara Rebecca Kröncke
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    Patent number: D731301
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: MAPA GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Recht, Uwe Wagenknecht, Eckhard Itzek, Ralf Holschumacher, Bodo Warden, Sara Rebecca Kröncke
  • Patent number: D739032
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: MAPA GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Recht, Uwe Wagenknecht, Eckhard Itzek, Ralf Holschumacher, Bodo Warden, Sara Rebecca Kr•ncke