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).

  • Publication number: 20120175335
    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: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2010
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: MAPA GMBH
    Inventors: Eckhard Itzek, Björn-Frederik Seidler
  • Publication number: 20110303630
    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: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2009
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Applicant: MAPA GMBH
    Inventors: Eckhard Itzek, Bjoern Frederik Seidler, Ralf Holschumacher
  • Publication number: 20110266246
    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 forma a seal and, with the inside of its bottom, presses against an opposite side surface of the teat nipple.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2009
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Applicant: MAPA GMBH
    Inventor: Eckhard Itzek
  • Publication number: 20110198309
    Abstract: Closure system for a children's drinking bottle or a children's drinking cup comprising a sealing ring which has on an external periphery a fastening means for sealingly and releasably connecting to a container edge of a container of the children's drinking bottle or the children's drinking cup, an aperture for receiving a mouthpiece and/or a blind lid and an internal thread, which borders the aperture and is arranged at a distance from the aperture and the fastening means and a fixing insert with a through aperture and an external thread which may be screwed into the internal thread of the sealing ring in order to clamp sealingly a fastening attachment of the mouthpiece and/or the blind lid between the fixing insert and the sealing ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2008
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Applicant: MAPA GMBH GUMMI- UND PLASTIKWERKE
    Inventors: Eckhard Itzek, Bjoern Frederik Seidler, Reiner Pils, Celine Mialet, Bertrand Coutellier
  • Publication number: 20110168656
    Abstract: The invention relates to a feeding bottle having a drinking teat made of a flexible plastic, a bottle made from plastic having higher strength than the flexible plastic and connected to the drinking teat in one piece by means of injection molding, and a reinforcement thread extending from the bottle through the drinking teat up to the drinking opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2009
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: MAPA GMBH GUMMI- UND PLASTIKWERKE
    Inventor: Eckhard Itzek
  • Publication number: 20110130791
    Abstract: Comforter with a mouth shield and a hollow teat part which is fixed by means of an insert part in a clamped manner in an opening of the mouth shield, and which comprises a mouth portion, a shaft portion and a peripheral flange arranged at the end of the shaft portion remote from the mouth portion, the teat part having a security strip made of a relatively hard material, which is connected to the mouth portion, extends as far as the region of the flange and has a widening there.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2009
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: MAPA GMBH
    Inventors: Guenter Marr, Eckhard Itzek
  • Patent number: 7938281
    Abstract: A leakproof bottle for feeding a child includes a first external thread around a bottle opening, and a lower closure ring having a first internal thread, which is screwed onto the first external thread and has at least one first throughflow hole. An upper closure ring has a second external thread on which the lower closure ring sits in a sealing manner and which has at least one second throughflow hole which, by rotation of the upper closure ring relative to the lower closure ring, can be brought into coinciding and non-coinciding positions relative to the first throughflow hole. Locking elements can rotate the lower closure ring and upper closure ring relative to each other and releasable lock them, with a drinking teat and a screw ring having a second internal thread, which is screwed onto the second external thread of the upper closure ring, releasably securing a lower edge region of the drinking teat to upper closure ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: MAPA GmbH Gummi- und Plastikwerke
    Inventors: Günter Horntrich, Eckhard Itzek
  • Publication number: 20110062105
    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: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2008
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Applicant: MAPA GmbH GUMMI- UND PLASTIKWERKE
    Inventor: Eckhard Itzek
  • Publication number: 20090312796
    Abstract: A pacifier with a mouth shield made of relatively firm material, a nipple protruding from the inside of the mouth shield and made of relatively soft material, and a security thread connected to the mouth shield, which consists of the relatively firm material, is connected to the nipple and extends in the longitudinal direction thereof, characterized in that a first section of the security thread runs at a distance from those areas of the nipple which are intersected by the imaginary sagittal midplane of the nipple.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2007
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Applicant: MAPA GMBH
    Inventors: Eckhard Itzek, Guenter Marr
  • Publication number: 20090039049
    Abstract: A leakproof bottle for feeding a child includes a first external thread around a bottle opening, and a lower closure ring having a first internal thread, which is screwed onto the first external thread and has at least one first throughflow hole. An upper closure ring has a second external thread on which the lower closure ring sits in a sealing manner and which has at least one second throughflow hole which, by rotation of the upper closure ring relative to the lower closure ring, can be brought into coinciding and non-coinciding positions relative to the first throughflow hole. Locking elements can rotate the lower closure ring and upper closure ring relative to each other and releasable lock them, with a drinking teat and a screw ring having a second internal thread, which is screwed onto the second external thread of the upper closure ring, releasably securing a lower edge region of the drinking teat to upper closure ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2006
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Inventors: Gunter Horntrich, Eckhard Itzek