Patents by Inventor Francis Lovell
Francis Lovell 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: 8899436Abstract: The packaging for a food product is provided with a container having an opening delimited by a frame, the frame having a radially inner side wall, and a lid. The lid can move between an open position and a closed position in which it closes off the opening. A measuring utensil with a bowl can be positioned in the plane of the frame. The inner side wall of the frame is provided with a retaining member which has a base extending from the frame towards the central axis of the container and that is extended by a tab extending upwards some distance from the inner side wall. The retaining member delimits, with the inner side wall, a slot-like housing capable with a small amount of clearance of accommodating a wall portion of the bowl.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2012Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: Compagnie Gervais DanoneInventors: Patrick VanDamme, Frédéric Bourdin, Francis Lovell
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Patent number: 8590732Abstract: A package for a food product sampled using a metering device, including a receptacle (2) having a wide top opening (24) and defined by a rim (25), a closure system (3) including a cover (31) that can be moved between an open position and a closed position, and a first levelling element (41) having a top face (41b) and a free edge (41a) situated in the space of the opening. The package also includes a second levelling element (42) spaced apart from the first and also having a top face (42b) and a free edge (42a), wherein the top faces (41b, 42b) of the first and second levelling elements (41, 42) each have a configuration and are mutually arranged in order to form two spaced-apart bearing zones substantially parallel to the plane of the opening for supporting the metering device.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2008Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: Compagnie Gervais DanoneInventors: Patrick Vandamme, Frederic Bourdin, Francis Lovell
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Patent number: 8567629Abstract: The packaging for a food product is provided with a container having an upper opening. An annular frame that is mounted as a close fit on the container has an upper face provided with an annular projection extending in the continuation of the interior face of the frame. A lid mounted articulated with respect to the frame is adapted to close off the opening, the lid having a top wall, a side wall and an interior skirt, a continuous groove being defined between the side wall and the interior skirt. A measuring utensil with a bowl is stored between the opening of the container and the lid in the closed position. The annular projection is inserted into the continuous groove and the interior skirt presses at least partially against said interior face of the frame in the closed position of the lid.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2012Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: Compagnie Gervais DanoneInventors: Patrick VanDamme, Frederic Bourdin, Francis Lovell
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Publication number: 20120261301Abstract: The packaging for a food product is provided with a container having an opening delimited by a frame, the frame having a radially inner side wall, and a lid. The lid can move between an open position and a closed position in which it closes off the opening. A measuring utensil with a bowl can be positioned in the plane of the frame. The inner side wall of the frame is provided with a retaining member which has a base extending from the frame towards the central axis of the container and that is extended by a tab extending upwards some distance from the inner side wall. The retaining member delimits, with the inner side wall, a slot-like housing capable with a small amount of clearance of accommodating a wall portion of the bowl.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2012Publication date: October 18, 2012Applicant: Compagnie Gervais DanoneInventors: Patrick VanDamme, Frédéric Bourdin, Francis Lovell
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Publication number: 20120248132Abstract: The packaging for a food product is provided with a container having an upper opening. An annular frame that is mounted as a close fit on the container has an upper face provided with an annular projection extending in the continuation of the interior face of the frame. A lid mounted articulated with respect to the frame is adapted to close off the opening, the lid having a top wall, a side wall and an interior skirt, a continuous groove being defined between the side wall and the interior skirt. A measuring utensil with a bowl is stored between the opening of the container and the lid in the closed position. The annular projection is inserted into the continuous groove and the interior skirt presses at least partially against said interior face of the frame in the closed position of the lid.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2012Publication date: October 4, 2012Applicant: Compagnie Gervais DanoneInventors: Patrick VanDamme, Frédéric Bourdin, Francis Lovell
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Patent number: 8251217Abstract: The invention relates to a pouch for containing a product. The pouch comprises a first wall and a second wall which are sealed together in sealed regions. The sealed regions substantially surround a compartment portion within which a product can be located. The pouch includes a tear initiating weakness located away from an edge of the pouch, the tear initiating weakness comprising an elongate weakness which extends along a first axis such that a user can fold the pouch across the tear initiating weakness and initiate a tear from the folded edge substantially along the first axis, the pouch further comprises at least one tear guiding weakness, said tear guiding weakness extending along a second axis transverse to the first axis such that a tear extending substantially along the first axis will meet the at least one tear guiding weakness and be guided along the second axis.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2009Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Novartis AGInventors: David Hemmerlin, Francis Lovell, Isabelle Suire
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Publication number: 20110168732Abstract: A dispenser 1 for use with a medicament carrier 2. The medicament carrier 2 contains a at least one medicament product 8 which can be released therefrom. The dispenser 1 comprising a body 12, a collecting conduit 18 and a dispensing aperture 16. The body 12 includes a holding portion 14 for holding a medicament carrier 2. The holding portion 14 includes at least one inlet aperture 32 arranged to receive a medicament 8 released from a medicament carrier 2 held thereon. The collecting conduit 18 connects the at least one inlet aperture 32 and the at least one dispensing aperture 16. The dispenser 1 is configured such that a medicament 8 dispensed from a medicament carrier 2 thereon passes through the inlet aperture 32 and into the collecting conduit 18 from which it can be dispensed through the dispensing aperture 16.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2009Publication date: July 14, 2011Inventors: Tony Antunes, Emilie Beskar, David Hemmerlin, Aurele Hurtis, Francis Lovell
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Publication number: 20110006066Abstract: Package including a receptacle (2) extending along a central axis (Z) up to a top face (23) having an opening (24), a closure system (3) including a cover (31) mounted so as to be articulated thereat between an open position and a closed position, and a locking device (4) including a locking lug (41) that is elastically deformable towards the central axis (Z) fastened to the cover (31) and furnished with a snout (43), and a gripping edge (42) secured to the receptacle (2) with which the snout (43) engages in the closed position. The cover (31) has a recess (47) in which the locking lug (41) is arranged. The locking lug has an actuation zone (41c) that can be accessed via the mouth (47a) of the recess, and a tamper-proof cap (51) is immobilized relative to the cover (31) by at least one breakable connection (52) and is arranged facing the actuation zone (41c).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2008Publication date: January 13, 2011Applicant: COMPAGNIE GERVAIS DANONEInventors: Patrick Vandamme, Frederic Bourdin, Francis Lovell
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Patent number: D676130Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2012Date of Patent: February 12, 2013Assignee: Becton Dickinson France S.A.S.Inventors: Francis Lovell, Aurele Hurtis, Gaudence Uwimana
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Patent number: D676545Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2012Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignee: Becton Dickinson France S.A.S.Inventors: Francis Lovell, Aurele Hurtis, Gaudence Uwimana
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Patent number: D676546Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2011Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and CompanyInventors: Francis Lovell, Auréle Hurtis
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Patent number: D676547Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2011Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and CompanyInventors: Michael Quinn, Natalie Darlene Macon, Francis Lovell, Aurèle Hurtis
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Patent number: D676549Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2012Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignee: Becton Dickinson France S.A.S.Inventors: Francis Lovell, Aurele Hurtis, Gaudence Uwimana
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Patent number: D692129Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2011Date of Patent: October 22, 2013Assignee: Becton Dickinson France, S.A.S.Inventors: Fabien Dubuc, Patrick Le Gal, Aurèle Hurtis, Francis Lovell
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Patent number: D692552Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2011Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: Becton Dickinson France, S.A.S.Inventors: Francis Lovell, Aurèle Hurtis, Gaudence Uwimana, Alain Houdre
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Patent number: D692997Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2011Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Becton Dickinson France, S.A.S.Inventors: Francis Lovell, Aurèle Hurtis, Gaudence Uwimana, Alain Houdre
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Patent number: D710992Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2011Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: Becton Dickinson FranceInventors: Fabien Dubuc, Patrick Le Gal, Aurele Hurtis, Francis Lovell
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Patent number: D728782Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2011Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Becton Dickinson FranceInventors: Fabien Dubuc, Patrick Le Gal, Aurèle Hurtis, Francis Lovell
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Patent number: D732661Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2011Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Assignee: Becton Dickinson FranceInventors: Fabien Dubuc, Patrick Le Gal, Aurèle Hurtis, Francis Lovell
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Patent number: D735848Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2011Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: Becton Dickinson FranceInventors: Fabien Dubuc, Patrick Le Gal, Aurèle Hurtis, Francis Lovell