Patents by Inventor Gary Mengeu
Gary Mengeu 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: 9617027Abstract: An apparatus is provided in the form of a neck for a plastic bottle or other plastic container. The neck includes an external thread with a constant major diameter that can engage with a bottle cap with an internal thread. The neck has an internal surface with an irregular shape where the internal diameter proximate to the top sealing surface is greater than the internal diameter proximate to the side wall of the plastic bottle. The internal surface of the neck engages with a fitment inserted into the neck of the plastic container to prevent movement of the fitment.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2015Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: Silgan Plastics LLCInventors: Don Staples, Gary Mengeu, Laura Flanagan-Kent, Fred P. Minkemeyer
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Patent number: 9284180Abstract: A container and an attachment configured to couple an accessory to the container are provided. The container includes a projection. The attachment defines a slot including a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is configured to allow rotation of the attachment relative to the projection with a top portion of the projection in the first portion of the slot. The attachment is configured to retain the projection in a second portion of the slot.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2014Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignee: Silgan Plastics LLCInventors: David A. Hayward, Laura Flanagan-Kent, Gary Mengeu
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Publication number: 20150329233Abstract: An apparatus is provided in the form of a neck for a plastic bottle or other plastic container. The neck includes an external thread with a constant major diameter that can engage with a bottle cap with an internal thread. The neck has an internal surface with an irregular shape where the internal diameter proximate to the top sealing surface is greater than the internal diameter proximate to the side wall of the plastic bottle. The internal surface of the neck engages with a fitment inserted into the neck of the plastic container to prevent movement of the fitment.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2015Publication date: November 19, 2015Inventors: Don Staples, Gary Mengeu, Laura Flanagan-Kent, Fred P. Minkemeyer
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Patent number: 9120591Abstract: An apparatus is provided in the form of a neck for a plastic bottle or other plastic container. The neck includes an external thread with a constant major diameter that can engage with a bottle cap with an internal thread. The neck has an internal surface with an irregular shape where the internal diameter proximate to the top sealing surface is greater than the internal diameter proximate to the side wall of the plastic bottle. The internal surface of the neck engages with a fitment inserted into the neck of the plastic container to prevent movement of the fitment.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2013Date of Patent: September 1, 2015Assignee: Silgan Plastics LLCInventors: Don Staples, Gary Mengeu, Laura Flanagan-Kent, Fred P. Minkemeyer
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Publication number: 20150239728Abstract: A container and an attachment configured to couple an accessory to the container are provided. The container includes a projection. The attachment defines a slot including a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is configured to allow rotation of the attachment relative to the projection with a top portion of the projection in the first portion of the slot. The attachment is configured to retain the projection in a second portion of the slot.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2014Publication date: August 27, 2015Applicant: Silgan Plastics LLCInventors: David A. Hayward, Laura Flanagan-Kent, Gary Mengeu
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Publication number: 20150129592Abstract: An apparatus is provided in the form of a neck for a plastic bottle or other plastic container. The neck includes an external thread with a constant major diameter that can engage with a bottle cap with an internal thread. The neck has an internal surface with an irregular shape where the internal diameter proximate to the top sealing surface is greater than the internal diameter proximate to the side wall of the plastic bottle. The internal surface of the neck engages with a fitment inserted into the neck of the plastic container to prevent movement of the fitment.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2013Publication date: May 14, 2015Applicant: Silgan Plastics LLCInventors: Don Staples, Gary Mengeu, Laura Flanagan-Kent, Fred P. Minkemeyer
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Patent number: 7584843Abstract: A pocket-size hand-held container for containing a supply of consumer items comprises a frame, a lid, and preferably a bag is disposed in the container for holding the items being stored. The frame includes front and back portions, top and bottom portions, and side portions, the frame forming an internal storage compartment that stores the items. The front portion forms an access opening for the storage compartment, the access opening being situated closer to the top end portion than to the bottom end portion. The lid is attached to the front portion to be slid linearly between fully closed and fully open positions. In its fully closed position, the lid overlies the access opening, and in its fully open position, the lid lies within the footprint of the container. A securement structure formed by the lid and the frame yieldably holds the lid in the closed position. The bag is formed of a flexible plastic material and includes an openable window situated behind the access opening.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2006Date of Patent: September 8, 2009Assignee: Philip Morris USA Inc.Inventors: John H. Kutsch, Rutger Thiellier, Andrew Vest, Janet Thompson, Xuam Pham, Robert T. Mitten, Yvonne DeVerry, Gary Mengeu, Stephen Getsy
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Patent number: 7475787Abstract: A beverage can with top and bottom heat barrier ends for protecting the user from scalding when consuming a beverage heated by induction heating.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2005Date of Patent: January 13, 2009Assignee: PepsiCo, Inc. and Silgan Plastics, Inc.Inventors: John Gruver, Gary Mengeu, Michelle Gagnon
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Publication number: 20080202955Abstract: A pocket-size hand-held container for containing a supply of consumer items comprises a frame, a lid, and preferably a bag is disposed in the container for holding the items being stored. The frame includes front and back portions, top and bottom portions, and side portions, the frame forming an internal storage compartment that stores the items. The front portion forms an access opening for the storage compartment, the access opening being situated closer to the top end portion than to the bottom end portion. The lid is attached to the front portion to be slid linearly between fully closed and fully open positions. In its fully closed position, the lid overlies the access opening, and in its fully open position, the lid lies within the footprint of the container. A securement structure formed by the lid and the frame yieldably holds the lid in the closed position. The bag is formed of a flexible plastic material and includes an openable window situated behind the access opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2006Publication date: August 28, 2008Inventors: John H. Kutsch, Rutger Thiellier, Andrew Vest, Janet Thompson, Xuan Pham, Robert T. Mitten, Yvonne DeVerry, Gary Mengeu, Stephen Getsy
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Publication number: 20070251913Abstract: A container for a product which off-gases has a container body with a base wall, sidewall and a large mouth at its upper end bounded by a lip and having an outwardly extending shoulder adjacent the upper end of the sidewall, and a foil seal which extends over the mouth and is adhered to the lip. The foil seal having a valve therein permitting gases in the container body to exit therethrough. A cap having a top wall and a depending skirt with an internal peripheral snap bead abuts the shoulder on the sidewall of the container body. The top wall of the cap has a depending flexible ring seal bearing on the lip and the inside surface of the cap has channels extending downwardly along the inside surface of the skirt. Gas pressure in the container body will cause the valve in the foil seal to release gas from the interior of the container body into the space in the cap and the pressure of the gas in the ring seal is deflected from the lip to allow the gas to flow thereby and outwardly in the channels in the cap.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2006Publication date: November 1, 2007Inventor: Gary Mengeu
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Publication number: 20070199962Abstract: A dispenser for dispensing a viscous material in a selected one of a multiplicity of configurations comprises a container having a squeezable body and neck with a discharge opening at its upper end. Engaged with the container is a closure body of generally circular cross section with a top wall and skirt. The top wall has a post with a discharge passage therethrough aligned with the neck discharge opening. A generally circular rotating disc is rotatably disposed on the closure body top wall and has a central hub seating said post. The post has an aperture alignable with the hub discharge passage for passage of viscous material therethrough. The disc has a multiplicity of flow openings spaced about the disc in a circular array and represents a multiplicity of configurations.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2006Publication date: August 30, 2007Inventor: Gary Mengeu
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Publication number: 20070095847Abstract: A beverage can with top and bottom heat barrier ends for protecting the user from scalding when consuming a beverage heated by induction heating.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2005Publication date: May 3, 2007Applicant: PepsiCo, Inc.Inventors: John Gruver, Gary Mengeu, Michelle Gagnon
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Patent number: D529379Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2005Date of Patent: October 3, 2006Assignee: Pepsico, Inc.Inventors: Gary Mengeu, Michelle Gagnon, John Gruver