Patents by Inventor Harry Flewitt

Harry Flewitt 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: 20040256276
    Abstract: A product comprising a container having a body defined by a container wall made of a plastics material, at least part of the container wall comprising spaced apart inner and outer walls, a label being located on the outer surface of the outer wall, the body having an internal cavity containing a medicament content and being bounded at least in part by the inner wall. Examples of containers are described, as are examples of typical medicament contents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2004
    Publication date: December 23, 2004
    Inventor: Harry Flewitt
  • Patent number: 6345717
    Abstract: A blister pack wherein the material between the blisters is reinforced to confer rigidity relative to flexing deformation of the blister pack. The reinforcement may take the form of a reinforcing slab or sheet, or ribs in the blister pack material. The invention facilitates handling by users with weak or deformed hands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2002
    Assignee: SmithKline Beecham plc
    Inventor: Harry Flewitt
  • Patent number: 6161260
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical tablet, with a break line aligned along a long dimension of the tablet, such that a twisting action, in which parts of the tablets on opposite sides if the break line are subjected to a rotational twisting force in respectively opposite senses, causes the tablet to break into two or more parts. The tablet is of the type which may be broken into two or more parts in order to ease swallowing or to allow administration of a partial dose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2000
    Inventor: Harry Flewitt
  • Patent number: 5927354
    Abstract: A dispenser for pourable fluids comprising a container for fluid, in the neck of the container there being a holder for a drinking cup, at least one passage in the neck allowing fluid to pass from the container along the neck past the holder toward the mouth opening, removeably mounted in the holder a drinking cup, having an open top, a removeable closure for the mouth opening, such that inversion or agitation of the dispenser causes fluid to pass from the container through the passages(s) into the drinking cup, and re-inversion or cessation of agitation, to an upright orientation results in the retention of a volume of the fluid in the drinking cup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1999
    Assignee: Smithkline Beecham P.L.C.
    Inventor: Harry Flewitt
  • Patent number: 5896614
    Abstract: A toothbrush, wherein the head has a face from which project one or more strips of a flexible and resilient material, preferably combined with bristles and arranged in rows or groups of rows of the strips alternating with the rows or groups of rows of the bristles. The strips enhance the tooth cleaning effect of the toothbrush.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1999
    Assignee: SmithKline Beecham p.l.c.
    Inventor: Harry Flewitt
  • Patent number: 5897025
    Abstract: A container for dispensing tablets in which the dispensing opening and/or a dispensing passage upstream of the dispensing opening is constricted such that a tablet is releasably retained with part of the tablet projecting outside of the dispensing opening. The part of the rim of the dispensing opening or an adjacent part of the container is movable relative to the rest of the container so as to facilitate the release of the retained tablet from the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1999
    Assignee: SmithKline Beecham plc.
    Inventors: Harry Flewitt, Wendy Johnson, Stephen Barnet Lewis