Patents by Inventor J. Wayne Halfacre

J. Wayne Halfacre 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: 7219819
    Abstract: A valve assembly has a valve housing and a valve core body movable therewithin for providing a smooth and continuous outflow of liquid from a container, which may be unvented and rigid, through a liquid-out passageway, and provides an air-back passageway for drawing external air into the container. In a preferred embodiment, the core is rotatable within the housing by one-handed actuation. The air-back passageway is preferably a channel provided on the surface of the core body, and the liquid-out passageway is preferably provided between openings in the core body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2007
    Assignee: Nestle Waters North America, Inc.
    Inventors: J Wayne Halfacre, John S Gruver, Christian Randhahn, Charles A Curtiss, Stuart Leslie, Christopher J Matice, Stephen P DeHoff
  • Patent number: 4993570
    Abstract: A tamper indicating container and container-closure package in which the tamper indicating band is integrally molded on the container neck with connecting frangible webs. The tamper indicating band has circumferentially spaced pawls on its top which co-act with a circumferential array of ratchet teeth at the lower end of the closure cap skirt to prevent removal of the cap upon application of opening torque without fracture of the frangible webs indicating tampering or initial opening. The closure of the container-closure package includes a cap skirt having a wall portion which recesses the cap ratchet teeth and overlaps the tamper indicating band of the container so as to keep the ratchet locking mechanism out of the view of a person endeavoring to tamper with the package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 19, 1991
    Assignee: Sunbeam Plastics Corporation
    Inventors: Randall K. Julian, J. Wayne Halfacre
  • Patent number: 4852751
    Abstract: A tamper indicating package in which the tamper indicating element is located on the container neck. A satellite ring is integrally molded with the container neck being connected thereto by a frangible connection between the ring and an integrally molded container neck flange. The frangible connection is broken to remove the closure from the container neck. Standard caps can be used on the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 1, 1989
    Assignee: Sunbeam Plastics Corporation
    Inventor: J. Wayne Halfacre
  • Patent number: D516423
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2006
    Assignee: Nestle Waters North America, Inc.
    Inventors: J. Wayne Halfacre, John S. Gruver, Christian Randhahn, Charles A. Curtiss, Stuart Leslie, Christopher J. Matice, Stephen P. DeHoff
  • Patent number: D519370
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: Nestle Waters North America, Inc.
    Inventors: J. Wayne Halfacre, John S. Gruver, Christian Randhahn, Charles A. Curtiss, Stuart Leslie, Christopher J. Matice, Stephen P. DeHoff
  • Patent number: D526563
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Assignee: Nestle Waters North America, Inc.
    Inventors: J. Wayne Halfacre, John S. Gruver, Christian Randhahn, Charles A. Curtiss, Stuart Leslie, Christopher J. Matice, Stephen P. DeHoff
  • Patent number: D485493
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2004
    Assignee: Nestle Waters North America, Inc.
    Inventors: J. Wayne Halfacre, John S. Gruver, Christian Randhahn, Charles A. Curtiss, Stuart Leslie, Christopher J. Matice
  • Patent number: D497550
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Assignee: Nestle Waters North America, Inc.
    Inventors: J. Wayne Halfacre, John S. Gruver, Christian Randhahn, Charles A. Curtiss, Stuart Leslie, Christopher J. Matice