Patents by Inventor Jeffrey C. Minnette

Jeffrey C. Minnette 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: 9676504
    Abstract: A package includes a container and a lid adapted to mate with a brim of the container. The lid closes a top opening in the container when mounted on the container. In a lid-coupling process, a product is discharged from an interior product-storage region formed in the container. The elastic top wall of the lid is moved along the container brim to establish a radially outwardly moving brim-wiping motion to cause substantially all of any spilled product located on the annular brim to be displaced and wiped off the container brim so that little, if any, spilled product remains on the container brim.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Berry Plastics Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey C. Minnette, David J. Jochem, Ken Jochem
  • Patent number: 9630762
    Abstract: A package includes a container and a closure for mating on the brim of the container. The closure is hermetically sealed to the container brim at a factory. The seal is broken the first time a consumer removes the closure from the container brim.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Berry Plastics Corporation
    Inventor: Jeffrey C Minnette
  • Publication number: 20170101208
    Abstract: A vessel is configured to hold a product in an interior region formed in the vessel. In illustrative embodiments, the vessel includes a floor and a sidewall coupled to the floor to extend away from the floor. Together the floor and sidewall cooperate to define the interior region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventors: Jeffrey C. MINNETTE, Philip A. DRISKILL, David D. SUN, Rolland STRASSER, Birju A. SURTI
  • Patent number: 9604769
    Abstract: A stand-up package is formed to include an interior region for containing a product. The package is configured to be in an upright, standing position. The stand-up package includes a film-rigidifying frame and a film pouch. The film-rigidifying frame is coupled to the film pouch so that the film pouch assumes an upright position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: Berry Plastics Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey C Minnette, Ryan P Davidson
  • Publication number: 20170029179
    Abstract: A package includes a vessel and a closure. The vessel is formed to include a product-storage chamber and a mouth opening into the product-storage chamber. The closure is configured to mount on the vessel to assume an installed position closing the mouth formed in the vessel when rotated relative to the vessel about a vertical axis of rotation in a closure-installation direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Inventors: Jeffrey C. Minnette, Ryan P. Davidson
  • Patent number: 9474397
    Abstract: A package includes a container and a closure for an opening into an interior region formed in the container. The closure is configured to mount on a brim of the container. The closure includes a sheet-support ring that surrounds the brim of the closure and a membrane sheet bonded permanently to the sheet-support ring to form an endless hermetic seal therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: Berry Plastics Corporation
    Inventor: Jeffrey C. Minnette
  • Patent number: 9469445
    Abstract: A package includes a container and a lid adapted to mate with a brim of the container. The lid closes a top opening in the container when mounted on the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Berry Plastics Corporation
    Inventor: Jeffrey C Minnette
  • Patent number: 9463894
    Abstract: A package includes a lid adapted to mate with the brim of a container. An interior chamber of the package is bounded by the container and the lid when the lid is mounted on the container brim.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Berry Plastics Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey C. Minnette, Ken Jochem
  • Publication number: 20160288973
    Abstract: A stand-up package is formed to include an interior region for containing a product. The package is configured to be in an upright, standing position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: Jeffrey C. Minnette, Ryan P. Davidson
  • Publication number: 20160257052
    Abstract: A vessel is configured to hold a product in an interior region formed in the vessel. The vessel includes an inner layer arranged to define the interior region and an outer layer. The vessel is formed using a blow-molding process in which a multiple layer parison is blow molded to form the vessel. The multiple layer parison is formed in an extrusion process in which a number of extruders are arranged to co-extrude the multi-layer parison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Inventors: David Dezhou Sun, Philip A. Driskill, Jeffrey C. Minnette, Birju A Surti, Jonathan K. Williams, Tony Cain, Diane E. Marret, Jared B. Waterman, Dan L. Mackey, Debra R. Wilson, Timothy S. Ponrathnam, David C. Arnold, Michael J. Grimm, Krystal D. Springer
  • Publication number: 20160257030
    Abstract: A vessel is configured to hold a product in an interior region formed in the vessel. The vessel includes an inner layer arranged to define the interior region and an outer layer. The vessel is formed using a blow-molding process in which a multi-layer parison is blow molded to form the vessel. The multi-layer parison is formed in an extrusion process in which a number of extruders are arranged to co-extrude associated inner and outer parisons to establish the multi-layer parison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Inventors: David Dezhou Sun, Philip A. Driskill, Jeffrey C. Minnette, Birju A. Surti, Jonathan K. Williams, Tony Cain, Diane E. Marret, Jared B. Waterman, Dan L. Mackey, Debra R. Wilson, Timothy S. Ponrathnam
  • Patent number: 9409687
    Abstract: A stand-up package is formed to include an interior region for containing a product. The package is configured to be in an upright, standing position. The stand-up package includes a film-rigidifying frame and a film pouch. The film-rigidifying frame is coupled to the film pouch so that the film pouch assumes an upright position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Berry Plastics Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey C Minnette, Ryan P Davidson
  • Publication number: 20160207646
    Abstract: A package includes a container and a lid adapted to mate with a brim of the container. The lid closes a top opening in the container when mounted to the brim of the container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Inventor: Jeffrey C. Minnette
  • Publication number: 20160159530
    Abstract: A package includes a lid and a container. The lid is adapted to mate with a brim of the container to close a top opening arranged to open into an interior product-storage region formed in the container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: Jeffrey C. Minnette, Eric W. Kost
  • Publication number: 20160152360
    Abstract: A closure system is adapted to couple and seal a lid to a container formed to include a product-storage region and a brim bordering an opening arranged to open into the product-storage region. The closure system includes a container support fixture and a sealing head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2016
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Inventors: Jeffrey C Minnette, David J Jochem, Ken Jochem
  • Publication number: 20160137321
    Abstract: A package includes a container formed to include an open mouth arranged to open into an interior product-storage region and a closure arranged to close the open mouth when the closure is coupled to the container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventors: Jeffrey C Minnette, Ken Jochem
  • Publication number: 20160107784
    Abstract: A vessel is configured to hold a product in an interior region formed in the vessel. In illustrative embodiments, the vessel includes a floor and a sidewall coupled to the floor to extend away from the floor. Together the floor and sidewall cooperate to define the interior region. A vessel in accordance with the present disclosure is configured to hold a product in an interior region. In illustrative embodiments, the vessel is an insulated container such as a drink cup. In illustrative embodiments, the vessel is a container such as a shampoo bottle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Inventors: Jeffrey C. MINNETTE, Philip A. DRISKILL, David D. SUN, Rolland STRASSER
  • Publication number: 20160101908
    Abstract: A package includes a closure adapted to mate with a brim of a container to close an opening that opens into an interior product-storage region formed in the container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Inventors: Jeffrey C. MINNETTE, Ken JOCHEM, Krishnaraju VARADARAJAN
  • Publication number: 20160023820
    Abstract: A package includes a closure and a container. The closure is adapted to mate with a brim of the container to close a top opening arranged to open into an interior product-storage region formed in the container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Jeffrey C. Minnette, Krishnaraju Varadarajan
  • Publication number: 20150329261
    Abstract: A package includes a lid adapted to mate with the brim of a container. An interior chamber of the package is bounded by the container and the lid when the lid is mounted on the container brim.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Inventors: Jeffrey C. Minnette, Ken Jochem