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).
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Publication number: 20130248526Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2013Publication date: September 26, 2013Inventors: Jeffrey C. Minnette, Ryan P. Davidson
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Publication number: 20130008904Abstract: A canister includes a container having a body formed to include an interior region and a brim coupled to an upper portion of the body. The canister further includes a closure adapted to be coupled to the brim to close a mouth opening into the interior region.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2012Publication date: January 10, 2013Applicant: BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATIONInventors: Jeffrey C. Minnette, David J. Jochem, Ken Jochem
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Publication number: 20120305560Abstract: A canister includes a container and a lid that is able to be coupled to the container. The container includes a bottom wall and a side wall formed to include a mouth opening into a product-receiving chamber. The container includes an annular side wall that is formed to include a neck finish. The neck finish is configured to accept the lid of the canister.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2012Publication date: December 6, 2012Applicant: BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATIONInventor: Jeffrey C. Minnette
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Publication number: 20120292225Abstract: A package includes a case and a card coupled to the case.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2012Publication date: November 22, 2012Applicant: BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATIONInventors: Ryan P. Davidson, Jordan French, Patrick Cannon, Jeffrey C. Minnette
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Publication number: 20120234835Abstract: A package includes a container and a lid. The package is configured to endure exposure to high sterilization temperatures.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2012Publication date: September 20, 2012Applicant: BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATIONInventor: Jeffrey C. Minnette
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Publication number: 20120211497Abstract: A tray in accordance with the present disclosure includes a floor and a side wall arranged to extend along a perimeter edge of the floor. The floor and the side wall cooperate to form a product-storage region.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2012Publication date: August 23, 2012Applicant: BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATIONInventors: Ryan P. Davidson, Gail S. Becke, Jeffrey C. Minnette
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Publication number: 20120199599Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2012Publication date: August 9, 2012Applicant: BERRY PLASTICS CORPORATIONInventors: Jeffrey C. Minnette, Gail S. Becke
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Patent number: 6568548Abstract: A plastic safety closure with a tamper-indicating band is described. The closure includes a tamper-indicating band depending from the skirt of the closure. The tamper indicating band includes a frangible portion with one or more openings therein. The openings may form an interrupted slot or a continuous slot. Each opening includes a lip projecting outwardly therefrom and another lip projecting inwardly therefrom. These lips provide greater contacting area at the inner surface of the opening, thereby facilitating the alignment of the lower portion of the tamper-indicating band as it is forced into position on a container fitment.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2001Date of Patent: May 27, 2003Assignee: Rexam Medical Packaging Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey C. Minnette, Gary V. Montgomery
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Patent number: 6343705Abstract: A safety closure providing a top wall, an annular side skirt depending downwardly from an outer periphery of the top wall and defining a lower end thereof opposite the top wall, an internal thread projecting inwardly from an inner annular surface of the side wall, the internal thread being disposed towards the top wall, and at least one lug projecting inwardly from the side wall inner annular surface, the at least one lug defining an acute angle with the side wall inner annular surface, the at least one lug having a substantially trapezoidal profile, the substantially trapezoidal profile having a base edge disposed parallel to a central axis of the side wall and coincident therewith, a lower edge projecting inwardly from a lower end of the base edge, an inner edge parallel to the base edge and extending upwardly from an innermost end of the lower edge, and an angled edge connecting an upper end of the inner edge with an upper end of the base edge, the base edge upper end being vertically above the inner edgeType: GrantFiled: May 31, 2000Date of Patent: February 5, 2002Assignee: Rexam Medical Packaging Inc.Inventor: Jeffrey C. Minnette
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Patent number: 6279766Abstract: A safety closure including a top wall, a side wall depending from the top wall, and a locking tab projecting outwardly from the side wall, the locking tab having a reinforced end integrally connected to the side wall and a free end connected to the side wall by a biasing strap, wherein the reinforced end of the locking tab inhibits movement of the free end of the locking tab in at least an upward direction.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 1999Date of Patent: August 28, 2001Assignee: Rexam Medical Packaging Inc.Inventors: Narda A. Jones, Todd E. Mathes, Jeffrey C. Minnette, Gary V. Montgomery, William J. Shankland
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Patent number: 6105801Abstract: The present invention is directed towards a closure and container combination wherein the container has a collapsible neck finish. The collapsible neck finish consists of an upwardly extending neck having outwardly extending threads thereon and located above the threads is a spring bead, the spring bead having an outwardly bulged portion and an inwardly bulged portion. The closure for the combination has a retaining bead formed just below the top wall, the area in between receiving the spring bead of the container. The container and closure combination have interlocking structures comprised of locking lug and stop member on the container neck forming a recess therebetween which receives a locking tab on the lower periphery of the side wall of the closure. The interlocking structure is so formed that when the locking tab is located between the locking lug and stop member, the spring bead is firmly held in place below the top wall of the closure.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 1999Date of Patent: August 22, 2000Assignee: Rexam Medical Packaging, Inc.Inventor: Jeffrey C. Minnette
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Patent number: 5988412Abstract: A cap having a top wall and at least one circumferentially extending sidewall having an inner surface with internal threads therealong and a terminating bottom edge of the sidewall defining an open end opposite to the top wall. The terminating edge is provided with an inwardly extending locking lug for engaging with an outwardly extending tab on a threadable neck of a container. The cap may be of double wall construction with an outer wall and an inner wall spaced therefrom wherein the threadable connections for the neck of a container are on the inner surface of the inner wall and the locking lug is on the terminating edge of the outer wall. A window is also provided along the terminating edge of the outer wall, the window being in visible alignment with the locking tab.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 1997Date of Patent: November 23, 1999Assignee: Rexam Plastics, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey C. Minnette, Clayton L. Robinson
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Patent number: 5954228Abstract: A safety dispenser providing a container portion having a peripheral side wall defining a cavity therein, an open upper end, a bottom wall and a channel wall disposed between the upper end and the bottom wall, the channel wall extending across the cavity and defining a hopper area and a channel thereby; a trigger being slidingly received by the channel, the trigger having a passageway therethrough and at least one spring member projecting upwardly therefrom; the trigger being moveable within the channel between a first position and a second position, the passageway being in communication with a hole in the channel wall when the trigger is in the first position, the passageway being in communication with an orifice in the bottom wall when the trigger is in the second position; the at least one spring member being engageable with at least one abutment provided on a vertical wall projecting upwardly from the channel wall, the at least one spring member being disengagable from the at least one abutment upon applyType: GrantFiled: February 13, 1998Date of Patent: September 21, 1999Assignee: Rexam Plastics Inc.Inventor: Jeffrey C. Minnette
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Patent number: 5927527Abstract: The present closure and container combination comprises a child resistant squeeze and turn closure having a tamper indicating band which is removed from the closure after the first removal of the closure from the container. The closure has dual squeeze pads located opposite one another on the outer wall of the closure. Formed at 90 degrees from the squeeze pads are two child resistant lugs which extend inwardly from the closure lower skirt wall. The child resistant lugs extend downwardly below the lowermost edge of the annular skirt of the closure. Frangible webs are positioned at 45 degrees from the external tabs and the squeeze pads and retain the tamper indicating band onto the closure side wall. A first and a second child resistant container lug contacts the closure lugs and are placed on the neck of the container above the tamper indicating bead. The child resistant feature of the closure needs to be overcome before the tamper indicating band is fractured from the closure.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 1997Date of Patent: July 27, 1999Assignee: Rexam Plastics, Inc.Inventors: Gary V. Montgomery, Elizabeth Rudolph, Mark K. Branson, Jeffrey C. Minnette, C. Ed Luker
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Patent number: 5377873Abstract: A twist-to-open dispensing closure has a cap which threads directly onto the container neck. A bead at the bottom of the cap skirt snaps over a flange on the container neck for primary retention of the cap on the container neck. An upwardly projecting lug on the cap bead cooperates with a pair of axially extending walls on the container flange to give the user, while unthreading the cap, a sense of approaching the open, dispensing position of the closure and the cap locks in this dispensing position against further rotation, preventing accidental removal of the cap by snapping the cap bead over the container neck flange.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 1994Date of Patent: January 3, 1995Assignee: Sunbeam Plastics CorporationInventor: Jeffrey C. Minnette
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Patent number: 5213223Abstract: An adaptor and a closure are formed with cooperating child resistant elements so that the adaptor can be applied to any type of container and the closure can be removed from the adaptor only by manipulation of the child resistant stops. Both the adaptor and closure are molded with precision surfaces as by injection molding so that the closure can be sealingly attached to the adaptor without the use of excessive force.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 1992Date of Patent: May 25, 1993Assignee: Sunbeam Plastics CorporationInventor: Jeffrey C. Minnette
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Patent number: 5174460Abstract: An adaptor and a closure are formed with precision surfaces as by injection molding so that the closure can be attached to the adaptor without the use of excessive force to create a secondary seal. The adaptor-closure can then be attached to an imprecisely formed threaded container such as an extrusion-blow molded bottle to create a primary seal. The adaptor is permanently retained on the container with securing by thread wedging, cooperating ratchet teeth or the like.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 1992Date of Patent: December 29, 1992Assignee: Sunbeam Plastics CorporationInventor: Jeffrey C. Minnette
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Patent number: 4835502Abstract: A securing mounting arrangement is provided for a blowout magnet (16) and an electromagnetic relay (11) for increasing its capacity for switching larger values of voltage and current than possible without the arc extinction characteristic provided by the blowout magnet. In order to provide an electromagnetic relay suitable for applications subject to extreme vibration and shock, such as is type of automotive applications, the primary component of the mounting arrangement is integrally molded in the base (12) of the housing while the relay itself and the cover (13) of the housing all provide portions of a cavity wherein the magnet is contained.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 1988Date of Patent: May 30, 1989Assignee: Potter & Brumfield, Inc.Inventor: Jeffrey C. Minnette
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Patent number: H2203Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2006Date of Patent: October 2, 2007Assignee: Bristol-Myers Squibb CompanyInventors: Ronald E. Borchardt, Jeffrey C. Minnette, Clayton L. Robinson, Randall K. Julian