Patents by Inventor Kenneth J. Gibilisco

Kenneth J. Gibilisco 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: 5242076
    Abstract: There is disclosed a child resistant medication container assemblage comprising a container base having a plurality of medication compartments formed therein to house unit doses of medication. The container base is provided with means to receive a slidably removable lid, means to prevent the lid from being returned to its normally closed position until a unit dose of medication has been removed and means coacting with catch means in the lid to resist efforts of children to access the medication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1993
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth J. Gibilisco
  • Patent number: 5240113
    Abstract: A child resistant drug assemblage is disclosed comprising a container having rows of spaced drug cell cavities each of which receives a unit drug dose of medication. The container is provided with a lock means that enables it to be readily opened by an adult but difficult to be opened by a child.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1993
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth J. Gibilisco
  • Patent number: 5207657
    Abstract: A dispenser for liquids, e.g., ophthalmic liquids, is provided with a movable top that pivots open to expose a recessed dispensing tip and pivots closed to cover and seal the dispensing tip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1993
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth J. Gibilisco
  • Patent number: 5181634
    Abstract: A dispenser for liquids, e.g., ophthalmic liquids, is provided with a restricted up and down movable top that locks in both open and closed positions and that lifts to uncover an aperture and to expose a recessed dispensing tip which is always maintained below the plane of the aperture and that lowers to cover the aperture and conceal the dispensing tip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1991
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1993
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth J. Gibilisco
  • Patent number: 5178613
    Abstract: A dispenser for liquids, e.g., ophthalmic liquids, is provided with a movable top that rotates to uncover an aperture and to expose a recessed dispensing tip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1991
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1993
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth J. Gibilisco
  • Patent number: 5114029
    Abstract: There is disclosed a child resistant bottle closure assemblage comprising an outer cap member, an inner cap member and an interlocking member disposed between the inner and outer cap members. When secured to a bottle in its normal, upright position, the outer cap member can be rotated without engaging the interlocking member so that the assemblage can not be removed from the bottle. When the bottle is inverted so that the interlocking member engages the outer cap member, rotation of the outer cap member results in removal of the entire assemblage from the bottle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 19, 1992
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth J. Gibilisco
  • Patent number: 4887755
    Abstract: An assembly for breaking tablets is disclosed where a tablet is secured on a surface through the action of a crank working on two flanges and subsequently broken with pressure applied to a hammer which is contacted with the tablet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 19, 1989
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth J. Gibilisco
  • Patent number: 4653668
    Abstract: A container for storing and dispensing small objects, such as capsules or pills containing medicament, one at a time, consists of a receptacle containing, within itself, a delivery mechanism including a funnel-shaped exit port for capsules and a capsule or pill delivery tube at the end of said funnel-shaped exit designed to accommodate no more than one pill or capsule. This funnel divides the outer receptacle into an upper storage compartment and a lower delivery compartment. The receptacle also contains between the exit end of the receptacle and the delivery tube a resilient gate member positioned to prevent or allow escape of a capsule or pill from the delivery tube. The inner end of the receptacle is pressed into or twisted in the user's hand which moves the resiliently mounted gate members, thus opening the delivery tube and delivering a single small object to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1987
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth J. Gibilisco, Stephen Degnen, Richard Borders
  • Patent number: 4433789
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to an improved, new convertible child-resistant 2-piece closure comprising an inner cap comprising a circular top panel and integrally attached depending skirt having internal threads for engagement with corresponding external threads surrounding a conventionally threaded container exit neck. A plurality of spaced apart depressions extend downwardly from the top panel of said inner cap. Projecting upwardly and arranged in the same concentric circle of the top panel of said inner cap are a plurality of ratchet lugs, shaped in ramp form. An outer cap is also formed of a circular top panel and integrally attached depending skirt. Integrally formed on the inner side of the outer cap top panel are a plurality of downwardly extending drive lugs positioned in a circle of equal radius as the depression and ratchet lugs on the inner cap top panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1982
    Date of Patent: February 28, 1984
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth J. Gibilisco
  • Patent number: 4257417
    Abstract: There is provided a bottle holder for a squeeze-type eyedropper bottle which includes a flat spacer member, a bottle holder attached at one end of said spacer member, and a rest piece slidably positioned at a distance intermediate the midpoint and the opposite end of said spacer member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1979
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1981
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth J. Gibilisco