Patents by Inventor Kenneth R. Berger

Kenneth R. Berger 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: 6230935
    Abstract: The dual chamber dispenser consists of two tubular chambers each of which is connected to a pump. The pumps are self-priming and are of a type that draw the substances from the tubular chambers. There is an activator which also serves as the top of the dispenser, side view apertures, a foot for better stability and a spout that is angled for enhanced dispensing. The side view apertures allow for viewing the fill level of the tubular chambers. The pumps are of a type having an upper valve and a lower valve, with the upper valves a part of the piston's that move in and out of the pumping chambers. The valves in said pumps are positive closing by means of a biasing spring. The substances to be dispensed are maintained separate, one from the other, until the substances are dispensed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2001
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Robert Mack, James C. McKinney, Kenneth R. Berger
  • Patent number: 6168041
    Abstract: Tubular containers can be produced by injection stretch blow molding processes. Such processes comprise the biaxial stretching of the preform as the preform is being converted into the tubular container. The preform will be stretched longitudinally by means of a stretch rod and laterally by means of the pressure of the blowing gas. The tubular containers produced by these processes will have burst strengths three to five times that of other tubular containers and can be produced in a thin wall collapsible form. Further, the tubular container will have a tensile strength in the machine direction along a tensile strength in the cross direction greater than other tubes, including laminate tubes, coextruded blow molded tubes and injection stretch tubes. In addition, the tubular containers can be single chamber containers or multichamber containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2001
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Kenneth R. Berger, Patrick A. Connan, Robert L. Readdy
  • Patent number: 5954224
    Abstract: Tubular containers can be produced by injection stretch blowmolding processes. Such processes comprise the biaxial stretching of the preform as the preform is being converted into the tubular container. The preform will be stretched longitudinally by means of a stretch rod and laterally by means of the pressure of the blowing gas. The tubular containers produced by these processes will have burst strengths three to five times that of other tubular containers and can be produced in a thin wall collapsible form. Further, the tubular containers can be single chamber containers or multi-chamber containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1999
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Kenneth R. Berger, Patrick A. Connan, Robert L. Readdy
  • Patent number: 5899360
    Abstract: The dispenser is a rigid type multi-chamber, refillable dispenser where only the substance containing chambers need to be discarded and replaced. At the point of the chambers interconnecting into the upper portion of the dispensers there is a cutter to break the seal on the chambers. In operation stabilized piston rods fit into each chamber and push against pistons having a deformable upper surface to expel the substance. The refill chambers have off-center exit openings whereby the distance to the dispenser nozzle exit is minimized. The push rods are stabilized by being of a size and shape to be proximate the walls of the chambers while actuating the pistons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1999
    Assignee: Colgate - Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Robert Mack, James C. McKinney, Kenneth R. Berger
  • Patent number: 4726171
    Abstract: A bag having an article applied to an inside surface thereof is formed in a continuous bag-making operation by conveying a bag-making film web and a continuous strip of material in joinable proximity with each other. The article is formed by severing the strip of material and at least one edge portion of the severed article is bonded to the continuous web of bag film. The longitudinal margins of the web are then brought together and bonded to form a tube with the article bonded to the inner surface of the tube, and bags are formed and severed from the tube with the article bonded to one inner surface of the bag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1986
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1988
    Assignee: Frito-Lay, Inc.
    Inventors: William D. Kreager, Stephen R. Holten, Stephen M. Callahan, Kenneth R. Berger
  • Patent number: 4534818
    Abstract: An automatic form-and-fill packaging machine especially adapted for the ultrasonic sealing of food products in flexible bags from ultrasonically sealable flexible packaging material, and a method to utilize said machine. A packaging machine is provided with a first ultrasonic back seal forming unit for producing a continuous longitudinal back seal on the bag, and a second ultrasonic sealing unit provided in a pair of jaw members which are adapted to form the end seals of the bag perpendicular to the direction of travel of the packaging material. The second ultrasonic sealing unit is provided with a horn and an anvil in opposing jaw members, such that when the jaws are shut, the flexible packaging material is tensioned against sealing land areas to provide the end seals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1983
    Date of Patent: August 13, 1985
    Assignee: Frito-Lay, Inc.
    Inventors: William D. Kreager, Kenneth R. Berger
  • Patent number: 4521467
    Abstract: A packaging material has a peelable seal and a sealing of resin which is ultrasonically-sealable, but not readily heat-sealable backed by a backing layer of resin having a higher melting point than the sealing layer. The interlayer adhesion between the backing layer and the sealing layer is below the strength required to break the sealing layer. The thickness and material of the sealing material is utilized to control the seal strength of the peelable end seal of the package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1983
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1985
    Assignee: Frito-Lay, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth R. Berger