Patents by Inventor Mark R. Kidd

Mark R. Kidd 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).

  • Closure for container and closure package and method of making same
    Patent number: 6223946
    Abstract: A closure for a container-and-closure sealing system embodied in a container and closure package, and method of making the same. The container has an open mouth surrounded by a cylindrical neck wall having internal threads and an open upper edge. The closure is a cap/dispensing cup type and has a skirt with external threads adapted for threaded receipt within the container neck wall. A circumferentially continuous flange projects outwardly from the skirt and has a conical portion adapted for cam engaging, trapping and sealing with the open upper edge of the neck wall as the closure is threaded into this wall. The closure skirt also has a circumferentially continuous plug-type sealing surface that extends radially outwardly from the skirt between the trapping flange and closure external threads adapted for interference sealing engagement with the neck wall as the closure is threaded thereinto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2001
    Assignee: Owens Illinois Closure Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory A. Geisinger, George R. Trepina, Eugene F. Haffner, Mark R. Kidd
  • Container and closure package and method of making same
    Patent number: 6032829
    Abstract: A container-and-closure sealing system embodied in a container and closure package, and method of making the same. The container has an open mouth surrounded by a cylindrical neck wall having internal threads and an open upper edge. The closure is a cap/dispensing cup type and has a skirt with external threads for threaded receipt within the container neck wall. A circumferentially continuous flange projects outwardly from the skirt and has a conical portion for cam engaging, trapping and sealing with the open upper edge of the neck wall as the closure is threaded into this wall. The closure skirt also has a circumferentially continuous plug-type sealing surface that extends radially outwardly from the skirt between the trapping flange and closure external threads for interference sealing engagement with the neck wall, as the closure is threaded thereinto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2000
    Assignee: Owens-Illinois Closure Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory A. Geisinger, George R. Trepina, Eugene F. Haffner, Mark R. Kidd