Patents by Inventor Michael Edward Ross

Michael Edward Ross 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).

  • Publication number: 20040155453
    Abstract: A container having an outer removable overlying label which covers an underlying permanently affixed label. The outer label is at least partially translucent, or preferably transparent. Use of a removable outer label permits the consumer to remove some or all of the verbiage which is important for the label, but which need not be present on the container in use in the consumer's home. In an alternative embodiment, the outer label is removably affixed to a wall of the container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2004
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco., Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Edward Ross
  • Patent number: 6709017
    Abstract: A container having an outer removable overlying label which covers an underlying permanently affixed label. The outer label is at least partially translucent, or preferably transparent. Use of a removable outer label permits the consumer to remove some or all of the verbiage which is important for the label, but which need not be present on the container in use in the consumer's home. In an alternative embodiment, the outer label is removably affixed to a wall of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2004
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Edward Ross
  • Patent number: 6612482
    Abstract: A sleeve is provided which in assembled form slides over an openable carton with a protuberance to maintain the carton in its closed position. The sleeve may be assembled prior to production and stored flat or in a roll to minimize storage space and save production costs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2003
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Edward Ross
  • Patent number: 6585130
    Abstract: A dispenser for the wipes is described suitable for use in a shower environment, utilizing a shell having opposed top and bottom ends and, in a preferred embodiment, a support device connected to the shell for securing the dispenser to an outside surface. In another embodiment, the dispenser prevents water spray from the shower from contaminating the wipes contained therein. The bottom end has a dispensing slot with a length dimension greater than a width dimension and a finger-access opening to enable the user to urge wipes in the direction of the dispensing slot. The inventive wipe dispenser also is conveniently refilled with disposable wipes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care, USA division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: James Lynn Turbett, Natalie Charambura, Michael Edward Ross
  • Publication number: 20030098343
    Abstract: A sleeve is provided which in assembled form slides over an openable carton with a protuberance to maintain the carton in its closed position. The sleeve may be assembled prior to production and stored flat or in a roll to minimize storage space and save production costs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2001
    Publication date: May 29, 2003
    Inventor: Michael Edward Ross
  • Publication number: 20030015543
    Abstract: A dispenser for the wipes is described suitable for use in a shower environment, utilizing a shell having opposed top and bottom ends and, in a preferred embodiment, a support device connected to the shell for securing the dispenser to an outside surface. In another embodiment, the dispenser prevents water spray from the shower from contaminating the wipes contained therein. The bottom end has a dispensing slot with a length dimension greater than a width dimension and a finger-access opening to enable the user to urge wipes in the direction of the dispensing slot. The inventive wipe dispenser also is conveniently refilled with disposable wipes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2001
    Publication date: January 23, 2003
    Applicant: Unilever Home and Personal Care USA
    Inventors: James Lynn Turbett, Natalie Charambura, Michael Edward Ross
  • Publication number: 20030015544
    Abstract: A disposable wipes refill kit is described which comprises an outer container and a plurality of individual stacked wipes. In one embodiment the outer container has opposed end panels and a peripheral surface interposed between the two end panels, wherein at least one of the end panels is openable exposing a part of the leading edge of a plurality of wipes. In a second embodiment, the outer container has an upper portion extending from the base and being detachable along a line of weakness which exposes a part of the leading edge of a plurality of wipes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2001
    Publication date: January 23, 2003
    Inventors: James Lynn Turbett, Natalie Charambura, Michael Edward Ross
  • Publication number: 20030006605
    Abstract: A container having an outer removable overlying label which covers an underlying permanently affixed label. The outer label is at least partially translucent, or preferably transparent. Use of a removable outer label permits the consumer to remove some or all of the verbiage which is important for the label, but which need not be present on the container in use in the consumer's home. In an alternative embodiment, the outer label is removably affixed to a wall of the container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 1999
    Publication date: January 9, 2003
    Applicant: ross
    Inventor: MICHAEL EDWARD ROSS
  • Patent number: 6409077
    Abstract: A collapsible carton for shipping, storage and display of individually wrapped smaller packages is provided which includes opposing front and rear panels, a floor and a pair of opposing side panels. The front, rear and side panels have walls of identical height as measured from the floor up to an upper edge of each of the panels. Together they form a receiving cavity with the edges defining an open mouth. Each side panel includes a tear-away section shaped preferably as a right triangle, one edge of the tear-away section being coincident with the upper edge of the respective side panel and a diagonal edge in perforated attachment running transverse across the side panel. The front panel also includes a tear-away section having one edge coincident with the upper edge of the front panel and an opposed edge in perforated attachment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Josephine Telesca, Michael Edward Ross
  • Patent number: 6394337
    Abstract: A sleeve is provided which in assembled form slides over an openable carton with a protuberance to maintain the carton in its closed position. The sleeve may be assembled prior to production and stored flat or in a roll to minimize storage space and save production costs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2002
    Assignee: Unilever Home & PersonalCare USA division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Edward Ross, Josephine Telesca, Dean R. Rainey
  • Patent number: 6376441
    Abstract: A multi-phase melt cast toilet bar which has at least one interface along a plane perpendicular to the plane formed by the x and y-axis of said bar, and a process of making the bar is described. Each phase, containing a cleansing agent, is reproducibly positioned in the bar to be used simultaneously thereby allowing the user to simultaneously derive benefits from the use of the cleansing agents contained in the bar's layers. The process for making the bar is a continuous one, whereby the molten cleansing agents are simultaneously or separately poured into the mold, simultaneously or separately allowed to harden, and where the mold divider is not removed or removed either after hardening of the adjacent molten cleansing agent but before the pouring of the next molten cleansing agent, or removed while at least one phase remains flowable. The hardened multi-phase toilet bar is finally ejected from the mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2002
    Assignee: Unilever Home and Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Edward Ross, Thomas Daniel Arkins, Robert Alfread Bennett, Syed Husain Abbas
  • Patent number: D438804
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2001
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Frank Edward Gonda, David Scott Laubach, Michael Edward Ross
  • Patent number: D439150
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2001
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Frank Edward Gonda, David Scott Laubach, Michael Edward Ross
  • Patent number: D454689
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2002
    Assignee: Unilever Home and Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Frank Edward Gonda, Charles A. Curtiss, Stuart Mark Leslie, Michael Edward Ross
  • Patent number: D521873
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Edward Ross
  • Patent number: D525872
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Harry Hamilton Haubert, Michael Edward Ross
  • Patent number: D525873
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Harry Hamilton Haubert, Michael Edward Ross
  • Patent number: D527650
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2006
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Edward Ross
  • Patent number: D539665
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2007
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Harry Hamilton Haubert, Michael Edward Ross