Patents by Inventor Paul Joseph Baker

Paul Joseph Baker 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: 7140511
    Abstract: A dispenser for small objects, such as candy, pills, tablets, and other objects of similar size. The dispenser includes a housing having a bottom, a front wall, a rear wall and two opposing side walls. The housing defines an interior volume and an aperture providing access to the interior volume. A cover is movably attached to the housing and has a closed position for securing objects within the interior volume and at least one opened position for displaying and/or dispensing the objects from the interior volume. Two flanges depend from the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2006
    Assignee: Mars Incorporated
    Inventors: Paul Joseph Baker, Robert Croft, Sergio Gedanke, Richard Hirst, Insun Yun
  • Patent number: 6763945
    Abstract: A dispenser for storing and dispensing small objects and a method of dispensing small objects with the dispenser. The dispenser has a housing, defining an interior volume and a dispensing aperture, providing access to the interior volume, a dispensing aperture closure, having a closed position for securing objects within the interior volume and a dispensing position for dispensing objects from within the interior volume. The dispenser also includes a fulcrum within the interior volume of the housing, positioned such that, when pressure is applied to a button portion of the closure, a flap portion of the closure contacts the fulcrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2004
    Assignee: Mars, Incorporated
    Inventors: Paul Joseph Baker, Jim Francis Warner
  • Publication number: 20040056035
    Abstract: A dispenser for small objects, such as candy, pills, tablets, and other objects of similar size. The dispenser includes a housing having a bottom, a front wall, a rear wall and two opposing side walls. The housing defines an interior volume and an aperture providing access to the interior volume. A cover is movably attached to the housing and has a closed position for securing objects within the interior volume and at least one opened position for displaying and/or dispensing the objects from the interior volume. Two flanges depend from the cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2002
    Publication date: March 25, 2004
    Applicant: MARS, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Paul Joseph Baker, Robert Croft, Sergio Gedanke, Richard Hirst, Insun Yun
  • Publication number: 20030159965
    Abstract: A dispenser for storing and dispensing small objects and a method of dispensing small objects with the dispenser. The dispenser has a housing, defining an interior volume and a dispensing aperture, providing access to the interior volume, a dispensing aperture closure, having a closed position for securing objects within the interior volume and a dispensing position for dispensing objects from within the interior volume. The dispenser also includes a fulcrum within the interior volume of the housing, positioned such that, when pressure is applied to a button portion of the closure, a flap portion of the closure contacts the fulcrum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2002
    Publication date: August 28, 2003
    Applicant: Mars, Incorporated
    Inventors: Paul Joseph Baker, Jim Francis Warner
  • Patent number: 6561391
    Abstract: A dispenser package having a cap and a hollow container, where the container defining an interior volume and a top opening, and the cap has a plurality of sides and a flap. The sides of the cap define a dispensing aperture, and the flap is attached to at least one of the sides by a hinge. The flap has a closed position in which the flap covers the dispensing aperture and an open position to provide access to the container interior volume through the dispensing aperture and the container top opening. At least two of the sides of the cap comprise upper edges having a convex arcuate shape, and the flap has an arcuate shape corresponding to the arcuate shape of the side upper edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2003
    Assignee: Mars, Incorporated
    Inventor: Paul Joseph Baker
  • Patent number: D466012
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2002
    Assignee: Mars, Incorporated
    Inventor: Paul Joseph Baker
  • Patent number: D470765
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2003
    Assignee: Mars, Incorporated
    Inventor: Paul Joseph Baker
  • Patent number: D728364
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Big Heart Pet Brands
    Inventors: Paul Joseph Baker, Nicole Massey, Geoff Tanner