Patents by Inventor Ralph H. Thomas

Ralph H. Thomas 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: 6874658
    Abstract: The invention discloses and claims five different embodiments of a plural chambered dispensing tube assembly that prevents products separated by tube chambers from mixing prior to being dispensed by providing a seal at the dispensing end. The seal is an integral part of the tube assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2005
    Inventors: Ralph H. Thomas, Thomas J. Duncan, William J. Weber
  • Publication number: 20030209561
    Abstract: The invention discloses and claims five different embodiments of a plural chambered dispensing tube assembly that prevents products separated by tube chambers from mixing prior to being dispensed by providing a seal at the dispensing end. The seal is an integral part of the tube assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2003
    Publication date: November 13, 2003
    Inventors: Ralph H. Thomas, Thomas J. Duncan, William J. Weber
  • Patent number: 4332982
    Abstract: A device and embodied method to control access to and log telephone calls made upon a long-distance telephone network includes a telephone instrument (11), a telephone line interface (12) for selectively connecting the telephone instrument (11) to an incoming telephone line (T.sub.1, R.sub.1) and a local telephone power supply system (23), which telephone line interface (12) provides output signals indicative of the operational status of the telephone instrument (11) and all numbers dialed on the telephone instrument (11), an access code memory (50) for storing and providing output signals indicative of a plurality of security codes authorized for utilization of the long-distance telephone network, a first (51) and second (52) log memory for storing data regarding all outgoing long-distance telephone calls made from the telephone instrument (11), and a control unit (15) which receives the output signals from the telephone line interface (12), and the access code memory (50).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1982
    Assignee: Ident-A-Call, Inc.
    Inventor: Ralph H. Thomas
  • Patent number: 4248227
    Abstract: A flexible unit dispensing device for a fluid comprising a squeezable hollow bulb portion and a cylindrical nozzle. The internal diameter of the nozzle is no smaller than 0.120 inches and the length of nozzle being such as to reach to the area of the rectal columns when the device is inserted in the anal canal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1979
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1981
    Assignee: Bristol-Myers Company
    Inventor: Ralph H. Thomas
  • Patent number: 4177939
    Abstract: In a squeeze bottle including a container having an upstanding neck portion and a spray unit in the neck portion through which product is dispensed from the container, the improvement comprising bellowed portions in the walls of the container and a compressible shroud surrounding the container walls. The shroud is formed of two sections, which are joined by a mating groove and bead arrangement on their edges and which substantially overlap each other when a squeezing pressure is applied to the shroud and a predetermined resistance of the groove and bead arrangement is overcome, so that the shroud sections compress the bellowed container walls and product is dispensed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1977
    Date of Patent: December 11, 1979
    Assignee: Bristol-Myers Company
    Inventor: Ralph H. Thomas