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).
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Patent number: 6874658Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 7, 2003Date of Patent: April 5, 2005Inventors: Ralph H. Thomas, Thomas J. Duncan, William J. Weber
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Publication number: 20030209561Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2003Publication date: November 13, 2003Inventors: Ralph H. Thomas, Thomas J. Duncan, William J. Weber
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Patent number: 4646926Abstract: Safety closures resistant to (and evidencing) tampering comprising a snap cap or screw cap, a rotary safety ring, and a tear tab attached to the neck of the container, said closure requiring that the tear tab be removed before the safety ring can be lowered; the safety ring must be aligned with the cap in one angular position and pushed downwardly away from the cap before the cap can be removed from the container. These safety closures may include a tear pin, attached to the cap and to the ring, which must be broken before the cap can be removed from the container; the tear pin may be in addition to, or an alternative for, the tear tab. The tear pin and tear tab are made to be removable. This invention describes a tamper resistant and tamper evident closure comprising a cap having a depending annular flange with a slot therein, and an outwardly directed wing protruding through said slot; the cap cannot be removed without causing the cap to shear off the outwardly directed wing, which is made to be removable.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 1986Date of Patent: March 3, 1987Assignee: Robert Linkletter Associates, Inc.Inventors: Albert J. Agbay, Ralph H. Thomas, Sr.
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Patent number: 4619370Abstract: Safety closures resistant to (and evidencing) tampering comprising a snap cap or screw cap, a rotary safety ring, and a tear tab attached to the neck of the container, said closure requiring that the tear tab be removed before the safety ring can be lowered; the safety ring must be aligned with the cap in one angular position and pushed downwardly away from the cap before the cap can be removed from the container. These safety closures may include a tear pin, attached to the cap and to the ring, which must be broken before the cap can be removed from the container; the tear pin may be in addition to, or an alternative for, the tear tab. The tear pin and tear tab are made to be removable. This invention describes a tamper resistant and tamper evident closure comprising a cap having a depending annular flange with a slot therein, and an outwardly directed wing protruding through said slot; the cap cannot be removed without causing the cap to shear off the outwardly directed wing, which is made to be removable.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 1985Date of Patent: October 28, 1986Assignee: Robert Linkletter Associates, Ltd.Inventors: Albert J. Agbay, Ralph H. Thomas, Sr.
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Patent number: 4519514Abstract: Safety closures resistant to (and evidencing) tampering comprising a snap cap or screw cap, a rotary safety ring, and a tear tab attached to the neck of the container, said closure requiring that the tear tab be removed before the safety ring can be lowered; the safety ring must be aligned with the cap in one angular position and pushed downwardly away from the cap before the cap can be removed from the container. These safety closures may include a tear pin, attached to the cap and to the ring, which must be broken before the cap can be removed from the container; the tear pin may be in addition to, or an alternative for, the tear tab. The tear pin and tear tab are made to be removable. This invention described a tamper resistant and tamper evident closure comprising a cap having a depending annular flange with a slot therein, and an outwardly directed wing protruding through said slot; the cap cannot be removed without causing the cap to shear off the outwardly directed wing, which is made to be removable.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 1984Date of Patent: May 28, 1985Assignee: Robert Linkletter Associates, Inc.Inventors: Albert J. Agbay, Ralph H. Thomas, Sr.
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Patent number: 4512485Abstract: Safety closures resistant to tampering comprising a cap, a rotary safety ring, and a locking member, usually located below the rotary safety ring, said closure requiring that the locking member be removed before the safety ring can be lowered; the safety ring must be aligned with the cap in one angular position and pushed downwardly away from the cap before the cap can be removed from the container. The locking member includes a first engaging means which engages a second engaging means located on the neck of the container to which the safety closure is attached. The locking member, prevented from rotation by the engagement of the first and second engaging means, is attached to the rotary safety ring by a connection, which should be broken whenever the closure has been tampered with. The connection may be a fragile tear pin, or a peel pin, a tamper resistant safety closure comprising a snap cap, capable of being removed only when a thumb tab extends past an annular ridge, that engages (via, e.g.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 1984Date of Patent: April 23, 1985Assignee: Robert Linkletter Associates, Inc.Inventors: Albert J. Agbay, Ralph H. Thomas, Sr.
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Patent number: 4482068Abstract: An improved safety closure for containers is disclosed; the closure comprises a snap-on cap held in place on a container by a rotary safety ring which must be aligned with the cap in one angular position and pushed downwardly away from the cap before one can remove the cap from the container. The closure is improved by providing an outwardly directed bead on the safety ring which makes it easier to grip and push down (and up) the safety ring. An annular protrusion, added to the underside of the cap, and a circumferential knob, added to the neck of the container, improve the seal of the container. Also, a safety ring and cap assembly which has no lateral opening between the safety ring and the cap is disclosed. This invention describes various ways to incorporate on the closure means for counting the number of uses or doses of the container's contents.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 1983Date of Patent: November 13, 1984Assignee: Robert Linkletter Associates, Inc.Inventors: Albert J. Agbay, Ralph H. Thomas, Sr.
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Patent number: 4332982Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 5, 1980Date of Patent: June 1, 1982Assignee: Ident-A-Call, Inc.Inventor: Ralph H. Thomas
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Patent number: 4248227Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 14, 1979Date of Patent: February 3, 1981Assignee: Bristol-Myers CompanyInventor: Ralph H. Thomas
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Patent number: 4177939Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 22, 1977Date of Patent: December 11, 1979Assignee: Bristol-Myers CompanyInventor: Ralph H. Thomas