Patents by Inventor Richard C. Sayers

Richard C. Sayers 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: 6364174
    Abstract: A piston/nozzle unit retainer and stop comprises inward fingers in the cylinder slots receiving the trigger trunions which drive the unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2002
    Assignee: Owens-Illinois Closure Inc.
    Inventors: Richard D. Lohrman, Wing-Kwong Keung, Gennaro R. Martire, Bradley J. Kimble, Richard C. Sayers
  • Patent number: 6364171
    Abstract: This articulated trigger/cover unit for a pump dispenser is formed with retainers on proximate relatively moveable walls to hold parts in stable configuration for handling by automatic assembly equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2002
    Assignee: Owens-Illinois Closure, Inc.
    Inventors: William E. Chalupsky, Wing-Kwong Keung, Kenneth S. Bloom, Ruixin Fan, George R. Trepina, Timothy B. Kowal, Richard C. Sayers, Gennaro R. Martire, Richard D. Lohrman
  • Patent number: 6315162
    Abstract: The dispenser comprises a plunger operating in a hollow body. The body has formed adjacent its upper end with an inward and downward annular flap. Below the flap is a vent hole. The plunger stem has a tapered zone leading to a greater diameter above the tapered zone. When the plunger is in its lockdown position, the flap cooperates with the greater diameter to provide a vent seal. The flap is backed by an outward step in the diameter of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2001
    Assignee: Owens-Illinois Closure Inc.
    Inventors: Leonora M. Brozell, Richard C. Sayers, Anthony M. DiVitto
  • Patent number: 6173863
    Abstract: The dispenser comprises a plunger operating in a hollow body. The body has formed adjacent its upper end an inward and downward annular flap. Below the flap is a vent hole. The plunger stem has a tapered zone leading to a greater diameter above the tapered zone. When the plunger is in its lockdown position, the flap cooperates with the greater diameter to provide a vent seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2001
    Assignee: Owens-Illinois Closure Inc.
    Inventors: Leonora M. Brozell, Richard C. Sayers, Anthony M. DiVitto
  • Patent number: 4960214
    Abstract: A cassette storage basket configured for mounting on a rack mounted storage system. A wire-form basket includes an open front defined by a rectangular frame, with the frame rearwardly tilted to give the basket a triangular profile. A rear wall of the basket incorporates at least one upper hook and a rearwardly extending lower abutment to tilt the bottom of the rack-mounted basket from the horizontal to protect cassettes stored in the basket during transport.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 2, 1990
    Assignee: Ampex Corporation
    Inventor: Richard C. Sayers
  • Patent number: 4917244
    Abstract: A closure device for a library storage box combines a hanger with a locking device for the closed storage box. A hinge structure for the device provides a first hinge portion on the box, connected by a flexible hinge to a second hinge carrying the hanger at its outer end. A latch on the second hinge portion engages a complementary detent on the first hinge portion to hold the box closed and to project the hanger to an engaging position for mounting on a suitable rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 17, 1990
    Assignee: Ampex Corporation
    Inventor: Richard C. Sayers
  • Patent number: 4890747
    Abstract: A storage rack for use in a wall-mounted system, the storage rack including an array or horizontally aligned, generally equally spaced, generally parallel storage rail provided on a rectangular frame. Rack support brackets are provided behind the frame so that the frame can be mounted flush with the wall with the brackets displaced from a central horizontal access of the rack, so that a serial arrangement of storage racks, a first rack can be mounted on the wall top to bottom with a second rack mounted bottom to top so that the brackets of the first rack are so displaced from the bracket of the second rack as to support the second rack, with the arrangement of parallel storage rails so positioned as to continue the linear alignment of rails from one rack to the next.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 2, 1990
    Assignee: Ampex Corporation
    Inventor: Richard C. Sayers
  • Patent number: D441654
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2001
    Assignee: Owens-Illinois Closure Inc.
    Inventor: Richard C. Sayers
  • Patent number: D445681
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2001
    Assignee: Owens-Illinois Closure Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley J. Kimble, Wing-Kwong Keung, Gennaro R. Martire, Richard C. Sayers
  • Patent number: D381909
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 5, 1997
    Assignee: Owens-Illinois Closure Inc.
    Inventors: Richard C. Sayers, Teri Jo Wise
  • Patent number: D381910
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 5, 1997
    Assignee: Owens-Illinois Closure Inc.
    Inventors: Richard C. Sayers, Teri Jo Wise
  • Patent number: D385792
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 4, 1997
    Assignee: Owens-Illinois Closure Inc.
    Inventors: Richard C. Sayers, Teri Jo Wise
  • Patent number: D396188
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1998
    Assignee: Owens-Illinois Closure Inc.
    Inventor: Richard C. Sayers
  • Patent number: D414696
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1999
    Assignee: Owens-Illinois Closure Inc.
    Inventor: Richard C. Sayers
  • Patent number: D414697
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1999
    Assignee: Owens-Illinois Closure Inc.
    Inventor: Richard C. Sayers
  • Patent number: D416489
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1999
    Assignee: Owens-Illinois Closure Inc.
    Inventor: Richard C. Sayers
  • Patent number: D419877
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2000
    Assignee: Owens-Illinois Closure Inc.
    Inventor: Richard C. Sayers