Patents by Inventor Roger Anthony Baines

Roger Anthony Baines 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: 8961048
    Abstract: An oval dispenser for stick material suitable for being filled through its base comprises a skeletal platform (30) having a threaded hub (32), a rim wall (31), a circular wall intermediate between the hub and the rim defining a filling zone, and a rotor wheel (3) having a hollow boss (13) that defines with the filling ring (34) a continuous passage for stick material to be charged into the dispenser interior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Roger Anthony Baines, Martin Christopher Bunce, Geoffrey Stephen Mawtus, Alex Sandor Szekely, Juraj Ulik
  • Patent number: 8899860
    Abstract: A dispenser for stick material that is suitable for bottom filling comprises a barrel (2) having at one end a base (6) with a central hollow boss with integrally moulded mountings for a separately moulded spindle having at one end at least two opposed struts terminating in means to engage with the mountings in the boss. Preferably, the spindle snaps fits with the boss. Preferably, the spindle has two struts that align with spokes within a skeletal platform (30) that link a filling ring therein to its rim.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Conopco Inc.
    Inventors: Roger Anthony Baines, Martin Christopher Bunce, Geoffrey Stephen Mawtus, Alex Sandor Szekely, Juraj Ulik
  • Patent number: 8690467
    Abstract: An oval dispenser for stick material suitable for being filled through its base comprises a skeletal platform having a threaded hub, a rim wall, a circular wall intermediate between the hub and the rim defining a filling zone and linked to the hub by at least two spokes and to the rim by at least two spokes, which latter spokes intersect at least one wall and preferably two walls spanning the rim and intermediate between the filling zone and the rim.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Conopco Inc.
    Inventors: Roger Anthony Baines, Martin Christopher Bunce, Geoffrey Stephen Mawtus, Alex Sandor Szekely, Juraj Ulik
  • Publication number: 20120039655
    Abstract: A dispenser for stick material that is suitable for bottom filling comprises a barrel (2) having at one end a base (6) with a central hollow boss with integrally moulded mountings for a separately moulded spindle having at one end at least two opposed struts terminating in means to engage with the mountings in the boss. Preferably, the spindle snaps fits with the boss. Preferably, the spindle has two struts that align with spokes within a skeletal platform (30) that link a filling ring therein to its rim.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Inventors: Roger Anthony Baines, Martin Christopher Bunce, Geoffrey Stephen Mawtus, Alex Sandor Szekely, Juraj Ulik
  • Publication number: 20120039654
    Abstract: An oval dispenser for stick material suitable for being filled through its base comprises a skeletal platform having a threaded hub, a rim wall, a circular wall intermediate between the hub and the rim defining a filling zone and linked to the hub by at least two spokes and to the rim by at least two spokes, which latter spokes intersect at least one wall and preferably two walls spanning the rim and intermediate between the filling zone and the rim.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Inventors: Roger Anthony Baines, Martin Christopher Bunce, Geoffrey Stephen Mawtus, Alex Sandor Szekely, Juraj Ulik
  • Publication number: 20120039656
    Abstract: An oval dispenser for stick material suitable for being filled through its base comprises a skeletal platform (30) having a threaded hub (32), a rim wall (31), a circular wall intermediate between the hub and the rim defining a filling zone, and a rotor wheel (3) having a hollow boss (13) that defines with the filling ring (34) a continuous passage for stick material to be charged into the dispenser interior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Inventors: Roger Anthony Baines, Martin Christopher Bunce, Geoffrey Stephen Mawtus, Alex Sandor Szekely, Juraj Ulik
  • Patent number: 7674061
    Abstract: In cosmetic dispensers for fluids, such as for example deodorants or antiperspirants comprising a bottle, a flow regulator in a housing mounted on the bottle and a cap rotatably mounted on the bottle or particularly onto the flow regulator housing, there is a risk that the housing can part from the bottle or be moved out of alignment by fitting or removal of the cap. This problem can be ameliorated or eliminated by employing a plurality of sets of anti-rotation elements at or adjacent to the mouth of the bottle around its periphery, each set comprising a peg and a socket. Preferably, the housing is bifurcated inward of the flow regulator, one wall extending within the bottle and the other wall extending out side the wall, and desirably the bottle wall is of reduced wall thickness in the overlap so that the exterior of the bottle surface and housing surface can be flush at their line of contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2010
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Roger Anthony Baines, Paul Haigh, Paul Nicholas Pay, Reginaldo Alexandre Tavares da Silva, Mark Geoffrey Somers
  • Patent number: 7618208
    Abstract: Conventional dispensers for a cosmetic fluid, such as a liquid, comprises a bottle having a housing for a low regulator, such as a roller or preferably a ball and a cap which is securable to the bottle by a single set of co-operating screw threads. An improved dispenser secures the cap to the bottle, and especially to the housing, by a plurality of sets of mounting elements, one of which comprises a cam providing axial movement of the cap when it is rotated around the bottle and the other a follower, such a lug and bayonet. One element is mounted on the interior of the cap and the other on the exterior of the bottle/housing. The mounting elements on the bottle/housing advantageously are separated both laterally around the periphery and axially so as to permit the mounting elements on the cap to pass axially between adjacent bottle elements and the cap to be rotated until matched sets of elements are brought into contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2009
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Roger Anthony Baines, Paul Haigh, Paul Nicholas Pay, Mark Geoffrey Somers, Reginaldo Alexandre Tavares Da Silva
  • Patent number: 6598767
    Abstract: A dispensing package for a cosmetic stick comprising a barrel having a generally open end and a generally closed end, a central longitudinal axis which run between the generally open end and the generally closed end of the barel, a piston slidably located within the barrel for advancing product contained within the barrel towards the generally open end, the package having a cross-section perpendicular to the central longitudinal axis which is ellipsoidal, the generally open end of the package ending in an opening through which product contained in the dispenser can be dispensed, characterized in that the opening, when viewed in the direction of the minor axes of the ellipsoidal cross-section, is concave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2003
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA division of Conopco Inc.
    Inventors: Roger Anthony Baines, Jonathan Justin Moore
  • Publication number: 20020012565
    Abstract: Known packages for topically applying flowable cosmetic composition and especially antiperspirant or deodorant compositions include roll-ons in which the applicator for the composition is presented to the skin along the longitudinal axis of the container, with its distributing head pointing along that same axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2000
    Publication date: January 31, 2002
    Inventors: Jorge Sirna, Daniel Omar Gonzalez, Antonio Leon De La Barra Romero, Roger Anthony Baines, Nicholas David Pattison, Benjamin Phalan Oates
  • Patent number: 6299369
    Abstract: A dispenser for a solid or soft solid mass has a barrel, a piston within the barrel, and a mechanism for advancing the piston axially within the barrel including a rotor wheel. A boss having an inwardly tapered profile (tear drop) and a sump dimensioned to receive the boss seats the rotor wheel at a predetermined angular position relative to the barrel. The boss is preferably formed on the rotor wheel and the sump in the base of the barrel. The dispenser is provided with a pair of bosses and sumps, symmetrically arranged around the rotor wheel and barrel base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2001
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Roger Anthony Baines, Martin Christopher Bunce, Robert David James, Russell Jones
  • Publication number: 20010002962
    Abstract: A dispensing package for a cosmetic stick comprising a barrel having a generally open end and a generally closed end, a central longitudinal axis which run between the generally open end and the generally closed end of the barel, a piston slidably located within the barrel for advancing product contained within the barrel towards the generally open end, the package having a cross-section perpendicular to the central longitudinal axis which is ellipsoidal, the generally open end of the package ending in an opening through which product contained in the dispenser can be dispensed, characterized in that the opening, when viewed in the direction of the minor axes of the ellipsoidal cross-section, is concave.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2000
    Publication date: June 7, 2001
    Applicant: UNILEVER HOME & PERSONAL CARE, DIVISION OF CONOPCO, INC.
    Inventors: Roger Anthony Baines, Jonathan Justin Moore