Patents by Inventor Ross L. Doyle

Ross L. Doyle 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: 4171047
    Abstract: A sheet of material having a height greater than the vertical wickability thereof when a bottom edge is in a liquid medium, said sheet being folded one or more times to lessen the effective height of the sheet and providing complete wickability for the entire height of the folded sheet. The sheet in multiples may be in the form of a rolled web, a stack, a folded stack, or in other forms, and is used to provide moistened towelettes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1977
    Date of Patent: October 16, 1979
    Assignee: Sterling Drug Inc.
    Inventors: Ross L. Doyle, Thomas S. Harrison
  • Patent number: 4147441
    Abstract: A deodorant applicator comprising a hand held and manipulated container having an open top, an elongated impregnated web therein, an element closing the container and forming a working head for exposing and supporting the web step by step across its surface for application of the deodorant, the web being led out of the container at its leading end and severed, sheet by sheet, after use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 1977
    Date of Patent: April 3, 1979
    Assignee: Sterling Drug, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas S. Harrison, Ross L. Doyle
  • Patent number: 4120414
    Abstract: A self-venting cap for containers of materials that produce vapor comprising a cap, a rigid tube thereon terminating at the geometrical center of the container, a fully flexible tube extending from the rigid tube, and a float at the end of the flexible tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1977
    Date of Patent: October 17, 1978
    Assignee: Sterling Drug Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas S. Harrison, Ross L. Doyle
  • Patent number: 4017002
    Abstract: A substantially airtight container for an elongated web of perforated wet impregnated tissue-like material, the web being free-flowing and having a minimum of friction within the container, being manually pulled to be dispensed through a substantially closed but yielding slit in a wall of the container, the slit opening slightly to permit the exit of the web but tending to return to closed condition especially at its ends, to impart sufficient drag on the web to cause progressive severing of the web into separate sheets as the web is pulled through the slit, leaving a tip of the web still contained exposed to be grasped for the next dispensing step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1974
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1977
    Assignee: Sterling Drug Inc.
    Inventors: Ross L. Doyle, Thomas S. Harrison