Patents by Inventor Stephen Michael Freshwater

Stephen Michael Freshwater 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).

  • Packaged beverages and packaging therefor
    Patent number: 5660867
    Abstract: Devices are described for fitting into pressurized individually packaged beverages (typically canned beers, ales and stouts), by which gas at high pressure is stored within the package for jetting into the beverage as the package is opened to atmosphere. One embodiment comprises a length of tube (10) having a gas jetting orifice (14) which in use is submerged below the beverage in a pressurized can having a gaseous headspace, which can be used to charge the tube with gas during the passage of the filled can (16) along a conventional canning line, on which the can is inverted after filling which brings the orifice into the gaseous headspace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 26, 1997
    Assignee: Courage Limited
    Inventors: Andrew John Reynolds, John David Skingsley, Stephen Michael Freshwater, John Kelshaw Conway, Peter Erich Cox, John Poley