Patents by Inventor Steve Karnatz

Steve Karnatz 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).

  • Method and apparatus for producing tiered containers
    Patent number: 8486324
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for molding a plurality of tiered containers from a single parison. Two or more parisons can be arranged next to each other. A molding apparatus of this invention can have one or more mold sections that can be operated in a controlled fashion to form a stacked or tiered arrangement of containers from a single parison or can be arranged to form an array of containers including two or more columns of containers each having two or more tiered containers, all during a single cycle of the molding apparatus. Each container formed by the method and apparatus of this invention can be blow molded and/or vacuum formed and/or filled and/or sealed. Each seal can be a hermetic seal or any other suitable seal formed through a molding step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Automatic Liquid Packaging Solutions LLC
    Inventors: Arjun Ramrakhyani, Steve Karnatz
  • Method and apparatus for producing tiered containers
    Publication number: 20120018928
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for molding a plurality of tiered containers from a single parison. Two or more parisons can be arranged next to each other. A molding apparatus of this invention can have one or more mold sections that can be operated in a controlled fashion to form a stacked or tiered arrangement of containers from a single parison or can be arranged to form an array of containers including two or more columns of containers each having two or more tiered containers, all during a single cycle of the molding apparatus. Each container formed by the method and apparatus of this invention can be blow molded and/or vacuum formed and/or filled and/or sealed. Each seal can be a hermetic seal or any other suitable seal formed through a molding step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2010
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicants: Solutions
    Inventors: Arjun Ramrakhyani, Steve Karnatz