Patents by Inventor Thomas Daniel Arkins

Thomas Daniel Arkins 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).

  • Publication number: 20110147239
    Abstract: A unitizing label and handle for multiple packages bundles two or more adjacent packages, which may contain wet wipes for consumer use. A label is at least partially affixed to the two or more adjacent packages in order to retain them, the label adapted for separating at locations between each adjacent pair of the two or more adjacent packages to facilitate removal of a package. The label may also have a handle portion at least partially separable from the label such that the handle in a first position is generally parallel with the label such that it has a low profile, and in a second separated position the handle allows a user to grasp the label and carry the two or more adjacent packages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2009
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Inventors: Thomas Daniel Arkins, Robert Sosnowski
  • Patent number: 7178672
    Abstract: A package is provided with usefulness particularly for dispensing of towelettes. The package is constructed as a unitarily formed tub including a floor panel, a pair of opposite side panels, first and second end panels opposite one another and separating the side panels, the first and second end panels having different curvature one from another. An open mouth is formed opposite the floor panel. An outwardly projecting lip at least partially surrounds the open mouth. A cover is arranged over the open mouth and sealed against the lip. The package is capable of standing erect via support contact between a portion of the second end panel and a section of the lip. Graphics are printed on the cover. The asymmetric arrangement of the end panels and adjacent sections of the lip allow the package to stand erect preferentially on one of the end panels thereby orienting right-side up the graphics of the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2007
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas Daniel Arkins
  • Patent number: 6376441
    Abstract: A multi-phase melt cast toilet bar which has at least one interface along a plane perpendicular to the plane formed by the x and y-axis of said bar, and a process of making the bar is described. Each phase, containing a cleansing agent, is reproducibly positioned in the bar to be used simultaneously thereby allowing the user to simultaneously derive benefits from the use of the cleansing agents contained in the bar's layers. The process for making the bar is a continuous one, whereby the molten cleansing agents are simultaneously or separately poured into the mold, simultaneously or separately allowed to harden, and where the mold divider is not removed or removed either after hardening of the adjacent molten cleansing agent but before the pouring of the next molten cleansing agent, or removed while at least one phase remains flowable. The hardened multi-phase toilet bar is finally ejected from the mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2002
    Assignee: Unilever Home and Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Edward Ross, Thomas Daniel Arkins, Robert Alfread Bennett, Syed Husain Abbas
  • Patent number: 5873656
    Abstract: An easy-open beverage container and an opening system for the beverage container are provided which include a container barrier wall having a straw hole. An easy-open tamper-evident membrane seal is located inside of the container and sealingly covers the straw hole. This membrane seal includes an outer portion which is sealed to an inside surface of the barrier wall about the straw hole and which terminates at a distance from the straw hole. This outer portion includes fingers which extend toward the straw hole. The membrane seal also includes an inner portion integral with the outer portion which is not sealed to the inside surface and which covers the straw hole so that in use the straw pierces the inner portion after being inserted into the straw hole. Preferably, the fingers form a sinusoidal intersection of the inner and outer portions, and the inner and outer portions as well as the straw hole are concentric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1999
    Assignee: Kraft Foods, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Daniel Arkins, Panagiotis Kinigakis
  • Patent number: D534066
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2006
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas Daniel Arkins
  • Tub
    Patent number: D536608
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2007
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas Daniel Arkins