Patents by Inventor Thomas P. DiNardo

Thomas P. DiNardo 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).

  • System for facilitate recycling goods from defective packages on a blister packaging machine
    Patent number: 5442892
    Abstract: A pneumatic apparatus for withdrawing goods from defective blister packages on a blister packaging machine and comprising a pair of spaced-apart and laterally shiftable vacuum heads reciprocally mounted above the carrier strip between the detection station and the sealing station of the blister packaging machine so that when one head is in vertical registration with the carrier strip the other head is laterally offset from the carrier strip. Each vacuum head comprises a plurality of suction elements depending from the bottom thereof which are adapted to selectively engage a predetermined plurality of goods on the carrier strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 22, 1995
    Assignee: Glaxo Inc.
    Inventors: Henry K. Burns, III, Hubert E. Burns, Thomas P. DiNardo, James E. Ingram
  • Method and assemblage for controlling and managing lower explosion levels
    Patent number: 5189811
    Abstract: There are disclosed a method and an assemblage for controlling and managing lower explosion levels of those products containing volatile or combustible materials which can create a potentially explosive or combustible atmosphere when such products are dried or subjected to further processing in an oven or furnace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1993
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: James C. Rose, Thomas P. DiNardo