Patents by Inventor William B. Mikolaitis

William B. Mikolaitis 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: 5597083
    Abstract: A closure for a container with a threaded neck has a generally cylindrical body member and a disc pivotally mounted thereon. The body member has a peripheral wall with a lower, internally threaded skirt portion and a transversely extending wall intermediate the axial length of the body member above the skirt portion. The peripheral wall and transversely extending wall define a generally cylindrical cup portion above the transversely extending wall, and the transversely extending wall has a slot adjacent the inner periphery of the peripheral wall. The disc seats in the cup portion and is pivotally mounted on the peripheral wall of the body member about its periphery spaced above the transversely extending wall. The disc has a depending leg portion which extends through the slot in the transversely extending wall, and is pivotable about the points to move the leg portion downwardly and upwardly in the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 28, 1997
    Assignee: Silgan Plastics Corporation
    Inventors: Terri C. Childers, Jack E. Haney, Debra R. Joe, William B. Mikolaitis, Randal D. Porter, H. Neal Thomas
  • Patent number: 5226550
    Abstract: A blow molded synthetic resin container has a body portion with a bottom wall and a sidewall of generally circular cross section, and a closure portion. The sidewall has a pair of vertically elongated grip recesses defined by top and bottom walls and first and second walls extending therebetween and converging along an axial line at the maximum depth of the recess, with the inward angle of one hung steeper than the other. The grip recess has a convex bridge rib extending horizontally and rectilinearly between the first and second walls and terminating at points spaced inwardly of the periphery of the sidewall to space its rectilinear outer surface inwardly of the periphery. The first wall also has a plurality of ribs of smaller height and width than the bridge rib extending axially from both side surfaces of the bridge rib.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1993
    Assignee: Silgan Plastics Corporation
    Inventors: William B. Mikolaitis, Stephen W. Cornell
  • Patent number: D279167
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 11, 1985
    Assignee: Standard Oil Company (Indiana)
    Inventors: Jack E. Haney, Sue A. Mager, William B. Mikolaitis