Patents Issued in May 14, 2020
  • Publication number: 20200148396
    Abstract: A vehicle, a satellite control system, and a method for controlling the same are provided. The satellite control system, for example, may include, but is not limited to, a control moment gyroscope having a gimbal, at least one gimbal angle sensor configured to determine an angle of the gimbal, each gimbal angle sensor having an output circuit configured to output the determined angle, a signal conditioner circuit having substantially identical circuit topology as the output circuit, and a common mode error compensation circuit electrically coupled to the signal conditioner, the common mode error compensation circuit configured to determine common mode error in the gimbal angle sensor based upon a voltage output from the signal conditioner circuit and to output a signal to compensate for the common mode error.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Douglas Edward Smith, Don Crippen, Joshua Matthew Stiles, Mostafa Sayed
  • Publication number: 20200148397
    Abstract: Device (52) for regulating the rate of flow of propellant fluid for an electric thruster, of the thermo-capillary device type comprising at least one capillary duct that is electrically conductive and capable of regulating the rate of flow of propellant fluid under the action of a change in temperature of the duct, characterized in that said at least one capillary duct comprises a nickel-based alloy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventor: Mathieu DIOME
  • Publication number: 20200148398
    Abstract: Example aspects of a deployed electromagnetic radiation deflector shield assembly and a method for using a deployed electromagnetic radiation deflector shield are disclosed. The deployed electromagnetic radiation deflector shield assembly can comprise a base station on a ground surface; a deployed electromagnetic radiation deflector shield comprising an electromagnet configured to generate a magnetic field configured to deflect radiation from a radiation source; and an upright supporting the deployed electromagnetic radiation deflector shield at a distance away from the base station, and wherein the distance is configured to prevent the magnetic field from interfering with the base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventor: Richard Williams
  • Publication number: 20200148399
    Abstract: Systems for insulating a space vehicle or space borne container from an external environment as well as cryogens from heat sources. Such systems also protect the vehicle from the high dynamic pressures, the high heat loads encountered in atmospheric flight, and provide storage capability that strongly limits, or effectively eliminates, cryogenic boil-off losses once in space. Such systems include an expandable structure having a plurality of contiguously adjacent expandable layers. The layers are connected by a plurality of tension connectors between successive layers. For launch and flight the layers can be restrained in a collapsed position. Whereupon exiting a free stream environment, the layers are expanded where they can lock into place or otherwise remain in an expanded state. The expansion creates separation between the layers with minimal conduction paths providing near theoretically perfect multi-layer insulation and extremely effective debris protection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: THIN RED LINE AEROSPACE LTD
    Inventors: Maxim de Jong, Brian Aiken
  • Publication number: 20200148400
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a box sealer including a first box measurer including a top flap engager configured to move downwardly from a disengaged position above a box at a box measuring position to an engaged position in which the top flap engager engages one or more of the four upright open top flaps of the box. The amount of movement of the top flap engager is partially used to determine the height of the box. The determined height is then used to position a combined flap closer and flap sealer at an appropriate position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: William Joseph Menta, Bryce James Fox
  • Publication number: 20200148401
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a strapping machine for strapping an article. The strapping machine includes a machine framework, a machine table for accommodating the article during the strapping operation, a feed device for transporting the article onto the machine table in a conveying direction, a strapping device, which is assigned to the machine table and is intended for strapping the article with the plastic strap, a removal device for transporting the strapped article away from the machine table in the conveying direction, and an ejecting device arranged in the region of the machine table and intended for ejecting an article directly from the strapping device in a direction transverse to the conveying direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventor: Jürgen Höhn
  • Publication number: 20200148402
    Abstract: A strapping machine of the type that feeds, retracts, tensions and seals strap to itself to form a loop of strap around a load, has a shock absorbing feed wheel assembly. The machine includes a frame, a feed head having a motor, a tension head, a sealing head and a strap chute mounted to the frame. The feed wheel assembly has a friction engaging surface and at least one pocket formed therein. A spring hub is engaged with the feed wheel and has at least one pocket formed therein corresponding to the feed wheel pocket. The spring hub is operably connected to the feed head motor. At least one spring is positioned in the feed wheel pocket and the spring hub pocket and is sandwiched between the feed wheel and the spring hub. The feed wheel is driven by rotation of the spring hub and engagement of the spring with the feed wheel pocket and spring hub pocket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Michael Brydon Foy, Dustin D. Elliott
  • Publication number: 20200148403
    Abstract: Described herein are methods and systems for automated dispensing of individual medicament portions. The systems can include a housing that encloses a receiving space having a bottom surface. A separation device may be provided and arranged on the bottom surface with at least one channel to receive at least one medicament portion. At least one channel may have an opening facing the receiving space and an opening facing the bottom surface. The opening facing the bottom surface may be associated with a contact area on the bottom surface, over which contact area the medicament portions may be guided upon a movement of separation device. At least one recess may be arranged in the bottom surface outside of the contact area to receive contamination particles present in the container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Hardy SCHMIDT-ELLINGER, Dietmar GROSS
  • Publication number: 20200148404
    Abstract: The invention relates to a reel (5) provided with a packaging material (7). The reel (5) is adapted to be mounted on a mandrel (2) of a filling machine (1). The reel (5) is hollow and has the shape of a cylinder, an inner portion of which is provided with a tag (6) containing information at least associated with the packaging material (7). The invention also relates to a filling machine (1) for filling a packaging material (7) with a food product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Antonio Melandri, Paolo De Corte, Marco Magnani, Stefano Vicini
  • Publication number: 20200148405
    Abstract: Disclosed is a sealing device for securing a packaging material. The sealing device for securing the packaging material comprises: a tape supply reel for supplying a sealing tape to which an RFID tag has been coupled; and a sealing part for sealing, with the sealing tape, an opening of a plastic packaging material holding a product, wherein the sealing part adheres the RFID tag, which is coupled to one end of the sealing tape having the length for one use, to an adhesive positioned on the other end portion of the sealing tape having the length for one use, wherein the RFID tag is broken by the adhesive strength with respect to the other end portion when the sealing tape sealing the plastic packaging material is torn.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventor: Kyeong Keun SONG
  • Publication number: 20200148406
    Abstract: A disclosed induction sealing device (100) for induction welding of a packaging material comprises an inductor coil (101) configured to induce an alternating current in a metal foil of the packaging material for inductive heating thereof, and a magnetic insert (102) encapsulating the inductor coil (101) apart from an outer portion (103) thereof to be arranged towards the packaging material to be sealed. The magnetic insert (102) is configured to interact with the packaging material to be sealed via at least one interactive surface (104). The induction sealing device (100) comprises a connection unit (105). The connection unit (105) comprises a parallel connection (106) to the inductor coil (101) and is configured for connection to an AC power source. A corresponding method (200) of manufacturing an induction sealing device (100) is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Dag Svärd, Patrik Ingvarsson, Charlott Friberg, Marko Stajkovic
  • Publication number: 20200148407
    Abstract: Method of making a blow-molded plastic container comprises forming a hollow blow-molded article comprising a main body portion defining an interior space, a finish portion defining a mouth in fluid communication with the interior space, the finish portion having a substantially cylindrical circumferential wall of generally uniform thickness surrounding the mouth, the circumferential wall having an upper edge with a perimeter flange and a pair of tabs projecting radially inward from the circumferential wall, the pair of tabs defining a spout therebetween, and a moil portion extending from the perimeter flange in a direction opposite the main body portion. Method further includes inflating the plastic material within the mold cavity to form the hollow blow-molded article and removing the moil portion from the perimeter flange. Blow-molded plastic container having a finish portion with directional pour spout and blow-molded article comprising container and moil portion also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: GRAHAM PACKAGING COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Armel ARCHENY, David ARAUJO, Gilles RAPET
  • Publication number: 20200148408
    Abstract: A presentation container comprising a sheet of material comprising a base panel, a wall panel foldably connected to each edge of the base panel, and a lid tab foldably connected to an outer edge of each wall panel, and one or more ribbons attached to the sheet of material. Each wall panel is foldable perpendicular to the base panel such that a side edge of each wall panel is next to each adjacent wall panel, and each lid tab is foldable perpendicular to the associated wall panel to place the container in a constructed form for housing an object in an interior thereof. At least two ends of the ribbons are securable to each other to hold the container in the constructed form, and the container is moveable into a presentation form by unsecuring the at least two ends of the ribbons to display the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventor: Julie Marie FILLION
  • Publication number: 20200148409
    Abstract: Disclosed is a box assembly including an exterior piece comprising a middle portion, and an upper portion joined to the middle portion; and an interior piece positioned within the exterior piece, the interior piece defining a cavity and comprising a side panel, the side panel comprising a top interior portion, the side panel and the middle portion of the exterior piece defining a space therebetween, the upper portion of the exterior piece covering the space and the top interior portion of the side panel, and a bottom panel joined to the side panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Greg Sollie, Jamie Waltermire, Shifeng Chen
  • Publication number: 20200148410
    Abstract: A method of assembling a box assembly, comprising: folding an exterior piece from a flat configuration to a three-dimensional configuration defining a cavity, the exterior piece comprising a plurality of middle portions and a plurality of upper portions joined to the middle portions by fold lines; folding an interior piece from a flat configuration to a three-dimensional configuration defining a cavity, the interior piece comprising a bottom panel and a plurality of side panels; inserting the interior piece into the exterior piece to define a space between the middle portions of the exterior piece and the side panels of the interior piece; and folding the upper portions of the exterior piece to cover the space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Greg Sollie, Jamie Waltermire, Shifeng Chen
  • Publication number: 20200148411
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising a plurality of bodies which can be assembled together to form a singular three-dimensional body. The bodies each a cavity within which a child's toy can be received. Each cavity has a cavity opening through which said child's toy can be viewed, accessed and/or withdrawn from the cavity. The cavity opening is obstructed by an adjacent one of the plurality of bodies when the plurality of bodies are in the assembled state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Mathew Peter Mowbray, Adam Steven Woods
  • Publication number: 20200148412
    Abstract: A pallet includes a top deck divided into quadrants, and pallet support legs coupled to an underside of the top deck and forming an opening below the top deck for receiving a lifting member. The top deck includes at least one deck scoop area on an underside thereof in each quadrant. A thickness of the top deck is reduced in each deck scoop area to reduce influence of top deck deflection on ability of the lifting member to pass through the opening below the top deck.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Bradley Wayne DAUBENSPECK, Daniel Aaron GORSKY, Craig Rolland NORMAN
  • Publication number: 20200148413
    Abstract: A pallet includes a top deck that includes grommet openings extending therethrough, with each grommet opening including a recessed shelf. Pallet support legs are coupled to an underside of the top deck. Grommets are inserted into the grommet openings. Each grommet includes an upper section that includes an upper lip resting on the recessed shelf, and an outer exposed surface of the upper section extends in height above the top deck. At least one mid-section is adjacent the upper lip and extends from the upper section to an underside of the top deck. At least one lower section extends from the at least one mid-section, and includes a pair of spaced apart lower lips resting on the underside of the top deck. An outer exposed surface of the at least one lower section extends in height below the underside of the top deck.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Bradley Wayne Daubenspeck, Daniel Aaron Gorsky, Craig Rolland Norman
  • Publication number: 20200148414
    Abstract: A reconfigurable pallet/dolly platform includes a top deck having a product support surface and an opposing underside. The product support surface has grommet openings extending therethrough. The underside includes pallet support leg attachment areas aligned with the grommet openings for receiving pallet support legs when configured as a pallet. Also, the underside includes dolly wheel attachment areas for receiving dolly wheels when configured as a dolly. The product support surface includes grommets inserted into the grommet openings. Each grommet includes an upper section that extends in height above the top deck to engage an underside of the pallet support legs from an identical platform stacked thereon when configured as a pallet. Also, the product support surface includes dolly wheel receiving areas aligned with the dolly wheel wells on the underside, and engage the dolly wheels from an identical platform stacked thereon when configured as a dolly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Bradley Wayne Daubenspeck, Daniel Aaron Gorsky, Craig Rolland Norman
  • Publication number: 20200148415
    Abstract: The invention relates to a packing module (10) comprising at least one cover (12), at least one closing system (16), and at least one connecting system (24) for connecting the at least one cover (12) to the at least one closing system (16). It is contemplated that the the packing module (10) has, at least partly, at least one, preferably at least two, and more preferably at least three of the following features: water-repellent, waterproof, saltwater resistant, breathable, a relative elasticity of at least 10%. The invention further relates to a packing system, uses, as well as a modular system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: UNIVERSAL REUSABLE PACKAGING GMBH
    Inventor: Pascal EGGMANN
  • Publication number: 20200148416
    Abstract: A pallet includes a top deck and pallet support legs coupled to the top deck. The top deck has a product support surface and an opposing underside, with the underside having snaps openings therein. Each pallet support leg includes a base extending across a width of the top deck, and a pair of outer leg supports extending from ends of the base. Each outer leg support includes at least one outwardly facing snap and at least one inwardly facing snap inserted into respective snap openings in the top deck.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: BRADLEY WAYNE DAUBENSPECK, DANIEL AARON GORSKY, CRAIG ROLLAND NORMAN
  • Publication number: 20200148417
    Abstract: A pallet includes a top deck having a product support surface and an opposing underside. The product support surface has grommet openings extending therethrough, with each grommet opening including a recessed shelf. Grommets are inserted into the grommet openings. Each grommet includes an upper section comprising an upper lip resting on the recessed shelf, and an outer exposed surface of the upper section extends in height above the top deck. Pallet support legs are coupled to the underside of the top deck and are aligned with the grommets. Each pallet support leg includes a base extending across a width of the top deck. An underside of the base is configured to engage the upper sections of the grommets of an identical pallet when stacked thereon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Bradley Wayne Daubenspeck, Daniel Aaron Gorsky, Craig Rolland Norman
  • Publication number: 20200148418
    Abstract: Multi-piece nestable basket sets are disclosed. In some embodiments, the basket sets comprise a handle component and a basket component. The present disclosure describes a system of shipping the components separately and assembling the components into a basket set prior to retail sale to customers. Exemplary basket components are configured to allow a first basket component to nest within a second basket component. In some embodiments, the basket sets herein can provide a centrally-located handle so that the set may be carried with one hand. A connecting mechanism is described wherein a handle component is connected to a basket component to create an integrated basket set that resists disassembly. Multiple embodiments of connecting mechanisms are described. One exemplary connecting mechanism comprises a handle component having two flanges that snap onto the base of a basket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventor: David Zeanah
  • Publication number: 20200148419
    Abstract: A food packaging container is provided. The container comprises a molded body defining a longitudinal axis, and including a plurality of sides and a plurality of axial corners. Each corner has a recess including a first portion and a second portion. Each of the first portions includes an axial grip surface where the grip surfaces are aligned with the body in an orientation for gripping. In some embodiments, packaging products, containers, handles, tooling, applicators and methods are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: RING CONTAINER TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel M. Futral, Theodore Guss, Paul Vincent Kelley
  • Publication number: 20200148420
    Abstract: Dual chamber apparatuses and systems are provided having food and beverage portions forming a single housing that can be controlled by a single user. The systems and apparatuses include multiple receptacles, one for food such as popcorn, and the other for beverages, such as soda.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventor: Jamie H. Larsen
  • Publication number: 20200148421
    Abstract: A food storage container is described. The food storage container includes a base with sidewalls extending upward from the base. The base and the sidewalk forming an interior volume. A plurality of tracks disposed in the base on the interior of the container. The tracks are configured to accept at least one divider therein. Dividers are placed in the container to create partitions. The container has a lip located at the top of the sidewalls. A lid may be included with the container to seal the container. In one embodiment the lid creates a waterproof seal. Handles may extend from the sidewall such that the handles can be used to carry the container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventor: JoAnne Budd Hutton
  • Publication number: 20200148422
    Abstract: A pallet assembly is provided and includes one of a bushing, a utility panel assembly and tooling features. The bushing is securably insertable into bushing openings defined in bottom and top pallet assembly panels and pallet assembly sidewalls. The bushing is selected from a group including multiple bushings having bores of various sizes and one or more apertures of varying sizes that are communicative with the bores. The utility panel assembly is supportively disposable on the bottom pallet assembly panel and includes a utility panel having multiple connectors. The tooling features supportively connect the pallet assembly sidewalls to a transport cart.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventor: Roger Corallo
  • Publication number: 20200148423
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a plastic fabric-film composite product includes forming an extruded-film web with at least one sealing layer by film extrusion in such a way that the sealing layer is located on a first side of the extruded-film web and then, feeding and laminating a plastic-fabric web made of film-strip fabric and the prefabricated extruded-film strip with one another to form a composite web. The composite web is formed in such a way that a second side of the extruded-film web faces a first side of the plastic-fabric web.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: Mondi AG
    Inventor: Jens KOESTERS
  • Publication number: 20200148424
    Abstract: A packaging container includes an expandable plastic body having a front wall and a back wall, and a top, a bottom, and sides. Each side of the body has a gusset portion extending along a length thereof. Each gusset portion has gusset segments and a pair of adjacent gusset segments are joined along a common fold line. Each gusset segment has an inner surface and an outer surface. At least one of the gusset segments has an embossed section. The embossed section has a plurality of mounds protruding from one of the inner and outer surfaces and a plurality of depressions corresponding to the mounds within the other of said inner and outer surfaces. A roll for forming a packaging container, and method, are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Manuel CHIU, Roy Allan NEWSOME
  • Publication number: 20200148425
    Abstract: An easy-to-open gunny sack sewn by a single thread is disclosed. The easy-to-open gunny sack minimizes the costs of sewing a gunny sack through single thread sewing, allows a user to easily open the sack, prevents a sewing-finished section formed by single thread sewing from being easily loosened, and allows the user to easily identify an opening identification tape and to open the sack using the opening identification tape. The easy-to-open gunny sack allows a clip tape (20) to cover at least one of upper and lower ends of a sack portion, allows a single-thread sewing portion (10) by single thread sewing to be formed around the covered portion, allows an extended clip tape portion (21) formed by extension of the clip tape to be formed at both sides of the single-thread sewing portion (10), and allows an anti-loosening means to be provided at the extended clip tape portion (21) of the end portion placed in a sewing proceeding direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Bongjin BANG, Kiok OM
  • Publication number: 20200148426
    Abstract: A screw cap for wine bottles, has an outer capsule screwable to the bottle and an insert inserted in the outer capsule and intended to stay interposed between the mouth of the bottle and the outer capsule, is described. At the bottom, the insert is provided with a metal foil intended to directly stay in contact with the mouth of the bottle by intercepting the same. The metal foil is the only component of the cap wettable by the wine and is made of a precious metal inert at room temperature, or it is made of an alloy of precious metals inert at room temperature. The insert also has a gasket positioned on the metal foil, which has a radial extent larger than the metal foil itself, and has an outer crown surrounding the metal foil by adhering to the mouth of the bottle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventor: Mario GAIA
  • Publication number: 20200148427
    Abstract: A storage unit comprises sidewalls and a base. A lid is connected to one of the sidewalls and movable between a first open position and a second closed position. The sidewalls and base defined an inner space. The storage unit may include integrated wheels at or near the confluence of the base and at least one of the sidewalls for rolling the storage unit over a surface. Organization components are provided for selective and releasable placement within the inner space for compartmentalizing the inner space into a desired configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: Noble House Home Furnishings, LLC
    Inventor: Venkataramu Bangalore
  • Publication number: 20200148428
    Abstract: A container has an upper container edge and a fully circumferential lateral wall and an upper container opening closed by a lid. A latching rim is provided near the upper container edge for connection with a corresponding latching rim provided on the lid. The lid has a lid rim portion arranged above the upper container edge. The lid has at least one extension extending outside the lateral container wall and below the lid lower edge. The extension and container have mutually corresponding fasteners independently releasable of the latching rims. The lid and/or the container has an actuator area different from the fasteners on the lid extension and the container and/or from the lid extension itself. When the actuator area has been actuated, the fasteners between the lid extension and the container are more easily releasable and, where applicable, easier to close.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Robert GEORGIADIS, Mike LÖPPRICH
  • Publication number: 20200148429
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a container including a container cap and a container body. The container body may be hollow, and an upper portion of the container body may be provided with an opening and a protruding portion. The height of a connecting region connecting the opening and the container body may be lower than the height of the protruding portion. The container cap may be coupled to the opening for sealing the opening. The protruding portion may be hollow, and a hollow portion of the container body may be in communication with a hollow portion of the protruding portion. When using the container of the present disclosure, liquid can be poured into the container through the opening. After use, the liquid in the container may be poured out or consumed so that it is light and easy to carry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Xiaojiao Leng, Chunlei Wang
  • Publication number: 20200148430
    Abstract: A cap for a drinking vessel, and particularly a shaker cup. The claimed cap can be securely attached to the drinking vessel or shaker cup to avoid leaks, and also includes a sealable opening through which the contents of the drinking vessel can be poured or drunk and a handle that is convenient for a user and which is attached to the cap in such a manner that the handle moves somewhat freely relative to the cap and the mechanism for closing the opening in the cap. Any non-integral components that come into contact with the contents of the vessel are easily detachable to facilitate thorough cleaning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Derek W. Cornelius, Emmanuel Alvarado, Matthew RC Miller
  • Publication number: 20200148431
    Abstract: A container lid can include: a body having an opening formed therethrough and a thread pattern formed thereon for mating the container lid to a container; a cap rotatably coupled to the body, the cap configured to rotate between a sealed position in which the cap seals the opening and a released position in which the cap does not seal the opening; a button disposed on the body, the button configured to release the cap from the sealed position, causing rotation of the cap to the released position, upon activation of the button; and a locking mechanism operably coupled to the button, the locking mechanism configured to linearly translate in a horizontal direction with respect to the body between a locked position in which the locking mechanism prevents the activation of the button and an unlocked position in which the locking mechanism allows the activation of the button.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventor: Vincent Tsai
  • Publication number: 20200148432
    Abstract: Cap assemblies with magnetic closure retention mechanisms and drink containers including the same. A cap assembly includes a base, a drink spout defining a passage, a closure configured to be selectively transitioned between a closed configuration and a stowed configuration via an open configuration, and a magnetic closure retention mechanism to magnetically retain the closure in the stowed configuration. When the closure is in the closed configuration, the closure is operatively coupled to the drink spout and obstructs the flow of liquid therethrough. When the closure is in the open configuration or the stowed configuration, the drink spout is uncovered and unobstructed by the closure. When the closure is in the stowed configuration, the closure is magnetically retained against the base or a handle of the cap assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventor: Jeff Davies
  • Publication number: 20200148433
    Abstract: A lid assembly for a drinking bottle is described. The lid assembly includes a lid core component and a lid base. The lid core component extends and retracts relative to the lid base to open and close a flow of liquid through the lid assembly. The lid core component includes a fastening member that limits the extension of the lid core component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Marvin Lane, Dwayne Boroski
  • Publication number: 20200148434
    Abstract: A micro-spill prevention trough and method for use in with intermediate bulk container (IBC) totes is disclosed herein. The micro-spill prevention trough includes an attachment portion rotationally coupled to fluid retention portion. The attachment portion is configured to be secured under a spout of an intermediate bulk container (IBC) tote. The attachment portion includes a bucket portion defining a fluid retention space. The fluid retaining portion defines a second fluid retention space, wherein the fluid retaining portion pivots between an open position and a closed position. In the closed position a front wall of the fluid retaining portion pivots into the bucket portion of the attachment portion to define a fluid retention container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventor: James Darwin Klosterbuer
  • Publication number: 20200148435
    Abstract: The present childproof container with pressure-operated lid provided includes a cylindrical container, wherein the outside diameter of the lid matches the dimensions of the container body, wherein the lid and body engage in a screw-type mating mechanism. The threaded insert in the lid assembly rotates freely inside the outer insert that mates tightly to the lid sleeve when the lid assembly is rotated in either direction. The top surface of the inner threaded insert of the lid assembly has protrusions that can match grooves or channels on a bottom surface of the tightly-mated outer insert, allowing the components to engage with each other when inward pressure is applied to the top of the outer sleeve to open the container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Adam Charles Brown, Nathan Lee Peters, Brad Steven Zaikov
  • Publication number: 20200148436
    Abstract: The present childproof squeeze cap tube container includes a cylindrical container with a screw-type mating mechanism on an insert within the cap that nests inside the cap sleeve and moves independently from the exterior shell of the cap. The insert can rotate independently from the cap sleeve when the cap sleeve is rotated in either direction. The exterior surface of the insert of the cap assembly has vertical grooves, channels, ribs or similar surface texture, wherein the interior surface of the cap sleeve has matching surface grooves, channels, ribs, or surface texture to the insert component of the cap assembly, allowing the sleeve and insert to grip each other and move together when inward pressure is applied to the outer sleeve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Adam Charles Brown, Nathan Lee Peters, Brad Steven Zaikov
  • Publication number: 20200148437
    Abstract: A child protective packaging container and a method of use thereof which includes a main body defining a cavity for receiving an article, a bottom portion indented downwardly and an opening portion protruded upwardly; a cap having a raised portion corresponding to a shape and a size of the opening portion; and a safety button hidden and received inside a receiving cavity of the raised portion of the cap for restricting the opening and closing of the cap with respect to the main body. The present invention has the advantages of good safety performance, and high cost effectiveness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventor: Shenyi WANG
  • Publication number: 20200148438
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a container including a housing shell and an interior sleeve positioned within the housing shell. The housing shell can include a magnetic panel within one end, wherein the magnetic panel is positioned flush against at least one end of the interior sleeve. The position of the magnetic panel determines whether the container is in a locked or unlocked position. The interior sleeve can slide in and out of the housing shell when the container is in the unlocked position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Adam Charles Brown, Nathan Lee Peters, Brad Steven Zaikov
  • Publication number: 20200148439
    Abstract: An oral care implement that includes a head having a face with a tuft hole therein. A plurality of bristles are disposed within the tuft hole and arranged in a bristle tuft that extends from the face of the head. The bristle tuft includes a first subset of the bristles and a second subset of the bristles. Each of the bristles has a longitudinal axis and a transverse cross-sectional profile having a major axis and a minor axis, the major axes of the bristles being longer than the minor axes of the bristles. The major axes of the bristles of the first subset may be non-parallel to the major axes of the bristles of the second subset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Thomas MINTEL, Douglas HOHLBEIN
  • Publication number: 20200148440
    Abstract: Shaker will provide users a quicker and more efficient way to take their supplements before, during, and after their workouts. This delivery system will offer them the option to carry all three main supplements at once.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventor: Theodore Olivarez
  • Publication number: 20200148441
    Abstract: A container security system includes a container chassis and a closure subsystem coupled to the container chassis. The closure subsystem includes a closure chassis that prevents movement of a material between a container volume and an exterior of the container chassis via an aperture defined by the container chassis. The closure subsystem a closure security sensor that generates a closure sensor signal when the closure chassis experiences a tamper event. A first type communication interface is housed in the closure chassis and a security engine provided by the closure subsystem receives a sensor signal indicating that the closure chassis has experienced the tamper event. The security engine then provides, in response to receiving the sensor signal and using the first type communication interface, a notification to a corresponding first type communication interface that the closure chassis has experienced the tamper event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Jacky Sai Ping Tsang, Cheuk Kuen Chim, Gordon Christopher Pope, Wing Hung Cheung
  • Publication number: 20200148442
    Abstract: Disclosed is a supplement safe for keeping powdered, liquid and pill form dietary supplements in separate non-contaminatable container compartments. The top of the safe has multiple pour spouts of each of the separate compartments. The compartment lids separate the contents so as to keep the contents of each container compartment from being contaminated by materials placed in each compartment. The safe can be locked shut by rotating the cap to predetermined positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: Store It Safe, LLC.
    Inventors: Patrick Simon AFIF, Anthony Wayne PARRISH
  • Publication number: 20200148443
    Abstract: A package for dairy products, in particular solid or semi-solid dairy products, including a bag provided with at least one pair of lateral walls reciprocally joined by means of first welding lines and at least one bottom wall, so as to define a housing compartment. A dairy product is housed in the compartment defined inside the bag. The bag includes second welding lines made in correspondence with top parts of the bag and positioned on opposite sides of the bottom wall. The second welding lines are disposed diagonally with respect to the first welding lines and with respect to the bottom wall and configured and oriented so as to progressively narrow the housing compartment toward the bottom wall of the bag. The dairy product includes at least a central support zone on the bottom wall and the bag includes at least lateral support zones defined by the opposite top parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventor: Giuliano BOFFELLI
  • Publication number: 20200148444
    Abstract: A cushioned envelope is formed from a laminated material that includes a cushioning web and a shell web. The outer side of the cushioning web is laminated to the inner side of the shell web. A crimping adhesive is applied to first and second transverse seams of the inner side of the cushioning web. The laminated web material is crimped so that each of the first and second transverse seams on the inner side of the cushioning web is folded in on itself. The folded laminated web material is crimped at the first transverse seam and at the second transverse seam. The crimped laminated web material is cut at a location in the first transverse seam and at a location in the second transverse seam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Arghavan Victoria Nawaby, Victoria G. Watlington, Marshall E. Hewitt
  • Publication number: 20200148445
    Abstract: A machine for converting a sheet stock material into a relatively less dense dunnage product includes both (a) a helical pre-form assembly having a cylindrical mandrel with a longitudinal axis and a guide member for guiding the sheet stock material from a supply thereof into a helical path along and around the mandrel so as to form a helical pre-form that rotates around the longitudinal axis and advances parallel to the longitudinal axis; and (b) a restriction in the path of the pre-form that slows the advance and rotation of the pre-form past the restriction, the restriction causing the pre-form to retard longitudinal advancement, to twist upon itself, and to permanently deform as it moves past the restriction, thereby longitudinally and helically crumpling the pre-form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Mike J. Timmers, Raimond P.M. Demers