Nozzles, Spouts And Pouring Devices Patents (Class 222/566)
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Publication number: 20080205971Abstract: Apparatus for use with a hand manipulable flowable material dispenser, the combination comprising a dispensing nozzle associated with the dispenser to dispense material, and a spreader surface associated with the nozzle whereby the dispenser may be manipulated to cause the spreader surface to spread material dispensed via the nozzle, and the spreader surface can be used to spread material around after it is dispensed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2007Publication date: August 28, 2008Inventor: Raymond A. Liberatore
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Publication number: 20080202507Abstract: A device (1) is used to generate a jet of liquid for pressurized irrigation or decontamination of wounds or infected areas of the body. It is provided with a liquid container (2), with means for generating a liquid pressure, and with a nozzle (5) which is arranged at the end of a flexible conduit (4) and from which the jet of liquid emerges. The liquid container (2) is designed as a pressurized container which can be connected via a valve (3) to a gas cartridge (11) or a compressed-air attachment and to which the flexible conduit (4) leading to the nozzle (5) can be joined. The liquid container (2) can be connected to the conduit (4) via a shut-off member or control member (7). A simple device (1) is thereby made available which can be easily transported and can also be sterilized without difficulty.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2006Publication date: August 28, 2008Inventor: Mark Brandli
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Publication number: 20080203193Abstract: An improved atomization system for aerosolizing liquids including a vortexing nozzle and a flat or protruding face on the nozzle exit orifice. The system can also include a diverging mouthpiece insert. The present invention can produce a high fine particle fraction and modest throat deposition in conjunction with reduced aerosol plume velocity and impact force.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2008Publication date: August 28, 2008Applicant: Abbott LaboratoriesInventors: Prashant P. Kakade, Robert C. Williams, Perry Genova
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Publication number: 20080190132Abstract: A water dispenser mounted on a door of a refrigerator freezer that is provided with a spigot that is movable between inner and outer dispensing positions. The dispenser includes a dispenser housing having a dispensing cavity and the spigot is movably mounted in the top of the dispensing cavity. When the spigot is in the inner dispensing position water can be dispensed into a container positioned in the dispensing cavity. In the outer dispensing position the spigot can dispense water into a container positioned outside the dispensing cavity. The dispenser housing can be provided with a movable tray in the bottom of the dispensing cavity. The movable tray can be withdrawn to support a container under the spigot in the inner dispensing position and extended to support a container under the spigot in the outer dispensing position.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2008Publication date: August 14, 2008Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATIONInventors: RONALD L. VOGLEWEDE, KEVIN J. GILBOE, PATRICK J. BOARMAN, DARYL L. HARMON, GARY W. WILSON, JERRY M. VISIN
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Publication number: 20080184730Abstract: A water dispenser mounted on a door of a refrigerator freezer that is provided with a spigot that is movable between inner and outer dispensing positions. The dispenser includes a dispenser housing having a dispensing cavity and the spigot is movably mounted in the top of the dispensing cavity. When the spigot is in the inner dispensing position water can be dispensed into a container positioned in the dispensing cavity. In the outer dispensing position the spigot can dispense water into a container positioned outside the dispensing cavity. The dispenser housing can be provided with a movable tray in the bottom of the dispensing cavity. The movable tray can be withdrawn to support a container under the spigot in the inner dispensing position and extended to support a container under the spigot in the outer dispensing position.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2008Publication date: August 7, 2008Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATIONInventors: Ronald L. Voglewede, Kevin J. Gilboe, Patrick J. Boarman, Daryl L. Harmon, Gary W. Wilson, Jerry M. Visin
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Publication number: 20080173647Abstract: Simplified cap for oil bottles that allows reduction of cap size, with the subsequent advantages in terms of lower weight and savings on raw material, being comprised of a body that includes a tilting cap and lower flap fixed to the bottle neck, in addition to a pouring spout body disposed between the cap body and bottle neck, where said pouring spout body adopts a flat bottom with radial slots emerging from a flat central area, while a circumferential rib that defines an annular area ending in a second circumferential rib for anchoring the end of the bottle neck emerges from the central outer area of the pouring spout wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2008Publication date: July 24, 2008Applicant: BETAPACK, S.A.Inventor: ALBERTO OCHOA LABURU
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Publication number: 20080164282Abstract: A container (20) has a body (22) having a body opening (40). A spout fitment (24) is mounted within the body opening. A cap (26) has: a sidewall (120); a web (122) enclosing an upper end of the sidewall; a flange (124) extending outward from the sidewall; an external thread (132) along the sidewall below the flange; a removed condition disengaged from the body and spout fitment; and an installed condition threadingly mounted by the external thread to at least one of the body and spout fitment. In the installed condition, a perimeter portion (128) of the flange is below a rim (110) of the spout fitment.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2007Publication date: July 10, 2008Applicant: PLASTEK INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Alex S. Szekely, Peter A. Piscopo
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Publication number: 20080148965Abstract: A machine (10) for the preparation and distribution of cold food products, used in particular but not exclusively for the production of soft ice-cream, comprises a cylindrical chamber (12) equipped at one end with an inlet mouth (14) for a liquid food mixture and at an opposite end with an extraction tap (18) for the distribution of the cold food product through at least one distribution nozzle (36), wherein said cylindrical chamber (12) is externally enveloped by an evaporation chamber (20) for the cooling of said liquid food mixture and contains in its interior a mixer (24), and wherein underneath said distribution nozzle (36) there is a protection door (62) for said nozzle (36).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2007Publication date: June 26, 2008Inventors: Genesio Bravo, Stefano Bravo
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Publication number: 20080142554Abstract: A fluid dispensing device, particularly suited to medicine but also having many other applications. The device selectively dispenses any of one or more fluids contained within the device. Adapters on the dispensing end of the unit permit the device to be effectively used for intra-venous, intra-dermal or intra-muscular injections, gasses, colloids, gels, liquids or other fluids. Adapters on the head of the unit permit the device to be used with or without electrical power and to varying degrees of automatic control for timing, sequence, volume of fluid dispensed and other features.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2006Publication date: June 19, 2008Inventor: John Lafferty
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Publication number: 20080142547Abstract: A liquids dispensing container is provided which includes a cap, a spout fitment and a bottle. The spout fitment includes a spout, an interior wall surrounding the spout, and an exterior wall surrounding the interior wall. The exterior wall has an upper and a lower circumferential edge. An anti-backoff window and an anti-rotation window are formed spacedly apart along the lower edge. The bottle includes a threaded finish, an open and a closed end, the open end receiving the spout fitment, an anti-backoff lug and an anti-rotation lug spacedly separated and positioned below threads of the finish projecting outwardly therefrom. The lugs are engageable within the respective anti-backoff and anti-rotation windows.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2007Publication date: June 19, 2008Applicant: CONOPCO, INC., d/b/a UNILEVERInventors: Keith Jon Colacioppo, Richard Paul McNabb
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Publication number: 20080140047Abstract: A flexible container incorporating flexible front and rear sheets and one or more container ports disposed in between the sheets are discussed. The one or more container ports each has a pliable attachment flange and an integrally molded nozzle. The pliable attachment flange has a first configuration whereby the attachment flange collapses to enable heat sealing the attachment flange to the sheets and thereafter substantially recovers its shape to provide a fluid pathway with the port. Various terminal ports, terminal caps, and rubber septums may be useable with the one or more container ports.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2008Publication date: June 12, 2008Inventor: Harvey Theodore Young
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Publication number: 20080129070Abstract: A sealing nozzle having a flattened tubular part for discharging a sealer is disclosed. A restrictive means is provided so as to stretch out from one side to the other inside a sealer passage of the flattened tubular part and to restrict the flow of the sealer.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2007Publication date: June 5, 2008Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuichi Noda, Hideki Murakami
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Publication number: 20080110899Abstract: A serving container for selectively dispensing one of two beverages includes a container body having an upper open mouth at the top and a vertically disposed partition to divide the container body into a pair of laterally disposed left and right compartments to hold two different beverages. The partition has a horizontally disposed sealing edge at the top between the compartments. A removable cover has a cooperating sealing surface adapted to engage the edge of the partition to form a seal that prevents mixing of the contents of the compartments when the cover is secured to the mouth of the container. A pair of selectively operable left and right valves are mounted in the cover to permit a beverage held in a selected storage compartment of the container to flow into either of two separate transfer chambers when a corresponding one of the valves is in an open position.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2006Publication date: May 15, 2008Inventor: David R. Gustafson
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Publication number: 20080110929Abstract: A fluid dispensing cap and beverage bottle assembly provides a spill-resistant container for use by a small child. The dispensing cap has a perforated baffle that restricts the beverage flow under static pressure conditions and permits beverage flow when a sufficient pressure differential is applied across the baffle. The dispensing cap includes a spout that facilitates beverage consumption. The dispensing cap either screws onto a bottle neck or is a press-fit cap that is inserted into the bottle's open end. A seal is provided that prevents beverage leakage and indicates if the container has been tampered with or compromised.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2006Publication date: May 15, 2008Inventors: E. Lawrence Stanley Traasdahl, Jeremy Lamanna, David Michael Webb
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Publication number: 20080095570Abstract: A leveling tool having a body which consists of a handle part and a leveling part. Said leveling part being generally pointed in shape by way of two converging plows. An apex formed by the convergence of said converging plows. An exit located at said apex.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2007Publication date: April 24, 2008Inventor: Daniel Lepage
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Patent number: 7361309Abstract: The present invention provides a system and process providing variable access to, as well as quick and accurate dispensing of, numerous selected reagents from a mass storage arrangement. According to one embodiment, an array of reagent dispensers is supported over a movable platform assembly. The platform assembly aligns a designated receiving receptacle under a selected dispenser of the array so that a respective reagent can be dispensed therein. Advantageously, the apparatus and process can be carried out under the control of a programmed computer.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2006Date of Patent: April 22, 2008Assignee: Applera CorporationInventors: Charles S. Vann, David M. Cox
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Patent number: 7350669Abstract: The present invention relates to a sterile closure device that is particularly suited for flexible containers, or pouches, that contain medical fluids. The sterile closure device provides a port for a conventional spike set to puncture in order to attach a patient feeding line. The sterile closure device features at least two protection mechanisms that enhance sterility. Between the two protection mechanisms is a sterile chamber that minimizes leakage of medical fluid from the flexible container when the protection mechanisms are breached by a the spike set. The sterile closure device also features finger support to facilitate the user in grasping and puncturing the sterile closure device.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2003Date of Patent: April 1, 2008Assignee: Novartis AGInventor: Robert G. Rani
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Patent number: 7347343Abstract: A container for storage and dispensing of paint includes a unitary, molded plastic container body defining an interior volume and including an annular container opening through which the contents are dispensed. Included as part of the paint container is a dispensing spout which is positioned within the container opening and includes a pouring lip. The dispensing spout includes a threaded portion which receives a removable closing cap. The cap is constructed and arranged to close the container opening. A transporting handle is provided and is attached directly to the container body.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2002Date of Patent: March 25, 2008Assignee: Rieke CorporationInventors: Douglas M. McLelland, Simon Buckley, David J. Pritchett
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Publication number: 20080054097Abstract: A spraying device includes a gas can and a sprayer/joint combination. The gas can is formed with a collar defining a cutout. The sprayer/joint combination includes a frame, two shoes, an expanding element and a sprayer. The frame defines two slots and includes a block formed thereon and disposed in the cutout. The shoes are pivotally connected to the frame, and each of them includes a head and a tail. The expanding element includes a cam with two lobes. The expanding element can be pivoted between a locking position where the lobes push the heads of the shoes against the collar of the gas can and an unlocking position where the lobes contact the tails of the shoes. The sprayer includes a nozzle, a knob and a connective unit. The connective unit of the sprayer is connected to the expanding element through the frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2007Publication date: March 6, 2008Inventor: Jan-Nan Chen
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Patent number: 7325994Abstract: Apparatus for use with a hand manipulable flowable material dispenser, the combination comprising a dispensing nozzle associated with the dispenser to dispense material, and a spreader surface associated with the nozzle whereby the dispenser may be manipulated to cause the spreader surface to spread material dispensed via the nozzle, and the spreader surface can be used to spread material around after it is dispensed.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2004Date of Patent: February 5, 2008Inventor: Raymond A. Liberatore
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Patent number: 7325995Abstract: The applicator for a double cartridge includes an adapter for connection to a mixer attached to a double cartridge as well as a dispensing slot, the side of the enclosure that is turned towards the glued substrate forming an angle with the longitudinal axis of the adapter which is comprised between 5° and 90°. The underside of the enclosure is essentially continuously curved. Due to the curvature of the enclosure, the material that is to be glued, e.g. lung tissue, is first smoothened and immediately thereafter evenly coated with adhesive. This allows a reliable application of such an applicator in medicine or in the industry.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2004Date of Patent: February 5, 2008Assignee: Medmix Systems AGInventor: Wilhelm A. Keller
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Patent number: 7314328Abstract: Apparatus for use with a hand manipulable flowable material dispenser, the combination comprising a dispensing nozzle associated with the dispenser to dispense material, and a spreader surface associated with the nozzle whereby the dispenser may be manipulated to cause the spreader surface to spread material dispensed via the nozzle, and the spreader surface can be used to spread material around after it is dispensed.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2004Date of Patent: January 1, 2008Inventor: Raymond A. Liberatore
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Patent number: 7306121Abstract: A plastic squeeze container for dispensing a fluid carrying a turret member rotatably mounted to the container for movement to a plurality of different rotational positions with the turret member carrying an outlet through which fluid may be dispensed generally along an outlet axis and with rotation of the turret member the outlet axis varying as to the angles it assumes relative to a vertical axis of the container.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2005Date of Patent: December 11, 2007Assignee: Hygiene-Technik Inc.Inventors: Heiner Ophardt, Abdul Vali Syed
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Patent number: 7267245Abstract: A bite valve manufactured from a soft and flexible material includes a joining section, a liquid outlet section, and at least a pair of columns at an inner wall approaching the liquid outlet section to retain the bite valve and to prevent an inner channel of the bite valve from being closed, and an extension tube projecting from an outer periphery of the liquid outlet section and being capable of bending backward to accommodate around the outer periphery of the liquid outlet section. Wherein, the joining section is for joining with a liquid guide tube of a liquid container.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2004Date of Patent: September 11, 2007Inventor: Shih-Sheng Yang
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Patent number: 7267288Abstract: A sprayable polymeric material and a process for preparing the material which contains a fibrous material, dispersed throughout the polymeric material. A restriction free spray nozzle is provided for mixing and spraying the polymeric material having a fibrous material, the nozzle having a restriction free check valve. A reinforced structure, and a method of making the structure are provided, the structure having layers of the polymeric material (both film and foam) containing the fibrous material. A flexible liner is provided of a porous geotextile fabric and a polyurethane composition comprising the fibrous material sprayed over the geotextile fabric.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2001Date of Patent: September 11, 2007Assignee: Nevada Supply CorporationInventors: Henry H. Wheeler, Jr., Corland Crandal, Hugh Wheeler, III
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Publication number: 20070204681Abstract: A carbon thin line probe having a carbon thin line selectively formed at a projection-like terminal end portion thereof by means of an irradiation of high-energy beam, the carbon thin line internally containing a metal. Thereby achieved is a carbon thin line probe suitable for example for the probe of SPM cantilever, which has a high aspect ratio and high durability and reliability, capability of batch processing based on a simple manufacturing method, and to which magnetic characteristic can be imparted.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2007Publication date: September 6, 2007Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Masashi Kitazawa, Masaki Tanemura, Junya Tanaka, Tatsuhiko Okita
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Patent number: 7243865Abstract: A nozzle for generating a high-pressure jet of a flowable medium, having a nozzle body and a nozzle disk which is embedded in the nozzle body in a recess. The nozzle body includes an axial nozzle bore which leads into at least one of an inlet bore and an outlet bore. The nozzle disk rests under compressive strain on contact surfaces of the recess. Also included is a method for creating a nozzle having a nozzle disk embedded in a nozzle body, the steps comprising: providing a nozzle disk; forming a nozzle body around the nozzle disk in a recess so as to create compressive strain on contact surfaces of the nozzle disk.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2003Date of Patent: July 17, 2007Assignee: Hammelmann Maschinenfabrik GmbHInventor: Michael Jarchau
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Patent number: 7237692Abstract: A pourer for a liquid container is disclosed. This pourer has a base element (1, 2) with a supply duct (13) and also a pouring element (5) with a pouring duct (53). The pouring element (5) is connected swivellably to the base element (1, 2) in order to connect the pouring duct (53) to the supply duct (13). The pouring element (5) is surrounded by a collecting cup (4). A return means (57) for returning liquid from the collecting cup (4) into the liquid container is also present. In order to improve hygiene and to avoid dirt entering the liquid container, the collecting cup (4) is connected rigidly to the pouring element (5). The pourer is suitable in particular as an oil dispenser.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2004Date of Patent: July 3, 2007Assignee: Pi-Design AGInventor: Jørgen Bodum
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Patent number: 7234614Abstract: The present invention therefore aims at providing a nozzle that reduces the amount of residual fuel left on a spout after fueling by encouraging the residual fuel to drip into the container to be filled. A fuel dispensing nozzle is comprised of a nozzle body, a fuel regulating valve, and a spout for directing the fuel supply from the regulating valve to and in the container to be filled. After a fueling cycle, fuel clings to both the inside and outside spout surfaces and can be considered a falling film. Wherein existing nozzle spouts have discontinuous spout end faces that impede the flow of falling films into the container to be filled, the improved nozzle and endface according to the present invention encourage the falling films to create drops that fall into a container to be filled.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2003Date of Patent: June 26, 2007Inventors: Paul Allan Knight, Walt D Takisaki
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Patent number: 7226230Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for use with an edible food dispenser. The apparatus has a nozzle and a spreader surface associated with the nozzle.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2003Date of Patent: June 5, 2007Inventor: Raymond Liberatore
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Patent number: 7216785Abstract: A sand and seed divot replacer including a pour spout having an inwardly extending lip formed on the inner surface of the pour spout at an end distal from the pouring end. An open top bottle is provided including an outwardly extending circumferentially positioned band located on the exterior surface of the bottle adjacent the open top. The spout constructed of a resilient material and the distal end sized to receive the band of the bottle with the lip in latching engagement with the band of the bottle. The bottom wall of the bottle including an indented portion. A holder is provided having a main body open at the top and closed at the bottom with a bottom wall. The holder is sized for receiving the bottle and spout. The bottom wall of the holder includes an indented portion sized for nesting in the indented portion of the bottle.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2006Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Inventors: John W. Meyer, Doug Jacobe
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Patent number: 7213727Abstract: A lower portion of a nozzle is held hermetically in contact with an inner circumferential surface of the tubular neck of a container, and an inner surface of a cap is mounted to an outer surface of the tubular neck. A discharging hole of the nozzle is hermetically sealed by an inner top surface of the cap. A ring-shaped projection is formed on an upper portion of the nozzle for hermetically contacting an inner surface of the cap. Thereby, double sealing is provided in cooperation with hermetic sealing of the discharging hole of the nozzle by the inner top surface of the cap. The nozzle prevents a liquid leak and liquid dripping from the nozzle and form liquid drops independently of a dripping angle.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2003Date of Patent: May 8, 2007Assignee: Rohto Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.Inventor: Shigehiko Kokubo
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Patent number: 7207466Abstract: An insert for a container includes an outer wall, a upstanding spout, and a bottom wall. The outer wall is configured to fit within an opening of the container and defines the periphery of the insert. The outer wall has a lower edge and an upper edge that is disposed at a first elevation. The upstanding spout is located within the outer wall and includes at least one substantially straight portion. The straight portion has a lower edge as well as a substantially straight upper edge that is disposed at a second elevation less than the first elevation. The bottom wall connects the lower edge of the outer wall and the lower edge of the spout to form a channel between the outer wall and the spout.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2003Date of Patent: April 24, 2007Assignee: Masterchem Industries LLCInventors: Michael J. Walsh, Edward A. Raleigh, Timothy J. Bierman, Scott G. Manke
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Patent number: 7175051Abstract: A container for storage and dispensing of paint includes a unitary, molded plastic container body defining an interior volume and including an annular container opening through which the contents are dispensed. Included as part of the paint container is a dispensing spout which is positioned within the container opening and includes a pouring lip. The dispensing spout includes a threaded portion which receives a removable closing cap. The cap is constructed and arranged to close the container opening. A transporting handle is provided and is attached directly to the container body.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2005Date of Patent: February 13, 2007Assignee: Rieke CorporationInventors: Douglas M. McLelland, Simon Buckley, David J. Pritchett
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Patent number: 7156269Abstract: A sand and seed divot replacer including a pour spout having a female threaded portion integrally formed on the inner surface of the pour spout at an end distal from the pouring end. A bottle is provided having an open top and a closed bottom. The bottle including a male threaded portion located on the exterior of the main body portion adjacent the top for threadably mating with the female threaded portion of the spout. The bottom wall of the bottle including an indented portion. A holder is provided having a main body portion open at the top and closed at the bottom with a bottom wall. The holder is sized for receiving the bottle and spout. The bottom wall of the holder includes an indented portion sized for nesting in the indented portion of the bottle.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2004Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Inventors: John W. Meyer, Doug Jacoby
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Patent number: 7150378Abstract: A container body has a main opening large enough to permit passage of large paintbrushes or sprayer suction lines and filters. This opening is covered with a large cap that comprises a bayonet-type seal. Special features in the cap and in the body combine to provide a swivel pour valve permitting contents of the container to be poured from the can in a controlled manner with no spillage or mess. The cap has a close position, a remove-replace position and a pour position. A sealed-closed position is achieved with cap rotation in a first rotation direction from a first cap remove-replace position and the pour position is achieved by cap rotation in the same rotation direction from a second cap remove-replace position. Preferably a pour vent is provided. It could be covered with a threaded screw or snap-on cover.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2004Date of Patent: December 19, 2006Inventors: Richard A Dean, Tharold Eugene Northup
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Patent number: 7134580Abstract: Spout assemblies are provided for dispensing liquid from a nozzle.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2003Date of Patent: November 14, 2006Assignee: Delaware Capital Formation, Inc.Inventors: Timothy M. Garrison, Harold M. Schubert, Bryan S. York, Daniel E. Preston
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Patent number: 7128241Abstract: An article of manufacture for dispensing a synthetic or semi-synthetic polymerizable or cross-linkable adhesive monomer material includes a pipette-shaped applicator, and a synthetic or semi-synthetic adhesive monomer material sealed in the pipette-shaped applicator prior to dispensing the material.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2002Date of Patent: October 31, 2006Inventor: Jeffrey C. Leung
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Patent number: 7101510Abstract: The present invention provides a system and process providing variable access to, as well as quick and accurate dispensing of, numerous selected reagents from a mass storage arrangement. According to one embodiment, an array of reagent dispensers is supported over a movable platform assembly. The platform assembly aligns a designated receiving receptacle under a selected dispenser of the array so that a respective reagent can be dispensed therein. Advantageously, the apparatus and process can be carried out under the control of a programmed computer.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2001Date of Patent: September 5, 2006Assignee: Applera CorporationInventors: Charles S. Vann, David M. Cox
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Patent number: 7077294Abstract: A device for stoppering a container and drawing off a fluid includes a fixed piece, fixed to the container, with a lateral fluid output opening and a passage that allows air to enter. Another, movable piece includes a tube with a lateral fluid output opening. This tube can move in rotation inside the fixed piece and also in axial translation between a maximum “pushed-in” position and an extracted position so that lateral openings can be brought into coincidence through rotating the movable piece. The movable piece has an internal skirt enabling the channeling of fluid toward the output opening to prevent leakage through the passage for the entry of air. The fixed piece includes a guide for displacing the movable piece with respect to the fixed piece from the maximum “pushed-in” position to the extracted position that displays a coincidence of the openings.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2002Date of Patent: July 18, 2006Assignee: BERICAPInventors: Philippe Nusbaum, Frédéric Granier, Antonio Jubany Claret, Oriol Aran Garcia
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Patent number: 7063686Abstract: A nozzle having an ejection duct structured so as to allow a better distribution of the substances on the inner panes of nasal cavities and similar, such as auricular, vaginal and rectal cavities is described. A conical central portion is mounted in the nozzle outlet portion with its base in the outlet opening providing an annular fluid outlet, the conical central portion is rigidly secured to the inner wall of the outlet portion with baffles. In different embodiments of the invention the outlet portion, the central portion, the baffles and the annular outlet opening vary in shape.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2001Date of Patent: June 20, 2006Inventor: Giorgio Mezzoli
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Patent number: 7055720Abstract: A flexible stand-up package having a releasably securable closure, a fitment pour spout and a handle. The package includes a hollow interior of the package arranged to be filled with a flowable material, e.g., cherries in syrup, whereupon the bottom of the package assumes a generally planar configuration to support the package, while portions of the panels making up the package assume a vertical orientation, with the pour spout located in a recessed position, whereupon the filled package can be located immediately adjacent similar filled packages without wasted space therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2004Date of Patent: June 6, 2006Assignee: Fres-co System USA, Inc.Inventor: Barry Pritchard
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Patent number: 7036693Abstract: A paint container includes a body having a bottom, a plurality of side walls, and a top. An attachment mechanism is located proximate the top. A cap is configured to be secured to the attachment mechanism. A spout extends upward proximate the top and is at least partially surrounded by the attachment mechanism. A channel located between the attachment mechanism and the spout permits paint spilled into the channel to flow back into the paint container.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2001Date of Patent: May 2, 2006Assignee: Masterchem Industries LLCInventors: Michael J. Walsh, James N. McDerby, Jr., Norman Morfeld, Cynthia S. Sherrill, Stephen L. Crouse, Douglas W. Newman, Jeffrey A. Schutte, Mark Gilbertson, Scott G. Manke, Michael Brock
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Patent number: 7014078Abstract: A paint container includes a top, a bottom, and at least one side wall. A handle is pivotally attached to the body proximate the top. A finger recess is disposed in the bottom and an access recess is positioned between the bottom and at least one side wall. A user may insert one or more fingers through the access recess and into the finger recess to grasp the body when the body is resting on a flat surface.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2002Date of Patent: March 21, 2006Assignee: Masterchem Industries LLCInventors: Michael J. Walsh, Douglas W. Newman, Jeffrey A. Schutte, Scott G Manke, Michael J. Brock, Mark Gilbertson
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Patent number: 6968873Abstract: A bagel or pastry filling device attachable to one end of a standard and well-known pastry filling or cake decorating gun. The inventive concept combines a bent piece of tubing made from any suitable material wherein one end has a sharp edge which is insertable into a bagel, donut, piece of pastry, and whose other end is inserted into a funnel where it is held in place by means of an insert placed inside the flared opening of the funnel which, while usually made of plastic, may be made of any suitable material. The pastry filling attachment is then inserted into a nut, usually made of plastic, which in turn engages a length of plastic tubing having external male threads. A trigger device associated with a trigger handle threadably engages the opposite end of the plastic tubing and further holds a horizontally extending ratchet device for moving a plunger forward which squeezes filling into in and through the funnel and tubing and into a receiving device.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2004Date of Patent: November 29, 2005Inventors: Anthony J. Cariddi, Rachel L. Cariddi
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Patent number: 6926457Abstract: An applicator including a wax container reservoir, acting at the same time as a handle, at the mouth of which there is a head attached which, acting as the applicator means proper, centers its features around the fact that, after a sector for attachment to the container reservoir neck, said applicator incorporates a gradually but noticeably narrowing area in order to achieve a parallel restriction of the flow of wax to the outlet end, where an inner rib is established that in turn produces a second pronounced narrowing, defining a slotted hole, which generates a laminar flow for the wax towards an externally concave arched vane which facilitates the application of the wax onto the user's body, said arched vane being encompassed by two triangular side partition walls that also act as lateral constraints for the wax during its application.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2004Date of Patent: August 9, 2005Assignee: Phytolab, S.L.Inventor: Raul Vidal Esmoris
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Patent number: 6913841Abstract: Liquid aluminum is sprayed onto an iron article to produce a thin tenacious non-corrodible layer. In one embodiment, an iron article is heated to at least 400° F. or preferably until cherry red. It is sprayed with a fine aluminum mist generated by heating aluminum in a container and then passing a gas under pressure through the container and out through a heat resistant ceramic nozzle. In another embodiment, aluminum is heated to at least 2000° F. in a container to produce a pool of liquid aluminum. Pressure is applied to the container to project the liquid aluminum in the form of a fine mist through a ceramic nozzle onto the iron article. The aluminum mist produces a tenacious aluminum layer on the iron article that is workable, weldable and non-corrodible. The aluminum layer is a permanent part of the iron article and cannot be removed by conventional means, such as buffing with a wire wheel driven by a electric motor.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2003Date of Patent: July 5, 2005Inventor: Charles J. Upchurch
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Patent number: 6866881Abstract: A dispensing system and method for dispensing material onto a substrate. The dispensing system includes a frame, a support, coupled to the frame, that supports the substrate at a dispensing position in the dispensing system, and a dispensing head, coupled to the frame, that dispenses the material onto the substrate. The dispensing head includes a motor unit having a first motor coupled to an output drive mechanism, and a dispensing unit, removably coupled to the motor unit, having a material outlet from which the dispensing material is dispensed, the dispensing unit having a dispensing mechanism coupled to the material outlet and coupled to the output drive mechanism of the motor unit such that operation of the first motor causes the dispensing mechanism to dispense material through the outlet. The dispensing head may be controlled for deposition of dots of material having diameters smaller than a dispensing needle of the dispensing unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2002Date of Patent: March 15, 2005Assignee: Speedline Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Thomas C. Prentice, Brian P. Prescott, Kenneth C. Crouch, Murray D. Scott, Earl Sweet, Jr., Yingfei Ke
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Patent number: 6866206Abstract: An improved drinking fountain bubbler guard in which the guard of the invention herein is installed at an opposite angle to the front of the bubbler pedestal. The present invention is an L-shaped guard with a round bonding facet that is conjoined to the anterior extremity of the spigot cock; a gasket is postured against the guard, the spout is inserted through the gasket and then fastened into the output hole of the spigot cock such that the guard is tightly mounted onto the spigot cock. As such, the invention herein safely protects the face of served users and effectively prevents accidents, while also reducing paper cup usage and thereby complying with environmental protection objectives.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2003Date of Patent: March 15, 2005Inventor: Cheng-Wsiung Wu
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Patent number: RE38859Abstract: The invention relates to a drip-catcher for, for instance, a bottle and intended for preventing dripping and drops seeping from the bottle orifice during pouring. The drip-catcher of the invention simply consists of a piece (1) of flexible and elastic foil material, preferably plastic material foil having the thickness of 0.1-0.2 mm. The diameter of the piece of material may be 60-80 mm. When used as a drip-catcher the piece of material is rolled into an oblong cylindrical form and inserted in the orifice of the bottle. Due to its elasticity the piece of material will positively engage the orifice and constitute a tube-formed outlet spout. Due to the small thickness of the foil material and its liquid-repellent nature this spout cuts off the jet very efficiently and is also a very efficient drop-catcher. The drip-catcher of the invention is extremely simple and cheap.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 1998Date of Patent: November 1, 2005Inventor: Brian Vang Jensen