Inverted Receptacle Patents (Class 248/311.3)
  • Patent number: 6345723
    Abstract: A storage holder (1, 13, 20, 24) for holding bottles and containers in an upright or inverted orientation as necessary to make the liquid contents readily available for use. The holder has a base section (3, 14, 25, 36, 40) for supporting bottles and containers in an upright position and an opening to insert and surround a cap when holding a bottle or container in an inverted orientation. A back section (4, 15, 21,26, 44) connected to the base section provides wall mounting capability. One embodiment of the holder may have a front section (6, 16, 32, 38, 41) to securely maintain a bottle or container between the front and back sections. The front section may be at least one flexible and curvilinear piece to hold various sizes and shapes of bottles and containers in a spring-like manner between the front and back sections. The holder may also have a top section (5, 19, 27) having an opening for inserting and supporting an upper portion of a bottle or container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2002
    Inventors: Vance G. Blake, Stuart P. Whitcomb
  • Patent number: 6296223
    Abstract: A label for suspending an article from a support has a lower surface and includes an adhesive on the lower surface to secure the label to the article. The label further includes a hanger defining an opening therein and an interlock tab. The interlock tab is adapted to selectively engage the opening to interlock with the hanger to form a hanging loop including the hanger and the interlock tab. A molded suspendable assembly includes a molded article and an in-mold label secured to the article. The label includes a hanger defining an opening therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2001
    Assignee: Pharmagraphics (Southeast) L.L.C.
    Inventor: Glenn A. Grosskopf
  • Patent number: 6272780
    Abstract: A label with an applied handle having a liner material, a label and a handle. The label has an upper surface and lower surface and is secured to the liner by an adhesive layer on its lower surface. The adhesive layer allows the label to be peeled off the liner with the adhesive remaining on the lower surface of the label. The handle is affixed to the upper surface of the label, and includes an elongate strip and a hanger. The elongate strip has an upper and a lower surface extending continuously across an entire length of the label. The lower surface of the elongate strip is firmly secured to the upper surface of the label by a strong bonding material and a hanger portion integrally connected to the elongate strip and extending therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2001
    Assignee: Pharmaceutic Litho & Label Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Hratch Satamian
  • Patent number: 6227509
    Abstract: The holder for a drinks container includes a holding arm (16) movable from an initial position into a holding position and formed to hold the drinks container around a circumference of the drinks container, a cover (14) movable from a closed position into an open position and a locking device (32,38) for locking the holding arm (16) in the initial position and for unlocking the holding arm (16) when the cover is moved into the open position. In a preferred embodiment the locking device (32,38) includes a slider member (32), a device for displacing the slider member (32) from a first position to a second position when the cover (14) is opened and a detent lug (38) provided on the holding arm (16) that locks the slider member (32) when the holding arm (16) is in the initial position and that unlocks the slider member (32) when the slider member (32) is displaced from the first position to the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2001
    Assignees: Fischerwerke Arthur Fischer GmbH & Co. KG, DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Bernd Plocher, Friedrich Schanz, Stefan Kuehn, Gerd Lemke
  • Patent number: 6220458
    Abstract: A bottle rack system for storing direct dispense bottles, such as used to store and dispense ketchup, salad dressing, steak sauce, etc., in an inverted position with the bottle cap positioned below the bottle bottom so that the contents of the bottle accumulate adjacent to the dispensing opening of the direct dispense bottle so as to be readily available for dispensing. The bottle rack system includes a bottle support member, a slide-in drip tray, two small diameter neck inserts, and two medium diameter neck inserts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2001
    Inventor: Brian K. Falor
  • Patent number: 6202970
    Abstract: A holder for edible and inedible objects, such as pickles, lolly pops, frozen confection bars and objects to be painted, having oppositely disposed cone shaped receptacles joined at the cone shaped receptacle apexes by a hollow stem, a handle affixed to the receptacles and object support structures contained within the cone shaped receptacles. The object support structures have proximal rod shaped members that snap into the hollow stem and distal end means for holding objects including a pointed end portion and a slotted end portion terminating in a circular plate. The circular plate fits snuggly inside the cone shaped receptacle. Accessory support structures that telescopically slip over the pointed distal end portion provide additional means for holding objects including a distal end slot, a distal end clamp and a distal end tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2001
    Inventor: Ronald Dunbar