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...that to encourage use of his new invention, the shopping cart, market owner Sylvan Goldman hired fake shoppers to push the carts around his store in Oklahoma City? Seems his customers were reluctant to give up their hand-carried baskets.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8123058 | Closure with stopping mechanism A closure having a stopping mechanism whereby a stop lug is positionable between a flexed and unflexed position relative to a spring gap. The stop lug may project from a skirt of the closure top wall. The spring gap is positioned adjacent the stop lug to provide an ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8120484 | Closure and package with RFID kernel tag and boost antenna A closure includes a plastic shell for securement to a container neck finish. An RFID kernel tag is disposed within the shell, and includes an RFID circuit and a low power UHF antenna coupled to the circuit. A boost antenna, electromagnetically coupled to but otherw... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8109396 | Slide rails and friction surfaces for closure A bi-injected closure is provided which includes a gripping area molded on the exterior of the closure through a bi-injection technique. As a result of the closure having a high frictional material positioned on the exterior of the closure, the slide area acts to al... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8098162 | Attachment of an RFID tag to a container A container includes a container body having a sidewall and an end wall extending across the sidewall and closing an end of the container body. A retainer is received on the container body with a central portion of the retainer adjacent to the end wall of the contai... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8097199 | Molded plastic container and preform having insert-molded insert A method of making a plastic container having an RFID tag in a wall of the container includes providing a mold having a mold core and mounting an insert on the core. The insert includes an RFID tag surrounded by a plastic housing, which preferably is retained on the... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8091709 | Child-resistant package A child-resistant package includes a rectangular tray having a pair of sidewalls, a pair of laterally opposed spring arms extending from the sidewalls, a finger tab on each spring arm and a locking lug adjacent to each finger tab. A rectangular shell has an open fro... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8079483 | Closure with stopping mechanism A closure having a stopping mechanism whereby a stop lug is positionable between a flexed and unflexed position relative to a spring gap. The stop lug may project from a skirt of the closure top wall. The spring gap is positioned adjacent the stop lug to provide an ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8056742 | Two-piece child-resistant closure and package A child-resistant closure includes a plastic inner shell having a base wall with a peripheral skirt, at least one internal thread segment on the peripheral skirt and a plurality of internal lugs on the base wall adjacent to the skirt. A plastic outer shell has a bas... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8011525 | Child-resistant container having a deflectable release A plastic container for a child-resistant package, including a sidewall with an outer surface, a deflectable release cantilevered from the outer surface and deflectable toward the outer surface, and deflection limiting elements carried by the deflectable release to ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7988003 | Ratchet push and turn child resistant closure A child resistant closure having a ratchet push and turn mechanism. The ratchet push and turn mechanism includes an over cap disposed over an under cap, each with ratchet teeth in operable engagement. The ratchet teeth of the closure may have a groove. Another groov... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7975862 | Child-resistant dispensing package A child-resistant package includes a housing having an internal volume for holding items to be dispensed, a cylindrical neck, an end wall on the neck and a dispensing opening in the end wall. A closure has an end wall with a dispensing opening and a skirt. One of th... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7973664 | Closure having RFID and foil A closure comprising a top wall with an annular side wall depending there from. An induction foil is proximate an inner surface of the top wall and may have a ring or circular configuration. An RFID device is affixed or is integral with the closure a minimum distanc... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7972130 | Method and apparatus for blowing plastic containers An injection blow molding machine (10) having a core rod (18) against which a parison of a thermoplastic material is formed by injection molding. The core rod is cooled by causing a stream of compressed and conditioned air from an inlet manifold (52... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7922961 | Molded plastic container having insert-molded insert and method of manufacture A plastic container has an open end and an imperforate container wall with a base, an outwardly open pocket in the container wall, and an insert disposed in the pocket. The insert preferably is captured in the pocket by blow molding the container wall around the ins... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7875227 | Molded plastic container and preform having insert-molded RFID tag An RFID assembly includes a base having a peripheral wall, an RFID inlay including an RFID tag disposed within the peripheral wall, and a disk having a periphery engaged by the peripheral wall to capture the inlay between the base and the disk within the peripheral ... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7874440 | Child-resistant package A child-resistant package includes first and second elements having base walls with rectangular peripheries, continuous peripheral walls extending around the peripheries, locking projections or tabs on opposed sections of the peripheral walls, and cylindrical walls ... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7850893 | Molded plastic container and preform having insert-molded RFID tag An RFID assembly includes an RFID inlay, with an RFID tag, encapsulated within a plastic housing. The housing has a peripheral array of flexible resilient fingers for mounting the housing within a pocket on a support structure, such as a pocket on a mold core. The p... | 12/14/2010 |
| D606864 | Closure | 12/29/2009 |
| 7604124 | Dispensing container and package for pelletized products A container for storing and dispensing pelletized products includes an elongate hollow tube, an exterior panel integrally tangentially extending from the tube and dosage period indicia on the panel adjacent to the tube. Spacings between the dosage period indicia on ... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7586417 | RFID insert with disable feature and container that includes such an insert An RFID insert includes a housing of molded plastic construction and an RFID tag captured within the housing. A portion of the housing is permanently frangibly removable from the remainder of the housing to remove the RFID tag from within the housing and thereby dis... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7479887 | Closure and container package with RFID circuit A tamper-indicating closure includes a closure shell having a skirt for securing the closure to a container neck finish and a tamper band frangibly coupled to the skirt for separation from the skirt upon first removal of the closure from the container. An RFID circu... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7476355 | Blow molding apparatus and method An injection blow molding apparatus has a rotatable turret with three laterally facing faces. The turret is rotatable between an injection position, a blow position and an ejection position that are angularly spaced from each other around an axis of rotation of the ... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7455808 | Manufacture of plastic containers having internal identifying indicia molded on a container wall A method of making a container preform includes providing a mold core having at least one surface recess in the form of negative-mold indicia, and molding a preform around the core such that the preform has internal raised indicia formed by the at least one recess i... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7436499 | Plastic packaging having a marker material A package including a container and closure, and a method of authenticating same. In the package or a portion thereof, a marker material is dispersed into a base material and can be detected in the aftermarket by absorption spectroscopy to establish the authenticity... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7388506 | Closure and package with induction seal and RFID tag A package includes a container having a neck finish, and a closure having a plastic shell with a skirt externally secured to the container neck finish. A seal disk includes a metal layer on a plastic substrate. The periphery of the plastic substrate is sealingly sec... | 06/17/2008 |
