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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4759456 | Tamper-indicating package and plastic closure therefore A tamper-indicating package that includes a blown glass container or blow molded plastic container, and a molded thermoplastic closure that is affixed to the finish portion of such container. The finish portion of the container has a radially outwardly pr... | 07/26/1988 |
| 4726872 | Primary-secondary pad system Apparatus for guiding bottles along the surface of a rotating vacuum drum which holds plastic shrink labels until an individual label is rolled about the circumference of the bottle to form an overlapped seam. The bottles are of the style that have taperi... | 02/23/1988 |
| 4723678 | Container and closure assembly A container and closure assembly in which the container has a finish portion and the closure is secured to the finish. A circular flexible rubbery sealing liner is located at the top of the container finish and below the cap, and a circular barrier liner ... | 02/09/1988 |
| 4723669 | Child resistant dispensing closure system A closure system for threaded containers wherein the closure is of the dispensing type and is child resistant in two aspects. Interengaging lugs on the closure skirt and container neck are so arranged that a squeezing force is required to permit the closu... | 02/09/1988 |
| 4723976 | Method and apparatus for pressing glass cathode ray tube faceplates A method and apparatus for pressing glass TV tube faceplates employing a microprocessor controlled ram and plunger operated with open loop position based speed control at relatively high rates of motion when the plunger is not in critical contact with the... | 02/09/1988 |
| 4723685 | Lined closure made by the unscrewing process A two-piece child-resistant closure having a molded plastic inner component and a molded plastic outer component, the inner component having a double ended liner retention bead that projects radially inwardly from the inside of an annular skirt portion to... | 02/09/1988 |
| 4724037 | Micro-adjustable gravure roll A labeling system where a cylindrical vacuum drum carries plastic labels at spaced intervals on its surface and a solvent applying gravure roll is held at a specific spacing from the drum and labels so that the labels will receive the solvent when they pa... | 02/09/1988 |
| 4724036 | Progressively ported vacuum drum for labeling machines A vacuum drum for carrying a label held to its surface by vacuum past an adhesive applying roll to a position where the label will touch a container and the container will be rolled along the drum surface to thereby apply the label about the container. Th... | 02/09/1988 |
| 4724029 | Method and apparatus for applying a flexible plastic label to a round container A labeling machine for successively applying flexible plastic labels to round containers, such labeling machine incorporating equipment to sever labels from a web of indefinite length thereof, to apply a leading edge of each of such labels to the peripher... | 02/09/1988 |
| 4722462 | Collapsible solid deodorant dispensing package A solid deodorant dispensing package that includes a container with a dispensing opening, a solid deodorant with a portion that extends through the dispensing opening of the container upon the squeezing of the container, and a closure that is formed integ... | 02/02/1988 |
| 4723093 | Gas discharge device There is disclosed a gas discharge panel, especially of the type described in U.S. Pat. No. 3,499,167 or 3,559,190, operated with an ionizable gaseous medium of neon and at least one minority rare gas component selected from argon, krypton, and xenon. In ... | 02/02/1988 |
| 4721218 | Tamper indicating package A tamper indicating package comprising a one-piece molded closure of plastic which threads onto a container such that when the closure is unthreaded, a tamper-indicating ring becomes separated from the lower end of the closure skirt. The indicating ring o... | 01/26/1988 |
| 4721219 | Composite, vacuum indicating closure A vacuum indicating closure for a container for the packaging of a vacuum-packed product, the closure being of two-piece construction and having a metal lid portion which is retained in sealing engagement with the rim of a container by a plastic ring port... | 01/26/1988 |
| 4721220 | Threaded container and closure A closure having interrupted threads, wherein the interruptions between thread segments are vertically aligned with and are at least as long as thread segments in the overlapping portions of the turns of the thread. This permits manufacture of the closure... | 01/26/1988 |
| 4721221 | Molded plastic closure with sealing liner A molded plastic closure for a beverage container, the closure having a shell with a top panel and a depending skirt, the shell being molded in one piece from a hard thermoplastic material. The closure is provided with an annular flange which extends from... | 01/26/1988 |
| 4721403 | Two-piece solid deodorant dispensing package with hinged cover A solid deodorant dispensing package that includes a container, a solid deodorant holding cup which is moveable in a cavity in the container between a dispensing position in which a portion of the solid deodorant extends through an opening in the containe... | 01/26/1988 |
| 4720448 | Method of manufacturing photorelief printing plate using a liquid photopolymer In the process of making relief printing plates a liquid photopolymerizably layer having substantially identical negatives on each of its two sides and being in registration and also having a transparent substrate is exposed to an external light source so... | 01/19/1988 |
| 4719143 | Multilayer polyethylene articles A multilayer polyethylene structure is disclosed, which is a laminate of at least two layers of high density polyethylene. In one embodiment, a first layer is high density polyethylene of a density of at least 0.959 grams per cubic centimeter and a melt i... | 01/12/1988 |
| 4717034 | One-piece thermoplastic closure having press-on screw off structure including spaced vertical ribs in the skirt of the closure A closure for a container having generally helical threads on the neck finish is formed from a one-piece cap shell of thermoplastic material including a top wall and a peripheral skirt, the skirt having a plurality of spaced, hard, flexible generally vert... | 01/05/1988 |
| 4715504 | Oriented plastic container A preform for making oriented plastic containers wherein the preform is first formed and thereafter reheated to an orientation temperature range and blown to final container shape comprising an open ended finish part made of a first plastic material, and ... | 12/29/1987 |
| 4716116 | Protein modification to provide enzyme activity A naturally occurring protein is chemically modified to provide the protein with activity of a selected enzyme. The protein does not contain activity of the selected enzyme before modification. Modification is carried out by partially denaturing the prote... | 12/29/1987 |
| 4714741 | Degradable polymer composition A degradable polymer composition having (a) an ethylene-carbon monoxide copolymer only in an amount sufficient to provide a total of substantially about 0.005 to 0.05 percent by weight of CO in the composition; and (b) a low density polyethylene.... | 12/22/1987 |
| 4714677 | Protein modification to provide enzyme activity A naturally occurring protein is chemically modified to provide the protein with activity of a selected enzyme. The protein does not contain activity of the selected enzyme before modification. Modification is carried out by partially denaturing the prote... | 12/22/1987 |
| 4714676 | Protein modification to provide enzyme activity A naturally occuring protein is chemically modified to provide the protein with activity of a selected enzyme. The protein does not contain activity of the selected enzyme before modification. Modification is preferably carried out by partially denaturing... | 12/22/1987 |
| 4713270 | Heatset high barrier container A high barrier heatset intimate fusion blend article is disclosed where the article includes a blend of a high barrier copolyester, formed from terephthalic acid, ethylene glycol and 1,3 bis(2-hydroxyethoxy) benzene, and poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET)... | 12/15/1987 |
| 4712473 | Method and apparatus for marking and forming workpieces A forming station for can end closures which includes a pair of opposed die structures. Apparatus for forming code markings in the can ends as they are processed includes a plurality of arrays of incising pins retained in matrix configurations in the face... | 12/15/1987 |
| 4712680 | Reinforced self-centering plastic carrier for bottles An improved single piece plastic carrier for a plurality of filled and capped bottles in which the neck of each bottle to be carried by the carrier is received in an aperture in the top panel of the carrier and is supported by a pair of spaced apart tabs ... | 12/15/1987 |
| 4713269 | Heatset multilayer container A hollow transparent delamination resistant heatset multilayer article is disclosed where the article includes at least one barrier layer containing a copolyester formed from terephthalic acid, ethylene glycol and 1,3 bis(2-hydroxyethoxy) benzene directly... | 12/15/1987 |
| 4713335 | Protein modification to provide enzyme activity A naturally occurring protein is chemically modified to provide the protein with activity of a selected enzyme. The protein does not contain activity of the selected enzyme before modification. Modification is carried out by grossly denaturing the protein... | 12/15/1987 |
| 4709800 | Bottle conveyor with brush spacer Apparatus for wrapping shrinkable plastic labels about bottles as they are moved in a single file. As the bottles exit the wrapping machine, they are resting on a moving belt conveyor which is driven in the direction of a heat shrinking tunnel. In order t... | 12/01/1987 |
| 4709825 | Press-on twist-off closure for container An all-plastic press-on, twist-off closure for a container having threads in the neck finish is made of a hard plastic shell having a top and a peripheral skirt. A gasket member is provided on the inside of the shell located adjacent the top and the shell... | 12/01/1987 |
| 4709808 | Degradable polymer composition and articles prepared from same A group of degradable polymer compositions including admixtures of ethylene-carbon monoxide copolymer with defined proportions of high density polyethylene, linear low density polyethylene or polypropylene is disclosed. The compositions are useful for for... | 12/01/1987 |
| 4708235 | Closure handling apparatus An accumulator for collecting the outputs of a plurality of sorters in a single layer of oriented closures in a hopper and feeding the closures in single file to a downstream operation station. Bridging patterns of closures in the layer which interrupt fl... | 11/24/1987 |
| 4706829 | Liquid containing and dispensing package A liquid containing and dispensing package comprising a hollow plastic container having a neck, a fitment interengaging the neck and closure. The fitment interengages the neck and has a first peripheral portion extending axially and having a portion defin... | 11/17/1987 |
| 4704152 | Method of and apparatus for press forming cathode ray tube faceplate panels A cathode ray tube faceplate press having an indexing table rotatable around a column normal to the table and having circular array of female molds concentric with the column. Index speed of the table is optimized by a barrel cam drive cut to provide smoo... | 11/03/1987 |
| 4700860 | Tamper indicating vacuum package A tamper indicating hermetically sealed package comprising a container having a neck with an opening and a closure. The container includes a first annular bead at the upper end adjacent the opening and a second annular bead spaced axially from the first a... | 10/20/1987 |
| 4700859 | Tamper indicating closure A tamper indicating closure for a container comprising a threaded cap to which is attached an indicator ring. The indicator ring has a radially inward lower flange that slips into locking engagement with a flange on the neck of the container as the closur... | 10/20/1987 |
| 4701612 | Inspection of container finish Apparatus and method for inspecting the finish of transparent containers, particularly glass containers, which include facility for directing diffused light energy laterally through the container finish as the container is rotated about its central axis. ... | 10/20/1987 |
| 4693210 | Quick change fountain In the application of a solvent to a plastic label carried on the surface of a vacuum drum, the solvent for the plastic label is transferred from a gravure roll to the label at finite areas on the label so that the label can adhere to the bottle to be lab... | 09/15/1987 |
| 4693411 | Collapsible bulk shipping container A collapsible, bulk shipping container that is made up of an inverted tray-type rectangular bottom and a pair of collapsible body elements, one end of each of which is telescopically received in the tray-type bottom. The collapsible body elements collecti... | 09/15/1987 |
