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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8099795 | Spear shield The aqua sport shield is used while spear fishing. The shield distributes the force of loading a spear gun over a body area such as a chest area or the thigh area of a person's leg, greater than the butt end of the spear gun. The shield is comprised of a waterproof ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 6168041 | Injection stretch blow molded tubular containers Tubular containers can be produced by injection stretch blow molding processes. Such processes comprise the biaxial stretching of the preform as the preform is being converted into the tubular container. The preform will be stretched longitudinally by mea... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6162349 | Method for package partitioning wall testing The integrity of the dividing partitions walls of a multichamber container can be tested for voids after the filling of the containers. This is particularly useful for multichamber tube containers. These containers can have relatively thin tube divider pa... | 12/19/2000 |
| 6116440 | Resealable thermoformed container The present thermoformed containers are recloseable and resealable. This is accomplished primarily by providing a thermoformed container with a threaded neck and the use of a conventional type of closure on the threaded neck of the thermoformed container.... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6073373 | Container with three dimensional designs A container has a label or decoration in the container and unattached to any interior surface. The label or decoration is in the form of a monolayer film or a laminate film with the decoration and other materials under a coating or within the laminate lay... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6070790 | Tamper evident carton seal The tamper evidency of a carton is increased by producing stronger end flap seals. This can be done by anchoring the adhesive onto at least one of the end flaps. In a preferred embodiment there is at least one lower flap with at least one recessed area, a... | 06/06/2000 |
| 6039216 | Positive displacement multichamber pump dispenser The positive displacement pump delivers the products uniformly and with a low force to actuate the pump. The uniform delivery results from a close slideable fitting of the upper part into the lower part. A low force to actuate is accomplished in part by r... | 03/21/2000 |
| 6033733 | Method for controlling dentifrice usage There is provided a toothbrush where the dose of dentifrice used is controlled by the use of bristles of at least two different colors. When the bristles of one color are covered with a dentifrice the dose will be within guidelines. In addition, the denti... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6030138 | Microporous applicator Microporous sintered polymeric materials can be used as the applicator surface for a dispenser if the material is insert molded to a substantially nonporous, relatively rigid frame. Further, the microporous sintered polymeric material should be flexible a... | 02/29/2000 |
| 5997202 | Package for stick product A package for a solid stick product, including barrel for containing the stick product and, provided within the barrel, a product support member for supporting the stick product thereon. The product support member is movable in the longitudinal direction ... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5967683 | Variable fill cosmetic container The cosmetic container has parts that are interchangeable so that the barrel can be used to contain different fill weights. Different fill weights are used at different times such as during promotions to give about 10 to 25 percent more product. By the se... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5954234 | Uniform dispensing multichamber tubular containers A multichamber container must have certain characteristics in order to uniformly dispense the contents of each chamber from the container. The outer wall of the container and the inner divider web walls must have certain characteristics. The inner divider... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5941420 | Multichamber container dispensing orifices A multichamber container such as a multichamber tube or multichamber pump can deliver the contained products in varying arrays by the use of container shoulders of different channel configurations. The container body remains the same with chamber dividing... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5937554 | Container with three dimensional designs A container has a label or decoration in the container and unattached to any interior surface. The label or decoration is in the form of a monolayer film or a laminate film with the decoration and other materials under a coating or within the laminate lay... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5927499 | Hydrostatic containers The invention is directed to lightweight hydrostatic containers. The containers have thin walls and other surfaces that are maintained in tension by the liquid contained in the containers. The body portion is substantially circular and has a plurality of ... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5927550 | Dual chamber tubular container The dual chamber tubular container is closed at one end by a crimp seal and at the other end has a dispensing opening with a dividing wall. This dividing wall is attached longitudinally to the tubular chamber sidewalls and extends from the crimp seal to t... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5924151 | Dispenser with enhanced diffusion This invention relates to a device for providing a dose of a liquid or solid to a larger container. More particularly, this invention relates to a dispensing device for providing a dose of substances, such as solid or liquid detergents or bleaches to a wa... | 07/20/1999 |
| 5912561 | Method and apparatus for package wall testing Any voids in the divider walls of multichamber packages, and in particular, multichamber tubes, can be detected by applying a potential difference across the divider walls of the package. If there is a void, there will be an arcing of current from one ele... | 06/15/1999 |
| 5911228 | Ingredient filled polytetrafluoroethylene dental floss devoid to grip enhancing coating The floss is comprised of one or more strands of a tensilized polytetrafluoroethylene. The polytetrafluoroethylene is tensilized by stretching with heating to increase the tensile strength and to decrease elongation. The floss is readily grippable since i... | 06/15/1999 |
| 5899360 | Multi-chamber refillable dispenser The dispenser is a rigid type multi-chamber, refillable dispenser where only the substance containing chambers need to be discarded and replaced. At the point of the chambers interconnecting into the upper portion of the dispensers there is a cutter to br... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5897263 | Cosmetic dispensing package The cosmetic container is comprised of three primary parts. These are a barrel, an elevator, and a cap. The elevator has a cosmetic support surface, anchoring recesses and a well. The barrel is open at the top and usually closed at the bottom, with an adj... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5896615 | Interdental brush The interdental brush has a quadrangular shaped handle portion with an angled brush head portion with a brush head cartridge attached at one end and a removable brush head holder at the other end. The brush head can fit in a contra-angle arrangement or co... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5884787 | Child resistant safety closure The child resistant safety closure is one that uses a common single start thread on the neck of a container and on a closure. In conjunction with this single start thread there is a single mating projection on the neck and on the closure. These mating pro... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5858153 | Method for making tubular containers In the manufacture of multichamber tubular containers it has been found that the inner divider walls should be bonded to the exterior wall by means of a band sealing method. In the band sealing method there is a band that contacts the upper film and a ban... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5849241 | Multichamber container with expanded interior walls Multichamber tubular containers are made by extrusion or injection stretch blow molding. The containers usually will have two or three chambers and one or more web walls. The web walls are relatively rigid as formed. The web walls must be stretched latera... | 12/15/1998 |
| 5842489 | Texturized dental floss and method of making The floss is of a yarn type that has a first thickness when under no tension and a considerably diminished thickness when under tension. The thickness of the floss can be decreased to as low as 10 percent of the thickness of the relaxed floss. This allows... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5839609 | Thermoformed pack with ridge valve The thermoformed package has a positive sealing ridge valve so that portions of the thermoformed package can be dispensed at different times. There is a relatively thick, shaped bottom sheet and a relatively thin, substantially planar, top sheet. The top ... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5826737 | Thermoformed reclosable container A recloseable container is preferably produced by thermoforming. The container has an elongated shape with a dispensing nozzle at one end. Above the dispensing nozzle is a tab. When this tab is broken off the container, the nozzle is opened. Adjacent the ... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5823387 | Method and apparatus for simultaneously dispensing viscous materials A method an apparatus for simultaneously dispensing a plurality of viscous materials, such as dentifrice pastes, produces a striped outer layer of a first material surrounding a core of a second viscous material. The apparatus includes a collapsible tube ... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5806983 | Pouch having radio frequency energy sealable layer A pouch package is formed that has a multilayer structure of two or more layers where the longitudinal seal is formed from a bonding of the inner layer to the inner layer in a fin seal arrangement. One layer of the multilayer structure is a seal layer and... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5806127 | Coded toothbrush There is provided a toothbrush where the dose of dentifrice used is controlled by the use of bristles of at least two different colors. When the bristles of one color are covered with a dentifrice the dose will be within guidelines. In addition, the denti... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5791004 | Floor cleaning device The floor cleaning machine is designed for both side-to-side and for linear straight path operation. This is accomplished by having at least one recessed rear transport wheel and at least one side-mounted support wheel. The rear transport wheel is recesse... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5782384 | Aligned web in a container The web for a dual chamber tubular container can be maintained in an alignment across the container by providing one or more longitudinal modified areas on the web so that the web will yield and fold in the areas of the modified material. The modification... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5775386 | Apparatus and process for filling plural chamber container with flowable materials An apparatus and a process for filling a plural chamber container, such as a container, with plural flowable materials. The container might be a two-compartment dentifrice container or a two-compartment adhesive container, for example. The container has i... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5746260 | Container set comprising at least two containers A container set comprises a first container (21) adapted to be reused by being refilled with the contents of a second container (22) containing a product of a volume not exceeding the volume of the first container. The two containers (21 and 22) comprise ... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5709066 | Inserter apparatus The apparatus can insert into containers, such as narrow mouth bottles, a sheet of material having a lineal dimension which can be from about 2 to 5 times or more than the largest dimension of the container opening. Sheets of material are picked from maga... | 01/20/1998 |
| 5641890 | Gelled organic liquids Organic liquids can be very effectively gelled by using in combination with an amine neutralized anionic polymer an auxiliary rheological additive. The auxiliary rheological additive is a substance which increases the linearity of the anionic polymer and ... | 06/24/1997 |
| 5639445 | Dental material and method for applying preventative and therapeutic agents A dental composition is produced from a dilatant silicone polymer composition by dispersing a bioactive component in the polymer composition. The dental composition is shaped and pressed against the teeth and gum surfaces and allowed to remain in place fo... | 06/17/1997 |
