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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7070075 | Hydration system with improved fluid reservoir Hydration systems with improved fluid reservoirs. An elongate drinking tube extends from the reservoir and includes a distal end upon which a mouthpiece may be mounted. In some embodiments, the mouthpiece is a self-sealing mouthpiece. The reservoir includes a fill p... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7036671 | Container having damage-resistant finish ring A container having a damage-resistant finish ring and an opening sealable by a closure member that is removable by a hook-type opener is disclosed. The damage-resistant finish ring has a locking ring with a convex outer surface. ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6860397 | Easy open container closure The present invention provides a container closure with a handle, wherein the handle acts as a lever when squeezed against the neck of the container. The force on the lever handle is transferred to the container closure forcing a portion of the closure to slip over ... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6375023 | Press-on/pry-off composite closure with removal-assist and method of making same A press-on/pry-off closure includes a separately formed circular end panel, preferably composed of metal, and a surrounding rim composed of a flexible plastic, preferably a thermoplastic polyolefin. The end panel is top-side inserted into the rim and secu... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6179138 | Bottle stopper and opener A combination utensil has a one-piece plastic body with a bottle-cap-removing ring and an elongated bottle stopper projecting substantially radially outwardly from the ring. The ring has inclined end faces tapering toward the stopper and an opening positi... | 01/30/2001 |
| 5836468 | Plastic snap closure with anti-tamper strip and method of its manufacture The plastic snap closure possesses a snapping means (3) on the inside surface of the cap wall (2), said snapping means being able to be snapped over a bead on the container mouth. In order to display initial opening of the closure, approximately vertical ... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5702019 | Vial having resealable membrane assembly activated by a medical delivery device A resealable assembly for a container such as a bottle or vial featuring a membrane for selectively opening or sealing a fluid path between the bottle and a medical delivery device introduced into the assembly. The assembly includes a body disposed on sai... | 12/30/1997 |
| 5265746 | Bottle cap having integral opener A bottle cap having an integral opener on a side thereof, which is capable of opening a bottle cap made of high strength metal sheet, is disclosed. The opener includes: two reinforcing portions, a head portion, two arms, a body and two branches. The head ... | 11/30/1993 |
| 5145084 | Container closure having metallic body and plastic grip piece A container closure is disclosed having a metallic body and a plastic grip piece. The body includes a top panel wall, a skirt wall extending down from the perepheral edge of the top panel wall, and a linking protruding piece that protrudes from the lower ... | 09/08/1992 |
| 4921113 | Snap closure with original seal safety A snap closure with original seal safety is particularly suited for bottles with bulging rim areas on the bottle neck. The original safety sealing takes place by means of a release element, which comprises a pressing element which is bounded on both sides... | 05/01/1990 |
| 4768667 | Tear-off container closure A tear-off container closure, such as a cap for sealing bottles, has an upper covering panel, a cylindrical cap skirt, a tear-off strip defined by score lines in the covering plate and cap skirt. The strip continues as (a) a tongue protruding outside the ... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4347940 | Lever-off tamper-indicating composite closure A closure particularly intended for sealing containers having products packed therein under high vacuum wherein the vacuum retains the closure in place and a very high lifting or prying force is required to unseat the closure from the container to effect ... | 09/07/1982 |
| 3960713 | Medication timing sealing device A container of medicine has an open neck. A first cap detachably secured to the neck to enclose same has an outer major surface with indicia thereon. The indicia takes the form of peripherally disposed equidistantly separated numbers from one to twelve in... | 06/01/1976 |
